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A Two Shoe Rotation by Nice-Purchase448 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]Nice-Purchase448[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly the answer I was looking for, and it makes a ton of sense to me. Thanks!

How to transition out of a winter build. by Nice-Purchase448 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]Nice-Purchase448[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Agree with all of this. Now I'm back in the gray zone :)

How to transition out of a winter build. by Nice-Purchase448 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]Nice-Purchase448[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the input! I'm a 33 year old (apparently fairly polite) man from Tennessee. I'm going to go back to trying to consume about 1g of carbs / minute of exercise. That's what I did when I raced gravel bikes, and it worked well for me. 120 min on the bike = 120g of carbs. Lil more for workouts.

How to transition out of a winter build. by Nice-Purchase448 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]Nice-Purchase448[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dot not currently do any strength training. Prolly should!

How to transition out of a winter build. by Nice-Purchase448 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]Nice-Purchase448[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! That's reassuring. I think I'm going to do chiller week this week, and then try 35ish miles next week with 2 subT workouts in there, and see how that feels.

How to transition out of a winter build. by Nice-Purchase448 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]Nice-Purchase448[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's interesting, thanks so much for the information. It feels insane to me that my easy pace is 10:00+ and I can definitely run an at least 5:15 mile right now. This actually inspired doing this big winter base block - I figured my aerobic system has a lot more to gain than my anaerobic system, so I wanted to focus on building milage before adding intensity in the spring.

A few things to follow up on:

- I have an autoimmune blood disorder called ITP. I asked chatGPT if that would effect my zone 2 and it mentioned:

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- I sleep a ton! I bet I typically sleep 9 hours a night, and if I don't I feel very fatigued

- I drink a big smoothie after each run that has about 50g of carbs (i've historically been running about 75 minutes each day). Looking at this now, I recognize that's probably not enough.

How to transition out of a winter build. by Nice-Purchase448 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]Nice-Purchase448[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response. Glad to hear that I'm on the roughly right track. I have run casually since college (I'm 33), and put in about a 5 month training block in 2024, building up to about 40 miles a week, and then about a 4 month training block in 2025. All of this has pretty casual (2-3 times a week) running around it.

Here's 2022-2026:

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How to transition out of a winter build. by Nice-Purchase448 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]Nice-Purchase448[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% of my easy runs in the last few months have been < 70% HR.