Why do people run long on saturday?

Monday workoutsVast majority of the people I've trained with over the years operate under this schedule or something very similar:Monday - workout (e.g. intervals)Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday - mileageThursday - WorkoutSaturday - Long runSunday - off/easy/recovery in anticipation of Monday's workout/the beginning of next week's training in generalThe Sunday long run is more of a meme at this point than anything else, in my opinion.

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...

There's no particular need to base training around 7 day routine - especially if you're a full time runner.

Apparently Paula had an 8 day routine...

malmo wrote:

Wait, what? wrote:

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.

Why do you say this?

Sure.

Monday: 3.7 miles of 5k pace intervals + weights

Tuesday: Easy. 50min run or am 20min pm 40min

Wednesday: 2.4 miles of 1500m pace intervals + plyo (hard, stairs et)

Thursday: am easy 30-40 and pm speed/speed endurance, not too much. E.g 7x150m at 110% of 800 speed

Friday: am 30min pm 30min

Saturday: hardest of the week, VO2 max or 800 pace

Sunday: "long" run, 70minutes

Coebra wrote:[/b

What about having workouts Tuesday, Friday, and long Sunday? What's the difference?

It's probably just a result of having a 7-day week. And the more that I think about it, 7 days in a week is such an arbitrary number.

Breaking workouts up by days is arbitrary too. I do regular runs every 19 hours and 23 minutes and workouts every 31 hours and 12 minutes. When those overlap I do a long run.

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

According to his book Meb does.

biorhythm runner wrote:

No serious runner follows a 7-day schedule.

In his (most recent) book, he says exactly the opposite: that he does NOT follow a 7 day schedule.

Did you read it?

Old Woman wrote:

I don't have any scientific evidence to add to this, but in my opinion it's just nice to get a long run over with on Saturday morning. Usually I'm fried from the week by Friday, so that night is usually spent doing absolutely nothing allowing for a nice evening of rest. Plus I'm more of a Saturday evening drinker than a Friday evening drinker...

If you are tired after a week at work don't you feel like a lie in on Sat morning?

Dewey_Runner wrote:

Sunday - off/easy/recovery in anticipation of Monday's workout/the beginning of next week's training in general

Please expand upon this. How are you anticipating the next week's training?

Sundays in college for obvious reasons, you are competing most Saturdays, but once you are working, I moved to Saturdays. Mostly because so many people have church obligations I couldn't find a good group to run with on Sundays.

Also the Sat LR lets you take Sunday as a short, easy day, which makes it easy to work into your total weekend.

biorhythm runner wrote:

No serious runner follows a 7-day schedule.

No serious people are serious runners.

because it's a long cycling trip on sunday :P

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