283.Long Runs Every Weekend- What About Cut Backs?

283. SHOULD YOU RUN LONG EVERY WEEKEND?

Every weekend runners around the world gear up to run long… But should you be doing a LONG run over 90 min every weekend? When getting RRCA certified 10 years ago, one of the concepts they beat into our head was that we don’t/should not run long every single weekend. The justification was about the glycogen storages needing to be replenished 1x a month there should be a cut back week where we don’t do activity over 90 min to allow for that. This is a good argument… but let’s do a deeper dive

Cut Back Weeks

What is the def of a long run

7 day is just easy mentally for people to create but its truly ot ideal

Training is a high stress load on the body.

Your body needs macro and micro rest

It allows you the chance to recover from the hard training

You don’t actually get faster from the training, you get faster from the recovery periods

Other things to do instead of a long run

Cut back long run

A short workout