Doubles. Lots of them. I think I even did a triple.

I did two weeks of 100 miles in the past. Lots of doubles, like the others said. Mostly easy and recovery. I hope you have a huge love for running inside of you, because expect that by the end of that week, you'll have depleted at least half of it.

I haven't done all-star week before, but I did something similar for the playoffs.  Those are even more fun.

My basic premise was that there is a distance that I can run that is so short that it adds no fatigue at all.  For me, I settled on 3 miles.  So, I added a 3-mile daily run to my routine for the week.  Since I'm usually an after-work runner, I got up early and ran 3 miles before work every day.  After work, I mostly ran my "usual" run, even taking one RD midweek I think.  I ran more at a slow shuffle than a jog.  No speedwork.  Then on the weekend, in addition to the 3-miler, all bets were off as long as I could keep going.  The extra 3 miler added like 21 free miles to my week but didn't really take any toll.  And I figured I could live with 30 minutes less sleep each day for a week.

Some of the higher-mileage runners broke up their day into three 5-mile runs.  Again, short and slow.  That will get you over 100 without any one run being too crazy.

Also, lower your standards as far as laundry and re-wearing clothes.  That helps a lot.

We did a lot of encouraging others and keeping a running tally of miles run (as well as scouting the other team) on our site.  That helped us keep the momentum going even during those brief times when we weren't running.  I think I re-wrote Daft Punk lyrics while on the TM "We're up all night to get miles in."

How does all star week work?

If it works the same as in previous years, each team nominates 4 runners to be all stars, everybody else has a week off from the head-to-head contests.

All stars from teams in 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9th place are one team ("east", let's say), teams 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 are the other ("west").

East vs. west competes in the head-to-head for that week.  Some runners rack up some serious mileage!  At the end of the week, the team that wins earns an extra 5% mileage bonus for their regular teams that can be used at any point during the year.  Most teams save their bonus for the playoffs.

Thanks for the explanation z I get to have a week to punk out on the mileage game soon I suppose - since I'm certainly not all star material. Is it the first week in June?

Yup.  I apologize in advance if our team is on the same side as your team, we might all be in race taper or recovery!  Hopefully Dave is on our side and can run miles for us.

My PB one mile week was 86 miles and that was during finals.  I ran doubles every day.  Problem is, my body wasn't ready for an 86 mile week and it took me a couple of months to recover from.  So my advice is to just do what you can and don't push your luck.  This is just a game and is not worth getting injured over.  Especially you with your finicky knee, Dave.

Pretty good chance I'll be an All Star and the best I'll be able to do is 50-55 miles due to my race schedule (goal HM at the end of the week).  Your own schedule and health comes first.  

My PB one mile week was 86 miles and that was during finals.  I ran doubles every day.  Problem is, my body wasn't ready for an 86 mile week and it took me a couple of months to recover from.  So my advice is to just do what you can and don't push your luck.  This is just a game and is not worth getting injured over.  Especially you with your finicky knee, Dave.

 

Pretty good chance I'll be an All Star and the best I'll be able to do is 50-55 miles due to my race schedule (goal HM at the end of the week).  Your own schedule and health comes first.  

+100. This is why I don't participate anymore in the games. It's easy to push yourself over what your limit is. Then you regret it after. It happened to me.