People hete dem obsessed with distances, but how many hours in a week does runners at different distances train?
People hete dem obsessed with distances, but how many hours in a week does runners at different distances train?
Elite marathon runners are running 2+ hours per day.
1-2 hours a day
60-90 minutes a day for mile-5k
90-120 minutes a day for 10k-thon
My experience as both a national class middle distance runner and D III college coach was right about 20 hours a week on average year around for 800 to 5K runners. This includes running around 75 miles per week, stretching, strength training, showering changing into and out of clothes/gear.
Was semi-elite Mid Dist wrote:
, showering changing into and out of clothes/gear.
Hello???
Counting shower and changing clothes into the equation was a new approach,
then I will fair well as taking very long and hot showers as part of my recovery process
is important to me.
Nevertheless.
OP has a point I also have wondered about, and I am old and slow,
but even so, coming back to sports after 40 years off I compare
my time spent excercising and my effort to the elite, naturally not the mileage.
This namely also because I seek to do well in triathlon, even if I hate to bike.
So. My guess, to become good at my agegroup I need 750 hours of training a year
(excluding showers!!!), approximately 2 hours a day, so at 10 hours a week now
I need to to go 4 more hours, without reducing the effort per session.
Best runners in the world are not doing much more than that, because of the
groundpressure impact.
That is why norwegian triathletes, xc skiers and bikers reach the highest vo2max in the world,
groundimpact is of no relevance.
I will try and reach (myage)vo2heaven, with time, not distance.
Thank you!
I was wondering starting this very own thread.
I wanted to introduce hpw = hours per week as a running terminology.