Should l do a long run every week? Is doing a hill workout in place better? I am working towards a 5k and 10k race. I did a long run the last 2 Sundays FYI.
Should l do a long run every week? Is doing a hill workout in place better? I am working towards a 5k and 10k race. I did a long run the last 2 Sundays FYI.
It's basically impossible to answer your question without knowing more about your training and when your races are, but one thing can be said: your question is all wrong. You should do both. Not on the same day of course. Do one mid-week and one on the weekend.
Don't know.
Should I walk to work or should I make my lunch?
Most people doing the 5k-10K do a Longer run every week. Having said that, it don't have to be that long , IMO. 1:20-30, would probably be enough. It's good to do a little over distance at least every couple weeks, this will keep your body strong and make the 10k distance seem shorter. You could probably alt. weeks of hills and LRs and be ok. If you do two on, one off, that would probably work too. Good luck! :)
You need a long run every week, especially for 5k/10k races. Do the hill workout in the middle of the week
Both are solid, foundational type workouts.
If you’re already running solid mileage with a tempo run on one of the other days of the week, then the 200s might make more sense. If you arent doing any other workouts, but are doing strides, then the long run makes more sense.
Missing a long run once every 3-4 weeks is ok. Do what you feel like doing.
If you're serious about this question, if your training is really so unplanned and random that you need help figuring this out, you really should get a coach or at the very least do a lot of reading about how to train. There is a place for both kinds of runs. On their own, either will help make you faster and neither will do as complete a job as doing both (at times) will.
You should do a long run and a workout every week.
You could alternate weeks if that's what you mean?
Long run this week, hills repeats on the same day next week.
That could work, especially if you do a proper long run like 2:00+. Try it out and see report back with how it goes!
Self coached at this level , not so sure that will work
pepelepew wrote:
You should do a long run and a workout every week.
l am not racing as much and l felt like mixing it up this week.
Running Fits wrote:
Self coached at this level , not so sure that will work
I don't know what that means. It seems to have something to do with my post, but I can't figure out what.
Always building wrote:
You could alternate weeks if that's what you mean?
Long run this week, hills repeats on the same day next week.
That could work, especially if you do a proper long run like 2:00+. Try it out and see report back with how it goes!
I do long runs most weeks, but at 50 l need some weeks, especially with not a lot of races, something fast on Sunday. My long run is like 1 and a half hours to 1:45.
Whatever you feel like bro. Both solid workouts that have different places in training. If you aren’t training to the dot for a race in 6 weeks or whatever do whichever you want. I’d do the 200s options bc i think they’re more fun. You do you
Both could have a place in a good training plan. Definitely run long once a week. The rest you'll just have to figure out.