I’d like to share with you a tip I give to Club HillRunner.com members around this time every year.
As the weather gets colder and your long sleeve shirts and jackets come out of the closet, take advantage of that gear by covering your watch and not looking at it while you’re running.
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In the last blog post, I asked if bigger workouts are always better. Today, I would like to explore a related topic.
For every run you do, I hope you have an answer to one simple question: how is this run making you better?
…It’s not hard to see so many very impressive workouts on social media. I actively try to avoid them and I still see workouts that I think must be from people who are significantly faster than me, only to find out that they are actually from people who are slower than me.
The real question we should be asking about any workout is simple: is this making you a better runner?
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What do you do when something goes wrong? You have a long run planned but you’re fatigued. You have a workout but your legs are flat or the weather is creating difficulties.
Do you try to push through for the full distance or try to hit splits even in bad conditions or when not feeling fully on?
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Back when I started running in the 1990s, the western distance running world seemed fixated on low volume, high intensity training.
During previous eras, there were periods of similar training focus interspersed with periods of high volume, mostly low intensity training.
Neither of these was ideal.
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