There's this guy in my neighborhood, built kind of like a semi-muscular hoops player, who runs pretty much daily, but only runs one mile.
He runs it all out, supposedly. I've never run in the same direction he does, but, when I DO see him, he's clearly pushing it.
Anyone else know anyone who does this? Just a mile a day, in the red zone, but no further than that?
For a non-racer that sounds like fun.
Yoh!
There's a sports writer for the Boston Globe who's supposedly run a mile a day every day for years.
It might be Dan Shaughnessy.
LOL. I started this doing this workout in middle school after watching Said Aouita win a mile race. Obviously I didn't know the first thing about training, but it's surprising how much you can improve on just 6 miles/week all-out running.
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My brother ran 2 miles a day pretty much all out. He got down to 16:57 like this. He was also an avid baller but pretty skinny.
I used did this for a six weeks before my senior year of track in HS. I was recovering from an injury and told to limit mileage. I just ran a mile as fast as I could everyday concentrating on form. I ended up with some strange results.
I improved in the 800 from 2:16 to 2:05 (splits 58-67). I would easily (I mean really easily) do sub 65 second quarters in practice...but I could only manage a 4:33 1600 (4:53 before the season though). Opened up a 3200 in 65 and finished in 10:14 (SB of 10:05 with a 4:51 first mile). Before this my base was not terrible, I had been doing between 30 and 50 miles a week for 3 years.
I really enjoyed it actually...
Didn't Ritz run the same 4 mile loop as fast as he could every day during one winter?
This used to be close to how olympic guys would train - there was a piece on letsrun maybe 4 months ago about the best US steepler of the 1950s.
His normal workout would be something like 'run a mile as hard as possible' and then jog a little and do it again. Sounded like he never did more than a couple. He did it through his neighborhood, not on a track.
Guy ran something like 8:50 off that. So clearly that kind of training can work.