rrheisler wrote:
In re: the second part of that:
My proposal is that you'd be allowed to "spill over" mileage/time from the day before. So if you ran, say, an hour today, you could "bank" 10 minutes of that for tomorrow's 20 min recovery run. But that either 15 or 20 min be the bare minimum for the spill over or "make up" miles to count. That gets us to what I'd like to see (the shorter minimum run) while also maintaining the spirit of the 30/3.
I think my issue with this whole argument is that there's too much emphasis on the
100. This discussion about what "counts" as a run towards the 100 (and tricks or what not to get one), misses the point. The point is to get to the point that someone is ABLE to run 30m a day, every day. If someone's NOT able, they shouldn't feel bad or refrain from participation because of that. They should aspire to that. And we, the front pagers, should spend our time and participation in this thread helping those figure out how to do it.
Its 210 minutes of jogging per week. Maybe we need to provide some specific methods for how to get from 1 mile per day to 210min per week? And show how that reflects into an accomplishment level by the end of challenge.
1. Run more days per week.
2. Run more time per day.
3. Run more minutes per run.
4. Run more times per day.
Its like any other plan to "build up" to a goal. Maybe someone who is on the lower end (1 mile per day) only starts out with 2-3 qualifying runs per week. But, 3 turns into 4, then 5 and even 6. Someone who starts out only being able to get 2 qualifying runs per week (15m per day added together 2x per week), can add 1 more run per week every 3 weeks up to 5 / wk for the last month and still break 50 for the challenge. The person that does THAT, gets a heck of a lot more out of this challenge than everyone on the front page...or front 3 pages.
You don't need to be physically ready on day 1 to do 7 qualifying runs per week. The only thing you need to be mentally ready to
work towards 5-7 qualifying runs per week by the end of the challenge.
Its like this whole argument about 100 runs de-emphasizes the significance of ^^^^^ THAT.