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Oh wow, that's much faster than what I have been doing, going by my HR! Re: Boston. Amazing! What an achievement!

@lporter229 That is very interesting. May I ask how many marathons did you run before that one? The reason I ask is because my PR for a half came from a similar approach after multiple, a lot more conservative attempts. In that half, after lining up with 7:00 min group, I found myself giving an easy push from mile 2…

@STrooper and @5512bf. Thank you very much for these insights. Incredibly helpful. It seems that I need to slow down enough and stay at Zone 3 as much as possible but the top range is a bit higher than I thought. I am also playing in the 48 min-190 max zone and so some of these data you shared give me a more specific idea.…

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Today's 5k portion of the run was 21:50 and my best time in 3 years- so I'm going with that. You are right, I may have been running slower than I needed to. Things will get interesting. :)

@5512bf thank you. Here is my confusion: I did the 30 min effort pace test with a monitor today. According to the McGee book, my Threshold pace is around 8:10 and threshold HR is 147 . He advises staying under threshold Hr (at aerobic level) for most runs. But if I run at 8:10, my heart rate will end up somewhere higher…

(This stupid app cut it off, adding the next bit here.) I feel I've been training at AeT and improving. Started shooting for 9 min miles, now easily pulling 15 milers at 8:30 with energy to spare at the end. Running about 45-48 miles/wk. Question is, should I be worried? FYI, I'm in week 6 of an 18 week marathon program,…

Never tried (or heard of) Skratch either. Thank you, I will test a few different methods in the remaining 12 weeks of my training.

Weird it count off a bunch of reply... @RunRachelleRun thank you, I may give this a try. @sjohnny good to hear it's not snake oil. I will order some and see how it goes. Thank you.

Thank you all, very helpful. @lporter229 didn't someone say here recently "it's not a dinner date, it's a race folks."

That's great! And wow, the mileage! I hear you about the 5 day thing. I did a 6 day half marathon program 3 years ago that topped at 43 miles/wk. I ran that race at 1:31:00, my PR. I'll take it easy for a while nevertheless. All I did for the rest day was below easy run pace recovery jog for 3 miles, it helped with…

I have been sticking with the plan religiously, due to fear of injury. I did add some recovery jogs because my mileage was already a bit over the plan. But I will see if I can stretch it a bit more midweek once I'm more comfortable with the mileage. Btw, you're right- in the plan I've been using he goes up to 90 min runs…

After reading these, I'm wondering if the plan I am following is OK. I am in the second week of a 5 day a week rookie plan from Bobby McGee (about 30 - 35 miles/wk for the first 4 weeks). It doesn't have any long runs mid week, which seems to be a common aspect of many other plans in addition to the weekend LR.

I do 25-32 from spring to winter. About 20 during winter. Now that I'm training for a marathon I've been at 35-40 range and increasing.

Again, super helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your insightful comments.

Wow, thank you all, a lot to chew on here and a lot of good information to read up on. Much appreciated!

Moby, very helpful as always. Didn't realize Jack Daniels also has an app. I will try cadence and Daniels recommended training times for a while to see how it goes. If things get bumpy, I'll change the approach.

Oh wow! Thank you for this. I knew that it checked cadence because it graphs it in connect app but didn't realize you can view it real time. Great advice!

Thanks all for your feedback! Guess I will have to hit the running store sometime soon! #eatingmywords

Thanks Elise! You can get one for $50 now. But when I was getting 230, I was skeptical of that kind of data for some of reasons you mention. So I avoided the watches with HRM capability. Now the prospect of getting one feels like eating my words.

Tomorrow, I start training for the Wineglass Marathon, on October 2. It will be my first.

Ran Buffalo half today. 1:40:54. My first race in three years!

@irisbuen sent you an FR, thanks to those who connected.

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