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MAC_32
Footballguy
I'm surprised it took you that long to respond - figured you'd have an instinctual alarm go off in your head in the middle of the night.
someone prefers running in this slop? Murder. Death. Kill.
tri-man 47
Footballguy
Only a runner ...
Before leaving the fancy Westin in National Harbor outside of D.C., I approached the front desk and talked to two staff members, both dressed in suits and seeming to be managers of some sort. I handed them a few squares of toilet paper from my hotel room and a few squares that I'd pulled from the porta-potty a half-mile down the riverside trail from the hotel. They were cautiously confident in picking out their TP, but my point hit home - their thin, single-ply TP was virtually the same as run-of-the-mill porta-potty TP. I.e., as a well-appointed hotel, they could do better than to cheap-out on their TP.
Before leaving the fancy Westin in National Harbor outside of D.C., I approached the front desk and talked to two staff members, both dressed in suits and seeming to be managers of some sort. I handed them a few squares of toilet paper from my hotel room and a few squares that I'd pulled from the porta-potty a half-mile down the riverside trail from the hotel. They were cautiously confident in picking out their TP, but my point hit home - their thin, single-ply TP was virtually the same as run-of-the-mill porta-potty TP. I.e., as a well-appointed hotel, they could do better than to cheap-out on their TP.
gianmarco
Footballguy
I complain about the heat but, like you, I far prefer this. It feels like a struggle, but I can just throw clothes on and get it done.
I'm surprised it took you that long to respond - figured you'd have an instinctual alarm go off in your head in the middle of the night.
someone prefers running in this slop? Murder. Death. Kill.
Winter running is just plain miserable. It hurts. Ice and snow are the worst. I have no desire to go out in it.
The only benefit is racing in cooler temps. Otherwise, gimme the heat over cold 10 days out of 10.
MAC_32
Footballguy
I'm curious how much you'll adapt this winter, especially since you're running further now. When you only run for 30 mins and it's 20 degrees outside you're only comfortable for about 15 mins. But when you run for an hour you're comfortable for 45 mins. I think mentally that's a massive difference amidst the bitter cold in January.
I've probably written it dozens of times, but it's more the wind than anything for me. It takes some extreme temperatures for me to say nah I'm good if the wind is calm that day. But there is no escaping the howling when she's angry. That's what mentally f's with me. The first few times I tell myself to just run into it until you can't take anymore then turn around. But kinda like the night running failure this summer there's an expiration date on how long I'll deal with it.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Good stuff. We now have some new lexicon to add to the thread verbiage:Thanks!
I'm sponsoring the finish line at Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon on October 7. They made the announcement yesterday on their Facebook page.
"Finishing strong."
Eating lunch right now. Carb loading for this weekend and I'll be finishing this meal strong.
SteelCurtain
Footballguy
It hasn't resolved itself, however it does feel like the more intense pain sessions are pretty rare. It is commonplace for me to be uncomfortable/achy in my first couple miles of my runs and then the pain to be pretty dull the rest of the run. In some ways, I think I have gotten used to the discomfort. The worst is when I sneeze or cough hard....it feels like the pain shoots down to my groin and rectum. Not pleasant at all.ChiefD said:
After a hard run and then I sit for a couple hours (driving, watching a game, reading a book, etc), I can barely walk until I get it stretched out some.
A friend of mine had surgery done on their sports hernia and they said its better but far from totally resolved.
My stance has been to just manage it right now. Its not getting worse. I don't take surgery lightly and don't want to launch into it unless its absolutely necessary.
(Just for clarity, sports hernia is a tear in a muscle.....its not like a traditional hernia. @gianmarco may be able to shed more light -- of course, I don't know too many 4 year olds that have a sports hernia.
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ChiefD
Footballguy
Try and choose different routes if you can.
If there is a north wind, I always run east/west or west/east, and usually pick a route with lots of houses on the north side of the street where the sidewalk is. Mitigates the wind a fair amount, and what little wind to get is a cross wind and not right into my jimmy johns.
Same with east/west/south winds. Just try and plan a route that minimizes those.
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gruecd
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
Amazingly, that verbiage was all them. They wrote it without even running it past me. Thankfully it was good.Good stuff. We now have some new lexicon to add to the thread verbiage:
"Finishing strong."
