This seems like a very very hard week. Do you track your activities? How much are you increasing week by week?
It's been a jump (and still got another 15ish k run to do on the weekend) but needs to be done! Just hoping don't get an injury!
This seems like a very very hard week. Do you track your activities? How much are you increasing week by week?
It's been a jump (and still got another 15ish k run to do on the weekend) but needs to be done! Just hoping don't get an injury!
How big is the jump compared to previous weeks? Hoping to not get injured is fine, but there's evidence that big increases in mileage CAUSE the injuries to happen, through over-exertion and fatigue. Please be careful with your body!
On top of risking injury you're also probably at risk of not getting enough carbs/nutrient, if you increase volume food should follow suit but your body might not be ready to ingest a much bigger amount suddenly, it needs to adapt as well.
There are ways to alleviate that like taking high quality calories food (nuts are the best), going for vegetables/fruits smoothies because it's much easier to drink than eat and of course try to eat almost the whole day (breakfast, 10AM snack, lunch, 4PM bgger snack, dinner).
It's super confusing at first but dramatically needed when putting high mileage weeks.
Goal is 30k a week, but have been around 20k for a while I guess.
It's the cycling that's new.
I really don't want to discourage you, running is great, but even just the workouts you posted from this weeks are 45 kilometers, plus you have another 15k planned for the weekend? You cannot go from 20 to 60 kilometers a week without injury and serious nutritional issues. I run 50k a week now and basically eat all day, it's insane you cannot prepare for it, you have to gradually get used to the stress the miles put on your body.
I'm not trying to tell you how to live you life, but Please be mindful!
I really don't want to discourage you, running is great, but even just the workouts you posted from this weeks are 45 kilometers, plus you have another 15k planned for the weekend? You cannot go from 20 to 60 kilometers a week without injury and serious nutritional issues. I run 50k a week now and basically eat all day, it's insane you cannot prepare for it, you have to gradually get used to the stress the miles put on your body.
I'm not trying to tell you how to live you life, but Please be mindful!
Also, when you say you eat all day? What kind of things?
Need suggestions
You'll improve your stamina enough soon that you'll be able to stop at further and further gaps apart where you won't need to stop, eventually. I wouldn't see it as a bad thing.I've been getting into a habit of running around my uni (at 6-8 pm because I found that temperature really affects my stamina) which is about 5 km with a lot of incline (there's 1 super steep incline right at the end if you go clockwise and a lot of small incline otherwise), is it normal for me to take a break every 1km, or is it a habit I have to get rid of in order to work out efficiently?
I've been getting into a habit of running around my uni (at 6-8 pm because I found that temperature really affects my stamina) which is about 5 km with a lot of incline (there's 1 super steep incline right at the end if you go clockwise and a lot of small incline otherwise), is it normal for me to take a break every 1km, or is it a habit I have to get rid of in order to work out efficiently?
Yup, walk when you gotta walk, but don't stop moving.Try to slow down your running and don't stop completely but continue walking when you're struggling to run.
isn't that kinda scrubby tho?Yup, walk when you gotta walk, but don't stop moving.
Eventually, you'll notice the breaks needing to happen later and you recovering faster.
Did a 32k yesterday - we had 22°C outside, and everyone and their moms (literally...) went out on a stroll, bike ride or run.
Finished with an average of 5:15/km (didn't overpace, yay!) and felt a lot better after i was done this time around. I.e., i could actually have a bite to eat afterwards and didn't need to take a nap because i was so nauseous.
(I took 2 gels yesterday... maybe that helped. The gel thing's totally new to me...)
Seeing how the Marathon is 20 days from now, that should have probably been the longest training run for me before the event, right? Like, i should do maybe one 20k the next two weeks and some intervals, right - but not increase my weekly mileage any more.
At least that's what i took from skimming a whole bunch of marathon training plans.
Also i'm very close to reaching my race weight - which will make me have dropped 4kg since late January.
Congrats on the run. Fwiw Pfitzinger has the longest long run in my half marathon plan 21 days before the race, so you seem to be right on track.
How did you figure out your goal weight? I've been thinking about that for a while, especially since I'm building muscle in the gym, which is probably not helping my running.
"slightly below my feel-good weight" :D
I'm 1.75m, i usually hover around ~67kg; 69kg is what i hit around after the Christmas holidays, and when i'm pulling the emergency break on candy and late night snacks;
65kg is around as low as i wanna go.
I have a Spartan Race coming up in May, so after the Marathon i'm gonna focus on building up more muscle mass again. (But I'm also trying not to lose any muscle mass in my core and arms while i'm losing those extra kilos)
I'm slightly taller than you (1,80) so that would put me in the low 70s for weight? I'm currently hovering aroung 77-78 and looking to put on maybe 2-3 kg of muscle for summer. I'll need to read more about weight loss while training to decide whether it's possible for my goal race in October.
I'm 181cm, 75kg and don't really want to go lower than that weight because since I play some contact sports, as well as running. And my longest race is only a half marathon.
Any way to show the battery percentage constantly on the M430? And is there a option for adjusting the vibration intensity when running?
thanks^^I don't know about the battery indicator. One way to check is pressing Start once, it will then show up in the upper right. I think they show it constantly when it's running low. It charges insanely fast. 10 minutes lasts me half a week with 3-4 runs.
Sadly the vibration isn't that strong, there's no way to adjust it. I wear it tightly around the wrist and I can feel the vibration without issues. But I agree it could be stronger.
thanks^^
the loading times are really insane fast.
I am just wondering how the activity tracker works, I have a job where I sit down a lot, but I am always able to get around 150% of the activitys, just with doing stuff in my kitchen and walking in my flat and it appears to me that its way to high.
Buy a Polar M400.I'm currently looking into getting a fitness tracker and have no idea where to start. There seems to be a thousand options. Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations? I really just want to be able to track how far and fast I run, anything else is a bonus.
I'm currently looking into getting a fitness tracker and have no idea where to start. There seems to be a thousand options. Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations? I really just want to be able to track how far and fast I run, anything else is a bonus.
Thanks ill tey that.
Same here. I've had to unwatch/watch it again to get email notification (not seeing the red dot at the moment). Edit:Red dot is showing now.Oh crap, I thought the running thread was abnormally quiet and for some reason I was just not getting new post alerts. Apologies!
Got that sub 19 5k done and dusted at the local parkrun this weekend. The road to sub 18 begins. 😬