Hello! I am struggling to find a way to do this test at the moment. With recent covid restrictions put in place, all gyms in our region are closed so I don’t have access to a treadmill. Also, my area (Nelson, BC, Canada) received over 160cm (63 inches) of snow in town over the past week, and all my normal flattish running areas are a complete mess. I could try it with cross country skiing but the amount of flattish terrain at our local trails is pretty limited so again, would be tough to carry out the test properly.
At this point I am thinking of using the basic estimating formula for the first few weeks of the program, since I don’t have much of a training base (last year mostly not training). From what I’ve read it sounds like this should be ok, and I can do the test later once conditions allow.