Check-in & January mileage challenge

[blnchflr]

If you're not participating in the January mileage challenge, you are still very much encouraged to check in :)

January mileage challenge - post updated mileage in the comments:

cadenzamuse: 20 miles. Status: 5.1 mile = 25.5 %
ell: 100 miles. Status: 71 miles = 71 %
gnomad: ??? miles. Status: 15.1 miles = ??? %
ilanarama: 200 miles. Status: 133 miles = 66,5 %
nanila: 20 km. Status: 4 km = 20 %
semielliptical: 40 miles. Status: 26 miles = 65 %
silveraspen: 40 miles. Status: 13.5 miles = 33.6 %
blnchflr: 50 km. Status: 46.4 km = 92.7 %
temve: 100 miles. Status: 71 miles = 71 %

Comments

[blnchflr]

Trail running, *envious sigh*.

Speaking of slow (of course your slow is my superfast): I've been trying out Maffetone on some of my recent runs. I realized in regards to heartrate, I run ALL my runs as tempo or worse. So that's not awesome. But not the season for superslow shuffling - I sweat, but don't really warm up, so I'm just wet and cold. Will pick it up again hen the weather warms…

[ilanarama]

I like Maffetone's basic idea that one should run most runs slowly, but I think his age-based calculations are such bad approximations to any individual that they're not useful. Better to actually test your max HR (the highest legit rate you hit in a 5K race plus a few beats is the one I use - there are also hill and treadmill protocols but I've never been able to get my HR that high outside a race) and then use that to derive your 'easy HR pace'.

[blnchflr]

MAF and easy HR pace calculate to pretty much the same for me, so same difference. But that HR for me means I have to run so slow, I'm not actually running, but shuffling; and I just can't stay warm enough shuffling in these temperatures. But everything I'm reading in running forums tells me lots of people start out like this, too, when trying Maffetone - i.e. to begin with, they have to stop and walk to keep their heart rate down, it's so slow going. But each of them have found it greatly improved their running/endurance, so I'm definitely going to put more easy runs into my schedule.