A Passion for Running

Comment by Adeel

Sunday October 22, 2006 @

Mark, you’re actually in the same space as me. I rarely ran over 90 minutes, but this summer decided to bump up my long runs to 2 hours to give myself some extra endurance for the half marathon I ran. Actually, you’re better off than I am since you’ve run for over 3 hours at a time in the past. It’s very important to take it easy. I pick it up toward the end of my long runs, but I tried not to do so and instead squeeze out another half hour. If you don’t run very fast, you won’t run out of glycogen.

Also, I have this thing about not really feeling like I have to eat or drink before or during my runs.

Comment by Mark

Sunday October 22, 2006 @

Thanks, Adeel. Andrew wrote up a terrific plan for me. The 1st eight weeks are two hour runs. The eight weeks after that are 2.5 hours, and after that I’m doing three hour/20 mile runs for … a long time!

The thing I’m learning quickly from Andrew/Lydiard is how to guage what “easy” means. Unfortunately, I’ve never been blessed with an innate sense of pacing or effort (ask me to run “easy” and I’ll almost for sure over-do it). Andrew’s got me using heart rate targets based on the Karnoven Method and I’m amazed how using that, and alternating “hard”, “easy” just feels …right.

That said, I haven’t even done my first long run so tomorrow will be the beginning of the adventure.