Last week, I mentioned that I had a difficult summer where I made some mistakes. The difficulties were self-inflicted and I wanted to take a few moments this week to discuss my mistakes, with the hope that some of you can hopefully learn from my mistakes and maybe avoid making similar ones yourselves.
…I had a talk with one of you this past weekend about easy runs. It made me realize that I clearly did a poor job stressing the importance of running easy on easy runs. So I’m going to address that here.
The easy run is a critical part of our training. Even elites run roughly 80% of their miles at an easy pace. However, many runners do their easy runs too fast. This increases your risk of injury and takes away from the quality you can get on your hard days. Make sure you’re running them easy enough.
Here’s a blog post I wrote earlier this year on how to do your easy runs.
In May, I made a mistake in training. I knew better but thought the “rules” didn’t apply to me. I then made another mistake in June and repeated it in July.
These mistakes cost me but they also taught (or re-taught) me some important lessons.
What lessons did I learn? For now, they don’t matter. I’ll write about them next week. For now, the important lesson is something else.
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“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to become a good measure.” – Goodhart’s Law
This concept, largely discussed in the world of economics, applies quite well to running and fitness in general.
…The age old question: to become a better/faster runner, do you need to run faster or run longer?
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