ILX running running thread

Running another damn 5K tonight. Don't know why I keep doing these. Going balls out.

Bah, that sucked. 2 mins slower than I did last month.

Tried a run commute last night. I've run home from work before but never carrying all my stuff. Got a running backpack, which worked out well, but I was carrying too much weight. The backpack plus my work clothes/shoes, iPad and a few other items ended up adding 8.5 pounds. Plus it was 97 degrees, which didn't help. All in all, a slow 5 miles.

Couldn't you leave your shoes and/or clothes at work?

Shoes yes, which I will do next time. Clothes is a little more problematic because I want to avoid walking back to my desk in my running clothes, to put them in my cabinet. I suppose I could make it through the day without my iPad.

Run commute home yesterday was much much better. 15 degrees cooler and a lighter backpack. Will do again.

That is if my foot would stop hurting. Stupid plantar fasciitis is such an annoying injury.

i really want to run to work but it's about 8 miles as the crow flies, and that route would mean going down oxford circus, a main shopping street for the entirety of london.

if i take a more scenic route it'd be 9/10 miles, i can do that but not regularly, been considering running 5/6 miles then jumping on an underground the rest of the way.

Mine ends up being 6 miles if I take the lakefront path. About 4.5 if I take city streets.

aren't you guys all sweaty when you get to work, though? i see running home, but running to work? or do you have showers there...

if i take a more scenic route it'd be 9/10 miles, i can do that but not regularly, been considering running 5/6 miles then jumping on an underground the rest of the way.

Could you you take the tube/bus to somewhere nice and then run to work from there? Then you don't have to be a sweaty beast on public transport.

I haven't run to work yet. But if I do there is an employee gym that I could use for showering.

oh man...i'm in seattle visiting family, and i was so excited to run in a beautiful park that the first day i did almost 6 miles (a lot for me) and then on the second day, at around mile 4 my hamstrings revolted and refused to run for me anymore. and now i'm so sore i have to hoist myself out of chairs or use my arms for anything involving my hamstrings. i hope it's more bearable tomorrow.

i think i pulled something. i think i pushed a little too hard since this was the first day running where i wasn't super sore... :(

i ran outside for the first time since that "horrific allergies" thing that was actually a 3-week-long summer cold. it made me have random coughing attacks and chest congestion forever. i tried to run for 30 min but i got weird ear compression feeling so i stopped at around 25 min. it was ok.

i didn't end up signing up for the half marathon group. there is another 5k group i might do though. the 5k is a 9/11 memorial. i might be too cynical to run in a 9/11 memorial race, i could end up exploding.

oh n/m the email that announced that was saying "it's not too late" so tomorrow would be the beginning of the second week of it and i don't want to start anything tomorrow.

my friend wants me to do a half marathon in the fall. kind of nervous, never done a half marathon before. my coworker, who loves marathons, promised to set me up with some sort of training schedule, since i am bad at that.

Do it! You have to have your first one at some point.

Woke up early to watch the women's Olympic marathon. It's really raining.

Not much happening in the marathon yet but it should be a good one. Decent preview here: http://www.letsrun.com/2012/women-marathon-0731.php

feeling self righteous here, just been lying in the bath post-run with the marathon on my ipad dangling over the towel rail

harbl, i get weird ear popping things going on sometimes during and after running. that thing when you cant really hear yourself talking properly. I HATE IT SO MUCH so sympths from me

rayuela - do it do it do it

kiplagat looks great and so easy. very obvious fore-foot landing there

Great writeup of the Farah-Rupp 1-2 last night: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/olympics/2012/writers/tim_layden/08/04/mens-10k-british-olympics/index.html?PID=4177151

my favorite kind of races to watch are 800 and 1500. how can i become faster than 10:00 at a mile? my brother can do it in like 5 min :(

Would usually assume one can get below 10 minutes by just training regularly but a standard approach to faster miling would be to do sessions consisting of segments that are shorter and faster than your target (like 6 times 400 metre intervals at 2 minutes or quicker) separated by short recovery periods (maybe try half a minute jog?).

