How bad is it that all I do is walking?
Decided I was going to do a marathon that was 21 weeks out, with no running experience, after seeing others as fit/less fit than me complete marathons with no training. Since I was new to running, I had no idea what my 5k time was, so I just told it an hour since that was the max option (after my first day, which was a 2.5mile interval run, I lowered it to 50 minutes instead; figured I could do faster but I'm being conservative). Since then, all the easy "runs" say to go no faster than a ~16:00/mile pace, so I've just walked for every easy run. And ofc I walk for every long run too. I figured, okay I'm almost two weeks in, I gotta start adding a little bit of slow running in there eventually to get my body used to it, even if it's only 5% of the time, and as long as I'm not panting then they'll still be easy runs. So today, I decided instead of the 17 to 18 minute paces I've been averaging by just walking, I added in all of a quarter mile worth of running at 10:00 pace, just to bring the average up a bit to 16:30, and the AI tells me "hey man, I saw you picked up pace at the end there; try to keep it easy next time!" ???
man i didn't surpass the limit, and it can't see my heart rate so it's not like it could tell I was overexerting myself. Is this just a flaw with the app where Runna can't conceptualize the idea of splitting time between running and walking? I tried to run as slow as I could and I don't feel like I overexerted myself but it still got mad