Narve Gilje Nordås did’nt miss one day of running in 2024

Obsession is rarely good

He had two choices: running or the towel

and he won f-all

I'm following him on Strava, he barely records anything it's so annoying

Naught Nordås, has he started streaking again?

Rest days > Another run

If he wasn't addicted to running and high speed internet pornography, he'd be addicted to alcohol, gambling or some other vice.

He barely publicly posts anything. He probably records all the time.

Yet he got smoked by Cole Hocker who takes one day off of running every week.

Doesn't Jakob never take a break or day off as well. Also think George Mills runs 355 straight days then took 10 days off after the season. Is this just the Norway method? Run Every freaking day? very impressive.

That is impressive - but he was running 100km weeks during the Paris Olympic games?

His smallest week was week 32 (5-11 Aug) so according to this he ran at least that in week 31 (July 29-Aug4).

Across those 2 weeks he raced the heats of the 1500m on the 2nd, semi on the 4th, final on the 6th. Heats of the 5000m on the 7th, final on the 10th.

So in this "low" week of 100km on 3 of the days he had an Olympic 1500m final, an Olympic 5000m final and a 5000m heat. I'm sorry but if you are still running 100km in that week you have a problem - that is insanity.

Bigger question for me is why? What purpose would this serve? In weeks like this, there is no such thing as training effect - you are running for pure recovery/to prep yourself for the next race but at some point that recovery/prep can't be simply draining energy from your reserves. It doesn't matter how good/fit you are - running uses energy. The impact on the ground creates fatigue - even if it's 10min mile pace. I can't even understand in my mind how this week goes.

5km finished on Saturday the 10th so on Sunday he was straight up early in the morning to go rip off a 20-25km run to get his 100 in? Yeah okay.

Nordas closed a 3:29 close to 52 seconds in Budapest, now he only closes in 55 for a 3:30 race. What happened?

The fact that he has remained free from illness (sick/flu/cold etc.) all year is more impressive! But if he's been training while he's been sick, then is like making fire for the crows. It does nothing more than just break the body down, but I don't think that's the case with Nordås.

This only thing to me that is somewhat surprising is his overall mileage for the year. You just don't see a lot of pros getting over 5k miles. Even our top marathoners are not much over 4500 miles.

What's this about porn lol?

Let's try and figure out whether those 100k during the Olympics sounds crazy (before judging him so quickly) then.

Suppose he like to do a simple shakeout on the morning every day: 6k x 7days = 30k

Warmup to the three races: 6k x 3 = 18k

And cooldown: 4k x 3 = 12k

races: 5 + 5 + 1.5 = 11.5

Just the above gets you: 71.5k

Adding another 30k on the other days seems like a piece of cake. Why does 100k sound so crazy then?

I've only missed twelve days of running in 2025

Gelindo Bordin´s last 3 weeks before his olympic win was something like 170, 100, 98 miles (race included).

He's been quite successful. You might want to consider that he's figured out something you haven't.

You being clueless about warm ups aside that's literally two 40min jogs for him.