100 mpw is just 7 am and 7 pm per day.

Serious Question: if you're time crunched, do you just do the mileage no strides, core work, or stretching? Are those things even necessary if you do the mileage?

Serious Question: if you're time crunched, do you just do the mileage no strides, core work, or stretching? Are those things even necessary if you do the mileage?

lets see how long it takes for the cumulative fatigue to hit you.and try to stay injury free and do actual workouts to get competitive.100 miles per week to run your 2:44 marathon doesn't count, because lots of us run that on 40 miles a week

high mileage isn't hard wrote:

Real life wrote:

Because most of us have real life's like work family etc. Runners are selfish weirdos on the whole

Really? The average American spends 4-5 hours per day in front of the TV. Or social media or mindless web browsing or on time wasting message boards. How do all those people fit in real life work family etc?

OP - High mileage isn't hard! Just run 7 in the morning and night, you lazy, immature 35 year olds.

Rational poster: No one thinks the act of covering 100 miles in a week is hard. What makes it difficult is doing that distance while incorporating hard running, which is what all elite runners do to get faster.

OP - You don't need the hard running! Science and my teammates and all colleges runners prove it.

Rational poster: Interesting theory. Since we have so much information available on the Internet, could you post a link to just one example of what you're talking about?

OP - No! And no one should only run easy, even though I've been saying the opposite this whole thread!

OP, btw, I'm just being a jerk and trolling. I get your point. Just invoking a little debate.

high mileage isn't hard wrote:

What's so hard about that? It's only 7.14 miles per run twice a day. People act like 100mpw a huge deal that only a few can accomplish.

It is not hard if you have a well established base and are jogging it. Throw in some workouts and then see.

Adapting to the cumulative fatigue is kind of the point. You will adapt,you'll be faster and doing so isn't that hard. And of course someone's 2:44 marathon counts. Many of us couldn't run anywhere near that time on 40 mile weeks.

Yes it may be hard for people to make the time to run that much. That's an issue separate from whether the physical act of running is hard. In the amateur days plenty of people ran that much while working full time and supporting families. But doing so may require some selectivity when taking a job and deciding where to live. Sure, if you always work 60-65 hours a week and have a 60-90 minute commute it's going to be very hard to find the time to run 100 or so minutes a day. That's where you have to decide what matters to you.

Me I ran 15.12 for 5k having taken 3 weeks completely off on my first day back, by the way I had put on a stone and a half in weight and could barely get into my singlet.

I was forced to run the 5k for my club in our national league track and field championships as we had nobody else.

My coach had a horrific achilles injury at the end of his career and broke 8 minutes for 3k on the track after only being able to run no faster than 7 minute miling for the previous 9 months.

understander of subtlety wrote:

Running is a fine hobby, but, at it's core, it is a lonely and rather narcissistic pursuit. Running from point A to point B in a particular time does not really benefit society or add substance to life.

What a bad troll. Seriously, why do you even try with this? My grandma's on life support and she trolls better than this every time she makes a noise

You expect us to believe that

After my last tequila shot on Friday Night, I just start running and don't stop until I hit my 100. Done.

Just a little something Dean K taught me.

high mileage isn't hard wrote:

What's so hard about that? It's only 7.14 miles per run twice a day. People act like 100mpw a huge deal that only a few can accomplish.

Spoken like a true youngster.

Running 100mpw as a task alone is not that hard for any half decent runner.

However running 100mpw CONSISTENTLY with quality workouts and adequate rest to ensure recovery, development and lack of injury is what makes it rather difficult.

Imagine your quality session is 8 x 800m so only a total of 4 miles (~ 5.5 if you count 400m jog recoveries) thus you need an ~ 5 mile warm up and ~ 5 mile cool down to keep on schedule with your miles. If you have time 'a plenty then fine but if you have a heavy workload, family and social time then this becomes really quite challenging. No idea how you would cope if you have kids to look after also.

I'm up around 60mpw just now with a busy full time job, wife and a very busy social life and it ain't easy. Fortunately I don't plan on going much above 70mpw.

70-75 mpw with a full time job was 4-5 in the morning and 6-7 at lunch. If I missed a lunch time run then it was 6-7 in the evening before driving home.

disagree. running builds character and strength, promotes health, releases destructive stress, provides platform for meditative understanding, and helps people become more productive and compassionate members of society.

understander of subtlety wrote:

Running is a fine hobby, but, at it's core, it is a lonely and rather narcissistic pursuit. Running from point A to point B in a particular time does not really benefit society or add substance to life.

(oh yeah, got to hit that 'quote' thing)

disagree. running builds character and strength, promotes health, releases destructive stress, provides platform for meditative understanding, and helps people become more productive and compassionate members of society.

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Say I have a "friend" who runs 100-150 miles a week consistently, does workouts on the track and long runs. You'd expect him to get faster, eh? What if I were to tell you, that doesn't happen... what if I told you that 100+ mile weeks don't work for everyone, and its not that impressive?

I'd get crucified, which is why I won't say any of those things...

For some, this may be true. Other runners I've known can be prima donnas, arrogant, make fun of "hobby joggers", absorbed in training and competition at the expense of time with family and friends. Then they get injured and get irritable and depressed. For some, running may be a healthy outlet. For others it is an unhealthy obsession.

My last semester of college I had only one class and no job.

All I had to do was run, and I couldn't hit 100 miles in any single week.

I think 73 miles was my highest week.

My morning runs were no more than 5 miles and I doubled no more than 4 times in any week.

My long run was no longer than 12 miles and that was not a day where I doubled.