Working full time and running 70 miles per week

I'll do between 80-100 a week. Morning run and some days double at lunch. I'm working full time from home, albeit I am not working very hard so I um... have the time

samfromamsterdam wrote:

I'm a runner that does better on higher mileage. I'm trying to BQ and want to get up to 70 mpw this training block. I work 47 hours a week, but only work 4 days. How do you guys fit higher mileage in your daily schedule? Just would like some examples for ideas.

At times I ran more than twice that amount with a seven to three job. I'd run 12-15 miles right after work, have supper, maybe a nap, and go back around eight for another run, anywhere from 4 to 10 miles then have maybe a 17-20 mile run on the weekends and sometimes doing a second 4-6 mile run after that, but not always.

When I had a long-ish commute: most days run 4 at lunch, then 8 right after work (to let traffic die down, and because running after sitting in the car made me feel like crap). On the weekend, 10-12 one day and 16-20 the other. One off day, floating depending on what I had going on. I found this perfectly fine, but obviously having a shower at work was important.

I work 7pm-7:30 am. Wake up at 3:30 pm and start my run by 4 pm, which for me is the start of my day. I probably could run a bit later, but I don't like feeling rushed in the morning. There are 168 hours in a week. Stop overthinking it. There are people far busier than you that make it work.

Amazing how you millennials make everything out to be difficult. Just run. You only work 4 days, heck you can get in 45-50 in three days alone, after that it is easy peasy.

Jeez, between my freshman and soph year in college I ran 70-75 mpw while working 40 hrs a week for the grounds crew of the town I lived in, cutting lawns, lining baseball fields, putting in fences, all physical, then worked 4 nights 4-5 hrs each loading trucks with beer, a good 60 hrs a week working. Never thought twice about it being hard, it was what was needed.

It's easy when you make the necessary lifestyle changes and commitment.

When I was doing 70-80 a week while working, I just made running part of work. I knew I would not feel like going out for a run after coming home from a long day of work, so I ran immediately after work every day. On my off days I would run first thing in the morning (usually would wake up a little bit first but no more than an hour loafing around).

Some days the work night went late, like 1:30 in the morning. So I just did my run right after work like any other day. When you attach the running to work, it just becomes part of the work day.

Home was for relaxing.

As far as structure, I was running an hour a day in the afternoon, which I logged as 8 miles (was running between 7-7:30 pace). Hard days were faster than that so I shorted myself a few miles in the log. One day would be a 2 hour run, probably 16. Then I would run 2-3 days in the morning for 30 minutes.

The only time I ran at home was in the morning. I lived on the beachfront and it was very pleasant at 6am. On my off days I would sleep in and run later, like 10am, but I started to get annoyed because people would not leave a clear path to pass them, so I started driving to the base I worked at and running there instead.

If your workplace is somewhere where it sucks to run, just find the best place nearby. Don't go home until your run is done.

Everything else in life comes after the run gets done. This made it difficult if we had a company dinner or something, so on very infrequent occasions I was doing a 10pm run on the beachfront after dinner and a couple of beers (not fun).

one of those old guys wrote:

Amazing how you millennials make everything out to be difficult. Just run. You only work 4 days, heck you can get in 45-50 in three days alone, after that it is easy peasy.

Jeez, between my freshman and soph year in college I ran 70-75 mpw while working 40 hrs a week for the grounds crew of the town I lived in, cutting lawns, lining baseball fields, putting in fences, all physical, then worked 4 nights 4-5 hrs each loading trucks with beer, a good 60 hrs a week working. Never thought twice about it being hard, it was what was needed.

Don't think the OP was making anything out to be difficult, he was just asking for advice, on you know like being friendly and conversing on a message board about running kind of thing. What is is with you GenXs types who think every millennial is moaning?

Anyways, when I worked in the big smoke I just run commuted, there and back, sometimes easy sometimes hard. My marathon was pretty awful (that really should have an E in it?) so I'm not really qualified to answer this anyway.

thanks! I like the idea of reordering the runs. I'm doing that exact same training program, same distance. I was worried about doing the 14 miler before a 12 hour shift, so switching up the runs sounds perfect. Thanks for your advice!

I work a 9-5 40h per week, but from home so it’s much more flexible. Run between 60 and 70 mpw.

I do workouts MWF after work is done

Double once on the weekend like 10am/4pm and double again during the week at like 7:30am/6pm

It’s not too hard tbh

samfromamsterdam wrote:

I'm a runner that does better on higher mileage. I'm trying to BQ and want to get up to 70 mpw this training block. I work 47 hours a week, but only work 4 days. How do you guys fit higher mileage in your daily schedule? Just would like some examples for ideas.

It is not hard. I've been at 100-120+mpw while working 50 hrs or so a week for years. Get up early and get the longer run of the day done. With your mileage you probably don't need to double which makes it even easier. It's just about proper planning and dedication. Always do workouts and longer runs in the morning as afternoons are far more likely to get interupted.

samfromamsterdam wrote:

I'm a runner that does better on higher mileage. I'm trying to BQ and want to get up to 70 mpw this training block. I work 47 hours a week, but only work 4 days. How do you guys fit higher mileage in your daily schedule? Just would like some examples for ideas.

I am surprised nobody here asked this. It'd be one of the first questions any decent coach would ask, and I don't think I saw the answer anywhere... how much do you run now? What's your long run? Speedwork? How do you currently fit running around your schedule?

And come on, LR, you all have got to be smarter than that.