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

More. There's no races so no reason not to be tired. I've been running around 80 mpw as opposed to 65-70 during the high school track season.

I was sick all of March and just jumped back on it. I dabbled with a run every other day and mentally was cracking. Then this past week I decided to run 100 miles in 7 days. I'm at 88 miles and planning to run 13 tomorrow. Pace has been very slow and includes some walking and easy treadmill miles.

I have been running more and longer.

I've ramped up to 45-50 miles a week so far. Maybe this was what I should have been doing normally while practicing for outdoor (cancelled) season this year, but this was actually a pretty big increase as I was only doing 30-40 miles at the start of outdoor season. Surprised that its going well while doing mileage that I struggled to do during summer training last year. My winter/indoor track training mileage was horrible (25-30 miles a week) and I managed to somehow run a 4:54 mile the day after coming back from a 2-3 week foot injury. So for now, I've increased mileage and its going great. I'm trying not to worry about getting recruited to colleges I would like to run at cause that plan was ruined because of the cancellation of the outdoor season (Was hoping to run near 10 flat or even sub 10 in the 3200) I'm just trying to remain calm as I am a junior, and have one more season left. For now, I'm running smart and increasing mileage slowly so I won't get injured. I still will email the coaches that I would like to run for, but I'm just working hard to get accepted to those institutions in order to run and make an impact on the team. Best tip is to don't worry about the cancellation of the outdoor season, and relax on getting better by yourself and running smarter!

As an ancient former marathoner, I'll label myself a health jogger, not a hobby jogger. For me, in part, my exercise is one way I point the middle finger to lyme disease and ageing, by keeping somewhat active. My mileage has increased mostly because the weather has begun to warm up, not because of the coronavirus threat. I am retired and single and not facing having more time on my hands.

I had been running on a bike path to get to a huge cemetery, and then returning home along that same bike path, but when the lockdown happened, I found that more and more people were out for walks or bike rides along the same path. After two runs with maskless humanity taking to what had been "my" path, I decided to avoid this too-close contact by driving over to the cemetery to do all of my running.

If you have not done so, download Google Earth (or an alternative), where you can precisely measure out courses (in yards, in miles, etc.) if the trees don't obscure the paths. The cemetery has wide, traffic-free roads, and I measured several different routes. My longest loop is 1.8 miles (and hilly), and I'm finding that I sort of like loop-running, as opposed to, say, out-and-back running.

Mostly, not exclusively, my runs, in the last hour of daylight, are devoid of other live humans (the exception on these days being people visiting graves), though a few zombies have sought to eat my brain. I'm too fast for them, though.

Unfortunately, with time, more people in general have discovered the cemetery for exercising during the coronavirus stay-at-home stretch-- but only when the weather is good, and, like someone pointed out earlier, damn families with kids seem to spread out, annoyingly so, with zero consideration for others. Social distancing doesn't explain their movements totally. I have to alter my route accordingly, as I don't wear a mask and have more than my share of paranoia about the virus. The good thing is that there is plenty of room for me to alter my course by, say, running on the grass among the graves instead of on the paved roads (to avoid the people walking in the roads), or by beelining down another cemetery road to run an alternate loop.

Numbers, not the virus or suddenly having more time on my hands, have motivated me to run more frequently - to reach a now-attainable April 20th one-year mileage goal I thought was unattainable only a month ago. (I only have 9 miles to go - it's all but a done deal now...unless the virus comes knocking). Consequently, I've been a tad bit more foolish (if that's the word) in terms of spending more time in public without a mask. BUT...the exercise is a great mood-booster, and I feel it benefits my general health. Thus, I sense that it must be positive for the immune system. I am careful, but, of course, the virus is a hidden enemy. My running is a calculated risk, and the odds are clearly in my favor.

If the annoying walkers continue to multiply, I'll probably switch to running first-thing in the morning, but I may find too many other morning runners, walkers, and bikers sharing my same desire for isolation.

A bit less. Lost the motivation to get all of the early morning miles I'd been logging, and overall I've felt more tired despite working from home since I don't have to make the effort to get ready and bike to/from work every day.

