Back from my run! It was a shorter one my HRV said to take it easy so I went 4 miles but it was quite tough. I was right up against the wall.
Those parasympathetic stress readings seem to be quite prescient.
@NiveusLepus I did a 7.5km long run yesterday much faster than recommended by my app. I was feeling strong and exceeded the pace goal by around 30 secs/km. Today my training readiness is high, but my HRV is unbalanced - on the line between orange and green. Today;s drill is hill repeats. I love these, so I'll do them, but it will depress my HRV further. I'll have to do tomorrow's parkrun at an easy pace to make up.
@peterquirk You most definitely understand. I ran a 12k (well within 2 tenths of km of a 12) 7.45 miles on Tuesday, and Wednesday I took a rest, then did a 10k and change yesterday. I'm pushing hard to get back to where I was with my long distance running. I love it when I can just go, fall into the rhythm and watch the world go by.
@NiveusLepus I was training for a marathon, but had to cancel one race due to injury. The replacement race a month later was canceled by the organizers. I couldn't find a suitable third race, so I've switched to training for a 10k after running a 10k and a 5k race recently. I'm placing in the top 3 in my age group (M70-75) but can definitely do better. I'm running 6 days/week - two of those are social runs, including parkrun - while the other 4 are prescribed by the Runna app.
@peterquirk I'm slowly building back up to full marathon training. I almost ran the St Jude Last year, but money and injury both worked to derail my attempt.
Hoping next year to do my first!
@NiveusLepus Good luck. I haven't run one yet, but want to qualify for Boston. I probably can't qualify in time for 2025.
@peterquirk Boston would be a dream. I’ve also heard of this event where it’s a marathon on each continent over a 2 month span ending in Antarctica. That sounds so rad to do but I’d probably need stupid money to do it!
@NiveusLepus There's an even tougher one where you run a marathon on every continent in 7 days. It involves a chartered plane flying you to Antarctica, where you run a marathon around the airstrip before you fly to South Africa and beyond. Someone I know is saving up for it.
https://www.worldmarathonchallenge.com/#:~:text=The%20World%20Marathon%20Challenge%20is%20an%20amazing%20logistical,7%20continents%20in%207%20days%2C%20or%20168%20hours.
@peterquirk I thought it was over a month. That's so rad!
@NiveusLepus I met a woman at my Monday night social run who was planning to do it in the next 10 years. She still has a few marathons to go before she has run one in every U.S. state. It currently costs €39,900 for the world marathon challenge. She expects it to cost €50,000 by the time she's ready.