Eating lunch right now. Carb loading for this weekend and I'll be finishing this meal strong.
gianmarco
Footballguy
A traditional hernia is a weakening/opening in muscle that allows contents to pop through.
If I'm not mistaken, a sports hernia isn't quite that. It involves the lower abdomen and there's some tearing/weakening but not an actual opening. It still causes pain. It can turn into an actual hernia if it opens enough and things can move through, but I don't think that's present most of the time. It's not really a "true" hernia.
If I'm not mistaken, a sports hernia isn't quite that. It involves the lower abdomen and there's some tearing/weakening but not an actual opening. It still causes pain. It can turn into an actual hernia if it opens enough and things can move through, but I don't think that's present most of the time. It's not really a "true" hernia.
gruecd
Footballguy
Agreed about the wind. That's why I'm so thankful to have the Pettit. Yeah, it sucks doing 55 laps to finish a 15-miler, but it's way better than battling an ice storm. Plus the female speed skaters aren't bad to look at in their spandex, either....
ChiefD
Footballguy
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
It's fine but I was wondering what "finishing strong" in financial planning really means? Seems like the better strategy is to Sand the start.
tri-man 47
Footballguy
Just wait til I get my grandson on an early training program.(Just for clarity, sports hernia is a tear in a muscle.....its not like a traditional hernia. @gianmarco may be able to shed more light -- of course, I don't know too many 4 year olds that have a sports hernia.
And FYI, after seeing recent 32 week pics of pending grandson #2, the extreme clarity of the ultrasound images they create nowadays is a little bit eerie. Wow.
SteelCurtain
Footballguy
RACE REPORT -- Lighthouse 5K in Corolla, NC
On an early morning run family trip to Outer Banks, I saw a race flyer for a Wednesday AM 5K. Knowing it was tailored for tourists....and I was a tourist, I decided to sign up. My 10 year old son said he wanted to run as well. In addition, a family of three boys (ages 16, 13, 11) who we share a house with wanted to run as well.
The morning of the race, it was not a traditional start as all the kids were running late so we didn't arrive until 20 minutes before race time. We all needed to still register as well. Fortunately, things went pretty quickly. I agreed to run the race t-shirts back to the car (less than 1/2 mile round trip). Found a bathroom to take care of some final business. Although I didn't have a traditional warmup, it was warm and toasty with an announced heat index of 104 so I was somewhat warm just standing.
I slipped in around the 4th row near the start. My 10 year old son wanted to run solo so I was going to see what my legs and heart could handle in the heat. My PR was safe at 19:26. In my head, I was hoping for 20-21 minutes. We were off quickly and I tried to settle into a pace that was comfortably uncomfortable knowing the heat was creeping. Within the first 1/2 mile, the heat was clear and I was sweating like crazy. I got through mile 1 at 6:50.
The course was an out and back, so I shortly saw the leaders coming back. In some of the 5K's I run, I really enjoy the out and backs as you get to see every person in the entire race. I made it to the turnaround. I grabbed two waters. One I threw over my head to provide temporary cooling. The other I carried for my son to give him when I saw him. Around the 2 mile mark I saw my son and handed off the water to him. Unfortunately, our transition was poor and he dropped it. So I carried it that whole time to just have it left on the sidewalk....lol. Mile 2 for me was 7:03. A bit slower partially due to the turnaround as well as carrying the water.
The last mile, I was focused on trying to catch the 16 year old who was staying at our house. He runs cross country for his high school and can run a 18 minute 5K. I could see I was gaining on him slowly but surely. At about 2.75 miles, I caught him. I expected him to kick it into another gear when he saw me, but he didn't adjust his pace. Afterwards he told me he went out too fast, completely overheated and didn't have anything but a death march in him to the finish line. Mile 3 was 6:52. I finished strong with a 5:45 pace for the last 0.1 miles.
Finished 21:19
AG 2/26 -- missed first place by 0.8 seconds! Less than a freakin second! I could have definitely run faster!
Overall 19/369 -- top 5.1%
Overall, pleased with my effort. Didn't do the 20-21 minute range, but the heat was stifling, didn't have a normal warmup and I carried that water for my son, so I'm not complaining one bit.
Post race, I ran to meet up with my 10 year old running his first 5K. Pleased to meet him at just before the 2.5 mile mark and he was still running. He ran the whole way in and finished around 35:30. Most importantly, he had fun and said he wanted to run another race sometime soon. That part made my day!
