I figured its a way to normalize effort on a course with hills [when you cant trust pace as much]. I also look to HR for the same info

I live in San Jose bro, this is my hilly route. Come at me. If I went even 0.5 miles further it would be another ~100' up

I know both of you are far more experienced than me but I'm trying to thread the needle on threshold runs here [discovering/teaching my body to run at the absolute limit]. Having an idea what the GAP adjustment for my course is helps me hit that mark.

Lactate thresholds? Anaerobic thresholds? zones? warmups?



Man, just go run until you puke and then re hydrate with a cold barley pop at the finish

I cant even run a 5k [my fave race] by feelz [although I'd like to learn how]

I'll fuckin nail mile 1 and mile 2 split(s) tho! lol [from there I wont look any more]

...depending on how tall/many buildings there are nearby lol GPS

my peak HR is 175, my LTHR is right around 152-3 running , so this was a zone 3/4 effort--I'm right next to my anaerobic threshold with just a little bit of reserve. I was just under 150 at the end which is quite nearly hitting it. On the first half I was in the low 140s, mostly because the first 2 miles are always low/warmup. I thought I'd have more reserve than this is why I'm bummed and probably have to adjust downwards my goal pace.

some of us are older than others

I wish I was better at understanding threshold runs without having to look at pace and elevation and HR and all that, dont get me wrong. I only look closely at this stuff in the final weeks leading up to a race--and only on my pace run. This was a test of my largely recently broken infrastructure. Turns out its not all good. heh

is a compromise only looking when it beeps the mile split ?

it's awesome when you're with a shoulder to shoulder pack of hundreds of people hearing the hundreds of BEEEPPSSS at the first or 2nd mile marker

I make sure to keep it on. For my current watch [suunto] I had to make an app to do it using their API. wth do u even garmin basic feature?

treadmills even on ~2* incline are still like ~:15s/mile faster than outdoor pace equivalent effort yea [YMMV on treadmill/calibration/sunspots]

when I did a 5k race 2 days ago at work [charity thing] on a treadmill I was definitely worried about launching off the back lol

you would have loved my work-runner-buddy [we run the trails around work maybe 1x/week]. In our treadmill 'race' every time I moved the treadmill up 0.1mph he did the same

were it not for el nino I'd never touch a treadmill. hoping to stop soon