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Jul 2020
9:36am, 11 Jul 2020
3,207 posts
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Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
It is great that you aren’t stop/starting - don’t worry about your pace and distance - it is fab to hear your happy. And if your pace speeds up you will be transitioning well - sounds like you have sussed out this Jeffing lark 
Garfield, that is great to hear - I haven’t done back to back but always felt much better after Jeffing my longer distances - the most I had ever run consecutively was 4 miles in a 10km event and I paid the price. All my longer distances have been Jeffers.
Like kwala I am only doing short distances at the moment but am hoping to improve my fitness and then my pace and distance. I have signed up for Brighton again (next year) so that is my ultimate goal - but in the meantime please want to work back up to 5km and then work on improving that time.
Yay for run-walk-run 😍
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Jul 2020
9:40am, 11 Jul 2020
13,280 posts
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Garfield
WP, back when I was doing nuts things, I was mostly Jeffing it - so 10 miles Saturday, 10 miles Sunday (I was training for my one and only ultra then, back in 2013). Not a problem.
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Jul 2020
9:45am, 11 Jul 2020
6,404 posts
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kwala
Garfield - that's really good to know and very encouraging 😀
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Jul 2020
10:00am, 11 Jul 2020
13,281 posts
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Garfield
kwala, it works a treat no matter what distance you're doing.
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Jul 2020
12:04pm, 12 Jul 2020
3,212 posts
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Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
That's good to hear Garfield. I am tempted to do a long walk along the South Downs in the future so will need to do back to backs.
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Jul 2020
12:06pm, 14 Jul 2020
764 posts
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Muttley
So the experimenting with run-walk ratio continues. Today was an easy run of 6 miles with 30 seconds of walking on each mile. End result 10 minute miling on the nose. Previous two runs of same distance with 30 seconds of walking for 4 minutes of running -- end results 9:49 and 9:45 m/m. Average hr more or less the same.
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Jul 2020
1:21pm, 14 Jul 2020
3,219 posts
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Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
Thanks for sharing Muttley
Some of the seasoned Jeffers have seen a continued improvement on pace and heart rate compared with their non stop running or when walk breaks have been few and far between.
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Jul 2020
3:46pm, 14 Jul 2020
766 posts
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Muttley
I'm still playing around but it looks like for "standard" steady plods the 4 min/30 sec ratio works best. I try to keep below a certain hr and this ratio generally means I can run easy and comfortably and the relatively short duration means hr doesn't climb too high (although I keep an eye on it). Walk breaks each mile meant I was slowing to keep hr under control and after a certain point my gait changes and it becomes uncomfortable. It's looking good. I think for the long slow Sunday morning plods I'll try something like 2 minutes/30 seconds.
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Jul 2020
4:48pm, 14 Jul 2020
13,318 posts
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Garfield
I like those ratios too Muttley, though sometimes I may walk a whole minute. It all depends on how I feel/how far I'm going, etc. Each to our own though...it's always a matter of finding what works best for ourselves. When I go to HR, it's all over the shop, all depending on how my HR decides it's not going to play ball on the day!
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Jul 2020
6:29pm, 14 Jul 2020
3,220 posts
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Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
The thing I like about RWR / Jeffing is that you can play with the ratios and find out what works for you as an individual and can be swapped around to suit the distance.
I have always failed when trying to run continuously and usually end up breaking myself. This way I don’t have to conform to the standard and I can just be myself.
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