Haile Runs Twice a Day Every Day Except XMas, How Many of You Are Doubling on Tuesday?

Running is comparable if only at the same effort. For Haile he might be going at 7:30 pace for 6 miles on most runs. That would be like a casual walk to him.

Hobbyjogger 53 wrote:

I run 75-85 miles per week and have never doubled. It seems such a waste: more shower time, more laundry, even trivial stuff like lacing/unlacing the shoes and getting out of the house would sum up to 10-15 extra minutes every week if I double several times.

As a hobbyjogger, time is limited - when I run over 10 hours per week I already feel like I'm a little slacking on my day job. If I had extra 30 minutes to add, I'd rather promote a mid-week medium long run from 1:15 to 1:45. Any reason why should I double instead and keep running volume the same?

I will say that 75-85 mpw is lot of miles for just doing singles though. I only run 30-40mpw and when I did 50-55, it was singles too.

I agree in regards to the extra time needed to run doubles when you work full time. Showering, laundry, time,..etc. There's a reason why world class elites do doubles; they are professional runners whose only job is to run. Why wouldn't they?

adsgawgasdasdfdsaf wrote:

I don't run a lot of doubles, but in His honor I will run twice on Tuesday. My normal morning run takes me to the local bakery, but it will probably be closed on Tuesday so I'll probably run over to the Israeli bakery downtown instead (and yes I'll probably have Chinese for dinner but it's not a guarantee).

Anyone else doubling Tuesday just to get one up on Haile? Gotta take the openings where you can get them...

I didn't double but 22 year old female who I coach and is preparing for World XC trials did. Here morning session in the heat was 3x2.6k on hilly grass circuit with 1 min recovery splits 9:23, 9:16, 9:08 with 5k warm up and down. In the pm she ran easy 6k for a total of 25k for the day. I didn't have her doubling but she went out for an easy 30 just to get extra volume in and for mental edge. Will find out in 1 month if she is off to Denmark in March.

Obviously they're going to replace you if you die, I don't think that's a sad reality at all. What do you want them to do, close up shop in your honor? I can also guarantee you that if I died on a run tomorrow, my boss would be at my funeral. I'm sorry you've never made meaningful friendships in your place of work.

And maybe his dream is to become CEO of the company he works for, or to become whatever position he wants, or to make $$xxx/year. What is it that you're either the owner of the company or just a slave to someone else? Many of us enjoy our jobs and enjoy working hard to advance our careers, we don't need to work for ourselves to find this joy.