A month from now I have a 10k planned which I am hoping to run in <34:30. The 10k is on Sunday afternoon and the 1500m is on the Friday night two days before. How much would running the 1500m affect my 10k performance? Would it be better to skip the 1500m? I have never run a 10k before.
Age 30 yo. Weekly mileage is about 40 miles. Current pb:
800 1:59, 1500 4:11, 3000 9:12, 5000 16:22
in my experience running short and hard the day before the race (typically in my case a 5k race) improves my 10k race time the next day. think it's something to do with activating the muscle fibres.
but yours is 2 sleeps before. that should be a day off. so not sure.
Thanks for the reply. I would probably go for an easy run on Saturday instead of having a complete day off.
Anyone else have experience with this?
Make sure to be well rested for the 1500 and it should be fine. But it's probably not going to help contrary to a distance runner who might get a boost from a 1500 as you are already a middle distance runner.
If you don't care about that 1500, it's probably better not to race it. If you have to race it, it's ok.
I preferred 3x300 before a semi-goal race. 3k, 1500, 800 effort. Good tuneup to get the legs moving