How hard do you train?

RayCun

http://www.hrv4training.com/blog/how-hard-do-you-train

Lots of stats pulled from strava, basically repeating what everyone knows - faster runners train more at lower intensities than slower runners

BeepBeep67

PR speed, I'm assuming as they've used HM time to define Fast - Average - Slow, is average pace over your fastest HM?
A quick data pull from Garmin tells me (does include races as well as training).

0.797 for speed (7.9/9.9) and 0.794 for HR (143/180), so to the bottom right of the sub 90 graph.

It does kind of make sense, since I've returned to running, where I've gotten faster in races, my easy paced and recovery paced run speeds haven't really changed.

Fbjm

I run about once a week, have been that way since before my first marathon. I've done a couple marathons and a bunch of halves now, ~2:06 for the halves and ~4:50 for the fulls. Not amazing times, but I'm just doing it mainly for fun.

hot buttered scones

Too f0ckin hard sometimes.

From Garmin:

Average speed for 12 months: 6.95mph
Half marathon PB speed: 8.57mph
Normalised speed: 0.811

HR data:
HR average: 145
HR Max: 193
Normalised HR: 0.751

I reckon that max HR is skewed though due to spikes and I usually use 186 as my HR max which gives 0.779.

Like BeepBeep67, my recovery and easy paces have stayed more or less the same as performances have gotten faster.

davedanon

hot buttered scones wrote: »

From Garmin:

Average speed for 12 months: 6.95mph
Half marathon PB speed: 8.57mph
Normalised speed: 0.811

Having a crack at sub-90 soon?

hot buttered scones

davedanon wrote: »

Having a crack at sub-90 soon?

Charleville.

average_runner

hot buttered scones wrote: »

Charleville.

Are you following a plan.

I started the Hanson program for the half, currently aiming for sub 90 at Longford. Be a big push but will see.

hot buttered scones

average_runner wrote: »

Are you following a plan.

I started the Hanson program for the half, currently aiming for sub 90 at Longford. Be a big push but will see.

No, I 'm just hoping to do it off marathon training - the meno plan (sort of) for Cork and one of the P+D plans for Dublin (a mix between a 12 and 18 week plan - up to 70 maybe?). I'm looking to knock just under 2 minutes of my PB.

Swashbuckler

hot buttered scones wrote:

Charleville.

No better place for a half marathon PB!

Battery Kinzie

I'd say I train 'often' more so than 'hard'. I'd run 6 days a week, but only one of those would be a session, with one long run a week and the rest being easy. And a lot of weeks I wouldn't even do the session, I'd just do another easy run. For example, in the last 4 weeks I've ran 5/6 days a week, but with only one session.

Probably something I should improve on.