What's your average running pace/weekly running distance?

[aleksiz]

Curious to see how many people here run regularly. What's your weekly mileage and average pace? Mine is approx. 60km/week at 5:20min/km (zone 2).

Most of the (serious) runners I see wear Garmins. Me too, I used a Garmin Fenix 8 pro for all my running workouts till I recently decided to use my AWU2 all the way as a test. Till now, I am very happy.

I use a paid third party app (Trenara) which provides me with a(n adaptive) training schedule based on my race goals. Athlytic is great for all health/recovery metrics.

Till now I do not miss offline routing in the native running app, but I think it is a (large) shortcoming (what is Apple's watchOS team actually doing all year?) and still a big plus for Garmin. For hiking, the Komoot app suits my needs perfectly.

Happy to read your experiences!

 

[turbineseaplane]

My weekly Garmin report just came in so this is top of mind.

I've been doing 15 miles (24km) per week and pace is 08:41 min/mi if trail running is in the mix and 07:52 min/mi for road running.

I'm a very minimal shoe wearer, I would note, which does impact this stuff.
On road runs I wear Vibram Five Fingers (toe shoes) for a close to barefoot experience. On the trails I wear some Altra Lone Peaks.

I'm pretty happy with this amount of distance and pace, as it all slots in nicely with my other gym/fitness & hiking work.

 

[aleksiz]

My weekly Garmin report just came in so this is top of mind.

I've been doing 15 miles (24km) per week and pace is 08:41 min/mi if trail running is in the mix and 07:52 min/mi for road running.

I'm a very minimal shoe wearer, I would note, which does impact this stuff.
On road runs I wear Vibram Five Fingers (toe shoes) for a close to barefoot experience.

I'm pretty happy with this amount of distance and pace, as it all slots in nicely with my other gym/fitness & hiking work.

Why don't you use Apple Watch for running (assuming you have one)?

 

[turbineseaplane]

Why don't you use Apple Watch for running (assuming you have one)?

The Garmins fit better with my preferences.

I really like the all in one ecosystem with no other Apps needed, as well as having my wearable detached from iOS "required" updates and the like.

Also -- the real #1 reason is battery life.

I charge every 7-10 days, and that's with tracking multiple activities every single day.
It's really hard (and annoying) to go way down on battery life.

Every time I've tried AW models I've gotten intensely annoyed by having to worry about state of charge all the time.

I realize this isn't a problem for AW fans -- but it is for me.

 

[doogm]

I'm old and do Galloway running (e.g., mixed timed walking and running intervals). These days I'm just at 30 miles/week (obviously that's about 48 km), at a very slow 13:55/mile combined pace. That should be getting faster over the next six months (I'm slowly increasing running intervals) - but still slooow.

I used Garmins up until I bought my first Apple Watch almost 10 years ago - Garmin Connect was great when I used an Android phone (until 2015), but was frustrating syncing with iOS, and Apple is just incredibly simple for that, of course. Perhaps that's improved in 9.5 years? I don't need any fancy stats anymore, I don't need my watch to do run planning - I've been planning my own schedule for over 43 years now.

But, the Garmin battery life - I've had an Ultra and then an Ultra 3 for the past almost four years, and wouldn't go back to a Series watch. This is the minimum battery life every Apple Watch should have, and I really wish the Ultra 3 had more.

 

[CR90]

50-60km a week, average pace is around 5m/km. Looked at Garmin and Coros a few times but I like that the Apple Watch isn’t intrusive and you have to rely on how your body feels and doesn’t overload you with information. Battery life could be better, but I get 2 and a bit days and it’s easy enough to charge when in the shower. The Ultra is definitely underrated as a running watch.

 

[aleksiz]

50-60km a week, average pace is around 5m/km. Looked at Garmin and Coros a few times but I like that the Apple Watch isn’t intrusive and you have to rely on how your body feels and doesn’t overload you with information. Battery life could be better, but I get 2 and a bit days and it’s easy enough to charge when in the shower. The Ultra is definitely underrated as a running watch.

Totally agree about the Ultra, it is such a great device!

 

[xDKP]

Depending on where in the marathon block I am, it is from 80 to 100 km. a week - averaging around 4.30/km (Easy 4.50/km and tempo from 3.50-4.10/km).

I have been running with Apple Watches for years and especially the Ultra 1 and now 3 has been amazing. Don't use any 3rd party apps on the watch, but currently on my first training block with Runna so they push the daily workout directly to the native workout app - pretty neat.

 

[tcuprof]

I'm old and do Galloway running (e.g., mixed timed walking and running intervals). These days I'm just at 30 miles/week (obviously that's about 48 km), at a very slow 13:55/mile combined pace. That should be getting faster over the next six months (I'm slowly increasing running intervals) - but still slooow.

I've never heard the term Galloway running, but that's what I'm doing as well. At 7 months post ACL/meniscus surgery, I'm just now back to 5k run/walk with a combined pace ~ 13/mile. The prior 4 years, I averaged about 1450 miles per year. This year, I won't reach 1000. I guess that's not too bad for someone age 70 on ACL #3.

Pre-Apple Watch, I ran with a mid-range Garmin. Since July 2015, I've only worn an Apple watch. Today I wear an Ultra. The high-end Garmins are probably better for a "serious" runner, but the Ultra provides everything I need (including an excellent dive computer).