I started running 30 miles a day for the past two weeks?

Question

what are the benefits of this

Answer 1

Chronic back pain, feet pain, headache, exhaustion, possible death due to over exerting yourself etc.

Answer 2

Impossible.  Elite athletes don't even do that.  Hoax question or mistype?

Answer 3

You are overtraining.

How about 7 miles a day?

You are gonna hurt yourself by doing that many.

Answer 4

Well, you can get from New York to California in a couple of days without flying or driving.

Answer 5

That probably isn't a good idea. If your training for a marathon you should probably do short runs of 6 miles a day on the short run days. Then do 17 miles for your longer days. Then do one run of thirty miles a weak. You need to vary your workouts between long runs, short runs, tempo, speed work, and hill work

Answer 6

You'd be burning roughly 3600 calories per day, or roughly 3/4 a pound of weight.

Unless your food intake has increased comparably, you'd have lost 10 pounds over that two weeks.

You'd have also covered approx. 420 miles, which means you probably get to buy a new pair of running shoes if you haven't already. Yay!

... And your name is probably Dean Karnazes, so you get the benefit of a cool last name, too.

Answer 7

None

30 miles/day?  A little excessive isn't it?

I can foresee injuries and time off from running.

Answer 8

You have to mean 30 miles a week...

Answer 9

drop that 30 by about 20. make it 10 (at the most). There's no benefits in killing yourself is there?

Answer 10

I find it extremely difficult to believe you run 30 miles a day, the human body, no matter how in shape, could not tolerate that type of abuse. The only benefit to that would be to your beneficiaries.

Answer 11

30 miles a week will help you lose weight, tone your legs, increase your metabolism, exercise your heart and lungs. It would be a nice base for the start of a 5K training program as well.

Answer 12

Hey look, it's Dean Karnazes in disguise.

Answer 13

You won't see any benefits until you get it up to at least 50 miles a day.

Answer 14

that's great