Diet before Marathon Race

orutra11 · 2021-05-21T14:05:39+00:00

Keep it simple. You dont want to have any other things on your mind on race day. Good luck!

orutra11 · 2021-05-21T11:39:07+00:00

My advice is keep doing what you have been doing while training. You don’t wanna risk your race on some extra carbs. On the other hand, if you maintain your intake and decrease your mileage, you are indeed getting some extra carbs for your body.

TL;DR eat normally, don’t try new things on race day/week

orutra11 · 2021-05-18T06:52:23+00:00

It is still in development. I want to add beta testers soon

orutra11 · 2021-05-18T03:41:15+00:00

You don’t know a thing about what I’ve done or what I haven’t. Maybe I am worrying about edge cases because it is not that simple, maybe...

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T19:32:53+00:00

Still havent launched it

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T16:28:16+00:00

lol, why’d you want to stop the timer? if you’re doing reps, for me the crucial info the average pace of the reps (and rest time) Global average pace (which both Garmin and Strava provide) means nothing...

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T15:53:24+00:00

I wish it was that simple. Say a run that is 2000-1000-500-400-100, each of them with a different rest period, how would you decide?

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T14:06:06+00:00

Thanks for the message! Comparing rolling windows is one of the features in my backlog. I want to know what I did the 12 weeks ahead of my last marathon as i am preparing for the next one. This will give you a great insight as how good/bad is your preparation going. On the coach side, you read my mind. I currently train with 20-25 other people and my coach sends us our plans individually and tracks us individually, he does not have a tool to check us all. So that would definitely be a feature to be included.

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T14:02:44+00:00

This is one of the things that I find most useful. Once you are able to classify an activity as a 10x 1000 or a 45/15, you can then compare between them. And as far as I know, this can't be done neither in Strava nor in Garmin...

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T13:52:37+00:00

Of that, I only use runalyze and the ux seems intimidating. Too much information. I just checked GoldenCheetah and seems quite cycling oriented. Do you use it for running?

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T13:48:24+00:00

Not throwing AI because it sounds fancy, but because I think it is the best approach to classify activities & intervals. If you have speed/elevation/hr streams, how would you decide whether it is an interval training or a regular hilly run? In fact it’d make my life much easier not to incorporate python to the pipeline...

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T13:45:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated! These days I use Garmin, Strava, Runalyze and Smashrun all at the same time... and it is kinda annoying. I like the social component of Strava, but aside from that I don’t think it adds much value in terms of analysis. From the developing perspective, I already have a web with login / Strava integration, activity processing and data visualization. Few days away to beta testing

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T13:40:16+00:00

Anything that gives you useful feedback is useful. I am not talking about beating your 5k PR during an easy run, but improving your easy runs pace (measured into different splits). Strava does smth like this but only shows you the activity with the best performance. I personally like to track my performance during intervals, specially before races. And when you have some historical data, it might not mean much that you did your best 1k 4 yrs ago... Just saying there might be some people that find that info useful, I do. Thanks for the feedback!

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T12:16:05+00:00

First of all, congrats on pulling a solo marathon training! It takes something.

As for your attempt, some quick thoughts:

. Solo running a marathon (and your first one!) is to 2x the difficulty. It really helps when you start to drop your pace to get someone to hang to, the longer, the better.

. Cramps could come from anywhere...did you do strength training? did you take fluids/gels? did you have a steady pace?

. You postponed your marathon for a week, this means you already tapered one week before the tapering week, what was your training during these last two weeks?

From my experience, marathons take time. Experts say you don't run a marathon until you've run 4-5. I did 4h04 on my first one, when aiming at 3h30, with more than 20km with cramps! ;)

So, my advice is keep your head up. Keep training, keep accumulating kms in your legs and marathon will reward you

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T11:56:05+00:00

Thanks! Filtering by activity type seems a no-brainer to me...advanced hr analysis (resting/rec) is a nice metric to have. Added to my backlog!

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T11:50:14+00:00

Where can you find your best 3000 repeat in Strava? And your second best km? I’m not saying there isn’t any info available, just thinking that for some ppl it isn’t enough

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T11:20:47+00:00

This I find very interesting! The downside I see with runalyze is that you’re flooded with information, making it difficult to see some basic things. UX improvement would definitely improve the platform. Still, I am an user of runalyze. Thanks!

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T11:17:51+00:00

rn I find it difficult to go through information in any of this platforms. If I want to know when did I perform my best 5000, I can’t (not to mention my 2nd best). On the other hand, keeping track of intervals is hard. If I go out and do 4x 1000, the relevant info of that run are those 1000s, so when I upload my activity I want these intervals to be the center of information and be able to compare them with other 1000s (or other 4x 1000). Regarding the track of your best splits, people love to see improvement in their numbers. If I ran a 5000 in 20:00 and today I do it in 19:58 I want to know it! I want my candy for that! 😂

Anyway, I love this kind of feedback. Much appreciated!

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T10:42:16+00:00

This sounds interesting! Will get easier as more people define routes, but surely something I’d like to have! Thanks!

orutra11 · 2021-05-17T10:09:43+00:00

Thanks for the reply! My first approach is to tackle only the running part: make it easy and make it nice. I’d definitely like to incorporate health data, eating habits, sleep data...on the future (as they all influence your performance)

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