I found this old post from Pedestrian.

"My own best streak lasted for 14 years, 7 months and 10 days; and in that period I had my best running ever. NOTHING would stop me from running during that period! I went to some extremes to keep the streak alive as well..."

He added that the days after marathons were especially tough........


Hope you don`t mind Pedestrian.

Dave.

I don't mind at all, Dave. However, I was trying to stay out of this one, as it seems that every time the subject comes up, the same old arguments come to the surface, and with opinions being so divided, there's never any conclusion or real answer to the original question.Attachment 504.

I'm currently running 11 times a week.
5 of those runs are hard/maximum efforts over a relatively short distance (4 at 3.1 miles, and 1 at 1.6 miles). The others are longer and easier (between 6 and 12 miles). Giving me a little over 60 miles a week... This mileage will increase slightly as I get fit enough to accommodate the extra.

...So, according to one source, I should now be certified as being clinically insane; be pricing-up funerals; or be laid up in hospital with multiple injuries.

Thing is... there are plenty of people out there who are training harder than this. They're the people you will find at the front in races. Training like that is what you have to do to get there.Attachment 503

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My upcoming schedule has one day a week rest, based on 1 run per day... If I felt my body could take the extra work load I'd probably run on the day off too. I usually have to put in an unscheduled rest day from time to time anyway, either through other commitments, or on rare occaisions, playing it safe if I'm feling particularly fatigued.

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Seriously man I hear Macho men say to me 'I don't have rest days.' And I try to hide my cringe in my face when I hear it. True or not, may I reiterate on 2 words I have just read from some clued up runners. It is INSANE to not rest and it is certainly IMPERATIVE to progessing.
When you run or lift weights your muscles tear, they need REST and protein for recovery. However low intensity exercises like walking and swimming are benificial on rest days. PEACE OUT

I don't know much but you won't see folk like Paula Radcliffe having rest days, and she will run at least twice a day.

I suppose if you build your fitness level up so you can cope with it there's no problem.

I had quite a few weeks where I've ran everyday and I disagree... I run a few miles everyday some weeks and have been running less than a year... I have never had many problems - have far fewer injury problems now than when I first started... If you plan to do this you must realise that you are not going to be running for all out effort everyday... I hate speedwork and have become reasonably fast with minimal amount of this... this may be my age and being reasonably fit, but I think most of it is purely down to going out and doing miles and more miles... I found that muscle ache after running goes away with experience so I no longer assume that everyone needs to have rest days... There is no reason that you cannot build up to running everyday, I have done it for a bit and I am not a superhuman macho running machine like pedestrian, I'm just a normal guy trying to find something to do in his three month summer holidays... Personally, I would aruge that is people who overtrain that have this problem with injuries and that it's nothing to do with running everyday... I am often shocked by people who train for marathons when they clearly aren't competent enough to do them... It is with these people (i.e. inexperienced people who push themselves to run long distances in very short periods of time) that have the worst injuries in my opinion... However, as with marathon training as with running everyday you can do it so long as you work up to it and progress slowly and remember to have easy days... You can't assume that just because you can't do it that it is not possible for someone else to do it... For example, I have trouble running 6 miles but I understand that someone else can do a 15 mile training session on a whim... It is possible and it's all about building up to it... If you want to run everyday then you can but understand that it'll probably take months to get to this stage... So the conclusion of the long neverending rant is - overtraining causes injury and not running everyday...

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But Saint Paula has a top notch team looking after her body, unlike us mere mortals

I know, we can always dream can't we. It must be great to be so good!

yep... but she's worked damn hard for it and gone through a lot that many couldn't, so fair play

....but that is a bloody good point!!

You also need to define rest day.

Do you mean get a pizza and a bottle of wine (my definition)

Or do you mean swim instead of run (or similar, as most training schedules seem to list)

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(Running every day...)
... It also depends on your definition of "day".
Conventionally, a day is 24 hours?
Depending on how you schedule your runs, it can be possible to incorporate a "rest" of well in excess of 24 hours, yet still run on each of the 7 days of the week.
For example, I do my longest run on a Sunday morning, finishing somewhere between 9-30 and 10-00am. At the moment, I don't do my next run until after 4-30pm on a Monday evening... Over 30 hours later. So by definition, that's over a day's rest.

As for being labelled a "superhuman, macho running machine"; nothing could be further from the truth. I'm no more superhuman than anyone else on the Forum... And as for macho? Well I'm not entirely sure how that would apply in this context. What I have to my advantage is a pure love of running and hard work coupled with a lot of experience. I know where my boundaries and limits lie; but I also know how to extend them. I've always had to work harder and for longer than many more of the naturally gifted runners I've encountered in my running career.
Too many people are afraid of challenging what they perceive to be their limits. And far too many people accept the limitations imposed upon them by the so-called "rules and conventions" of running.
There is a great deal of "false" wisdom out there, and unfortunately a majority of people believe in it.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

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that's a great post Pedestrian and I couldn't agree with you more.

btw, i was jokin !

was trying to say that you don't have to be a superhuman running machine to be able to run everyday... i think anyone can do it if you work up to it...

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Hi Pedestrian,

I love it, your post has really inspired me. This is such a great forum its great to hear the views of beginners like myself through to the more experienced runners on here, it really does help.

Forest

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