The answers I hear mostly are;
"I don't want to get injured".
MY RESPONSE: Injuries are part of running at a high level.
" _____________ (famous gifted runner) never ran doubles and look what he/she did"
MY RESPONSE: __________ was one in a million. You are not.
" I don't run doubles and I'm improving, why should I?
MY RESPONSE: Your window of opportunity is short. You are undermining yourself and not maximizing your potential.
I'm sure there are other better excuses out there. Let's hear them.
You sound like a really fun person to be around.
Triples?
I was too busy trolling on Letsrun to get in my afternoon run.
My excuse: I don't want to get too skinny. If anything, I want to gain weight/mass.
I look emaciated when I do double days. I'd rather be slower than look like I'm about to break.
marrow2000 wrote:
My excuse: I don't want to get too skinny. If anything, I want to gain weight/mass.
I look emaciated when I do double days. I'd rather be slower than look like I'm about to break.
Why do you run?
My excuse: I don't like doubles, I really enjoy doing my miles in singles.
laughingostrich wrote:
marrow2000 wrote:My excuse: I don't want to get too skinny. If anything, I want to gain weight/mass.
I look emaciated when I do double days. I'd rather be slower than look like I'm about to break.
Why do you run?
I enjoy it and I love a good track workout.
Just curious. I'm middle aged, work FT, and have kids. I enjoy running and competing in my AG. I rarely run doubles due to time constraints. But I like to run 85mpw and 2 marathons a year are my running focus. Am I missing out training benefits but doing mostly singles instead of splitting it up into doubles? Does the frequency of running (say every 12 hours instead of every 24 hours) help with training, not just the volume?
Thanks.
Well, not everyone who runs is trying to maximize his potential.
I suppose that for a person that claims he is, I sort of see your pont.
I dont want to, and I dont have time. Why the F do you care?
Because I'm taking 15 hours of hard science courses and have no fewer than 4 hours of homework a night usually, and work about 20 hours a week, and doubles would exhaust me too much. Running is not as important to me as my school life is at the moment.
I don't think anyone would chastise you in your position. This topic, I think, is addressing those runners who have time to run doubles and want to get better but don't for whatever reason. And if they have time to BS on facebook for at least an hour every night, they have time for a 30 minute double some time during the day.
You are missing out on training benefits because with a few doubles you could be running 100-105 mpw.
You don't do doubles to do the same running in shorter bits, you do doubles to add volume.
Chris Wasnetsky wrote:
I don't think anyone would chastise you in your position. This topic, I think, is addressing those runners who have time to run doubles and want to get better but don't for whatever reason. And if they have time to BS on facebook for at least an hour every night, they have time for a 30 minute double some time during the day.
I have to agree with you here. I'm always trying to get better but rarely do I double. I am training for a marathon in the next few weeks and have been getting up an hour earlier to get 4 miles in at least 4 or 5 times a week. I am promising myself that I will continue this over the summer to get ready for a fall marathon.
What's funny is, I actually feel better all day long when I get up early and double. It's just when I'm laying all warm and cozy in bed and the alarm goes off it is so damn easy to keep hitting the snooze button.
But me, I just really hate getting up in the morning. That is my ONLY excuse. (but I promise not to use it in the future)
Not to be an ass, but that's only 40 hours a week of work and school. Even an average high schooler has 45 hours per week of class-time and homework combined. I can't imagine any college student in the sciences spending less than 60 hours a week in class/lab/homework/research at any institution.
bagels are good wrote:
Because I'm taking 15 hours of hard science courses and have no fewer than 4 hours of homework a night usually, and work about 20 hours a week, and doubles would exhaust me too much. Running is not as important to me as my school life is at the moment.
Check yo math.
How's bout this excuse:
I don't even run singles. So, there!
My current excuse would be that I don't do doubles because I need more sleep. I have insomnia, so I already have trouble falling asleep at night. I'd get even less sleep if I had to wake up earlier for a morning run. Sleep deprivation would negate the benefits of running doubles because I wouldn't recover enough.
They let people like you into med school? Christ...