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Maori Kiwifruit Growers
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as cheap as possible. need to he able to use Strava and maybe control music without my phone. Strava can be use with or without my phone.
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This is the cheapest Garmin.
Coros Pace 3 is much better and more featured, but the brand is not as known as Garmin:
There's also Coros Pace 2, you might still be able to find it in stores, also look for the Pace 3 at circa 200USD when on offer.
There's basically no way to go cheaper than this unless you hunt for some old, discontinued models that are on sale. Garmin Forerunner 35 for example.
Or you could try to find something from Huawei, like the Runner GT, on offer, which should have the best HR sensor from all, but you have to deal with the Huawei Health app.
Below this there's almost nothing but fitness bands without GPS, or "watches" from brands like Amazfit with busted HR sensors and GPS. You can definitely run with these too, but the GPS will be that from your phone, which you will need to take with you. Not really worth the money if you're actually into running though, at below 150USD they're mostly toys.
Strava will work with most, essentially every known brand. But you will have to link it. You won't be running Strava on your watch, that requires a watch with the Google WearOS I think, not a specialist on that as they are not really specialized on running. You will just upload the runs from your platform to Strava. Works fine. Garmin has good linking to it.
For more unknown brands, or brands that have a dysfunctional Strava link, you'll need an app, forgot its name, something like Health Synchronization or w/e.
Keep in mind that most of these watches have issues with detecting your HR accurately in the cold or on some skin types. If that's the case for you, you'll need an ECG cheststrap instead.
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A vote for the forerunner 35 as a good basic watch. It uploads to strava via your phone. Covers running on a treadmill indoors, running outdoors and cycling.
I've had 13 hours monitoring and GPS data out of it in one charge and you can get them for next to nothing these days.
I have 2 as backup watches these days and use a slightly posher Garmin as my daily watch.
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Whoever said your running fitness tanks very quickly if you get out of the habit wasn't wrong, but I'm back on track and reached my goal of 5K in 30 minutes today! I was on a treadmill, though I'm still feeling good about being able to run 5K without needing to slow to a walk. Next goal is a 10K run!
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Hm, I ran on one percent tilt during the winter and fr thought I was in heart failure on my first trail run in March…
Kit Marz
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I haven't been running as much as I did last year. A lot of it has to do with losing my running partner and not being as motivated as a result. I started it up again recently, but it's been consistent 110° days with high humidity that I ended up buying a treadmill. So far for the past month I've been using it several times a week in the morning and evening. I'm only running for 20 to 30 minutes each session, but it feels like something I can keep up with.
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Garmin watches are awesome! I picked up an Instinct 2 after the fitbit my wife gave me ran out of subscription or some stupid shit like that. The Garmin provides much more data and there is no subscription fee. I'm a casual runner and the watch is fine for that. The function that sold me on Garmin was integration with UDisc for disc golf.
owed to joy
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GIMME YOUR SNEAKER FOR FOOTING TYPE RECS.
Distance outdoor running, dynamic.
brooks all day for me every 100 miles replaced with new but always curious for feedback from other runners.
Distance outdoor running, dynamic.
brooks all day for me every 100 miles replaced with new but always curious for feedback from other runners.
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Saucony forever! The Triumph model works both on trail runs and concrete. I run maybe 30-40 k per week, varied distances. New pairs every 4-500 k but mostly because they’re grimy by then, support’s still good.
ETA: used to prefer Asics but had two pairs in a row where the sole broke
ETA2: I’M NOT FAT!
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Brooks adrenaline gts 22 with custom inner soles for me, about 400 miles and I can feel they need replacing so they're probably already nackered. I switched between Nike/Brooks/ASICS before settling with brooks.
Trail runs, On Cloud whatever their trail shoe is called. Solid arch support.
Frame of reference.
I hate wedge/rocker style trainers. I don't care about the supposed 2% claimed benefit, they feel like wearing brake pads.
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I've grown tired of the fear of punctures and doing the same routes as before. Kinda wanna try running but man, randomly been assblasted with shorts from "hot women" about running and the community seems horrible. That said, I did see 3 progression clips of a chick learning to "fall and catch" run, which looked almost too fluid. Is there a fancy name for that and is it the default running style?
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asics. I like the breathable ones with fabric tops. it's so much more comfy
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I've been running more frequently and it's been absolute murder on my hips. Anybody got any anti-hip hurting advice / stretches?
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lunges helped me a lot. it also loosens up your stride
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10km a day my k-words, today is 182 apparently. Road running, particularly long efforts up to and past 20km can leave my hip flexors feeling very strained, anyone got any stretches or tips?
I've been running on grass when I start to feel them and often I'll set new PRs out there even though I don't feel 100%, it's the damnedest thing. I don't get the same strained feeling on grass and by all accounts I'm faster on it too. But some days the kids are playing little league out there or the whatever and it's not as mentally stimulating as my road runs so I'd love a way to keep my flexors good. I've had two or three injuries to them over the last two years or so that left me walking for a few weeks each time. Although I didn't know at the time it was a flexor issue. I try and be really cognizant of pains and discomfort now but it can be hard to tell what's just from effort and what developing into a proper injury. I do some stretching every day before my run and try and get a brisk walk going (up to 5k steps) before I start running but time isn't always on my side.
Anything in particular I can do? I run on Boston 10/11s for what it's worth.
I've been running on grass when I start to feel them and often I'll set new PRs out there even though I don't feel 100%, it's the damnedest thing. I don't get the same strained feeling on grass and by all accounts I'm faster on it too. But some days the kids are playing little league out there or the whatever and it's not as mentally stimulating as my road runs so I'd love a way to keep my flexors good. I've had two or three injuries to them over the last two years or so that left me walking for a few weeks each time. Although I didn't know at the time it was a flexor issue. I try and be really cognizant of pains and discomfort now but it can be hard to tell what's just from effort and what developing into a proper injury. I do some stretching every day before my run and try and get a brisk walk going (up to 5k steps) before I start running but time isn't always on my side.
Anything in particular I can do? I run on Boston 10/11s for what it's worth.
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I feel it is important but not as important as feeling comfortable while your in motion. I think it does help with things like injury and energy expenditure but to get those benefits you have make sure the faster movement pattern is really ingrained in both muscle and mind. Otherwise it's requiring at least some conscious effort on muscles that might not be fully developed for the quicker (and sometimes shorter) movements. It took me weeks to go from 165-175 to 180-185, I think on a recent run I had a 190-191. I want 200 but we'll see, I use faster music and focus on my step rate at the times I'm internally cataloguing my foot strike, breath rate and posture. Which in reality isn't a large part of any given run by I try and do it a little on every one. I feel my best when I'm not trying to do anything and I'll be around 180 now, which again took weeks to develop into my new default. Along the way I'm getting faster but who knows if cadence is at play or to what degree. I will say I started to increase this to avoid injuries, I had had 2 or 3 times I was out for weeks at a time. And while I have felt strains and backed way off for a week (some days even walking 10km rather than running) I have not had the weeks long oh shit is this even gonna heal type injuries I experienced before tracking my cadence. I feel it has helped but when I'm doing 2 or 3 things at a time it's hard to pin the benefits on one thing or another.
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Impressive regimen.
I had some issues with my hip flexors that got a whole lot better when I added some weight training. Lunges and such. Stretching didn’t do much tbh.