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Scholesm on June 24, 2019 at 10:18 pm · in reply to: Slower pace for longer duration? #23931

Thanks for the reply. I was just using 30km as an example, I generally try to have slower and longer runs most of the time while still having the shorter faster runs. Come August I’ll be back to a new training cycle and wanted to build the base up even more and was curious about duration vs speed within z1/2 base building.

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Scholesm on May 29, 2019 at 10:08 am · in reply to: Recommended mountaineering watches #22668

I have myself a Fenix 5s. I have tinier wrists and arms than most people and hate the big bulky watches that many training watches are. The 5s is perfect for me. Works really well minus a few bugs here and there over the last year and a half that i’ve had it. Sometimes it refuses to sync, sometimes charging cable doesn’t work, sometimes when unplugging charging cable it seems to think its still charging so remains frozen displaying the battery life leaving me unable to use the watch.

Happens rarely, but while still annoying, none of these issues occur when i’m actually training with it on.

My one gripe is the built in gps though and altimeter. Neither of them are fantastic.

For example, one of my training runs is exactly a 10.1 km trail loop, I start and stop the watch at the very same spot every run and sometimes it will tell me I did a 8.76 km run, while on other days it magically becomes a 9.5 km run, and this past weekened appartently it turned into a 14.1km run and that had be really scratching my head.

Altimeter needs to be calibrated often as apparently I’m consistently living at over 3800m above sea level (I don’).
So the calibration is off but at least it works in a sense that i’ll start my training at 3800m according to the watch and finish at 4200m. While I don’t finish at 4200m, I did infact do 400m of elevation gain so that’s what matters to me. When I do calibrate it, then it works just fine: example. last summer at the Britannia hut, I calibrated it to the height of the hut and for the next few weeks going up and down the peaks around Sass, it was spot on until I got back on the plane.

I do love the watch and the issues are really not too bad. I suppose for the price you pay it would be nice if it worked 100% of the time but I’m not sure that its realistic to expect that either. Doesn’t hurt that I got it on a major sale on Boxing Day so that helps me accept a few more issues.

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Scholesm on May 15, 2019 at 11:25 am · in reply to: Where to take my training? #22043

I just happen to be one of these sad saps who could run every day for the rest of my life and not get bored. I love it – and obviously do it a lot. I’d like to get better yes and improve my times but not at the expense of my mountain goals if that seems reasonable.

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Scholesm on May 15, 2019 at 10:54 am · in reply to: Where to take my training? #22041

Thanks for the reply,

Just under 10% of that 1000 hours is strength training over the past 3 years of training. Prior to that it was quite a bit closer to 35%. Most of the rest would be in the Endurance portion. I.e. once every other month I take a full Saturday and run a nice 75km Run. Distance wise my body holds up really well, but eventually I’d like to get my time under 7 hours.

I’ve always been built thick which is why strength training came so easy to me.

Don’t think my body could ever drop 50 pounds from my current frame, but I’ve often thought that being around 160ish may not be terrible, but again. I’ve only ever been to 6000m in altitude, ultimately I’d like to perform well at altitude and I’ve heard that some heavier boys perform quite well historically so still hesitant deciding to cut so much. I’m thick, but not fat (if that makes sense). There’s a bit of extra but not 30 pounds of it (think Artem Okulov, I have a very similar build) so yea I’d have to let the muscles atrophy. I want to perform at altitude so if losing some muscle won’t stop me, then I may just do that.

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Scholesm on June 10, 2018 at 10:07 am · in reply to: Effect of donating blood on performance? #10256

I just gave blood this past Wednesday, I try to give regularly as I’m O-.

I took Wednesday off from training but was back at it Thursday. Now to be fair Thursday and friday’s Workouts especially felt a small lack of energy but by the time saturday’s Workout came I was good to go. My workout on Saturday (yesterday) was a 14 mile run and a 28 mile bike ride. Was feeling perfect and full of energy, completely back to normal. Now, biologically inside, oxygen levels and red blood cell levels I have no idea what’s going on but I feel absolutely back to normal.

Not scientific but besides a small 2 day drop in performance not an issue for me.