Every run has a purpose. This purpose is to add to weekly mileage. Otherwise, doing pretty low mileage for the week.
Here's today so far:
5 miles at lunch.
3 miles right after work.
Why?
I have a super busy job and busy family life. I rarely can do an longer single run during the week. Never more than 45 minutes and get by with double short runs usually. Not ideal, but seems to be working.
Anyone do a triple? I'm thinking 5 more miles at the track tonight?
Two weeks ago I did my first triple ever. My car was in the shop and I'm at work when they're open, so I told them to leave the car on the street, locked, and I'd pick it up after hours with my extra key. Ran there at 5am to pick it up and it was not outside. Ran home, had breakfast, got some things done, then went for run #2 at 9am back to the mechanic's. Shared my disappointment about their mistake, picked up my car, drove home, showered, went to work, then stopped at the trail on the way home from work at 5pm for run #3.
The runs were 6, 3, and 11 miles, and I'm not sure if it even counts as a triple since the second run was so short. My mileage that week ended up being about 80 in 10 runs in 6 days. Two weeks before that was my highest mileage week ever, about 120 in 12 runs.
I'd love to be able to run 2-3 times a day for 120-150 miles a week. Unfortunately no one will pay my slow ass to do that, so I have to have a real job, which prohibits me from keeping that up.
When I'm really busy, I find I only have time for singles--since I have to do things before and after each run, the most efficient way to get the mileage in is to do it in as few runs as possible. Do you not shower after runs? Also it's weird that your triple does not include a morning run. But whatever works for you.
No morning run. I start work at 6am...no way I'm running b4 that.
"Do you not shower after runs?"
Sometimes. Depends on the weather and sweat potential.
I found this thread and not sure if it was a troll or not. But 3 miles definitely counts.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4256888&page=0
My experiment with the triple is it isn't worth the risk and was exhausting. I'm sticking with doubles.
busy runner with full time job wrote:
Every run has a purpose. This purpose is to add to weekly mileage. Otherwise, doing pretty low mileage for the week.
Here's today so far:
5 miles at lunch.
3 miles right after work.
Why?
I have a super busy job and busy family life. I rarely can do an longer single run during the week. Never more than 45 minutes and get by with double short runs usually. Not ideal, but seems to be working.
Anyone do a triple? I'm thinking 5 more miles at the track tonight?
The last run should be faster, you will have had a good warm up by then.
I've found that historically every time I've tried to take less than six hours between two runs, I've gotten hurt, so I'd probably never triple for that reason. But growing up as a swimmer, triples were an actual thing during training trips.
I honestly feel like if you have time to run three times in a day plus all of the overhead involved in each run, you can make time to make your two runs a little longer which would make more sense.