 All right, so road running. I want to talk about why I love Road running so much and it's funny because my channel is called the Lone Trail, right? And I do love trail running too. In fact, I probably do love trailer running even a little bit more than I love Road running, but I want to talk about the differences a little bit and Why I like road running and I guess also why I like trail running and and why at the moment I'm doing just road running races and for all of 2019 I think most of my races if not all are road races and yeah, let's talk about why that is and Yeah, just let's just talk about why I love running. Let's do it So I love all kinds of running honestly Anything from short sprints to long ultra marathons as a kid I used to sprint a lot in our little neighborhood I used to almost like arrange these contests with other kids where I would like time there and they're running and of course I would be like the fastest I was always the fastest which I guess maybe tells me something about my abilities Maybe maybe I'm a more natural born sprinter I sort of hope not because I'm more into the endurance running But who knows this channel is called the Lone Trail, right? You would think that I would just do trail races, right? And as I started out With running I guess a few years ago when I started getting interested in it I always loved running and you can check out my my video about my background and running I'll put a link to it there I think I did probably think that I was gonna like trail running more than road running at the beginning But as I start training more and more I was forced to also run on the roads Obviously because of practicalities Sometimes it's just easier to head out on the road run from home rather than having to find trails or drive to some trail head or whatever And so road running became a natural part of my training and I started liking it more and more at the And at this point I would even go as far as to say that I'm 50-50 almost when it comes to enjoying road running and enjoying trail running Here's the thing about road running that I really really like, okay I'm a numbers guy. Okay. I love the numbers. I love Jack Daniels distance running formula. I did the review of that book. I'll put a link to it here I'm reading it again now and I love that book because it's all about equations and percentages of max and You know, okay if you're oxygen consumption at different Submaximal speeds and you can sort of see the correlation the mathematical correlation between the different times in the marathon and your vo2 max and your Running economy and you can plot this curves called like an aerobic profile where you can see your economy curve How much oxygen you use at different speeds, etc. It's just very measurable and running in general is a very measurable sport I mean, how do you measure? Football success a football player. Well, maybe about how many goals he or she has made in her his or her career or How efficient they are how tactical they are perhaps it's difficult to measure how good a football player is but with a runner it's There's no question. It's like how fast do you run a 10k? Well, 50 minutes. Okay, 50 minutes. You're a 50 minute person. Have you gone sub 30 for the 10k? Right, that's almost like a then you're in the class of your own when you go sub 30 It's very black and white. It's just either you run this time or you don't and I love that so I guess that's one of the reasons why this year and I don't know if you've seen my video where I talked about my 2019 races I'll put a link to it here. It's pretty much all road racing and the reason I'm loving it at the moment is because I want to see where I'm at Right. I I I'm I'm passionate about running. I'm ambitious. I have high ambitions I don't know if it's possible. Do I have the genetics? Can I do it? I'll try But I don't know and so in order to sort of see my progression Over the years and how my running is doing. I like to look at metrics. So I use my watch the Garmin 430 and I I always pretty much I would say 99% of the time seriously I run with a heart rate monitor I love looking at my heart rate. I love looking at my pace I love looking at Strava and there's a Strava link in the description if you want to follow me on Strava I love looking at Strava to analyze my workouts See how my pace my pace to heart rate ratios different ratios of different source I would love to do more metabolic testing like if I could go in and do like a vo2 max test Every three months or every six months and like a lactate test I really do want to get like a lactate measuring system actually to measure lactate when I'm training That would be really very interesting to to sort of dial in that threshold pace, etc And so yeah, so, you know, as you can see I'm I'm super passionate about all the different metrics and road running just lends itself more to measurement right when you're doing trail running The the terrain is very much up and down. It's it's technical. Maybe sometimes technical sometimes not So to sort of to look at two different trail races and try to compare them It's pretty difficult because there's so many different profiles but if you're looking at something like New York City marathon versus Berlin marathon versus Boston marathon versus Fukuoka marathon or something like that different big marathons Sure, there there are differences in the profile and Boston goes down a little bit more of a downhill thing Like a slight downhill kind of thing and berlin is very flat, etc but it's Easier to sort of look at the different performances and grade them in relation to each other. So Basically when I'm I ran my my my first half marathon last summer my second half marathon in september And I did a huge improvement But of course the second one was actually a road race whereas the first one was not So I did a 133 Something was it 38 133 38? I don't remember something like that in Oslo half marathon in september 2018 And I have another one coming up now in may another half marathon in yotoboy So coming up in a couple months. I want to see if I can go faster, right? So I've done more training I'm building up again. My training hasn't been ideal over the last few months to be honest I'll stick a couple of times as well But okay, I'm starting that build up now really really upping mileage And let's see if I can go sub 130 I think I can go sub 130 because you know Oslo has a lot of hills Whereas yotoboy was more it's more flat. So I should already probably be able to go on sub 130 But can I go sub 125? I mean that would be ridiculously insane if I could I hope but I probably don't think I can go that fast at at the moment But then of course in a year. I do expect to go sub 125 in in two years I certainly hope I can go sub 120 Etc right can I ever go sub 110? In my dreams. Yes, uh in reality perhaps Probably not. I don't know. I don't know. It's difficult to say but this is the appeal of road running this sort of You can just plot your times and you can measure yourself against yourself very easily And not only that but measure yourself against others, you know You know that when you're running a 110 half marathon You are essentially sub elite You can essentially go to any half marathon and you'll know you'll be able to you know, maybe get up there in top 10 right depending on the on the place And that's something that you can't do with the half marathon with with the trail running And of course as you get into ultra races, especially on trails There are so many other factors as well like like weather I mean weather is always a factor but More so in a long long race and and trish nutrition and and and it's just so long that so many other factors play a part it's difficult to sort of put two performances up against each other or measure your progression, so Anyway, that's it. I mean I love both trail and road One thing that I also love about roads is that this adventure kind of thing Just like in the trails you you head out on an adventure, but it's more of like a You meet people you meet more people when you're running on the roads It's more social in that sense You can run from city to city and you can see you go through neighborhoods You go through residential areas you look into people's gardens You see how they live and then you get into you know a beautiful city or you come out of the city you go into a beautiful Remote area, but you're on the road and it's just like it's a it's a monotonous kind of thing Road running is more monotonous than trail running But I like that. I like the sort of meditation aspect almost of just It's just you and the road and you're just moving And it's very consistent So I do like that, but of course as I've said a thousand times now. I do love trail running as well Certainly. I mean the the variety the communion with nature It's almost never boring road running can get boring sometimes But then I just put on a podcast or something where it's trail running never boring always interesting. Um, yeah Let me know in the comments what you think like do you like road running better than trail running or vice versa? Do you like both like me? What about the track? I love the track It's almost like a laboratory where you go to do specific work So they're all they're all good. All the different types of running is good. I like it all Um, but um, yeah at the moment road running seems to be a fascination of mine that I intend to pursue alongside my trail running, of course Thanks so much for being subscribed to this channel And if you haven't please click the subscribe button I would love to have you as a subscriber. 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