Is there a general consensus or does it widely vary by feel? I've read how Kipchoge runs around 6am and 4pm. However I'm nowhere near elite, and also only training for 8k, 5k, mile type trail/road races.
Is there a general consensus or does it widely vary by feel? I've read how Kipchoge runs around 6am and 4pm. However I'm nowhere near elite, and also only training for 8k, 5k, mile type trail/road races.
I'm not elite and I do runs at 6:30 am and 4 pm haha
As long as you leave it longer than 5 hours I'd say it doesn't matter
Skinny guy with a mohawk wrote:
Is there a general consensus or does it widely vary by feel? I've read how Kipchoge runs around 6am and 4pm. However I'm nowhere near elite, and also only training for 8k, 5k, mile type trail/road races.
Mohawk? What are you, Beavis - eight years old?
I've heard 6 hours between runs. That's the end of one until the start of the next.
But again, you're not elite, so schedule your running around your life.
About 1 second is ideal.
About 4 hours.
My college teammate, Paul Stemmer, ran an entire Summer of 10/10 doubles with one or two hours hour rest in between. Get this, he ran the same out and back course every day!
https://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/category-archive/450-ncaa-xc-1975-men
IMO, it doesn't really matter that much. I would say to stop thinking about how much time between runs and just focus on doing them.
That said, I've heard 6-8 hours between runs is good to go by. Whatever fits with your schedule is fine too.
3 hours is ok worst case. No less than that.
4 hours is ok in general, plan for this as a minimum
6 hours is very ideal if its no big deal to your schedule
although the best for your training is to go for 5s rest, don't be a bitch, just go for the longer single.
malmo wrote:
My college teammate, Paul Stemmer, ran an entire Summer of 10/10 doubles with one or two hours hour rest in between. Get this, he ran the same out and back course every day!
Was there any particular reason for either the close turnaround or for running the same course? I often had three hours between. Don't know if I ever got to one or two.
https://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/category-archive/450-ncaa-xc-1975-men
Kenyan elites, in Eldoret and Iten.
6am, 1 hr progressive run, start slow, finish fast
10am, track intervals or fartlek,
4pm, slow 30 -45 mins run.
Been there, done that.
Doesn't Frank Shorter say in his autobiography that he did his first session at 11:00am and his second run started at 3:00pm?
mark b wrote:
Doesn't Frank Shorter say in his autobiography that he did his first session at 11:00am and his second run started at 3:00pm?
Yes.