It seems to me if you're only running 30 to 40 miles per week, you wouldn't need slow recovery runs. But I could be totally wrong. What does the LRC think?
It seems to me if you're only running 30 to 40 miles per week, you wouldn't need slow recovery runs. But I could be totally wrong. What does the LRC think?
If you listen to your body you'll know when you need a slow day
Someone on 30-40 MPW could absolutely run a gutting workout day and need a recovery day to still hit their weekly mileage. It just depends on how much they do per day and how much of that is at peak intensity.
Are you considering just straight rest days instead of recovery runs, or is this just pure balls to the walls every day of the week? I don't think I could maintain 7 days of 3-4 miles hard workouts for more than a few weeks without a nagging injury.
You don't recover when you are running, you recover when you are not running.
5 days of moderate. 1 hard workout. 1 day off.
The reason I say 5 days moderate is because when I started I was in horrible aerobic shape. I'm talking to run "easy" I was going at 11 minutes per mile. I decided to scrap that. Lower my overall mileage and increase the "quality" of the easy runs into 9 minute miles. I needed more day to day aerobic progression. As opposed to running junk easy days in the 11 minute mile range and then trying to blast my workouts to extract quality from the training week.
Oops, I do this backwards. I run mostly easy and go hard maybe twice a week.
I don't understand what a recovery run is. I run workouts twice a week and the rest easy/how I feel.
I think if I were running 60 mpw, I'd go more to an 80/20 approach. But I'm lower mileage and feel like I have to skew more towards quality. If I had the time to run more, I'd slow down some. But I'm just not seeing any progression running that easy.
Is an 11 minute mile actually running?
I will tell you but you will need to pay me in sh*tcoins and not fiat