Good idea or bad idea????
Good idea or bad idea????
Good idea, especially if your long run is on the slower side
Idiotic. Do them the day before.
You can long run two ways
It can either be one really big stride or it can be a bunch of little strides with no rest.
Probably best to alternate so you get two different training stimuli.
Should they be mixed into the run or five after
Do them the day before and work on getting better effort long runs in. They work well to make you loose the day after.
Doing any form of speed work when your body is stressed from the long run can't be smart.
Karma Police wrote:
Doing any form of speed work when your body is stressed from the long run can't be smart.
You're doing your strides wrong if this is a problem. The whole point of strides is that they give you a chance to open up your stride and turn over the legs, but they're not so long or fast as to significantly stress your body in any negative way.
Do strides after a long run if you want. Don't do them if you don't want. But don't overthink it and buy in to some idea that a few short strides after a long run are going to break your body.
doing them wrong wrote:
Karma Police wrote:Doing any form of speed work when your body is stressed from the long run can't be smart.
You're doing your strides wrong if this is a problem. The whole point of strides is that they give you a chance to open up your stride and turn over the legs, but they're not so long or fast as to significantly stress your body in any negative way.
Do strides after a long run if you want. Don't do them if you don't want. But don't overthink it and buy in to some idea that a few short strides after a long run are going to break your body.
Talk about missing the point. Doing strides after a long run probably won't result in an injury, but it increases the risk. Smart training reduces risk.
What is the point anyway? If you want speed work, do it on a speed day. Do a series of strides before an easy run (after warming up), or before a tempo or fartlek session.
But as I said - doing any form of speed work after a long run when your body is stressed isn't smart.
No. Strides aren't speed work. The point in this case would be to loosen up your legs so that you feel better when you run the next day. Might help for some. Might not for others. Whatever works for you.