The Running Thread - 2019

[DopeyBadger]

Am I correct in my believing that the “average lap” setting will now display the average of my double-taps for laps?

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/web...UID-0707B03D-1419-49B0-A0EB-611E25D21331.html
Average Lap Time
The average lap time for the current activity.

"Average Lap" will display the average lap time of the entire run split into your laps such that each lap is treated equally. So a 1 mile lap (your pressing of the button) and a 1.3 mile lap (your pressing of the button) will be averaged together. So:

(lap A time + lap B time) / 2

Not

(lap A time + lap B time) / 2.3

So this won't tell you necessarily what is happening in the moment (like lap pace). The downfall is when Mile 20 comes up the changes in "average lap time" are going to be less responsive to what's actually happening in the moment. So I might have "lap pace" as a fall back to peak at every once in a while. Trust your effort and recent training paces to know when you see a 8:30 min/mile or a 20:00 min/mile (whatever your recent paces have been as a reference) lap pace that it is erroneous.

 

[bananabean]

Kipchoge is attempting sub 2 hour marathon on Saturday in Vienna. So far weather conditions are favorable. It’s being live streamed which is pretty cool.

https://www.ineos159challenge.com/

To counter that, the longest marathon was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds. More my speed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizo_Kanakuri

 

[FFigawi]

A quick question for those of you who understand your Garmin better than me...

I am setting things up for Chicago this Sunday and am planning to mark mile laps manually. I have auto-pause turned off. Am I correct in my believing that the “average lap” setting will now display the average of my double-taps for laps? And does anybody have any other settings advice?

Download and install this Connect IQ app. It performs all the calculations you're looking for on the fly each time you hit the lap button at a mile marker.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-GB/apps/6a30651b-ca67-41a5-96dc-60634983fc93

 

[Mickey Momma]

Download and install this Connect IQ app. It performs all the calculations you're looking for on the fly each time you hit the lap button at a mile marker.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-GB/apps/6a30651b-ca67-41a5-96dc-60634983fc93

Haha!! That is actually the app I downloaded last night which made me ask this question today. Wanted to make sure I was understanding it correctly. Thanks!

 

[garneska]

@Mickey Momma i will be honest I was flipping out last year at Chicago worried about my watch. Then worried if I set it on manual I would mess up the laps as well. I just left my watch on auto lap at 1 mile and paid attention to how close it was to the actual my mile markers. I was pretty close.

Also the tip follow the blue line it’s the measuring line so hits all the tangents. I basically stayed on it. My garmin clocked me at 26.34 for mileage. I never got the random gps issues from the building that I have seen @roxymama have.

 

[FFigawi]

Haha!! That is actually the app I downloaded last night which made me ask this question today. Wanted to make sure I was understanding it correctly. Thanks!

If you don’t want to use the app, you can always subtract 5-10 seconds per mile from your goal pace and use that as a baseline.

 

[Slogger]

Congrats @Bree on a great 10 miler. Nice feeling when a run goes better than expected.

Congrats @PrincessMickey on your HotChocolate Run. Do they still have the big chocolate chips during the race?

 

[michigandergirl]

Good luck Sunday @Mickey Momma !!! I'll keep an eye out for you.

I don't have a Garmin plan. I'm just going to turn it on and try running by feel.

 

[PrincessV]

Kipchoge is attempting sub 2 hour marathon on Saturday in Vienna. So far weather conditions are favorable. It’s being live streamed which is pretty cool.

https://www.ineos159challenge.com/

I've been following this intently and am looking forward to watching it unfold! In the middle of the night. During a b2b2b Dpey training weekend.

 

[FFigawi]

I've been following this intently and am looking forward to watching it unfold! In the middle of the night. During a b2b2b Dpey training weekend.

That was so much fun to watch. What an incredible accomplishment! 1:59:40

 

[SunDial]

Woke up at the half. That was amazing to watch.

 

[Dopey 2020]

Wow, simply amazing is all I can say.

