Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
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Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#2I would change the title of the post.
Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#3I would change the title of the post.
To what, and why?
Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#4Out of curiosity, what was the motivation for doing this? What is so bad about running too fast? How is "too fast" defined?
Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#5Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#6Out of curiosity, what was the motivation for doing this? What is so bad about running too fast? How is "too fast" defined?
I've just started long-distance running, and when I run too fast, I tend to burn out long before my target distance (and end up walking the rest of the way home).
With Pace.fm, I can set a desired speed and the app will help me stay approximately on-pace.
Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
To what, and why?
It sounds really arrogant. I'm so amazingly fast that I have to use an app to stop myself from taking off into the air like Superman.
I see your point — I didn't intend it to sound like that!
I'm a novice runner, so I tend to run too fast for my fitness level and burn out too early.
Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
To what, and why?
It sounds really arrogant. I'm so amazingly fast that I have to use an app to stop myself from taking off into the air like Superman.
It's a fairly normal problem when you start running. I definitely found that I had to slow my pace down significantly from what I naturally wanted to run at before I could make 5k/10k distances.
Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
To what, and why?
It sounds really arrogant. I'm so amazingly fast that I have to use an app to stop myself from taking off into the air like Superman.
Didn't come across as arrogant to me, excellent choice of music in the screenshot too... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOSxM0rNPM)
Re: Show HN: I run too fast, so I made an app to slow me down
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds really arrogant. I'm so amazingly fast that I have to use an app to stop myself from taking off into the air like Superman.
I see your point — I didn't intend it to sound like that! I'm a novice runner, so I tend to run too fast for my fitness level and burn out too early.
Don't worry, that is exactly the words you must use when talking to other runners, who will understand this is about long-distance and everyone know that running too fast is a problem.
For the HNers not used to running, every long-distance running is more a matter of strategy than speed. Even in the Olympics. Go watch a 5,000 meters of any Olympic Finals and try to analyze why the losers sometimes could have easily ran faster than the time of the winner (according to their historic results) and still they didn't.