dsadasdasda wrote:
moderate running wrote:
What about moderate training every day? Ron Clarke and Nenow did this. May be a good idea to take an easy day or two each week however.
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dsadasdasda wrote:
moderate running wrote:
What about moderate training every day? Ron Clarke and Nenow did this. May be a good idea to take an easy day or two each week however.
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I've done this a lot through the years because I enjoy running, but have only raced sporadically. I've run around 100K lifetime miles, but sometimes go years without racing. There's not much incentive to run fast in training when you aren't racing. What happens, for me at least, is that I'm usually just a few rust busters in training from being reasonably fast. I'm sure that it has left me well below my potential, but I haven't tried training for fast times or PRs since a two-year bout with chronic fatigue or overtraining syndrome when I was 22-24 (now 50).
Some examples from when I was younger:
When I was 27, I hadn't raced or done anything harder than easy in a year. I was running maybe 80 mpw on the trails. A small local 10K road race contacted me and invited me to race (I had won the year before). I ended up running 32:06 FTW. I did maybe three rust busting tempo runs (by feel) in the weeks ahead of the race because I didn't want to embarrass myself - so that breaks your scenario a bit, but not by much.
After that, I didn't race for another two years until I was 29. I did develop an itch for speed though. There's a mark that I had measured and knew was one road mile out from home (pre-GPS watches). I'd pass it on my way back from my regular 12-13 mile part road/mostly hilly trail loops when I did the loops through the park counter clockwise. Afraid of the rust, I set a soft target of sub-6 at first, which I comfortably beat. I only did it when I felt up to it (and only when running the loops counter clockwise), so maybe once per week. I think I was sub-5 by the second try. Maybe a month goes by and I ran the last mile in 4:39. I ended up hitting 4:39 three times in a row, so that was what I topped out at for last mile speed on otherwise all easy running. Soon after, my employer at the time was sponsoring a 10K (which later morphed into the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot), and they were encouraging employees to enter. Turned out to not be very competitive. I chilled with another runner for 4 miles, and then dropped the hammer on him. Maybe 4:50 pace for the the last 2.2? Time was 32:5x with the very slow start.
Didn't race again for another year and a half. Met a girl and we both won an 8 mile trail race together the next day off of all easy running for me. Half a year later, ran 15:5X in a 5K on all easy running and cross country skiing except for a couple rust busting hill repeat sessions on the hill that the 5K course went over. A bit afterwards, my girlfriend asked me to accompany her in a 4x1600 workout. I was 31 and had not done any track work or mile repeats in years, but I ran 4:48, 5:06, 5:06, and 5:00.
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