Doubling Up, Does it Work?
Today:
Distance: 17.1 km
Time: 94' 52"
Rate: 5' 32" per km
Weather: sun/cloud, drizzle on the hills, temp 13 degrees, humidity 45%, NW wind at 25 kmph
Week: 38.55 km, April: 413.1 km, Year: 1525.5 km
Liz has this interest in the long road of ultra running. Do you do double ups or a really long weekend run and easy through the week? One of the ways the pros get in the distance running they need to do, no matter what event they do, is to do double or even triple training sessions per day. Mind you, they have access to the best available masseurs, physios, coaches etc they can find. As well as 24 hours a day to get it all done.
Running twice daily easily increases the weekly total to well above the mere mortals can hope to reach. An easy 8 km each day on top of regular training sessions adds 56 kms to the total. However there is a downside.
Backing up twice a day, for weeks on end will bring out our faults and frailties. If there is a weak spot, then it will show up.
If you read Ewen's daily blog, he is now doing almost a double session each day. Not morning and night, but two sessions close with a short break in between. Different sessions altogether. Interesting to see how the physical holds up, as well as the mental, but it beats running at 5 o'clock in the cold. Good weekly totals for sure, well above what I run. Very interested to see how he goes.
My almost double up sessions involve running home for lunch, a one hour break and a shorter jog back to work. Push hard if I can on one, easy on the other. Working well at the moment and it gets the digestive system use to processing food on the move. A necessity in ultra running.
That's what happened today, nothing too interesting about the conditions, still cool, a bit windy, winter is almost here, what happened to autumn. Frosts predicted for later this week.
Distance: 17.1 km
Time: 94' 52"
Rate: 5' 32" per km
Weather: sun/cloud, drizzle on the hills, temp 13 degrees, humidity 45%, NW wind at 25 kmph
Week: 38.55 km, April: 413.1 km, Year: 1525.5 km
Liz has this interest in the long road of ultra running. Do you do double ups or a really long weekend run and easy through the week? One of the ways the pros get in the distance running they need to do, no matter what event they do, is to do double or even triple training sessions per day. Mind you, they have access to the best available masseurs, physios, coaches etc they can find. As well as 24 hours a day to get it all done.
Running twice daily easily increases the weekly total to well above the mere mortals can hope to reach. An easy 8 km each day on top of regular training sessions adds 56 kms to the total. However there is a downside.
Backing up twice a day, for weeks on end will bring out our faults and frailties. If there is a weak spot, then it will show up.
If you read Ewen's daily blog, he is now doing almost a double session each day. Not morning and night, but two sessions close with a short break in between. Different sessions altogether. Interesting to see how the physical holds up, as well as the mental, but it beats running at 5 o'clock in the cold. Good weekly totals for sure, well above what I run. Very interested to see how he goes.
My almost double up sessions involve running home for lunch, a one hour break and a shorter jog back to work. Push hard if I can on one, easy on the other. Working well at the moment and it gets the digestive system use to processing food on the move. A necessity in ultra running.
That's what happened today, nothing too interesting about the conditions, still cool, a bit windy, winter is almost here, what happened to autumn. Frosts predicted for later this week.
posted by Two Fruits at
9:44 PM
2 Comments:
Doubling or tripling up is highly recommended if you have time. And every week or two, one very long single run. But otherwise, it is far healthier to have breaks, eat, even sleep in between sessions!
The only downside is if you have to shower after each run, you can get very wrinkly and water-logged. I know, I used to. Shower, that is. Why bother now though?
You don't have to reply to that rhetorical question.
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speedygeoff, At
April 28, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I only shower if I'm running with someone on the second run!
I'll let you know how it goes. Feel like I'm pushing the envelope a bit. Just hope it's one of those brown A3 envelopes and not an Aerogram!
By
Ewen, At
April 29, 2009 at 7:00 PM
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