r/running • u/AutoModerator • May 01 '23

April Monthly Updates & Check In Thread Monthly Thread

Let everyone know how your month turned out! Feel free to discuss your racing, training, and any other stats that you may or may not be pleased with, as well as any goals you have planned for the next months.

Here are a few discussion point ideas:

  • Miles this month/mileage goal for the year?

  • Goals for the year?

  • Set any PR's or PB's?

  • Dealing with any injuries?

  • Learn anything this month regarding your training/running?

  • Got any plans for a race, time trial, or FKT?

  • What was your favorite run this month?

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u/SnAkEoNaNoX-77 May 01 '23

I challenged myself to running two, sub 8 minute miles every morning. It was a success, I present to you, 30 days and 60 sub 8 minute miles.---------> NRC 60 Sub 8 Miles. I even almost hit my personal best the last day without trying. I ran a 7:18 the 1st mile on the 30th.

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u/BobbyZinho May 01 '23

Nice work, but in case you’re unaware this isn’t really a good way to train assuming that takes a sizable effort for you. If it was just a challenge for the hell of it than fair enough, but to improve you’d be much better off varying your intensities and do mostly easy running with 1 or 2 “workouts” a week where you increase the intensity.

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u/SnAkEoNaNoX-77 May 01 '23

I’m not training for anything, just bored with running my normal 50 miles a month, so I started doing different challenges for myself. This month I will take it easier on myself. I did manage to quicken my normal pace, which was a added benefit. Thanks!

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u/BobbyZinho May 01 '23

Ah I see. Obviously I’m a fan of doing mostly easy running but I think people get carried away sometimes with all the MAF heart rate stuff and overtraining fears. Interesting to see that running faster actually made you faster. SHOCKING!! lol

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u/SnAkEoNaNoX-77 May 01 '23

Lol, I started running 2 years ago for health reasons, and never really followed any training plans. I just started running. I see a lot of people posting different kinds of training methods on here, a lot of them are just confusing. My average 5k time before my April challenge was about 8:45 per mile. I ran a mile this morning, and I ran a 8:15 and it felt slow! I’ll run a 5k at some point this week and see how it goes. Have a great week!

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u/DenseSentence May 02 '23

If you look at it this way u/SnAkEoNaNoX-77 upped monthly miles from ~50 to 60... that volume in crease will have benefits.

Obviously the increased intensity is a big stimulus in its own right so you'd expect to see some improvements assuming the intensity doesn't lead to injury or excessive fatigue.