Cam Says He May Experiment With 250mpw range

I heard it was 500 mile weeks.

Glam Levins wrote:

250 miles a month is over 8 miles a day, which still might be too much for a 10k runner.

Too much?

t94bell wrote:

Glam Levins wrote:

250 miles a month is over 8 miles a day, which still might be too much for a 10k runner.

Too much?

If you're only racing 6 miles, why do you need to do all kinds of crazy 10 milers or w/e everyday? 150 mile months with maybe a 12 miler (2x race distance !!) thrown in is more than enough.

More importantly, I wish he would get a fvcking haircut. He looks like the village idiot.

there is no proof because Cam never said this! Just another troll on lets run

I would love to see an interview with him in which he breaks down a typical week in his life. What time he gets up, what he eats, what pace is he running, does he count strides towards mileage?, but most importantly...what does he do in his spare time? I find impossible for him to hangout with anyone for more than 5-6 hours at time because he's got to be running.

How does he handle this grind? I did a few 80 mile weeks one summer and it almost made me lose the fire. How in the f***k does he manage to do twice this amount?

Are you retarded? He only did that bad in the Olympic Finals because he got really sick! And he still got 11TH on his first trip to the Olympics. Respect the man you moron.

t94bell wrote:

Glam Levins wrote:

250 miles a month is over 8 miles a day, which still might be too much for a 10k runner.

Too much?

If you're only racing 6 miles, why do you need to do all kinds of crazy 10 milers or w/e everyday? 150 mile months with maybe a 12 miler (2x race distance !!) thrown in is more than enough.

lol yea if you want to be a mediocre 10k runner. All Elite 10k runners tend to be sitting above 90 miles a week! Do more research on running then come back and talk

some people believe anything wrote:

there is no proof because Cam never said this! Just another troll on lets run

Not every LR thread/post is a troll. Have a little faith in humanity.

Gerry Lindgren averaged 240 miles per week for an entire year once. AVERAGED. Did 360 per week for 6 weeks once in college. Once ran a 380 mile week. 88 mile long runs. Mega mileage has a drawback. Gerry never broke 54 seconds for 400. Cam has better speed than Gerry, but the more he increases, the less quality & speed he will reasonably be able to fit into his training.

I'm not going to say he is training incorrectly because he has had good results thus far but at some point one should start focusing on improving other qualities, i.e., his speed. If he can get his speed down a bit while maintaining his endurance (not an easy thing to do) then he could definitely break 13 minutes & 27 minutes.

someone had to do it wrote:

Gerry Lindgren averaged 240 miles per week for an entire year once. AVERAGED. Did 360 per week for 6 weeks once in college. Once ran a 380 mile week. 88 mile long runs. Mega mileage has a drawback. Gerry never broke 54 seconds for 400.

Yea, but with Gerry 1 mile = 2 miles.

maybe hes become the secret Sith apprentice of that wacko Dean Karnazes guy.

I understand maybe 175 mpw at most but this is just flat dumb

someone had to do it wrote:

Gerry Lindgren averaged 240 miles per week for an entire year once. AVERAGED. Did 360 per week for 6 weeks once in college. Once ran a 380 mile week. 88 mile long runs.

Except it's unlikely this actually happened. Lindgren also claims he ran 16:08 for 4 miles. This means he would have gone through 5k in 12:31 then continued for another 1400 meters at the same pace.

He also claims he ran 26 miles at sub-2 hour marathon pace, but then he collapsed in the last .2 so he never finished that race.

The only thing we can believe is his verifiable race resuls, which of course were outstanding. But if it sounds inhuman or out of this world, that's because it is. I don't believe those mileage totals for a second.

i agree not every post is a troll, but what do you call someone who makes up things just to get a negative response. These and other forums could be great interaction,positive and negative

Woxl wrote:

I hope the guy implodes. He didn't learn squat when everyone ran away from him in the 10,000m Final.

This is a guy that worships his training log and not his results.

Pretty much. All of this slow junk mileage has no benefit and will just lead to injury.

Lagat won two WC golds on 55 mpw.

GoingDaDistance wrote:

He only did that bad in the Olympic Finals because he got really sick!

How was he sick?

Koneko wrote:

Woxl wrote:

I hope the guy implodes. He didn't learn squat when everyone ran away from him in the 10,000m Final.

This is a guy that worships his training log and not his results.

Pretty much. All of this slow junk mileage has no benefit and will just lead to injury.

Lagat won two WC golds on 55 mpw.

Right, because Levins is always hurt and hasn't accomplished anything. He'd be much better at 55 a week because that's all anyone needs.

he broke 4 for the mile speed is not an issue

bring it back to reality wrote:

Except it's unlikely this actually happened. Lindgren also claims he ran 16:08 for 4 miles. This means he would have gone through 5k in 12:31 then continued for another 1400 meters at the same pace.

He also claims he ran 26 miles at sub-2 hour marathon pace, but then he collapsed in the last .2 so he never finished that race.

The only thing we can believe is his verifiable race resuls, which of course were outstanding. But if it sounds inhuman or out of this world, that's because it is. I don't believe those mileage totals for a second.

It doesn't really matter if you believe it or not.