A (no-longer new) training log (comments welcome)

[Psymonds]

Your watch has your daily goal for 24,700 steps a day?!?!? Mine is only 7,900 and on non running days I rarely come close to that unless I am at WDW or doing yard work lol. Awesome job getting that many steps in for 3 weeks!!!

it's adaptive, it goes up each day you meet it, streak had started at 9k and went up....

 

[Psymonds]

OK so monday I was say "gosh do I need to go harder than my plan, it seems like I'm adapting to this and it's not giving me the training effort that I was getting 4 weeks ago.

now on thursday, I'm saying, no, the plan is good.... definitely hitting the runs a bit harder but also a longer early week mid distance run. so I'm at 14 miles for the week and my strava relative effort is nearly at what I was for last week already. I also remembered I missed monday last week.

 

[Psymonds]

definitely a good week.

 

[Psymonds]

fun backpacking trip. I don't think Strava really gives you credit for walks/hikes etc carrying weight.

Did 20 miles and 4400 vf over 3 days with a ~40lb pack and my fitness went down each day.

 

[WillRunForPizza]

fun backpacking trip. I don't think Strava really gives you credit for walks/hikes etc carrying weight.

Did 20 miles and 4400 vf over 3 days with a ~40lb pack and my fitness went down each day.

The more complicated a metric is, the less helpful it becomes. Fitness on Strava isn't very meaningful. Think about it this way: the fastest way to get a higher fitness score would be to do a hard workout every day. However, that would also be really bad for your training because you would burn out and/or get injured very quickly. Basically, don't put much stock in that, or any other "training score" kind of thing.

 

[Psymonds]

fun backpacking trip. I don't think Strava really gives you credit for walks/hikes etc carrying weight.

Did 20 miles and 4400 vf over 3 days with a ~40lb pack and my fitness went down each day.

felt like crap for several days after the trip, easy runs mostly and one hills cycle. back on schedule today. may be able to get some good running in sat/sun

 

[Psymonds]

felt like crap for several days after the trip, easy runs mostly and one hills cycle. back on schedule today. may be able to get some good running in sat/sun

its Friday and I feel almost fully recovered but Tuesday was such a meh run... somedays I feel like easy is pushing it some days pushing it is fine, this week easy felt like crap until today, with the exception of the hill cycles where the hills always feel like crap...

OTOH I'm now local legend on at least 3 segments.

 

[jmasgat]

Hills....why did it have to be hills (with apologies to Indy). Hills are never fun, but hey, local legend status is good!

 

[Psymonds]

wierd week of hodgepodge. Sunday plan was 3 miles, but dad's run club people were like "let's do 7?" so I did 7.

 

[Psymonds]

also fun story:

me after long run quietly "huh..."
wife "what's up?"
me "oh it's a running thing"
wife "no what?"
me

Spoiler: TMI

I thought my nipples were chaffing on the run but they look fine

wife" ... yeah that was TMI"

 

[Psymonds]

at least I always have hiking son to consult on blister care/cause/discussion... DW doesn't want anything to do with that.

 

[Psymonds]

it's interesting, I feel I have one day a week where I feel great/run great and it's never quite the same. also one day a week where the run is a total slog.

Now if I can figure out why....

either way, I find myself just riding both out. just doing the miles on the slog days and seeing what I've got when I feel great.

 

[Psymonds]

Thus starts several weeks of vacations, I have a break in my stated training plan but not looking forward to that first run on return...

Trying to get miles in each week on vacation... we shall see.

 

[jmasgat]

Thus starts several weeks of vacations, I have a break in my stated training plan but not looking forward to that first run on return...

Trying to get miles in each week on vacation... we shall see.

I came to terms with the fact that I will never train over a vacation. Given that I usually am hiking or walking, I just consider it cross training. But good luck if you decide to fit it in.

 

[Psymonds]

I came to terms with the fact that I will never train over a vacation. Given that I usually am hiking or walking, I just consider it cross training. But good luck if you decide to fit it in.

I have shoes and running clothes, but yes. one half of this vacation is a 12 day backpacking trip in the rockies. Not carrying a treadmill for that.

 

[Psymonds]

26k steps a day and lost 7 lbs in 2 weeks in Europe.

also Disney Paris for two days, you know... for the kids.

 

[Psymonds]

now 12 day backpacking trip on Saturday, but I'm going to go run tomorrow.

 

[Psymonds]

2 runs this week so far, now that I'm back. one road one trail (only fell once)

I'll have to see next week once I get just some baseline running in this week if I need to modify my prior plan.

 

[Psymonds]

my garmin step goal got up to 27500 on the backpacking trip... now dropping back down a bit 170 miles worth of hiking/backpacking walking etc in 12 days.

 

[Psymonds]

I came to terms with the fact that I will never train over a vacation. Given that I usually am hiking or walking, I just consider it cross training. But good luck if you decide to fit it in.

I ran once in 4 weeks. did two extra walks in paris but not at any training pace.