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Greenbank in reply to @rhb
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

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rhb in reply to @Greenbank

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 :(

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