How Do You Train For 100 Miles?

James is training to run further than he ever has before. In May he is set to tackle his first 100 mile race and in this video he goes through what his training looks like, which race he is doing and how he is feeling about it.

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What’s in this video?
00:00:00 – Believing in myself
00:00:51 – 100 mile training journey
00:02:03 – Running from London to Oxford
00:03:13 – Training for a long hike
00:04:20 – Discovering the love for running
00:05:23 – The importance of stories
00:06:21 – Lack of sleep and fitness journey
00:07:37 – Using negativity as fuel
00:08:49 – Barbie let’s get the party started
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I spent so much of my life not really believing in myself that running has created this new version of me that believes in himself a bit more that guy has definitely run an ultra I’m going to say out loud I’m officially training for my first 100

Mile after 7 years of running this is the one distance I always SW I would never do and the one I’ve been absolutely terrified of but it’s time to be brave and train for my first 100 mile run so I brought you here to the beaver

Challenge of Big Bear to take on my first kind of big long training session so 6 hours I’m aiming to go around about 30 m Mark and uh it’s time to see where my fitness is because I’ve got just over 3 months to run a 100

Miles 100 miles three two one and off we go okay so we’re into the first lap a of today is W he go is just time on feet 6 hours 6 hours on feet obviously I’d love to get to the nine lap which would take me to roughly

30 Mi so it’s the 3.3 mile Loop this is my first kind of big training run of this training block towards 100 miles still terrifies me saying it I’ve run 100K races before so 60-ish miles but yeah there’s a huge unknown chunk of mileage that I’m going

To have to discover what my body is capable of doing which is exciting and very terrifying in equal measure so I’m taking on the temps path 100 but wait that’s really flat and you like Hills James correct but I’m running from London to Oxford and I live just north of Oxford

It’s a short car Road home when I finish so it’s going to feel like I’m running home which is pretty Epic there we go that four done 2 hours 15 in time for a proper Pet Stop and I’m going talk to you I’m actually training 100

M a lot of my long runs so my 10 to you know 20 M runs we’ll also have another run the next day so kind of get my body used to rebuilding and constantly moving while fatigued whereas there’ll be long runs done during you know traditional training block these are

Going to be more like long hikes with my longest one are being kind of 9 to 10 hours on my feet anything more than that I’m just going to impact my ability to constantly train so he’ll train long runs back to back and a lot of

Cycling as well on a static bike cuz I can do those during the working hours today you know a couple of weeks in two training I’m feeling so much stronger than I did at the very beginning this a huge motivator for the next three months brilliant right let’s go for another run shall

We let me catch you up on me so I’m James I got into running 7 years ago and well I hated running my entire life I absolutely hated it I would actively avoid any sort of physical exercise to the extent that I want to PE teacher I

Was having my period cuz I didn’t know what they were but I got into running because while I was 21 Stone and uh struggling a lot mental healthwise I needed something so in the middle of the night picked up a pair of Bor shoes head

Of that door did 1K is I never had a watch back then and uh it hurt a lot but I loved it I felt something ignite within me it’s kind of spiraled since then 39 marathons now and a fair few Ultras walk the alone and nobody can hear you go m

Are you happy I’ve now got a one and a half-year-old kid who is amazing and uh one of the things my grandmother used to teach me is we’re all stories in the end so when we’re gone we’re kept Alive by the stories people tell of your weird

And wonderful life and uh there’s no story in having not run 100 miles I don’t want to tell my kid that I Shi away from a challenge so here we are are you happy the thing that I have struggled with since having my daughter is actually getting out and

Training sometimes when all I want to do is play with my kid so my fitness is not where I want it to be but I don’t want to be scarting the cut offs like I did in comates one of the key parts that I feel like having a kid has

Prepared me for is the lack of sleep almost 4 hours in so coming up to 2/3 of the way through 2/3 of the way through 50k I just need to keep Trucking now go out and try that trail run because I can promise you absolutely promise you there is

Beautiful things on the other side okay so we are in to the last lap and trying to tap in to the motivation to keep going and this sign perfectly encapsulates that at school I was told I shouldn’t exercise because I was large when I got into running there were so

Many people that told me I couldn’t you know you can’t run a half you can’t run a full you can’t run marathon deser and it is fuel for me and I’m hoping there’s someone out there that is being told oh you can’t run that use that as fuel use it as fuel this

Makes extraordinarily happy to be able to do these things to hopefully share it hopefully to share it with my daughter one day right come on enough waffle I need to drag these very tied legs up this hill then up another couple of hills and then down and then around and until the Finish

Line Come on Barbie let’s get party can’t believe I just said that out loud I can see the Finish Line done and just like that I am done so that is nine laps 29 and a half miles in 5 hours and 51 minutes and that’s just a training run I

Have to run 70 more 70 more miles I’m hoping it’s maybe inspired you to take on something crazy that you maybe been terrified of doing or it’s just got you to share your story down in the comments down below and if you want to watch me in a lot of pain go

And watch me run the igot 101