oh please wrote:
HRE wrote:Maybe we got away from what I'm wondering. We both agree that running 100,000 or more miles is unusual but attainable for a handful of people. Why do you have a hard time believing reports from people who say they've done it given that you believe that it's attainable? It's unusual for people to have cars with over 200,000 miles but some people do. Do you have a hard time believing them? Do you just generally have trouble believing unusual things?
The only reason I "doubt" is due to the fact that people lie about everything no matter how seemingly insignificant. Like people that cut courses to BQ. Like the salary threads that pop up here. Any one that has to "estimate" what they did decades ago is probably 100% overestimating. Time is funny that way.
I have an easy time believe the claims in this thread. Most of the people with 100,000+ miles and still active in the US probably read LR.
I've trained an average of 1.5 to 2 hours a day since high school mostly running in singles, though also at times xc skiing or cycling. The running mileage is not as high as the time might imply because I'm on trails mostly, with a lot of climbing. Last year (age 46/47) my running mileage was fairly typical with 3,194 miles and 454,000 ft of climbing - maybe more than average because I didn't ski last year, but I also had some down months when I was a bit rundown. A typical run was 10 miles. My high year was when I was about 20, when I ran just short of 5,000 miles. I'm well short of 100,000 miles despite 31 years of running because I moved to AK in 1999 and have had many winters where I skied those 1.5-2 hours, not running at all until the snow melts. I think I'm probably somewhere around 80,000 miles lifetime.
My logs are incomplete - consistent online since 2011, sporadic from 2001 to 2011, consistent in paper logs from 1987 or 1988 to 2001, and nonexistent to sporadic from 1985 to 1987. I have thought about transferring what I have on paper to my online log, but that would be a lot of work. But it would be nice, so I could have would have a total for lifetime logged miles (which will eventually hit at least 100,000 miles unless I die youngish) and then a guess for the unlogged years.