re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

Looks like they had 3 finishers this year. Need to watch the Netflix doc on this. Insane race.

Monday:
8 miles at 6:47/mile

Tuesday:
2 mile warm up
10k tempo at 6:10 (fought the Kansas wind a good chunk of the run and honestly didn’t feel great)
1 mile cool down

Wednesday:
7 miles easy (7:45ish pace)

Thursday:
8 miles at 6:50ish

Friday:
Mile warmup
Speed pyramid: 200,400,600,800,1k,1200,1600 (all meters) then back down. Averaged 5:27 through the whole workout. Got the mile rep in at 5:47.
Mile cool down

Today: 13.5 mile long run (getting ready to head out here in a bit). Goal is to be 7:15ish through the whole run. Starting easy for recovery then working into a good pace by the end. Got 12 at 7:25 last week dicking around with a buddy most of the run so I’m hoping being by myself and more focused can spur a bit more speed earlier.

About 7 weeks out from my first half starting to feel some strength coming in especially with yesterday’s workout. Hope is still to be as close to 6:00 pace as I can be.

What’s everybody using for watches? My garmin 235 has stopped charging.

Forerunner 245, no complaints. When/if it dies I might replace with a Coros.

Jordon;

I have coros apex pro 2, can't say i love can't say i hate it. battery lasts forever. struggling to determine if gps is accurate, but this may be with all watches. Rhea has suunto 9 and we can ran exact same route together and they are always different. I've even worn my old suunto and the coros at same time and they were different by almost 0.2 miles over 8 mile run.

Garmin 245. I switched when I lost my 235. It's a better interface and the music option is nice to have. I use Amazon Music Unlimited because it's cheaper than Spotify. Works really well, just need to make sure it's updated periodically before you go and run because it may need to do so before music plays.

Garmin recently released the forerunner 265, which has an OLED screen rather than MIP

I have a Samsung watch, 3 I think. Strava works on it, and I use the Samsung Health app to track a few other types of workouts.

Is FartlekFanatic from Insta on here? Just saw the BITR shoutout.

Did my first trail run this weekend. Almost 8 miles on what I'd consider to be a very technical course in places. Ran in my new Vivo Primus Trail Knits. This was significantly harder than I had anticipated. Hats off to those that do this frequently.

I was impressed with the Vivo's. I didn't slip or lose footing at all. Also, the sole definitely protected my foot compared to my normal minimal footwear. My feet general feel well worked after a run in the minimal shoes, but even more so after this run.

I'm going to try and work one trail in per week.