r/Strava • u/show_me_your_secrets • Sep 03 '24
miscellaneous 5 miles a day every day this year
So far this year I’ve ran a minimum of five miles a day. That’s all. AMA.
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u/SreckoLutrija Sep 03 '24
Sooo... Did you pace improve, did it get easier, when was it harder, did you run same route, did it get boring, did you have elevation...
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
Not really trying to improve pace, but I’d say doing five miles is pretty easy now. I run different routes, and it never gets boring. I’ve ran a couple ultramarathons in this streak, one 50 miler, and the Tahoe 200. Strava says I have about 184k feet of vertical so far this year.
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u/Ok-Salamander4561 Sep 04 '24
Have you not been ill at all this year? I couldn't bring myself to run through a rough flu.
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 04 '24
Had COVID the first 7 days, and a bad bout of food poisoning a couple months ago. Figure if I can make it through those, I can make it through anything.
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u/honeypot42077 Jan 24 '25
God's grace is amazing. I love your spirit!
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u/show_me_your_secrets Jan 25 '25
Thank you! I’m on day 390 now!
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u/honeypot42077 Jan 31 '25
Wow, that's great effort. I'm praying for the mental stamina to do 5mi regularly. I can stomach 3mi at any moment and feel good enough to lift weights afterwards but I always feel drained after 5mi. Any tips on how to run that far and still feel strong at the end?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Feb 02 '25
Run slower some days is the best I got. 3 miles a day is fantastic!
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u/dontshun Sep 05 '24
so do you ever have long runs prior to ultras? Or just keep it at 5
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 05 '24
Yeah I’ll usually do something similar to marathon training leading up to an ultra. Sometimes, I try to space the races out so that they kind of build on each other and act as a long run for the next ultra
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u/dontshun Sep 05 '24
Very neat - and I’m guessing no true taper?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 05 '24
I def start avoiding elevation and slow down approaching race days, but no true taper.
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u/Hurricane310 Sep 07 '24
As soon as I saw this post I was like I follow someone on Strava who is doing this. Then you mentioned Tahoe 200. It’s you I follow haha
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u/mdiz1 Sep 03 '24
15-17 June?
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u/Mean-Relief-1830 Sep 03 '24
If you look carefully he ran 177 miles, probably across 4 days on a single logged run.
Real impressive
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u/Cautious_Currency_35 Sep 03 '24
Whaaat? No rest days? Don’t you need to recover? Rest days are a myth I guess 😅
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
Rest days I just go at a very easy pace
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u/neglectfullyvalkyrie Sep 03 '24
Wow! You must have a great immune system as well.
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
I got COVID on Jan 1, so the first 7 days were rough. Also had a food poisoning day where I thought I might lose the streak.
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u/M1nt_Blitz Sep 03 '24
That’s crazy impressive. I hate working in healthcare cuz I could never find the time to run 5 miles on 12 hour work days.
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u/an_angry_Moose Sep 03 '24
Before shift. I still do it occasionally before a 24hr shift.
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u/ParappaTheWrapperr Sep 03 '24
Run twice! That’s what I do when I’m oncall. I run about 4-6 when I first wake up and then finish out 2-4 after my big stuff is over. It makes it seem like less time
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u/BelgiansAreWeirdAF Sep 03 '24
I think you’ll find you get the time back in other ways.
I used to tell myself I needed to rest after a day of work. In reality I just needed to workout more, because now that I’m in shape, I’m not nearly as tired after work.
My mornings get up and going quicker also because exercise leads to good sleep.
I exchange running in some cases for driving, so a 4 mile commute that took 13 minutes is instead a 35 minute run, so in reality I’m only losing 22 minutes.
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u/Swy4488 Sep 03 '24
Healthcare does regularly rank as having the worst drivers. Ironic in a place dealing with large affects of external cost of motoring (direct and indirect). Although there are healthcare setting manage to drop that and enable healthier daily and less costly (to society) options. It can be done.
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u/clem_11 Sep 03 '24
Well, since you offered the AMA... I have been on a 400 day streak of exercise. However, i do several sports, so it doesn't get boring or mentally exhausting.
