Does unfinished long run counts?

Do doubles, long runs don't really matter unless you are training for a marathon.

You CANNOT be serious.

It counts as whatever distance you ran. Where the cut off between a long run and just a run falls, idk, its a bit pedantic.

"I just started to run about a month ago, but started to do it daily this week."

Well...of course you can't run for 2 hours. You probably can barely run 1 hour.

You need to start very small. 30% of your weekly miles should come from the long run. If you're running 24 miles/week, then your longest run should be about 7.5 miles. At the most.

Thanks for answers!

I guess I am doing just fine then. Good to know that failure was not really a failure. I had doubts because I heard that a long run should be at least two hours. So I didn't know should I just keep trying if I fail to do it when I have my long run scheduled. But this 30% thing sounds just about right when running every day. I think that somewhere around this this percentage it's starting to get hard for me. Pushing over it possibly just does damage.

Have you started doing 5 x 18 yet? If you are a month into training it’s time to start getting serious.

In my humble opinion if you've only been running a month, you need to back off on your planning. I know you're excited but you need to keep perspective and give it time. Don't run daily. Don't attempt long runs. Don't do a bunch of intervals. Yet.

Just run a comfortable pace for an hour, 5x a week, for a couple of months. You'll naturally get much fitter and faster during that time as your body starts to adapt and gets used to running.

Once you've hit a plateau, THEN you can SLOWLY start adding on all of the other stuff. But right now it won't help you at all; there is no reason to add extra stress when you have no base and it will just get you sore and/or injured.

IvanK wrote:

I had doubts because I heard that a long run should be at least two hours. .

Where on earth did you hear this and figure it had to be true?

IvanK wrote:

So, while I feel awesome and progressing very well, there is still one problem. Namely, I can't run a long run of more than two hours. I managed to run at most hour and a half, and this week I barely did over hour when I tried to do a long run.

Play close attention to what "back the f off" wrote, and Back The F Off. If you could do 90 minutes last week, and only 60 minutes this week, you are not improving. It's a sign that you're doing WAY THE F TOO MUCH and your body isn't going to play along any more. Don't do any intervals, fartleks, tempos, or long runs. Don't even try to run an hour a day. Try 30 minutes, maybe, for a week and see if you're still healthy at the end. Then build up slowly.

You need to run at least 12 runs per week, doubling on most days, with 1 rest day at most. Weekly mileage needs to be at least 100, otherwise it is impossible to improve.

So you run every day, and did 7 this morning. Saying that your last long run barely made it to an hour makes me think you are running more than 7mph (otherwise you would have noted this perhaps?). So you run every day, at possibly 7mph or more, yet are somehow getting only 25ish miles a week. I suppose it is possible to do 1 mile or something silly short the other days but I imagine you would mention that as well...

I call BS. Otherwise slow tf down right now you are going to die.

I was going to say 0/10, but it looks like you got some replies. Good job 3/10 and climbing.

Doubles matter more wrote:

Do doubles, long runs don't really matter unless you are training for a marathon.

This is completely wrong. Think of your training as the lumpy nougat, caramel, and peanuts of a Snickers bar and your long run is the milk chocolate poured gently over the top to fill in the gaps and hold everything together.

fsadfadfs wrote:

Doubles matter more wrote:

Do doubles, long runs don't really matter unless you are training for a marathon.

This is completely wrong. Think of your training as the lumpy nougat, caramel, and peanuts of a Snickers bar and your long run is the milk chocolate poured gently over the top to fill in the gaps and hold everything together.

Nope, if one wanted to, one could get away with never doing long runs. Long runs are the most overrated workout for runners.

sskrgseg wrote:

Have you started doing 5 x 18 yet? If you are a month into training it’s time to start getting serious.

Does "5 x 18" mean running 18 miles every Sunday for 5 weeks? If not, would you tell me what it is?

Well, last week I didn't do intervals and didn't try to run every day. I actually managed to run more this week and it felt better, even with the additional quality work. It was only the attempted long run that was shorter. And the last time was longer also because I was just dumber, trying to push it more. This time I had in mind the intention of running every day, so I didn't want to ruin myself. And this time I recovered in the matter of few hours.

And yeah, I'm just starting to feel the need to run every day. Today, I kinda had the urge to do double, but I decided to preserve myself for tomorrow. I think I would feel like crap to run less and not to aim at every day. If I can't run I will just take a break, but I would not like to schedule it.

And with intervals and tempo, I don't really have a problem. Just get more tired, but not that much. Because I don't lack explosive power but endurance. I feel I could easier run for 20 minutes while carrying somebody on my back than to jog for two hours. It's never tasking for me on my muscles.

That's because I skipped one day because of the bad weather, and one easy run was only 2 miles because I needed to stop it and go somewhere urgently. But after I got a call after a first mile I ran the other like a mad man.

I did intervals, together with some warm-up and easy running after for more than 5 miles altogether. I did one easy run of about 7 miles. Did tempo and some easy running after for about 3 miles altogether. And today I did a "long run" of 7 miles somewhere around the pace you mentioned. It was morning and there were people around so I spontaneously ran faster than intended for a big part of the run.

And the week is not over yet. Tomorrow I could do at least 5-7 miles at really easy pace. That's how I feel now at least.

Wrong....... wrote:

fsadfadfs wrote:

This is completely wrong. Think of your training as the lumpy nougat, caramel, and peanuts of a Snickers bar and your long run is the milk chocolate poured gently over the top to fill in the gaps and hold everything together.

Nope, if one wanted to, one could get away with never doing long runs. Long runs are the most overrated workout for runners.

Don't coach.

Why?