tried slow jogging (as seen on YT), put on a metronome to help keep the steady beat. Could be coincidence but I felt more comfortable at the end of the run and had a faster time.
Definitely going to try it again for my last (hopefully) graduation run. 🤞
Well done !Pace is everything .
And a conversational pace will give you the best development 👍
Sadly I run on my own, but, I have been known to answer Sarah Millican when she’s cheering me on. (As long as no one else is around 😂
I also run alone !I just talk to myself 🤣
😂😂 watch out for the people in white coats!!
Talking to yourself is fine. When you start hearing replies, is that when you should be worried?
Who said that ! 🤔🤣
Hi, that’s how I run, other wise I go off to fast at the start and run out of steam at the end. 👍
Could never accuse myself of going to fast 😂 snails give me a run for my money… but, still getting out and ‘doing it’
Hi LabLove,
I was very interested In your run with a metronome as I am too interested in slow jogging.I've just finished reading Slow Jogging by Hiroaki Tanaka, the self-experimenting Japanese scientist you saw running on YT.
I'm just about to start jogging again after hurting my back. You mentioned a metronome. I didn't realise they existed for running. I just thought they were for playing a piano or guitar etc?
Was that just a figure of speech or did you have an actual metronome?
Thanks
Hi Birra1, you can get an app, I have an iPhone but think you can get android version. I also watched a YouTube video of a group of Polish instructors practising slow jogging it was there I heard what sounded like a metronome. I’m going out tomorrow for what I hope is my graduation run, so I’ll try it again, see if it was just a lucky fluke 😂 hope you manage to get into running again without messing your back up.
Wow, thanks for that. I have an Android phone. I have found a free app. Brilliant. When I get a chance later I will have a look at the slow jogging book. I'm sure it gave an optimal pace somewhere in there.Thanks again.
Hopefully you managed to graduate today.
💪
How do you set the metronome to the right pace?
Hi, I’m no expert but I listened to the video and the speed of the tapping I could hear then matched it up roughly to beats on the metronome app, it was around 170. However somewhere there might be a ‘science’ behind the timing. The 170 suits my slow pace.
The generally accepted "good" cadence is about 180 steps per minute. It's OK to be a little under that, eg. 160 or 170.
Don’t think I could manage 180 at the moment.
I couldn't initially. It'll come.
Fingers crossed, but as long as I’m enjoying it that’s the important bit. Xxx
By the way, I got some proper Lab love yesterday. A large yellow Labrador bounded up to me in the woods, demanded tickles, then decided to softly mouth my wrists.
"He does that to everyone, the big soft lump."
I used to have one so I was used to it, but others might have been intimidated.
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