Do you have a long run day?
Is it Monday since you often race on Sunday?
In the college schedule and for open invitationals most races are on Saturdays.
So on non race weeks Staurdays are often used for quality interval work.
Sundays are for a long recovery run from a race or a good workout on Saturday.
Monday - Thursday are alternating hard, easy or even medium days.
Friday is usually the easiest day of the week.
And that pattern usually continues after college.
A more interesting question is why people do long runs at all, or I should say, a regular, "every single week", long run that is considerably longer than a normal day as a "must do" part of their training schedule. Two things I wish I had accepted when I was younger and had more time (and was willing to devote it):
1)Overall weekly volume (achieved in doubles) is more important than a regular long run.
2)For some reason, 2 runs in a day, even if it nets you relatively little extra mileage, is better than one. 4 and 8 in a double is better than a single 10 and I am still not sure I can say exactly why.
I ran my best on 90 a week with frequent doubles but rarely a single run over 90-100 minutes.
At this point, I priviledge doing a workout on Sunday to a long run - better use of daylight (as a master, I try to do something hard every 4-5 days) and I only go long on a Sunday if it falls between workouts - otherwise I do no long run. My long runs have actually gotten faster at the same effort with less frequency.
fasdkld wrote:
You people are disgusting. Sunday is for reflection and do-gooding, not for running/repeats.
I am sure this has to be kidding, but I know people who think this. Why? Sunday isn't "the sabbath". Show me any NT support for the pseudo-sabbatarian obligations having been transferred to Sunday. And as far as I can tell, Jesus sort of belittled the notion of slavish worrying over violating the sabbath.