easy/hard days

Rickshaw · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:50 pm

The training widsom I've seen most places says to alternate easy and hard training days during the week for best results. So if you do an especially long or difficult workout one day, you'd always follow it up with an easy shorter run the next. But I've seen a couple of books (Daniels maybe?) that acutally suggest stacking your hard days back-to-back. Their theory is that the negative effects of a hard workout don't peak until the second day after, so you should do two hard days in a row.

I tried the back-to-back hard days method for a while this summer, but was left feeling pretty fatigued most of the time. I was also running more mileage than I ever had before, though, so it's hard to know what the cause really was. Anyone else tried back-to-back hard days and had it work for them?