Because of Coronavirus, are you putting in more miles, less miles, or about the same?

My goodness!! A dozen? What kind of people do you hang out with?

I know many people due to my hobbies and vast traveling. I have a large extended family in three continents.

I don’t know of one single person to have even tested positive.

“At least a dozen”??

Is that indeed the truth or something you heard on CNN?

More. I live 45 miles north of mid-town so I have eliminated 3 hrs of commuting time:

-up at 6am vs 5am

-run for 60-75 min vs 45 min or none

-running on pleasant, traffic free, dirt roads vs NYC or treadmill

-no rush to shower after run, can actually walk a little, stretch, relax

I’ve run more miles than put on my car this month.

Less.

I’m a stay at home mom and my husband is still working outside the home. With the kids not in school and my gym with childcare closed, I have to get up really early to run, and frankly, I’m too tired most days from playing homeschool teacher. I did get in a nice long run this weekend though. My mileage has dropped about 30%.

Less, I was down. Bummed at all this.

Getting over it, getting back.

Same but most of it is now at 5am. Only time I’m guaranteed to have free with work, kids home, etc.

Less, but due to injuries that started around when things got shut down. But I'm avoiding certain trails I like to run on, and am getting sick of the roads in my neighborhood.

Running more than ever. No distractions like work and cars on the road. Just don't have the mind set to do workouts now but running more miles for enjoyment. Also, my go-to track is closed because the university is closed. Ran 11.7 today. 12 yesterday. I should be able to go close to all out for a 1/2 marathon in the fall.

The same mileage, around 50-60 miles per week. All trails open to local residents, and streets are blocked off so non residents can’t park and clog up our trails. This may be the only city that is doing it right. We have great trails and not many runners in this area so it’s so nice.

I’m bumming but not a bum wrote:

My goodness!! A dozen? What kind of people do you hang out with?

I know many people due to my hobbies and vast traveling. I have a large extended family in three continents.

I don’t know of one single person to have even tested positive.

“At least a dozen”??

Is that indeed the truth or something you heard on CNN?

No they are acquaintances and people that lived on the same block I lived at in my previous apartment in Brooklyn. The most recent one was today. An old coworker of mine and his parents contracted the virus late last month and his mother didn't survive. The wife of my fathers boss also passed due to coronavirus recently. My father works at a hospital in a community that is Hasidic so I'm sure the risk of getting the virus was much higher. But yeah in general the community is latino and of course most inner city Latinos are obese and are more likely to die from coronavirus.

More. I coach so normally my fitness suffers March-May but that's out and my job (not at the school) is now done via teleworking so I have no commute and less hours honestly so... Been pounding the pavement and trails.

Like others say, parks etc are a sh!tshow. People everywhere. I avoid unless the weather is bad, or it's dark or early. Been running in neighborhoods more than usual. It's fine in most of them.

My running is better because i am working totally from home. I can eat and hydrate all day and don't spend any time commuting, and i drive all around to meetings during the day.

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

I personally know at least a dozen people that have passed because of this virus and there are no races happening this year for sure. No point in training hard yet. I've told people in my club this and they think I'm being stupid. They can continue to go out and hammer themselves to death on every run they do and not get fitter. I'm nearly 100% but I probably won't resume normal training for at least another 3-4 weeks. I tend to get close to peak shape pretty quickly I think. The back half of this year I guess I'll try to see how many miles per week I can tolerate.

I'm really sorry to hear that you've lost so many friends. Hope you are getting the support you need!

No races for the entire rest of the YEAR?! I don't know about that, especially because the # of new cases added per day is already going down, and the apocalyptic death #s have been drastically reduced...and warm weather typically helps kill these kinds of viruses...

Over here I doubt that there will be any races put on but that's assuming the virus has a second big outbreak in the fall. If that happens there certainly won't be any races.

More. Was about 50MPW when the shutdown started. Have run mid 60's for the three weeks since I've been on WFH. Mostly easy but some threshold work, nothing really hard. Unlike others I've also lost about 7 pounds in these three weeks. I'll take it! Can't wait to race again.

elviejo wrote:

More. Was about 50MPW when the shutdown started. Have run mid 60's for the three weeks since I've been on WFH. Mostly easy but some threshold work, nothing really hard. Unlike others I've also lost about 7 pounds in these three weeks. I'll take it! Can't wait to race again.

+1 for the weight loss (but only about 2 pounds, not 7). Perhaps partly due to the increased running, but I think more due to the fact that my wife and I are trying to minimize the number of trips we make to the grocery store. So I've been a little more careful about the amount of food that I eat.

About thre same miles. I ordered an indoor bike day 1 of this shutdown and have been consistently riding since it came in about 2 weeks ago. Maybe 6-10 miles per day. Plus, I'm generally doing a lot now physical labor in my backyard. I never really had time for it before but....

Which brings me to a question.... for you think adding the bike and manual labor could be making my legs exhausted? Even though I'm running the same amount I find I'm getting tired very quickly and it's a struggle to run at all.

More in general,.

Starting the 3rd week of february, i upped my weekly mileage by about 50% or more. Then i started to worry that getting fatigued would lower immunity, and maybe this was not the time to be taking any chances. So kept the mileage up to about no more than the 50% increase and starting hitting it hard on strengthening drills, sprints, pulling a weighted sled, plyometrics, etc. Also spending a lot of time adding stuff to my home gym, trying to make it more like the fancy paid gym i used to go to before the pandemic closures.

But importantly, overdoing it now is not a great idea, at least for the time being. Esp. if you have an underlying condition or are a bit older.