With the Wisconsin Blizzard we had mid - week and the snow and ice across the US all winter, runners have had to be creative getting in runs outside. The tough running surface with ice and snow presents issues with your stride. Your stride is shortened and you end up holding back on the pace sometimes putting on the brakes just to stay upright. All bad habits that runners do not want to get into day to day.
A modification on your long run over this weekend that works great and is fun yet challenging is to split the long run in half. Log half of the miles outside then switch into a faster pace by getting inside on the treadmill or if in the Milwaukee area the Pettit Center. Use your long run this weekend as a confidence booster with that last half faster when you can finally get onto a normal running surface off of the snow and ice. I am sick of running outside and am totally looking forward to the mini long run workout and this is going to get me through my Friday and Saturday runs outside before the pre-Super Bowl long run on Sunday.
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Great idea! It is just so much harder to run outside right now and not the best if you are injury prone.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like an interesting idea.
ReplyDeleteDid a very long slow run today outside, as it felt 'warm' out. Got back, ate an epic breakfast and drank a ton of chocolate milk and then fell asleep for a while. I thought it was a good running day.
I'm guessing by this you mean start on the road and end on a treadmill all in one run as opposed to wake up, run five miles, then hit the gym later on for another five? So if I split a ten-miler, I should do five outside and then get to a treadmill as quickly as possible and finish the back five?
ReplyDeleteYep the 10 miler split is all in one run...just split up inside/outside. After the first 5 miles outside take a minute or two to shed heavy outside clothes and get ready to roll on the treadmill for the last 5 miles.
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