I have heard that after a marathon you should take a day off for every mile you have run.This seems excessive but have any of you ever done this and also if i want to do another marathon in October what should be the high mleage when returning to training or do i have to start the whole process/schedule again?
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agree with KK. Utter sloblock.
I ran 52 miles on Saturday. Should I therefore sit around eating pies until the end of June?
Listen to your body...it will tell you if you need to rest (and by rest I mean doing less, not nothing)
....I do like pies KK. I think I will be makig a chicken and mushroom one this weekend.
Geezer....one other thing....depends also on what you want to do?
I.E. - do you want to be 'marathon fit' through the summer? Would you like to ease off the gas a little bit? Would you want to lose most of your fitness and more or less start again?
If the 1st option - keep mileage fairly high, and stick in an 18-20 mile run every other weekend...you might need to then only put in one longer 22 miler before 'race day'.
2nd option - run equally as frequently as #1, but reduce distances a little - long run of 15 miles every other weekend.....you would then pick things up about 6 weeks before your next marathon.
3rd option - eat pies....run a couple of times a week....maybe upto 10k.
I'm glad you said that KK (about the running, not the pies)
I've been out and I feel fine. I took Monday off, but I could probably have bimbled on Tuesday. I actually ran yesterday.
Today I might have a pie....
I've never heard about taking a day off for every mile. What I have heard is that (assuming you give the marathon 100% effort - which we all do ) then it takes about 1 day per mile for your legs to fullyrecover. That doesnt mean that you shouldn't train, though you should probably do more of your runs at "recovery" pace after a race.
Obviously this isn't a hard and fast "scientific" calculation, but like a lot of "runners lore" it probably has some merit. I know that while I run (and occasionally race) soon after a marathon it does take a few weeks before my legs feel 100% again.
I ran tues and again today, I just think you have to listen to your body. Everyone is different. I would be going mad and putting on weight if I took 26 days off!! Besides I have a club race at the dome next thurs
I haven't run yet either but I feel as if I could! I plan to do 4 miles on Friday then 7 on Sunday.
I've got a few 10k's coming up and I'm hoping for a new pb or 2.
Gasp @ Liverbird. Getting me kit straight on.
One-sized fits all approaches can 'generally' be disregarded by 'most' people i reckon.
Agree with listen-to -your-body approach.
It's easier to overdo it than to rest too much!
Pizza vs pies? Pizza everytime. Salmon & dill please!
...oooh maybe I will make a pizza tonight for my tea then???
im listening to my body and at the moment Mr Tummy is talking to me.
I like the sound of any pizza. Nobody said anything about not carrying on carbo-loading
I'm glad someone else asked the original question, I got the RW marathon training e-mail that said no running for a week and thought it was cobblers too. Ran a couple of very gentle miles last night and although my quads screamed for half a mile, I felt loads better afterwards and am actually walking downstairs forwards today.
Don't they also suggest recovery runs somewhere in the blurb?
I'm unsure about most things i read
for example - we've been busy for weeks now, there's been consecutive races for weeks -
Our diary all year round can be gruelling - and we've just run Shakespeare FM in 5:05 - our 3rd FM this year -
this is to follow, it's Just May
Our race diary for May
Sunday 3 May - Exeter GWR HM
Monday 4 May - Coventry 5
Tuesday 5 May - Silverstone 10k
Wednesday 6 May - DK 10k
Sunday 10 May - Tewkesbury HM
Wednesday 13 May - Rugby 6 ??
Sunday 17 May - Boddington Ultra ( hoping for FM on the 2.2 mile loop )
Sunday 24 May - Wokingham HM
Sunday 31 may - Northbrook 10k
and within reason, i'm will make most of it look EASY
LOL
puddings - they are fattening