Is it important to run sometimes the track the opposite direction?

Is it important to rub one out with the other hand too? You know, for muscle imbalances.

I would do it if I was training on a flat 200m track

as often as golfers have back surgery I bet that some wished they had.

not concerned wrote:

If you’re a distance runner, you’re probably doing 90%+ of your mileage somewhere other than a track. I don’t think 5-10 miles with only left turns in the context of 70-100 total miles per week will create any kind of imbalance.

+1

If you are concerned with imbalances I would first consider if you are doing too much volume on the track.

If you are running on the track so much that you are creating imbalances, you are running on the track too much. Don't do tempos and fartleks on the track, if you do, you are either soft or literally living on a mountain. Just find a good road loop or trail and do it there.

To answer you OP, yes, indoors for sure. I tend to get a right Achilles issue from too many track workouts, so I use the track when no one else is there whenever possible, and do the entire workout in the opposite direction.

I once got a case of some sort of hallucinatory or neurological imbalance running in a fifty miler on a standard track. Had to bail and liecdown for an hour after thirty. I think you are referring more to physical I'm balance, but I can't figure exactly how that would work.??

"Run sometimes the track"

Probably best to learn English - the language of the UK (and its colonies) - before worrying about track symmetry .

I run a ton of tempo and miles on the track.

20-30 miles per week.

I haven’t had any issues in 5 years.

rhrthrthr wrote:

If you are running on the track so much that you are creating imbalances, you are running on the track too much. Don't do tempos and fartleks on the track, if you do, you are either soft or literally living on a mountain. Just find a good road loop or trail and do it there.

Trail is good but rtravk is more forgiving on feet and body than road.

To the commenter on only doing 10% of work on track do it doesn't matter.

Nonsense unless you are just jogging. Faster work is where you are having s much greater impact on your body a d hence imbalances can occur. It can however be impractical to do on a busy track

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Cheap shot.

The only time i run the opposite direction is to warm up and cool down.

I just have grown accustomed to doing that because a lot of others runners were doing it. I always thought it was done just to avoid getting tempted to run a warm up or cool down too fast by getting suckered into keeping up with someone doing a workout.

But i also thought doing the warm-up/cool-down in the opposite direction might have something to do with muscle imbalance though never thought about it too much.

I did...;)
And I know former Dutch record holder 10.000m (32.28, marathon 2h26)), Carla Beurskens, also did.

I used to do warm up and cool down the 'wrong' way around too. The volume was probably similar to the sessions so hopefully it all cancelled out. I don't think it's a bad idea as constantly running one way/turning one way over the years has to have some kind of effect eventually. It would be a lot worse on an indoor track though. The turns on an outdoor track aren't that sharp, especially if you're using lane eight.

Left foot/left ankle/left knee/left hip left turn track injury syndrome is real. I don't know if running clockwise on a track every now and then would prevent left side injuries. Maybe a legitimate reason for track & field 200m to 10000m athletes past college years to avoid indoor T&F season.

Well, it's a secret superstition of mine, so, yes. You need to balance the infinity circle of Chi to stay on the path.....

Li k e that....

I do.