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Does a 2 part run count as a long run?
Hello all, I'm looking for your opinions as to whether running 10 miles to the swimming baths, swimming 1-2 miles and then running back 10 miles would count as a 'long run' for the purposes of marathon training?
There is no sitting around or owt, in, changed, swim, changed and back on the road.
Or does it literally have to be one single trip to really count?
( I'm trying to make a better job of my second marathon training after a shin splint episode last time)
Thanks for reading.
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Thats got to be a long run .
I would count it as one...
but i wouldn't do all my long runs that way
Good enough for Rosa Mota, a former world marathon champion. Two runs a day. 90 minutes and 60 minutes.
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20 miles in a day is definitely a long run
It's like extreme interval training! You will certainly get some benefit from it without having knackered your body doing 20 in one go.
I'd agree with Seren, OK for several of your sessions, but I'd not dispense completely with the one single long run.
Thanks people, I don't want my legs/innerds to think I've only run 10, but its nice to have somewhere to run to.
Unless anyone has a better idea or thinks I might be wrong I'll alternate between a full 20 and a R-S-R.
I've got 8 weeks to my marathon so that gives me 3 full 20's and 3 mixtures. Should be enough right?
Hi Cougie, I don't usually drop below 15 on a Sunday, that probably explains why I'm on the edge of injury all the time. (Or so it feels). Just trying to get some steady regular miles in my legs as I'm still fairly new to it. (i.e. 2 years). I clock about 35-45 pw when I'm not particularly training for owt.
Took up swimming in May having made a right mess of my left shin/calf at Manchester Marathon and had to take 8 stunningly boring weeks off.
The reason I want to get a good few 20's in is everyone I seem to read about on here seems to want at least 5 X 20's in prep for a marathon, and that's what I didn't do last time, I just clocked 2.
http://running.competitor.com/2014/07/training/are-you-overemphasizing-the-marathon-long-run_55719