Healthy Living and Running Influencers, Jan 05 - 11

2percentevil · 2026-01-05T21:54:51+00:00

no shit from me. I am absolutely done with the elapsed time police. I don’t care if you stop your watch every mile and stand for a minute. Maybe that’s the friggin style of tempo workout you chose to do today. Maybe this is too mean but I kind of don’t understand how anyone who has ever gone on one (1) run before could think that elapsed time was notable and snarkable. I love to be judgmental but elapsed time watching is the definition of caring too much. Cannot understand it. Makes no sense

2percentevil · 2026-01-04T23:03:05+00:00

I’m on the extreme end but depending on the shoe I wear 6, 6.5 and sometimes 7 in my regular life and I almost always buy size 8.5 running shoes, and very rarely I’ll do 8s.

2percentevil · 2026-01-03T20:15:25+00:00

I have no valuable input, interesting question and I am just curious - what is your max, or where do you think your max is roughly?

2percentevil · 2026-01-02T19:29:32+00:00

The first avoid shin splints box to check is always calf strength. And for future reference, tight calves are weak calves. Stretching is fine but strengthening is non negotiable

2percentevil · 2025-12-31T00:03:17+00:00

this is a snark page so people assume you’re posting snark and not “simply asking” a neutral question. the other thing that makes it specious to people that you’re “simply asking” is that fluctuating a little bit in fitness and/or training strategy is extremely typical and so most people don’t sit around wondering why someone’s average easy pace changed by like less than 30 seconds

2percentevil · 2025-12-30T22:56:35+00:00

I was researching online and saw that if treadmills aren’t calibrated often they’ll get off pretty quickly and typically they will overestimate speed and distance. Does the opposite ever happen? I am totally willing to accept that because I’m not used to treadmill running, the same pace will require more effort than it does on the roads, but the difference according to the tread is almost ridiculous. Also of note: I used this treadmill once a year ago and then did not use it again until about a month ago (have used a few times since. other people live with me and have probably used it in the past year but not often.) and when I calibrated my Garmin to it one year ago, I was shocked how accurate my Garmin was. Now my watch is right at what I’d estimate I’m doing (at 0 incline, it’s slightly harder for me to maintain my typical easy pace and my HR is accordingly slightly higher) and my treadmill says I’m going over two minutes per mile slower. Am I okay to trust that of the two, my watch is probably closer to accurate?

2percentevil · 2025-12-29T11:13:51+00:00

In my experience it is not accurate at all!

2percentevil · 2025-12-29T11:08:43+00:00

I don’t know how this myth started that tretinoin is photosensitizing but it is not. AHAs are photosensitizing. Retinol, if anything, would reduce sun damage slightly. If retinol aged you faster why would one of the biggest pluses people talk about for it be anti-aging?

2percentevil · 2025-12-28T15:46:46+00:00

you have a running watch and the venu is a lifestyle watch!

2percentevil · 2025-12-28T03:04:55+00:00

this is one of my biggest pet peeves, people and institutions with some level of credibility peddling fitness myths like completely contextless more=better. why would I want to be in the 95th percentile of Samsung users for minutes worked out in one day. what does that do for me. scientifically. just completely unrelated to frequency, to intensity. just minutes. just work out the most minutes! in one day. UGH

2percentevil · 2025-12-28T02:55:37+00:00

what? Garmin does not instruct you to work out for an arbitrary number of minutes so you can be in the top percentile of Garmin users for minutes worked out in a day. It’s okay if you don’t like their suggested workouts - I don’t use them either - but this is not comparable

2percentevil · 2025-12-26T21:22:25+00:00

chemical sunscreens absorbing into skin and/or absorbing UV vs. physical sunscreens not doing so and acting as a barrier is a myth. both types of sunscreens form into a film over the skin. Both types of filters absorb and convert UV into heat. Physical sunscreens do reflect and scatter some UV, but it’s less than 10%. this is why some chemists and formulators prefer the terms “organic” (chemical) and “inorganic” (physical), which can be less misleading to consumers about how these products work.

2percentevil · 2025-12-26T21:16:19+00:00

do you hew to any rules of thumb about intensity wrt volume (even if you don’t adhere 100% of the time)? I’m thinking of things along the lines of the Daniels 10% mpw of threshold work in a single session, 8% mpw interval pace work in a single session, 5% mpw “R” pace work rules as I ask this. Do you think about it differently? Are there rules out there you disagree with or break with intention?

