Recovery between workouts for doing doubles

I am assuming you are in college?

Does your schedule allow running at like 6 or 7 am and then at 5 or 6?

It might meaning going to bed before 1 am, but you will be better off.

I think if you get up at 6 go for the easy run, then comeback and take a nap, and do your workout in the afternoon that would be ideal. Make sure you eat within 30 minutes of running to recover better.

Yeah I am in college. I have an 8AM class that forces me to wake up and that has been why I have gotten out this week and was wondering about recovery time. Is the current schedule of running at 10 AM and then again at scheduled practice at 4 too little recovery?

It is possible to wake up at 6, but it is a pain in the ass being on a college schedule. (I'm a biology/biochemistry double major) I need all th study time I can get my hands on because I want to make it to grad school.

What is the suggested about of recovery time between runs like that? I knew the ideal recovery is like 6Am and 6Pm, but I don't know what is the miniumum or the effect that will be had on my afternoon preformence...

Dude, there are only 24 hours in a day whether you get up early or stay up late. You're not losing study time if you get up early, as long as you also study early.

you should be able to get away with 5 hours between without much trouble, ideally you would want as much as possible, but if its more convenient to just have 5 thats fine. But obviously if you start to drag in workouts you need to change.

4 easy miles is not enough to fatigue your legs or energy systems to the point that recovery becomes an issue. Think about it this way, if you ran 4 miles easy at 3:00-3:30pm and then ran a workout at 4:00pm, would you really be any more fatigued? No. You would just be extending your warmup by 4 miles. Obviously, 15 miles just beforehand is too much, but 4 miles should be quite managable. Therefore, since you could really do the mileage right before the workout, then 5-6 hours rest between your runs is plenty and won't fatigue you at all.

5 hours of sleep?

I hope you are being sarcastic. I highly doubt an elite athletes for even a good college gets the much lack of sleep.

If it works for you, good , but I wouldn't tell others to try it.

Kamikaze,

i didn't say anything about sleep, we are talking about the time before the AM and PM runs

( i guess i wasnt that clear, what i meant was, that if you start to drag in workouts, because you need more than 5 hours after your AM run, then you should give more time)

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i agree with mattallenjones when he says 4 miles wont hurt you at all, but you also said you want to build to 9, you should still be alright with that, but certainly closer to 'the line', if you will

Middle school: run at 7:15 AM. again at 4:00 PM

High School: run at 6:30. Again at 2:45.

There is no ideal. If you ran every 12 hours, you would have hard time sleeping 8-9 hours before the next run, as you would have to run, shower, eat, study, wind down, fall asleep and sleep 8 hours in 12 hours.

Didn't you do this in high school?

If I can do it, you can do it. Here's a rough schedule with your studying built in.

6:00 wake up

6:15 run

7:00 shower / eat

8:00 - 3:30 class / study at the library

4:00 run

6:00 dinner

7:00 - 9:00 study

9:00 start getting ready for bed (lay in bed, watch tv)

10:00 -6:00 sleep

This should allow plenty of time for sleep and studying. There will be days when you don't do doubles (or weekends) where you can obviously dedicate more time to your studies.