![]() ![]() ![]() Having quality hard efforts also builds confidence, so even though I have fewer of them these days I find I get more bang for my buck out of them. Simply put, it seems the extra easy day between hard efforts allows the hard efforts to actually be hard rather than just another attempt at a slog when I really should be going easy. However, with age I have gravitated toward a hard/easy/easy cycle. And for much of my running life, I did the same. ![]() Many younger runners have, over the years, practiced the hard/easy training pattern on a weekly and monthly basis. As such, it’s important to not stress about the laborious nature of those first few miles, but rather to embrace them as part of the process and allow them to be a gateway into something better during the second part of the run. Now, I spend the first creaky 10 minutes or so of every run making sure everything still works, getting blood streaming out to the extremities, and cranking up the heart rate to a somewhat sustainable level. At my age, gone are the days when I could just roll out of bed every morning, jump into my running clothes, and bust out out sub-7 minute miles right off my doorstep. ![]()
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