I am 88 years old and have been averaging 10 miles a day since I was 18. I have logged over 250,000 miles running. I think that may be the most miles any human being has ever run in the history of man kind.
I am 88 years old and have been averaging 10 miles a day since I was 18. I have logged over 250,000 miles running. I think that may be the most miles any human being has ever run in the history of man kind.
Is your name Herbie?
I would imagine that this feat was accompished by some guy in Eastern Africa chasing down food thousands of years ago. He was probably wearing flats.
My high school coach has over a 110,000 and he is only 45. Although he says that they add up a lot slower after 40.
i think u have enough base to move down to speed work
No. My name is manuel. I was born in Mexico, moved to Michigan when I was 18 and started running then, in high school. I thank God for every stride I take.
Harry Kooter wrote:
I would imagine that this feat was accompished by some guy in Eastern Africa chasing down food thousands of years ago. He was probably wearing flats.
This guy probably died before he was 30. As our life expectancy has increased, our need to run has decreased.
You are still running an average of 10 miles a day??
I'm skeptical.
If you're really 88, I honestly wouldn't expect you to suddenly go and tell people on a message board.
But if you did do it, that's pretty amazing. Nice.
Who cares? I congratulate you for your long healthy running career.
Two words: Ted Corbitt.
XCTC wrote:
Two words: Ted Corbitt.
Those are definately 2 good words.
I was going to say Ron Hill, but I would have been wrong. Corbitt's still adding to his total, isn't he?
When you were 18 Michigan wasn't even a state yet, to say nothing of the fact there weren't any high schools out on the frontier back then. So, uh, this story is completely bogus.
Forrest Gump?
On the day Hill was compulsively hobbling a mile in a foot cast, Ted probably slipped in an easy 25.
student of human nature wrote:
You are still running an average of 10 miles a day??
I'm skeptical.
No. He said he has been averaging 10 miles a day since he was 18. That does not state over what interval the average is taken. A daily average from every week? A daily average from every month? A daily average from every year?
All of these will, of course, be different. I do think the original post is probably bogus, but if it isn't, I assume the original poster meant that over the course of his running career since the age of 18 (which he has only implied, not confirmed, as a start date), his daily average has worked out to be about 10 miles a day.
reality check wrote:
When you were 18 Michigan wasn't even a state yet, to say nothing of the fact there weren't any high schools out on the frontier back then. So, uh, this story is completely bogus.
Uh.. Michigan became a state in the 1830s or something like that. So you're way off on that. Heck, Ford had been manufacturing in Detroit for a couple decades when he was 18, you're telling me there weren't any High Schools there?
Probably bogus, but Ted Corbitt isn't.
Tom
That does not state over what interval the average is taken. A daily average from every week? A daily average from every month? A daily average from every year?
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He said he has been running an average of 10 miles a day since he was 18. The interval would appear to be a daily average over the past 70 years. What about that is hard to understand?