Check-in & January mileage challenge

[blnchflr]

How goes it?


January mileage challenge - post updated mileage in the comments:

cadenzamuse: 20 miles. Status: 2 mile = 10 %
ell: 100 miles. Status: 46.1 miles = 46.1 %
gnomad: ??? miles. Status: 11.1 miles = ??? %
ilanarama: 200 miles. Status: 89 miles = 44,5 %
nanila: 20 km. Status: 4 km = 20 %
semielliptical: 40 miles. Status: 15 miles = 37,5 %
silveraspen: 40 miles. Status: 13.5 miles = 33.6 %
blnchflr: 50 km. Status: 31.3 km = 62.6 %
temve: 100 miles. Status: 46.1 miles = 46.1 %

Comments

[blnchflr]

I'm reading about Maffetone, and how a lot of runners are having great success with slow runs, so I'm going to try that out.

But when I'd started up again after a long break/injury, it was mentally easier to get out and run, if I knew I could walk every third minute or whatever. And I found that I ran the running intervals fairly fast, and got in shape quicker than I had been used to, because they acted as sort of gentler interval training.

But whatever works best for you is what you should do :)

[cadenzamuse]

Ha! I actually had to eat my words yesterday. I went on Monday to the local running store for a "core training for runners" free class, so I was sore yesterday. I made it .5 mi, then knocked on the front door and begged my spouse to give me some sort of encouragement to go a little further (he has been running since middle school, so has had a lot of coaching at various points in his life). He said to go run mailbox to mailbox intervals on our street, running for two mailboxes and then walking to the next one.

So I ended up running/walking a total of 1.25 mi yesterday. (Said Spouse when I came in, "There's not a prize for Running The Farthest Without Walking. The prize is for exercising.")

So I am eating my humble pie and am going to try run/walk intervals--at least until my legs stop being so sore!

[blnchflr]

Yaay! And clever spouse you have :)