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Run every day (2021)

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Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by brigadier132 »

lockhouse wrote: post #52
brigadier132 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree, there is nothing that quite gets my heartrate up as much as running. I had been doing very low intensity cycling and walking for two years and decided it was about time to get back to being able to run 5k without stopping. Adding the running in had a very quick effect on my day to day experience. I think the people that advocate for 80-20 low intensity / high intensity have it right.

Personally I find running to be too high impact to do every day, so I mix my cardio up a bit with lower impact activities.

It's the same for me, I'm definitely not in the run everyday camp like the blog author :). But I am in the exercise everyday camp and in the get your heartrate really high for a small portion of that exercise a week.

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by gffrd »

fullstop wrote: post #31
mgkimsal wrote: post #18

> Everyone is busy. “I don’t have time”, “It’s impossible”, I’ve heard it all - I don’t buy it. If this was the case, you wouldn’t have time to do your laundry, watch that TV show, or even read this rant. Most of those 'other' things are asynchronous or can be 'multitasked'. I can 'watch' a TV show while checking some emails, or eating a snack, or while folding laundry. Running is a full-body one-thing-at-a-time-only…

> Most of those 'other' things are asynchronous or can be 'multitasked'. I can 'watch' a TV show while checking some emails, or eating a snack, or while folding laundry. I can also do these things at night when it's not very safe to run.

The boogey man loves to nibble on runners

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by gffrd »

mgkimsal wrote: post #49
darkclouds wrote: post #38

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> I hit my apple watch 'rings' - 730 cals, 30 min exercise - 400 days in a row. It was time consuming, and often boring, but I did it. Then stopped. It didn't bring me any great satisfaction or insight or whatnot. You dont mention your diet, which could explain why you stopped.

It's... OK. But... I just stopped because trying to hit that every... single... day - rain/shine/snow, while traveling on the road, etc... it just became ... boring. Well... some days "inconvenient" was a better term.

Did you shift that "energy" elsewhere?

I've found that my routines are like seasons: the time and place for a routine just passes eventually.

This used to frustrated me. It's hard to build routines, and the initiation energy to resume the activity—and the effort to sustain the same routine—was higher than before.

Somewhere along the line, though, I realized that while past routines were hard to resume … others that were previously hard to start had become more natural … so I began paying more attention to where the "current was flowing," so to speak, and would use that to my advantage.

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by fullstop »

gffrd wrote: post #62
fullstop wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most of those 'other' things are asynchronous or can be 'multitasked'. I can 'watch' a TV show while checking some emails, or eating a snack, or while folding laundry. I can also do these things at night when it's not very safe to run.

The boogey man loves to nibble on runners

It's also a lot more difficult for cars to see you but we can pretend that the boogey man is after us.

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by voisin »

pavlov wrote: post #5

Why are people who run so obnoxiously self-important about it? This post makes no effort to explain why running is supposed to be the center of a human being’s mental universe. People who happen to love running seem unable to understand that it’s not the same for everyone. You don’t see this kind of oblivious nonsense from someone who likes powerlifting or pastel drawing or making sushi.

People seem to confuse passion for being obnoxiously self-important.

You get the same comment about vegans, cross-fitters, runners, skiers, sailors, sourdough bakers, etc etc etc. anytime someone has a hobby they are passionate about doesn’t mean they are obnoxiously self-important. They are happy and want others to find the same happiness!

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by voisin »

fullstop wrote: post #64
gffrd wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The boogey man loves to nibble on runners

It's also a lot more difficult for cars to see you but we can pretend that the boogey man is after us.

Reflective clothing and vests with flashing lights can help. Not sure where you live but if I don’t run in the morning (sometimes I fail to wake up early enough), I have to run in the dark at night otherwise it is just too hot!

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by voisin »

version_five wrote: post #4

I run six days a week. I tried seven and kept getting injured, it's important to get some rest or cross train. In a perfect world (or one where I had access to a pool) I would alternate running and swimming.

It should be no different between 6 days straight and 1 off versus 7 days straight. Perhaps more zone 2 running would help, unless you enjoy the day off. I do 7 days a week as my base and then for anything else I want to do I do on top.

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by fullstop »

voisin wrote: post #66
fullstop wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also a lot more difficult for cars to see you but we can pretend that the boogey man is after us.

Reflective clothing and vests with flashing lights can help. Not sure where you live but if I don’t run in the morning (sometimes I fail to wake up early enough), I have to run in the dark at night otherwise it is just too hot!

Yes, it helps, but it's not the same as visibility during daylight hours. Fewer drunk drivers as well.

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by voisin »

mediaman wrote: post #58
hombre_fatal wrote: post #6

Kind of a self important anecdote to make up in the first paragraph. A table of people snickering at someone for saying they run a mile per day. And doing so because they all thought of OP’s super impressive half marathons.

Right. As if half marathons are supposed to be something in a wholly different universe than running a mile a day? It's great exercise, and I personally wouldn't want to do more than a half marathon, since the health benefits seem to be kind of limited and injury rates start creeping up. But someone who runs a mile a day is in reasonable shape, and the distance in fitness from a mile a day to running a half marathon…

> the distance in fitness from a mile a day to running a half marathon isn't so great.

I think there is a vast amount of detail being glossed over here. The 90th percentile 1 mile runner and the 10th percentile 13.1 mile runner might not have a great difference in fitness, but the gal can grow quite a bit by changing those percentiles.

Re: Run every day (2021)

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Post by jmye »

ElectronBadger wrote: post #34

I disagree with the idea. I run regularly, usually 40K per week, I tend to run 3 or 4 times per week. The body needs regeneration, muscle/tendons microdamages need time to heal, depleted reserve of glycogen needs time to restore. The risk of injuries will be higher. Without resting intervals stamina goes down, so consecutive runs will not be as strenuous as should be to build better endurance.

Disagree. I run around 110km per week (on the low end of long distance training) on 6-7 days per week.

You will not deplete glycogen unless you don’t eat or you do a hard workout every day. Recovery pace days are designed to help your body heal and recover while running. Running is not weightlifting. Running should not be strenuous to gain endurance (the best endurance pace and base building pace is far slower than strenuous - Jack Daniels and Pete Pfitzinger have great books explaining this in detail).

These are all misconceptions.

That said, people who are not actively fit shouldn’t run 7 days a week until they get comfortable with walking 7 days a week, because of some of the misconception you mention, and it’s likelihood to cause injury.

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