I completely agree to learn to run by feel. I use my HR as confirmation. When I hadn't run many half marathons. I was racing one with a goal time that was a couple of minutes below my PB. I went faster than planned, but it felt good, so instead of dialing it back, I decided to go with it. I ended up taking over 8 minutes off my PB and finished 3rd in my AG.
Brilliant episode - packed with great gems! I wonder if sometimes we, as runners place too much pressure on ourselves to PB or hit race targets? Sometimes, it's just lekker to have a good experience.
I believe that learning to "listen" to one's body is key to getting the pacing right. Back in the 1980's I could judge my fitness progression based on the 8km time trial (run most weeks) leading up to a marathon. I used to judge my marathon race pace by adding 2min 15secs (or thereabouts) onto my recent 8km time trial efforts. So if I was running 28 min (3:30/km) for 8km then my marathon pace was roughly 3:45/3:50 per km. Nothing scientific perhaps but we only had Casio stopwatch and listening to one's body as tools to guage performance during a race.
I completely agree to learn to run by feel. I use my HR as confirmation. When I hadn't run many half marathons. I was racing one with a goal time that was a couple of minutes below my PB. I went faster than planned, but it felt good, so instead of dialing it back, I decided to go with it. I ended up taking over 8 minutes off my PB and finished 3rd in my AG.
Brilliant episode - packed with great gems!
I wonder if sometimes we, as runners place too much pressure on ourselves to PB or hit race targets? Sometimes, it's just lekker to have a good experience.
Training consistently, showing up, and finishing without crashing/bonding are all worthy achievements.
I believe that learning to "listen" to one's body is key to getting the pacing right. Back in the 1980's I could judge my fitness progression based on the 8km time trial (run most weeks) leading up to a marathon. I used to judge my marathon race pace by adding 2min 15secs (or thereabouts) onto my recent 8km time trial efforts. So if I was running 28 min (3:30/km) for 8km then my marathon pace was roughly 3:45/3:50 per km. Nothing scientific perhaps but we only had Casio stopwatch and listening to one's body as tools to guage performance during a race.
I am finding that long (1 hr 30 min +) easy (truly easy) runs are giving me a higher level of strength. It's counter-intuitive. But true.
I used to use mapmyrun
How many Olympics marathon medals have you guys won among you all? I am so glad to be listening to olympic medalists giving advice on racing