Why do people run long on saturday?

Back in my marathon days I would do an 18 mile run on Wed and 22 on Sun. Quality work was Tues and Friday

Alan

Perch wrote:

ultra_blogger wrote:

I run long on both Saturday and Sunday. You guys are pansies...

What?! Just 2 long runs a week?? Wuss!

I do a long run EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK but then they become average runs.

Thank you!!!I've trained with multiple Olympians and world champ guys and not a one follows a 7 day cycle. I know most of us mere mortals have 5 day work weeks but it does not make proper training easy.

biorhythm runner wrote:

No serious runner follows a 7-day schedule.

Coebra wrote:

I've been browsing through the training theories of different coaches and I've noticed that some of them have the long run on saturday. Why?

I thought it was generally accepted by the entire running community that Sunday was the long run day.

Is it because races are often on Saturday? I can see the argument where you train yourself to have a quality day on sat...

Most runners are religious and religion says that Sunday is a day of rest.

So thats why they run long on Saturday

Some religions discourage much physical activity on Sundays. Maybe that's part of it? Can't tell if you mean taking it easier on Sunday or not running at all.

I prefer the Saturday long run because I'm typically starving the following day. I'd rather be home to satisfy that hunger than at work.

Coaching high school athletes, Saturday provides for a day when everyone can train together (typically fewer religious obligation conflicts) and there are no constraints as a result of school (either early in the morning or later in the day). So, especially earlier in the macrocycle (season) I try to plan the long run within the microcycle to fall on a Saturday. This gets tougher when you move out of a general prep phase and especially as you reach the competition season (with Saturday meets).

In college we did our long runs on Sunday because their were less conflicts.

So when I continued to train after high school and when I was no longer on a team in college, I fell into old patterns.

There isn't a magic day of the week to do a long run. But I assume patterns develop through convenience.

We do intervals monday, wednesday, thursday and saturday. Nice to do the hardest workout on saturday and an relaxing long run on sunday.

Long running, down the railway track. Could you help me? Police on my back.They will catch me, if I dare drop back. Won't you help me, find the speed I lack

Long running Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Long runnin' Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

What have I done? What have I done?

malmo wrote:

Long running, down the railway track. Could you help me? Police on my back.They will catch me, if I dare drop back. Won't you help me, find the speed I lack

Long running Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Long runnin' Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

What have I done? What have I done?

Well that clears it up. Lol

Most people prefer to do the long run saturday because they can get it out of the way first thing on the weekend and then have it not matter if they should eat unhealthy or drink or whatever. A lot of people would do a long run during the week if they had time, but assuming they have to leave for work before 9, there isn't enough time in the morning and if they get off around 5-6, again not enough time after getting home, changing, and destressing.

In grad school, I often did long runs on monday or tuesday as fewer people were out on the trails. During the summer in college, I did long runs mid week, whenever I was off work (which wasn't saturday). Unfortunately, barring a holiday, there is no way I'd have time to do a long run before sat.

When I was in high school my coach had us long run on Saturday because he insisted that we take a day off every week on Sunday. The one complication with this strategy was that once the season started, we hardly did long runs because we would spend all day at a meet... I started doing midweek long runs eventually in order to get around this.

Now that I'm in college I long run on Sundays, and it just feels right.

Everyday is a long run for me...

Four interval sessions / week? Can you please elaborate? It's bot a troll post, just seems like a lot of speed work, and I am sure some of them are endurance related.

Mid-DDD wrote:

We do intervals monday, wednesday, thursday and saturday. Nice to do the hardest workout on saturday and an relaxing long run on sunday.

I used to be able to do something like 10 Saturday AM/5 Saturday PM and still be fresh for a good long run Sunday. Sometimes a workout or race Saturday and long Sunday.

Now I'm in my 50s, and that doesn't work. I need the day before a long run to be an easy day. Friday is a good candidate for that. Then I go long Saturday morning, take another easy day Sunday, and am usually ready to do a workout Monday.

Also, some of the people I run with like to go Saturday and then have the rest of the weekend for family stuff.

Maybe they're Jewish? I think Muslims even do long runs on Fridays.

According to his book Meb does.

biorhythm runner wrote:

No serious runner follows a 7-day schedule.

It's not. 4x7=28 moon cycle

Bollocks. The synodic Moon cycle (average time between full Moons) is 29,53 days. Other cycles, less obvious to the casual observer, are closer to 27 days than 28.

For a college runner with meets normally on Saturday, Monday is the best day for a long run.

M: long run

T:

W: workout

Th:

F:

S: workout or race

Su:

This makes it simple to always get in two quality hard days plus a long run every week without having to rearrange the schedule for weeks with meets.