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.
Narve just posted his summary of 2024 on Strava: Pretty impressing
total: 8400km Weekly average: 161km Daily average: 23km Biggest week 190km (meir enn 10 veker) Smallest week: 100km (veke 32, OL-veka i Paris; den desidert tyngste veka 😅) Non running days: 0 Races : 24 PRs: 3000m and 10km road
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.
Narve just posted his summary of 2024 on Strava: Pretty impressing
total: 8400km Weekly average: 161km Daily average: 23km Biggest week 190km (meir enn 10 veker) Smallest week: 100km (veke 32, OL-veka i Paris; den desidert tyngste veka 😅) Non running days: 0 Races : 24 PRs: 3000m and 10km road
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.
Narve just posted his summary of 2024 on Strava: Pretty impressing
total: 8400km Weekly average: 161km Daily average: 23km Biggest week 190km (meir enn 10 veker) Smallest week: 100km (veke 32, OL-veka i Paris; den desidert tyngste veka 😅) Non running days: 0 Races : 24 PRs: 3000m and 10km road
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.
He's been quite successful. You might want to consider that he's figured out something you haven't.