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.