The Running Thread Vol 2
Discussion
towser44 said:
A couple of personal targets achieved over the weekend. Sub 25 minute 5km at my local Parkrun on Saturday morning, which is a little bit undulating and then sub 2 hours Half Marathon at Liverpool yesterday. Liverpool was great, nice course and 9,000 runners. Would like to get a sub 4 hour 30 minutes Marathon in London next month and then a sub 50 minute 10km at some point, but they feel a fair way to be honest.
Colwyn Bay Metric Marathon on Sunday as my next long run marathon prep :-)
Well done Colwyn Bay Metric Marathon on Sunday as my next long run marathon prep :-)
Rosscow said:
Smitters said:
32k on a treadmill. Set off at sub 4 hour marathon pace and waited to see what would happen. Wheels off spectacularly at 30k, which was about what I expected. My legs hurt today.
Blimey - that sounds bloody boring!! 
RabidGranny said:
Smitters said:
32k on a treadmill. Set off at sub 4 hour marathon pace and waited to see what would happen. Wheels off spectacularly at 30k, which was about what I expected. My legs hurt today.
did you watch something on the TV or was there something nice to focus on?I did had a load of gels, a towel, an 80's style headband and four water bottles too and you have to bear in mind I once ran 100km round an athletics track, through the night, in mid-November, so I'm not entirely normal.
I have to say, getting to a point of just "being" - In a nice, easy rhythm, metronomic and internally foccused, is a very nice feeling, if quite hard to achieve.
Just starting to clear this nasty annoying cold / flu that seems to be doing the rounds, I have mostly managed to train through it but weekly mileage took a hit and I can definitely still feel it on my chest.
Todays session was 10km at threshold, 46:59, average 4.43/km and 160bpm heart rate. I was pretty cooked by the end of it so I think I kept the threshold quite well. Next race is in 2 weeks, a local 10k followed the next day by a "fun" 5k with 1000 meters elevation (I do not think it can be described as a run at this point).
Then moving into April / May I am signed up for the Red Bull Wings for Life event (there is a local city event, rather than online) and probably some other trail runs.
Todays session was 10km at threshold, 46:59, average 4.43/km and 160bpm heart rate. I was pretty cooked by the end of it so I think I kept the threshold quite well. Next race is in 2 weeks, a local 10k followed the next day by a "fun" 5k with 1000 meters elevation (I do not think it can be described as a run at this point).
Then moving into April / May I am signed up for the Red Bull Wings for Life event (there is a local city event, rather than online) and probably some other trail runs.
Is anyone else finding that Garmin watches struggle with interval HRs and have also maybe dropped in the last few weeks?
I just got back from doing 8 x 200m intervals at a pretty hard pace and my HR trend from my Epix 2 looks wrong. Average of 128 bpm which is not what I'd expect unless I've magically got a lot fitter in the last week or so! I wouldn't mind too much but I think it means that my Strava relative effort and my Garmin recovery times are off too...
That's the first week of my second Runna plan complete though, I know the > 20-minute 5km is in reach in a few weeks.
I just got back from doing 8 x 200m intervals at a pretty hard pace and my HR trend from my Epix 2 looks wrong. Average of 128 bpm which is not what I'd expect unless I've magically got a lot fitter in the last week or so! I wouldn't mind too much but I think it means that my Strava relative effort and my Garmin recovery times are off too...
That's the first week of my second Runna plan complete though, I know the > 20-minute 5km is in reach in a few weeks.
I noticed last week on a 5 mile easy run that my HR (which should have been between 135-140 for that run) was at 165. I moved my watch slightly and it reverted to normal. See image below. You can see as soon as I adjusted the watch the reading corrected itself.
Annoying, but I guess unless you want to wear a chest strap not much you can do?
Annoying, but I guess unless you want to wear a chest strap not much you can do?
Rosscow said:
In the last 12 weeks I've had a total of 2 weeks and 2 days of maintaining, and the rest has been productive until now - peaking.
I wonder if it’s because I always hit my intervals parts on speed sessions. But everything else base/ long and the warm up/ recovery on the bases I always go slower/ lower heart rate.I am just scared of getting injured and reading about slow running I didn’t think I could run to slow! My base run is 139bpm and I always try and get an average closer to 120bpm for example.
Maybe I should run faster on my easy days?!
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