1 Hour Runs

yes. 4:30 1500 to 16:20 5k

3 months of 1 hour a day. I went from 31+ for 8K to 27+

Y'gotta start somewhere. Not everyone is Henry Rono and can do 2+ hours a day, cold, after a layoff.

8 miles has been my minimum daily run for over 4 months now, 4 days of that plus a 5th day long run at 12 to 18.

Now up to 60 MPW.

Running has never been easier.

Yes

MarathonMind wrote:

8 miles has been my minimum daily run for over 4 months now, 4 days of that plus a 5th day long run at 12 to 18.

Now up to 60 MPW.

Running has never been easier.

Any race or pace improvements of note beyond just running being easier?

No. I am building up for a fall marathon, and I am a little too old (44) to waste my fitness on just any race. I am thinking of running a 10k later this month though.

YES! Keep it up.

I know a very good lady ultra runner who is top notch in 50 and 100 mile races who trains for 1 hour, twice a day and then a long run on the weekends. I'm experimenting with two 90 min. runs/day or about 18 miles/day. So far, I found I can do about 4 of these 90 min doubles per week, then I have to cut back but eventually i want to run these 7 days/week, at least during base building, then a long one on Sundays.

Yes. That puts you at around 60 mpw if you average 7 minute miles. Despite what many posters say, this is plenty for most runners.

johnnydajogger wrote:

I know a very good lady ultra runner who is top notch in 50 and 100 mile races who trains for 1 hour, twice a day and then a long run on the weekends. I'm experimenting with two 90 min. runs/day or about 18 miles/day. So far, I found I can do about 4 of these 90 min doubles per week, then I have to cut back but eventually i want to run these 7 days/week, at least during base building, then a long one on Sundays.

2 90 minute runs for 18 miles? 10 minute pace? typo?

Roger Bannister

Mark Smet - OG 10k for Belgium

Plenty of others.

Its no typo. I recently ran a 3:39 marathon which is about an 8:20 pace so a 10 min mile in training is about 1:40 slower than marathon race pace which is about what a lot of world class runners train at, i.e. 1-2 slower than race pace. i know that if i run any faster, I wont be able to roll up the big mileage which is the whole point of the base building stage.

2 decades ago that was exactly what I was doing. Alas, night school, my job and other things interfered. I plan to return to precisely that (1 hour a day) now, post-surgery (leg). I am at 2-miles daily so far, with minor pain, but since I am "'way past 21" (in the words of the Muddy Waters' song) I am being CAREFUL.

An hour a day is solid. Back when I did it I had no interest in racing.

I don't see anything wrong with 90 min. runs at 10 min. pace. If you aggregate that over 6-8 weeks that pace is going to drop as fitness increases. 6 to 630 min. pace isn't beneficial if a runner isn't fit to handle it. This should be nothing but a matter of common sense.

i want to do the same thing. im not that concerned about speed because the college i go to does not have a xc team...so i am planning on building a big big base.

So, i am acually thinking about doing hour long runs everyday for about a 2monhs with a 90 min run on the weekends.

Will i get hurt though? i just did an hour today at 7pm and im actually starting to like the long runs vs the speed workouts for the first time in my life.

any advice for me...last week i did 50miles and this week i came a litle short with 48.

should i break it up like the following:

Monday:hour

tueday: am=30min pm=30min

Wed: hour

thursday: am=30min pm=30min

Friday=hour

Sat=90min

Sunday= 30min only or OFF

sounds kinda stupid...should i just forget about the 2 a days and just do an hour run total per day?

ty

I started doing that when I was 14. I would sometimes run a little longer but one hour was just right most of the time. I would run 55-65 miles a week in the offseason.

Just run baby

how much stronger is a 16:20 5k than a 4:30 1500? i guess a bit, but not by much...