Always feel wrecked after long runs

Get electrolytes and tart cherry juice

Sounds like you are just out of shape and biting off more than you can chew at this stage. If it feels too hard, you just need to take it slower and ramp up to that kind of effort or duration. Dont worry about picking up the pace or any speed. Just build the engine. Takes a while for the body to adapt to training load.

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Lose a couple of pounds of flesh.

Fueling was first thing I thought of but hydrate pretty well. Used to do Liquid IV packs in addition to water but lately have just been adding lemon wedges. Doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Also am currently not in best shape but definitely felt this way even when more fit. Never been strong aerobic runner so maybe not surprising to struggle with this but always hope there's a fix.

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I dropped the long run and spread the mileage instead. However I wouldn't call 1 hour 20 a long run.

Run more weekly miles and be more consistent with your long runs. Voilà

Bump. Would something like jog 8, 1 hour break, easy 8 be good? Much more of a mile-5000 runner than 10k+ runner and double most days, but anything over 10 and especially 12 or more takes a ton out of me.

Long runs, for the sake of packing on miles, are over rated. Slip some quality in there and mix it up….whoops, that’s just a workout day with warmup/cooldown.

Doubling is for big miles IMO and doesn’t sound necessary for you or like you’re there.

That's not a long run. Train more. Take a nap after

go 400/800 dont torture yourself ld is for slow people anyway

80 min is hardly a long run. If you can't handle 60 min every day for a week (not saying it's a good training plan), you probably shouldn't bother with 90 min.

You probably run too fast.

You're doing it completely wrong. My guess is you don't actually know what easy pace is.

Probably at least one, if not all three, of these:

* You're running too fast - slow down

* You're not fit - run more

* You're dehydrated - try an lmnt or other sports drink with a bunch of electrolytes

If you run more mileage and do long runs regularly it won't feel so hard anymore. You don't do them very often as you said, so the occasion that you do it's more than you're used to and it's hard.

1 hour long run lol long runs are 2.5-3 hours

I don't know what you mean in terms of volume when you say you aren't a high mileage runner but the first thought I had was that maybe you just aren't running enough to manage runs longer than an hour. Otherwise I doubt that going harder for the last fifteen minutes of a run where you're already a bit over extended is doing anything to make the run and its aftermath less of a struggle.

Sounds like a troll post to me.

A one hour run is not a long run. If you think that you must be a beginner.

Try to run 3-5 times a week for 45 each and one of the an hour long. Do that for a little bit and start lengthening your runs.

Two things that helped me adjust to long runs in college, where we were doing long runs of 90 minutes or longer once a week:

1. Eat a lot before you run. Get in the habit of waking up at least an hour before you run and eating a solid breakfast that contains lots of cabs and proteins, and some fats. A staple for me was leftover rice and a peanut butter and banana sandwich, usually washed down with powdered Gatorade, or juice when I could afford it. If you're running later in the day, try to have a meal where you ingest at least 600 calories within an hour before the start of your run.

2. Run the first two miles as slow as possible. If you followed Step 1 properly, then you will probably still be digesting at this point anyway. Once you are loosened up, let the pace increase naturally. If you do this, you will tend pick up the last ~15 minutes without even realizing it.