I don’t identify as a triathlete lol.

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You (Brian Stover) and Steve Johnson were big influences on my running.

And to be fair, before the year of 70mpw there was a year of 0mpw lol.

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Appreciate it!

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It seemed like a good idea at the time. . .

I'm curious to know a few things about you:

1. How old are you?
2. How many years have you been running?
3. Have you ever had a running injury (I see you had a year of 0mpw, but that could be from a non-running injury)?
4. Are you a professional runner (do you make money running)?
5. Was there ever a time in your life you felt that 20 mpw was your max, or have you run big mileage for a very long time?
6. When you do your squats, how much weight are you lifting, and for how many reps? (Curious to know if you are doing high-rep low weight or low-rep high weight.)
7. How has the high mileage affected your testosterone levels? Have you had symptoms of low-T? Are you doing anything to off-set the testosterone-suppressing effects of such high mileage?

Thanks.

50yo running since I was 20 but seriously for the last 15 years.

My running injuries were calf strains when I first started triathlon and converting to good running form, and then high hamstring pain sometimes which deadlifts seem to keep at bay. ACL reconstruction pre running no issues now.

Not a pro, just a hobby jogger.

I lift as much as I can low reps, but it’s not much because I’m not strong.

I probably only ran 20mpw before tri, and then 40mpw. The curious thing about all this is the more I do the more I can do… the longer the event or training the better I do compared to my peers. I’ve been running 70mpw or more for over a year.

0mpw was not due to injury.

I’m doing fine with hormones, I suppose sleep and squats and eating well contribute to that. I do notice a slight lack of energy but it could be anything, same with a little additional body fat these last few weeks.

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Fair enough. I’m logging 11 hours a week on the bike trainer with a new 80/20 strategy. My gains have been ok. But I have to respect the process and not get short sighted. I’ve not yet reached my 35 yr old power (I’m 49), but it seems to be within my grasp. I’m not that far away, and gains continue.

Best of luck to you. Thanks for putting yourself out here

why did you feel you had to make it an AMA thread, which is usually used for wining bigger races, i wonder .

secondly, i find it interesting to read so thanks for posting .

my question is, and sorry if this was asked or my question if even wrong, if you say you have no time goal ,
does this mean you want to be as fast as possible,or the challenge is more to get the training done ,and the time dosnt matter.
or in short are you training to race , or is the training the challenge.

also how smart do you think it is in the long term to go from 0 miles 100 mililes a week
ie do you think it would have been better to a building year between 0 and 100 mile for long term success or is there no long term plan.
if there is one how does it look like.

how much do you supplement fitness with swim and bike training.

Ah thanks, now I'm blushing.

Anytime you want to text you've got my #

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Thanks, and you have mine as well. You owe me an aero stick text.

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I think your second point is the answer to your first question. It’s unremarkable if a pro runs a lot of miles, but it’s noteworthy when a hobby jogger does it using knowledge learned from this forum. I thought it might be interesting and that sharing outweighed not sharing.

I would like to get as fast as possible, both long term and in comparison to June of this year. I don’t think the challenge is in the training, because it’s not challenging for the most part… that’s what’s peculiar about all of this. I enjoy process and routine and training by feel so things are going well. Ultimately though the physical world is the best test of test ideas and I am planning to race in December and again in March. I think truly racing a marathon is a really hard thing to pull off because the margin of error is so slim so that’s what I’m trying to shoot for. Negative splitting is different from going full send.

I did have a building year before the high mileage. Up to 2019 I was a consistent 40-50mpw guy doing tri training. Then I took a year off. Then I ramped up from 0 to 70mpw and then did 70mpw for about a year. About a month before a local half marathon in October I hit 85mpw randomly and I wondered “what would happen if I trained seriously for a month?” That went well and I’m trying to continue the trend into a full marathon in December.

I’m not swimming or biking at all, but I think if I were super serious about running I’d supplement with swimming to hit 20hrs of training per week vs. the 14-15hrs I’m doing now. I do intend to target IMFL in 2023 though, so I’ll probably start swimming in December and riding the first of the year.

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Who does your laundry and how much laundry did you have?

Kids in play?

Have you done this?

https://taji100.com/


Some guys finish it on the 1'st day.

Except I don’t think Renato ever said that…or maybe he did and I missed it. He does however say that the primary influence on performance is the aggregate volume of specific intensity.

…The aggregate volume of specific intensity is dictated by….umm…the the amount of structural and aerobic support/compensation as a by product of high volume. Sensibly applied.

I have no questions but would like to congratulate you on your newly acquired large blank canvass. Time to grab the paint brushes for next year!

For anyone who’s bored or interested here is a great video on marathon training from Canova:

https://www.highperformancewest.com/...raining-method-video

Maurice

Week on week off and I’m crushing the Tide pods to keep up with the laundry.

14 hours of running is significantly less than 20+ hours of tri training, driving to rides, driving to the pool, etc.

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Ahhh missed that. Aerostick is good, looking forward to doing field testing here in Tucson. Had a pro that I tested ride 4:17 at IMAZ on about 15w lower power than normal.

Come on out and I'll refine your position plus you can check out the new bike fit studio / office I'm having built in the backyard!

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What are some of your go-to or favorite track workouts? Are you continually changing these up, or sticking with the same ones generally?

Mostly I’ve been doing cruise mile repeats and then whatever the track club does after that.

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Running 118 miles in a week without injury is impressive at any age, but I'm guessing the poster is probably under 40 and definitely under 50. I don't run that kind of mileage, but nevertheless, I used to be able to run any distance I felt like at any speed and never have a whisper of injury. In my 30s, I started having the occasional very minor issue, easily resolved in a few days or a week at worst. Now in my 40s I have had two significant injuries. The poster is likely genetically blessed, and the squats and deadlifts I'm sure help, but age comes for us all. With that said, almost every publication and book will recommend squats as the #1 thing you can do to prevent running injury. My personal list top 3 list is:

Squats (knees)
Leg lifts (IT band)
Calf extensions (Achilles)

Eric is 50, I'm 54.

The answer to this is always Nutella

Well, was it worth it?

Yeah, I think so. I had a horrible race, but that’s because I’m dumb not because of the mileage. Recovery seemed really quick because a marathon is like only 23% of my total.

I also felt high on drugs all the time from the 2x/day… constant runners high or really more like a mellow calm feeling. That’s pretty neat too.

During the last 12 weeks I gained some leg muscle as well as some belly fat, which is weird I’d have expected one or the other, especially the latter.

Now I have 12 weeks of 100mpw base for some next thing so that’s good too. Easy mile repeats fell from like 6:50 to 6:00/mi, but easy 800 repeats only fell from last like 6:20 to 6:00/mi. I have the engine and efficiency to run a fast marathon but not the strength if that makes sense.

One thing is for certain, running does not cause injury, it prevents it.

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'One thing is for certain, running does not cause injury, it prevents it.'


This is like the guy who has smoked all his life and doesn't get cancer and says 'smoking definitely doesn't cause cancer, look at me, it prevents it!.'

To stick with the theme of the thread - what was your race / result?

For context, I ran varsity, after that I ran with national level and international level athletes for much of my running heyday. I have one or two friends that are bullet proof, but for the rest, injury prevention is very real and very important. This increases exponentially once people get out of their 20s.

You sound lucky, but anecdotally I know a ton of very accomplished runners that spend a lot of their time trying to prevent constant aches and pains from taking them out of action for weeks on end.