So finally, after all these years of running out on Munsö I got my blinddate with the wild pig. Read all about it, the true story on GC (linked below).This was also my cooldest semi-LR ever, what a beautiful day.....
ER 19,99km Tempo: 5,31min/km Temp: -14C
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/23520677
ER 19,99km Tempo: 5,31min/km Temp: -14C
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/23520677
Great! Both the pig story and the run. Seems to be that you are doing two LR every week nowadays. your comment on that would be interesting. I have always thought that its no problem at all to do easy LR twice a week. But I know that you have had the opinion that this is a terrible thing to do. Please comment on this. What is the reason for the change?
SvaraRaderaOnce again, I think that its good. We need those LRs. But you have changed your running habits a lot. You almost "killed me" when I did a similar thing last spring...
Shouldn't a LR be at least 20,0km ? Just the comment I could expect. Honestly I was planning around 25km today but it was to cold and scary out on the roads after my little meeting. But Ok I agree, I loose some credit here but I don't think I am overdoing my training right now, since the tempo is quite low. This weeks focus has been to cut a little bit of the distance up to your fantastic 80,12km I can admit. But I am still don't think this is optimal..... A real LR for us should be around 30km, don't you agree. Perhaps we need to consider if not a pure LR should be at least 25km.
SvaraRaderaI think that 20km is a good limit for the Long Run definition. Jack Daniels actually defines a long run as 25% of your total weekly distance. Hence if you run 80km one week your Long Run distance would be 20km. So I think that justifies our definition of a LR is 20km. To extend that to 25km is far too long.
SvaraRadera