Running again

[SpencerH]

No question for me, climbing stairs is way better. I probably walk up and down 20-30 flights a day in my house.

[Al B. Sure!]

What is better (less strain on joints etc.) running or climbing stairs?

Running up stairs is better unless you have a specific run goal... well, and if you have the stairs...

[Al B. Sure!]

I probably walk up and down 20-30 flights a day in my house.

How is that possible? How tall is your house?

[SpencerH]

My office is downstairs so I go up and down to the kitchen or check on the dog etc all day. I'm one of those people who cant sit still so it's easily 20-30 times. Then I also go up to the attic to shoot at the squirrels once or twice a day. From my office that's 3 floors each time.

[Provost Harrison]

...Then I also go up to the attic to shoot at the squirrels once or twice a day....

You're such a hick.

[Al B. Sure!]

3 miles today in 23:20... again, stupid redlights (and bumping into a pedestrian who I did the whole mirrored directions to get out of each others' way thing; on the final block when I was trying to sprint out the last bit) screwed me but my time is improving quickly That's a 44 second improvement since my last run two days ago.

Good pacing. The first half mile was in a little over 4, the mile at 8, the 1.5 at 12.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, it is time for me to hit the gym again from tomorrow now my move is complete to do some running. Actually I haven't stopped and I have still been swimming and running outside. But I needed to drive to get to my previous gym - now it is just a few minutes walk.

[SpencerH]

You're such a hick.

Do you have any idea how much damage squirrels can do? I'm giving em a fighting chance by using a slingshot! So far they havent taken the hint and left though.

[N35t0r]

I cycled for two hours yesterday, from home to my mother's house.

[Al B. Sure!]

On Saturday, I did 4x400m sprints with 400m walk between efforts. My first and best time was 1:14.

According to this cool running calculator:

http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/mcmillanrunningcalculator.htm

That means my 3 mile time should be 20:03 instead of 23:20 which was my most recent best time. I guess I got to push myself more.

Pretty cool calculator though. It tells you what your times at other distances should be based on your time at a certain distance.

[KrazyHorse]

Naming and shaming myself here. I have not run for 4 days. That is bad.

[Al B. Sure!]

Jon, according to that calculator, as I suspected, if you could put together a 24:00 5K, you are capable of a sub-7:00 mile. According to the calculator, your mile time should be 6:55.

That calculator is probably much more accurate with something like that where it's a smaller difference between the distances (5K to 1 mile versus 400m to 3 miles) and going from endurance to speed. You can do a sub-7 mile and you probably have had sub-7 miles on 5K's before without realizing it.

[Docfeelgood]

I jogged from the couch to the BR today

[SpencerH]

It seems to be pretty good at judging distance times! I plugged in a 24min 4m which I did cross country and it spat out a 5:17 mile where my best time was 5:15 indoors. Not bad. The times for sprints seemed a little slower than I recall doing though. It came up with a 1:07 400m and I recall doing a low to mid 50's 1/4 mile. It also calculated a 1:04:00 10M which I doubt I coud've done. I was more of a sprinter who could push himself to exhaustion for a mid-distance run.

[Al B. Sure!]

It seems to be pretty good at judging distance times! I plugged in a 24min 4m which I did cross country and it spat out a 5:17 mile where my best time was 5:15 indoors. Not bad. The times for sprints seemed a little slower than I recall doing though. It came up with a 1:07 400m and I recall doing a low to mid 50's 1/4 mile. It also calculated a 1:04:00 10M which I doubt I coud've done. I was more of a sprinter who could push himself to exhaustion for a mid-distance run.

Yeah the farther out you compare, the less meaningful it is. I mean you can't use a 10 second 100m to make any judgments about a 10K time or vice-versa. It's pretty spot on when comparing more similar distances, though.