The logic of running:
Running strength grows only if enough recovery and adaptation is allowed between runs.
I know I should rest tomorrow.
I know too I won’t. Gotta feel I’m working and not indulging as I might easily do.
Little for the ego, lots for the soul
Running strength grows only if enough recovery and adaptation is allowed between runs.
I know I should rest tomorrow.
I know too I won’t. Gotta feel I’m working and not indulging as I might easily do.
More extracts from Running Logic© a book not yet written on, well, the Logic of Running.
- You can’t do what you can’t do.
- You can’t do better than your best.
- If you’re dehydrated, you’re dehydrated
- If your sugar levels (your energy supplies) are low, they are low.
- If you are doing too much, you are doing too much
- If you are injured, you are injured
- If you are sick you are sick
- If you are not enjoying your training, you aren’t enjoying your training.
- Comrades race distance of near enough 90 km, is nearly 90 km.
- If you run a personal best marathon 4-5 weeks before the Comrades you will have a personal best marathon time.
2. You can’t do better than your best. You have limits. Also you have a good chance of doing worse than your best.
3. If you’re dehydrated you won’t perform at your best
4. If your sugar levels (energy supply) are low, they are low. You won’t perform your best.
5. If you are doing too much, you are doing too much.
6. If you are injured, you are injured.
7. If you are sick you are sick.
8. If you are not enjoying your training, you are not enjoying your training.
9. Comrades race distance is 90 km. It is not 8 km, 10 km, 21.1 km, 42.2km or even 60 km. It is, near enough, 90 km
10. If you run a personal best marathon 4-5 weeks before the Comrades you will have a personal best marathon time. You will have jeopardised your personal best Comrades.
Excerpts from The Logic of Running©, a work about,well, the logic of running.
Training for Comrades is simple really.
Underlying this view on training are the assumptions that:
Running has a logic that is simple rational and gets you where you want to go.
It is possible to apply a rational logic to what can appear to be an irrational activity. The logic of running doesn’t require irrationality because the activity of ultra-running can appear irrational.
In any event all it takes to change ultra-running to a rational activity is to extend the context in which to judge it far enough. That which in normal terms looks irrational, becomes, on a grander stage, rational.
Sometimes when running you have to remind yourself of this. Sometimes deep in training you have to take a deep breath and remind yourself of this. Sometimes deep in a long run, you should forget all this and focus on running.
This is an homage to an ultimate event: the Comrades Marathon.
While it is a road race of ~ 55 miles or~89 km getting 18000 entrants each year, it is also much more.
Beyond the numbers is the full Comrades experience. This homage some of that.
The offficial Comrades Marathon website is at www.comrades.com
Beyond the Comrades Marathon lies still richer running. For that see the Mystical Miles blog at paulvorwerk.blogspot.com
If Comrades was just another long road race, an “up”, a “down”, and a silver medal would be enough for an ordinary runner like me. But Comrades is much more. Partly because of what I do with it, sure. You seem I’m a magician. I make it big, rich, fulfilling, especially if I can finish […]
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