I consider a long run a run of 10 miles +
How about you?
I consider a long run a run of 10 miles +
How about you?
Race-wise, I currently consider 5k-25k relatively "short", 30k through 50 miles to be "long", and anything over that "unfathomable".
Outside of races, I don't do any really long runs, the furthest I've gone on my own is 20 miles. I guess anything over 2 hours seems "long" as a training run for me.
Obviously depends on your experience and race distance goals/likes. I mean unless you are training for ultras not much point in running more than about 30 mile training runs, BUT if training for a 48hr race then maybe 10hr training runs would be considered long/appropriate.
For me, used to be 7hrs, now 2hrs
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My own classification system is any workout (including warmup and cooldown) that is either 2 hours or more, or 30km or more, is a long run. For me, 20-29km is moderate distance.
I like the 2-hour barrier...
So, if I do an 18-miler and complete it in 1:52, that's not a long run to you? Yikes, you must do a ton of mileage.
It used to be 10+ for me, b/c it seemed simple considering it's double-digits. Now I think of anything over 13 as a "long run". As soneone else said, it's all relative to what you're doing, or have done.
Over 15 is long
I think it's all relative to your own milage. I consider anything over 10 miles to be a long run. I run 50 miles/week.
The long run is the longest run you do during a set time period, usually 7 days. Or, it is by far the longest run you consistently do. For a high schooler anything over 10 is probably a long run, was for me.
Alan
A long run to me is based more on time than distance.
1 1/2 hours on up is a long run.
18% to 25% of your weekly mileage
It's relative. If you're running 20 mpw a 7+ would be long and for a 100 mpw runner 18+ would be considered long. Or something like that.
How long is a piece of string?
No, that's probably not relevent is it? as unlikely the string is over 20 miles.
For me over 3hrs or over about 33k at easy pace
would argue that your long run would be more like 30 - 50% of of your weekly total rather than 18-25, although again depends on the individual
I'll put it too the forum...
A long run has to be at least 35 miles. Short runs consist of runs between 15 and 25 miles, while midrange runs are 25-35 miles in length.
20% of your total weekly mileage is what wetmore says (not the agent)
Snow Pea wrote:
Over 15 is long
I agree, 15 is my long-run threshold.
anything beyond 90 minutes duration
I can think of three ways of looking at it:
1. Anything noticeably longer than normal. For a three mile a day runner, a six or seven mile run is long.
2. Ninety minutes or longer. Peter Snell told me that there are all sorts of beneficial physiological things that happen on runs of that length or more that don't happen on shorter runs. But to me, anyhting in the 90-100 minute range feels more intermediate than long.
3. Two hours or more. That feels long to me and with a two hour run you are depleting glycogen.
at the moment 80mins.was anything over 60 before.depends what ur age is and what u are training for.
Holy crapola!? 7 hrs for a long run!? don't you have anything more useful to do with your life??? perhaps a family or hobby or job or....anything?
I doubt anyone can accoplish anything fitness wise in a 7 hr run that they cant also do in a 1 hr run. Anyone out there running for 7 hrs has too much free time on their hands and should get a life.