Long steady distance training?

[kallefs]

Anyone has any ideas, scientific claims, personal anecdotes or just some good bro-science on the subject?

In short, the idea is to do all your runs in a low puls zone and run pretty high mileage. For me I think it was something like 145-150 bpm which would result in a rather slow pace. You do this for a number of months during of season and then start with speed work in spring.

From what I have read some some people seem to have gotten great results and as always some people did not.

Currently writing on my phone so no links but a quick search on long slow distance or long steady distance brings up a lot.

[crapiecorn]

I'm trying it at the moment (phil maffetone method). The only strange thing is that for most people 180bpm- age seems low but for me it's pretty high. I used to do all my easy running somewhere in the low 2 zone ( 125 - 135). Now at 155 it's closer to marathon pace. I will try it for a few months and will test aerobic progress about every month. I made good progress with speedwork in the paste but I hit a bit of a plateau this last year.

[kallefs]

It was maffetone I was looking for. Nice to see that you are trying it, how much do you run/week? Have you increased in compared to earlier? How long do you plan do continue?

[Ruff]

Funny, I am just reading the maffetone book! How did you find it? A heart rate monitor is expensive and I would like to know how the method worked for others before splashing out.

[silver]

[quote="crapiecorn"]I'm trying it at the moment (phil maffetone method). The only strange thing is that for most people 180bpm- age seems low but for me it's pretty high..

[quote="silver"][quote="crapiecorn"]I'm trying it at the moment (phil maffetone method). The only strange thing is that for most people 180bpm- age seems low but for me it's pretty high..

[kallefs]

Yeah, I will not try this this winter I think. It is way too boring never getting your HR up.

Ruff, I would say get a gps watch with a HR-monitor if you got the cash, even if you don't use a 10th of the info you could get out of it it is still great fun to see how many miles you have done during the year, longest run, fastest run and so on. It's also good to see where your heartrate is going up or down after the run, if you get a higher value somewhere you can just look at the map and see that you were running up a steep hill at that time or whatever.