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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Based on your comment about weight loss, I’ll assume you’re aiming for a “fat burning heart rate”. While it’s true that your body burns more fat at that heart rate, it also burns less total calories. Your body will generally always burn fat, but sometimes when we work harder it also has to dip into faster energy like carbs/glycogen.

    All this means is that if you prefer a harder, shorter workout, there’s no harm in it. There’s a limit to this of course, but as long as you’re getting a reasonable duration of exercise it should be fine.

















  • It seems like the core of this is more miles will get you in better condition, and if you slow down you can get more miles done without injury. I could put the same effort into a fast 10k or a slow 10 miles, but the slow 10 miles would give my muscles more work and also be easier to recover from.

    I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. My thought process was if we go slow just to get harder workouts in, why go slow if I’m not going to do those workouts? So I started adding some random fast pace intervals to a run once a week.

    This lasted about two weeks before I started to notice excess fatigue in my hips. I realize now that by adding the faster runs when I was already at my highest ever mileage, I was doing too much. I’m taking an easy week next week and an extra rest day today. I’m not opposed to workouts or speed work, I just have a better appreciation for the stress they put on our bodies. I’ll try adding it back in once I’ve settled in at my current mileage.




  • Especially since I just looked at it as “just” ten miles for the week. I like the advice that as soon as you feel some kind of abnormal pain (joints instead of muscles, or just more than a light soreness) you should immediately take a rest day or three. The problem with this is that when you’re starting out, rest days feel like you’re missing a run rather than purposeful rest.