Kade, i noticed you joined the 300km strava challenge. That's a big one. What's your strategy? Run 10k a day for the 30?
Hey Rich,
You probably won't believe the story but over the last couple of weeks I started doing some runs before work. Last week though I ended up doing one every morning and by Friday knocked out a 10km. My routine has been monotonous and been going through a bit of groundhog day with work etc. Was finding it tougher and tougher to get out of bed and get to work everyday. Decided something needed to change and that's where I thought a morning run might help.
Anyway, the effect has been positive and I thought last Friday, "I wonder if I can do 10km every day for the month on June." Did a 5km evening run on the treadmill and immediately got up on the 1st and did a difficult 10km. 2nd of June as I was running I thought it was an impossible task I set. Then looking through my Strava feed and mulling around I found challenges and saw 300km for the month of June! "Get the fuck out of here," I thought and was questioning it after the run on day 2 so immediately joined.
But to cut the bullshit, yeah 10km a day I think is the strategy, as daunting as that sounds. My main goal though is to keep consistent pace. Each day so far my average pace has been 5:32, 5:28, 5:28, 5:29 and today being Saturday had no time constraints and did a 12km at 5:27 average per km. 52km in 5 days at that average pace I'm happy with, just don't want it to slip. That volume is something I've never done even on the treadmill, nowhere near it. If I can front load some km's like today baking 2km, that will be good moving forward mentally. Not trying to compete with anyone in the rankings, but excited to get it done.
I will add, my hamstrings aren't coping very well so far, and weight sessions this week were all upper body. I don't see how I'd be able to do a heavy leg day a week, the next days run would be impossible.