The Running Thread
Discussion
marting said:
I signed up for a 60 day trial of it the other day (http://promo.strava.com/britishcycling/). IMO the premium features don't become immediately obvious, and you have to kind of dig around. It has a section of training plans and videos that you may find useful.
It has some enhanced pace and HR analysis I believe. I am very much hooked on strava to be fair - the matched runs and flybys feature seems very clever from a data processing point of view.
ETA - your graph above seems to make me think you're already on premium. I dont think you get a suffer score without premium.
It's 40 quid a year - probably spend more than that on socks...It has some enhanced pace and HR analysis I believe. I am very much hooked on strava to be fair - the matched runs and flybys feature seems very clever from a data processing point of view.
ETA - your graph above seems to make me think you're already on premium. I dont think you get a suffer score without premium.
I'm not on Premium - many of the links I click on blindly in ignorance in Strava come up with the old "Only in premium" type messages - I was particularly interested in the Pace Distribution bit on the Analysis tab - the Heart Rate bit (inc. Suffer Score) I'm getting currently but you can drill further into that with Premium too. Maybe I'm on some kind of time limited thing...
MC Bodge said:
L100NYY said:
Cool. I just wasn't sure whether I was supposed to leave the same gap between running & resting each time.
Although, to be honest I can't imagine it will matter much at my level
Just don't build up too quickly, and do rest.Although, to be honest I can't imagine it will matter much at my level
L100NYY said:
MC Bodge said:
L100NYY said:
Cool. I just wasn't sure whether I was supposed to leave the same gap between running & resting each time.
Although, to be honest I can't imagine it will matter much at my level
Just don't build up too quickly, and do rest.Although, to be honest I can't imagine it will matter much at my level
L100NYY said:
I really want to push myself harder but I know that C25K was set up for a reason.
People in my position being the reason
I've just started week three - day two is tonight. Away at the weekend so got to do day 3 tomorrow too. People in my position being the reason
Calves ache a little at the moment but other than that i'm enjoying it.
Dan_1981 said:
L100NYY said:
I really want to push myself harder but I know that C25K was set up for a reason.
People in my position being the reason
I've just started week three - day two is tonight. Away at the weekend so got to do day 3 tomorrow too. People in my position being the reason
Calves ache a little at the moment but other than that i'm enjoying it.
L100NYY said:
Dan_1981 said:
L100NYY said:
I really want to push myself harder but I know that C25K was set up for a reason.
People in my position being the reason
I've just started week three - day two is tonight. Away at the weekend so got to do day 3 tomorrow too. People in my position being the reason
Calves ache a little at the moment but other than that i'm enjoying it.
I've noticed i'm not getting as far distance wise this week as I was last week though. However week three is 3 minutes shorter per session than week 2 but has sections of longer jogs in it.
L100NYY said:
I'm assuming by your user name you are similar age to me, I was born '79
Same here. Started running in April and toyed with C25K but wasn't sure if I would commit to 3 runs per week so just decided to do my own thing. Can now normally run 5k without walking in around 28 mins, and did a 7k run on monday. My first run was 4k with as much walking as running.Given that I've not done C25K I'd be interested to know the rate of progress compared to what I've done myself. How far and in what time are the runs in each week? I'm intrigued to know whether I would have progressed faster or not had I followed the C25K programme.
Took the win in a local 5k yesterday. The course is out and back along the Bristol-Bath cyclepath starting at Bitton Station and heading 2.5k towards Bath and back. There's a slight descent on the way out and an awkward camber at times. Pleased to run 15:47 - my fastest 5k since 2006.
ewenm said:
Took the win in a local 5k yesterday. The course is out and back along the Bristol-Bath cyclepath starting at Bitton Station and heading 2.5k towards Bath and back. There's a slight descent on the way out and an awkward camber at times. Pleased to run 15:47 - my fastest 5k since 2006.
Wow, that is impressive!! Good job!ewenm said:
Took the win in a local 5k yesterday. The course is out and back along the Bristol-Bath cyclepath starting at Bitton Station and heading 2.5k towards Bath and back. There's a slight descent on the way out and an awkward camber at times. Pleased to run 15:47 - my fastest 5k since 2006.
Excellent. Well doneAhoy all!
On my honeymoon in Thailand and finally succumbed to a run yesterday after 5 days without.
It's too hot, humid and crazy here in Bangkok to run on the streets. The parks aren't great either because they're tiny and I didn't fancy covering multiple laps, so I headed to the hotel gym. Hadn't run on a treadmill for a couple of years, but remembered to set it to 2% gradient. Wasn't expecting to feel quite as fresh as I did, but I covered 10k in 7:30 mile pace, which felt stupidly easy even without a fan (nicely air-conditioned, though). I'd have to put in more effort to hit the same pace back in the UK, so I can only guess that the acclimation to the local heat and humidity has done wonders for me!
Decided against an opportunity at a local 10k race that took place on the public holiday the other day. Like a lot of things over here, it was dirt cheap to enter (£5 or so) and featured chip timing, a medal and a technical race t-shirt.
On my honeymoon in Thailand and finally succumbed to a run yesterday after 5 days without.
It's too hot, humid and crazy here in Bangkok to run on the streets. The parks aren't great either because they're tiny and I didn't fancy covering multiple laps, so I headed to the hotel gym. Hadn't run on a treadmill for a couple of years, but remembered to set it to 2% gradient. Wasn't expecting to feel quite as fresh as I did, but I covered 10k in 7:30 mile pace, which felt stupidly easy even without a fan (nicely air-conditioned, though). I'd have to put in more effort to hit the same pace back in the UK, so I can only guess that the acclimation to the local heat and humidity has done wonders for me!
Decided against an opportunity at a local 10k race that took place on the public holiday the other day. Like a lot of things over here, it was dirt cheap to enter (£5 or so) and featured chip timing, a medal and a technical race t-shirt.
ewenm said:
Took the win in a local 5k yesterday. The course is out and back along the Bristol-Bath cyclepath starting at Bitton Station and heading 2.5k towards Bath and back. There's a slight descent on the way out and an awkward camber at times. Pleased to run 15:47 - my fastest 5k since 2006.
Superb 5k time. Well done. I managed a 10k today in 33:14 - pleased with that even if the winner beat me by one second!Gassing Station | Sports | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff