ILX running running thread

i think im gonna start running w/my garmin again and try to motivate myself or w/e

been doing some plyometrics recently, its p fun

i want to try to do these mile long intervals at threshold that ive heard are good, but it sounds painful

I heard Garmins cause injury. And maybe the swine flu.

damn thats prob where i got the swine flu then

i never ever stretch, it's just too much hassle for me. i had shin splints for 4 months last year but since going back running in autumn i've barely had a twinge in any muscle. my caveat would be that i really think listening to your body is only possible with a decent bit of experience under your belt, at the start you can't distinguish a fleeting pain you should run through and an injury.

running totally cured my shin splints, so my advice is to just keep running (bad advice)

my advice also is to constantly be paying attention to yr form, this might just be how i entertain myself tho

stopping running then running cured my shin splints.

More things you can do:

Run slower
Run faster
foam roll
Lose weight
Gain weight

i stretch but i don't know how well/properly done my stretches are :/

but other than the knee issue that i went to the physio for, and then a minor fibroid issue, i've been lucky with injuries. i currently live with a physio so am confident that if any problems arise they can be dealt with.

I'm going for a run right now. I'm really going to listen to my body and report back to the thread.

ive seen some experts say pre run stretching is dangerous and counterproductive and should be totally abandoned

have read plenty of stuff saying no stretching necessary.

i love foam rolling

i don't really stretch. there are some exercises i would like to do that require more flexibility than i have though. so i guess maybe i should. anyway i'm pretty excited about running atm but sore. not going today. i went yesterday and ran uphill a lot again. i'm going to be a powerhouse!

hills are awesome once you get into them

hills rule

Ok, I listened to my body. It didn't have much to say today.

Mile 1 - 8:22 - Body says I feel OK.
Mile 2 - 8:09 - Body says hey that was faster, but I could never maintain it because I'm a damn fool and I might as well give up. Fuck you body.
Mile 3 - 8:30 - Motherfucking body, you may have been right. But I'm not having any pain right now, so I will now defy you. Body's suck.
Mile 4 - 8:18 - Body says to stop at Weiner Circle and get a hot dog or ten. I ignore the body and run faster. Ha, take that body.

You have a weird relationship with your body.

When I came back to running again this year, I was very conscious about protecting myself from old injuries and I just started plodding around with barely any knee lift or back lift and not much knee bend either and this has left me with some sort of weird power-shuffle running style which neither looks right nor feels right at all. So now I'm trying to unlearn that and teach myself to run all over again, but I've kind of forgotten how to do it and I just feel totally herky-jerky at the moment. Strangely the only thing that does feel right is running up hills so yeah, I'm planing on doing a lot of that in the hope that it'll help.

You have a weird relationship with your body.

Oh I know it.

It was a pretty good run though. I'm no where close to marathon shape, but hopefully I can build up a small base before real training starts in June. Looking forward to a longish run this weekend to see how it goes.

i have run 3 miles 3 times this week! plus 1.5 on the schedule's easy day. that's the most i have run in one week in like 2 years! now i have a salty crust on me.

i had shin splints for 4 months last year but since going back running in autumn i've barely had a twinge in any muscle.

did you do anything special to recover in between? or just laid off the running? i'm gonna try some of the exercises listed above, since i laid off running for a year and twinges started to come back after like 3 (very short) runs...

just stopped completely. i couldn't run a yard without having pain, when i went back i guess the muscles had built up in their own time.

does running make your feet bigger? i had to dump one pair of smart shoes and one pair of converse that pinch uncomfortably but fitted me perfectly well recently.

Not that I'm aware of.

maybe you got toe blisters and it made you think your feet were bigger since you felt your shoes on your toes more

do any of you use nike plus? got a new iphone recently and so i can use the app, really great imo, the stats encourage a nerdiness that promotes commitment to more running imo. and it's a good way to slowly introduce time/speed into my running without caring about it too much.

stretch if something feels like it needs stretching imo, not as a routine

i have that on my iphone but never used it. i also have runkeeper. i just don't want to carry it while running and don't want one of those armband things. i'm thinking about getting a garmin so i can tell how fast i'm going. i also need new running shoes though, which is more important. i'm gonna go to the running store tomorrow and get fitted. i have some soreness in the arch of my foot and my shoes are old.

btw i am already thinking when i'm done with this training group of doing a half marathon group but i don't want to run for 2 hours+ and one of the sessions meets at 7 am on saturday! argh!

btw i am already thinking when i'm done with this training group of doing a half marathon group but i don't want to run for 2 hours+

then run quicker .....

that's what i'll have to do isn't it

srsly i think all i need is to have some kind of schedule and people i am accountable to it's made such a huge difference. i am a big excuse-maker normally. and more exercising is making me better at everything! i even started organizing my disgusting office at work!

i know but eugh positivity, next thing you'll be one of those people, you might even find yourself in a marketing career or something idk

first run w/the garmin in forever, lol i got slow, it was a big fn hill but still

http://i.imgur.com/3srYy.png

maybe half trails half road, i think that big dip in pace at the end was trying to navigate some trees that fell over the trail

u took a nap

lol the gps def works the psychological magic, i did the same run a couple days before and stopped to walk like 3 times, this time i was all 'must not f up my stats'

this time i was all 'must not f up my stats'

ha, I do that too

oof, that hill. No thank you.

I've never used Nike+, used my Garmin for my last 385 runs.

Been keeping up with yoga and treadmill over the winter, but had my first outdoor run today. 5 km in 21 minutes, not so shabby! Wild, wild stitch pain at the end, though

the running store has to get my shoes from another location because they don't carry women's shoes that big. the guy at the store grimaced at my old ones and said "those are done!" i didn't know they were that worn out. i hope everything stops hurting when i get them.

next week's "long" run assignment is 45 minutes, which i haven't done continuously since 2008 or so and i was worried so i today tried slowing my 20 min run down to about 11:00/mile and it was actually fun and not painful this time and i'm pretty sure i could continue at that pace for a while. i did not run all the way up the hill though.

Going to the doc on Tuesday for what seems to be PF symptoms. It's not bad at all, but I thought I'd see a doc earlier rather than later. I've been running on it fine though, pain is actually less when I run.

I've been slowing down a lot recently, just trying to get time on my feet and build some base mileage before marathon training. It's hard as hell, I just want to run as fast as I can every time out there.

ah no the dreaded sore foot

I had wicked PF for a couple years then spent some $$ on orthotics and minimalist shoes (replacing them often) which made a huge difference, even as I steadily increased weekly mileage. fwiw.

I've already been wearing custom orthotics for several years now (replaced every year). I couldn't run without them at this point.

The PF seems to be really mild at this point. Hoping it will be no big deal.

What shoes do you run in?

I think they're called Brooks Pure Flow. Bright green, you can't miss them.

All this said I just finished my weekly long run. about 8 miles in some serious, but non-PF, foot pain set in. Of course I did the stupid thing and finished a 16-miler through the pain. Probably going to regret that for a few days if not weeks.