My coach assigned us a 2 hour run today.

I'm still curious where you saw complaining.

I'm amazed at all the information you've been able to gather from two nonconsecutive days and a vague and incomplete description of my training.

your legs wrote:

I set my 10k pr this summer 7 days after running a 35 miler. Discuss that, candy a$$.

candy a$$ lol, love it

Ed Whitlock rest day

interesting.. wrote:

Branchy wrote:

Running long and slow has massive cardiovascular benefits. You need those kind of runs to progress as a runner.

And what are these, exactly?

And how do these benefits differ from the benefits obtained on any and every other run?

Thanks.

None. You're right, running at different paces for different amounts of time has no effect on how your body adapts to training.

redux wrote:

Here's an article:

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/hs/coachscorner/20051115.html

"Winter is also a good time to build in the anaerobic threshold work--aka, tempo work--something that is difficult to do while in the middle of a competitive season."

Tempo

work can be done as simply as setting out on a run and inserting 20:00 at an elevated pace within that run; or, it can be done over hilly terrain where the effort is sustained over rolling hills for the designated 20:00."

It annoys me when articles try to use fancy terminology but do it all wrong.

Anaerobic?

redux wrote:

Here's an article:

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/hs/coachscorner/20051115.html

"Winter is also a good time to build in the anaerobic threshold work--aka, tempo work--something that is difficult to do while in the middle of a competitive season."

Tempo

work can be done as simply as setting out on a run and inserting 20:00 at an elevated pace within that run; or, it can be done over hilly terrain where the effort is sustained over rolling hills for the designated 20:00."

It annoys me when articles try to use fancy terminology but do it all wrong.

Anaerobic?

So every post in this thread was authored by the same paranoid schizophrenic runner? NOOO!

A weekly 2 hour long run is one of the best ways to bring down your times in the 5000. All of the fastest 5000 runners in the world do a long run.

the only reason you put this up is so that you can try to get a rise out of people. As said before, stop complaining, start running. If your really that worried just take some extra recovery measures like a hot bath followed by a session of rolling out your muscles and stretching. no heart...

Most teams train through indoor with a small mini peak at your big meet (conference or nationals). I would say its really just a training season. Our team never really worried much about it we just used it to keep things fresh and get ready for outdoor which was all we cared about. I don't know what your event outdoor is but if its the 10k you should be doing 2 hour runs now. Who cares what you place at some indoor meet that means nothing. The only thing that you could possibly be worried about is hitting a qualifying mark for nationals and I would hope that you and your coach would plan that out.

The OP just seems like a real dick. Nothing else to add.

Keep your heart rate low, 130-140 bpm and your will find yourself feeling in the pink of health, mentally fresh, and raring to race. Do it on soft surfaces, or your legs will be toast. Practice running tall and perfect light steps.

My two complaints if I were you would be a) running a long run this close to a race and b) running a race at all. It's the beginning of December. I don't understand why any distance runner would be racing right now, unless they didn't run cross and are just running one race to break up training and get in a fitness test. It's not really the wisest move to do a 2:00:00 long run this close to a race, even if you're just training through it, but it's not really a big deal either.

People on here are way to quick to always say "just do whatever your coach says and never generate an independent thought of your own." You might be thankful that you're even doing long long runs though. My coach thinks 80 minutes is plenty long enough, even for 10k guys!

Seems overly argumentative to continue the thread ---

The two days previous to my 5K pr i did:

Thursday: 1000m AT, 8x400m at 3000 pace, 1000m AT, (400m rest)

Friday: 11 miles easy am, 6 miles easy pm

Saturday: race at 8 am

Was goingg to use it as a workout trying to win money, but had to beat a guy for first place and ended up with an unexpected PR

The OP said he was a troll on the second page. And yet it still goes on

I'm still waiting to be shown where I complained. I did my run.

Lol...back to troll school for you!

So you've really never heard of using coaches having runners take these early indoor meets to get early qualifying times for indoor off their cross training? That way they take a break and not worry about how fast they come back because they already hit the times they needed.