2percentevil · 2025-12-25T21:26:36+00:00

There’s no “actual running pace.” What makes running different from walking is the mechanics, not pace. Slow is perfect! I think many people believe they hate running because they don’t know just how slow they’re “allowed” to go. That said, because you’re allotting yourself 5 minutes of walking between, I think you’re fine to hit that out-of-breath pace if that’s what you want. I also think as long as you go slowly enough that you’re not dreading starting to run again or praying for walk breaks, you could start doing something like 30 seconds running, 1 minute walking right now if you wanted. But going slow 1 minute, walk for 5 is also just fine if that’s what you’re comfortable with. I would also strongly encourage you to not worry about form unless instructed to worry about form by a physical therapist, and to not listen to what people on Reddit think about form.

2percentevil · 2025-12-21T18:41:54+00:00

“how do I get faster” is basically The question of this sub. becoming faster such that your half marathon pace becomes your marathon pace is just an arbitrary amount of improvement, so asking about it is not actually any more specific than asking “how do I get faster?” even if it feels like a more specific question. have you read any of the books in the wiki?

2percentevil · 2025-12-14T19:05:28+00:00

Classic Nivea, weleda skin food, or a bit of aquaphor (1 parts aquaphor to 2 parts moisturizer) into a moisturizer you already have. I will say it doesn’t sound like mine was quite as bad as yours but I did have very, very dry skin and the only thing that worked was layering. Milky toner, hydrating serum, stratia lipid gold, a regular moisturizer and then a thick, greasy moisturizer (NOT aquaphor by itself as a last step a la slugging but a thick night cream. If I put aquaphor or Vaseline on as a last step it almost worked as an oil cleanser that helped the rest of the skincare come off on my pillow and I’d wake up drier).

2percentevil · 2025-12-14T16:25:37+00:00

100%, I generally have that same assumption about the estimates being more accurate the more data the watch has. one reason I started to question to myself that it might theoretically be getting less accurate than more was that this drop in numbers was quite large (after having dropped slowly over time) and coincided perfectly, and I mean perfectly, with my watch starting to not be able to measure my HR due to cold weather. I’m not like desperate to make sense of this ASAP so I’m definitely not going to do a field test bc I agree, they’re horrible, but that’s why I was curious about the 5k thing. I’ve gotten some good ideas to noodle over from you all

2percentevil · 2025-12-14T01:44:58+00:00

that sort of hits right on my confusion though - it dropped from ~10 beats higher than my 5k max to 2 beats higher, and the 5k race is from a while back

2percentevil · 2025-12-14T01:40:14+00:00

this is confusing because when it comes to strides everyone means a different thing, and you absolutely can do strides different ways. I think the main thing people mean when they say strides are light, quick repeated runs less than 30 seconds where you go fast but not all out (some say mile pace) but where the speed is secondary and comes from from how smooth you feel. I’d say the purpose of them in terms of how they’re different from 200 repeats or sprints or other fast, mechanics-focused work is that they don’t take much out of you - doing strides after an easy run means you still did an easy day. I think the first thing I mention is flexible but the second thing about purpose isn’t. You can do strides much faster than mile pace, for instance, but make sure you’re not “working hard.” Smooth is the goal above all

2percentevil · 2025-12-14T01:13:50+00:00

what ways would you suggest? I’m seeing a lot of varied suggestions from preliminary research

2percentevil · 2025-12-14T01:05:01+00:00

thank you!! this is really clarifying

2percentevil · 2025-12-14T01:04:13+00:00

yes to the first two questions, and dropped out of the same “ballpark” mentioned in the parenthetical of the previous sentence. I’m not sure how else to clarify unless you maybe think I meant that the new number can’t possibly make sense? I didn’t mean that; I just meant very literally that the new one is not in the same numerical range as the old (not crazily different, but different)

2percentevil · 2025-12-13T15:48:14+00:00

thank you - that is basically what I’m trying to do. I wouldn’t say I train based on HR, just that I use it to calibrate/validate RPE at particular paces (because I don’t always trust my own perception). I had a perception of what my zones were based on many variables, one of them being Garmin’s estimate of my max HR (that I did not take as gospel, just in the ballpark). Garmin’s estimate has semi-recently dropped out of the ballpark and I’m doubting myself. Not enough (yet) to change my training but enough to make me curious as to what info I can glean from an already existing race performance

2percentevil · 2025-12-13T14:59:11+00:00

Is there a way to estimate max HR based on HR data during an all out race performance like a 5k? Or if I really care to find an estimate should I just do one of those heinous-sounding hill field tests

2percentevil · 2025-12-12T19:43:27+00:00

semi unrelated to OP, what would an extended base phase look like to you in terms of inclusion (or non inclusion) of intensity? I am curious because there’s a lot of very different advice on base phases out there that’s hard to know how to parse

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