140 miles a week and 40 hours a week

I work 40 hours a week and even though I've been injured I've been able to put in 100 mpw on the eliptical, if I were determined enough and able to run I'm sure it would be possible. Didn't some guy named like Nick something do it in Oregon?

i did 130 working full time and did 140 with a thre day weekend. never really noticed much benfit over 120, also I was never that fast...

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You will be tired.

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not 140 but between 100 and 120..(130 was about my limit). I just had to be very planned and economical with my time and scheduling. I was married but had no kids while doing this for about 5 years, post college. (trying to qualify for marathon OT, 2:19:04-came up short but ran several marathons between 221 and 225. (yes, it was worth it, I'd still do it all over again, even though I didn't reach my goal).

Kjell-Erik Ståhl worked 60 hour weeks a a telecommunications engineer and he was 4th in the 1983 WC marathon.

Avocados Number did 70hrs/week & 140 mpw for years.

I had a 7:00-3:00 job. Not being much of a morning person. I'd run after work at 3:30 or so and again at night, maybe 8:00-8:30. I'd get most of the miles in after work, usually 12-15 miles, then do another 4-8 in the second run.

Didn't Ron Hill do something like that, for 20 years or so?

He ran to work and ran back home, IIRC, and then his long run on the Sunday. He worked as a chemist, I believe.

No shower at work, I think he said, but then it was England so just a quick sponge-off upon arrival at the job was good enough.

I've done 140+ twice ever, once while in college, once while working 40hrs.

I've averaged 100 miles a week for an entire summer, going up to 120-130 for 5 weeks straight, two years ago. Run to work, shower, work, run home from work. Helps to have a shower at work and a place to store your work clothes.

Alan

I ran a peak week of 137 miles while working 50+ hours/week in a very successful road season, setting various personal bests. It was also the year of my first-born, which, looking back now, I have no idea how I trained so hard, worked, recovered, and enjoyed my wife and newborn.

It can be done. Just don't think about it.

I did it during the summers while in college. My job was not challenging though - and I was able to sneak the occasional nap when the campers at the YMCA left for the day.

Always tired, always hungry.

I don't do 140 mpw consistently but I reach that a couple of times per year. Last year I went:

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I usually work about 45 hours per week and I have a wife and two kids. I am usually coaching two sports at a time as well.

Was up with getting married and having kids...Ok getting married I get it. But the kid thing is sooo gross and overrated. The world don't need more humans.

present wrote:

Didn't Ron Hill do something like that, for 20 years or so?

He ran to work and ran back home, IIRC, and then his long run on the Sunday. He worked as a chemist, I believe.

No shower at work, I think he said, but then it was England so just a quick sponge-off upon arrival at the job was good enough.

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Hmmm....I know a very good friend of mine who could have taken the opportunity for 125 mpw many years ago..running to & fro from his place of employment...but...hr. of work were 4:00 PM - midnight, the roads were unlit for the return trip & nowhere for storing his civvies as well as for showering...could have been done :)

Still runs this day though.

I've been doing 120-140 and working about 40 hours/week since february. Highest mileage was 162 miles. I run in the morning and evening monday-friday, semi-long run saturday, longest run sunday morning.

The really difficult part will start in a couple of days when classes start again. I'll be doing the same mileage, working about 38-40 hours, and taking 18 credit hours at school. I've been crunching the numbers with scheduling things out, and I think I can do it. (I can work on the weekends, so that's where about 20 of my work ours will come in).

staples wrote:

I've been doing 120-140 and working about 40 hours/week since february. Highest mileage was 162 miles. I run in the morning and evening monday-friday, semi-long run saturday, longest run sunday morning.

The really difficult part will start in a couple of days when classes start again. I'll be doing the same mileage, working about 38-40 hours, and taking 18 credit hours at school. I've been crunching the numbers with scheduling things out, and I think I can do it. (I can work on the weekends, so that's where about 20 of my work ours will come in).

you must have a ridiculously easy course load in a terrible program...or you're a genius. because there's no way there is time to what you're listing here otherwise.

Last year getting ready for the trials I was working 45-50 hours and hitting 120. Dropped a huge bomb, but it was sickness related, I was fit (for me, not to make the team, was shooting for 2:17 on that course), so I think it can be done, or I hope....

This year the plan is to hit 140, same work schedule. I work for Nike in the sports research lab, it's a decently stressful job.

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Last summer I ran 90-115 miles a week while working construction full time (40 hours a week). In retrospect, I don't know how I did it. I had no life and was exhausted all the time.

Auriel Vandendriessche (sp?) won 2 Bostons in either '61-62 or '62-63, held a full time job (bookeeper, maybe?) and did 200 per week in prep for his Boston wins. I believe he was in the top ten at Tokyo in the '64 Olympic marathon, too.

There was also this guy named Rodgers...