While doing a long run for an upcoming marathon, I realized that I’ve run up to 30 km* but otherwise, the only time I’ve run longer was in an organized marathon. Just curious whether anyone has ever gone out and run a marathon (or beyond) distance just for the hell of it, outside of an organized event.
*Yes, I know the standard practice is to go up to 36 km
When I was training for my only marathon, I did a couple of 20 mile training runs. They gave me a foolish sense of confidence about what 26.2 miles would be like.
I used to run cross-country in eighth grade, and we would all run the full course during practice. If that doesn’t count, beats the heck out of me.
If you ever see me running nowadays, please kill whatever’s chasing me.
A bit over 20 miles during marathon training. I’ve never done a full marathon distance in training even when I planned to.
I ran cross-country in 8th-10th grades, and I’d count team practice as an organized event. (I’m pretty sure we did over 13 miles on a few occasions, though nobody talked about half-marathons 50 years ago. :))
I ran up to 6 miles at a time on my own during the summer, with the idea of prepping for the next season.
While preparing for participating in my one-and-only half-marathon, I ran 11 or 12 miles in one of my last training runs.
I ran 40 miles (65 km) one day this summer while training for an ultra. I don’t expect I’ll do that too often.
Does military training count? If so, about 6 miles, IIRC. If not, then probably 4-5 miles.
With no stopping or walking? A mile. Had to do it in high school.
Interrupted by walking? Maybe 2-2.5 miles.
I am guessing my answer is reflective of the average modern American.
Another marathon runner here… There were a couple training seasons where I did a 22-mile training run instead of the maximum 20 that I’ve done most seasons.
4 miles give or take.
5km. Not sure if that counts as “organised event” though, because it was in the service of competing the Couch to 5k program (by myself, so pretty not-organised)
At that point I’m like “ok, I’m getting better at this running lark, and it STILL sucks donkey balls every second of every meter”. So I gave the whole thing up as a bad deal. These days I cycle
Probably 18-20 while training for a marathon. Otherwise 12 or so was probably the max.
22 miles, training for an ultra.
I’ve completed exactly 50 marathons/ultras, so have done lots of long runs over the years.
Longest in one go in training was probably 31ish miles (about 50K) lots of times. Though one time for night time training some friends and I did a night time training run of about 50K, then slept at our campsite for maybe 2-3 hours until the sun came up, then got up and did another 15ish miles for a total of 46ish miles (if you wanna count that as one go).
Training for a 50k, I did a marathon-length (26.2 miles) training run.
Don’t ask how long it took.
About fifteen miles. Never trained for any long run, but built up to it as part of my exercise routine about ten years ago. (I did run track in high school, but we peaked at 8 miles, I think, for distance runners. Thirteen to fifteen miles was my once a week “long run” when I was doing it for fun and exercise in my mid-30s. I should probably get back to that.) I’ve not run any sort of organized event since high school.
A couple of times around the block. Definitely under a mile.