On an early morning run family trip to Outer Banks, I saw a race flyer for a Wednesday AM 5K. Knowing it was tailored for tourists....and I was a tourist, I decided to sign up. My 10 year old son said he wanted to run as well. In addition, a family of three boys (ages 16, 13, 11) who we share a house with wanted to run as well.
The morning of the race, it was not a traditional start as all the kids were running late so we didn't arrive until 20 minutes before race time. We all needed to still register as well. Fortunately, things went pretty quickly. I agreed to run the race t-shirts back to the car (less than 1/2 mile round trip). Found a bathroom to take care of some final business. Although I didn't have a traditional warmup, it was warm and toasty with an announced heat index of 104 so I was somewhat warm just standing.
I slipped in around the 4th row near the start. My 10 year old son wanted to run solo so I was going to see what my legs and heart could handle in the heat. My PR was safe at 19:26. In my head, I was hoping for 20-21 minutes. We were off quickly and I tried to settle into a pace that was comfortably uncomfortable knowing the heat was creeping. Within the first 1/2 mile, the heat was clear and I was sweating like crazy. I got through mile 1 at 6:50.
The course was an out and back, so I shortly saw the leaders coming back. In some of the 5K's I run, I really enjoy the out and backs as you get to see every person in the entire race. I made it to the turnaround. I grabbed two waters. One I threw over my head to provide temporary cooling. The other I carried for my son to give him when I saw him. Around the 2 mile mark I saw my son and handed off the water to him. Unfortunately, our transition was poor and he dropped it. So I carried it that whole time to just have it left on the sidewalk....lol. Mile 2 for me was 7:03. A bit slower partially due to the turnaround as well as carrying the water.
The last mile, I was focused on trying to catch the 16 year old who was staying at our house. He runs cross country for his high school and can run a 18 minute 5K. I could see I was gaining on him slowly but surely. At about 2.75 miles, I caught him. I expected him to kick it into another gear when he saw me, but he didn't adjust his pace. Afterwards he told me he went out too fast, completely overheated and didn't have anything but a death march in him to the finish line. Mile 3 was 6:52. I finished strong with a 5:45 pace for the last 0.1 miles.
Finished 21:19
AG 2/26 -- missed first place by 0.8 seconds! Less than a freakin second! I could have definitely run faster!
Overall 19/369 -- top 5.1%
Overall, pleased with my effort. Didn't do the 20-21 minute range, but the heat was stifling, didn't have a normal warmup and I carried that water for my son, so I'm not complaining one bit.
Post race, I ran to meet up with my 10 year old running his first 5K. Pleased to meet him at just before the 2.5 mile mark and he was still running. He ran the whole way in and finished around 35:30. Most importantly, he had fun and said he wanted to run another race sometime soon. That part made my day!
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ChiefD
Footballguy
JAA
Footballguy
Knee felt ok today on a longer ride. Went with the wife in the morning so it was nice and slow.
Tomorrow is AM swim and i will try a harder noon run. I need to get some miles in to know if the knee will hold up.
I should be getting my garmin sometime next week. Im lost without it :embarassed:
Tomorrow is AM swim and i will try a harder noon run. I need to get some miles in to know if the knee will hold up.
I should be getting my garmin sometime next week. Im lost without it :embarassed:
Brony
Footballguy
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
Any of you fellas near Swoope, VA, and interested in crewing or pacing at a 100 miler? There are 5 spots left in the Grindstone 100 miler, a Hardrock and Western States qualifier that starts at 6:00 PM on Friday, October 5th.
As much as I've been wallowing this week in the pits of self doubt, despair, pizza, and chocolate cake, I'm thinking maybe the best thing to do would be to get right back on the horse, errrrrr, trail, and try and reverse this negative mojo post haste.
As much as I've been wallowing this week in the pits of self doubt, despair, pizza, and chocolate cake, I'm thinking maybe the best thing to do would be to get right back on the horse, errrrrr, trail, and try and reverse this negative mojo post haste.
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ChiefD
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
ChiefD
Footballguy
I chose to say #### it last night and drink beer and watch football.
It was much better.
bushdocda
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
ChiefD
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
60/60 here. The temperature is fine, but it was like running through a swamp. Gross. 43 days until the first day of fall, but who's counting...
