Documented? I know stories of Lindgren.
Documented? I know stories of Lindgren.
I had a college teammate who did it, decades ago.
He ran 20 miles in the morning and 10 in the afternoon/evening for six days and on the seventh ran 20.
I have run one 205 mile week.
I know Ian Edwards did. Bill Rodgers did. Tom Fleming did. Obviously there was Lindgren. And there was Juma Ikangaa. Derek Clayton probably did at least once. Not sure who else did that isn't an ultra marathoner
I also had a college teammate do it back in the late '70's. I think it was 201, he had it written on our white board in the locker room, day by day, run by run. Not much to do during january in Keene, NH.
Without doing the maths, Dean Karnazes probably did it easily when he did his 50/50/50 challenge
How about people like Terry Fox, who do a marathon per day to go cross-country or the like? Not quite 200mpw, I know, but done consistently, week after week...
Dean Fan No. 9 wrote:
Without doing the maths, Dean Karnazes probably did it easily when he did his 50/50/50 challenge
With doing the math, 26.2 X 7 = 183.4. So I don't know about that. But he has obviously done it at some point(s)
I did it once for 3 weeks, one day I ran total of 48 miles....many years ago
Dave Bedford
Do you usually warm up or warm down for a marathon?
teammate - 70s, 200 x 8 weeks in succession
August, 1975, 201 miles, with two other guys, one a past NY Marathon winner, other a past AAU 50 mile champ.
After 4 days, we realized we had 100 miles and decided to go for the 200. The big day was 10 miles times 4.
tommy Neeson
"have run"
I have run a 200 mile week. = your past experience
I regularly run 200 mile weeks. = something that normally happens
I ran 200 miles last week. = something that happened at a particular time in the past
I've done it twice, back in the early nineties. Jerry Lawson did it semi-regularly back in that era. As someone else mentioned, and, as you can see for yourself at Hodge's site, Bill Rodgers did it back before his first Boston win. In BR's book he says that John Vitale did it many times - if I remember correctly. I'm pretty sure Paul Gompers did it. Vladimir, who shows up on the EvA threads did it quite a bit.
Lots of guys have done it. 200 isn't that hard if you're in decent marathon shape and have a week during which you have no other repsonsibilities.
As I've said elsewhere on LR, unless you can do it consistently, I'm not so sure 200 is any better than 170. If you look at BR's logs he averaged 'only' around 140/wk for the entire year. But he was pretty darn consistent.
"have ran" really?
the verb 'to run' isn't that hard to conjugate.
Yiannis Kouros ran 1000km (621.371 miles) in 6 days. He also ran 1000 miles in 10 days 10 hours which averages out to 96 miles per day.
I distinctly remember (so I'm probably wrong)an old RW article on Gary Bjorklund in which he said he trained on a three week cycle, the last week of which yielded 200 miles and left him feeling like a zombie.