Ywa but if your going for 3 miles anyway your going to be working muscular endurance.
Agreed you do need to mix up your running without a doubt, but jogging all the time isnt going to develop your aerobic fitness very well, it would be better to run a full two miles at 70-80% HR, than one mile at that and then another 2 slowly.
Yeah but I was referring to jogging on longer distances. :bigsmile:
My running has been P'ing me off lately I was going to make a thread but F it, I'll just post it here.
It's to do with my 3 miler(3.4 to be exact) I've noticed that if I don't do it for a week or so, my time goes up, has anyone else noticed this? Maybe It's too much to expect to be able to get atleast the same time or better everytime you run?
Here are my times, this is the 2nd time this has happened as you'll see. I keep looking for excuses cause I don't know what it could be, I put 100% in everytime.
3rd may- 23:52
10thmay- 22:33
17thmay- 23:01(this)
18thmay- 22:01
21thmay- 21:41
28thmay- 22:19(this)
29thmay- 21:56
Maybe it's because their such small increment differences that they can be easily influenced by how you 'feel' on the day??
My theory/excuses are that these higher times as the list goes down and should be progressing are because I was wearing trousers on those runs instead of shorts *text deleted*, maybe that's a cop out though, does it make that much of a difference? hmmm Also on the 28th the ground was wet and slushy(I run around a sort of dusty/gravel/rocky road, it's around an active lagoon) OR it's because I didn't run for a week before doing them... Those are my theories but the main question is, does anyone else get this? Am I expecting too much? Or even should I be improving these times faster? Is my rate of improvement slow? I do find the runs very intense.. My goal anyway is sub 21 minutes, I think that's reasonable?
I've been running for a while now, on and off for the past couple of years but never really timing myself etc so I'm not as knowledgable on it as people who have been doing it for ages so if you care to enlighten me, please do. :cheesy: