Cade Flatt Only Runs 5 miles a week???

says he does a 300m warmup and then into his dynamics.

Man people will believe anything these days. I know a kid that runs negative 7 miles per week and runs a 2 min mile

Given everything he has previously said, which is more likely?

1. He is lying for more spotlight and more attention.

2. He basically doesn't train. He likes racing and wants to run fast, but declines to train.

It's like a marathoner training over 250 miles/week. A bit much, but most of it is easy, so he can handle it.

No, he's exposing all you dummies who think mileage is the only way to improve.

It is more likely he is exposing you dummies who believe he only runs 5 miles per week. But of course mileage is not the only way to improve. Cade is likely someone who likes to impress people so he exaggerates and lies to do so sometimes. My guess is he maybe runs 15 miles per week but he knows that is not going to get him talked about as much.

Since he’s not honest I’ll say he runs 30 miles per week and 5 out of those 30 are probably either difficult or somewhat difficult, with the rest being easy pace. He’s full of it.

Since he’s not honest I’ll say he runs 30 miles per week and 5 out of those 30 are probably either difficult or somewhat difficult, with the rest being easy pace. He’s full of it.

I know Cade's coach and he counts all movement in his weekly mileage. That 5 miles is basically just him walking to the bathroom and back. There are sloths in the jungles of Costa Rica that work out more than him and he's still America's #1.

Hasn't run a hill since 3rd grade, that's why we call him Mr Flatt.

Hope he counted all that strutting around on the track at the finish line in his mileage totals last week. Might need a down week after that.

I have no idea whatsoever how this kid trains, but I think a very fast, gifted young athlete could succeed on five miles of running a week with a program like this. It has injury potential and is not sustainable for a career, but I don't think it is too far-fetched that a runner like Flatt could do this for a season. It's 8K of running per week, most of it at a very fast pace:

Monday: 100 meters in 14 seconds
Walk 100
200 meters in 29 seconds
Walk 100
600 meters in 1:20
Walk 400
600 meters in 1:24
Walk 100
100 meters in 14 seconds
Walk 100
100 meters in 14 seconds
Walk 200
300 meters in 39 seconds
Walk as needed to cool down

Tuesday: weights and cross training

Wednesday: 100 meters in 14 seconds
Walk 100 meters

100 meters in 14 seconds
Walk 100 meters
4x400 meters in 54 seconds with 200-meter walk between
Walk 400
4x400 meters in 54 seconds with 200-meter walk between
Walk as needed to cool down

Thursday: weights and cross training

Friday: 4x100 meters in 14 seconds with 100-meter walk between
1000 meters in 2:24
Full recovery walking
1000 meters in 2:28
Walk 400 meters
200 meters all out
Walk as needed to cool down

Saturday: weights and cross training
Sunday: rest

I assume he trains like Johnny Gray did. No idea what that means in terms of mileage.

I heard they are Badger Miles

I’m calling complete BS on this

5 miles a week doesn't sound too crazy. He is clearly more of long sprinter. Cade is a 17 minute XC guy that can run 46 seconds in the 400. Doesn't seem like a guy putting in much base mileage.

When he said that low mileage, why wasn't cross training brought up? I know injury prone runners train like triathletes and mainly just do cycling for their aerobic base "mileage". Kinda on the opposite end of the spectrum as far as running disciplines, but Anton last year came back to the podium at Leadville and like 95% of his training leading up to it was cycling.

OK - if Cade is lying then it would leave room for concerns that he would lie in the future, and there are crucial aspects in this sport where one should never lie (you fill in the blanks if you want). If he is not lying then he's completely raw and undeveloped, and capable of breaking world records in the 800, 1500 and Mile It's also a questionable longterm training approach, because he won't have a tank, and will have tremendous difficulty making it through the qualifying rounds in a championship setting. Still needs to back up his chatter and take down Granville's record too.

This dude wants us to believe that he runs fewer miles than sprinters who only race 100m. So he ran like a 4:12 1600m on 5 miles per week? Dude there comes a point where either you are the most talented runner who ever lived or you maybe struggle with arithmetic.

no way