All things training. Mostly advice and tips but maybe questions, general comments, or who knows what else.
Do you get caught up worrying about every little detail of a workout? Do you find yourself thinking “should I do 5 repeats or 6” or “should my recoveries be 2:30 or 3:00” or “should my long run be 14 miles or 15”?
If so, I’d like to encourage you to stop doing that.
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I will note right up front that this is part an explanation and part advice.
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The hard days are the stimulus for the improvement but the rest is when the improvement happens.
This is something I often remind the runners I coach, as well as myself.
Why is this important?
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Last week, I discussed the importance of taking time off early if you feel something that might be an impending injury.
You might have left that asking how much am I going to lose? How much is that going to set me back?
Well, hopefully it goes without saying that a few days off before something is bad is far better than taking weeks or month off after it got bad but here are some details on what you lose and how much time it takes to get it back.
…Time off: How much do you lose? How long to get it back?Read More »
Are you feeling beat up? Feel like you might have an injury coming on?
A lot of us try to push through these things. We don’t want to lose fitness, we don’t want to lose ground on our competitors. The problem is we try to push through instead of taking a day or two off early, then we end up needing weeks off later.
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