If I run today, it will be a slow, tedious 60 minutes where my muscles will feel painful and I'll be risking injury.
Yesterday, went for 95 minutes, hard at times, never conversation pace.
Does trotting along today really have any benefit?
If I run today, it will be a slow, tedious 60 minutes where my muscles will feel painful and I'll be risking injury.
Yesterday, went for 95 minutes, hard at times, never conversation pace.
Does trotting along today really have any benefit?
risking injury? you are a giant poon. get out there and get the blood moving in your legs, softy.
Speeds up recovery, increases aerobic fitness.
If you are really on the edge of not running today, just go out for 30 minutes rather than 60 and get blood moving through your muscles. Don't worry about pace, and if you are feeling better as you go you can increase your time (assuming that you have on your 'schedule' 60min). My guess is you will feel better running tomorrow if you do 30 today and not 0. I believe with increased bloodflow to the muscles they will heal quicker since the blood carries what is needed.
- RunnerSam
RunnerSamm wrote:
If you are really on the edge of not running today, just go out for 30 minutes rather than 60 and get blood moving through your muscles. Don't worry about pace, and if you are feeling better as you go you can increase your time (assuming that you have on your 'schedule' 60min). My guess is you will feel better running tomorrow if you do 30 today and not 0. I believe with increased bloodflow to the muscles they will heal quicker since the blood carries what is needed.
- RunnerSam
What he said. And you'll often find that once you get going you feel fine and can do the whole run. And unless you were racing it's self defeating to do a run so hard that you feel the need to skip or shorten the next day's run(s).
9.5 at 7 min pace.
You were right, started easy and just slowly began feeling better and running quicker. Probably too fast for recovery but once I get out there I lose self control to maintain something easy and slow.
That's where your worries should be in self control
If you're that beat up today from an hour and a half run, then you probably weren't fit enough or doing enough mileage to do the run to begin with. How far was the run and what percentage of your weekly mileage was it?
Yeah, don't let your MIND tell your BODY how it's feeling. Even if you think you're trashed, get out there and let your body tell you how it's feeling. A lot of times when I was racing I would feel terrible beforehand and have a great run. And also vice versa. The point is, get out there. Don't make any decisions beforehand. Let your body tell you.
95 min (1:35) leaving you sore as fsck? You were not fit enough to do that run.