ChiefD
Footballguy
ChiefD
Footballguy
Yeah, we had a break in the weather yesterday. At 3:00 it was just stifling outside. At 5 when I got home the humidity dropped significantly.I'm salivating at this dew point - it's actually falling
73/72 at sunrise and 80/64 at my afternoon run time then...75/60 give or take the next 3 days
I think I may actually be about the same as you tomorrow morning when I run: forecast is 72/66. I'll take that.
gruecd
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
I start training with my coach on Monday. He told me to just do 12 tomorrow because he's gonna have me doing 19 next weekend. Just got an email from him: "would keep the 12 under wraps a bit with pace/effort...since it will be humid and since AUG 13 and AUG 20 weeks will be BIG training weeks."
Nothing like jumping right into the deep end...
Nothing like jumping right into the deep end...
SteelCurtain
Footballguy
Tried to do a 6x800 speed workout in the middle of the day in the Outer Banks, NC. With a suck index near 160 and full on vacation drinking and diet, i got out there and absolutely fell apart. Cut my losses after 4x800. I’ll try again next week.
Major props to @JShare87, @ChiefD, @Osaurus, @gianmarco, @-OZ-, @Sand, and others who regularly train all summer in this heat. Loving vacation but ready to get back to dew points that are below 72.
Major props to @JShare87, @ChiefD, @Osaurus, @gianmarco, @-OZ-, @Sand, and others who regularly train all summer in this heat. Loving vacation but ready to get back to dew points that are below 72.
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Osaurus
Footballguy
Not doing much right now, but props to all of you who do it. I have to get out tomorrow morning by 8 if I want to run. Otherwise I have to wait until 7:30 or later at night. I’ve been going to the gym more as it’s not time-specific. Need to get my ### back in running shape by September 30th for my 10k. It was the first 10k I ever did and it was hot and humid and awful all around. This year is my attempt to write this wrong.
Did you get the HRM yet?
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SteelCurtain
Footballguy
I get home on Sunday and will pick up held mail on Monday. I’ll definitely let you know!
Osaurus
Footballguy
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
I may have done so last night.gruecd said:
It's a good thing I did, as I just checked and it's now full. I told Heather I was "thinking about it", I'll ease her into the reality of me flying across the country to have a crack at another 100 miler.I can pull out by Sept 1st and get half my entry fee back. So that gives me a couple of weeks to make sure my body is in position to put in a good, albeit compressed, training block. I think it is - after all I trained for 100 miles and "only" did 52. Started today with an easy 5 mile, 1000' hike with the pup.
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Brony
Footballguy
Very cool to hear that you are jumping right back on this horse and trying to conquer this at the expense of flying across the country!!I may have done so last night.
I can pull out by Sept 1st and get half my entry fee back. So that gives me a couple of weeks to make sure my body is in position to put in a good, albeit compressed, training block. I think it is - after all I trained for 100 miles and "only" did 52. Started today with an easy 5 mile, 1000' hike with the pup.
JShare87
Footballguy
Yep. I honestly don’t even put any thought into anymore. I made a promise to you bros that I wouldn’t complain about the heat when I was running in 40 degree weather and acting like a little b*tch about it. I’m cool with the heat. 5 am with 75 degrees and 100% humidity no matter what, so there’s no point in checking or worrying anymore until around Thanksgiving.Osaurus said:
gianmarco
Footballguy
The smoothie? Banana/strawberry?Muscle milk
I have them after every run. Sooooooooo good.
bushdocda
Footballguy
Not today, just grabbed choco and vanilla from wawa last night rolling into the beach.
ChiefD
Footballguy
92 hours in an 8 hour day is brutal for sure.Wel the Superior Hiking Trail just ate me up and spit me out. ####### ####. Talk about demoralizing.
Day 1: 18 miles, 3600 feet gain, 92 hours on the trail
Day 2: TBD (trying not to bail the #### out of here)
Get back out there you BMF.
Well it felt like I was out there that long.
I knew it wasn’t going to be a great experience two miles in. I’ve been intermittent fasting until lunch time and forgot all about eating something before my run, so my last food was at 5pm last night. Realized that error at mile two. Though I had Tailwind and gels with on my run, I think 19 hours without food with 18 miles on a brutal section of this trail mixed in was just too much. As least that’s how I’m rationalizing what might have been my most mentally challenging run ever (well, besides the ball chafage thing last year).
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