Nick Willis' 10 week mileage high is 880 - What is yours?

rojo wrote:

On the other end of the spectrum, Frank Shorter may hold the record for 10 year long mileage average. Didn't he average something like totally ridiculous like 120 miles per week for 10 years including vacations?

Ron Hill should have a pretty good ten years somewhere...

747 about 12 years ago, when I was setting most of my Post-collegiate bests, is the highest I have recorded. I am bad at writing in a log. In 2001, the summer before my first marathon I was running 75-80 miles a week for most of the summer and may have been slightly higher or about the same. I have only cracked 80 dozen times or so in the last 30 years and have only hit 100 once (Just to see if I could), so I've never been that close to 800. My 10 week average this summer at age 43 is exactly half at 440.

About 90 mls per week , year around! My best half marathon 1.01.40 so far.

this thread is an invitation for mileage ego booster posts.

beside of this i like willis, but i feel that his lydiard fixation is not the best choice. we will see if 1000 miles in 10 weeks will make the difference. all the best to willis.

rojo wrote:

I was reading an article on Willis that had this anecdote:

NZ Herald wrote:

Nick Willis will be giving the 5000m a crack next year and will try to race the event at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

His goal for the coming off-season is to run 1000 miles in 10 weeks - his previous best is 880 miles.

That reminded me that it's hard to average a lot of miles over a long period of time. I wonder what the most I averaged over 10 weeks.

On the other end of the spectrum, Frank Shorter may hold the record for 10 year long mileage average. Didn't he average something like totally ridiculous like 120 miles per week for 10 years including vacations? Amazing because if you take off just two weeks for vacation you lose like 4 mpw.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/athletics/news/article.cfm?c_id=19&objectid=11905144

Had been interesting to see that new top coach,coachjs,training Willis.

My 3 highest 10-week stretches - 1316, 1312, 1301. Although I am on pace for about 1420-1440 as long as I don't injure myself in the next 10 days.

Mileage is not a race winner alone - as others have said pace, elevation, training history, etc all play their part.

But some of us just like logging big miles, regardless of result. We just enjoy it. I am old, slow and run ultras and I am well aware that many people run much, much faster than me on a fraction of the mileage. But I like training, I like big miles and I haven't been injured for years, so I'm sticking with it. For me it also plays a big role in mental health too.

I got a 10 week total of 1493M last year - hopefully in the process of something similar currently. I also got 32 consecutive 100+M weeks last year.

My best 10 week total I have recorded on Strava is 1749M from 2014 - included a peak week of 266M. May have done more earlier that year, but don't have records for it.

I don't see Willis has a 5000 guy. I do think he has a solid year left 1500 in 2018.

HRE wrote:

Because he's a bum with two Olympic medals.

Hahahahaha word.

Two winters ago when I was 51, I set a goal of 1,000 miles in the first 3 months of the year. All on a treadmill. I was still on pace at 11 weeks before a cold floored me. I was just under 800 for 10 weeks. Each week included a vertical kilometer run and a speedwork day. I could tell I was getting a little more worn down every week and wouldn't do that much mileage if I was training for a race.

about 690-700, 15 years ago, strangely 49m per week is pretty consistent these days. Funnily enough yesterday I did 13 km hard and 16.8km in total (10.5m) and I'm absolutely stuffed, never slept last night, then I had to take a kid to soccer. I'm too old, its a young man's game.

My highest 10 weeks is probably 1000-1050 miles (was doing consistent 90-115 mile weeks), back when I was living in Budapest. I didn't do much else then besides run and study math haha..except I guess I watched a lot of snooker and UEFA on Eurosport.

890 - christ I'm slow

Looking at the most likely time period in my paper logs, I found a 10 week stretch of 1,204.5 miles from January 8, 1990 to March 18, 1990. The runs were in singles, ranging from 16 to 23 miles - mostly 20. There were 6 days with no runs, when I was tired.

I was 20 years old, a college junior, and running on my own. I actually had my best academic quarter as an undergrad during that time - straight As as an engineering major at UCLA.

zzzz wrote:

Looking at the most likely time period in my paper logs, I found a 10 week stretch of 1,204.5 miles from January 8, 1990 to March 18, 1990. The runs were in singles, ranging from 16 to 23 miles - mostly 20. There were 6 days with no runs, when I was tired.

I was 20 years old, a college junior, and running on my own. I actually had my best academic quarter as an undergrad during that time - straight As as an engineering major at UCLA.

1300+ 10 week stretch the summer after my high school year, i was 17-18. Probably regret that now.

Pikachu wrote:

1205 with a high of 143 miles in 6 days (and 156 for the week). Skewed by a 65ish taper week for one of my best 10k races ever. 1 week after this I ran my best 10k ever and 3 weeks after this I ran my marathon PR. It shows that mileage is really important - at least for 10k and up.

And yet still so much of high mileage vs low mileage mentality here in letsrun. Many thinks that high mileage = low quality. Yes, at first your legs are empty and out of energy to do workouts but once you´ve familiar with the new mileage start doing the workouts. Would you mind to tell your 10k and marathon times? My highest mpw has been only 128 and never tolerated high mileage several weeks without a down week, once averaged a month at 100mpw with workouts, it included a down week of 65miles. Other weeks were at 105-115mpw.

High mileage isn´t for everyone, and increasing the mileage should be done very progressively. Only increase just enough to reach a new stimulus, if you get too eager you won´t benefit from the hard work and you´ll be forced to back off at some point.

My 10 week highest average has been 877,5 miles - while working full time.

*not an average, 877,5 miles in 10 consecutive weeks I meant

Doing a quick look back at my logs, the period I think was probably the highest I hit 1,199 for a 10 week period leading up to my marathon PR. That year I averaged over 100 miles a week despite missing a couple weeks to injury.