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Feeling the growl again
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. "If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a Board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough" If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. "Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still."
Craig
Doubles. Doubles. Doubles. As many days a week as you can. If you can't do six then do five. If you can't do five then do four. If you can't do four .... then, you get the picture... Start doing them on 40 miles per week. Just do it.
I've got a fever...
But, they certainly don't save time. The overhead time cost of running (changing clothes, showering, stretching if applicable, washing clothes, travelling to training site if applicable, etc) all "double" when doing doubles.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
Non ducor, duco.
I think doubles have an advantage at any mileage level, at least much below 70. And I think 70 mpw in doubles can be better than 70 mpw in singles depending on the racing goal and the phase of training. But, they certainly don't save time. The overhead time cost of running (changing clothes, showering, stretching if applicable, washing clothes, travelling to training site if applicable, etc) all "double" when doing doubles. I could understand doubles being the only way to make the timing work if someone had freedom in the morning and evening, but could not consistently get an hour and a half of free time in a consecutive block per day. But I would feel sorry for that person. Part of the reason I stopped running doubles was due to the fact that it just took so much time.
Doubles take WAY more time.
Runners run
Stop primping so long in front of the mirror and they don't take that much more time.
Oh Mighty Wing
+42 Doubles take WAY more time. The only solution is to not shower between them.
umm it's called the wash-cloth wipe down...
We called it a whore bath: face, pits, crotch, ass, feet.