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No matter how light you go - wrt both quantity of reps and amount of weight. This happens every time. I did nothing more than document strength goals for the week once racing season ends - last month I titled each week 'ease into it,' 'undo whatever mistakes you made last week,' 'rebuild,' 'deload,' and 'okay now you are ready.'
And now it’s your turn! How’re you feeling going into your first 50M this weekend?
Good luck, @SteelCurtain! My only advice is to really take it easy those first 5.5 miles where you climb over 1,100 feet. Beyond that, it's really one of the easier ultra courses you're going to find. You'll do great.
Looking at the results you posted I'm gonna guess you haven't A raced Boston. Me personally, I'd throw caution to the wind and make that my goal. Weather be damned. Carmel will still be there March 2020.
Except that anything much over 50° and my performance starts to suffer. And if past experience is any indication, the odds of it being unseasonably warm are much greater than the odds of it being unseasonably cold.
I think I'm going to be in the market for a new watch soon. Tried to make my apple watch be the work horse, but I can't give up Garmin Connect.
Not going to strangle you
I don't remember seeing them either. But then there's only a couple on my infrequent routes.
That only works if you don’t accidentally race/press/push on raceday to aggravate or worsen something. If you’re leaning towards the race for the experience, I’d get in an easy test prior in to see how things go but given you’re asking and haven’t just tried an easy run yet, maybe give it another few days.Not going to strangle you
I asked the question so I'm certainly open to advice, but I'm just not ready to pack it in unless my body is telling me to. I'm ok running these races without full training. Even before the injury, I wasn't planning on doing specific training for either and was just going to bump up miles and do base training. I'm still planning on doing that. Other than those 2, I don't have any races planned for the next few months and the plan will still be to rebuild a base and then train for whatever I decide to go after next.
As long as I'm not hurting and I'm not hurting myself, I plan on running the race next week. So, forgetting the "bad idea to run it question", assuming I do, and assuming I'm ok not running it with any significant prep, should I try and get a few runs in before and test things out or should I give it a full extra week to make extra sure things are healing well?
2:48?!?!
That’s called foreshadowing. #2019
This always seems to be my issue. Throughout my recent injuries and visits to the doctors, it seems that they just do not really care. I speak about my running and its importance in my life, but like you said, they do not seem to care. This is the main reason I brush most of my injuries off and try to push through them. Visits to the doctor seem to do a few things. They cost money, waste time, and deliver no help. I know some of you have the opposite experience and that is amazing. With that being said, nice to hear you’re doing well. I may try to get through a few miles in the morning.
Did this doctor have a sports medicine focus? I’ve gone to two doctors for running related injuries and both seemed to care about me and my running. I know two is a small sample size but I think there is something to that.
I’ve only gone to PT/chiro types for any issues, docs just tell you to stop running.
Same. And I wouldnt ever ask one but everyone I've ever talked to that has said exactly that.
She's done a marathon herself, and worked as an event physician at the Chicago and NY marathons and Lake Placid Ironman. So her lack of interest baffled me ...and ticked me off. I tried to explain my winter cross-training and plans to gear up marathon training late in 2019, etc. Her body language was like "yeah, OK, whatever ...time to go."
I wish I could say I'm super excited for it. I'm going to run it but my motivation is lacking a bit. There are so many unknowns that I just haven't adequately prepared for. I haven't run much on trails. I haven't practiced my nutrition. I just bought a pack (off Amazon...to be delivered TODAY!) which will likely be worn once for a 4 mile run before race day.
I'm getting excited for this thing. Going to be fun watching what you can do.I wish I could say I'm super excited for it. I'm going to run it but my motivation is lacking a bit. There are so many unknowns that I just haven't adequately prepared for. I haven't run much on trails. I haven't practiced my nutrition. I just bought a pack (off Amazon...to be delivered TODAY!) which will likely be worn once for a 4 mile run before race day.
All that being said, I think my legs have it in them and that's hopefully the most important. My goal is to try to negative split this race, which sounds crazy, but the hardest part is the first 16 miles. Then its easier.
Weather looks decent which is good (low of 30...high of 47. Sunny). I'll probably wear a few throwaway things for the first 5-10 miles until the air temp rises and my body temp goes up a little.
I originally was focused on a time goal of 8-10 hours, but I think I need to back off of that and just run fun and easy. Let's see where I'm at 30 miles in. I'm now really wanting to negative split this even if that means I'm over 10 hours. Again, my first ultra so this is uncharted territory for me.
Appreciate you asking and I'll post tracking information on Friday at some point.
Taper for 50 miler sucks just as much as tapering for 26.2.
I'm sure once I get on the ground, I'll feel better about it all. I'm just really nervous.
Don’t be. You easily have the base and experience for this distance. I love the “throw time goals out and run fun and easy” line of thinking, because IMO if you take that approach you’ll more often than not run a time that you’re happy with. I’d recommend running the first ~25-30 miles comfortably and reassess from there. That’s still a lot of race remaining and logically that might align with your negative split plan if you feel great and want to really start pushing during the back half.
Yep - running vs. racing. Nothing wrong with running it if you're feeling healthy. But there's that switch we don't control in our brains that doesn't know the difference between racing and running when in an actual race you don't intend to race. If you're questioning whether to do any runs before or not then I think that answers the second question for you. But that doesn't sound like the case. So just start moving. Without regard to the race - tune up, prep, recovery, etc. Just start buidling the base and add in the races as you go - just don't actually race them.
I bet you'll be googling what your next 50 mile race by lunchtime on Sunday. Good luck!
You'll do great. Granted, I only did the first 27 miles, but I did cover the entire "hard" part, and it wasn't that bad. Have fun with the switchbacks coming down off the AT.
And yes, I did stop my Garmin.
(Checks calendar to make sure it’s not year end)
Stretch and ice it! (Not at the same time.)
Well, equivocal news. Just went out to try and run before we get a few inches of snow tonight. Earlier today went to that StretchU place again and had no pain and he even worked on that achilles with the vibrating massager and it didn't bother me one bit (could barely touch it earlier last week still). So, feeling good and 35 degrees outside, perfect chance to try and get out and do a mile or 2.
Started running and felt good without feeling any discomfort. Until about 1/10th to 2/10ths of a mile and then I knew it was there. It wasn't a pain but it was a tightness that felt familiar a few days ago. So, I shut it down after 1/2 mile.
I don't have any pain right now. Feels back to normal. Tomorrow will be telling for sure. When I ran my 6 miles the day after I tweaked it, while it wasn't bad, it certainly hurt more than it did today. The next day I knew something was wrong and it was much, much worse. If I can wake up tomorrow without pain, then I'll feel good about running in the race next week. If it's hurting at all, I'm going to bag the race and look to next month.
Either way, I'm not going to run anymore for the next week. If it feels good tomorrow, I'm going to let it fully heal heading into Thanksgiving and just have fun.
Been doing that the last 2 weeks.....no plan on stopping
Went for a run over lunch today. Was humming along and feeling good....until I tripped on an uneven sidewalk and ate ####. :( I'm fine...but I ripped a big hole in the palm of my good running gloves. New $35 pair on the way from Amazon.
Naturally it happened right near an intersection, so a bunch of people saw it happen.
