By habit - I'm an evening runner who normally tries to train 3-4 times a week, I'm also ususally commited to play squash once or twice a week, training for Rugby two evenings a week (and playing once a week in season.) Then there's the Golf on weekends and the long road cycles...
I find if i try and commit fully to any of the other sports I enjoy, my running suffers and vice versa. If i do both i run out of evenings in the week and everything suffers as I need at least one full rest day a week.
I'd like to start getting up and running in the mornings, and reserve the evenings for everything else - anyone else train twice a day and hack it? I'm not a morning person by habit -Any tips?
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As a person that takes part in Triathlon, I regular train twice a day without any side effects.
You still have to make sure you take a rest day at least once a week and try to make sure some of the session are recovery sessions – but you should not have any probs
Make sure you ease into it though
Will
I intend to start Monday with an easy run in the morning 3-4 miles and a game of squash in the evening. If I can still get up for a run on Tuesday morning I'll let you know.
PM - I take the beginners group which is a recovery paced run for me
Wednesdays AM - gym
PM - 5 mile recovery paced run
Thursday AM 5-7 mile recovery paced run
PM Really hard session with the guys at the Club.
Monday and Friday i do one recovery run of about 7 miles, Sunday is long run which depends on what distance race i'm training for.
Good luck and lay in the extra washing powder unless you are one of those disgusting types who puts on second hand used sweaty gear!!!
I ran on my karate days purely so that I still had one complete rest day a week where I did nothing at all.
Nowadays I have a small baby and I had to make a decision to do just one sport only and naturally it had to be running.
Mister Running Muppet does only running and trains 6 days a week - twice a day 2 or 3 times a week - does similar to dangly spice and combines recovery runs with speed sessions on twice a day training days. He does have some impressive PB's but is also injured a lot of the time. I think he's just injury prone though.
I'm actually feeling better as the day goes on, I couldn't get a squash court so I'm going to go out and have a long run later today or an extended session on the new x-trainer thingy that Mrs Old Dog (that sounds terrible but could be worse) bought last month and is now drying her clothes on...