Say you live at sea level but you can be at 6000 or so feet with a 90 min car ride. Would it be a benefit to do one day of altitude traing per week, maybe the sunday long run? What do you guys think? Coaches? Any exercise physiologists?
Say you live at sea level but you can be at 6000 or so feet with a 90 min car ride. Would it be a benefit to do one day of altitude traing per week, maybe the sunday long run? What do you guys think? Coaches? Any exercise physiologists?
Go higher and just spend the night. Run easy. Come back. Running their really will not make much of a difference except making you tired and you will run slow. Take some iron and B-12 once you get back to SL.
100 mins @ altitude at 7:30 pace on soft surfaces for 11 miles + hills vs 80 mins at 6:50 pace for 12 miles on flat and asphalt. No brainer. Plus do not discount the beer training effect: due to high altitude (ie. low pressure) beer volume expands....12 oz beer = at least 12.2 oz once opened at mile high!
Flat lander wrote:
Would it be a benefit to do one day of altitude traing per week, maybe the sunday long run?
No. Don't waste your time.