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Training run outside "the comfort zone"...dangerous?

[Deleted User] · 2017-01-10 12:24:03

Was off for 6 weeks post hernia op, back running since Christmas, have done a couple of 30km training runs since. There is a 70km trail run on Feb 11th. Now, it's far from a target race, would only do it as friends doing it and we'd treat it as a training exercise and the pace would be slow enough. It'd be my longest run…

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10-01-2017 1:24pm

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Was off for 6 weeks post hernia op, back running since Christmas, have done a couple of 30km training runs since.

There is a 70km trail run on Feb 11th. Now, it's far from a target race, would only do it as friends doing it and we'd treat it as a training exercise and the pace would be slow enough.

It'd be my longest run ever though. Have had a couple of 6 hour races such as the Mournes Skyrun, 7x7s. So the idea of spending hours on my feet is not alien. But even at training/slow pace, is a spike like that in training this early in a return from rest a bad thing or would you be inclined to say pushing the body into the longer run would be fine and maybe beneficial?

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