has anyone ever run this much, how did it feel? do any elites past or present run this much and how much did they improve?
has anyone ever run this much, how did it feel? do any elites past or present run this much and how much did they improve?
Has "Gerry the Jogger" not responded yet?
He's ran 350 miles per week...with a long run of 88 miles, all sub 7:00 miles.
I realize the sarcasm, but if I understand what Gerry actually claims is that he ran 50-mile runs for a week straight due to a bet with someone that he couldn't (?). Something like that.
Either way it definitely wasn't like an every week thing. Pretty sure it happened once.
I think he averaged 300mpw for like 6 weeks, and he ran like 4 times a day.
Lydiard did that while he was tinkering with his training in the 50s.
1989 NYC Marathon winner Juma Ikanga ran a lot of 200 mile weeks. So did Bill Rodgers
That crazy ultra dude who looks like a caveman/hippie does close to 200.
Alan
You're thinking of Anton Kurpicka
Here's an example of a training week...
MON 23Jul AM 16mi 2:10 Garden of the Gods + barefoot
PM 16mi 2:17 Rampart Reservoir
TUE 24Jul AM 27mi (4:05) Mt. Baldy Summit (12,349')
PM 5mi (:42) Jack Quinn's
WED 25Jul AM 25mi (4:07) Elk Park-Pikes Peak
Summit and back
PM 9mi (1:13) Monument Valley + barefoot
THU 26Jul AM 26mi (3:31) El Diablo-Buckhorn Loop
PM 5mi (:44) flat + barefoot
FRI 27Jul AM 11mi (1:31) Monument Valley+barefoot
SAT 28Jul AM 51mi (8:00) Pikes Peak Summit-Elk Park-Garden
SUN 29Jul AM 34mi (6:00) Half Moon-Winfield-Twin Lakes
(Hope Pass Double Crossing)
on LT100 course
Total 225mi (34:20) LT100 course
(http://www.mountainrunning.com/bios/spotlight/akrupika.html)
Those miles are all over 7:00 pace, therefore they don't count
super high mileage--(over 140 mpw), was done by some of the best in the world in the early to mid 70s; Dave Bedford, among them. As a runner of that era, I ran many 100 mile weeks; jumping it to the 120 mpw range in my post college years, at times, when training for the 10k to marathon. I hit 140 a time or 2, but that was 'too much' for me. I was ok in the 100-120 range.
top Americans of the early to late 70s, ran high mileage: Shorter, Galloway, Bachelor, Rodgers, Salazar, etc...ran up to 150 mpw at times of their training.
He's not realy an elite athlete, but that guy Nuci who just ran in the olympic trials peaked at 212 before the trials race I believe. Thats what joggers world said anyways...
Derek Clayton.
He put in plenty of 200-mile weeks, with large amounts of quality. Set multiple world bests in the marathon.
Of course, he's also renowned for having run into a tree--saw it in plenty of time, he said, but just couldn't get out of its way...
Rodgers only ran 200 miles for one week in Jan. 1975 in preparation for Boston. I believe this was in Derderians book.
college team-mate ran 200 for 8 weeks I believe - and it wasn't 7 min pace. Several others (team mates) in the 140 range. in the 70s. They ran pretty (very) well
Jerome Howe; 3:38 1500m man in 1972, (4th at the trials) and a X-C All American, would run 140 mpw in the fall. He was known as a miler, mostly, with a good kick and was part of some great Kansas State relays on the Midwest Relay Circut. (see the cover of T & F News, May '73).
those guys piled up the miles wrote:
top Americans of the early to late 70s, ran high mileage: Shorter, Galloway, Bachelor, Rodgers, Salazar, etc...ran up to 150 mpw at times of their training.
did Galloway take walking breaks and do the 'Gallowalk'?
You sure Salazar ran 150? That does not sound like Dellinger training.
it was post college...when he was training for the marathon. 150 was the high end; 100 to 130 was more typical. Henry Rono said in his thread that he used to run between 90 and 120 mpw, too
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There was a long thread in the Competitive Wire board of coolrunning.com about Japanese marathoners and their very heavy training loads. Leon was the thread-starter. (Leon2??)
Here's Leon2's thread: