H Geb wrote:
To be a good distance runner you need to run twice a day, everyday except Christmas.
Deal with it, bitch.
I omitted the word "same". It was supposed to say - why would you do the same run every day?
What does H Geb say about that, bitch?
beep boop beep wrote:
9 miles at 7:00 pace
yay
COmtnman wrote:
Haha, I find it interesting that nobody even asks what kind of effort either of these paces is for the OP. For all anyone knows, a 6:30 pace could be just barely slower than tempo run pace for them. On the other hand he could be enormously fit and have 7:30 be terribly slow for a run of that distance.
The OP didn't ask which was the best run for him but which run would YOU choose. The OP's fitness has nothing to do with anyone else's answer.
I personally would take the 8 miles. I would spend the extra few minutes on some strength exercises.
Isn't is always interesting how people assume the people asking the training questions are at the same fitness levels and same talent levels as they are....
you know i run all my miles at 7:30 or faster but you know if i could rock anything at 6:30 every damn day I would do it.
are you doing nothing but singles? i mean i would pop in some doubles if you could to improve your speed. some pm or am shorter runs
Then he could take it to a whole new level by running 100 meters under 9.8 seconds...
coach thomas j wrote:
top pot donut lover wrote:One mile at sub 4:00.
thats a pretty solid run, but I think he'd benefit more from running half a mile at sub 145,
8 miles at 6:30 pace is far better for me than 10 at 7:30 pace. I know this from very recent experience.
I trained at the slower pace (7:30)all winter and mixed in a race every couple weeks. When spring came around I was not in very good shape. I was ticked off about my times so I just started hammering runs at under 7 minute pace. That lasted 3 days. I took a day off and did it again. Soon I was running hard 3 days in a row and taking a day off. I got down to around 6:40 pace before we started getting hot humid weather. When we got one cool day, I ran 10 miles right at 65 minutes. (33:40 out/31:20 back)
My race times kept coming down and I went from a 25:02 to 23:20 for 4 miles.
18 miles at 7:00 pace. Obviously.
Dont worry I mathed it out.
Unless your in high school, or far beyond your college days you best not be running 7:30s all week.
Doug Heffernan wrote:
For what distance?
I think I'd go with 6:30 pace regardless of the distance raced. There's less of an overload with 7:30, thus detraining will occur (with a sub-18 or 19 minute 5Ker). Over time, you'll be conditioned to run 7:30 miles and won't be able to race significantly faster than that. Therefore, 6:30 miles.
I run sub 18 with 9 minute mile jogging for my regular runs.