Running: 2 out of 3 ain't bad
Aug. 3rd, 2018 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dilletanteOn the treadmills, my best measure of perceived effort seems to be how often I check the mileage counter.
I have these little games I play with myself. Like "the first quarter-mile's free." In fact, the first time I look at the mileage counter is often around .25 miles. But I try to duplicate that at the top of every mile, feigning nonchalance and just refusing to even check until, ideally, it reads something.25. Usually I actually look around something.12 and then again at something.25, but whatever.
If I find myself checking every 0.01mile, or, say, multiple times per 0.01mile, usually that means I'm tired.
Anyway, this weekcinnabarine is off in a land of hills, so I thought I would duplicate a little of that here at home. I wasn't going to crank the treadmill up to MAX_INCLINE (as I suspect the woman two treadmills over from me did, judging by the visible tilt of the surface under her... and her hiking boots), but I thought I'd do 10k at the same speed as last week, but at 1% grade the whole way.
Apparently not.
As late as 3.11 miles in (5k), I thought I might do it. By 3.5 miles it was pretty clear it wasn't going to happen. I made it to 4 miles and dropped the incline back down to zero. "It's all not-uphill from here!" I thought. Yeah, no. I was still checking the mileage *very* frequently.
So I ultimately ran 4.15 miles, 2/3rds of 10k. Anything 5k or over is probably okay for a short run, I figure. This was just... an exciting way to arrive at a particular distance. According to the treadmill, my final heartrate was 174. That's about 10bpm higher than I'm used to seeing even at the end of a quite challenging workout (assuming it's at all accurate-- these machines break a lot). So I feel pretty good about stopping there...
Speed a constant 6.5mph, which I certainly couldn't have managed for that long during our last round of training, but which mostly seems ok for short runs of up to 10k now. (At least, without inclines!) We're doing the long runs in the 5.2-5.5 range; this week's long run was 17 miles. Although we're raising the long-run mileage very slowly this time, adding a mile about every 3 weeks. Which if nothing else, is making me feel more confident about long runs.
I have these little games I play with myself. Like "the first quarter-mile's free." In fact, the first time I look at the mileage counter is often around .25 miles. But I try to duplicate that at the top of every mile, feigning nonchalance and just refusing to even check until, ideally, it reads something.25. Usually I actually look around something.12 and then again at something.25, but whatever.
If I find myself checking every 0.01mile, or, say, multiple times per 0.01mile, usually that means I'm tired.
Anyway, this week
cinnabarine is off in a land of hills, so I thought I would duplicate a little of that here at home. I wasn't going to crank the treadmill up to MAX_INCLINE (as I suspect the woman two treadmills over from me did, judging by the visible tilt of the surface under her... and her hiking boots), but I thought I'd do 10k at the same speed as last week, but at 1% grade the whole way.Apparently not.
As late as 3.11 miles in (5k), I thought I might do it. By 3.5 miles it was pretty clear it wasn't going to happen. I made it to 4 miles and dropped the incline back down to zero. "It's all not-uphill from here!" I thought. Yeah, no. I was still checking the mileage *very* frequently.
So I ultimately ran 4.15 miles, 2/3rds of 10k. Anything 5k or over is probably okay for a short run, I figure. This was just... an exciting way to arrive at a particular distance. According to the treadmill, my final heartrate was 174. That's about 10bpm higher than I'm used to seeing even at the end of a quite challenging workout (assuming it's at all accurate-- these machines break a lot). So I feel pretty good about stopping there...
Speed a constant 6.5mph, which I certainly couldn't have managed for that long during our last round of training, but which mostly seems ok for short runs of up to 10k now. (At least, without inclines!) We're doing the long runs in the 5.2-5.5 range; this week's long run was 17 miles. Although we're raising the long-run mileage very slowly this time, adding a mile about every 3 weeks. Which if nothing else, is making me feel more confident about long runs.
