Do people who run 100 MPW have girlfriends/wives, regular jobs, etc?

What a stupid question. As if having a hobby that you dedicate 2-3 hours to daily is rare or too time-consuming.

There's nothing wrong with having one hobby that you go all in on. It can be music, weightlifting, running, painting, whatever. To get really good at it you need to devote several hours to it every day. But that's totall doable even if you have a job and a family.

Only downside is that if you go all in on a hobby you probably cant pick up another hobby. For most people who dont pick one thing to go all in on, you probably got time for 2 or 3 low time commitment hobbies, or you can spend all your time on media consumption (tv, movies, social media).

Whatever you choose to do with your time is up to you. Nothing wrong with picking just one hobby to focus on.

I generally average 100-110 mpw with a full time job, wife, dog, no kids. It started because I was run commuting to and from work. Even for a 4 mile drive, it would take me 20-30 minutes. I started to run the minimum four miles each way before adding on. Eventually I settled at 8 miles in the morning, and I look at it as a net cost of basically 30 minutes. Run commute home would be six miles on Mon/Wed/Fri. Tuesday & Thursday would be track and tempo or hills, with a total closer to 10m for that evening. That leaves me at ~78 miles for the work week, and from there it's easy to get to 100+ with a long run and whatever else.

Now it's habit and I just enjoy it. I don't think it negatively impacts my social life and if anything it enhances it. For the Thursday night workout, I'll usually throw it out to a few people in my running club to join in and have a beer or two afterward. Sunday long runs with friends is a good time in my opinion.

I only run about 60 per wk but I think 100 would be doable if I wanted. I think the keys for me would be..

1. Wife that is also a serious runner and would understand this as a life choice

2. 40hrs/wk cushy office job.

3. No kids.

4. Minimal Weekday commitments. I would do chores and socialize on the weekends.

Like I said I currently run 60/wk, but I also have social commitments on most weekdays. If I stopped meeting with my friends regularly during the week and saved my socialization for the weekends or just ran with friends a few times a week (two birds, one stone) I would be able to fit in the other 40 miles and still get enough sleep to recover.

Its very possible, just takes some time to get in a routine. Here are a few things that have helped:

- Become a morning person. You can train while everyone else is asleep!

- Find a flexible job. I usually am able to push my work start time back to 9AM on hard workout days. COVID work from home period made this easier but I am back to reality.

- Efficient but frequent strength/core work. I do something every day post run but only spend about 15 minutes (core, drills, plyos, etc.) rather than a traditional 2 time/wk 45+ minute gym session.

- My wife and family fully support my training and understand why I am otherwise a pretty boring person going to bed early, eating certain foods, etc. I will often do second runs of the day with my wife which helps spend more time together.

- Lastly, if 100 mpw takes you longer than 12 hours of running, you should probably reassess whether or not you should be doing that much volume...

Could be nice to know it`s proved you can reach your optimum running performance on half of that mileage and around 50-60 mpw. Then you get more time for other important aspects of life and in fact more effective training.

And another good thing with this low mileage is that you will feel fresh and eager before most of your training sessions.If interested to know more about how to gain more on less , just send me a message.

magic@coachjs.se

- COACH J.S-

24 hours a day - 11 hours work/commute - 8 hours sleep = 5 hours to do whatever you want. Running for 1-2 hours of those isn’t that big of a deal. There’s still 3-4 hours to Tinder it up.

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

Could be nice to know it`s proved you can reach your optimum running performance on half of that mileage and around 50-60 mpw. Then you get more time for other important aspects of life and in fact more effective training.

And another good thing with this low mileage is that you will feel fresh and eager before most of your training sessions.If interested to know more about how to gain more on less , just send me a message.

magic@coachjs.se

- COACH J.S-

Send you a message?

hahahahaha what for? To read all the lies about your athletes' results?

Go away scammer.

Fax wrote:

Literally how you gonna run that much and have a healthy balance between all facets of your life? And these are the type of people who probably also do strength work, too.

There was a time when all runners needed jobs once they were out of school and many managed to marry, reproduce, work, and run 100 or so miles in a typical week. Read biographies of guys like Buddy Edelen, Ron Hill, Ron Clark, Bill Adcock. A fifteen mile day will take an hour and two hours or so at most. Add that to a nine hour work/commute day, eight hours of sleep and you've got five hours left. I do not recall that many of us did much in the line of strength work.

I do and it’s not difficult, though I do work from home as a lawyer, so it’s 9-5 with no commute. I did look only for legal work that was largely remote and passed up on corporate firms so that I could focus on running while I was still young.

6:30 Wake up get ready

7:00 leave for 10 mile run

8:15 Home, shower breakfast etc

9-5: Work

5:30 Leave for 6 mile run

6:30 Home, shower dinner (I cook a big batch at lunch so we just have left overs)

7:15-9:30 Hangout with fiancée.

9 hours sleep, 16 miles, plenty of time to spend with the love of my life-Rinse and repeat! On Tuesdays and Thursdays I do a hard session after work and don’t get to hang out with fiancée. I take Friday off to rest and go for a morning walk with her. No work on weekends so plenty of time to hang out in between runs.

