I’m glad you mentioned about zone 2 training. I’m struggling with this, I’ve been trying it for a couple weeks and I’m getting so frustrated that my pace is still so slow. I feel fine but yet my heart rate stays in zone 3, and like you said I’m going so stinking slow. And yeah, I don’t have infinite amounts of time to be running high mileage at a crawl. I’m not really decided about how to proceed, I will start training for my first half marathon in a few months so I guess I will keep trying it for a while.
I totally understand where you are coming from. I will say I’ve used a bit more of Z2 in this training cycle. I’ve stuck to doing a Z2 run at least once a week, usually the day after a long run or speed workout where I don’t mind going slow. I’m not at the point of keeping my long runs in Z2 or the majority of runs that way, I’m like you more so in Z3/Z4 but I will say just doing 4-5 miles a week is a great place to start and my zone 2 time has improved a lot and enabled me to add extra miles to the week when the mileage is high! Thanks for the comment!
I’m glad you mentioned about zone 2 training. I’m struggling with this, I’ve been trying it for a couple weeks and I’m getting so frustrated that my pace is still so slow. I feel fine but yet my heart rate stays in zone 3, and like you said I’m going so stinking slow. And yeah, I don’t have infinite amounts of time to be running high mileage at a crawl. I’m not really decided about how to proceed, I will start training for my first half marathon in a few months so I guess I will keep trying it for a while.
I totally understand where you are coming from. I will say I’ve used a bit more of Z2 in this training cycle. I’ve stuck to doing a Z2 run at least once a week, usually the day after a long run or speed workout where I don’t mind going slow. I’m not at the point of keeping my long runs in Z2 or the majority of runs that way, I’m like you more so in Z3/Z4 but I will say just doing 4-5 miles a week is a great place to start and my zone 2 time has improved a lot and enabled me to add extra miles to the week when the mileage is high!
Thanks for the comment!