Streaking

[chimera]

Not the kind you're thinking

I've been reading about people who run every day. They take their weekly mileage and divide it into 7 days of shorter runs rather than having 3 or 4 days of longer runs. Some say it helps prevent injury and build endurance. I've been a believer in cross-training and rest days, but am wondering if there's anything to this running every day thing.

What do you guys think? Anyone around here streakin'?

 

[dsnyfan21]

Mel, not sure about that, but I have also heard of people training for marathons who instead of doing one long miles day a week, they split it up. So, instead of doing 20 miles on a Sunday they do 10 on Saturday and 10 on Sunday. Says it works for people who are short on time?? Not sure??

Tracy

 

[windwalker]

Streaking is fine if your not putting in tough workouts. If you do workout like you mean it you need rest. I workout nearly everyday but I don't do the same thing every day. I'll do training walks 5 days a week and cross train the other two. Good crosstraining is pilaties, yoga, pool fun ect... I might also do some hiking on hilly trails as a training walk, the more I can break it up and get different muscles involved the better.

Training Panda

 

[SAHDad]

Streaking is fine if your not putting in tough workouts. If you do workout like you mean it you need rest. I workout nearly everyday but I don't do the same thing every day. I'll do training walks 5 days a week and cross train the other two. Good crosstraining is pilaties, yoga, pool fun ect... I might also do some hiking on hilly trails as a training walk, the more I can break it up and get different muscles involved the better.

Training Panda

I have to disagree. I have a long run, speedwork, a tempo run or hills three or four days a week. I run on the other days, just not as far or as hard. But, you have to learn to listen to your body, and be willing to bag a hard workout and substitute an easy day instead if something is wrong.

And having two pairs of shoes makes a huge difference.

 

[windwalker]

I have to disagree. I have a long run, speedwork, a tempo run or hills three or four days a week. I run on the other days, just not as far or as hard. But, you have to learn to listen to your body, and be willing to bag a hard workout and substitute an easy day instead if something is wrong.

And having two pairs of shoes makes a huge difference.

Once upon a time I also could and did daily run workouts, but as I near that 60 mark I find that without the rest periods I begin to get a lot of soreness building up.

I trained for a relay race once as part of the Vegas Corperate Challenge that had me running a leg up Mt Charlston, from Las Vegas, zero to 14,000 ft. For that I did 3 a day workouts. I couldn't do that now if my life depended on it.

Old and Senile Panda

 

[WDWFAN9]

Me? Never! But I remember reading about a guy in RW that has run at least a mile a day, every day, for something like 31 years.

 

[Cindylou]

Personally I need rest days, both mentally and physically. I imagine it depends a lot on your body, some may be better built to handle it.

Cindy

 

[Creativebeth]

My current streak is having a workout every day this year (but one, 1/24). I usually mix it up with the workouts, but over the last 3 weeks my time at the gym (with classes) has been limited by my kids baseball. So, I have run every day for the last 3 weeks. I run 30-35 miles a week right now. I have to say I feel sound........I don't have any of my normal aches and pains and my runs are pretty solid. I don't feel like crap on the TM right now, and I will take it! I am usually putting in 5 miles a day (60min) in the morning before work and it has been a real energizer for me!

Beth

 

[bunnyfoo]

I have to admit my mind was somewhere else when I saw your thread title Mel But seriously, I hadn't really thought about doing that before. I do remember reading an interview with Simon Whitfield who's a Canadian triathlete and he mentioned that it was better to do a little bit of running each day rather than trying to squeeze all the miles into a few days during the week.

I might give that a try when I start up training for the half in January. Last year, I ended up skipping a lot of the LRs because it was hard to go out when the sidewalks were icy. So I ended up doing most the short runs during the week but my longest run was 8 miles. If I split up the mileage over 5 days, that might work out. I'd limit my time outside and my time on the TM (which I really hate).

 

[MouseDogMom]

Interesting timing on your question... at our Galloway kickoff someone asked about how many days during the week we needed to run. Jeff Galloway has always recommended a minimum of 2 30-minute runs (or walks, or run/walks), and says that's all that's necessary to successfully complete a marathon in addition to the weekly long run. But this time he added the part about not necessarily having to do it all at one time. He said if you only had 10 minutes each day, as long as you got 60 minutes during the week it counted the same. Kinda blew my mind - I have a hard time believing my body would be convinced that I was ready for 26 miles, but maybe it works?

Jackie

 

[chimera]

He said if you only had 10 minutes each day, as long as you got 60 minutes during the week it counted the same. Kinda blew my mind - I have a hard time believing my body would be convinced that I was ready for 26 miles, but maybe it works?

Jackie

yeah, I've never really bought into that or what Tracy mentioned that 10 miles on Sat and 10 on Sunday equals 20 consecutive miles. Maybe that works for the elites who take less than an hour to run 10 miles, but I think the endurance factor plays way more into it for someone as slow as I am. I've just been seeing folks talking about how they've run every day for 37 days or so like Beth. They seem to be doing okay, but I feel like what Dave mentioned, rest days are important to allow your muscles to rebuild those microtears that help make us stronger.

 

[MouseDogMom]

Mel - Like you, I think it's much more about endurance. I want my body to be accustomed to running - the time, the surface, the elements. It would be nice to run down the street with the dog every day and claim I'd trained, but I think my body wouldn't go along when we got up to 20+ miles! I'm gonna stick with 3-4 miles twice a week, then my long run on the weekend, and diligently try to get in 1 day of biking. The core work can make up the other days when my legs get a break, since mine don't like to run every day.

Jackie

 

[laughinplace199]

Mel, the title of this thread definitely caught my eye, especially when I saw it was started by one of my 'Ohana cousins.

I couldn't imagine running every day. There are days where I need a break, sometimes physically, but sometimes mentally too.