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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Buy a coros or [b]garmin watch[/b] - do the tests on those - find a plan. Do that plan. Then do it again. Maybe pick a 10k plan. Back out from whenever this event is and go from there. Stop trying to make your own haphazard plans.

You are very unlikely to be at your cardio respiratory ceiling. Additional weight loss makes running a lot easy and faster, but that might come naturally anyways. [/quote]

Agree with this.  The Garmin Forerunner daily suggested workouts are awesome.  Also, doing a long run of 10 miles at 11 minute miles is not slow and is barely recreational  :roll: [/quote]

It was at 13:30 minute miles, not 11. [b]Which most of the rest of the running people seem to think is a snail's pace![/b]

I don't think there is any reason for me to back out of this, the race is a month away and I can do a 10 mile jog. I'm not going to be setting land speed records but it hardly seems unsafe or crazy to do a half on October 6 with my current level of fitness and another four weeks of training.

I feel like my OP was not clear about my question with all these results. The last person got it right, I'm down on myself about my August time (and am not in DC so there aren't 10ks everywhere around me) and trying to think about how to overall increase my load over the course of the next year to just get more serious in general. It isn't about finishing this half at a strong pace, or about doing any one goal. But a more overarching goal of how to improve in endurance running and become the kind of person for whom the 10-11 minute mile runs are the norm instead of the push.

And I have been confused by the advice to focus on adding volume versus focusing on speed. Many websites are like, add volume and speed will come but some are like, focus on speed work. But adding volume and doing speed at the same time is difficult I feel like I can do only one at a time without risking injury. Adding a bunch of zone 2 runs has helped me add volume but I'm going slowwwwwwww in those runs (like 14 minute miles) to stay in zone 2. But my legs are tired because of the increase in time/miles and so adding a speed workout in a week cycle feels like too much.

I dunno I'll just keep plugging away![/quote]

Those people have been running for years!  It takes time.  How long have you been running?  I have been doing the DSW from Garmin for 6 months and I went from 13:30 to 12:15 at the same heart rate.  It's worked really well for me.  They aren't that expensive and they aren't that time consuming.  I run 4x a week and my long run is only 60-75 minutes.  Check out Garmin Watches on Reddit.  [/quote]

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