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128 miles in seven days, nine runs, 111 in singles, during a 15 week base period averaging 95 mpw. Very beneficial.
malmo wrote:
178 during a heat wave in June. 2nd best was 177 during a cold spell in December.
The week after the 177 miles I ran 151 miles - with a day and a half off due to the flu. (27, 27.5, 0, 16.5, 27, 27, 26) so on a pro rata basis: 151/5.5 = 27.45. 27.45*7 = 192
malmo wrote:
malmo wrote:178 during a heat wave in June. 2nd best was 177 during a cold spell in December.
The week after the 177 miles I ran 151 miles - with a day and a half off due to the flu. (27, 27.5, 0, 16.5, 27, 27, 26) so on a pro rata basis: 151/5.5 = 27.45. 27.45*7 = 192
Any thoughts about the possible cause / effect relationship between the miles and the flu? Was someone immune systems compromised by the mega miles?
70. Hope to be there soon again.
80. Got sick and hit 45 the next week. Not beneficial.
Lets learn a lesson wrote:
Any thoughts about the possible cause / effect relationship between the miles and the flu? Was someone immune systems compromised by the mega miles?
It wasn't compromised too badly if he still got 151 miles and maintained better than the previous week's daily average.
I've gotten sick during high mile weeks, low mile weeks, and during tapers. People get sick.
Nice troll attempt, though.
Lets learn a lesson wrote:
Any thoughts about the possible cause / effect relationship between the miles and the flu? Was someone immune systems compromised by the mega miles?
Use your brain. Mileage does not cause the flu virus.
I've been sick more times running little or no mileage then when running high mileage. Are you suggesting that the low or no mileage caused the flu? Or could it be... possibly... the flu virus itself? Hmmmm....
People get sick from exposure to the flu virus, not from exposure to running. You get exposure to the flu virus in public spaces, touching door handles, touching money, touching anything or being anywhere that sick people are.
"Lets learn a lesson", did you?
158. I know the OP asked for max but like to put it in context...I had a nice little string of mileage weeks a couple years back where I went 104, 103, 115, 142, 154, 154, 131, 105, 150, 158, 156, 120, 110, raced a half Marathon (masters pr), 151, 135, 136,
malmo wrote:
Use your brain. Mileage does not cause the flu virus.
I've been sick more times running little or no mileage then when running high mileage. Are you suggesting that the low or no mileage caused the flu? Or could it be... possibly... the flu virus itself? Hmmmm....
"Lets learn a lesson", did you?
Malmo, I think without being a smartass, he's just trying to say that, while running high mileage and training harder can improve performance, training harder and the increased stress temporarily can make one more susceptible to illness (from doorknobs, public places,etc)
Malmo, no offense tough guy, but did you get the f*ckin flu in the summer? Isnt that unusual pal?
woops looks like Malmo got the flu on his 150ish week in the winter
120, many years ago (but then was hurt for a couple weeks after!)
Campbells Salty Sodium wrote:
Malmo, no offense tough guy, but did you get the f*ckin flu in the summer? Isnt that unusual pal?
I get a flu or common cold every year about 2-3 times, just like the rest of the population. It's been that way since childhood and hasn't changed. If there is a causal link between the flu and high mileage, it would would be evident. There is none.
You get the flu from exposure to the flu virus. Once your body builds enough antibodies you are pretty much immune until your natural defenses wane, or until you are exposed to new viruses.
Campbells Salty Sodium wrote:
Malmo, no offense tough guy, but did you get the f*ckin flu in the summer? Isnt that unusual pal?
Generally the flu season is November through March, but people do get it during the Summer as well. What's your point?
yes malmo but isnt the immune system temporarily weakened during a block of high training stress? but for a guy like you, maybe 170mpw is not a high training stress.
mdw wrote:
158. I know the OP asked for max but like to put it in context...I had a nice little string of mileage weeks a couple years back where I went 104, 103, 115, 142, 154, 154, 131, 105, 150, 158, 156, 120, 110, raced a half Marathon (masters pr), 151, 135, 136,
Nice. and as a masters runner? Double nice! I mean, 6 150+ weeks with 4 130+ weeks as backup, HOLY SHIT!
In context for me: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 42, 55, 98, 80, 101, 89, 124, 137, 157, 168, 177, 151, 113.
101.
121, once hit 12 weeks all over 100 but 121 was the max in any one week.
Campbells Salty Sodium wrote:
yes malmo but isnt the immune system temporarily weakened during a block of high training stress? but for a guy like you, maybe 170mpw is not a high training stress.
What difference does that make? If you get sick at the same frequency as the sedentary population, then what's the problem?
My god, some of you guys are just thick.
The fact is, my peers are athletes (dozens upon dozens of them) who have put in blocks of high mileage, and I have never heard of a chronic flu problem among them. Surely if running a lot caused and increase in susceptibility to the flu or URTIs I should have noticed it? Or at least my friends, who have done this for a living would have noticed it too? But, noooooooooo, only anonymous nitwits on an internet message board are suggesting that blocks of high mileage causes the flu.
Do you think that people who actually have trained like this, and have actually done this for a living, and whose peers have trained like that, and have done this for a living,too, might have a bit more experience and wisdom to share than you do?