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The main takeaways from Matt Fitzgerald's 80:20 running book are:
- You should do 80% of your running nice and slowly, and only 20% "fast"
- It's possible to string that single idea out into 200+ tortuous pages
- It's still quite motivational, given the choice of reading more of the book or going for a long slow run I'll go for a long slow run.
[EDIT] Happy to post the book on when I'm done with it, it's not one that needs to be kept as a reference
- You should do 80% of your running nice and slowly, and only 20% "fast"
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You should do 80% of your running nice and slowly, and only 20% "fast"
time or distance?
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It's still quite motivational, given the choice of reading more of the book or going for a long slow run I'll go for a long slow run.
Lol.
I have a (loan) copy which I've found equally hard to read, thought it was just me not really mad about reading.
Maffetone gets much more detailed and looks at specific testing & diet too again I scraped the surface and haven't gone into the detail.
The slow (easy) runs are much more sustainable.
@Sainsburys_Ed hope it gets you the Marathon result you're after.
Interestingly (or perhaps not) for my longer runs I haven't got faster, just spending more time in the 125-135bpm range, but then this perhaps reflects the goal of 24hrs moving. From June onwards I have short window to see if I can get comfortably faster for Aug 26.2 & Sep 35 without breaking myself.
@juanito :(
dst2
rhb
Browsing my training log earlier, about a year of majority slow running means that my ~140bpm pace is now 30s per mile quicker. /csb