Forums >General Running>2nd run of double = fastest run ever??
not bad for mile 25
Yesterday I did a very rare, for me, double. Later in the day, on the spur of the moment, I decided to do another easy run. Gaging solely by feel, I thought I was plodding through another easy run. Legs felt pretty good, guts were threatening to cramp as they tend to do around mile eighteen. When I got home and logged my time, however, it turned out to be one of my fastest non-race runs ever! Is this typical? Do I need a twelve mile warmup to be at my best? Do you experience this as well?
I've been telling ya all along... ;o)
This happens to me pretty regularly. Whenever I run in the morning, the second run of the day is almost always faster at the same effort. My watch only displays HR and time, so I usually don't find out until I got home from the run, either. It's always a great feeling.
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
Do you experience this as well?
Yup, most recently on Thursday.
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yup. almost always. Whether the am workout is a run or something else, the afternoon run is always much much better.
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"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
Feeling the growl again
I like using a 4-6 mile shakeout run in the morning to prepare for solid afternoon workouts. Always worked for me.
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I have the same experience - well, it doesn't lead to my fastest runs ever, but I can definitely say that my afternoon runs feel easier at the same effort after a morning shuffle.
If I may ask a question. Assume this runner does the main run in the afternoon/evening, and doesn't double every day, would it be more beneficial to:
(a) Do morning shakeout run before hard workout to prepare for said workout;
(b) Do morning shakeout run the next morning after hard workout to recover and prepare for the day's normal run; or
(c) It doesn't matter, it's just running?
Oh, when will I learn to listen to Nobby?