Running General Chat - Weekly Thread Sat 27 April 2024
Running General Chat - Weekly Thread Sat 27 April 2024
Just a general thread about running. How's your running going? What are you training for? Did you get new shoes? Sporting an injury etc..
On track for the Bryce canyon 30k. It’s about 19.7 miles, 2200 feet of elevation gain, peaking about 9k feet above sea level.
I saw the elevation graph the other day. The first 6 miles are up, then about three miles of down, then 3 more of up. If I can make it to mile 12, it’s all downhill from there!
Tomorrow is a half marathon, then in a week we’re doing 15 miles of hilly trails. I’m probably averaging about 3 miles per day otherwise; between 4 and 6 on running days and taking rest days into account.
Slept in this morning and missed my run.. Will go tomorrow, promise.
I'd like to be a morning runner, get up early, feel awake afterwards etc. but I never seem to manage it 😄
You don't have to be. I'm a morning runner because I wake up early anyway, but that doesn't make me any better.
Sleep is important for recovery and you shouldn't sacrifice sleep just because internet tells you how every cool person on the planet runs at sunrise.
If you really want to wake up early, you also have to go to sleep earlier similarly. I go to sleep every day at 10 and wake up at 6 which gives me plenty sleep.
If you can give it a try I think you'll like it. It's the only time of day my body let's me do it soreness wise.
Really struggling to get back under the 5 minute km pace. But otherwise going pretty well. Really need some new shoes though
Managed a pb today, getting close to 5:00/km.
Week 6 of marathon training. Everything going ok although I get confused by Garmin's training load graph even though I know how it's supposed to work.
Looking at new shoes too but no clue what to get yet...
No ice on the roads anymore so that's a plus too!
I use my Garmin as a fancy stopwatch, I don't find its analytics are particularly useful. My forerunner has literally recorded me running a half marathon in 1h 55m, but it predicts my half marathon time would be 3h 17m?
I find Garmin's data and charts very useful. I've never been an "instinctive" runner: I don't know what I'm capable of, and I don't exactly know how I'm feeling past the basic post-running feeling... strange, I know. So I need to see the data to get a clear picture. Using the device's data has taught me a lot, and has made me connect the dots between my training and my performance. I fully credit my improvement in running (pace, economy, endurance, etc) for the past few years to Garmin's metrics help.
That said, it takes a while getting used to them. Personally, I use the data as a guide, but I never take predictions and such at face value. They can be a bit off, either positive or negative; I've seen both. For example, I think it tends to overvalue long distance training runs for performance prediction.
But I think I'm at a point that I can understand what it's trying to tell me, and find some correlation with how I actually am. I think that's the way to go with Garmin.
That picture is when you have a 10k race at noon, and a karate tournament at 3.
Missed a few days, but got out this morning. Upping my regular things from 5 to 6/6.5km. feels pretty good.