11/9/2023 0 Comments Day before marathon![]() ![]() Obviously, you’ve been training for this marathon for quite a long time and running is a significant part of your weekly and daily life. The last reason is that it calms the nerves, and it becomes routine. The reason for that is that your neuromuscular system isn’t firing on all cylinders, and so to prevent that from happening, you want to run easy, 10-20 minutes a day before the race. Let’s say you miss one workout or you miss two days and you come back to do a workout, you’ll often feel really crappy and just not good. That’s why sometimes, if you take a day or two off from an injury, you’ll come back and, part of it is mental, but you feel like you’ve lost a bunch of fitness. You can make small improvements to your central nervous system or neuromuscular system, in just a day, and conversely, you can actually have fitness losses in your muscular system within a day. When you’re working the central nervous system, it responds very quickly to new stimuli because the growth and recover cycle is very short. The other important reason, and I think this is probably the most important, is that running a day before the race stimulates the central nervous system.įor those that don’t know, the neuromuscular system or ?zenus is the communication vehicle between what your brain and your muscles do. The next day, you are also going to wake up feeling less tight because you’re going to get that blood flowing, stretch out the muscles, those types of things. Just keep it easy.Īnd what that’s going to do is increase blood flow to your legs, and get everything flushed out of your system, and it’s going to make you store more glycogen for the marathon the next day. No reason to pick up the pace or do marathon pace. The first and the most important is that running the day before the race is going to help increase blood flow.īasically, what you want to be doing, the day before the race is running anywhere from 10-20 minutes, so nothing very far, 20 minutes being the most, all completely easy. The only reason I would say potentially not, is if you are injured, and you’re giving it a Hail Mary for race day, and you’re just kind of hoping that things are going to work out.īut the reasons that you should be running the day before a race are a few. I don’t think there is a situation where you shouldn’t be. To give you the simple answer, I believe that you should always run the day before a marathon. ![]() I’m wondering what Runners Connect thinks about running the day before a marathon, and the running plan for the entire week before the marathon. My question is about running the day before a marathon. Rob: Hi, I’m from Virginia, and I really enjoy the daily podcast and all the resources at Runners Connect. With that said, I want to get into today’s question from Rob. ![]() I’ve been doing some travelling, also working on some awesome stuff for you coming up. Coach Jeff: Hey everybody, welcome back to the Runners Connect Run to the Top Extra Kick Podcast. ![]()
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