Why don't you run 100 mpw?

sirbek wrote:

tstans wrote:

because i have a full time job.

Iworkabout 30 hours a week, I'm taking 15 credit hours toward a finance major and I run about 90-100 miles per week. You would if you wanted to

Bad excuse.

College courses do not apply. You can sleep during your classes and then study on your own time. 30 hours week is not a full time job. Very few people actually work 40h/w jobs, most of them work more than 50h/w, may way over 60.

Throw in that an infant kid and a two year old, frequent wake ups at 2, 3 and 4:30 AM, and you are good to go for your first workout at 5:30 AM. By 8 AM you start the hectic workday... Upon arrival from work at 6:30 PM, you help your wife (unless you want to experience post nuptial shut-off), bath your kids, play with them, put them to bed, and by 9 PM, you can head out for your second run of the day. If your are lucky, by 11:30PM, you can go to bed all anxious for another 15-16 mile day ahead.

Not really, you dumb ass. When you grow up, have a family and some sense of responsibility other than your egoistical motivation to shave yet another 4s of your 14:46 5000m PR, you will understand, that 60 - 70 miles/w is pushing it more than it is healthy. Most probably, there won't be any running at all, unless you have a wild passion for running and at the same time a wierd masochistic inclination for sleep deprivation.

BTW, I was much faster than the listed fictional PR above, yet still not fast enough to feed my family just by running. There is whole different world outside of college/grad school.

Forrestchild wrote:

Throw in that an infant kid and a two year old,

I agree with you that life is very different post college than during or even right after. Life gets in the way.

I also agree with another poster saying "if you want to do it you will find the time".

I have found using a double stroller helps with the marital bliss and gets me out on the road for more mileage. I may not be going as fast or as far as before but I am not running for world class times anyway. I am certainly not doing 100 mpw with a double stroller.

You should keep easy weeks in your program, like two weeks on one week off. Trying to build endurance longer is a recipe to injury. Everybody here who complains that "100miles is too much", haven´t you heard of recovery weeks? You shouldn´t keep the pressure on all the time!

It's always funny to read collegiate runner's skewed view of the world. "I have a full load of classes and I still run 100 mpw!"

I read about guys on here all the time that put it in and I am perplexed. How they stay married and employed is just amazing. I regularly get in 50-65 and I feel like I'm taped out. Not just from the time spent running, but there is recovery time in there, drive time, shower time, etc.. The idea of getting up at 4:30 to run, and then crash out at 9pm, well it just seems pretty greedy.

"College courses do not apply. You can sleep during your classes and then study on your own time. 30 hours week is not a full time job. Very few people actually work 40h/w jobs, most of them work more than 50h/w, may way over 60."

60 is way too much. I find I get the most out of 35-40 hours per week. Anything over that and I get injured.

While Forrestchild comes off way too bitter about responsibilities and family life (C'mon man, these guys are just college kids trying to get faster, who cares if they don't know what it's like in the real world).I do believe that he is onto something with this statement:

Forrestchild wrote:

...shave yet another 4s of your 14:46 5000m PR, you will understand, that 60 - 70 miles/w is pushing it more than it is healthy.

Before they join the mythical 100 mpw club collegiates should focus on getting faster first. If you can't break 15 minutes for the 5k you probably don't need to be running 100mpw. 70 to 90 mpw should be more than enough to work on both strength and speed. As you progress in your running careers (jr and sr year) start piling on the miles to your heart's content.

Me myself I don't run 100mpw because I've got a wife, kids, house, blah, blah, blah...

time management is key. anyone who is serious about running will find the time. that doesn't mean that 60 mpw'ers aren't dedicated or serious, but they just don't have the drive that people who do 100 mpw have.

i havn't run 100 mpw (yet) but i have only been running for about a year and a half, and i peaked at 75 no problem. key was build up. went from 40 mpw to 70 in 3 months and had no problems. had an august total of 260. i plan on hitting 100 in another 1.5-2 years and i know a few people who have put in 100's and they aren't exactly short on time...

12 a.m. - 7 a.m.: sleep

7 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.: run

8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.: shower and eat

9:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.: work/school

5:45 p.m. - 11 p.m.: leisure time

11 p.m. - 12 a.m.: sleep

8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 5.25 hours of free time, 1.75 hours allocated to running. you can afford to fit in an extra 45 minutes to your 24 hour day to get 100 miles per week if you really wanted to.

For the sake of disclosure, I don't have kids and my job is, in no way, physically demanding. I also have a light commute of no worse than 25min each way.