3:46 1500 and hopefully sub four next year!

Routinely run 90-100 MPW

Meal prep Sunday. Make your lunch stupidly simple. There is not much time for luxury with meals when you're a full time teacher anyway.

Preset your coffee pot, you'll need it. Also, make sure you get tight with clerical at the office, they got the coffee hookup and you'll be abusing it at school during planning or between rotating blocks.

Get up at the butt crack of dawn, do your workout or shorter double before school. Run your longer run or double after school. Should only be 1.5 hours or so, about the same time as a standard student extracurricular or practice.

Come home, cook dinner or go out with friends, a girl friend, etc.

The key is just make the best use of your time, don't suck at your job, and the people in your life who truly love and know you will stick by you the 1.5 hours or so you won't see them when you immediately get off work. But honestly, you're giving up as much time as a student would after school for football practice, if not less. I'm sure anyone can do that.

Yes

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

Could be nice to know it`s proved you can reach your optimum running performance on half of that mileage and around 50-60 mpw. Then you get more time for other important aspects of life and in fact more effective training.

And another good thing with this low mileage is that you will feel fresh and eager before most of your training sessions.If interested to know more about how to gain more on less , just send me a message.

magic@coachjs.se

- COACH J.S-

I think 100mpw would certainly give more benefits than 50-60 mpw.

What also helps with scheduling is Google Calendar.

Running is one of the least time-consuming sports there is.

100 miles per week only takes 12-13 hours. If you live close enough to work you can do 60-70 mpw commuting and do the rest in 3-4 hours over the weekend.

Triathletes train for 24+ hours per week in peak training. Cycling is no better. Even if you ride at a decent clip it would take 7 hours to ride 200km without stopping and after that you are a total liability around the home.

It's common for swimmers and rowers to start their training at 6am and they spend a bunch of 'non-training' time getting to the water and back.

Runners have it easy in comparison.

RunnerSam wrote:

Tip 1: Marry a serious runner

This.

If you marry a woman who also has a full time job and is a serious runner it can work. If you marry a normal woman then it probably won't work.

It's easy if you're disciplined. I wasn't doing 100 and married but I was doing 85 when I met my future wife. Had I been married, it would have been easier because my wife would have done errands and cooking for me since she was not working at the time.

My day was like this:

Get up 6am. Run 30 minutes. I only ran mornings a few days a week, I could easily have run mornings every day and gotten to 100mpw. I had plans to do this but was still building up conservatively. Average pace was 7:00 for runs.

Cool down, shower, drive to work (arrive 8am)

Work until 4pm, mostly off my feet.

Immediately after work, run 80-120 minutes (done by 6pm). I ran at my work site, so no overhead. Sometimes I had to work late and I'd just run when I was done, even if it was 2am.

Drive home, shower (done by 7:15 pm).

Watch a movie or TV while eating or go out to eat (lots of restaurants within 10 min walk). Sleep anywhere between 10 and midnight. On weekends go to coffee shop or to party until 4-5am (was living in Europe at the time, things go later than in the US), sleep in, run long in late morning. If I did anything outside my house it was with a friend or girlfriend, and usually my friends or girlfriend were watching movie/TV with me so my social life was solid, 3-5 hours a day with friends.

I don't run much at all now, and I look back at that time as the period of time where I had the most free time of my life. I would kill to have 5 hours in a row that didn't belong to something else now, which is what I had every day back then, after all the running was done. I waste a ton of time now, but recently have started running (which I had felt for years that I didn't have time for). Since I started running it seems like I have more free time (I'm losing a lot of bad habits, like wasting time on letsrun).

Very possible with an SO and a full time job, very, very difficult but not entirely impossible if you throw kids into the mix.

"Do people who run 100 MPW have girlfriends/wives, regular jobs, etc?"

Some even have boyfriends, husbands, regular jobs AND children!

here's some perspective wrote:

Running is one of the least time-consuming sports there is.

100 miles per week only takes 12-13 hours. If you live close enough to work you can do 60-70 mpw commuting and do the rest in 3-4 hours over the weekend.

Triathletes train for 24+ hours per week in peak training. Cycling is no better. Even if you ride at a decent clip it would take 7 hours to ride 200km without stopping and after that you are a total liability around the home.

It's common for swimmers and rowers to start their training at 6am and they spend a bunch of 'non-training' time getting to the water and back.

Runners have it easy in comparison.

Good perspective. It's so weird that ppl think spending 2 hours a day on something constitutes a monumentally time-consuming hobby that leaves no time for anything else. There's tons of activities that people devote 3 or 5 hours to daily because they enjoy them and have a certain level of proficiency in them.

Running 100 mile weeks is not easy, but it doesnt take that much time. Thats 2 or 3 hours a day. That's standard for anyone who works out.

I did for the past year with wife and f/t job. It was incredibly contentious with my wife who is adamantly against running when it conflicts with other activities. Was able to weather a few storms but now that a kid is coming into the mix, there's no way.