Lets say you have a well-trained 14min 5k runner. They've been doing 70-80 mile weeks since their mid 20's. How long could they feasibly run 80mpw for, like to what age? When would the body just stop allowing you to run that sort of mileage
Soccer players run about 10K during a full game. Basketball players run significantly less. "Name of the game is intensity" why exactly does that equate to a lot of miles in your head?
Probably depends on a lot of things but I can say from my personal experience at 38 I start to risk injury when I get consistently over 60 miles (I was an average or maybe even below average D3 runner at best however, far from a 14 minute 5k guy). I have friends around my age or a little older who regularly run 80+ mile weeks but I see them get injured 2-4 times per year or so.
Lets say you have a well-trained 14min 5k runner. They've been doing 70-80 mile weeks since their mid 20's. How long could they feasibly run 80mpw for, like to what age? When would the body just stop allowing you to run that sort of mileage
I did that much or more from my late teens to about age 60.
Lets say you have a well-trained 14min 5k runner. They've been doing 70-80 mile weeks since their mid 20's. How long could they feasibly run 80mpw for, like to what age? When would the body just stop allowing you to run that sort of mileage
I don’t know about 80 mpw, like it’s some magic number, but I could see an hour per day. That could be sustained indefinitely if a person was so inclined.
Lets say you have a well-trained 14min 5k runner. They've been doing 70-80 mile weeks since their mid 20's. How long could they feasibly run 80mpw for, like to what age? When would the body just stop allowing you to run that sort of mileage
I did that much or more from my late teens to about age 60.
I did that much or more from my late teens to about age 60.
That’s awesome!
Thanks. But I just liked running that much. In my late teens I started doing 100-150 a week, lots of doubles, to get as fast as I could. After about six years I was sure I'd done that and knew I wasn't going to run that much for the rest of my life if it wasn't making me faster and decided I'd just do what I liked. So I dropped the doubles. I never really liked them and just kept doing what had been my main session. It just never seemed worth getting out the door for a run of less than an hour to an hour and a half. The day always seemed better for having done that.
Mid 60s here been running for about 50 years. Did not do much higher mileage (>100 m weeks) as a younger runner and in recent decades have only been above 80 a few times. So maybe I don't count.
That said, three of the past four weeks have been at 70-72. Not really mileage to the cognoscenti here, but geez maybe I can get fitness medal for trying.