That said, I work roughly 45-50 hours a week and fit in, with ease, a consistent load of 120-140mpw (this is usually over 10-12 weeks prior to a major marathon effort). The rest of the year, I hang out +/- 10mi of 100mpw, with a few down weeks here and there. Mind you, this isn't just jogging. I do ~ 2 quality efforts a week and consider myself as having a fair shot at making the trials in 2012.

Everyone who has said the key is "time management" has hit it on the head. Do you like consistently going to Happy Hour? Do you need to watch all of Prime Time TV? Are you lacking in self-discipline? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then high volume isn't for you.

It is also worth noting that I wouldn't run this much if I had the talent to fall back on and/or ran shorter distances. I am a guy who had moderate success in college and is trying to break through to regional/national class. I sure as heck won't be able to do it in the 10k and I am of the belief that if you don't get injured easily and you don't have kids, there is no excuse running less than 120mpw during your focused buildup for a marathon.

w/100 you get more slower miles but they give you substantial aerobic benefits over 80 or especially 60. if you have young kids, you can use the stroller for maybe 20 a week, which isn't bad because it can serve as recovery miles (or you can go pretty hard), and particularly with hills in the mix, the stroller miles help your leg and arm strength. my quality stuff has only gotten significantly better since I moved it up to 100, and after plateauing at 80 (couldn't break down below high 35 for 10k), I've broken my pre-injury college pr's at 1500/5k/10k (on the road, a minute faster than the college track 10k). as for the injury, everyone knows that you go gradually to 100 if you don't have the base. once you have the base, you can get back there within a couple weeks, if you get sick or have to take some time off. and then it's key in doing 100 that you run by feel--taking some recovery runs or slower than daniels pace--that you be patient when your times get slower for a few weeks while adjustment to the mileage is taking place, and that you get off the roads onto good broad soft trails as much as possible. I've stayed much healthier at 100 than when I was at 30-40 mpw on the roads a couple years ago. Just ask yourself if you will do what it takes to get better "naturally."

Cause i'm to busy doing 110mpw.

Too much posting no time for running.

because my girlfriend doesn't like me falling asleep when im f**king her

I take offense to the comment that running 100mpw is greedy if you have kids, wife, job, etc... I have all of those things and have recently managed to string together about 8 consecutive weeks between 100 and 120 mpw by sacrificing my down time. Instead of sitting around watching tv and reading letsrun I hit the sack at around 9pm (late for bed already) and get up at 5:30am to get in my long run of the day. My kids are in bed by 8:30pm and I am home from my run in the morning just in time to get them breakfast. I squeeze in a second short run either at lunch or stop on the way home from work. On the weekends I am out the door by 6:30am for my long run and get home by 9am to help out with the kids. It just requires creative and dedicated time management. If you really want it you can do it.

Injured, years ago. Can't run.

I have put in a few 100-miles weeks of walking, but it just takes too long: 20+ hours per week.

If you did 100 mpw doesn't necessarily mean you have no life. I did 8 hours of walking last week, which translates to 80 miles that week if I actually had talent and could run at 6 min/mile on average. And I'm just a beginner.

Double 70/50 most days, it's only 2 hours of your time. Say you have work at 9, then go to bed at 11, get up at 7 and run for 70 minutes. Get home at six, do whatever until 9, go for your second run. Plenty of time if you really want to.

I did it this summer on 40 hours/week and it was pretty shitty, but only because work started at 7.

I am training for a fall marathon, it is nearly impossible to fit in much more running, my day every day is : drag out of bed at 645am head to work at 720 to be there at 8, run 35-45 min at lunch(12pm) get home around 6pm, head out for 10-15 miles or a workout! make dinner watch some red sox on the internet, don't even turn on the tv and go to bed at 10pm, get up and do it again the next day and the day after, usually do a double after my long run as well! Hit 115 last week! Have been around the 100 mark, lil over lil under and take a low week once q month to recover(70-90) built up slowly to get to it, 70 for a month, 80 the next etc. want to top out at 120! And i am in my 30's no kids however! Never really drink or go out any more, friday nights i stay in and relax, when I was younger i would be out till 3am, now friday nite is rest nite

Because I run 120.

Use a stroller wrote:

Forrestchild wrote:

Throw in that an infant kid and a two year old,

I also agree with another poster saying "if you want to do it you will find the time".

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I am certainly not doing 100 mpw with a double stroller.

Then why haven't you found the time if you f***ing agree so much?