I ran 102 miles last week. How many people in the world do you think ran further?

Area Man wrote:

"Farther"

My thoughts exactly.

at least 10,000

I have an Achilles injury and ran zero miles each of the last three weeks. How many people in the world do you think ran less than that? I'm going to say zero.

There were 8 x 100 mile races this weekend with an average of about 60 runners.

That's 480 according to my fuzzy math.

FYI I ran a backwards mile last week, during a zero-mile week.

My hat's off to you for your negative mileage.

atleast 50% of the college runners in real programs are ahead of you. Step up your game.

farther for physical distance and further for more metaphorical or figurative distance.

farther is more appropriate when discussing quantifiable miles run, but when speaking about how far you could push your body you could use further.

I did.

In fact, that was my easy day on Monday.

treeu wrote:

FYI I ran a backwards mile last week, during a zero-mile week.

I think you might be on to something

This sounds legit. I'd just like to give you props on a solid post in a thread filled mostly with nonsense.

about a million.

roughly 995,000 of them weren't doing it recreationally

treeu wrote:

FYI I ran a backwards mile last week, during a zero-mile week.

So did you run one mile forwards to cancel out that -1 mile?

You can't assume that many of those hundred mile racers actually ran the whole distance.

Depends on age, time available (profession at the time) responsabilities, time of the season, etc etc. and many other things but I tell you 100 or 105 miles a week is not a big deal. The africans (although they will never admitted) average about 160 to 185 miles a week. Ed Wichlock probably one of the greatest runners of all time (age handicapped ratio) runs about 140 to 150 miles a week..........except that he is 80 years old. He has the functionining statisticals handicapped table of 105% percent!! from distances from 1 mile all the way to the Marathon. He run 3 straight hours (no stopping) at a cemetary at his home town at (9:00 minute miles) but remember he is 80 years old.

Jibba Jabba wrote:

hmmmmmm...... wrote:

9 men and 1 woman on this online log alone.

http://www.logarun.com/leaderboards.aspx

I'd guess the number of people that ran 102+ is higher than you estimate. Just a random guess, but I'd say closer to 1000+ in the USA.

Now if you mutilated your genitals, AND ran 102 miles, you would be in an exclusive club.

Neat site. I am especially impressed by the top mens 5k time:

Eugene Wu (00:13:25 [9-7-2010])

Turns out it was a set of 1000m intervals.

Still quite a fast workout.

pilsbury doughboy wrote:

The SHIT wrote:

oh my God, millage doesn't mean shit if ur just running "junk miles"

Do you mean "junk mills"

i think you've misspelled plisbury

yep yep and yep wrote:

You could mutilate your own genitals and say you are among only 5 people in the whole world that did so last week. This would make you a moron unless you had a really good reason for doing so.

What is your reason?

post of year? i am in tears laughing.