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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to run farther, you need to slow down. OP, try slowing down 10-15%. Try to cultivate calm and distract yourself with music or a running buddy. [/quote]

This.  Most people run too fast.  Do a light jog.  Start walking and keep increasing the pace until you switch from a walk to a run.  That should be the pace you do on an easy run.  [/quote]
Agree -- you need to slow down.  Like so slow, you will be embarrassed for people to seek you.  So slow, that you could probably walk faster.  [/quote]

I'm going to echo this, I'm the pp who said you just need to run more. But agree you need to make a LOT of those miles REALLY slow.

I posted here awhile back about feeling like my max HR was too high. That exercising in 'zone 2' felt like doing literally nothing to the point I didn't do it because it literally felt like, a waste of my time. I was just thinking, my zones are different and zone 2 for me is 170. Because I would occasionally get max HRs over 200, like 205 (I'm 39).

The last few months I made a concerted effort to do true like, zone 2. I still think my max HR is a little higher but I started literally making some of my miles like 15 minute miles, SHUFFLING miles. By trying to follow the rough 80/20 model (80% TRUE easy miles, 20% harder miles) I have gotten faster and I have gotten my HR down when I go faster. Which actually seems like more of an accomplishment. That 29 min 5k I did last week would have, in previous months, EASILY gotten me over 200 for at least a portion of it, instead I did it, on a treadmill with the first 18 minutes at a 1% incline and had an average HR of like 185. That is high of course but it was manageable, I could talk, and a significant reduction.

Anyway, agree, even if the zone calculators feel like they're telling you to walk, shuffle along at those slow paces and you will see improvement faster than you think.[/quote]

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