I’ve found it useful for tracking progress and this year I think it’ll be useful for telling myself it’s OK to slow down.
Last year I found I wasn’t able to reach certain pace goals over the summer and I had to educate myself on how the weather impacts things like hydration and heart rate. Paces that I found easy during the winter were very hard or not doable during July. This year I know the summer will slow me down so I’m going to use HR instead of pace as a guide.
Yes, that seems to describe what I am actually doing 
Re: HR monitors, my brother is skeptical of the accuracy of smart watches at measuring HR. But I have found mine to be very consistent in terms of indoor pace X results in Y HR, and perceived effort changes at HR of abc. So I don’t think that there is need to buy a serious HR monitor, and also think that the old fashioned notion of going by perceived effort is good enough.
I believe the wrist monitors are reasonable over long distances where you’re aiming for a steady HR. I believe most of the complaints about them come from people doing things like intervals or high intensity burst over short distances like 100m where they want more accuracy.
I managed to stay in zone 2, and my HR actually went down over time which is probably the first time that’s happened ever. I went way slower than I thought I would, around 12 min/mi.
How did it feel? Did you get bored or were you just chilled out? Did you listen to headphones or were you outside listening to your surrounds?
Did about 4.5 miles with a couple of decent hills today. Cruising at about 9 minute miles at this point. Going to try to get that back around 8min miles in a few months. I’m committed to running Bay to Breakers with some friends in May so I just need to keep chugging until then.
It felt like I could go maybe another 20-30 min no problem. Last year I struggled to reach 70 minutes over the summer when it was really hot, I had to stop at like 50 minutes and then walk the rest of the way.
Not exactly running but this is good for building up leg strength, lowering blood pressure and strengthening knees -
This was posted by @JFG in the low sodium thread previously.
Had to resist responding “Proof the Slow AF Running Club is right for you”. (Not hard to resist; while I almost never post there anyway the group is generally supportive, and the OP did acknowledge her mistake after that.)
Most of the non-supportive posts are complaints that someone is posting times too good to be part of that group.
I believe she’s using the 100 seconds to a minute and ignore the extra 7 seconds method.
which qualifies her for the other definition of “slow”
:rimshot:
The woman who runs the track group I run with has suggested I do the “birthday mile” next month. Would be an all out effort for a 1600. I did not commit, but likely it will happen. Last one I did was 2020, right before the pandemic. Hoping to break six minutes, but have some work to get there.
This week ran 800s. with jogging 400 recoveries. Ran with a couple of guys faster than me, and they were negative splitting, I could only hold on for five (had planned six originally).
3:23, 3:15, 3:10, 3:09, 3:06.
Based on how I felt at those paces, think fresh could hit a 6:10, but 6:00 would be pushing it. Going to try to get in three runs a week, including track, for the next few weeks to see if I can move the needle.
Name checks out.
Question about treadmill running, what do you folks do for entertainment? A TV? Listen to stuff on speakers? Listen to music on headphones?
Headphones.
mystery / thriller audiobooks on headphones (James Patterson, JA Jance, Lee Child, etc). Also for outdoor runs
I’m putting our gym back together today after the small Reno. My daughter has booked me for a 5k on father’s day so I better get waddling.
For walking uphill on the treadmill, movies and tv series
