Anyone have experience with this:
I’m not training for anything in particular and just run for fun. I would like to go for about 2 hours at an easy pace each morning (with a day or two per week off).
Is there any benefits or downsides to doing this?
Anyone have experience with this:
I’m not training for anything in particular and just run for fun. I would like to go for about 2 hours at an easy pace each morning (with a day or two per week off).
Is there any benefits or downsides to doing this?
Congratulations, kid. You just discovered high mileage.
I've done this for periods at a time. And others have done this too: Ed Whitlock, Josh McDougal, Bob Deines etc. It's a excellent way to get your legs strong.
Live and learn pal. Ever heard about the Chinese women's running troupe known as "Ma's Army," for its mercurial coach, Ma Junren?
Long story short he made his runners, all girls, run 40km every morning, plus whatever they ran in the afternoon and evening for an average of 65 km daily.
In 1993, (probably you were still an ovum) Ma became a national and international celebrity when his "army" of short-haired young Chinese women athletes, led by Wang Junxia, won a clean sweep of the 1,500m, 3,000m and 10,000m at the world championships in Stuttgart. Not to mention a barrage of world records falling.
GOOGLE IT.
Anyway you sound to weak for that kind of training.
(yes, I know i am a major a-hole, so what?)
Summer base training for a fall marathon. Pretty much my favorite kind of running. The only downside is eventually you have to add workouts.
I've done it this year and feel great. I've slowed down the LR pace. Instead of going hard on every run like in '17 and '18 I've adapted the various paces for tempos, LRs, easy runs, etc. It's helped me build mileage--going for my first 60-mile week this week (I know that's nothing by LR standards)--as well as confidence.
The last 2 days I went out easy, 8 miles each day at 8:30-8:45-ish pace. Maybe 35-40% effort, if that. I have a 20-21 miler this week, a 21-miler next week, and then I have 4 weeks after to taper.
Yes, a lot of people have. I don't remember her name but one woman I knew about ran 16 miles every day. She ran sub-2:50 for the marathon and qualified for the '84 Olympic Trials and ran in it.
I recommend some 5x18 workouts, an LRC staple.
The research says it's better to split it up into two-a-days.
Long runner wrote:
Anyone have experience with this:
I’m not training for anything in particular and just run for fun. I would like to go for about 2 hours at an easy pace each morning (with a day or two per week off).
Is there any benefits or downsides to doing this?
Eventually you'll grow a long thick beard.
jecht wrote:
I've done it this year and feel great. I've slowed down the LR pace. Instead of going hard on every run like in '17 and '18 I've adapted the various paces for tempos, LRs, easy runs, etc. It's helped me build mileage--going for my first 60-mile week this week (I know that's nothing by LR standards)--as well as confidence.
The last 2 days I went out easy, 8 miles each day at 8:30-8:45-ish pace. Maybe 35-40% effort, if that. I have a 20-21 miler this week, a 21-miler next week, and then I have 4 weeks after to taper.
That's not "long runs every day." In fact that sounds like only one long run per week.
I’m pretty sure I’m older than you based on this comment...but thanks for the tidbit
Long runner wrote:
Anyone have experience with this:
I’m not training for anything in particular and just run for fun. I would like to go for about 2 hours at an easy pace each morning (with a day or two per week off).
Is there any benefits or downsides to doing this?
It’s called long ultra training with back to back to back long runs of 2 hours+
Go 2-3 straight days long and then take a down day. You’ll be ready for a 100 miler in no time.
The thing is it’s hard to get in tempo workouts, which are needed to perform your best at the marathon and under.
I would say just do back to back long runs on the weekend. Mid week do a tempo followed by a long run the next day. Three long runs a week is doable without hurting performance imo.
maybe an original. wrote:
The research says it's better to split it up into two-a-days.
There's a little research on this but not much, and no way does it decisively draw that conclusion.
doctorj wrote:
Live and learn pal. Ever heard about the Chinese women's running troupe known as "Ma's Army," for its mercurial coach, Ma Junren?
Long story short he made his runners, all girls, run 40km every morning, plus whatever they ran in the afternoon and evening for an average of 65 km daily.
In 1993, (probably you were still an ovum) Ma became a national and international celebrity when his "army" of short-haired young Chinese women athletes, led by Wang Junxia, won a clean sweep of the 1,500m, 3,000m and 10,000m at the world championships in Stuttgart. Not to mention a barrage of world records falling.
GOOGLE IT.
Anyway you sound to weak for that kind of training.
(yes, I know i am a major a-hole, so what?)
65 k a day? No way.
And it was mentioned before, they all where on juice.
doctorj wrote:
Live and learn pal. Ever heard about the Chinese women's running troupe known as "Ma's Army," for its mercurial coach, Ma Junren?
Long story short he made his runners, all girls, run 40km every morning, plus whatever they ran in the afternoon and evening for an average of 65 km daily.
In 1993, (probably you were still an ovum) Ma became a national and international celebrity when his "army" of short-haired young Chinese women athletes, led by Wang Junxia, won a clean sweep of the 1,500m, 3,000m and 10,000m at the world championships in Stuttgart. Not to mention a barrage of world records falling.
GOOGLE IT.
Anyway you sound to weak for that kind of training.
(yes, I know i am a major a-hole, so what?)
LOL and FLoJo did 10,000 sit ups per day. Doper always come up with outlandish stories to cover their cheating.
Mao Tse tun wrote:
doctorj wrote:
Live and learn pal. Ever heard about the Chinese women's running troupe known as "Ma's Army," for its mercurial coach, Ma Junren?
Long story short he made his runners, all girls, run 40km every morning, plus whatever they ran in the afternoon and evening for an average of 65 km daily.
In 1993, (probably you were still an ovum) Ma became a national and international celebrity when his "army" of short-haired young Chinese women athletes, led by Wang Junxia, won a clean sweep of the 1,500m, 3,000m and 10,000m at the world championships in Stuttgart. Not to mention a barrage of world records falling.
GOOGLE IT.
Anyway you sound to weak for that kind of training.
(yes, I know i am a major a-hole, so what?)
65 k a day? No way.
And it was mentioned before, they all where on juice.
Yeah, from what I read they topped out on mileage at about 40 km a day.
not really man wrote:
maybe an original. wrote:
The research says it's better to split it up into two-a-days.
There's a little research on this but not much, and no way does it decisively draw that conclusion.
No, there’s a lot of research. It’s more anabolic hormonally, and it also upregulates aerobic enzymes better.
Would not what constitutes a “long run” be relative to a race distance or at least all of the other runs of the week?
Relativity wrote:
Would not what constitutes a “long run” be relative to a race distance or at least all of the other runs of the week?
A long run is a run of 90 minutes or more. We've been over this many times.