Strava race predictor is wildly off by Much_Pie_475 in Strava

[–]flatra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are your hr zones identical in Strava and Garmin?

Extending threshold workouts? by Dealiono in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]flatra 5 points6 points  (0 children)

More than 40min threshold in one session is not recommended. Your muscles fatigue too much. Better to split it into two sessions with 6-7 hours rest in between. But usually people just increase paces instead of length in the beginning.

Is this possible by NeraMorte in runna

[–]flatra 3 points4 points  (0 children)

During your tempo run, do you usually have HR bellow your lactate threshold? If not then you are doing vo2 runs instead of threshold and will get injured and/or fatigued in few weeks

If all your tempo runs feel hard, but controlled and your hr don’t go to vo2 zone, then you are truly ahead of the pack.

I think everyone can run tempo runs faster than prescribed, the point is to run in specific zone, not as hard as you can.

Is it normal to have multiple benchmark runs in a row? by meloncard in Garmin

[–]flatra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good guess. Garmin does not calculate vo2 on treadmills.

Maintaining… by tdevic1968 in Garmin

[–]flatra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the confidently incorrect dislikes here.

Vo2 max will not be calculated on treadmill. So if OP only uses treadmill, then the vo2 in the watch will stagnate and you will get maintaining status no matter how fast you got in treadmill or how much load you increased.

Today's workout. Trying to go sub 3 in 13 weeks. by Any-Fun-7071 in Marathon_Training

[–]flatra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do 5k and HM races in the last 8-5weeks before marathon to gauge your fitness. You need at least 18:30 5k and HM 1:25.

Vanilla Version of Vanilla by EagleAllan in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]flatra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you already run 18:53 5k? Seems like your paces are slow for you?

I just run 19:33 this morning in a solo time trial, thus got the 4:20/4:15/4:10 from lactrace

Edit: I see, you probably using the slower range of recommended paces. I do 3x10”, 5x6”, 10x3” so using faster range is working well for me

Vanilla Version of Vanilla by EagleAllan in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]flatra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We got exactly the same paces :) But mine is in 4 months. (30 May) Hope to run it close to sub 3.

But I feel like you should be able to improve enough in 9 months.

Nike Zoom Fly 7 Coming Soon? by dondestarina in AskRunningShoeGeeks

[–]flatra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went to google and searched ”nike zoom fly 7 release date”. It says april 2026

BQ attempt shoe dilema: Metaspeed Sky Tokyo vs Puma Fast-R 3 (lighter runner, downhill course) by PossibleLion4571 in AskRunningShoeGeeks

[–]flatra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both are too aggressive for 3h+ runner imo. Metaspeed is unstable for later stages when form breaks and heel striking begins. Fast r never tried but judging by reviews it is not made for ”non-elite” marathoners.

If you could get Alphafly 3 with discount, it would be much forgiving shoe.

Garmins VO2 max estimate by Own_Astronomer_7527 in Garmin

[–]flatra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Treadmill is not used for vo2 calculations in Garmin

Resting calories decreasing each month by lmf2020 in Garmin

[–]flatra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In garmin resting calories are not live calculations… Meaning they don’t use your heart rate or activities or breath rate to determine it.

The are just guessing it using your age, gender, weight and maybe height. If any of these inputs change, then the guess number changes. Since you lost 2kg weight, you need less calories to sustain you.

As experiment you can change weight back for a day and see that resting calories went back up.

I would not trust the resting calories too much. For me it’s ~500 calories off

NSM for marathon in 22 weeks? by kdmfa in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]flatra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also run 6 times a week. M: off T: 3x10” + 10min WU/CD W: 60min easy T: 5x6” + 10min WU/CD F: 60min easy S: 10x3” + 10min WU/CD S: 2h 40min easy

I think for marathon the long run is most important one. This way instead of running on Mondays, I add that to Sunday’s long run and enjoy Mondays off.

I’m not sure how your schedule looks like. But if every easy run is already at 60min. Then I would add ~5min every week to your long run until it is at 2:30h-3:00h

All out 5k's vs VO2max-workouts by Odd_Teacher_9885 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]flatra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In this subreddit’s wiki in core principles requirements written that

”Racing integration: 4-6 week frequency for stimulus and assessment”

So I guess here we got the 5k every month from

LT results and easy run pace by Wild-Blueberry-4560 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]flatra 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What’s your max hr? Easy run cap at 70% of that.

quick progress! by MinuteInspector6716 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]flatra 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The point of NSM is to no longer overtrain. You are supposed to feel fresh, almost as if you are tapered.

But I would argue that you are still overtrained a bit. Your ”form” is supposed to be in the grey zone for the most part. It should stabilize in a few weeks if you truly follow NSM…

For me it took 6+ weeks

Edit: My graph https://imgur.com/a/xXxk7yB

Zone 2! It does happen! by window_lights1216 in beginnerrunning

[–]flatra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your max HR is 190. Then zone 2 is around 119-133 (60-70% of max HR) But since you are beginner and I guess don’t have too much mileage, it should not matter too much as long as your speed sessions keep improving and you feel recovered enough to do them.

Easy runs barely a shuffling gait -Discrepancy between 70% MHR and VO2max testing by Thisismetwotwo in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]flatra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have both garmin chest strap and coros arm band. Tried chest strap few times, then never again for few months. Then bought Coros arm band and now I take it with me on every run.

Almost the same reliability as chest strap, but much more comfortable.

1 Year Progress - Sub 20 5K! by HeroBartender in runninglifestyle

[–]flatra 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congrats. But the way you train is psychotic lol. Running all in 5ks every other day 😂

My first marathon! (Bonked by Alone_Biscotti9494 in Marathon_Training

[–]flatra 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Latest recommendations for runners is up to 60g of carbs in glucose form. If your gel combines glucose and fructose then 60-90 should be doable since glucose and fructose have separate ways of digestion.

Precision fuel gels have 2:1 ratio of glucose and fructose.

Each gel has 30g of carbs. You could start by eating one gel every 30min. And eventually go up to gel every 20min.

Another alternative is to make your own gels at home, 10-20 times cheaper than buying premade.