I am typically your standard sunday morning long run guy. I grab a cup of coffee and maybe a granola bar and then head out. But im pretty useless the rest of sunday. Anyone experiment with afternoon or evening ? How was your sleep? How was the run itself?
Seriously?
Whatever is your top priority for the day, do it first. I find when I'm running seriously I will want to do it right away. Other times when I'm a running slacker, it suddenly will be 4:00 p.m. and I'll go "oh yeah, I still need to run".
Letsrunlong wrote:
But im pretty useless the rest of sunday.
What's wrong with that?
Actually when I am working a lot, I like to do my runs after work. If I do a hard run before work, it makes for a much rougher day. I remodel houses so I do a lot of manual work. Even though I may feel tired before my run in the evening, that goes away in just a few minutes.
If I had the whole day off, I would probably just get the run out of the way like you are doing now.
Well, I am a student and I need to be able to think well all day on sundays!
Letsrunlong wrote:
I am typically your standard sunday morning long run guy. I grab a cup of coffee and maybe a granola bar and then head out. But im pretty useless the rest of sunday. Anyone experiment with afternoon or evening ? How was your sleep? How was the run itself?
Long run is being run too hard if you are useless the rest of the day. Learn how to run the proper easy & long run pace. Get a HR monitor and the book "Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot" if necessary.
Do you eat after the run?
letsrunlong wrote:
Well, I am a student and I need to be able to think well all day on sundays!
Please. Run, have a good lunch, take a nap.