Running 20 miles a day?

i doubt i'll run 20 miles in my lifetime, i know i ran a mile at least once in high school (stupid system wouldn't let you opt out of phys ed until grade 10)

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@George,

George wrote:

Is this your running schedule? Yikes! I am not worthy to have run with you.

No it's not my running schedule. But then again, I'm not a good amateur runner, I'm a below-average amateur runner.

Granted, twenty miles a day sounds like an ordeal. But when you break it down, it's three hours of nine-minute miles. If, in turn, you break down these three hours into a morning run and an evening run, you're well into amateur territory. To be sure, only a very devoted amateur would keep up this routine. But she wouldn't have to be a pro. Chai2's question was if this is doable for a non-professional runner in good shape. This is doable.

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@Thomas,

It may be doable, but not likely.

And that's IF she's running nine-minute miles.

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@Thomas,

Thomas wrote:

. . . No it's not my running schedule. But then again, I'm not a good
amateur runner, I'm a below-average amateur runner. . .

Another idol fallen.
<sigh>

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@Joe Nation,

Ayeh. Five or six years ago, I had an offroad (cycle) route that I could do with an average speed of 12 mph. On reflection, maybe I had that kind of average twice, and came close a few others.

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@roger,

I read a million running articles back in the day. Maybe something has changed re muscle needing a bit of time for repair. I can figure that would be possible. I can see running 20 miles a day five days a week for a few, but I don't think it is good for you. I might have articles to back me up on my computer but I'm not in the mood for linking. But, I can imagine it, the intensive running. (but, wait, why?) I've seen people walk up mountains with large weights on their shoulders. But that is need.

Re the Tarahumara, I thought they were from Venezuela, but that was when I first knew about them. Not so much, I see. The guy who later became a boss but not yet, somewhere in the early seventies researched their muscle physiology, Jim Peter and Robert Barnard, if I remember. Jim Peter eventually started CIL (Clinical Immunology Lab) and that became Specialty Labs.
Here's a business type obit on Jim Peter, originally a muscle physiologist -

http://www.darkdaily.com/james-peter-m-d-ph-d-founder-of-specialty-laboratories-dies-of-cancer

He and I butted heads a couple of times, about other people, but he was very sharp. He gave me a good kick off for my landarch boards, not that they would know who he was.

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@ossobuco,

Let me guess that the doability of that kind of running takes a certain kind of lungs and leg muscles, borne of circumstance.

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I've run 20 or more miles in a day exactly three times in my life. One was
the 1983 Ocean State Marathon. The other two were the long runs in the
two weeks preceeding taper-down before the race.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

. . . I read a million running articles back in the day. Maybe something has
changed re muscle needing a bit of time for repair. I can figure that would
be possible. I can see running 20 miles a day five days a week for a few, but
I don't think it is good for you. I might have articles to back me up on my
computer but I'm not in the mood for linking.

To any who are interested, I'd recommend reading Covert Bailey's
Smart Exercise, especially the chapter "Emaciated Runners".

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@chai2,

20 miles？Is`she just a kidding?
20 miles close to the train of athletes

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@George,

George wrote:

ossobuco wrote:
. . . I read a million running articles back in the day. Maybe something has
changed re muscle needing a bit of time for repair. I can figure that would
be possible. I can see running 20 miles a day five days a week for a few, but
I don't think it is good for you. I might have articles to back me up on my
computer but I'm not in the mood for linking.

To any who are interested, I'd recommend reading Covert Bailey's
Smart Exercise, especially the chapter "Emaciated Runners".

Interesting George, I've read that book, and vividly remember that section.

I see runners like that sometimes. I know it's not someone starting out running, because their legs have muscle, and I see them day after day after day (I drive through Zilker Park on my way to work) and their upper bodies look like ****. Not like "oh, they just don't lift weights, so they just look normal above the waist" but really bad, like they're sick.

I like Covert Bailey. He gives common sense advice.

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

. . . I like Covert Bailey. He gives common sense advice.

Plus, he made me look smart in front of my son-in-law. We were talking
about exercise and I mentioned something about the Krebs Cycle that I
had read in that book. Fred (the SIL) was impressed that I knew about
it.

(Fred's got a PhD in Chemistry from MIT, so I don't often impress him
with my scientific knowledge.)

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@George,

Ah, the infamous Krebs Cycle.

A dietitican I work with was recalling her school days, and the Krebs Cycle. I said "Any relation to Maynard G. Krebs?"

chai(Dobie, doo bee doo wah wah)tea

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

. . . A dietitican I work WORK!?!?!? with was recalling her school days, and
the Krebs Cycle. I said "Any relation to Maynard G. Krebs?" . . .

Loved his reaction to the word "work".

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@George,

huh?

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@chai2,

Any time Dobie and Maynard were talking and the word "work" got
mentioned, Maynard would startle and say "work!" the way you might say
"leprosy". Dobie would settle him down and the conversation would
resume.

Why do I remember **** like that?

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@George,

ohhhh....I forgot about that... Laughing

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@George,

That was my point earlier. It's most likely hogwash or the woman was grossly overstating something she did ONCE.

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It's feasible if you've trained to do so. Also, maybe she walked and ran that one day for 20 miles. But to run 20 miles everyday, that's pretty impressive.

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@chai2,

I remember liking the Krebs Cycle - so elegant.

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