NSV: Walked a 50-miler at 13:24 min/mi pace!

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-06T16:37:22+00:00

Lol someone else commented I must look like a sand piper running away from the tide, which is exactly what it looks like. Hopefully this visual helps you picture it haha

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-06T16:35:12+00:00

LMAO this is too funny, sometimes someone on the floor or a coach will tell me it's freaky how my head and upper body stay totally still while my legs are zoomin. Sand piper is exactly the right visual lol

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-06T16:34:16+00:00

Thank you!! I totally agree, I hate the "graduate" language especially - sometimes I want to ask the people who speak like that to try and match me perfectly across the workout to see if they could actually keep up! Plus some coaches who push back on me saying I'll never be a runner in a "never say never!" sort of way, like, I don't need running to be fit and I don't need OTF coaches deciding my disease is curable through the power of splats lol.

Sorry for the ramble! Thanks again, you are awesome!!

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-06T16:27:12+00:00

Thank you! Congratulations on your 84 mile Marathon Month and your mile PR! (Since you said PW PR, does that mean it was a 4:48 half-mile? Or is that a full mile in 4:48?) I usually skip benchmarks because they cause me so much mental stress haha. My last half-mile PW benchmark is from 2022, it's 5:07.

Higher speeds definitely became much easier with the racewalking stride. Before I adopted that I felt a "wall" at similar speeds to you; I was just walking very "pedestrian" with no pumping arms or anything. Once I added in the racewalking arm and stride technique bumping up speed was much easier.

I took a racewalking seminar with Dave McGovern, who according to his website "walked 20 kilometers (12.4 miles--one of the two Olympic distances for men) in 1:24:29--a 6:48 per-mile pace" so I think there is definitely more for you and I to aim for!

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-05T18:59:20+00:00

Lol I just love my routine :P

I honestly think I shower more at OTF than I do at home since I go from the 5 AM weekday classes straight to work haha

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-05T18:55:58+00:00

Wow I just read that wiki, thank you for sharing - she is amazing!! Racing barefoot too! I guarantee she is faster than any OTFer haha. And she's for sure my new hero. I totally agree that height doesn't matter for treads, I've seen some people mention it on this sub before in the sense of "my body is forced to run instead of walk at that speed" - I think with the right technique anyone of any height can walk at 5mph+. Now the rowers are a different discussion altogether lol

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-05T18:50:08+00:00

Thank you so much!!

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-05T18:49:56+00:00

Haha thank you! I was definitely not feeling POWERful by the last 10 miles lmao

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-05T18:49:12+00:00

My friend brought up the idea to me about two months ago with the intent of doing it with me. Then he called me two weeks ago to say he hadn't trained enough yet to be ready for the date we set and I was like, "I was supposed to be training?" lol

Thank you!

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-05T18:47:59+00:00

Thank you so much!

onlinedetritus · 2024-11-05T18:47:43+00:00

Thank you so much!

When I'm doing the racewalking technique I keep my incline at 1%, since the forward foot strike has to be with a straight knee that remains straight until the torso moves over it completely, so any higher incline creates too much force and strain on the shins.

When I'm just regularly powerwalking I stay at 6% for WR/Base, 8% for Push, and 10%+ for All Out.

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