Jim Walmsley's Incredible Training (120-140/week in SINGLES!)

His training is insane. All common knowledge points he's the world's best ultra runner known to modern civilized man.

Let's hope he doesn't burnout this year. He's building up right now for what? Is anything on his radar or is he doing those big 140 weeks for pleasure??

Um, ever heard of Cam Levins? He once did 190 miles per week.

High mileage works for a while... but it burns you out fast too.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4902860

NameWithheld wrote:

He's building up right now for what? Is anything on his radar or is he doing those big 140 weeks for pleasure??

Sub 14 at Western States and a little race in Europe around a mountain that Killian has won 3 times.

high mileage, not sustainable wrote:

Um, ever heard of Cam Levins? He once did 190 miles per week.

High mileage works for a while... but it burns you out fast too.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4902860

umm how is that similar to someone running 20/30 mile mountains in one session multiple times a week?

Epic epicness....... wrote:

NameWithheld wrote:

He's building up right now for what? Is anything on his radar or is he doing those big 140 weeks for pleasure??

Sub 14 at Western States and a little race in Europe around a mountain that Killian has won 3 times.

What if Walmsley goes out and absolutely shatters Killian's times? Would Killian be inclined to come back and race again?

arenner29 wrote:

Epic epicness....... wrote:

Sub 14 at Western States and a little race in Europe around a mountain that Killian has won 3 times.

What if Walmsley goes out and absolutely shatters Killian's times? Would Killian be inclined to come back and race again?

I doubt it. Killian hasn't run it in years and D'haene ran 25 minutes faster. Killian hasn't seemed to have any interest in trying to take back an FKT after someone else has ran faster.

Was he doing 120-140 miles per week this time last year?

All he has to do is finish western states and he'll have the record there.

If this is new mileage territory for him it seems risky.

In a recent video by Salomon Killian states he doesnt see himself as a runner, but as a Skimo athlete. He said that running is just training for Skimo races.

Even though hes one of the best SERIOUS mountain runners around. No Sonoma 50's for him.

Epic epicness....... wrote:

arenner29 wrote:

What if Walmsley goes out and absolutely shatters Killian's times? Would Killian be inclined to come back and race again?

I doubt it. Killian hasn't run it in years and D'haene ran 25 minutes faster. Killian hasn't seemed to have any interest in trying to take back an FKT after someone else has ran faster.

Ahh, that's too bad. Well, I guess Walmsley still has a lot of big races he's yet to win anyway. At this point, though, I don't know who could catch him

NameWithheld wrote:

His training is insane. All common knowledge points he's the world's best ultra runner known to modern civilized man.

Let's hope he doesn't burnout this year. He's building up right now for what? Is anything on his radar or is he doing those big 140 weeks for pleasure??

get back to us when he's run over 300k in a day.

Walmsley is opening the season in the Tarawera 100km in New Zealand in February. What's going to be interesting is how the weather shapes up the next month. Flagstaff has been hit by snow more frequently than in the past and is messing up some of the routes, so hopefully he gets the quality he needs for a big performance.

Man, if he keeps this type of training up and doesn't get hurt, he could definitely get sub-14 for Western States. It'll be interesting to see how he handles high-elevation, extreme mountain races like UTMB or Hardrock.

Levins was sometimes doing 3 runs a day when he did that mileage, not singles

high mileage, not sustainable wrote:

Um, ever heard of Cam Levins? He once did 190 miles per week.

High mileage works for a while... but it burns you out fast too.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4902860

Kind of irrelevant on both ends. Walmsley is impressive. It's stupid to talk down about his accomplishments by stating Cam's mileage and equally stupid to consider his training to be less impressive than someone with Cam's accomplishments an insult.

arenner29 wrote:

Has anyone else been following Jim Walmsley's training these past few weeks? He's been doing 3-5 long runs between 18-30 miles a week, all on incredibly hilly terrain. Most of his mileage is coming off of these hours-long training runs, which he also happens to be doing at a very quick clip.

I, frankly, don't know much about ultra running. Is that guy Killian Jornet still competitive at the highest levels of that sport? If so, we NEED to see a Walmsley-Jornet race in 2017. Walmsley is doing things I've never seen before.

Time for the board's daily reminder that anti-doping measures are next to nothing in the world of ultras.

How many Olympic or World Championship gold medals has this guy won? Any XC champs? Major marathon wins?

Any 400 hurdles titles? pole vault records? MMA titles? Can he do the Hokey pokey?

dukegray wrote:

How many Olympic or World Championship gold medals has this guy won? Any XC champs? Major marathon wins?

Does he post his training on running2win.com? Or did you find out about this from an article? Can you link the source please?

agc5k wrote:

Does he post his training on running2win.com? Or did you find out about this from an article? Can you link the source please?