I wanna be the crazist SOB. Help me. Want to log 350 MPW

Good luck

One peice of advice from someone who has never ran more than 63miles/week

Make sure you do your buildup very slowly, on a week/season/year basis.

You might make it one week at that, but you'll never consistantly do that. I don't think the body is capable of handling that wear and tear.

So... what is your plan? Will you just start running 300 miles weeks next month or something?

thats what hes testing out. to see if his body can handle this kind of mileage. i just dont know where he will get the time to run that much.

Talk to Lance Armstrong. He has a proven record of injecting substances that should assist you in achieving your stated goals. I don't know all the details. Just talk to his agent.

HA HA, another one of these threads. Haven't seen one for a while, but they do seem to appear every few months.

I'm going to make a wild guess and say that you will give a few updates on your "progress" the next few weeks and then suddenly disappear.

Try to train kind of like shorter did maybe with a bith less quality. Don't totally neglect any quality or fast stuff or you'll become like little buddhia singh. 10-12 minute miles will not help you run a fast marathon. Eat plenty. Have one easier day each week. Good luck.

Only someone who went to a D2 school could think up something this stupid.

Not a lot of Ivy, Patriot, or NESCAC leaguers coming up with these ideas.

I'll go out on a limb and predict that you don't put in a single day at 350mpw pace.

Why the hell not? The Human Body is friggin amazing. Shiznit, people thought running sub 4 min mile was humanly impossible...that anyone attemptng it would maybe explode!! or die trying....

350 is possible, and by more than just a super strong runner...but it would require a lot of extra precautionary routines..

1. Ice every single run. Shit, buy an ice tub and pretend ice is like a hot bath and get used to it cuz your *ss will be sore as hell.

2. Eat, and eat, and did I mention EAT??! Every 2 hours, get some damn food.

3. Weights. This is a must, gotta make those muscles strong as titanium to be able to handle the constant pounding. Once these muscles get weak...is where you're risking injuries (aka stress fractures).

4. Shoes, f**k minimalism, chances are you're prolly gonna run 80% on roads (not everyone lives on perfectly groomed trails like the freaks in Eugene or Boulder). Who cares about the benefits of minimalism when your leg is broken in half because of stress fracture?...on that note, buy a dozen pairs of shoes in advance when its on sale...cuz you sure will be using them (alternate every day).

5. Buy some itunes songs every week cuz you'll need some serious heavy duty motivation to run an average of 50 miles a day.

6. Break the run up to multiple runs in a day (well yea, this is obvious eh?)...

say you work 9 to 5 pm.

5 AM - 10 miles

7 AM - 5 miles

Lunch Break - 2-5 miles

5 pm. Run 2-3 miles around work.

7 pm. Run 10 miles

8:30 pm Dinner

9:00 pm easy 2 miles

10:30pm 10 miles, go sleep afterwards.

damn...maybe this isn't possible after all with a full time job...sorry dude.

This will either take huge blocks of time to put in runs of 30+ miles, or you will be running pretty much once every couple hours of your waking day. However, I think this will be the least of your concerns. The main issue when you get above a certain level is that health becomes harder to maintain than finding time to run.

I don't have any answers on how to stay healthy, but I would recommend trying to work up to higher mileage through multiple runs per day, and by multiple, I mean at least 4. Also, although you want to jump up in mileage insanely, try something at an intermediate level first (perhaps 200 to 250). As others have said, this will require an insane amount of calories, and combined with the amount of rest you will need, you won't really have time to hold a standard full day of work. If you have time, maybe you could move to a 2 block schedule of sleeping (maybe 7pm-1am and 3am-9am). I won't say it is not possible, but I will say you will need to be willing to sacrifice pretty much everything except eating, sleeping and running.

Not to say I am an expert, as I have not done high mileage, but just offering a perspective.

This is ridiculous. Work logically in bringing down your PB of 2:38, not in reaching some absurd mileage goal. Keep training and racing to bring that time down.

I think a lot of us have tried to run some absurdly high number of miles, with a singular focus on simply running that many miles and nothing else, in hopes of bringing about a massive breakthrough...and been thoroughly disappointed.

im sorry to say this wrote:

This is ridiculous. Work logically in bringing down your PB of 2:38, not in reaching some absurd mileage goal. Keep training and racing to bring that time down.

I think a lot of us have tried to run some absurdly high number of miles, with a singular focus on simply running that many miles and nothing else, in hopes of bringing about a massive breakthrough...and been thoroughly disappointed.

Best advice so far. Increase mileage slowly, and if you see improvement (which obviously assumes no injury) then you're one step closer to your goal. Granted this can be difficult to ascertain, as mileage takes awhile to kick in. To arbitrarily try and hit a number is pretty foolish, though.

What about working on a two week cycle.... 1 week at 350miles, 1 at 100miles, 1 at 350miles...etc. Granted this wouldn't give an average of 350miles/week, but it would seem to me to be a much better way of reaching (and achieving) those sort of mileages totals which you could sustain.

Don't do it, please! You're not crazy, are you? Try the 10% rule; no more than an increase of 10% in your mileage year by year will get positive gains and keep you on your feet instead of off of them...forever

Try 200, maybe 250. You'll still be the craziest SOB out there.

I can't imagine anyone racing well off 350 mpw.

why not start at like 180-200 first... if you see improvemnt... then keep bumping it up.. if not.. then 350 obviosly wont do you any good.

There is a point where your pace becomes too slow and becomes a detriment to improving your fitness. Historically, this has been in the 150-180 range. If you are interested in improving your times, a few weeks in this range followed by a decrease in mileage and an increase in intensity will get you the best results.

Train at high mileage, race at low mileage.