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Why did you care about your distance? What's so special about going farther and farther every time until you hit some arbitrary goal like 26.2 miles? Beating yo
by darkerside 3y ago
Why did you care about your distance? What's so special about going farther and farther every time until you hit some arbitrary goal like 26.2 miles? Beating your last time is fine and rewarding, and you can choose your next goal to be whatever you want.
- brailsafe 3y agoThis was my thought too. It's just a matter of picking an arbitrary metric and shooting for it, given constraints that probably don't matter. I like hiking, and enjoy challenging myself. Sometimes I shoot for my longest distance ever, sometimes I shoot for more technicality, sometimes it's just raw elevation gain over a shorter distance, sometimes it's all of them. I rarely shoot for time, my constraint at that level is typically getting the thing done without having to camp out for the night, but I could just as well do that. I often shoot for time over elevation and distance with road cycling though.
- Zardoz89 3y agoIt’s not just a number. It is also a park, a metro stop, another town over. You learn to know where you live with your feet.
- darkerside 3y agoI don't disagree distance is a cool metric and carries many other benefits. I'm just drawing a parallel for parent poster. One of the other side benefits of training for speed is that there is just no feeling like finding yourself getting faster with less and less effort. My favorite runners highs have come from taking on a hill that used to be hard, and running it both faster and with less perceived effort than previously.