Longest you have sustained 100mpw

5 weeks.

I stopped because I got violently ill after an 18 miler in 90 degree heat. I threw up 10 times in the next 24 hours and had to take the next few days a bit easier. The throwing up was the worst. I couldn't eat or drink anything. I couldn't stand up straight without my stomach cramping painfully. Dropped 12 pounds because I had absolutely nothing in me.

Maintained 70s mpw for a few months after that, before I had a freak hip injury sideline me for 6 weeks.

I averaged 93 miles a week in 2005. That included two 6 week spans where I tapered and recovered from two marathons. So I would say 9 out of 12 months averaged over 100 a week including a 500 mile February and a high of 140 miles in a week. I never got hurt running higher mileage.

Alan

Do you stretch?

Five years then down to 75-90.

Why is letsrun obsessed with 100 mile weeks? Seriously, I want to know.

Listen to your body and let the miles come to you. Looking back at my logs, I've have countless weeks of 97, 98 and 99 mile weeks and some weeks in the 150's, never let a round number dictate how your body feels and go with the flow. Chasing mileage is how you get injured all in the name of chasing some stupid and insignificant streak.

The race results don't show how many consecutive weeks training you have had over 100 mpw.

3, on 3 different occasions.

was typically 80-90 in those days, but would drop down to 70ish for a week to "recover".

i was one of the lower mileage guys on my college distance crew. at least 15 guys running as much or more.

1 day, maybe 2 at most.

I averaged 110 miles a week 1970-1976.

Igy

Runnow83 wrote:

Do you stretch?

Ha, ha. I used to stretch if I had time. I don't ever stretch now, but I'm old and don't run much.

What seemed to help me was ice baths.

I would try to do an ice bath after every run. Literally ice cold water and the ice I had in my freezer. It's wasn't unbearably cold but it was cold enough. At night I would then do a very hot bath, uncomfortably hot.

I had averaged at least 70-80 miles a week since high school then started running marathons in 2000 and would have at least a stretch of 4 weeks above 100. I always ran more during the summer, it was easier to suffer through hot miles than a cold rainy dreary winter. I could run 100-115 with no effort. Getting upwards of 120-140 took some planning. Did that through 2007 with '04-'06 being my best years. Ran my 5k pr and marathon pr I think 18 months apart.

Alan

96,100,106,117,115,114,120,103,120,121,138,136,150,145,155,150,140,141,105,112,112,113,101,100,112,77,113,70,107,100,110,130,90,100,93,90,112,102,135,142,140,145,137,140,140,141,138,140,142,142,96,100,102,101,112,110,110,115,103,110,120,121,70,105,90,100,101,100,135,91,82,119,

Two days.

what are you PRs? maybe a personal question, but i've always been curious since you seem to have a lot of very good training information

There was an 8 week period where I ran 800 miles. I maxed at 120 one week just to see if I could do it.

At the end, a lingering imbalance with my ITB finally decided it had had enough, and I got really, really injured (still am.) If I had properly addressed that imbalance ahead of time, though, I think I could have kept going.

Just curious, but how many doubles (or triples?) a week for most of you 100+ guys? I really don't find too much value in doubles, and would regularly hit 85+ on singles. And if you did double, what was the distance?

how important is stretching when you do high mileage? Would some leg swings before and after be all that you need?

If you're running 100 miles per week, you better be close to breaking my world records.

I ran 90-94mpw on 6 days for about 6 weeks. And one week over 100 when I decided to run all 7 days. Didn't have any injury issues.

Kenenisa Bekele wrote:

If you're running 100 miles per week, you better be close to breaking my world records.

Why?

came up just short of 5,000 miles in a year when I got injured twice in December 2012--after pr'ing multiple times in workouts the previous months. otherwise I had 100-112 all year.