[Imme_Play_5550]

Just gonna say, as a fellow excessive exerciser... exercise doesn't make you stronger. It's the recovery afterwards and the resulting growth/adaptation that makes you better.

Don't let rest feel like weakness. It’s where the real progress happens.

[jmye]

Rest doesn’t preclude running. Most high end runners run every day. It’s very easy to run at recovery pace and feel better than if you’d done nothing at all.

I find the tendency of very amateur runners having very strong opinions about running, odd. There are literally decades of research, and while the particulars change over time, the macros tend not to.

[igouy]

Here's Nils van der Poel's (World champion, World record) 5k 10k speed-skating training-program.

He explains why he took Saturday and Sunday off ;-)

https://www.howtoskate.se/

[jmye]

Do you want me to link Conner Mantz’s Strava? Like, what is the point of dropping a single, random example here?

“Rest doesn’t preclude running” is a very simple, clear thought (followed by “recovery pace”, another very simple concept, well known in running). If you don’t want to respond to it because you don’t know anything about running, that’s fine, but maybe, you know, don’t jump into a conversation you’re not capable of participating in?

[fifilura]

You have to appreciate how short a mile run is.

And either way, yeah runstreak is probably not optimal for improving your stamina. I am sure there are more rigorous programs for that.

[grumpy-de-sre]

I've been running five miles roughly every other day for fifteen years. If I've got a flu or not feeling great I'll take a few days off, no loss. Not sure how one would objectively determine "stamina", but my resting HR is in the bottom 3% for my age.

Obsessively run streaking one mile every day sounds completely bizarre to me and a complete PITA.

Almost as bizarre as those poor bastards that I see doing laps around tiny parks / basketball courts (the monotony would drive me crazy).

[aaronbrethorst]

You have to appreciate how critical recovery time is to improving your strength/stamina/whatever.

[_Algernon_]

If you are sufficiently trained, a 1 mile day is a rest day though.

[pferde]

Not when you have flu. Or a stress fracture on your leg.

[hatsnp]

This isn't really that simple. Studies keep coming out showing that even people undergoing chemo and other heavy therapies benefit from some exercise(ex brisk walks), showing upwards of 20-30% better results. For his fitness a very light run could be as taxing as a brisk walk for a common person and still bring some benefits in fighting his illness.