Weekly (ish) Check in

[ell]

Runners, tell us what you've been up to in the last week or two!

The good, the bad, the muddy, the sunny...

Comments

[gnomad]

I've been running twice a week. I thought I was doing really well with improvements but I seem to be plateaued and haven't been running any faster without increasing my heart rate. :\

[ell]

Personally, I usually don't run with a HR monitor. Then I can still feel like I'm doing well...

(maybe get a third run in each week? I know i saw the best improvement when i was running 4 or 5 days a week with one interval day and one tempo day. alas, those days are a year behind me and i'm struggling to run even twice a week these days)

[ell]

also, I love your icon :-) I'm hopefully doing my first tri this fall - at least i'm signed up for it)

[gnomad]

Yay more tri people! My first is in June and I'm getting excited.

[ilanarama]

I think you really need more than twice a week to improve past a certain level. The most minimal running programs generally have 3x, and of course mo running mo betta. Although with multisport it's probably hard to make the time for it all.

[gnomad]

I asked a question to my tri club forum recently about the training plan and its running component, and was basically told that we're not running much because it's the activity that's hardest on the body. They want people to build up aerobic fitness on the swim and the bike and then work on getting faster with the run. So eventually we will be running more. And I get the theory, yeah, but I'm starting so far behind on running that I worry the plan isn't really designed for people like me but people whose "slow" pace is 11:00m/mi.