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Approach active good video! Back in 2017-2020 before I started strava and before I got a Garmin watch . When I first started running those years I never used gps watch only Fitbit to track my runs and just ran off feel mostly. I had my best full marathon in 2019 right at 4 hours and it mostly felt easy even on warm day. And I had my best half marathon pr 2018 right before that full marathon and it was a super easy pr of sub 1 50. Ever since I got my Garmin watch in 2021 I am always looking on my strava always stressing about my paces and I feel like it’s destroyed my running , I’m always trying to run faster than 930 paces and 10 min paces for my long runs , and since using watch last 3 years I have not even come close to that 4 hour marathon I got slower…. My half got slower at harder effort. I struggled run under 154 half now. Do you think I need go back to running off feel? And do most my runs and long 15-18 mile runs at 1030 paces lower heart rate? I feel like I had better aerobic base back before I started using Garmin watch and always obsessed with pace and time and how fast a run suppose feel . Should I go back mostly east runs get faster ? Trying get under 1 45 again half and sub 4 marathon

Iv put my strava on private setting , your right its an app thats just used for comparing yourself to others

I totally understand your message. I spent far too long seeing my contacts running at 3-4:xx/km and I was trying to 'justify' my being at 5-6:xx/km. And as you mentioned, I had to label them as 'easy run', or 'chilled-out' run. Then I realised - nobody cares or is judging. Just by being on Strava and posting is good enough and positive! So my way forwards is to upload as normal, but not adding a description in the box. Just using it as a tool for looking at in the future, or for logging totals. Not to be so analytical with it all. As for KOM, my assumption is that people just do the 'segment and no more', so it all feels a bit pointless unless it is a longer multi-km route.

anything taken to an extreme is evil

I clicked into the title because this is such a content for content sake video. You can spin anything to be bad; do we over rely on digital tools for things that don't necessarily need to be measured for a good and happy life? Yeah, but it's fun to see your progress and it acts as a motivator. Not that anybody cares about my runs but there's a level of accountability that recording your training on Strava brings. It does raise questions of why we do what we do though? Suddenly once you start running you're a runner, who records on Strava and has a following so it is very much tied into our superficial search for identity

Nah

Nice video mate, we should start an evening run club that goes 2/3 times a week in the dark

Love a head torch

Looks a great route

Someone to drag you out on the wet days. Still takes some convincing though 😅

Ah,you are up at the clay pits near st Austell. I used to MTB around there all the time.

Familiar trails and a Familiar face I just can't place at the moment?

I was at Carwell

Nice one as an incommer feel blessed

Enjoyed the video buddy

Some speed on those country lanes pard!

Some lovely views there, Cornwall in a nutshell I suppose

Life does indeed get in the way sometimes. You've got to make the most out of the good weather and just get out. Sometimes just getting out is the hardest part though

Taking it slow and taking your time is a big part. When I got back into cycling I was doing about 10miles of a local woodland and having to stop a dozen times, feeling like I was going to be sick. After a few years I'm now in a much better place

Same for any sport, if you put in any sort of effort then you're doing it

Think I'll be taking the 2 donuts too 😂

Good to come across sensible and realistic advice about trying to lose weight by ONLY exercising and well done as well, i.e. humour thrown in, I dare to say having taught, lectured, train and presented. Over the last two years, at age 71 and finding out I had sleep apnoea thus the need to wear a face mask every night, set about to lose 30kg by most nights doing about 1.5 hours of extensive exercising and a far better diet. Did so and was told, I could ditch the face mask but would need to keep dieting and exercising. But even down to 91.5 kg, still can't rid of my gut, have tried lots of different health foods and in all ways I eat half the volume and far healthier than I did two years ago. I suspect to lose my gut, I would need to go on a truly near starvation diet, but who wants a life like that. I have accepted that pending your lifestyle when a younger man and just your genes that on reaching old age, if you have a gut then that is it, it is not going and your fault, i.e. like smoking when younger - you pay for it.

Solid logic. Excellent

Such a simple and brilliant mindset. Thoroughly enjoyed the video.