I just did it for something to do during lockdown to be fair.
Finished the 100 on my birthday.
It may well have helped with efficiency…dunno
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Yes.
It’s a goal for me.
That’s it.
I don’t expect pools to be open before April, or any real proper racing to go ahead either.
I don’t expect any real training benefit, other than a lower HR for the same pace at the end of it.
I won’t stop running completely when I start to focus on cycling.
Here’s my double imperial century ride week
Here’s an imperial century week from May:
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These were my big 8 weeks going into London 2017. Apologies for the long post, i had to copy and paste multiple images… oh and you have to go 2nd row, 1st row, 2nd rowm 1st row for each individual pic of each two week block … yeah sorry!!
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Note: In 5 out of 8 of these weeks i still had a rest day
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NICE!!!
Three ~100mile weeks in there 
I’m not doing it for a race time, just doing it because. So I’ll not be doing any daft speedwork or such nonsense.
Also you did some longish runs in there.
I’m trying to avoid those.
Also deffo taking a rest day per week most weeks. Bar the 100 mile week.
Cheers
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Very rarely over 20km and longest was only 26km. No speedwork whatsoever. Fastest i ever went was a few miles at TMP except for my half mara race, which was actually really disappointing.
It was all based on massive volume, with a lot of heat adaptation work. But i got injured!
But yeah, it was still a mara build. I can’t see me ever having that much time free again. Certainly not for many, many years so it was a bit of an experiment.
Easiest thing is just do a 100 miler. Then the rest of your week is still free 
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Managed a 10km just now whilst everyone is still playing email catch up. (I did mine via phone during the hols )
10km, 52.14, 5.13 pace and 102 vert
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Not being a dick, but this will sound like I am on the forum, so apologies!
Would you say your lack of long runs hampered you over the second half of the marathon on race day?
Going through the first half in 1:21, then the second half in 1:40 is the kind of splits reserved for me 
Haha … it’s fine.
No, not at all. I picked up an ITB/knee niggle a couple of weeks before the race. I switched to the turbo to try to keep aerobic endurance up but save the knee. I didn’t know if it was truly fixed going into the race; well deep down i think i knew.
So i went out as planned, but pretty much knew within 5km that things were tightening up and i wasn’t moving half as well as i was a few weeks before at that pace. Really started tightening at about 17km in, and i think (i’m going to have to go an look now) i held together at ‘some’ sort of pace to about 25kms. By then the time was slipping away and the knee was not happy. Stopped to chat to my wife and friends and they didn’t know what i was up to, as the tracker looked like i was still going well. but i knew the race was over.
Was ready to just bin it off and get on a tube or something, but convinced myself to not be soft and just jog it in. Without myself sounding like a dick, it was quite humbling and also a bit humiliating. Jogging along at 5/km pace ( no disrespect for people that run that pace or slower, i think it’s amazing for anyone to put themselves out there and run a marathon, but that was nowhere near what i had trained for and knew i was capable of) with the crowd cheering me on ‘it’s just a few more miles’, ‘don’t give up now you’re doing really well’. Constantly stopping to stretch it out.
I helped carry a guy along the Mall and over the finish line. but mine wasn’t caught on the cameras like that guy the same year! But he was a hero apparently! 
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Cheers 
Nice reply that 
So…
Was this a recurring thing?
Or as a result of the long miles?
Or, are you like me and prone to falling over whilst on flat tarmac 
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No idea. I picked up niggles during the year, but nothing proper serious, just the odd day or two off. I started the high volume experiment at the end of the previous summer. I ran a 1.17 half in Nov (this time scuppered by bad D&V the week before that wiped me out) off zero speedwork, just lots of steady, high mileage. Then carried it on through to the Spring mara.
Was it overtraining? Maybe.
In hindsight i guess lots (read some/any) of S&C would have probably have gone a long way to keeping healthy.
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I did see @jeffb in the crowd that day when i was struggling. Closest i’ve ever been to meeting him! haha
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Funny you say that…we ran out of mouthwash last night, so I dived into my work overnight/wash bag to get some out and brought the foam roller out with it too
Last time I used it was the summer of 2019, when I was doing 50 mile weeks.
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I spent £100 on a massage gun a few months ago. I think i’ve used it 3 times! 
I was talking to Mrs Gb about how i need to put it somewhere visible for me to be reminded of it (she tidies it up all the time!!). My calf twinged this morning carrying the littlest one downstairs after my 5km yesterday. Need to get my act together!
Mrs GB is also doing an Adrienne 30 day yoga thing. I need to stop talking about joining her and get on with it.
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Gah! Thought that was Adriana Lima.
Unfortunately not 
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Christ on a bike Wordsworth!
That is insane.
Because… I like that…
I plan on lots of steady jogging especially if IMUK or other full distance races go ahead, very loose plan in mind but I will certainly be sticking to running every other day, maybe some double run days for sure, but just feels weird running on anything but alternate days, and I almost certainly would get injured.
I’m interested in everyone’s training, keeps an old man inspired.
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My guns the same - if I leave it on the sofa… it can be used almost daily. Put it away - its like it doesnt exist!!!
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Whilst @Poet is always entertaining with his alternation between “be really careful, avoid overuse injury” and this, running 5km every day is I’d say way less likely to injure you than running 10km every other day, and way, way less than running 20km every 4th and running 40km every 8th.
The difference between the chronic and acute loads is what most increases the chance.
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Do as I say, not as I do 
I’m not scared of cycling “huge” distances in a day/week now, having done it without injury.
I’m aware that the “plan” I’ve set myself carries some risk of running injury, so if I feel like it’s coming I can always quit
I got pretty good at quitting in 2020.
I guess it goes back to what works for each of us.
I actually ran every other day in Jan/feb last year, I got in the best shape I was in all year in March and not for one second did I feel like I was over reaching or going to get injured.
Five of these runs were after hour bike at just below race pace.
Virtually every run was 12-16 kms @ 5 min km pace, with just four shorter efforts.
If I ran 5k everyday I would really really find it hard to hold back and … in fact I know I’d end up blasting it… you know the probable outcome.
Looking back at a recent disappointing … ish marathon attempt I did too much long slow and very few faster runs leading up to it, that found me out on the day.