. . . take so long to warm up?
. . . take so long to warm up?
the fitter you are the longer it takes to get your body warmed up. true story.
That makes sense to me. You're gonna be using less energy than a less fit person, per minute of warming up. Speaking for runners, that is.
And then, it all depends on the type of warmup being used too. A fat person doing a light job would probably take more time to warm up than a runner doing fast strides.
I have no idea. But I got my 1500 PR (by 4 seconds)in a race that I got lost on trails during my warmup. I did 5.2 miles instead of 3 for the warm up and got back to the track about 5 minutes before the gun went off.
I haven't found this to be the case.
lllll wrote:
I haven't found this to be the case.
A fitter runner would have more routes for blood to warm up the muscles, due to capillaries, so maybe they could warm up faster? Maybe Mr Cavata can answer this question, or Tinman.
in reverse, (at least for mid d guys) the shorter the distance you run, the longer you need to warm up in order to prepare your body for the shock its about to go trhough from the higher speeds you'll be moving at earlier on
I've found that no matter how much mileage I'm doing (I usually do somewhere between about 50 and 110), I like to run an easy two miles and do a few striders.
A Skeptic wrote:
I've found that no matter how much mileage I'm doing (I usually do somewhere between about 50 and 110), I like to run an easy two miles and do a few striders.
You're not a high mileage runner.
bguj2009 wrote:
lllll wrote:I haven't found this to be the case.
A fitter runner would have more routes for blood to warm up the muscles, due to capillaries, so maybe they could warm up faster? Maybe Mr Cavata can answer this question, or Tinman.
Who the hell is Mr. Cavata, and why do I care what he thinks?
drivel wrote:
bguj2009 wrote:A fitter runner would have more routes for blood to warm up the muscles, due to capillaries, so maybe they could warm up faster? Maybe Mr Cavata can answer this question, or Tinman.
Who the hell is Mr. Cavata, and why do I care what he thinks?
Maybe he mean Mr. Canova?
not the point wrote:
A Skeptic wrote:I've found that no matter how much mileage I'm doing (I usually do somewhere between about 50 and 110), I like to run an easy two miles and do a few striders.
You're not a high mileage runner.
So 110 is low mileage? Okay . . .
Possibly they are warming up longer get some miles in for their weekly total?
A Skeptic wrote:
not the point wrote:You're not a high mileage runner.
So 110 is low mileage? Okay . . .
Yes. Unless youre in high school.
I'm talking more the first mile or so, most of the guys whom I train with take off and I struggle to keep up, but then after we hit a mile and a half or so I feel fine running way faster.
A buddy of mine was a sub-4 miler and also a sub 2:20 marathoner. He did not warm up at all for races other than a few strides. Claimed he reserved all of his energy for racing not jogging. True story.
First, Not The Point is a moron if he/she thinks 110mpw is not high mileage.
I as fast as the guy mplatt is referring to(4:15miler, 2:35marathon), but I don't warm up either. Of course I do strides and some drills for the 1500, but for races over a couple miles I don't do anything. My natural speed and lack of dicipline makes me go out too fast in races if I'm already warm so I intentionally start cold so I keep the pace conservative early.
My 1500m PB (PB by 7 seconds) came in a race where I did a minimal w/u of 5 min jogging and no striders. I suffered through the first 1000m before ratcheting it up on the last lap. True story.
Once you are sweating, you are warmed up. Anything after that is a crutch or padding the weekly miles.
A Skeptic wrote:
not the point wrote:You're not a high mileage runner.
So 110 is low mileage? Okay . . .
Yeah man dont you know, this is Letsrun where the point of training is to have the prettiest training log, the races are just bumps in the road. On LR it's better to have 8 weeks of 140+ miles and 34 min 10k than sub30 on 50 mpw.