Odds are this summer Ill have an internship that takes me far away from friends family etc. as such i figure ill have nothing better to do than run. So, is it possible to train for a 100 mile ultra in just 3 months?
bubba hotep said:You want a reality based honest answer? No. What is your current mileage? What was your max week mileage in the past 6 months? Have you run a 26.2, 50k or 50 mile race before? Odds are that you'll injury yourself before even showing up for the race.
Barefoot Gentile said:I'm still trying to grasp this ideology why people think they can turn into this ultra-marathon running machine overnight once they turn to barefoot running?
Barefoot TJ said:And then you have the one-off, unusual case of Todd Ragsdale, who after just a few short months (3 or 4?) of barefoot running (conditioning his feet through gravel bucket training, no doubt) set the Guiness World Record for the Longest Barefoot run at 102.65 miles. Check out this article from the home page and the pictures of his feet afterwards: 102 Mile Barefoot Ultra - No Simple Feat
Barefoot Gentile said:bubba hotep said:You want a reality based honest answer? No. What is your current mileage? What was your max week mileage in the past 6 months? Have you run a 26.2, 50k or 50 mile race before? Odds are that you'll injury yourself before even showing up for the race.
I only run marathons, hopefully an ultra in the future, but the best advice I ever got was train, be ready, and have no doubts about going into a race. Nothing worse than suffering through a race you are not prepared for.
But, good luck!!
migangelo said:not only do you need time to build an aerobic base but a lot of time to allow your bones to rebuild and calcify. your bones take a few months to adjust to new stresses. doing too much too soon is what leads to all the stress fractures, reactions, and bone bruises so many are going through right now. then just when your bones adapt to go add a lot more miles without backing down and snap. bones are dynamic but they need time to build and 100 miles is a lot of pounding no matter how soft you run.
Chaserwilliams said:Oh, and where is your intern ship, and what fer (thats white trash talk for "for")?
Barefoot Gentile said:I'm still trying to grasp this ideology why people think they can turn into this ultra-marathon running machine overnight once they turn to barefoot running? I only run marathons, hopefully an ultra in the future, but the best advice I ever got was train, be ready, and have no doubts about going into a race. Nothing worse than suffering through a race you are not prepared for.
But, good luck!!