Which is more beneficial?
Which is more beneficial?
90 minutes.
What's "all out"? Isn't an all-out 70min run a half marathon race, give or take?
Now, 70 at a brisk (marathon plus 30sec) pace vs 90 min at a super-easy jog (marathon plus 2min)... That's debatable.
90 minutes
They each have their place. The 70 all out obviously is good for your fitness but you cannot do it often or you will injury/overtrain. I'd say you can't do that more than once or maybe twice max during a standard length training block. You could do 90 minute long runs with faster last 30 minutes, a fartlek somewhere in there, a fast last mile, all sorts of variations. There is no one or the other.
"70 minute all out" as you call it would defeat the purpose of a long run.
Independent of how long the run is, you should start out easy, work into an honest pace, and then ease out of it for the last mile or so. Feel it out.
Interesting question, I got into an argument with my college coach about this. He wanted us to do 12 miles under 6 minute pace (under 72 min). I much preferred a 14 miler at 90-100 min depending on how I felt. Alas every single long run, on an easy week or the day after a hard race, every single member on the team ran 12 miles trying to hit 72 min.
I would certainly say that 90 min is better. A hard 70 min could be your long run once, but that would be a tempo-ish run. But as a previous poster mentioned, if you are doing the 90 min super slow, that wont help much either.
I do a combo of both in my training for 2 or 3 weeks I will do a longer slower long run more like 105 minutes and then on my down weeks I'll do a quicker one around 75-85 minutes
What distance are you racing?
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Interesting question, I got into an argument with my college coach about this. He wanted us to do 12 miles under 6 minute pace (under 72 min). I much preferred a 14 miler at 90-100 min depending on how I felt. Alas every single long run, on an easy week or the day after a hard race, every single member on the team ran 12 miles trying to hit 72 min.
I would certainly say that 90 min is better. A hard 70 min could be your long run once, but that would be a tempo-ish run. But as a previous poster mentioned, if you are doing the 90 min super slow, that wont help much either.
Read this article about the University of Portland program that was just the opposite of your college experience.
They always ran normal training runs of 10 miles at 6:00/mile, then they started running 90 minutes in 6:40-6:45.
Now they are a perennial Top-10 NCAA team.
Thanks!
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