ParityCuber wrote:

More. There's no races so no reason not to be tired. I've been running around 80 mpw as opposed to 65-70 during the high school track season.

There shouldn't be a reason to be more tired but I have been. Maybe it's just mental but I've felt more fatigued when I'm spending 22 hours of the day in the apartment, most of them being in my bedroom since that's where my desk is. I would not want to work from home full-time after this.

Last week I did 120 miles all on treadmill. This week I did 80 in 6 days and I'm really starting to get bored of it. 14kph is harder than 13kph bit feels the same as there is no sense of speed without scenery flying by and cutting through air. I miss feeling the distance of how far out I ran and I miss seeing the horizon get closer as I run back.

Stifler wrote:

Muebele wrote:

Less, much less

trying to home school three kids (two in kindergarten) plus work, plus we decided to get that puppy were were talking about, has left very little time for running. Kids can't go to their friends houses and play or go to the park, Dog needs to be walked and played with, work is busy. Running is limited. I am starting to get depressed about it.

Ewwww.... Kids and a dog sound dreadful.

Glad I have none of that baggage

Glad I chose not to have kids I knew we were gonna f it all up for them, we left them a pandemic and soon a destroyed planet because of what we do to animals.

The same. I ran 108 miles between March 18 and April 8. 3 days entirely off.

Avergae basically 5 miles/day.

Now taking time off. That's been my pattern for several years. A few weeks on followed by a few weeks with no or very limited ammounts of running.

I love running but I'm not training year round like I did in high school.

My body at 35 needs a bit of a break after even a few weeks doing about 5 miles every day.

Only difference between this 3 week recent period and previous ones was I did a number of 8 mile runs, which is long for me these days.

More. Working from home, there is no commute time. Plus, why not? There is more time in the day, and nowhere to go, so why not use the time in a healthy way? One of the few things they allow us to do is go outside and do 'solo' exercise, so I am fortunate that I am a runner and not a basketball or soccer player. All I need is a road and some shoes. My morning run is very early, so there are typically no people out. Now, there are also no cars. It works for me.

Part of the problem here is the gym rats who just discovered the Outdoors, families spread out, and people walking/running with traffic at me. If they only jogged on the correct side most of my encounters with people would go away. I’m not stepping in the middle of the lane because you’re on the wrong side. But if the road is clear I will run across the street for my own sake. Maybe I should start at 5:00am but with not training for a race anymore it’s not motivating enough.

Fooling yrself wrote:

I train a little less but I'm not fooling myself about summer or fall races. I'm pretty sure there will be no big races until 2021.

I would rather be doing XC-type training right now than starting 800/1500 specific sessions. My 5k-10k are weaker than my 800/1500 times so I’d like to close the gap, but I guess my coach wants to have my teammates and me ready for prime racing season. Given that France’s confinement just got pushed to the 11th of May, might as well scrap the season.

More mileage because not tapering for/resting from races.

Prior to Mar 10, I was peaking for the USATF Masters Indoors Championships so I was doing three track workouts a week... short intervals, medium intervals, and a modified tempo.

Since I'm in a high risk age group (M70+), I cut back on all my HIIT and vigorous exercise. I'm doing only slow, hilly runs of 60 minutes on the roads and 40 minutes on the trails.

I'm sure Masters Outdoors will be canceled in July so I have no meaningful races until March 2021 so I'm going to work on building endurance and getting in some long (for me) runs and bike rides.

A little bit more. I started my 12 year old on a couch to 5k program. I do my normal run after.

Right on brother. Keep running.

Had a marathon right before the lockdowns so I’m doing less but not because of the virus. I suspect I’ll be ramping back to a more normal level later this month or early May. An app I use confirms your strava anecdotal evidence by observing a (pretty significant) drop in entries across all the 3rd party exercise apps they monitor (not just running).

historysfinest wrote:

For me it's about the same, nothing has changed but noticed on Strava people have decreased their mileage. How about you?

I'm working from home and partially locked down. I have way more time to run. Wake up a bit later too. No traffic. Run, laptop, run sleep. The treadmill is my friend. Will see how long I can sustain 120 mile weeks. Not like any races going to happen this year anyway. Time to build a solid base.