• Home
  • TheEd home
  • Chat
  • Events
  • About TheEd
  • Inspiration
  • 10k Training
    • Thoughts behind the programs
  • Forum Training Zone

The Editor

You are here: TheEd Home / Chat / Balance in Running

Balance in Running

By timeadmin Leave a Comment

Run Free

Run Free

On the Running Feedback forums I was recently asked about the balance spoken about in so many of the thread replies.

Balance in a nutshell is a healthy outlook and enjoyment of one’s running, where you run for what it gives you and not primarily giving to running without keeping the balance.

The balance being our life, our friends, our family and yes, our work while still achieving our running (exercise) goals.

Running can be such a great medicine for everything in life; however in my years of coaching (dating back to ’84), I often noted how obsession to one’s running and performance created a negative effect.

Years previously, I spoke to an athlete who at the age of 40+ had run 3.40 for the Two Oceans 56km Ultra Marathon. I had mentioned that he was pushing too much towards trying to get sub 3.40 at the expense of his balanced lifestyle.

My reasoning behind him not needing to do more training, was that it would come at an expense and that in turn it could lead to a negative cycle without keeping balance and perspective.

Through experience, I have come to understand that we all have ‘natural’ ability. We may not possess the same ability as the Olympic Champions but we still have talent and we should nurture it to achieve what we can from this ability.

Mental, Physical and Emotional well-being on the day of the race is the secret to success.

This is the BALANCE we should hope to maintain.

The policy during training should be to keep this balance.

Once you have set the goal, achieved the goal or maybe even fallen short, you can reassess where you stand and then plan from there.

This is another reason why I discuss ‘less is better’ (I shall write a further article regarding this)

If you do too much and break down, you often do not have a clear indication of what was too much, if you train with less then test yourself and set a mark you are able to go forward from this.

All the time keeping the balance.

As always, I hope this helps understand what I mean by balance

TheEd
Author: Gavin Doyle

You may also like -

  • Intro to the athlete, MrsDuckIntro to the athlete, MrsDuck
  • Rolling all the eggs into one basketRolling all the eggs into one basket
  • Intro to the athlete ABIntro to the athlete AB
  • sub 60 minute schedule addedsub 60 minute schedule added

Filed Under: Chat, Coaching, Opinion Tagged With: Balance, Coaching, Events, Friends, Lifestyle, Training

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Sharing

Facebooktwitterpinterestlinkedinmail

Related Links

  • 10k Training Programs
  • Running Information
  • Sport News
  • Training Feedback

Recent Posts

  • Heart Rate and Training Zones Experience
  • Racing her first 10k races
  • Intro to the athlete, MrsDuck
  • Steve Jones Record
  • Rolling all the eggs into one basket
  • Breaks, Plans and ABnating
  • The making of the athlete AB
  • Intro to the athlete AB
  • Farah loses to Bekele’s tactical nuance
  • sub 60 minute schedule added

RSS Time-to-Run

  • These exciting running events are still to come this year
  • How To Effectively Prepare For A Marathon
  • What other major sporting events in 2022 might people into running like?
  • How to Spend Your Time Recovering from an Injury

Tags

10km 10k Training 2013 2014 AB Ambition Athlete Boston Coach Coaching Development Diet Doping Europe Events Forums Friendship Goals Great North Run Heart Rate Inspiration Ireland Kapaim Kenenisa Bekele Lactate Training Heart Rate Lanzarote London Marathon Master Mo Farah MrsDuck Nutrition Opinion Owen Hollywood Performance Persevere Running South Africa Steve Jone Tatyana McFadden Tel Aviv Marathon TheEd Training Training Zones Ystad

RSS 10k Training Programs

  • What is fartlek?
  • A new 800 meter record 30 years later
  • Substitute some of your running training with skiing
  • Reduce training intensity during corona pandemic

Copyright © 2023 · TheEd Running Info · Privacy Policy · Powered by DMG-projects · DMG-network partner · Log in