@@Tritiuminducedfusion for some people that is a long run. Maybe if you were on a “long” run rn you would have less time to gate-keep the running community😁
@lilypfefferle7525 Please tell us your mile, 5k, 10k, half marathon and marathon times .. we'll all wait. While I just ran a 3:28:46 marathon in 4 months of training. Enlighten us as to how good of an athlete you are bozo. Someone trying to validate that 5k is a "long run" is just delusional. Just like your joke of a training program I would surmise.
@@Tritiuminducedfusion you’re literally just further proving my point🤣 I don’t need get my times approved by some bored granola white guy who made a simple activity their whole personality. Go touch some grass you doofus.🫡
I mesure my workouts (in 2nd zone) by mins: - Base Run: 30-60 mins - Mid Run: 60-90 mins - Long Run: +90mins The pace and the distance are additional variables to modify intensity and volume
Great comment, I totally agree, that makes it more inclusive. That's also how I measure my workouts, short, medium and long for regular training. If I'm in marathon training, there's some shift towards longer times on your feet: base up to 75 min medium long run 75-120 min long run +120 min.
@@BenUK1yeah, imo it varies depending on what you're training for, when I'm preparing for a half marathon or more my long runs start at 60 min, currently I'm doing a lot of 5k and even shorter track stuff, so sometimes 50 min feels like a long run to me.
Half a year ago, I considered 5k+ to be my long run. Now 12-15k is my long run and in about 6 months I aim to be doing 20k for my long run. It all depends on your running experience and current and future goals. I could also say any run where I would like to have some water near the end. In hot weather that tends to be around 9k, but in rainy weather I can go for 20k+ without the need for any water.
when i started in 2018 i thought i could never reach a level where i can run 15km without stopping. now my daily run is 16-18km and long run is minimum 30km. i told my wife i could run a 10k even if i had a fever 😂
I can agree and relate. I can remember when I first started running 5ks a couple years ago. It felt so long that I couldn't fathom anything longer. Now I'm regularly doing 10 miles per week as my long run and I don't give it a second thought. That distance 2 years ago would have knocked me on my ass.
That's it, 45 minutes. There's a physiological reason for this being the right answer: The stress hormones overtake the "exciting" hormones around the 45 minute mark, which makes longer runs more taxing and harder to recover from. I personally only do Zone 5 training as long runs, but my goal is a 20 minute parkrun, not a marathon.
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I find it so weird that we try to answer this question with a distance rather than time spent running! I’m a disabled runner, 5k time is other people’s 10k time! To me, anything over 90 minutes is a long run!
Its all relative to the person, but anything thats longer compared to the person's other runs. This year I've went from 6k being my weekend run to 25k as im training for a marathon. 7k is now often my shortest run of the week. But me at the start of the year would have definitely considered 5-7k a long run
Best answer! 90 minutes minimum. Pace and distance is irrelevant. As long as you are moving for at least 90 minutes thats a proper long run. 120 minutes is the goal!
Me a year ago too; never thought possible but finally got up to 2 mi nonstop before an injury set me back. So I run by heartrate now and walk when its too high. I've learned that lower effort runs are safer, and also easier to manage mentally, just listen to your body and keep at it
then 2 minutes is YOUR long run. Don't be too hard on yourself, consistency is the key, my first run is 200 meters. now I'm still a beginner but running is not a torture anymore..
Reading this 3 months later. I hope you're still at it. Be patient with yourself. I started running 3ks, got bored did 5s, then, 10s etc... I'm running my 5th Comrades Marathon this year in June
The last woman had such good energy and was confident to take it all in context. "For ME, it's 10." A lot of people looked unsure as if there was a correct answer, or if they were embarrassed. Makes sense they topped the segment off with her interaction.
Instead of distance, I would consider time to define a long run. If I remember correctly the definition of Threshold effort is what you can sustain for and hour, so probably I would consider any run over 70 minutes as a long run
If you for some reason can't/don't run like normally in one week I wouldn't suddenly say a 20 min recovery run is your long run. Also people commonly do two long runs in consecutive days for ultra practice, why would only the longer of them be considered long run
Distance is not the same as intensity, running and sprinting is almost the same. Jogging, racewalking or walking are on the other side of the spectrum.
@@ROKRGCSFare you special needs bro? Any run feels long if you run it as 4 min mile pace. That’s not the question. 1/4 of mile isn’t a long run regardless of how fast you run.
Love the guy that said "as long as you can get off the couch" . To the lady: if mist people can't sprint it then i think it quite counts as a long run, even if 5k is little for a trained person.
There is no set distance, like there is no set paces. A sprinter might run 5-10k as a long run, while a marathoner might run 30k. My favorite race distance is 50k, but my longest training runs EVER have been 13 miles! 😂
When i started running. 4miles was my long run. nowadays 16miles is a minimum for my weekly long run. anything shorter just a daily run. For me a long run should be at least double your normal daily run
I used to run 21 km at age 16 . But i was well prepaird. Also i started run at age 7 ( 11km) as a kid i had good stamina. Now days i can admit i have worst condition also i didn't do sports for around 6 years. I start running last week and yes it is hard to start. But most important is to go outside and start slowly run
As long as you move is all that matters for beginners. For more experienced runners, more then 90 minutes (distance is irrelevant if you not at a very high level)
The answer is definitively 10K based on time and BPM - In any human, by the time you reach 10K you’ll probably be past Zone 2 and the duration will start having catabolic effects (not necessarily a bad thing, but why gym people restrict their cardio to 2 hours per week to have the most anabolic response possible)
It's all going to be relative to what you've run before. If you've run ultras, then a marathon isn't that long of a run in comparison, and vice versa to the guy who hasn't run since he was a child a long run would be whatever distance.