 

[Bree]

I forgot to set my alarm so I missed it

Unbelievable that he did it!!!!

 

[roxymama]

My first thought when I saw your post before my brain woke up was “wow, someone on the board ran a great half marathon time”

 

[Mickey Momma]

Good luck Sunday @Mickey Momma !!! I'll keep an eye out for you.

I don't have a Garmin plan. I'm just going to turn it on and try running by feel.

You too! Hopefully less wind tomorrow than today.

 

[huskies90]

Race Recap - Hartford Half Marathon 10/12/19

I ran the Hartford Half Marathon today mainly because it is the one day I can run on the roads in Hartford and West Hartford without worrying about getting hit by a car. The course also goes right past my street which is pretty cool. It was suppose to just be a 13 mile training run for Dopey but I felt really good coming off the starting line and ended up killing it with a brand new half marathon PR of 1:37:37 (7:27 pace). Old PR was 1:41:30 which is what I submitted for my Dopey POT. This race is past the deadline. It was probably the most steady pace I’ve ever run and I didn’t feel like I was pushing hard until the end. All my splits at 5K, 10K and 15K were the same at 7:32. I poured it on at the end to finish at 7:27 overall.

Interesting note - they added a nice (surprise) touch to all the medals having the date engraved on the back. Unfortunately, when they opened the shipment earlier this week, they realized they were all engraved with the wrong date (10/13/19). They handed out little adhesive plaques with the correct date that you could paste over the engraved incorrect date. It’s too bad. The engraving came out nice. I thought about leaving it with tomorrow’s date because years from now, you will never remember the exact date. But I went ahead put the plaque over it. It is basically a little sticker. It still looks pretty good.

ETA: I almost forgot the best part of the race...the Hartford Marathon gives everyone (+21) a free beer at the Sam Adams 27th Mile Beer Garden. Nothing like a Sam’s Octoberfest on a cool Fall day in CT after a race — especially a free one!!

 

[FFigawi]

Interesting note - they added a nice (surprise) touch to all the medals having the date engraved on the back. Unfortunately, when they opened the shipment earlier this week, they realized they were all engraved with the wrong date (10/13/19).

They had one job!

Congrats on the new PR

 

[StacyStrong]

Good luck to everyone running the Chicago Marathon tomorrow! Though I am not running, I did go to the expo this morning for some compression socks and nuun.

 

[StacyStrong]

Race Recap - Hartford Half Marathon 10/12/19

I ran the Hartford Half Marathon today mainly because it is the one day I can run on the roads in Hartford and West Hartford without worrying about getting hit by a car. The course also goes right past my street which is pretty cool. It was suppose to just be a 13 mile training run for Dopey but I felt really good coming off the starting line and ended up killing it with a brand new half marathon PR of 1:37:37 (7:27 pace). Old PR was 1:41:30 which is what I submitted for my Dopey POT. This race is past the deadline. It was probably the most steady pace I’ve ever run and I didn’t feel like I was pushing hard until the end. All my splits at 5K, 10K and 15K were the same at 7:32. I poured it on at the end to finish at 7:27 overall.

Interesting note - they added a nice (surprise) touch to all the medals having the date engraved on the back. Unfortunately, when they opened the shipment earlier this week, they realized they were all engraved with the wrong date (10/13/19). They handed out little adhesive plaques with the correct date that you could paste over the engraved incorrect date. It’s too bad. The engraving came out nice. I thought about leaving it with tomorrow’s date because years from now, you will never remember the exact date. But I went ahead put the plaque over it. It is basically a little sticker. It still looks pretty good.

ETA: I almost forgot the best part of the race...the Hartford Marathon gives everyone (+21) a free beer at the Sam Adams 27th Mile Beer Garden. Nothing like a Sam’s Octoberfest on a cool Fall day in CT after a race — especially a free one!!

Congrats!

 

[CDKG]

They had one job!

Congrats on the new PR

I actually have a medal where they spelled “Seattel” wrong!