This thread shall be THE RUNNING THREAD!!!

Prages said:
Nice. As was mentioned in The Lounge, Mrs. P and I got free last minute registration and amenities for some runs this weekend. We are both way off our game due to lack of training, but free is free.

Saturday was a 26 mile trail run with the option of dropping at mile 8, 18, or 22. We stuck together and mainly just hiked the course for 18 miles. I think it took us about 4 1/2 hours for that. :embarrassed:

Sunday was a 15.75 course with the option to drop a 7. We stuck together for 7. Mrs. P dropped there, but I decided to keep going.

Again, it was a trail run that dropped to the bottom of the New River Gorge and then climbed back up in the first 7 miles. We got to mile 7 at 1:52. I did the last 8.75 alone and my total time for 15.75 was 3:20 or something. The second half of that course was mostly paved road though, but it did drop back about 1/3 of the way into the gorge and back to the top.

I was pretty happy that most of my serving half miles that were not steep uphills were at 9-10 minute paces.

My legs aren't real happy with me today, though.

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You ran more miles this weekend than I have managed in a full weeks running any week this entire year save one. I'm surprised you are walking at all. Must be all the bike riding.
 
Denverdave said:
You ran more miles this weekend than I have managed in a full weeks running any week this entire year save one. I'm surprised you are walking at all. Must be all the bike riding.
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Haven't ridden a bike since Mrs. P's "incident" in September 14.

Oh, I didn't mention that on Saturday Mrs. P caught her toe on an old cross tie and fell. She instinctively caught herself with her broken wrist. .. and aimed up her knee. .. and ruined a perfectly good pair of running tights.

Luckily she was wearing her splint, so while it did hurt and swelled up a little, I don't think she did any further damage.

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Prages said:
Haven't ridden a bike since Mrs. P's "incident" in September 14.

Oh, I didn't mention that on Saturday Mrs. P caught her toe on an old cross tie and fell. She instinctively caught herself with her broken wrist. .. and aimed up her knee. .. and ruined a perfectly good pair of running tights.

Luckily she was wearing her splint, so while it did hurt and swelled up a little, I don't think she did any further damage.

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:facepalm:

Though I really can't say much. I have managed to not trip while running in quite awhile - though I nearly had a very bad spill this spring. I caught my toe on a rock while running downhill in a very rocky area. Had I not managed to regain my balance quickly I would have more than likely broken multiple bones at the very least.

I have been doing balance exercises ever since...:embarrassed:
 
That should have said "skinned up her knee". Fucking auto correct.

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Did a 3 miler and 2 x 5 milers so far this week. That was 3 days in a row of running, so I'm takin the day off today to rest and recuperate the suspension system. Plus it's raining today, so it's a good one to stay indoors.

I've noticed that running for speed in the short (5k type) runs bumps up my pace quite a bit in the longer ones. I think that really pounding out those shorter runs has improved my lung volume substantially.

I'm working on developing a good 10k pace. Right now I have 2 speeds; 5k pace, and run forever pace. Not that I can actually run forever; sooner or later I'd run out of energy or get sore - but it's kind of my "equilibrium" pace where I'm running as fast as I can without getting increasingly out of breath. I need to find the pace that, at the end of 10k, has me thoroughly depleted.
So right now I'm working on finding a pace that has me depleted at the end of about 5 miles, and then I can add some distance (while maintaining that pace) to get to 10k/6.2 mi.
 
So I didn't get picked in the lottery for the Berlin marathon :(

Honestly I thought it was a shoe in - you've got better than a 1 in 2 chance. On the flipside I suppose you've got slightly less than a 1 in 2 chance of not getting picked.

Quite bummed but I'm sure I'll find some other fitness flight of fancy to take its place.
 
jbj said:
So I didn't get picked in the lottery for the Berlin marathon :(

Honestly I thought it was a shoe in - you've got better than a 1 in 2 chance. On the flipside I suppose you've got slightly less than a 1 in 2 chance of not getting picked.

Quite bummed but I'm sure I'll find some other fitness flight of fancy to take its place.
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You should just show up and beat everyone. That would show them.
 
I've been working lately on increasing my.....idunno....."durability" for lack of a better word.
My ability to run multiple days without a rest day and without getting sore. I've overdone this before and ended up injured, so I'm ramping things up slowly.

Today will be my 3rd 5-miler in a row without a rest day, and tomorrow will be a day off. So in addition to increasing my ability to train harder, the training that I'm doing seems to be pretty effective - I'm getting a better, faster 5-6 mile pace established.
 
I have been able to be pretty consistent at running 5 pr 6 days a week. But both of our treadmills in our mini-gym at work have problems. On one of them the running surface slips a little bit. It is not really too bad at a lower speed, but if you crank up the speed then it becomes unusable. and yesterday the second treadmill blew a breaker in the middle of my workout. I got it to reset, but both of the machines are over 13 years old and badly need either maintenance or replacement and I'm pretty sure there is no budget for that at all. If those go down I'm pretty much screwed on cold days since I have almost no time to run after work most days.

I am really close to signing up for my first marathon this spring. I'm still a bit hesitant since I really want to be ready and I just don't know that I can carve out the time to get the proper training in.
 
We've been just doing 3 miles a day 2 or 3 Times a week with a longer one on weekends. Treadmill for the weekdays. Going to hit the river walk in Charleston for a few miles this weekend.

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I took my watch along for the first time in a while, and got a read on how I'm doing with the 5 mile runs.
I didn't push too hard, but just wanted to establish a baseline pace. I finished 5 miles in just under 40 minutes, so that's an 8 minute mile.

Knowing that, I'm toying with the semi-realistic, yet still challenging goal of running a 10K in 45 minutes. I'll have to increase the pace to a 7:15 mile, but that's pretty doable considering a ran a 5K at 6:37 per mile not too long ago. So I need to shoot for about halfway between my somewhat leisurely pace and my 5k race pace.

My plan is to get on-pace with the 5 milers, then to increase my distance at that pace to 5.5, then 6.0, and then 6.2 miles to get ready for the race. If I can get where I want to be in practice, I know I'll do even better on race day.

I'm going to try a little harder 5 mile run today and see where that gets me; I may end up adjusting my goal (a bit faster or slower) as I get a better feel for where I am right now.
 
I have a 5K race in two weeks (on Thanksgiving morning) at a park walking distance from the house. I ran it last year and was coming off a nasty cold and my time sucked. Then I have a 10K in mid December. I goal is to break 50 minutes at the 10K. I am finally getting some consistency in my workouts and put in 26 miles last week. Probably a few more miles this week. Looking to do a 9 - 10 mile run Sunday morning. The real cold weather has not settled in yet so while it is cool in the early AM for runs (28 - 35 degrees), that is much preferable to the 10 - 15 degree mornings not too far off.
 
As a teen, I had some trouble with exercise induced asthma - mainly in the cold.
I noticed a little bit of wheezing after my last couple of runs, now that the weather's getting colder, so for yesterday's run I took a puff of of the wifey's albuterol inhaler (same stuff I used to use)

Holy cow - that made a big difference. I didn't realize that I was still struggling with the asthma that much. I'm going to have to go see the doctor and get a Rx of my own.

I'm gonna time my 5miler today and see how it goes without the asthma.
 
Ran out the last part of my back country hike today. Slightly down hill. Felt good! Hopefully I can start working some more running back into the program.
 
We got our new Garmin Forerunner 10s the other day. Took them on their first test yesterday. I like them. They only show two things on the screen, as opposed to our old ones that showed 3. So, now we see our time and distance on one screen and have to hit a button to see pace. I'm fine with that.

So glad to be done with those shitty Forerunner 405s we've been using. The old ones didn't have a power button, so if you were away for a weekend, they'd be dead by day two whether you were using them or not, they had a touch screen bezel which didn't work for shit when your hands were cold or sweaty, they locked up about every 5th time we tried to use them and you just had to let the battery die because you couldn't reboot them, and they communicated with your computer wirelessly via an "antstick" which always had trouble connecting.

These newer, lower end ones, got rid of all the crap that didn't work on the 405.

And, I got $500 worth of reward points from work, so I was able to get them for free, and still have half of my points left over to spend on something else.

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Plus, they are waterproof to 50 feet.
 
My Garmin 210 us still hanging in there but that looks like the way to go when I get a new one. though I use the pace and distance more than time and distance.

Not too happy with my 5K race time yesterday (23:17), but they changed the course and added a couple hills and some very sharp turns that slow you down.The winning times were not super fast so maybe my time is better than it looks. My real goal is a 10K in three weeks - I want to break 50:embarrassed:0....
 
I'm going to miss the pace field, but our 405s were the biggest POS things I've ever seen from Garmin. Do not recommend them at all. One run with the 10, and I like it more than the 405.

On the 10, even if you scoll down to pace, it just shows current pace. There's no lap pace or average pace. I can do that in my head close enough to get by though. I normally pay more attention to time and especially distance than I do pace anyway. Those 405s were so bad, I've been using my phone since we got them in May, even though it's big and bulky and the arm band cuts off my circulation. Runtastic is a great app, though, and the new Garmins can be synched up with Runtastic so I can still use it with the new Garmin.

At $130 each, the Forerunner 10 seems like a pretty good deal.
 
And I just broke the treadmill. The deck under the belt is made of MDF. I was 1 1/2 miles into my run when there was a loud pop and the belt got spongy. It cracked right in the center where you impact it when you run. I could go to Lowe's and buy some MDF and then try to cut it and get all the holes in the right spot and then figure out how to make the surface smooth as glass...our I can buy the replacement part for 126.80+ tax and shipping.

I think I'm better off just buying it. The MDF would probably cost 1/2 that and then I'd have to do a lot of work. The replacement part should go in in about an hour with minimal fuss.
 
Wow - good price on the Forerunner 10.

And wow in breaking the treadmill. At least you didn't get hurt in the process - that could have been ugly.
 
I'll have to post a pic of the broken deck tomorrow. It looks fine on the top side, but the bottom side is obviously structurally compromised. :embarrassed:
 
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