Week 1 stats for Let's Run Strava group

Strava whore wrote:

Can anyone else crunch some more interesting numbers? The "leaderboard" only shows the top 100 out of 150 runners, so we're limited to calculating the medians, not averages.

Median will be off since a lot of us didn't sync any data. I ran 60 last week but show up as zero because my Strava wasn't set up. In any case now that there are over 200 in the group the median won't even show up in the top 100 leaderboard.

I did my part. Shade over 10mpw last week*

*come at me

It is even worse than being so slow!

sit and kick wrote:

I did my part. Shade over 10mpw last week*

*come at me

I'm still on a post-marathon break, so 0 for me!

kids like that make me sad....he's obsessed

reed wrote:

and the 18 year old kid leading the group is running 120 mpw at 18 years old, and has only run 16:28 for 5k.

Jamie, assuming you will eventually see this post, that is NOT the best way to get faster at 18 years old. You'll benefit nearly as much running 70 mpw as you will running 120. In fact I'd bet you'll be faster doing 70 mpw than 120 mpw.

at the very least I hope you are at least getting 8-9hrs of sleep per night with good nutrition

hahhaaaaaa wrote:

Smoove wrote:

We are going to need to aggregate some tax return data as well to determine what other attributes may need some adjustment.

Sincerely,

Former sub 14:20 guy and top 5%er, just like everyone else on here

5%er? Tell us what its like to be poor.

Okay, that was funny as shit

If I join this, will I get 200 kudos for setting a PR?

Strava's been like kindergarden and cliquish. There's the "cool kids", even in one's own running club. No kudos once for running super fast from those deadbeats.

Some people like to demonize social media, but like most things in life, it is what you make of it.

Some people like to act like anything that is mainstream (or mainstream in the running world) is beneath them. I get that on some level, but I prefer to view Strava as a way of seeing who is in shape, who is getting in high volume, what kind of workouts others are doing, etc.

The kudos or congratulations or whatever else you may get on the various platforms are pretty much meaningless to me. Basically, that stuff only matters if you let it matter.

Firstly it's summer here in the southern hemisphere. 104 degrees F today and not conjucive to 100 miles.

Second and more important, not every runner is a slave to their gps. I might use my garmin 1 or 2 times a week. I've got a pretty good idea of my pace and distance without it.

freaking christian hesch is in the group.

no kudos for him, ever. ok group? understood? none.

gross that he lurks on lrc.

The Letsrun Training program: run sub-14:20 for 5k on 36 miles/week of 7:52 miles!

I'm at 60 miles but only 10m/m (with a bit of speed work on the side). At age 60 and healthy as a horse I'll take it.

Top 3 guys on Irunfar strava club averaged 179 miles/week with 16,000 elevation gain!

4th guy ran 161.9 miles at 6:58 average pace.

HardLoper wrote:

In any case now that there are over 200 in the group the median won't even show up in the top 100 leaderboard.

Yup. The UI doesn't seem well designed for larger groups. We can still ogle whoever's in the top 100 by distance, pace, and elevation gain. But the group has grown to where it's now impossible to compute overall medians or averages anymore. Bummer.

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

sit and kick wrote:

I did my part. Shade over 10mpw last week*

*come at me

I'm still on a post-marathon break, so 0 for me!

txrunnergirl, I think I saw you at CIM. recognized your husband, then you.

I didn't say anything cuz obviously that's weird, I don't even know you. but anyway, hope your race went well.

I also hit a whopping 10 miles last week but can't decide if I want to join the letsrun strava page...

Yes, we ran CIM. You should have said hi. I've met plenty of people from letsrun, so not weird.

I did not run well there. Probably a bit of overtraining/not enough rest combined with a foot tendon injury and IT band syndrome. First half was fine, then things fell apart. I finished and still BQed or whatever it's worth, but was about 15 minutes off my goal time. Anyway, that's a big reason I'm going to track my training better for this next cycle (Boston).

300 members. Getting tough at the top.

go gop wrote:

freaking christian hesch is in the group.

no kudos for him, ever. ok group? understood? none.

gross that he lurks on lrc.

Go Christian!

Ignore "Mr Holier than Thou" ^^

Great group.

Joining the Let's Run group at Strava has been humbling. I knew I wasn't very fast, but wow I stink. After a few weeks, I'm typically around the top 25% overall for weekly mileage, but I'm almost dead last for average pace.

Yeah, I run a lot of hills, and I do my easy runs very slowly, so that brings down my average a bit. But most of you people do your casual daily runs at a pace better than my 5K race pace! I think I need to start a new web site: LetsPlod.com.