Hi Peter,
again, I love this! I do play around with my trainings and the stuff around but never thought about DOE-ing my performance.
A few things I was wondering, when looking at your factors:
- Nutrition:
-- Why do you consider meat to be important, but not carbohydrates? I would not exclude meat to be important but would suspect that the amount of carbs in your diet have a stronger impact.
-- I also found that different carbohydrate sources (the day before) work differently good for me (I love pasta, but with potatoes my gut feels better during exercise). Maybe future factors.
-- As you do Ultras, I assume you consume carbohydrates during your race as well. Why don't you consider this in your training/DOE?
-- I have tested many different types of carb sources for during the exercise. Maybe also a future factor.
- Hydration:
-- I played a lot with different mixtures. Two things come to my mind. 1. I expect the impact of hydration in general to be higher for longer runs. 2. I especially expect the impact of electrolytes to be significant only for longer runs (> 10 miles).
-- Also here I would have expected carbohydrates as a third category.
-- Weather you can't control, but for sure hydration is more important during heat. So maybe, hydration also has more impact on runs in the afternoon, when temperature is higher.
Further factors
- with/without compression calf sleeves
- of course, variation of training zones
- overall exertion before the run, maybe (wow, you have four kids 😉 )?
I'm curious to see the results!
Best,
Florian
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