ULTRA RUNNER experimenting with 220 miles per week

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Tony Krupicka was a beast back in the days...this week was part of his training for Western States.

Mon-AM: 15 miles (2:03) Coast Ridge Road out and back

3000' climb

Tue-AM: 28 miles (4:15) Cloud Burst past Islip Saddle and back on the Angeles Crest course/PCT

~6000' climbing.

PM: 4 miles (:30) Lagoon and beach in Del Mar w/ Jocelyn in the Five Fingers

Wed-AM: 11 miles (1:31) San Elijo Lagoon w/ Jocelyn

Thu-AM: 15 miles (2:03) Bear Creek+barefoot

Fri-AM: 55 miles (8:01) Garden-Manitou-Elk Park-Manitou-Intemann-Section 16 Loop-Bear Creek+barefoot.

~8000' climbing

Sat-AM: 45 miles (6:10) Buckhorn-St. Mary's Falls-Buffalo Canyon-Rosa Saddle-Frostys-Pipeline-Jones Park-Buckhorn-Bear Creek-Monument Loops+barefoot.

~6000' climbing

Sun-AM: 28 miles (4:00) UPT-Cascade-Waldo-Williams-Red Mountain+barefoot

~5000' climbing.

PM: 4 miles (:33) Monument Loops

Total: 205 miles (29:06)

5 years ago 01/29/2019 7:25am EST

re: wtaf seriously

wtaf seriously wrote:
Do you people have jobs? Who has time to run 200 miles a week?
Trolls.

In a Transcon race or a multiday race you make time for this. It's possible even with a job.

Does it makes sense for training? Absolutely not. Maybe some 200 mile weeks are beneficial for some. But the returns are diminishing fast on anything beyond 100 miles per week.

5 years ago 01/29/2019 7:30am EST

re: Kyle_

Kyle_ wrote:
Tony Krupicka was a beast back in the days...this week was part of his training for Western States.
Total: 205 miles (29:06)

I was a huge fan of Anton. In my opinion the most gifted trailrunner of his time. But he overtrained himself constantly, had no idea how to structure his race season and therefor was always injured when it mattered. For example he had a Hardrock 100 ticket but didn't make it to the start line. He is always my prime example for overtraining.

5 years ago 01/29/2019 7:47am EST

re: Markus

Markus, I’m looking at your record, it says you got within 1% of your 2000 PRs in 2010 when you were TEN years older, an age-graded improvement which is common, although many eventually achieve outright PRs, especially at the longer distances. Am I reading it right? Discuss.

Despite my reputation as a terrible race director (with most of my runners), one still sees huge successes after these transcons, including my own results.

My own faults aside, I will always make the case that, within reason of course, stamina is an inborn characteristic of humans.

5 years ago 01/29/2019 7:54am EST

re: jesseriley

Under modern, near-perfect conditions, one needs at least 40 miles a day to even “bring out” the “Inner Nomad”.

5 years ago 01/29/2019 7:57am EST

re: jesseriley

For a minimum of three weeks. In transcons it even has a name: the “Thousand-Mile Rule”.

5 years ago 01/29/2019 3:36pm EST

re: jesseriley

is there still people running this kind of mileage? it looks like stuff from the past

5 years ago 01/29/2019 4:18pm EST

re: Travis_99

Travis_99 wrote:
is there still people running this kind of mileage? it looks like stuff from the past

I don't think he ran any 200+ mile weeks, but cam levins has ran a 190 mile week.

5 years ago 01/29/2019 4:53pm EST

re: Cam Levins does

Transcons are still held, but we can only do long-term analyses after years have passed.

5 years ago 01/29/2019 4:58pm EST

re: Cam Levins does

Here is a link to what I was talking about before, it was Gene Dyke, I do not find anything about 300 miles, maybe I read that somewhere else, but he sure did a 200 mile ultra as a tuneup :-)

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8756044

5 years ago 01/30/2019 2:34pm EST

re: SprintTriathlon

are we talking about 200 miles of easy runs or what?

7 months ago 09/29/2023 5:37pm EDT

re: not as crazy as you think

not as crazy as you think wrote:
wtaf seriously wrote:
Do you people have jobs? Who has time to run 200 miles a week?
Trolls.
Not as crazy as you think. If you average 8 minute miles for 200 miles that is 26.67 miles of running per week. Or, about 3.8 hours of running per day. From what I've seen looking at Bill Rodgers training log, he ran 200 miles a week once, and he did it by doing 13 miles in the morning and 16 miles in the evening and doing like a 30 mile run over the Boston marathon course. Our bodies are much more capable than you think. Canova has talked about how the old school Japanese training method would do one week of super high mileage week a few weeks from their marathon(about 200 for the females and about 300 for the males).

Small estimate. I’ve done 2 weeks of 400 miles.

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