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Your pace for the same HR is going to increase simply from the conditioning at that HR even if you lost zero kg - this is the principle behind the Maffetone Method.
True, but that improvement will be finite and trend towards some final value. Whilst overweight I'm going to see much better gains from losing weight.
To get a better idea, plug your current numbers into fellrnr.com/wiki/VDOT_Calculator and include your weight - it will give you predicted times if you lost Xkg. Enjoy your eating disorder!
Thanks, that's very useful and the figures make sense to me, and it's probably more useful than individual anecdotes. Given my current 5k times if I get to my target weight it suggests a sub 4h marathon so I'm happy with that (as a sugestion purely based on a 5k time and a weight!)
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Your pace for the same HR is going to increase simply from the conditioning at that HR even if you lost zero kg - this is the principle behind the Maffetone Method.
To get a better idea, plug your current numbers into http://fellrnr.com/wiki/VDOT_Calculator and include your weight - it will give you predicted times if you lost Xkg. Enjoy your eating disorder!