Running General Chat - Weekly Thread Sat 16 November 2024
Just a general thread about running. How's your running going? What are you training for? Did you get new shoes? Sporting an injury etc.
In the last few months I haven't run a lot because of the weather (hot and humid) and because of a crap ton of uni work for my thesis. Yesterday I finally managed to run a 10k after literally months. With respect to my usual form it was terrible, i run a 6:10min/km when usually I'm well below 5:45, but considering I had run like twice in the past month and a half and had been months since my last 10k I'd say it was a good result
I love running
Went on a run for the first time in a month after a bad sprained ankle in early October. Really hoping I'm in the clear and don't wake up limping tomorrow because it felt great to get back out there.
On my way out for a trail run right now. :)
Finally recovered after an injury. The weather is cooler and running is feeling good again!
I went on a longer run this week. It felt really great. I'm torn if I should continue using a tracker. I'm just so tired of data and this incessant pressure to track everything. But at the same time I want to get better and data would definitely help.
I started using OpenTracks a couple years ago and ditched runtastic (i keep calling that, it's been adidas running for ages) when I discovered it made my runs public, with gps data and all, for the social features of their app. OpenTracks is FOSS, I got it from fdroid, the data stays on your phone, you do what you want with it. And most importantly it only tracks your activity, just that, no social media crap.
Then again if you don't want to track your runs just don't, I personally do it because I like to see my progression and to keep notes to myself on how/what/when i eat/sleep/etc effects my runs and stuff like that
There’s no need to look at the data now, but it can help in the future.
When I’m feeling discouraged, I look at my resting heart rate trend over the last 6 months, and my vo2 max trend, and it convinces me to keep going
I used to be really keen to see my stats, both as I was thinking and after I finished. I've weened myself off that a bit these days, just a quick glance at my progress etc. The key was reducing the data screens on my watch during the run. I just have distance completed, actual clock time and distance back to start.
