I work 40 hours per week. Mid-20s. Recently graduated. No family yet. It’s not hard at all to run 100mpw. Go easy. Most people run too fast on the easy runs. Eat enough. Sleep. Run twice a day, every day. If you’re doubling everyday you could easily het higher than 100.
asdfghjkl wrote:
Back in my day you weren't considered a real runner unless you were running around 100 mpw, even in High school. Why do people now think 100 mpw is so tough!?
Ok boomer
Didn't do it in high school but man it would have been easier than in college when I worked 30 hours a week had 2 STEM majors and I got in over 100 MPW my senior year and had a 4.0. So it's not impossible. just have to be dedicated.
Also did 120+ mile weeks working 50 hours a week after college (a little easier than college since I had money to eat out occasionally and didn't have homework keeping me up so I got extra sleep)
How many consistent 100 mile weeks did you put in?
What are your PRs for 5, 10, half and full?
animaxcg wrote:
Didn't do it in high school but man it would have been easier than in college when I worked 30 hours a week had 2 STEM majors and I got in over 100 MPW my senior year and had a 4.0. So it's not impossible. just have to be dedicated.
Also did 120+ mile weeks working 50 hours a week after college (a little easier than college since I had money to eat out occasionally and didn't have homework keeping me up so I got extra sleep)
How fast did you run in college and after college?
That's nice for you to say, but some of us aren't built like you.
I've tried to work up mileage for years. No matter how slow I build up (2 mpw, even), I'll get hurt at 45 mpw and have to take a few weeks break. I have solid PRs, but that's off of three hard workouts a week and tons of cross training doubles on the off days (aquajogging, bike, elliptical, etc).
Yuhhhhhhh wrote:
asdfghjkl wrote:
Back in my day you weren't considered a real runner unless you were running around 100 mpw, even in High school. Why do people now think 100 mpw is so tough!?
Ok boomer
And we did it in shít shoes.
https://imgur.com/a/EPcJFhIBack in the day when men were real men. wrote:
And we did it in shít shoes.
Speak for yourself. I did it in Etonics.
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... but that's off of three hard workouts a week...
Some would say: if you want to build up mileage then don't do 3 hard workouts a week; get the mileage up with only easy running, then add a bit of higher intensity stuff once you've managed a few months of higher volume easy running.
I can't say I've done 100mpw but I have done 90 and that was not too bad. At one point I ran 70-85 comfortably for like 6 months ata time before taking some down time. My weeks were 6 day running weeks too
I found it hard. No matter how slowly I built up, I always seemed to get injured or sick above 80mpw.
Because the new generation did not sleep on their belly as a baby. The western human race has become substantially weaker as a result.
"Why do people now think 100 mpw is so tough!?"
Said .0024% of the running community.
As a 400/800 guy, 100 miles would be physically impossible for to do without injury. My max is ~50.
So... don't use stupid blanket statements.
macdaddy wrote:
As a 400/800 guy, 100 miles would be physically impossible for to do without injury. My max is ~50.
So... don't use stupid blanket statements.
Says the guy making a blanket statement...
asdfghjkl wrote:
Back in my day you weren't considered a real runner unless you were running around 100 mpw, even in High school. Why do people now think 100 mpw is so tough!?
As someone who has done a lot of 120+ mile weeks while working a full-time job yes it is doable. 100 miles a week was a breeze at 25 working 40 hr weeks. Now at 30 with 50 or more hrs of work that 100 is doable but staying healthy is getting harder.
From what I saw in college generally guys did not run enough. More should have been doing 100mile weeks, in college with your flexible schedule it is not hard. As far as high schoolers doing 100 mpw I would never recommend that. You're just asking for injury and/or burnout from the vast majority of talented athletes. Especially with all the development at that age that is just not smart. The low mileage of the 90s wasn't the answer but I think in the past decade and a half a reasonable balance has been found.
There was a time in college and after college where I was totally dedicated to running.
And I could not conceive of getting in a single 100 mile week.
My highest total ever was 74 miles in a week. My longest single run was 12 miles.
That was training for the 1500.
There were some fast runs and workouts thrown in there which made it tough to pile mileage onto.
But even in a early spring base week with simply distance runs, I could not approach 100 miles.
I remember talking to Darrell General who qualified for a few Olympic Trials marathons and he only ran 70 miles per week on average.
Of course he did that while working.
Anyway, I found 100MPW to be that hard.
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big HONKING birds wrote:
This is true. If you're married with kids you should focus on your family.
I know some married men in their 30s with kids who still train like they were in college (with not much to show for it) and I don't see how you'd regret not breaking 2:40 more than not spending time with your children.
I really hate when people get "holier than though" and start telling people what they should and shouldn't focus on. Perhaps you resent hanging out with your family and want everyone else to be miserable like you? People have goals. No one criticizes the lawyer working 100 hours per week to make partner, but it's a freaking uprising here if someone with a family runs a couple hours each day.
No one is saying you can completely neglect your family, but you don't have to turn into a boring and fat dad who has nothing to show for his life besides a job and a mid-life crisis from only living through his kids. Parents who give up on themselves end up putting pressure on their kids to fulfill all of their lost dreams and making them miserable.
One thing I forget is how a lot of parents do hustle and run at ungodly times like 4am, or during their 1 hr+ lunch hour. I respect that. I just don't respect it if you're taking the majority of the evening after work to run.
asdfghjkl wrote:
Back in my day you weren't considered a real runner unless you were running around 100 mpw, even in High school. Why do people now think 100 mpw is so tough!?
No one gives three sh1ts what they did back in your day, gramps. You also probably thought woman couldn't run or their uterus would fall out, were racist, and thought that smoking helped open your lungs and let you breathe better.
Idiot.
Back in college, I found 90-120mpw to be relatively easy with all the free time. The past couple of months I have hovered between 80-105mpw, with the last month+ over 100mpw. I agree that it is not that difficult, but it does require an incredible amount of sacrifice and time management. I'm a full time teacher and coach, married, and raising a 3 month old. I get up at 4:30am every day for the 'normal' run (anywhere from 7-14mi depending on available time/goal of the run), then a short, easy run in the afternoon. I double 5-7 times a week. All other time is dedicated to work, family, and home/housework obligations. There is no time to socialize whatsoever. I'm in bed by 8:30pm every night, including weekends. It can be exhausting at times, but once you get the routine down, it really isn't that difficult to maintain. I'm feeling it more recently as I have raced a lot this Fall, but I'll be backing off after this weekend to 80-90mpw and mostly easy running as the racing comes to a close (most of it anyway) until the Spring. The mileage certainly helped get me in the best shape of my life this Fall, along with better dieting.