I’m running the 1600m at around 5pm tmr. Raising my mileage so my coach gave me the option to either do weights in the morning before school (as I usually do on Wednesdays) and then run 5 miles after my race OR skip the weights and run before school easy and race later that day. What would you do? Ultimately I know it comes down to how I feel and obviously if I did weights it would be hella light and more just about the movements of things. But what is smarter?
Depends how important the meet is.
If it's an unimportant early season dual meet, I would just do the normal lift.
If it's an important meet against your main rival, just the run.
I only changed up my lifting (and running) routine during championship season when I really wanted to peak.
You can also experiment during April/ early May with different ways to prep for race days. That was how I found out that just sticking to the routine actually led to my feeling best in races.
The easy run is the better option. The weights will tighten the muscles.
1600meter wrote:
I’m running the 1600m at around 5pm tmr. Raising my mileage so my coach gave me the option to either do weights in the morning before school (as I usually do on Wednesdays) and then run 5 miles after my race OR skip the weights and run before school easy and race later that day. What would you do? Ultimately I know it comes down to how I feel and obviously if I did weights it would be hella light and more just about the movements of things. But what is smarter?
Light easy shake out
don't do either. you can make up the mileage on other days, and lifting on a race day doesn't make a ton of sense, especially before a race. just focus on running your best and train hard on the other days. make race days about racing.
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