ILX running running thread

Mile race yesterday.... 5:58. Splits: ok good/ugh/ugggghhhh/kicked hard. Should be at least 10-15 seconds faster.

Also went running in Red Rock Canyon last week. Very difficult and technical trail, twisted my ankle like 7 times.

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very nice indeed!

have been doing a bunch of running here but also struggling with a recurrence of a hernia problem, which is making things a bit uncomfortable. doing a 100 mile race in three weeks, could be a bit painful

Feeling good. On my last week of base building training, I'm up to 55 miles a week over the last 4 weeks. Start official marathon training next week. 18 weeks that will either make me or break me.

I started up again last week for the first time in a month and a half. Saw an orthopedist who told me I was wearing the wrong type and size of running shoes. Then had to wait for my local running store to special-order a pair for me because they didn't have any in size 14. I'm taking it light and working my way back up. The shin splints are gone (I hope), but I'm still experiencing some metatarsal pain. Doing some exercises that are supposed to help with that though.

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My recent running. With my running, I thrive off of consistency. When I can get out there 6 days a week and run at a decent pace, it definitely fuels me to keep it going. Just about as much as performance improvement does. I enjoy the grind.

Now that the Nike+ app basically was totalled with the last updated and anyway shifted focus massively to the social/friend comparison aspect I don't have no business with, what's everyone's current favourite running app?
Running only with phone, should be free of charge, focus on statistic features appreciated. Garmin I suppose?

I just casually jog now, haven't done a 5k or timed myself in literally years, not that I was ever very fast or cared;

watching Olympic track motivated me to hit the track and see how fast I could run a mile...managed 7m27s which seems solid

The Garmin app is decent, I use it if I forget my watch. And the Garmin ecosystem can sync with a variety of services, Strava, runningahead, etc.

Not bad at all. Was that all out?

My running is in a good place. Kind of in a groove, less than 2 months before my race. I haven't quite peaked with my mileage, I'll hit 70 twice over the next 4 weeks. I have slowed down, which has been expected as mileage has increased.

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since there are at least a couple DC ppl itt, anyone going to the Navy Air Force 1/2 next weekend? I'm registered for the half but I barely got off my couch this summer so I think I'm switching to the 5 miler

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/sports/ed-whitlock-marathon-running.html

Whitlock’s career has been as unorthodox as it is remarkable. For starters, he trains alone in the Milton Evergreen Cemetery near his home outside Toronto. He runs laps for three or three and a half hours at a time, unbothered by traffic or the eternal inhabitants or the modern theories and gadgets of training.

At the Toronto Marathon, he raced in 15-year-old shoes and a singlet that was 20 or 30 years old. He has no coach. He follows no special diet. He does not chart his mileage. He wears no heart-rate monitor. He takes no ice baths, gets no massages. He shovels snow in the winter and gardens in the summer but lifts no weights, does no situps or push-ups. He avoids stretching, except the day of a race. He takes no medication, only a supplement that may or may not help his knees.
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“I believe people can do far more than they think they can,” said Whitlock, a retired mining engineer who was born in greater London and speaks with British self-deprecation. “You have to be idiot enough to try it.”

hero imo

I also never stretch, get massages etc so I found that particularly refreshing

but massages are awesome

"stay tense" is p much my whole ethos

Last couple of paragraphs is pretty much the same reason I run.

He does not experience a runner’s high, he said, and does not run for his health. He finds training to be drudgery and even racing brings as much apprehension as joy.

“The real feeling of enjoyment,” he said, “is getting across the finish line and finding out that you’ve done O.K.”

I guess I never mentioned it here, but I was diagnosed with a calcaneal stress fracture at the beginning of September. This was right as I hit 1600 miles for the year and was really in a groove. Was in a walking boot for 8 weeks and a DNS for my fall marathon. Started run/walking in November and back to continuous running for the last couple of weeks. But wow, all that wonderful fitness, withered away. Lesson learned, my training plan was relentless and my body obviously couldn't handle it. Will build up my base again and try again next year.

sorry to hear that, jeff. that volume is totally amazing to me, not even accounting for risk of injury.

i've been running twice a week now since spring i think, probly my longest period of regular running in 25 years. i did do 4 months of almost daily running way back when i ran imogene and r'n'r denver, but my foot problems, which always seem to develop around 3-4 months, reemerged. i'm hoping that if i spend a good long period breaking in my tendons i can step up a little and do some events next year. my balance has recovered enough that i'm ready to try some more challenging trail stuff.

hope you mend up soon jeff

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so i actually did the trail race that i've really wanted to do for the last three years or so! 250 miles in a big loop around central southern england. 59.5 hours of pretty much continuous running barring a few 2 minute naps snatched under the bushes. actually managed to finish in second place and beat the old course record in the process. almost caught the guy in first, it was so so close - i was about 1-2km right behind him for about the last 100 miles and pushed him pretty hard all the way, but he took off like an utter madman from the start of the last 19-mile leg* and he found some p incredible running powers for the win. though my legs were still feeling okay at that point, my brain was utterly shot and i was having serious problems staying awake (this sleepiness was something that came at me in waves from about the start of the second night, and it lasted about 2-3 hours at a time - just horrible, like a whole house jumping on your back and crushing you). last six miles just turned into something akin to a drunken teenage walk back home from the pub, just weaving all over the place and not making any forward progress, each field being 40 times longer than you ever remembered them being before, really wanting to simply lie down and die or at least just fucking sleeeeeeeep... incredible experience though and i've been absolutely buzzing since. 52 people started, 26 people made it to the end - some of those were out for over four nights of hard slog[!]

*an interesting plot twist was revealed to him at that point - i'd had twenty minutes awarded back to me by the race director because i'd stopped earlier on to help another runner out (one guy was just in front of me on the canal through london, 2 o'clock in the morning and he got jumped, beaten up and robbed by two lads - stole his garmin, stole his headtorch, ripped his racepack up trying to get it off his body, then he managed to punch one mugger in the face and off they ran. i came round the corner and he was just sitting there on the path in a daze, awful awful shit to happen across)

this was thee route btw... had to run right through the middle of the henley regatta at one point!

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glamorous shit

This is all insane. Insanely great.

Wow! Well done!

can hardly believe it myself now tbh, but the pain in my legs tells me it definitely did happen

I am amaaaazed. So big I didn't know that could be a... thing. Field size seems so big for something that loco. Wow. Congrats and nicely done.

That is amazing! I cannot comprehend running for 60 hours.

that sounds amazing! well, except for the mugging part. but congrats.

Hey, this thread just had it's 10 year anniversary. Good job me for sticking with it. Good job everyone.

My running: Fully back from my stress fracture that crushed my marathon dreams last year. Got a new coach at the beginning of the year and I've PR'ed twice, in the 8K (34:08) and half marathon (1:35:43). Working towards the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon in October. Hopefully chopping off some time and put myself in a good position to BQ when I'm 40 in a couple of years.

Aiming to do ten miles at sub-ten minutes per on my birthday as a sign marker for the future. Up to about 8 before I give out and a week to go. Hope I can make it.

nice! though I initially read that as just trying to run ten miles in under ten minutes which would truly be a feat

I've lost my will to run since I got an office job :/

It's sorta amazing and sad how much slower I'm getting on the run as I increase the duration and intensity of my cycling volume (while not changing my running at all- same exact minimal running scheme, 3 mi 2x/week). Hoping if I return to lower overall volume I'll be back to my usual pacing.

ten and a half in under 99 minutes. i think i'm gonna go for a half marathon but maybe not on my birthday. generally when it gets to feeling this good, this is when i get an injury... i have forty miles for the week and that's definitely the most I've ever logged so it's probably time to be careful.

half marathon is the perfect distance tbh, marathons are dumb and bad (I say this having done two of em)

Explain why? Though i imagine i can guess?

so much training, so much pain, bad for yr knees apparently

but some people enjoy it for the extra runners high or w/ever (a thing I have still never experienced)

Marathons are the best distance. Halfs are hell.

see that argument I need explained to me

Halfs = A 10 mile tempo run plus a 5K race
Full = Conserving my energy for 20 miles then a 10K race.

The former is much more unpleasant for me. Too close to the redline for too long. Fulls have their own drawbacks, of course, but I much prefer them over halfs.

a marathon is the best preparation fo a half-marathon. when i ran my last marathon in 1990, a couple of weeks later i did a half-marathon. it was so easy. my best time ever: 1h25 for 21 km.

aaaaaaand i fucked up my ankle a bit. Back to three mile jogs for me for a few weeks i guess

Aaaaaaand now runners knee. I gotta pace increasing my mileage more intelligently; my lungs and heart can take more but my joints get pissed.

been getting back into it hehe

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how's it going lag@@n?

I have another stress fracture lolsob. Second one in two years. In a boot now.

aw shit no! same bones? any idea what's causing that?

Heel was last year, left leg. Tibia this year, right leg. Don’t know the ultimate cause yet. I was MUCH more conservative this year with my mileage and intensity. It was a very surprising diagnosis, that was initially thought to be a calf strain. I went through two months of PT before we realized that it was not getting better at all, MRI revealed the fracture.

I’ve upped my calcium and will probably end up getting a bone density scan. Not sure what else to do beyond that. I’ve got a few more weeks in the boot and then no load bearing exercises for 6 weeks. Then I’ll start run walking and building my way back up to whatever I fracture next year!