Some say racing is the hardest thing to do. Others say certain workouts are much more stressful.
What do you think?
Some say racing is the hardest thing to do. Others say certain workouts are much more stressful.
What do you think?
need 2 know wrote:
Some say racing is the hardest thing to do. Others say certain workouts are much more stressful.
What do you think?
The ones who say that certain workouts are much more stressful than races either aren't training properly or aren't racing properly.
If training isn't harder then you're not training hard enough
resting between races and workouts is by far the hardest.
Well we train most days, but race sparingly. Doesn't that suggest that racing is more taxing than training? I think so. Otherwise we'd be racing everyday.
Have to agree with all the posters. However, my experience with marathon training and racing is that the prolonged high-volume trainging is what taxes my body, causes injuries, and causes illness. Of course, I never do a workout as hard as the marathon race, but a marathon has never injured me or got me sick.
yes JonH, but I think that is what the OP is asking. What do you find more difficult the long term day after day effort of training/workouts, or the one time all out painful but comparitively short experience of racing...
I've always been a better trainer than a racer, but thats just me
Unless your supremely talented and you can cream anyone anytime, racing will always be harder than training so long as your racing involves you going as close to all out as possible all the time... let's face it racing is just like a exam your trying to cram all of your hard work into a volume of time which is likely far less than your longer intervals.
That being said your training should facilitate better racing and a hunger to race not a fear of it.
train hard, win easy