The Running Thread Part II

Mr_Flash

I know bringing myself back to reality tonight though with a takeaway and some beers

Abbeygoo

Nice one Mr Flash - really good to read your progress!! Superb stuff.

It might not feel like it but you will breeze the Manchester 10k. You have plenty of time to prepare and with the progress you have made, the step to 10k will be well within your capabilities. After that .... you will get the bug to run the next 10k quicker!!  Enjoy - I will be in Manchester too.

Just about to take the plunge and splash £100. Finding it hard to pace longer runs just with a stopwatch and always go off too fast (classic mistake) so that when miles 10  come along, it has an effect.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=142&pID=107143

Just a quick question for those in the know, when it says it displays your current pace, does that mean over the whole run or is it constantly changing as you speed up / slow down.

I would prefer the pace over the whole run so that it doesn't keep changing and gives me a more accurate view of how I have done so far rather than a warped view if I suddenly speed up downhill.

Thoughts?

mossym

i have the 410, and rather than the two options you listed, i find the most useful method is to set the watch to autolap every mile, then display your pace for the last mile lap you ran.i think this is more useful than overall pace, as the same increase in speed at teh end of the race will have much less impact than early on so very hard to judge

if the 10 is like the 410, and in this regard i'd expect it to be, you can get it to show the overall pace, the last lap like i described, or the instantaneous, which i imagine is little use for the problem you described..

best place to look might be the dcrainmaker review of the 10, his reviews on sports watches are the best on the web,

DC Rainmaker: Garmin Forerunner 10 (FR10) GPS watch In-Depth Review

EDIT: actually the 10 seems much more simple then the 410, so myabe what i said above is not true. it does have the autolap function, but the assignable measurements are much more basic

Abbeygoo

Some advice please

Looking to increase my pace over a 10 mile course on Saturday ... last week I ran in 1:25:50 .... now looking to do 1:24:00.

Should I set my GPS watch to 8mins 24secs per mile and do every mile the same? Or set off slower and build up? Run quicker miles and have rest miles?

Just wondered what tips you would give.

I am a tortoise not a hare!

Graham27

I'm trying to bulk up a bit just now anyway so I've been doing flat-out sprints a lot, I feel that it's helping my longer runs purely because it's making me fitter. I should probably just work more on intervals Have you ever done anything to try to improve your VO2 max?

Abbeygoo

my what?

MedMick

epo!

Graham27

The size of your engine Much like cars! The volume of oxygen you can process.

Y'know the test you see people doing on TV when they're about to undertake some gruelling challenge,  when they're wheezing on a treadmill hooked up to all manner of things, and they look as if they're about to keel over? That's a VO2 Max test.

It's partly down to your genetic make-up, but you can improve it through training.
Lance, is that you?!

Abbeygoo

I have never done anything about that, would be open to suggestions.

MedMick

Like Graham27 said. It's the max oxygen you suck in thro every orifice when working at max chat.
Can be measured via beep test/O'Neill fitness test etc.
I believe that the only way to improve VO2 max is via interval training, and to be brutally honest, at "our" level not worth focusing on, as you will over train and focus on beating previous beep test results. Altitude training works as well, but as we all live at approx sea level in UK.......