3 Most Common Mistakes ALL Runners Make

The first mistake is not running easy on easy days.

Hold on, don't leave yet.

It feels too slow to run.

It doesn't feel like we're making any progress.

We're short on time.

We're bored.

We may not have a plan.

We don't have accountability.

And we may not know what pace or effort we should be training at.

These are the reasons we run too fast on our easy training run days.

But why is it a problem? It'll affect your consistency.

It'll make you more fatigued for your harder workouts the next day.

This will make your intense workouts less effective if you're running your easy days too hard.

Not running your easy days easy enough means you miss a critical foundational building part of training.

So how do you fix this? Oh, and by the way, if you've made it this far, this is the worst one of the three.

So the other ones are getting better because this one's talked about just a lot.

Here's the hacks or the tricks that I've used to fix it.

And I've seen other people use that work.

Easy runs actually need to be hiked sometimes.

When I started, I have a lot of hills where I live.

Maybe you do too.

And I could not run easy pace up the hills.

So I'd have to go up for my jog and I'd run the hill and that's already pushing me into beyond easy pace just by trying to do my, it was really a 13, 14 minute jog and it was still too much effort.

So you can think of easy days as hikes.

There's nothing wrong with this.