How many miles did you run today?

[Dusty Heaters]

@edinatlanta , I'm no doctor but I'm pretty sure that if your joints are hurting that's a red flag. Have you ever had your gait mechanics looked at?

 

[edinatlanta]

My posture is just ******* terrible which throws off just about any activity I do so I'm sure my mechanics are off. Also, in fairness, something always hurts with me which I am sure is tied to the former point. Also I am a *****. (unrelated to the posture).

 

[kjb]

6.5 yesterday with a few guys from the club. we ran up a hill. it felt quite hard. i need to do more of that.

4 today - 1/2 mile warm up, 3 miles of "streetpeats", and a 1/2 mile cool down. streetpeats were 1 block on / 1 block off south to north, then 2 blocks on / 1 block off north to south, most blocks here are a pretty standard 0.1 mile. Averaged 7:20 over the 3 miles. "On" pace was somewhere around 6:15 for the 1 / 1, and 5:55 for the 2 / 1 based on my strava details. "Off" pace was around 8:30 to 9. i wasn't really paying attention to my watch during though, just going on effort which i wanted to be around an 8 out of 10 for the On and about 4 out of 10 for the Off.

 

[Dusty Heaters]

I was going to make a fancy table but I am lazy. Here’s this. 92f.

 

[jbarwick]

JBar completed a mile TT tonight. 1.5mi warmup, 1mile TT, .5mi cool down. Temp was 90*F with 44% humidity. Course was a net downhill of maybe 60ft.

I’ll reveal my time tomorrow...

 

[Dusty Heaters]

My guess is 4:08 @jbarwick

 

[jbarwick]

My guess is 4:08 @jbarwick

Do you mean 5:08? Never seen a 4:xx in my life

 

[Dusty Heaters]

I believe in you.

 

[Fueco]

No running today, but I did go to the climbing gym. They’ve started allowing non-members in, so the place was almost full (new full... 50 person limit). I managed to equal my hardest boulder problem this year (V6), so maybe the rest didn’t hurt all that much.

 

[sugarbutch]

31 miles on what is becoming my usual after-work dash to get in some miles and some elevation. Hawk Hill and Battery Townsley. Wile E. says, Hi!

 

[freehand]

Those pace tables made me realise I do very little tempo running so last night I did 4 miles at an average 6’48 (splits all within a few seconds of that). Really enjoyed the session and it took half the time of my usual 6-7 mile plod. I think my issue has been taking the 80/20 methodology and extending it to around 95% slow and 5% fast. I like running long and slow but haven’t improved much given the amount I run. I’ve been okay with that trade off but might try to focus on speed for a while.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Those pace tables made me realise I do very little tempo running so last night I did 4 miles at an average 6’48 (splits all within a few seconds of that). Really enjoyed the session and it took half the time of my usual 6-7 mile plod. I think my issue has been taking the 80/20 methodology and extending it to around 95% slow and 5% fast. I like running long and slow but haven’t improved much given the amount I run. I’ve been okay with that trade off but might try to focus on speed for a while.

It's the right time of year to do lots more speed work, while it's warmest (even in England...), and assuming you've got your base miles down in the cooler months.

 

[edinatlanta]

Ten on the dot. Took two breaks for about .5 mile. Subtracting time at the intersection and for dog etc it was a bit under 1h20m.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

I did my first steady run at my new training paces today, and it felt like last year when I was just starting over on this serious running thing.

This was my 13.2km (8 1/4 mile) route from my place to the head of the island and back.

For this distance at steady pace, I was previously aiming at 5:00/km (8:03/mile), but in practice running more like 4:50/km (7:47/mile)

Now my steady run target pace for this distance is 4:40/km (just over 7:30/mile).

As usual when I have a new target pace, I went off too fast, and had to adjust things around the 4-5km mark. Even so, I hit the turn (6.6km, just over 4 miles) at 0:30:08 (which is 4:34/km or 7:20/mile) - too fast in other words. I was aiming for even splits today (I'll go back to negative splits when I'm used to these new paces), but I knew I would probably be slower on the return this time, and so it was: 0:31:00 exactly (4:42/km or 7:33/mile), but the total was 1:01:08 (4:38/km or 7:27/mile), which means I was actually slightly faster than my pace aim.

I wouldn't say it was comfortable, and I am going to have to work harder until it is (that's the point of training, right?), but I did jump in the lake afterwards, so life is good.

 

[jbarwick]

Ok so I uploaded my run to Strava and it says my Mile TT was -169ft so more decent than I thought and my time was 5:31 give or take a couple seconds as somehow Strava and Garmin disagree. This also says my 1K PR is 3:18 which gives me no context as I have never looked at that before. I am satisfied with this effort for the heat outside and could maybe drop is slightly with cooler weather but don't know how much.

@edinatlanta - That's 10 miles at an 8min mile pace which is really good. I bet the heat is even worse in Atlanta compared to Nashville.