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For me, time (and therefore speed) is a measure of fitness. I don’t care about beating others. I like to see that I am getting more fit than I previously was.
by ssgodderidge 3y ago
For me, time (and therefore speed) is a measure of fitness. I don’t care about beating others. I like to see that I am getting more fit than I previously was.
The notion of “could I run 26 miles?” is the same to me as “could I run 26 miles in 4 hours?”
- nlh 3y agoThat makes a ton of sense. My measure of improvement has always been "how much pain am I feeling" ;) but that does correlate to speed I suppose.
- ip26 3y agoThat’s exactly the thing to me, the fastest runners always seem to be feeling the best. I see plenty of people who sign up for ultras and basically struggle through it by willingness to suffer instead of fitness; I see no value in that. I’d rather run a 10k or half really fast and feel amazing than drag myself through an ultra and be miserable, so that’s my training goal.
- iamacyborg 3y agoTheoretically, if you know how to race, you’ll always be hitting the same relative level of pain, just for different amounts of time. Easy runs should be easy though, and hard training runs should very, very rarely cause pain.