Recent content by igbomb

wat?  :lmao:  

Yep. Thrilled to be back to 25+ mile weeks and I see that I finished 9th in running time last week. :shrug: But, if i was doing this to win I would have given up a long time ago. Just chase those PRs.

Agree. But when I ultimately ruptured it I was playing softball and in no pain. I'm of course rather skittish about this topic since blowing out my Achilles was awful (not the incident itself, more the length of recovery). Bottom line, just be careful.

In 2011, I ruptured my Achilles completely. In the months leading up to it, I had some pretty severe tendinitis that I just powered through. Turns out that Achilles tendinitis that is ignored and continually stressed can lead to a rupture. I'm no doctor, but it seems odd that you would be told...

For any of you Strava Premium users, are the training plans for running good? Do they really add any value? I keep getting this 30 day free trial email but would rather not enter a bunch of credit card info if I know I'm just going to cancel in a month.

Hey all. Finally got off my ### and managed to start logging some miles again.  Man, take a couple months off and your fitness goes right in the crapper. I've never been fast but I feel like I've dug a huge hole for myself. Oh well. Getting back into a training groove, targeting a half in late...

4 kids here 2 girls - 9 and 4 2 boys - 11 and 10 months I think I'm done. I think. Our house is crazy, especially since the spread is big enough that there are a lot of different needs in play at any point in time, but it's every bit as fun as I could hope it would be. 

Exactly. I was able to actually jog home afterwards. Then I took a 30 minute nap in the early afternoon and was good to go.

Thanks all! My last couple of races had been pretty demoralizing so it's nice to have a good experience to keep me motivated. So this race I ran is part of a series with the last one in three weeks on the exact same course. I'm thinking I'll sign up and give it another go. I'm going to use the...

Wicked Halloween 10K First ever race at this distance! My last two races in the summer I bonked in the back half so I planned for a pretty conservative approach. Plan was to go out at 8:30 for mile 1, bring it down to 8 for miles 2-4 and then hope I had enough left to get under 50 minutes...

Freaking cold out there this morning. 33 degrees during my run and like a moron I wore shorts and no hat. Time to flop over to winter gear.  :(

Good point. I get their anger and would agree with a platform geared around minimizing the hurt from industry shifts. The reality of open trade has always been that the larger benefits are spread over more people while the downside is very concentrated. Neither side has addressed that in any...

It may not be phrased like a tagline, but things are in the crapper only if you believe the delusional rantings of Donald Trump and the Breitbart contingency.

I've pointed out in this thread before that I am a practicing Catholic and this election is a big crisis of conscience for our church members and priests. For many members of the church, abortion is issue #1 by a mile. And whether Trump believes abortion should be ended or not, at least with him...

Two of my neighbors just put Trump signs in their yard yesterday. The part that baffles me is that they choose now to put the signs in their yard? I thought this is when people would be pulling sings OUT of their yard and these two old cranks are just now putting them IN their yard?