there is always much debate to how much lifting a runner must do to amount of workouts and visa versa, but there is one thing that is for curtain there never can be a strong enough core. Sure there can be a limit to how much lifting you really need as well as amount of miles one runner needs to go. There is one thing that is just stressed week to week is the proper core training that can prevent so many types of injures that can end one's season. Even the core could be the main focus of your training to get to that next level if necessary.

If the core training is just a couple times a week just being about 45 to and hour. That would be good as about three times a week with about 20 minutes of work a peace, what ever works best in the racing season. This really just goes back to the fundamentals of running and what the body needs to function either in every day or a long run once a week. If we don't have those muscles to support our frame, everything is out of balance, which i have first had account of this.

Having bad hips as it already was i slowly caused myself to have this injury over a very long summer. With most summer training the main focus is miles and rest for the most part. Having very low core training from time to time this just put me at risk pushing sixty plus miles a week with maybe one core workout a week. once it came down to the beginning season with a couple time trial here and there i couldn't handle the pace, and it only hurt when i wasn't running. Slowly it started to escalate to workouts eventually every run. Its pretty obvious what the reason for this injury but it was just a stress tendon just above my hip flexer and causing me some pain. After a few trips to the chiropractor and a few days off with icing, i was somewhat back to normal. I had finished up the season with some pain, but was able to catch it before it worsened. When i had a week lower core the problems seemed to only occur.

So really all in all just keep the core work right in line with the running and the likely hood of getting injured is a much slimmer chance. Just mix things up every once in a while, maybe you have been doing the same work over and over. every once in a good while things need to be switched up. There is always room for improvement might as well start with the core work and see where it takes you.