Runners - Do you incorporate walking breaks at all?

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  • katharmonic
    katharmonic Posts: 5,723 Member
    I do walk breaks only for recovery between intervals in speed workouts. If I'm doing a long run or base run I don't. There the idea is to run a pace that I can sustain for whatever period of time, and work on increasing that time.

    Absolutely people different things work for different people though.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    tturley wrote: »
    I found that I'm more comfortable slowing my pace a bit and running the whole time. When I take walk breaks my muscles tend to stiffen up.

    Yep. I actually found a training program that relies on this to simulate running a marathon at shorter distances. It had intervals something like 'run 6 miles, walk 5 min, repeat 3x'. It's supposed to get you used to running when your legs feel dead.

    I've done it, but only when I'm supposed to be running and for whatever reason I'm too beat to do the scheduled full distance in one go which is very unusual for me. I have no problem slowing down enough that I have to be really wiped to have to stop.
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