Can I run 100 miles on monday and then take the other 6 days off??

Yes, absolutely.

Go for it. Soon glory will be yours.

I think the better question is... can you run 100 miles on Monday?

Somehow I doubt it.

While you're at it, why limit yourself to one day?

100 miles, seven days a week. Think how good you will be!

because i only want to run 100 mpw. i figure this way i will really break down my muscles and then recover for 6 days and then start over.

runthecountry wrote:

While you're at it, why limit yourself to one day?

100 miles, seven days a week. Think how good you will be!

That's silly. Everyone knows that if you run 100 miles every day, you'll lose your speed. Plus, you need some recovery days or you're bound to get injured. An ideal training week should look like this:

Mon- 100 miles

Tues- easy

Weds- mile race (or 1500m race if no mile races are available)

Thurs- easy

Fri- 100 miles

Sat- easy

Sun- beer mile w/ friends

That is do-able. I'll probably make sunday a beer 5k though because i could use the extra milage. And what do you mean by easy? 20 miles?

Trying to be good wrote:

what do you mean by easy? 20 miles?

When doing an easy day, it's best not to worry about mileage or pace. My favorite way to structure an easy day is to do what I call runstalking:

Go to an area where a lot of attractive women run-- easy to do if you live in a college town or major city. Fall in behind the first hottie you see and draft off her, matching her stride for stride. If she speeds up to get away from you, just go with her. If she slows down to let you pass, just slow down too. The run ends when she threatens to call the police or starts to cry, whichever comes first.

Finally, be prepared to turn it into a fartlek if she pulls out the pepper spray.

I hope that explains what an easy day means.

I already do this. But if the stalking only lasts for about a mile or so i shouldn't just stop then should I? Do i move on to the next attractive girl?

Once you start following her into her house, you'll have to do a whole lot of running from the cops. Should be at least 20+ miles if you can go fast enough.

but i don't want to go too fast because its an easy day and i just ran 100 miles the days before. what are my options?

You'll get more out of your 100 miles if you do it as 10x10 miles with 15 minutes rest between each. You should be able to average about 50 minutes so you'll be finished with your weeks' training sooner. You could do it out-and-back so you could shower every 20 miles plus get a snack, etc.

Enjoy!

Trying to be good wrote:

Isn't this the same as running 100 mpw?

I don't see a problem with this, but everyone knows that in order to be fast, you need to do hill repeats, intervals, threshold runs and a long run - so you need to incorporate this all into the same run.

Perhaps you can do a 10 mile warmup, run 10 miles at tempo pace, do a 10 mile cooldown, 10 mile w/u, 10 miles w/5*mile at 5K pace, 10 c/d, 10 w/u, 10 w/hills, 20 longrun/cooldown.

Give this a try, I've coached some of my fastest athletes with this method with excellent results. You can enjoy the rest of the week off.

That does sound like a good idea. Not running 6 days a week is gonna be awesome. ill let you all know how it goes after next week.

A friend of mine wanted to train for the NYC Marathon many years ago. A buddy of his, who wasn't a runner, gave him this training advice: "Run 50 miles a day; then the day of the marathon, 26 miles will feel easy." True story.

Of course, with that program, you would need two days to get your 100 in.

Thank you for that. That is hilarious. Will try it asap and give credit to you i all goes well.

I would go with 50 miles a day twice a week. You will lose too much of your fitness taking 6 days off at a time, but 2-3 days off between runs gives you the optimal amount of recovery time without losing fitness. You will also be able to run 50 miles at a faster pace which will help you out in the long run.