is it just me or do people lie about their mileage?

no, everyone on here runs 130 miles per week and can go 13:30 in the 5K.

Well, I run about 105-110 most of the time and can only run in the mid 25's in cross. Some of us just aren't as blessed as Bekele, Meb, Ritz, or that best runner you know.

We are a minority. Most of the people on this board are 100+. I'm 60-70. and because I'm sick 20-30. 60-70 is why my 8K XC time is only 27:21 and my 5K is only 16:04. If I ran 100+ I'd be bashing out 24's and 14's.

Nope, you are the only liar

You do not need to run 100+ miles to run very well.

I run 90-110 per week and don't even break 17 for the 5K (yet).

I usually lie to people and say I do less mileage since I am sick of hearing them tell me I am crazy, lying, or goung to kill myself.

I do not go around bragging how much I run but everytime someone finds out I am a runner they have to ask how far I run. I usually say I run pretty regularly and leave it at that. I don't even go around telling people I run. Somehow they find out and have to ask me about it.

This is a message board for serious competitive runners and silly children. We have a lot in common.

Henry Henry Henry.......do not come on this message board if you want to talk to honest smart people.......they just do not exist here.

I for one only run 25-30 miles a week. I would poop my pants way too much if I ran over 100 miles.

If you run a 100 miles a week and have been doing so far a while and you can not break 17 minutes in the 5K you either weighed as much as my 350 pound brother when you started, do not train well, or should just plain call it quits.

Maybe you should run more quality than quantity cuz it obviosly aint working.

Ask a runner his PR for a distance. If it's 4:37, he'll say 4:30s(talk about being really general). If it's 4:32, he'll say 4:30. After all, if he'd just had a rabbit, he coulda run 4:30 no problem.....right?

-Soup

Geez, I thought runners were anal about those things as my 1600 pr in high school was 4:29.38. I am currently averaging 36.45837 miles per week.

no lie here wrote:

...I am currently averaging 36.45837 miles per week.

Are you sure your not runduderun? I hear he is up to 25.865443 miles per week at an avg page of 9.012176 minutes per mile.

my average pace is 6:36.38475643 and I am not runnerdude

ha ha wrote:

If you run a 100 miles a week and have been doing so far a while and you can not break 17 minutes in the 5K you either weighed as much as my 350 pound brother when you started, do not train well, or should just plain call it quits.

I'll quit when I feel like. I run for myself, not to prove anything to anyone. My guess is that you are in junior high and when you are my age you will be a paunch that can't break 25. Ha ha! And... the hundred miles it is working. I'm improving on stagnant PRs. Besides, I have nothing better to do (except surf LR).

Some people lie about mile times, some of us don't. Same thing with mileage. I remember someone asking me how fast I could run a mile when I was a freshmen in college and I said "about 4:20" seeing as my PR in the 1500 was 4:02.57. One of my teammates said "about 4:20 too" even though his best (converted) time worked out to 4:48. The kid would also always round up his mileage. I'd say I ran 63 miles the week before, he would say 70 even though I ran more than him. Some people are just full of shit.

But many people on here I'm sure put in 100+ weeks. These are the people who are really into the sport, even if we aren't all very good (I never see people claiming they run 13:30, too easy to call it out.) It's easy to be persuaded to go and run huge mileage based on things people like Malmo and Hodgie and a ton of other people post. On another note I knew a kid that ran 140 for a while in HS that couldn't break 17. Doing the extra mileage didn't help him out that much and I'm betting all he did was mileage. He has improved on somewhat lower mileage (60s-70s.)

I consistently run well over 100 miles a week and I often round my mileage down (e.g. if I think I ran about 10 but I'm not sure, I'll go another 2-3 minutes). I still remember my first 100 mile week and how hard it was and how proud of myself I was. Luckily it got a lot easier and I was able to mantain it for a while (until I cut it down to peak). I have adapted to the mileage so well that I've done 115 mile weeks and I felt awesome and my legs were not dead. I felt like I did when I was running 30 mpw in high school. I don't know what kind of race results you're looking for from 100+ mpw guys, but I know that as soon as I upped the mileage, I PR'd in every XC race by about 1:20 over the time I ran on that course the previous year. Also lopped about 2 minutes off my 10k.

I consider myself to have average talent, so I know I must work hard to be able to keep up with more talented runners. If you don't improve off of higher mileage then you're definitely running your easy days way too hard. To put it in perspective, I'm a slightly slower than 25:00 XC guy (8k) and my easy days are typically around 6:30 pace. If you don't let your legs recover from day to day while doing high mileage, you will get slower, injured, burned out, etc. The easy days should feel relaxed and comfortable (which allows me to push hard on workout days). 100 mile weeks are not as hard as everyone makes them out to be.

I average less than 50 or 60 anually, but when trianing for a marathon I run several high mileage weeks between 80 and 120 miles. I always underestimate my mileage and I ask other runners there opinions if running in a group. There is no reason to lie about your mileage or times because when you step on the track you look like an a-hole.

For instance my marathon pr is 2:27:54 but my 10k pr is 33:03. Go figure!