Age 60 and older runners.
How do you train these days?
Do you train by minutes or distance, IF you bother using a watch at all?
Do you do more or fewer long runs or more speed work?
Do you train on ALTERNATE days after 60?
(Reference is made to Olympian Karel Lismont's declaration that he trains on alternate days for thirty minutes, stating that anything more than that is "folly".)
Three days a week always with at least one off day after each run day. Mostly easy runs/jogs of 5-7 miles with an occasional fartlek.
4 days a week. Sat(long), Sun(6-8 miles easy), Tues(speed, 8-10 miles total)), Thurs(7-9 miles easy)
Long run is usually 12-14, Tues is 3-4 mile tempo, mile repeats (2-4) or hill repeats. Easy runs 9-11 min pace. Total weekly mileage is usually 32-44.
It all changes if I'm doing a race.
After a hard half marathon I won't do any speed work for 2-4 weeks.
I train by mileage, not minutes.
30 years ago I ran every day, now it's nearly impossible to run 3 days in a row.
Very light (I hate to say this) shuffling.
Legs and Knees are excellent. Ankles are a differnet matter.
You go over on them enough through the years and get
Arthritis. I'm very concerned about my right A which feels like the bands are quite loose and I worry about a major problem. Can't get hurt again.
I train by time but record the distance also. I never try to hit a distance mark though. If I want to run 90 minutes, I run 90 minutes and stop.I do not train on alternate days and do not see the point. If you need to train on alternate days then you are running too hard. I run one long run every two weeks but that has been the same since I was in my thirties.I do no speedwork except fartlek depending on how I feel. I do not "plan" the fartlek...if I feel good, I let 'er rip between telephone poles, etc. I tend to do it at the end of runs when I'm well warmed up.Karel was trolling and everyone has bought the bait. Either he is lying and runs more, or cannot run more (due to his own body issues) and doesn't want anyone else to enjoy running.You have to figure out your OWN WAY and work with it. There are no rules in running.
Gonzo wrote:
Age 60 and older runners.
How do you train these days?
Do you train by minutes or distance, IF you bother using a watch at all?
Do you do more or fewer long runs or more speed work?
Do you train on ALTERNATE days after 60?
(Reference is made to Olympian Karel Lismont's declaration that he trains on alternate days for thirty minutes, stating that anything more than that is "folly".)
3 days a week
Two one hour runs and one 70-80 minute run. Threshold reps once a week at 85-90% of max.
40-45 MPW."long" run never more than 10...a 3 and 6 mile Tempo...one day with hill repeats, and one day that features 200's at 5k pace. rest is very easy running and/or time on the elliptical.Speed work days are pretty much out of the question for me (had a bunch of serious injuries over the past year and a half that took months to resolve).
Recovering from injury again, caused by alternative exercises.
I wonder if Ed Whitlock is correct in his approach of just running long & easy and racing for his speedwork? Granted the Mr. Whitlock is on a different level from most.
Ed is what he is: a legend.
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Ed is what he is: a legend.
All of us are different, Ed Whitlock is someone unique.
I run these days 6 - 7 days a week but really low mileage by most standards since I'm not that interested in racing possibly indefinitely.
Just out for a run because I still can run. Mostly 15 - 25 plus min. at a time but break it up into tempo/pace sessions & monitor (for curiousity) HR. Pace 8 mpm - 10 mpm.
(boy what IS wrong with this curser???) end most runs with tempo & MHR 151/152
66 yr. old, been running with a few short hiatuses since HS 1965.