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If you have a treadmill, throw in a few interval sessions, say 30 seconds sprinting, 2 minutes gentle pace and repeat. This too is not much fun but does help build speed, stamina and strength.
Same here. Just find it really boring! Also seems pretty hard on your body compared to swimming cycling walking etc always people talking about aches and pains.
Don't mind if it's part of something else like football or whatever.
Don't think I'm built for running, never been very good at it.
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Hmm maybe I could try looking at my technique.
Saying that, clocked up another 10km in the past 4 days.
The magic cadence I have heard quoted is 180, i.e. 90 steps per minute per foot, although it varies for everyone. I'm usually there or thereabouts though.
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(* - I saw her off at the start line, made sure I was at various points along the route at the right time, and otherwise sat in various pubs with a book...)
I'm tall(ish) and slim. I can walk for miles and don't mind running short stints but running longer distances feels anything but natural.
I'm probably a bit top heavy. Broad shoulders upper body.
Not going to be earth shattering times, but it helps develop a fast running pace that I would like to hold for a fast mile.
I find this gets me fitter in the shortest amount of time and then trundling around doing a few miles becomes much more tolerable
Then also running away from the police?
As to running; I wimped out at the sight of horizontal rain this lunchtime and settled for session on the turbo trainer.
So I can now state with reasonable certainty that the treadmill is currently set at 2.3 degrees incline.
I've just looked ahead at the c25k schedule for the next couple of weeks and think that the treadmill might just be getting adjusted! Plus I'm probably going to take @monquixote's advice from earlier in the thread and repeat a week or two. See little point in extending the running time when it's still (very) hard work.
I did also read the instructions with the c25k app in which it says "if you can at a slower pace, then you're running too quickly". I'm walking at 4mph and running at 7mph, so I think speeds might be coming down too ...
The best advice I was given was to run at a pace that means you could hold a conversation/talk in full sentences for most of the run.
The first few weeks of c25k make it fairly difficult to judge pace as you are running for a short amount of time with longer walking breaks in between meaning you can go flat out and recover between runs. I think it's week 4 where it changes and the running periods are longer than the walks - a lot of people seem to struggle with this week or week 5 (includes the first long run of 20 minutes). I'd use these as guide for your speed. If you struggle you can repeat days/weeks at a slower speed.
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