Running and Drinking

tara69

What are your views on drinking alcohol while training. Sorry it seems like a stupid question just wondering if it would have a huge impact on my training if i were to drink while socialising once a week.

Would it be better to just stay off alcohol. Ive decided to run in the dublin city marathon and im hoping to train for the nest 9 months including when i go to australia this summer for months. I know from the past that iwill definately stick to my training.

seanybiker

once a week will hardly kill ya.

Rusty Cogs 08

I ran the DCM a few years ago and I made sure I gave up sauce completely for the last week

TheRoadRunner

tara69 wrote: »

What are your views on drinking alcohol while training. Sorry it seems like a stupid question just wondering if it would have a huge impact on my training if i were to drink while socialising once a week.

Would it be better to just stay off alcohol. Ive decided to run in the dublin city marathon and im hoping to train for the nest 9 months including when i go to australia this summer for months. I know from the past that iwill definately stick to my training.

It will help obviously but you co could go mad. Maybe ease down on the drinking closer to the event. As long as you are drinking in moderation it won't have a massive detrimental effect on your training.

RoyMcC

A few drinks once a week will have little or no affect on your running OP. And whilst you can take your running seriously enough there's a life balance to be found as well. In my case that's a few pints whenever I'm thirsty.

But, as Rusty Cogs and Road Runner suggest, it is wise to lay off and detox a bit before the race itself, and also any key runs.

donothoponpop

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

It will help obviously but you could go mad.

Best not to risk it then. Brilliant!:D

cfitz

tara69 wrote: »

What are your views on drinking alcohol while training.

As long as you don't try it while you're crossing roads you should be ok.

Slogger Jogger

Whatever about detoxing, I'm looking forward to retoxing after the Rotterdam marathon myself

freyners

I don't no too much about running but i know that it kill you during a rugby season, i tend to lay off all the sauce durin a season

shels4ever

No harm having a few drinks at all, you need to enjoy yourself too but I think you'll find you will reduce this anyway even without planning, I know I used to have a few drinks on a Friday night but when you know you have a 10 mile + run in the morning that glass of wine of beers tends not to be drunk..

Racing Flat

Not too much of a problem unless a Saturday (drinking) session means you don't do your Sunday (running) session. To avoid this swap around your rest day on big occasions.

uglyjohn

i was going to start a similar thread soon.

i gave up the sauce after the half marathon on the 20th of sept, just over a month before the marathon. if i was out in town i'd always drive top make sure i stuck to my one small drink.

i think the real problem with drinking is that it makes me miss sessions. instead of getting and feeling good up at 9/10 on a weekend morning and doing a long run i surface at noon feeling sh1t and have a fry

if you have the self control to go out for "a few" and actually just have a few and go home it fine but if you go out for "a few" and end up getting trollied, going to coppers and find yourself in some smokey living room drinking warm cans until 7 and then passing out on the couch on the opposite side of the city to home.

i wish i could listen to my own advice.....

who007

uglyjohn wrote: »

if you have the self control to go out for "a few" and actually just have a few and go home it fine but if you go out for "a few" and end up getting trollied, going to coppers and find yourself in some smokey living room drinking warm cans until 7 and then passing out on the couch on the opposite side of the city to home.

i wish i could listen to my own advice.....

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

shels4ever

uglyjohn wrote: »

if you have the self control to go out for "a few" and actually just have a few and go home it fine but if you go out for "a few" and end up getting trollied, going to coppers and find yourself in some smokey living room drinking warm cans until 7 and then passing out on the couch on the opposite side of the city to home.

This sounds like most of my old football team on a sat morning...

Killgore Trout

uglyjohn wrote: »

i was going to start a similar thread soon.


if you have the self control to go out for "a few" and actually just have a few and go home it fine but if you go out for "a few" and end up getting trollied, going to coppers and find yourself in some smokey living room drinking warm cans until 7 and then passing out on the couch on the opposite side of the city to home.

Should have brought your runners

Peckham

For DCM 2006 & 2007 I quit (or should that be "postponed") the booze a month before the race, whereas for DCM 2008 I quit two months before the event. Whilst being off the booze for a month definitely helped me in terms of sleeping better, feeling better, finding training easier etc., I don't think the extra month in 2008 made any difference.

It comes down to moderation and being sensible in your scheduling - for example, during the summer months if I know I'm likely to be having a few drinks on both Friday and Saturday nights, I'd move my long run to Friday evening.

And if a glass or two of red wine helps you sleep, then there's no reason not to have it the night before the marathon so that you feel more relaxed going to bed.

PainIsTemporary

Eamon Coughlan mentions in his autobiography that he was would occasionally have a beer or two to help him relax the night before some races ... sounds mad but 70+ sub4min miles speaks volumes. Not able to mix the two personally ... think its called being a lightweight

kevinkilbane

i have done 6marathons. and when im in training (min40miles a week), i keep the drinking to one night a week, a saturday. so basically id usually do a big run on saturday morning, usually more than half marathon, then do what i like the rest of the day and night, and go nightclub or whatever is happening, sometimes i go bananas too. my rest day is sunday so the drink doesnt infere with my training but im strictly one day a week with drinking.
also when the marathon is close, i would give up the drink for 3-4 weeks before race day and obviously increase the miles.
im only 23, and you have to have a social life when your doing marathons.