How many miles did you run today?

JTK · Mar 28, 2010

13.1 hilly miles at the Chesboro Half. Managed to place 4th in my age group and 47th overall with minimal training. 37 isn't so bad after all!

Thomas · Mar 28, 2010

Originally Posted by AmbassadorCA

4 miles in 20 min....not super fast I know.

psh. I'm lucky to get from the bed to the coffeemaker in 20 minutes some mornings.

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD

10 miles at prospect park in brooklyn. last long run before next saturday's half marathon.

Good luck next Saturday!

Originally Posted by GeoPa58

20, now officially tapering. Sub-8 pace, but only barely -- OK, but not great for me. I'll finish the marathon, though.

Good luck on the marathon!

Originally Posted by JTK

13.1 hilly miles at the Chesboro Half. Managed to place 4th in my age group and 47th overall with minimal training. 37 isn't so bad after all!

NOICE!

No mileage for me today. My schedule has gone all sideways with running and rest days, and today I needed the rest more than anything else.

Stazy · Mar 28, 2010

10.5 in 1:37

rjmaiorano · Mar 28, 2010

Originally Posted by AmbassadorCA

4 miles in 20 min....not super fast I know.

fastest I've seen on this thread.

Stazy · Mar 28, 2010

Originally Posted by rjmaiorano

fastest I've seen on this thread.

Perhaps it's sarcasm?

jwied82 · Mar 28, 2010

7.0 tonight in 45:17, first 4 all in the 6:40s, then started to pick it up gradually and ran 6:30, 6:08, and 5:40 for the last 3 miles.

rjmaiorano · Mar 28, 2010

Originally Posted by Stazy

Perhaps it's sarcasm?

Perhaps. But it's very possible and not even world class, so who knows.

...

Myself. 5.5 trail.

antirabbit · Mar 29, 2010

Did HIIT repeats on a very steep un paved 400 ft. hill in my neighborhood.

4 Sets of 3 repeats....holy crap am I sore today. In all total it was .5 miles and took about 20 minutes.

It took 40 minutes for my breathing to return to normal. It gave me the strongest endorphine rush I have experienced in over a year.

Will hit 10 + tomorrow. I will do hills 1-2 times a week in hopes of improving speed, stamina, and overall cardio tone.

card_richelieu · Mar 29, 2010

8 miles - three times per week. time varies - ave around 8 mins per mile

LawrenceMD · Mar 29, 2010

sure thing, i love running in prospect because of the distance of the inner loop (3.37miles gives a ton of options) and the fact that there is always room for runners whenever you want to run.

the hill at after the audubon building is torture though.

the thing i noticed about the NYPD city cops is that they don't care if you're speeding, making illegal turns, or going the wrong way on a one way street.. its all about parking violations with them..

the thing that gets me with the park slope area is the $5,000,000.00 townhouses two blocks away the mega projects..

Originally Posted by NewYorkRanger

dude, next time you run in the borough...drop me a line.

Re: the parking...I lived in Park Slope for a few years (before the Baby Stroller Revolution) and I was about to back into a spot when these two douches stole it. I had just had the color on my dragon tatoo done (its a sleeve the full length of my right arm) and it was wrapped in plastic, bleeding and gooey. I got out of my car and nearly ripped the driver out of his seat while screaming that I was waiting for it. He put his arms up and said, "Dude, sorry man." I thought he was gonna cry...parking in the Slope blows even on the weekends. And those Florida plates you see are mostly people who have relatives that live down there who allow them to register their cars with them...effing thieves...they pay half of what they should be paying in car insurance.

That said, the cops in the 72 and 70 (both pcts service that area) are great...much better than the d-bags that are in the 68 here in Bay Ridge, where parking also sucks.

Thomas · Mar 29, 2010

Originally Posted by rjmaiorano

fastest I've seen on this thread.

Originally Posted by Stazy

Perhaps it's sarcasm?

Originally Posted by rjmaiorano

Perhaps. But it's very possible and not even world class, so who knows.

(...)

Eh, that kind of time - 5-minute miles, pshaw. I think it only places top-3 or wins outright pretty well every local 5-k I've ever run. Frankly, I'm in relative awe of jweid's (and yours too, rjm) times myself: if I run a 6:40 mile, I'm looking for oxygen and a stretcher afterwards. Running another one afterwards is unthinkable.

Well, for now, that is.

Today...6.7 miles, 50:35. Loaded up the ipod with Metallica which seemed to keep the feet moving.

raphaelargus · Mar 29, 2010

Anyone have tips for a noob?

Been running on and off for years, probably nearing on 5 years now. No injury problems, but I'm not very fast naturally and just wanting some tips on how to increase my pace. I run a few times a week, mostly 3 mi each run, give or take. I mostly spend my exercising time lifting, and I don't really want to change that.

For a typical 3 mi run, I could probably do a 9:30 pace if I really tried to push it, but I generally come in around 9:45 or so. What's better for me next: Increase my mileage? Try some speed work?

antirabbit · Mar 29, 2010

Originally Posted by raphaelargus

Anyone have tips for a noob?

Been running on and off for years, probably nearing on 5 years now. No injury problems, but I'm not very fast naturally and just wanting some tips on how to increase my pace. I run a few times a week, mostly 3 mi each run, give or take. I mostly spend my exercising time lifting, and I don't really want to change that.

For a typical 3 mi run, I could probably do a 9:30 pace if I really tried to push it, but I generally come in around 9:45 or so. What's better for me next: Increase my mileage? Try some speed work?

Intervals and tempo runs.

I would increase both very slowly to keep your injury record at 0

Thomas · Mar 29, 2010

Originally Posted by raphaelargus

Anyone have tips for a noob?

Been running on and off for years, probably nearing on 5 years now. No injury problems, but I'm not very fast naturally and just wanting some tips on how to increase my pace. I run a few times a week, mostly 3 mi each run, give or take. I mostly spend my exercising time lifting, and I don't really want to change that.

For a typical 3 mi run, I could probably do a 9:30 pace if I really tried to push it, but I generally come in around 9:45 or so. What's better for me next: Increase my mileage? Try some speed work?

If your goal is simply to get faster, and you don't want to invest a lot of time or drop a bunch of weight, I'd agree with antirabbit: tempos and intervals.

That said, the standard distance dogma would require that you increase your base mileage before starting any speedwork - the number I've most often seen is 30 miles/week. This, though, may be more than you're willing to do, and it would certainly cut into your lifting time and probably find you shedding muscle as well.

raphaelargus · Mar 29, 2010

Thanks for the replies, guys.

It's not so much that I really need to get faster, so much as I want to try and maximize my workout efficiency. I'm expecting some changes in both my professional and personal life that will only reduce my free time, so I'm trying to see if I can more systematically approach my cardio work for improvement. In other words, if I can get the same workout in, say, 20 minutes rather than the 30 minutes I currently spend, I would be thrilled to save that 10 minutes.

30 miles? Most I've ever gotten up to was 20/wk, and given that I am slow, that was a large time commitment. Sounds like I might just have to try to ramp up my speed work slowly and see where that gets me, and maybe just be happy to be running slow, injury-free.

How many miles did you run today?

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