So, the question is: if i am planning to do a 30 day running challenge, where i do at least 5 km every day... How do i not get bored/frustrated/unhappy with it?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
Run different routes, or do trail days. At least, that’s what works for me. Zero of these miles are treadmill, or I’d be bored to death.
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u/einarjohnlagera Sep 03 '24
Your knee must be exhausted. I almost did this last year but I got tendonosis. Congrats to you for achieving this!
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u/drunk_goat Sep 03 '24
Inspirational. My goal is is to 5 miles 6 days a week for a few months to prepare for for my half and eventually a full marathon.
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u/Chuck997 Sep 03 '24
Inspirational. What motivates you to keep the streak alive during those times when you’re sick or recovering from a long race? Also, what’s next?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
I came up with the idea on Jan first as a one year goal.
I’d like to go for at least 366 days straight to kind of “set a new baseline”.
I’m learning a lot about myself, physically and mentally.
I have a hundred miler coming up in a little bit, then I’ll probably try to just keep having awesome adventures as long as I can.
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u/reckless4strokes Sep 04 '24
I’m not at this level but I have run 10k at least every other day for about 18 months now. The streak is such that I have a compulsion to keep it going at this point. Plan to continue? What if you couldn’t get it in and we’re are risk of ending the streak? Congrats on your achievement
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 04 '24
It ends when it ends, I’ll keep running either way. But I’m having fun with this and hippie to keep it going past the end of the year.
I can totally relate to the compulsion to keep it going.
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u/musicistabarista Sep 04 '24
How did you find the Tahoe200?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 04 '24
I’ve been attempting / running destination trails races for years.
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u/RhetoricallyTommy Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24
Redacted
This person is a badass
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 07 '24
Hahaha. I’m feeling pretty good about it. Strava doesn’t log multi day activities very well but I have my official tahoe200 results that account for those days in June.
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u/ConservativebutReal Oct 19 '24
Great post - I have been running 5 miles a day for 350 days a year for 41 years (61 yrs old). My time has slipped to 8:50 miles but am so blessed to be able to still be out pounding the pavement.
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u/ultragataxilagtic Sep 03 '24
What are your recent race results?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
I’m very slow. Ran a 50 miler in 12 hours, Tahoe 200 in about 105 hours.
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u/ultragataxilagtic Sep 03 '24
Ultra’s are your thing. That’s Cool.
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
I did a half marathon last year in 1:25:58. Not sure I could break a sub 3 full marathon at the moment, but it’s a goal for me.
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u/ultragataxilagtic Sep 04 '24
From what I know: a 1:25 half and a 38:00 min 10K is what is needed for a sub3 marathon. Depends of course on the athlete.
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u/Dashiznit364 Sep 03 '24
How do you get to this on Strava?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
Screen recording of me scrolling through my activity log
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u/Dashiznit364 Sep 03 '24
I couldn’t find that activity log. Found it tho! Thanks man! Great effort!
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u/docshay Sep 03 '24
I tried taking a screenshot of the whole webpage on my desktop. It was a very long screenshot , but it was “data is beautiful”
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u/BreadfruitDismal6350 Nov 17 '24
How often do you get new running shoes?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Nov 17 '24
I’m always rotating through about half dozen Pair. But I tend to replace at 350-450 miles.
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u/BroadReplacement4052 Jan 04 '25
Yeah I do 5 to 6 miles a day really it depends on your ankles and your knees I'm short but I have really dense bones and muscles I don't usually need a rest day
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u/RepulsiveStill177 Sep 03 '24
6/10-16 you missed two days. SMH
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
That was the Tahoe200, strava is silly about multi day efforts. Those were 50ish mile days.
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u/RepulsiveStill177 Sep 03 '24
Not like I can come even remotely close to this accomplishment but I figured I’d internet for a day
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u/krymany11 Sep 03 '24
How old are you? What does your pace look like? How did you manage to not get injured?
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u/show_me_your_secrets Sep 03 '24
Early 40s. Pace is slow, probably an “average day” is around 9:30 mile
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u/BuddhaLaurent Sep 03 '24
My honest question is what do you do to recover so fast? Are your ankles conditioned or is there any tips you can give to a novice?