MFR #145: How to Make Your Easy Runs Work for You
Mojo For Running Podcast
debbie voiles
4.9 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Optimize your running training by properly applying the hard easy principle.
You must keep your easy runs easy and your hard runs hard to get the desired training effect.
Most runners are driven to check their watch, worried about their pace being too slow, even when it's an 'easy' run day, and this prevents much-needed, injury-preventing recovery.
In this episode, I explain the appropriate time differential between hard and easy runs and provide suggestions for how to avoid running too fast at the wrong time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Debbie Boyles, coach at Mojo for Running with episode number 145. |
| 0:06.4 | How to make sure your easy runs are working for you. |
| 0:25.2 | Okay, let's talk about easy runs. |
| 0:30.9 | I have a secret for you, a training tip, about something that many runners have never even heard about. |
| 0:39.4 | And it's kind of the kind of thing where a lot of people get it wrong because it's not the intuitive thing, |
| 0:43.7 | especially runners who've never been coached and don't have time to read books about running. |
| 0:47.9 | A lot of people, you know, they don't have much time to be studying up about running and how to do it the best way to improve because they need to use all their spare time |
| 0:52.1 | to get out there and get the miles in. |
| 0:53.7 | So I'm going to try to help you out with this. |
| 0:55.9 | It's about the pace of your easy runs. |
| 0:58.5 | It could be that you don't give much thought to your easy runs. |
| 1:02.3 | After all, they're easy, right? |
| 1:04.2 | Or it could be that you always try to watch your pace to make sure you're not running too slowly. |
| 1:10.4 | It could be, and this is the case |
| 1:12.3 | with a lot of people. It's the, it's probably the mindset that most people, if they haven't really |
| 1:17.9 | been coached in how to train for running, it's the mindset that most people would naturally adopt |
| 1:24.5 | because it seems to be the intuitive one, and that is that it's better not to run too |
| 1:29.0 | slow. Well, you know about the hard easy principle, right? So we need to talk about that really briefly. |
| 1:35.5 | Does this sound familiar to you that when you're running and you're taking it easy, you look down |
| 1:41.8 | at your watch every once in a while well there it is there's the |
| 1:45.4 | problem but the good news is that it's super easy to fix this it's totally within your power it costs |
| 1:52.1 | nothing and you can make the adjustment immediately i've talked before many times about the hard |
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