Nice workout and all but can you clarify what your point is and what it's got to do with people who use Strava ?
Nice workout and all but can you clarify what your point is and what it's got to do with people who use Strava ?
It's by feel and I was adding my little evidence of the fact that the ego is the issue. Strava today or 60 years ago with a plain old watch, we haven't changed, many people can't help themselves.....
In fact, I have to repeat several times the purpose before people "hear" what I am saying....
I think, and I guess I could have said this, people need to work hard at getting used to running by feel and not looking at the watch.
Workout warriors are v. annoying I agree
I was running along and a guy sprints to catch up to me and says, "you're that guy." I was literally finna pop him but then he says, "you're that guy with the segment record." I said, ""dude, I was about to knock you out." Yes, these people are obsessed with strava. I have a segment record and don't even care.
STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:
I was running along and a guy sprints to catch up to me and says, "you're that guy." I was literally finna pop him but then he says, "you're that guy with the segment record." I said, ""dude, I was about to knock you out." Yes, these people are obsessed with strava. I have a segment record and don't even care.
If you were going to hit someone who approached you in a friendly manner, then you are not right in the head.
jd92bdhwh wrote:
I don't understand publicly posting on Strava anyway. I use it to just track runs in a place outside Garmin. All my runs are set to only me and I don't follow anyone, not even my friends I follow in other social media.
Strava is really just a free running log.
That's how I see.
My goal MP is 7:3x or so but I've done my recovery runs at 10:xx or so, and it's all good. I care about staying injury-free and enjoying the sport for decades to come, even if I get slower :)
I don't worry about my pace because my PBs are listed on my Strava page for all to see and that is what counts. I also believe in structured training.
11jan2022 wrote:
I don't worry about my pace because my PBs are listed on my Strava page for all to see and that is what counts. I also believe in structured training.
Same. It bothered me at first when I started getting into marathon training but now I don't care. I'll let race day do the talking, not ripping an easy day at marathon pace to impress random people on strava.
Went back to paper log and non-gps watch. I became addicted to getting kudos.
ultra thon bro wrote:
people been training like idiots like that since before strava, now it is just more obvious/public.
I agree.
Most people run for reasons other than to "train perfectly." It might be for weight loss, stress reduction, to get fitter or only to enjoy running for a few minutes. What they're trying to get out of it is not necessarily to lay down "The. Perfect. Training. Cycle.". Most people either aren't willing, or even desiring, to put the kind of training in to get to their absolute physiologic peak, or even close. They're okay with "good," "okay" or "barely good enough." And that's okay.
Yeah, keep your profile and runs private, problem solved. I don't follow anyone and I have zero followers. Every now and then I think it would be fun to make certain runs public to put me on the local leaderboards, but I never do.
I have all of my runs tracked on Strava and have zero stress associated with this nor do I ever feel pressure to pick up the pace because I know it's going on Strava. I keep my easy runs easy and hard runs pretty hard.
Strava isn't wrecking the sport, it's exposing the dummies who have no idea how to train or control themselves.
Very interesting workout, I may try this. It'll teach you to run by feel and it sounds like one big cruise interval.
Easy training schedule:
1 interval/fartlek as mentioned above.
1 LR (LSD or even LSD + last few miles at goal MP or HMP or whatever pace you need)
The other 4-5 days of just EZ running
In before E-stats
do people still use mapmyrun?
Well, I'm a just a "hobbyjogger" 40-something year old woman, but I have many friends on Strava. I don't really look at people's paces as much as I look at their distances and how awesome / interesting their routes are. Are they running on the coast in Kauai? Up a mountain in Arizona? Slogging it in 100% humidity in Houston or running despite sub-freezing temps in Vermont? And yes, I enjoy some pics especially when they are running somewhere interesting. Once in a while I notice a fast pace but the route is the most interesting aspect to me.
There's a lot of showing off on strava, but the data does not lie. When it comes to race day we see who truely is fast and who isn't.
I made all my activities private a long time ago and I don’t miss it at all. Now I’m not being bombarded with notifications about kudos from that one guy I met at that race that one time who totally cares about my 7 mile easy run at 7:40 pace.
As a result I spend far less time on Strava than I used to, which is a very good thing. Only use it now as a private training log/data aggregator, which it’s great for in my opinion.
When I need to do some faster speed work, why not go pick a segment and blast it trying to steal the record? It can add an element of fun 🤷♂️
It doesn't alter training... If I was gonna do some speed work anyways, then why not?
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?