What do you do on your non-running day?

Keep thinking "I should have gone for a run.'

Have SEX, then sleep in.

eat like a madman

Rest Day Angst wrote:

Bike? Rest? Crossfit? Bench Press?

Discus

Either nothing, or a hard aqua jogging workout and lifting. Nothing only if I have some sort of pain preventing me from aqua jogging and lifting.

345elmore wrote:

Keep thinking "I should have gone for a run.'

This. Also I like to go for long trail hikes. Gotta get outside.

I mop the kitchen floor

On running days, I choke the chicken once, but on non-running days, I flog that nasty midget 3-4 times, at least. Think of it as cross-training.

You mean EVERY day?

I have not been on a run since May 2014. Someday again, hopefully, I will.

Walk around aggravated all day that I was lazy.

I masturbate to SEC football players

interval masturbation work, switch hands though to avoid muscle imbalances.

Pro LetsRun wrote:

The Way We Were wrote:

If you want to run faster, you need to run every single day. That's the only way to improve.

If you don't need a day off, your long run was too easy.

If you think your long run is the hardest workout, you are running the other six days too easy. Your long run should be a relief, because you will have the afternoon off. And you run twice a day on the other six days.

And to the person who said some pros run only six days a week, they would be faster if they ran every day. Haile in his prime took one day off a YEAR. Had he run on Christmas, he would have been even faster.

Pro LetsRun wrote:

The Way We Were wrote:

If you want to run faster, you need to run every single day. That's the only way to improve.

If you don't need a day off, your long run was too easy.

If your long run was that hard you're not in shape.

Not Cool Bro wrote:

float like a butterfly wrote:

wtf? I know many pros who take off sundays. they just go extremely high volume on those 6 days often doing triples to make up for a day of

Definitely not true. Almost all professional long distance runners (let's say 5000 and up, but probably most milers too) run every single day with a few exceptions ... they're hurt, traveling, sick, run-down, downtime between seasons, or just the rare scheduled off day.

Ryan Hall got a lot of criticism when he started taking a day off every week. And I think we all know how that worked out for him ...

That's nonsense. Days off are a sign of mental strength that show a runner is not an OCD running obsessive. They work the same way for the top runners as much as anyone.

Plenty of elites take days off. It aids regeneration. Your muscles can't recoup if you don't rest them. Everyone should take days off, especially if you're hitting your weekly mileage in 6 days.

Able Archer wrote:

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I actually believe this. I think if you're going to take a day off, then you should really take it. If you're just going to be antsy and remain in the hard training mindset, you're not getting recovered mentally. I'm not saying you should get wasted, but allowing yourself to chill out, live a bit, and not think about training and running every once in a while is a good way to ward off burnout. IMHO.

go for a shake-out.

On my non-running day I get an extra hour of sleep, and start my homework sooner than I regularly would because I'm not tired from a run.

agc5k wrote:

On my non-running day I get an extra hour of sleep, and start my homework sooner than I regularly would because I'm not tired from a run.

I catch up on sleep. I am out the door by 4am on those 6 mornings a week. On my off day I can sleep in to 6:15.