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.
This is an excellent way of looking at it. You're looking at 4min km friends justifying your 5min km while another friend is looking at your 5 justifying their 6 and so on. It's all just crazy.
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
The current crop of elite athletes do seem to focus on an 80/30 split (zone 2 or "conversational pace) to zone 4 threshold sessions. To be fair on my easy runs I often just run to feel now as I too had a similar experience a while ago.
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
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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.
This is an excellent way of looking at it. You're looking at 4min km friends justifying your 5min km while another friend is looking at your 5 justifying their 6 and so on. It's all just crazy.
Iv put my strava on private setting , your right its an app thats just used for comparing yourself to others
anything taken to an extreme is evil
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
The current crop of elite athletes do seem to focus on an 80/30 split (zone 2 or "conversational pace) to zone 4 threshold sessions. To be fair on my easy runs I often just run to feel now as I too had a similar experience a while ago.
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