Breaking the Wall

Good luck tommorrow Sasha! We're all rooting for you to do your very best! You've put in some 'charitable service hours' training the 'less fortunate' local runners (me)-- I hope some of that good Karma will come back to you in the form of feeling great on race day--wake up that sleeping tiger, right?

So Sasha i am going to bring up the subject, how do you advise on computing crosstraining miles? I remember you doing some X-country skiing this winter, did you do those mile for mile? Wondering because I usually start biking more as the fall rolls around and I'd like to keep track of these miles as accurately as possible.

Chad - I convert cross-country skiing miles at face value. For biking, if you have an HRM, and assuming you did a fairly steady effort, take your average HR, calculate the pace you would have to run to keep up that HR, add a minute per mile or so just in case, and then divide the ride time by the virtual pace. I think this works for a ride under 1 hour quite well. Of course, you need to keep your HR above what you would get at the slowest pace that you still call running.

Chad- a lot of people on the blog use a rough 3-to-1 conversion for miles (30 bike = 10 run). Sometimes less, if it is hilly, etc.

Sasha and Jon,

Thanks for the input on the bike miles, i will begin to convert these miles into running miles, as of now I never do a conversion, but to keep track of overall output it is nice to see what i have done on the rolling mileage board, especially as i look back to see what i did on my training!