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

I got to put in a 100 mile week on vacation once.

Just wanted to be able to tell myself I did it.

Run,nap, eat, run, drink. If only I won that powerball.

I don't care about training logs, I care about results.

So yeah, great congratulations! If you show up on race day with the prettiest training log, but if I run you into the ground who gives a damn about what you did?

"Tons of high school and college runners run over 100mpw and break 16 with no specific work. Is 2 hours of running each day too much to be working out?"

Man if I ran that much and the big payoff was that I could only dip under 16 I would be pissed. You can find TONS of guys running a 1/3 of that mileage that are well below 16.

You guys aren't doing something right or maybe you're just into the navel gazing aspect of running a lot.

EZ10Miler wrote:

"Tons of high school and college runners run over 100mpw and break 16 with no specific work. Is 2 hours of running each day too much to be working out?"

Man if I ran that much and the big payoff was that I could only dip under 16 I would be pissed. You can find TONS of guys running a 1/3 of that mileage that are well below 16.

You guys aren't doing something right or maybe you're just into the navel gazing aspect of running a lot.

Yes. But you can find tons more who aren't going to run that fast on 1/3 of that

mileage. It certainly is frustrating to need 100 mile weeks to run 15 something for 5km but it's better than running even slower.

HRE wrote:

EZ10Miler wrote:

"Tons of high school and college runners run over 100mpw and break 16 with no specific work. Is 2 hours of running each day too much to be working out?"

Man if I ran that much and the big payoff was that I could only dip under 16 I would be pissed. You can find TONS of guys running a 1/3 of that mileage that are well below 16.

You guys aren't doing something right or maybe you're just into the navel gazing aspect of running a lot.

Yes. But you can find tons more who aren't going to run that fast on 1/3 of that

mileage. It certainly is frustrating to need 100 mile weeks to run 15 something for 5km but it's better than running even slower.

EZ10Miler is missing every point entirely.

First, no one says you should only run easy pace if you're training for 5K. That was a hypothetical side discussion.

Second of all, since 100 mpw isn't that hard, it doesn't make sense to say the payoff is "only" a 15 minute 5k or so. 100 mpw isn't much harder than 70 once you get used to it, and in some ways it's easier because the hard sessions become easier and you recover quicker.

Third of all, you don't get bonus points for running the same time on less mileage. Of course if ez10miler doesn't care about being fast and would rather lose races knowing he ran less, that is up to him. However this board is primarily for competitive athletes.

southbysouthbest wrote:

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

I see now. However, I would still say that there are people who think the act of running 100 mpw alone without faster workouts is very difficult, and would still argue that once you've done 100 mpw for a few weeks, adding those efforts back in isn't too hard either. Or else you just go down to around 90 mpw and have a surplus of energy to complete those harder workouts.

EZ10Miler wrote:

I don't care about training logs, I care about results.

So yeah, great congratulations! If you show up on race day with the prettiest training log, but if I run you into the ground who gives a damn about what you did?

EZ10Miler wrote:

"Tons of high school and college runners run over 100mpw and break 16 with no specific work. Is 2 hours of running each day too much to be working out?"

Man if I ran that much and the big payoff was that I could only dip under 16 I would be pissed. You can find TONS of guys running a 1/3 of that mileage that are well below 16.

You guys aren't doing something right or maybe you're just into the navel gazing aspect of running a lot.

Basically contradicting yourself. On the one hand you're saying you do what it takes to get there, then state that it's not worth it if it involves a lot of training.

everyone has a life. more than likely a family man will not have the energy to do 100 mpw, and if he isn't aspiring to be a professional then he has no reason to. however if you are either a college athlete or a competitive post collegiate with hopes to be in the trials in an event then they more than likely already understand that it is possible to run 100 mpw. I'm struggling to understand this post so I felt laying it on the table like this would end it, as well as give credit to family life being hard, but also say it is possible to run as much as 100 (hell even 130's) if it's necessary.

So you believe any average American can simply stop watching so much TV, and with a simple 2 hour a day time commitment, an hour in the morning and an hour at night, run 100 miles per week.

Can they do this right away? Or would they need 2-3 weeks to build up to 100 mpw?

So, if running 100 mpw isn't hard, at what point does training start to get hard? I know it would have to be well over 200 mpw. Because even 210 is only 15 miles in the morning, and 15 in the evening. You're only talking about 1:45 +/- for each run, which is not that hard to find if you manage your time carefully.

Ballsface wrote:

So, if running 100 mpw isn't hard, at what point does training start to get hard? I know it would have to be well over 200 mpw. Because even 210 is only 15 miles in the morning, and 15 in the evening. You're only talking about 1:45 +/- for each run, which is not that hard to find if you manage your time carefully.

I'd also like to know at what mileage a runner could get injured. If they manage their time properly can they avoid injury altogether? So if they run the 100 mpw in 2 hours a day, they will stay injury free. If they run 200 mpw in 4 hours day, I assume they will also stay injury free. How does a runner get injured anyway? It's definitely not mileage based, right? It's just a time management issue?

Running 100 mpw easy is harder than doing it fast because it will get boring and you won't want to do it.

high mileage isn't hard wrote:

southbysouthbest wrote:

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

I see now. However, I would still say that there are people who think the act of running 100 mpw alone without faster workouts is very difficult, and would still argue that once you've done 100 mpw for a few weeks, adding those efforts back in isn't too hard either. Or else you just go down to around 90 mpw and have a surplus of energy to complete those harder workouts.

Uhhh...why would I go back down to 90 if 100 is so easy?

understander of subtlety wrote:

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.

I take it you don't run very much?

I'm also wondering, if high mileage is so easy, then why even bother doing it? It goes without saying, for most athletes, that you practice as hard as you can to make yourself a better athlete. You don't usually hear anybody bragging about how easy practice is.

I guarantee, when you listen to the Super Bowl winners being interviewed, or the NBA champs, or any Olympic champions, they'll mention how hard they worked to achieve what they did. I haven't ONCE heard a successful athlete brag about how easy their training was.

What evidence can you bring that runners are any more selfish or weird than non-runners? How do you define selfish? weird?

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.

Life is, at it's core, a lonely and rather narcissistic pursuit. Why does one want a society? Why would one want to add substance to their life? It's all a selfish pursuit. Humans are not altruistic. The closet we come to altruism is in foolishness, romanticism or other misguided beliefs. Everyone should run.

Since you are contributing to this message board which I guess would lump you in your first category.

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.

Arithmetic genius here.