IF IT's GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE US ARMY ?? --

[Bazza1234]

youtube.com/watch?v=G7REHrb...(Not working as expected?) I have come to realise that I have too high of a "running cadence" especially when I am trying to run slowly with a low HR - I was watching this "slow jog" cadence used by the US Army and have an App which works out just what the cadence is - in this case it is only 160BPM. Most of my running recently has been at 190 BPM - so tomorrow , I am going out to see how I go "running" at this slow cadence with a close eye on my HR. This will be the centre post of my attempt to get back to running 5K non-stop - slowly!!

[AlMorr Half Marathon]

160 is much more realistic, 192 was far too fast, I have a metronome app, I have set it at 162 cadence/beats/steps a minute and have been gradually increasing my distance from 5K to 7K, my average pace is around 7.30Km, so if I continue up to 10K the time to run a 10K would be around 1 hour 16 minutes.

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Very slow running like this at gentle cadence is the core of my hr zone HM training plan.

[Bazza1234 Marathon in reply to Hidden]

Yes - this is what I want to do. Just having a bit of a problem actually doing it.

[Hidden in reply to Bazza1234]

I found it mega hard to start running again after my injury time. I just couldn't seem to get lift off. Keep at it, you will get there x

[Clairecandothis Marathon Half Marathon]

I love this video. I need to run like this in zone 2!

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A girl can dream!

[GoGo_JoJo Ultramarathon]

Maybe try more challenging terrain, you'll have to slow down then! My road running cadence is around 180 whereas my trail running is around 150/160.