Medium or long run ?

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Night-owl Feb 2013 3:19pm, 15 Feb 2013 15,207 posts	0 Night-owl What ted says depends where you are now the answer will be different for a beginner than it is for Mo Farah and both answers will be right
fowlerk Feb 2013 3:20pm, 15 Feb 2013 17 posts	0 fowlerk I just thought i'd ask an unaswerable question for Friday, thanks for your valuable contributions, we should put this one to bed now ta ;]
lammo Feb 2013 3:27pm, 15 Feb 2013 5,260 posts	0 lammo How about time based though, i've heard people say more than two hours is a long run....
fowlerk Feb 2013 3:44pm, 15 Feb 2013 18 posts	0 fowlerk Good point Lammo, that should put a stick in the spokes...
Old Croc Feb 2013 4:09pm, 15 Feb 2013 22,943 posts	0 Old Croc it's all relative - your medium run is shorter than your longer runs but it is longer than a short run
Autumnleaves Feb 2013 4:14pm, 15 Feb 2013 1,763 posts	0 Autumnleaves Personally I quite like the fact that I can look back and see how my own definition of a medium long run (and surely it is entirely personal) has shrunk over the last 12 months. I like lammo's point about time on feet though as well, for me 10 miles is a long run and will doubtless remain so until I take the plunge to enter a marathon (which ain't happening any time soon)
Drell Feb 2013 4:48pm, 15 Feb 2013 1,363 posts	0 Drell For me, at the moment, anything over 8 miles is a long run. But it varies, depending on how much training I'm doing. It's been as little as 6 miles. But I've never been in a state where 10 miles wouldn't count as a long run (which would take me between 1:45 and 2 hours). I think a long run is anything that's longer than you usually do, to an extent that you wouldn't do a run of that distance more than once a week.
Gobi Feb 2013 5:17pm, 15 Feb 2013 50,334 posts	0 Gobi If you are training for a 5km then 5 miles is a long run
Ness Feb 2013 5:22pm, 15 Feb 2013 5,142 posts	0 Ness The longest race I do is half marathon distance, so for me, I count anything over 7 miles as a 'long run'. I't is probably not the proper definition of a long run.
sLickster Feb 2013 5:44pm, 15 Feb 2013 1,345 posts	0 sLickster Not usually tackling any race longer than 10k (in about 40 mins) then I always classed an hour or over (about 8 miles) as long, it being 50% of my race time longer than actual race time. I think medium long on the log was created for the marathon runners and their schedules