I don't know. I run 70km during training some days and a Marathon which takes 3 hours and sometimes more, is a long run. I could say half a Marathon definitely has a short run feel to it.
It potentially depends not only on what you are training for, but also on where you are in a training program. Suppose, for example, you are early in a marathon training cycle. A long run could be 3 miles. Late in the program, a long run could be 22 miles, and a short run could be 6 miles.
Food for thought, if you do only 5k’s then your long run should be 3x that race or 9-10 miles. 15-18 miles is a good range if you run 10k’s and half marathons, conversely 22 miles is or was the norm for marathon runners. Long runs help the body recover when run well below your race pace. Runners of today can’t hold a candle to us first runners back in the 1970’s because we ran at a higher level and trained like demons. In high school we ran two long runs per week of 15-18 miles, while averaging 60-80+ a week
The pace is important in my book too and at about 7.30 a KM doing about 8 - 10 kms is a long run in my book. Doing that takes anywhere from 60 minutes to 75 minutes. Perfect.
I think it's more related to time instead of distance. I consider a 10k a long run because it takes me between 45 minutes and an hour depending on how hard I push, but if I could run a 30 minute 10k I wouldn't consider it a long run anymore.
When I was running marathons, 16 miles minimum up to 23 max. For a 10k, maybe 10 or 12. But that’s if you’re running for best possible time. It’s very different if your goal is just to complete the race at any speed.
For me, it's currently anything in the double digits - 10 miles (16 km) at a minimum. This distance gives me solid and respectable endurance fitness to get my 5k times down as well as making it much easier to get ready for upcoming half marathons.
Self trained in running and I went from doing only 1-1.5 miles to now today hitting 6 miles for the second time since I hit 5 miles 3 months ago. I’m trying to hopefully in the next two months hit 8 miles OR get my 5 mile down to a 40-42 min or 3 mile to a 21-24 min, and ofcourse still get my 2 mile to below a 15 min(potentially a 14-14:30 2 mile).
When I first started, 6K was really long for me, then it became ten, and its stuck there for a long time before I started seriously training, then my long run became 20, now 30. Progress is earned not given!
As others have said, distance in this case means nothing when some runners finish a 10k literally 2.5x faster than other runners. Best way to measure what a long run is, is to accept that the distance is different for every person but you're hitting your active minutes for the day. For me, that's around 45 minutes because there aint no way that I can squeeze in a 2 hour run and not be slacking off from my other commitments in the day. Do you people not have jobs??? :D
"Mileage may vary." Used to be 7km. Now 10-14 miles or 2 to 2h30min. Very slow, very aerobic, taking my sweetest time. TRC convinced me about the benefits. Training for a 10k PB but my 5k race effort / heartrate begin to tumble down as well!
Depends on pace for me. When I ran track, anything over 800m seemed like forever cause I was thinking about having to sprint it. Now I view sprinting and running and jogging as all different things. So sprinting- still anything over 800m, running- anything over 2 miles, jogging- anything over 5-10K
At minimum of 15k for me. Although technically, your longest run of the week is your long run. I usually try to get a 10-13 mile run in every week, but sometimes work just doesn’t allow that.
Same for me. At a minimum, I do 10 miles as my long run every week. If I'm feeling not too fatigued, I'll bump it up to 11-12 miles. Any more than this for the long run and I feel it for a couple days afterword. It's all in what you build up to and also what your weekly mileage is. Mine currently sits at 50 miles (80 km) per week. 10-11 miles feels just about right for me.
For me 16-18km are my long runs.. 10-12kms are my usual although I'm now pregnant and not running so I'll have to build up my endurance once I start running again
I count anything over 20k usually - or over 1hr 45. Because if you're off-road and hitting high vertical, obviously you're running a lot slower for the same effort
"It depends". I've been training for my first half marathon, so a long easy run is 90 minutes to 2 hours. My regular easy runs are now 60 to 90 minutes. Looking ahead to a marathon, Runalyze reckons I should be building up to a weekly long run of at least 28km. It's amazes me that when training for a marathon, the first time I'll actually run anything like a marathon distance will be on race day itself.
I'm not a big runner, I've done a couple half marathons in the past but I'll usually just do 1 or 2 5ks a week, so for me anything 10k and up is a long run. Just depends on what your used to.
“As long as you get off the couch you’re running” classic example of not understanding the question and thinking motivation is always the go to answer 😂
Realistically, I count a long run as anything over 1h30m, no matter the mileage or distance. I know some don’t even consider that a long run. Those start at the 2h mark.
For me as a half marathon newbie, I would say that 80mins or more is a long run, I don’t really categorise by distance because everyone’s pace is different haha
For me, it depends on the pace - I can't sustain a pace faster than around 4:50/km, so any run that I can complete at a faster pace is short run. In terms of distance, this is somewhere between 5K and 7K, but I rarely run such distances so I can't be more exact.
When I was doing ultramarathons it was always time on your feet and never really distance. 6-8 hours would be a nice long run in those days. Now anything around an hour and a half is long for me. So I guess 15-20k
Well for me is it depends on your training and what your training for, usually around 40%-50% more of your standard easy run, although i base my runs on time rather than distance 😅
Facts. As someone who started running only a month ago and started from a fitnses level of could barely walk a 5k..... A 5k is like 45 minutes of time at the pace of a brisk walk. It doesn't even reach what would be considered a normal amount of exercise for the day