The quantities I've used here are just pulled out of my hat but they might be a reasonable ballpark.

how can i become faster than 10:00 at a mile? my brother can do it in like 5 min :(

I did about a year of 3x weekly 4-8 mile runs at paces around 12:30-13:30 min mile, just plodding along, and when I did 5k or 10k races, I managed an 8:30-9 min mile race average by going all out. I have never gotten close to a 5 minute mile, my heart would explode.

If you followed seandalai's advice and did speedwork, you could probably improve even more, but just putting in the time running lots of miles at slow paces will give you the endurance and whatnot to finish races under the 10min/mile average.

yeah just doing regular training would be my main suggestion, I noticed harbl posted at the top of this thread 3 years ago so assumed maybe he/she(?) wasn't a novice in that sense and might want to try something new.

haha that's because i run consistently for a few months at a time then stop forever, that's how i am still slow after running for so many years. when i was 17 ("when i was 17....") i could run under 8 min. i'm just going to work on doing more miles per week slowly now. i think garmin is helping me.

2012 i have probably done more exercise than 09-11 combined :-/

i also joined the gym near me and want to learn how to lift heavy weights so i'm not sure how much running i will get done. maybe just gym 2x per week is adequate though.

If you want to get faster off minimal time spent running then intervals might be the best way. A sideline in heavy weights won't help you much, will make you slower if anything.

not like powerlifter heavy i just want to counteract my office worker slump

haha that's because i run consistently for a few months at a time then stop forever

this is me as well :(

i do think i will try the half marathon tho. Thanks for the encouragement yall!

decided i am going to focus my running into doing a half marathon training schedule, tho i'm not signed up for any particular race. it just seems a good idea.

i set a goal of running 10 miles in a week from last sat to yesterday and i did it but stupid garmin connect says even though i ran 10.00 miles i only accomplished 95% of my goal? this week i want to do 12 miles. i can't believe there are people in the world who run over 100 miles a week.
also re: garmin. it's funny how if you feel unsettled during a run like i did yesterday you can see how much your speed varies. most runs i am impressed it stays pretty constant.

having a tiny computer keep track of me is already really helpful for motivation though

Awesome, it was key for me too.

15 miles today and 35 for the week so far. Very tired and very hungry now.

^ I really need to get back up to that mileage. Summer's complicated by travel kids etc etc

Did about 6 miles at dawn on a beach in south Carolina yesterday and it was very very cool. I normally hate running on the beach but this one was perfect. The humidity was outrageous.

i've started trying to run on a daily basis a bit more, did tues-sat last week and had the odd bit of pain but think i'm still injury free.

I ended up at 40 for the week, and feel pretty good. Historically anything north of 30 has broken me down in some way. Hope to peak at 50 during this training cycle.

50 is a lot. I'm not sure most of our bodies were meant for that, but you think you can handle it for a few weeks? I think 35 is about the max that I can sustain.

We'll see. I have 8 weeks to the marathon and I'll probably only hit 50 once, the rest of the weeks will be between 30 and 45.

What bums me out is that I've had to eschew all speed and tempo work because it was hurting me. All my miles have just been at an easy pace of 8:50 to 9:30. Not going to get any faster like that.

i'm the opposite lately, my speeds are getting way quicker but i need to ignore the time and put some real distance in.

1) I saw Jeff running the other day and he was so focused that I whizzed past on my bike, smiling and waving, and he didn't notice. That guy is all the way in the zone!! Also I could never ever run that much -- I have been doing this for several years now and I still don't even pay attention to distance. I just go out there, run to a halfway point, and then circle around home. There's no way that I could keep track of miles per week or pace or anything.

2) Question: why do some people wear those compression knee socks?

Supposedly aids recovery. That's debatable, but they do feel good to lounge around in. It's like someone constantly hugging my calves.

Recovery from an injury or just from running?

Just running.

i should set goals like that. i think i'm in a running funk -- went to the gym yesterday and ran for just 30 min.

That's a good amount!