Over the summer months I've got into the habit of going for a run on a Sunday evening pushing my 2 year old son around a flat 6 mile circuit in his buggie. My hear rate stays low (65/70%).
I do this run after a hard morning session of either a long run or a race. I feel very relaxed during & afterwards but was just wondering if it was doing me any good. I'll keep doing the run for the rest of the summer because we both enjoy it, but is it helping to build aerobic endurance or just tireing out already tired muscles?
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To run for 4 hours you at first must be able to put one foot in front of the other for 4 hours
It calls this zone ”over distance” and is to be used for long slow training session (build up time on feet etc)
Will
Having said that you can do 1 or 2 endurence runs on other days when you're not tired after a hard workout and get the same if not a better benefit.
You should ask if you'll get better endurence by doing a 2 hour run after a harder workout or better results from a 4 hour endurence run after a rest day when you're totally refreshed?
If you can fit in the same amount of endurence on a day when you'll minimise becoming injured then the 2 hour milage on a Sunday are just ''junk miles''.
You can't train a tired overworked muscle as good as a well prepared muscle full of glycogen.