Does anyone have any personal experience of slow running training, apart from the Maffetone Method? If you have any positive experience to pass on, or any links to other sources of information you thought worthwhile, please let me know.
Many thanks in advance
Might be a bit more in depth than you wanted but this course is very helpful. No Maffetone quackery.
Might be worth looking at the "Heart rate Zone training" post by CurlyGurly over in Bridge to 10.
From my experience, slower running is great for building distance. I'm still unsure about the effect on speed. I suspect that mostly slow running with one faster session a week might be the way to go.
Hi SkiMonday, thank you for the suggestion. I'm more interested in building endurance than developing speed. It might be an age issue...... I have found that whatever distance I run, my pace and speed remain largely the same. I suspect that because I've not been a consistent runner over my lifespan, coming back to running at my age imposes limits. Anyway, I'm now running for myself, not to 'fit' into a style defined by others' goals or ideals.So, thanks again for your lead.
I'm a fan of run/walk and started using it to recover from a heart procedure. Having read Maffetone which resonated with me at the time I found it challenging to implement, so adopted run/walk as my way forward. Initially, it was I think walking for 5 then run for 1 minute keeping an eye on my HR. That was twelve months ago, these days I'm running 9 and walking 1, I use a dual timmer to set the intervals. Feeling tired I back off the running and increase the walking. Just my solution good luck with your journey.
Thank you Otherminds for relaying your personal experience. This is the kind of direct feedback that is most helpful. Good luck with your continued recovery, you must be feeling very pleased to have made so much progress.😄
I just love slow running 🤷♀️😁💪🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
In the words of the late, great Melanie Safka, “don’t go too fast but I go pretty far”. 🙂🎵🎶
Running isn’t a an intellectual exercise. Don’t overthink it, just get out there and enjoy it. Have some fun
On that note, I’m out the door. Dunno where, or how far or how long 🏃♀️ I’ll take a snack just in case 😋
I’m 63 by the way
Thank you misswobble for reminding us all not to over-intellectualise the process - not that there was any danger of that in my case! Running is about preparation though and my objective is to improve my distance rather than speed, hence my asking for others' experience of slow running training. 😀
Strange as it is writing to someone I haven't met, I'm very glad the immunotherapy has worked for you. I agree on distance over time in running as I never seem to get faster but do seem able to go further. I don't want to do it with walking intervals tho, or not very often, so i just run s...l....o...w...e.....r....
If you're using a sports watch you should be able to set a pace alert that tells you if you're going to fast (or too slow, or both) which can help you to find a new, slower rhythm
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For anyone who is interested - an article on slow HR training:
