Ran a 10k - Official Thread (17 Viewers)

[gianmarco]

Mac - you gonna tell us what happened on Sunday or what? 

Yeah, I've been patiently waiting. 

 

[The Iguana]

They seem to run them often but anyone that wants a noxgear lighted vest, they are running a deal now. 39.95 verses normal 69.95. 

 

[fred_1_15301]

In 2012ish I tried running for the first time, and after about 2-3 weeks I got bursitis in my knee.  Didn't know what it was when it happened, but it came about almost exactly the same way you described.  Felt it near the end of a run, went out again anyway the next day, and ran through the pain.  Then I was visibly limping for a week, even when walking.

Took a whole weekend in bed to try to get it to recover, and it didn't.  Finally went to the doctor, and he diagnosed bursitis and prescribed a mega dose of Naproxen.  

One pill and a sleep later, and it was fixed.  Sure, I filled the toilet with blood the next morning as well (my gut doesn't like high-dose NSAIDs) but at least my knee was good.

No idea if your issue is the same, but just in case it is, I thought I would share.  It would be four more years before I would even try running again.

Oof - now this is a scary thought.  The pain in my knee has dissipated almost immediately after I stopped running.  I'm going to take the next 2 days off and try out the exercises that Jshare posted.  I'll then start running again but at a slightly slower pace.  If I'm still having the issues, probably time to get it checked out.   

 

[Brony]

Oof - now this is a scary thought.  The pain in my knee has dissipated almost immediately after I stopped running.  I'm going to take the next 2 days off and try out the exercises that Jshare posted.  I'll then start running again but at a slightly slower pace.  If I'm still having the issues, probably time to get it checked out.   

You might want to reference this. 

 

[bushdocda]

You might want to reference this. 

New running mantra “Safe pain”

 

[El Floppo]

I’m just talking shooting a few hoops by myself at very low intensity.  Not playing in a game

Game over man...game ####### over. You're doomed.

 

[El Floppo]

Been checking the NYRR site what feels like every hour- no update since the last thing I posted (on the 6th) saying still on.

Packet pickup starts Thursday. I'm sure they're waiting until then to tell us...even though we already know :(

 

[El Floppo]

Did a 3m recovery run this morning. 

m1- 9:32

m2- 8:02 (race pace-ish)

m3- 9:01

Was pleased that I slowed that last mile and didn't keep pushing like I have been.

 

[gianmarco]

Saw a good article this morning that I sent to my better half.  Has a lot of the things we've gone over and what she's been seeing now.

After reading it, she was asking me about leg strengthening exercises to help get her prepared for 26.2.  I said I'd ask here.

I know a few of you are big fans of the single leg RDL (Romanian dead lift) which she actually already does.  I think the Russian speed lunges were another IIRC.  Anything else she should consider trying to add or do to prepare over the next 3 months? 

 

[gruecd]

Saw a good article this morning that I sent to my better half.  Has a lot of the things we've gone over and what she's been seeing now.

After reading it, she was asking me about leg strengthening exercises to help get her prepared for 26.2.  I said I'd ask here.

I know a few of you are big fans of the single leg RDL (Romanian dead lift) which she actually already does.  I think the Russian speed lunges were another IIRC.  Anything else she should consider trying to add or do to prepare over the next 3 months? 

Lots of core work (front and back).  Super important for keeping good form late in the race when you're tired.

 

[El Floppo]

This is old stuff, but one of my favorite drills was always out and backs with increased distance/same time each out and back. Add 10-20 squats in between and woolaow- strengthening.

 

[MAC_32]

Mac - you gonna tell us what happened on Sunday or what? 

Later this week. Last 2 days have included dental work, so I have less time to do what I usually have to do. 

 

[MAC_32]

Saw a good article this morning that I sent to my better half.  Has a lot of the things we've gone over and what she's been seeing now.

After reading it, she was asking me about leg strengthening exercises to help get her prepared for 26.2.  I said I'd ask here.

I know a few of you are big fans of the single leg RDL (Romanian dead lift) which she actually already does.  I think the Russian speed lunges were another IIRC.  Anything else she should consider trying to add or do to prepare over the next 3 months? 

You know how I feel about strength training, but if she hasn't been doing any now ain't the time to start. After she qualifies for Boston then recovers that would be a good time, before starting to ramp up for Boston. 

 

[Juxtatarot]

Lots of core work (front and back).  Super important for keeping good form late in the race when you're tired.

Yes, most everything I've read is core strength is more important for most of us marathoners than leg strength.

 

[Juxtatarot]

Also, I figure if my skinny bird legs can make it through a marathon, other people's legs should be fine.

 

[gruecd]

You know how I feel about strength training, but if she hasn't been doing any now ain't the time to start. After she qualifies for Boston then recovers that would be a good time, before starting to ramp up for Boston. 

She's got 19+ weeks before her marathon.  I think she'll be just fine mixing a little strength/core work into the routine.

 

[MAC_32]

She's got 19+ weeks before her marathon.  I think she'll be just fine mixing a little strength/core work into the routine.

Nothing she hasn't already been doing. It's best implemented during the work before the work phase. 

 

[pbm107]

I haven’t been running recently and been away from this thread for a while because of it. I thought I’d give an update as to why.

After my 5 miler a couple weeks ago my wife was complaining that I was wheezing in my sleep. She convinced me that I should see a doctor and I agreed since I hadn’t seen one in a few years. I went into that appointment thinking that perhaps I had developed exercise induced asthma. She checked out my lungs and she thought they sounded fine, but agreed to prescribe me an inhaler. She agreed to refer me for a Pulmonary Function Test which is scheduled for tomorrow.

A couple of days later I decided to try a workout on the track and I bailed after the start of my 2nd interval. 

I skipped my run on Friday for the first time found it difficult to breathe during the day and started with a dry cough. Saturday morning I woke up and I really was struggling breathing, my wife went out and picked up my inhaler and %SpO2 tester from CVS. The first %SpO2 measurement I took was 90% and everyone else in my family measured at 99%. The inhaler helped but I was taking one hit every 4 hours per my doctors direction. It was a real struggle the last hour between hits, it was exhausting not being able to take a deep breath.

Late Saturday night my wife suggested that I take two hits every 4 hours in attempt to get my %SpO2 over 95%. I have been much more comfortable since then. 

I should note that I haven’t had a fever throughout this but for piece of mind I went to the ER 3:00 AM Monday morning hoping that they test me for Covid-19. They gave me a nebulizer and a chest X-ray which ruled out pneumonia. Since I didn’t have a fever and I wasn’t out of the country they didn’t test me. The nurse said that she didn’t think they had tests.

I don’t know what I have but I have to use an inhaler every 4 hours to get through the day, and I don’t have a history of asthma. I haven’t been in work since Friday. Hopefully the Pulmonary Function Test tomorrow will provide me with some answers. I don’t expect to be running anytime soon as carrying the laundry up the stairs is exhausting.

 

[ChiefD]

I haven’t been running recently and been away from this thread for a while because of it. I thought I’d give an update as to why.

After my 5 miler a couple weeks ago my wife was complaining that I was wheezing in my sleep. She convinced me that I should see a doctor and I agreed since I hadn’t seen one in a few years. I went into that appointment thinking that perhaps I had developed exercise induced asthma. She checked out my lungs and she thought they sounded fine, but agreed to prescribe me an inhaler. She agreed to refer me for a Pulmonary Function Test which is scheduled for tomorrow.

A couple of days later I decided to try a workout on the track and I bailed after the start of my 2nd interval. 

I skipped my run on Friday for the first time found it difficult to breathe during the day and started with a dry cough. Saturday morning I woke up and I really was struggling breathing, my wife went out and picked up my inhaler and %SpO2 tester from CVS. The first %SpO2 measurement I took was 90% and everyone else in my family measured at 99%. The inhaler helped but I was taking one hit every 4 hours per my doctors direction. It was a real struggle the last hour between hits, it was exhausting not being able to take a deep breath.

Late Saturday night my wife suggested that I take two hits every 4 hours in attempt to get my %SpO2 over 95%. I have been much more comfortable since then. 

I should note that I haven’t had a fever throughout this but for piece of mind I went to the ER 3:00 AM Monday morning hoping that they test me for Covid-19. They gave me a nebulizer and a chest X-ray which ruled out pneumonia. Since I didn’t have a fever and I wasn’t out of the country they didn’t test me. The nurse said that she didn’t think they had tests.

I don’t know what I have but I have to use an inhaler every 4 hours to get through the day, and I don’t have a history of asthma. I haven’t been in work since Friday. Hopefully the Pulmonary Function Test tomorrow will provide me with some answers. I don’t expect to be running anytime soon as carrying the laundry up the stairs is exhausting.

Dang man. Hope they figure out what is up and you feel better soon. 

 

[Juxtatarot]

@pbm107 Hoping everything turns out OK.  I know you have issues with allergies.  Although it's not allergy season, could it be something else you're allergic to?

 

[pbm107]

@pbm107 Hoping everything turns out OK.  I know you have issues with allergies.  Although it's not allergy season, could it be something else you're allergic to?

Thanks it is possible I am allergic to something, but it must be to something in my house since I have only left the house for a few hours since Friday afternoon.

 

[MAC_32]

@pbm107 Hoping everything turns out OK.  I know you have issues with allergies.  Although it's not allergy season, could it be something else you're allergic to?

Not that this is it, but allergy season is gonna have an early start this year. 

 

[gruecd]

We're scheduled to leave for Prague/Poland on April 30, but I'm 99.9% sure we're going to cancel.  I'm not afraid AT ALL of contracting the virus.  At the same time, I have ZERO desire to get quarantined for 2-3 weeks because I get the virus or because I travel to a place that gets added to the list of "at-risk" countries.  And my travel insurance specifically excludes epidemics.  FML.  Say bye-bye to a couple thousand bucks... 

 

[gruecd]

@pbm107 Hoping everything turns out OK.  I know you have issues with allergies.  Although it's not allergy season, could it be something else you're allergic to?

I was wondering the same.  My allergies have been bugging me the last couple of days.  Or maybe I just have a cold. 

Either way, hope you feel better soon, @pbm107!

 

[belljr]

i havent run in awhile..... i think my knee is seriously jacked up.

I played golf yesterday and it hurts bad today.  My lunch walk was pretty painful near the end

 

[gruecd]

Starting to think about just running the Milwaukee Marathon on April 11.  Having a hard time seeing the logic in driving 4-5 hours to Carmel to run a marathon when I'm not in PR shape (not to mention all the stupid roundabouts).  Milwaukee is a slower course with probably twice as much elevation gain, but I can sleep in my own bed the night before, and it's a short drive to the start line.  

 

[ChiefD]

Starting to think about just running the Milwaukee Marathon on April 11.  Having a hard time seeing the logic in driving 4-5 hours to Carmel to run a marathon when I'm not in PR shape (not to mention all the stupid roundabouts).  Milwaukee is a slower course with probably twice as much elevation gain, but I can sleep in my own bed the night before, and it's a short drive to the start line.  

Sorry to see all of your spring marathon plans are going up in smoke. Really, for you and anyone else here getting affected by this thing. 

Just flat out sucks. 

 

[El Floppo]

I was wondering the same.  My allergies have been bugging me the last couple of days.  Or maybe I just have a cold. 

Either way, hope you feel better soon, @pbm107!

YOU GOT THE BEER FLU

 

[Zasada]

We're scheduled to leave for Prague/Poland on April 30, but I'm 99.9% sure we're going to cancel.  I'm not afraid AT ALL of contracting the virus.  At the same time, I have ZERO desire to get quarantined for 2-3 weeks because I get the virus or because I travel to a place that gets added to the list of "at-risk" countries.  And my travel insurance specifically excludes epidemics.  FML.  Say bye-bye to a couple thousand bucks... 

By 30Apr, everyone in the US will have it and thus quarantines will be moot.  

 

[Zasada]

I haven’t been running recently and been away from this thread for a while because of it. I thought I’d give an update as to why.

I hope this is just a short-term thing, GB.  Seeing you on Strava every morning is like the sun rising in the east.  Can't wait until you kick this and can get back out there.  

But in the meantime, get yourself healthy.  Get caught up on reading or Game of Thrones.  

 

[tri-man 47]

Also, I figure if my skinny bird legs can make it through a marathon, other people's legs should be fine.

Anyone see the picture of old man (older than me) Gene Dykes in the recent Runners' World?  Now there's a man with skinny bird legs (arms too).  

@pbm107 - ugh!!!  And you've been running so well with great mileage.  Dammit.   

And @gruecd, sorry to hear that your travel/race plans are getting all messed up.

Finally, a "thanks" from me to the crowd -- the reminders about using the eccentric heel drops for my sore Achilles were spot on.     I had a normal 8 miler today, and I'll do the drops throughout the rest of the day and see how I feel tomorrow.

 

[Brony]

I haven’t been running recently and been away from this thread for a while because of it. I thought I’d give an update as to why.

After my 5 miler a couple weeks ago my wife was complaining that I was wheezing in my sleep. She convinced me that I should see a doctor and I agreed since I hadn’t seen one in a few years. I went into that appointment thinking that perhaps I had developed exercise induced asthma. She checked out my lungs and she thought they sounded fine, but agreed to prescribe me an inhaler. She agreed to refer me for a Pulmonary Function Test which is scheduled for tomorrow.

I don’t know what I have but I have to use an inhaler every 4 hours to get through the day, and I don’t have a history of asthma. I haven’t been in work since Friday. Hopefully the Pulmonary Function Test tomorrow will provide me with some answers. I don’t expect to be running anytime soon as carrying the laundry up the stairs is exhausting.

Don't stay up too late studying for that Pulmonary test.  

Also, hope you feel better soon and can get back out in this spring weather!

 

[gianmarco]

@pbm107....PM sent

 

[SayWhat?]

I haven’t been running recently and been away from this thread for a while because of it. I thought I’d give an update as to why.

Damn pbm, that sucks.  Certainly a bit unnerving too.  I hope this just clears up and you get back to normal.

We're scheduled to leave for Prague/Poland on April 30, but I'm 99.9% sure we're going to cancel.  I'm not afraid AT ALL of contracting the virus.  At the same time, I have ZERO desire to get quarantined for 2-3 weeks because I get the virus or because I travel to a place that gets added to the list of "at-risk" countries.  And my travel insurance specifically excludes epidemics.  FML.  Say bye-bye to a couple thousand bucks... 

This whole Coronavirus situation is a crapper.  I’d make the same decision you are, but that sucks.  Not only for the money lost, but also the experience.

i havent run in awhile..... i think my knee is seriously jacked up.

I played golf yesterday and it hurts bad today.  My lunch walk was pretty painful near the end

Get well belljr.

By 30Apr, everyone in the US will have it and thus quarantines will be moot.  

I don’t think we’ll all have it in two months, but I do think most anything involving masses of people scheduled over the next few months are likely canceled.  Exceptions limited to events with the largest financial ramifications.  This is going to suck very badly.
 

Western States nooooooooooooo!

 

[bushdocda]

@pbm107 #### man good luck getting a diagnosis and back to health. Scary. 
 

 

[JShare87]

Also, I figure if my skinny bird legs can make it through a marathon, other people's legs should be fine.

I’ve been learning (the hard way) that leg strength training aids more in staying healthy than anything else for runners. Just my own personal experience/opinion.

 

[gianmarco]

Thanks for the responses, guys.

She has already been doing yoga (they have it at her work) and some core stuff like planks. So she can get back to doing those.

Turns out she was also already doing the single leg RDLs (she didn't know what they were). So sounds like she should just keep doing what she's doing and don't add anything and should be good.

 

[MAC_32]

I’ve been learning (the hard way) that leg strength training aids more in staying healthy than anything else for runners. Just my own personal experience/opinion.

Strength training does not make you a better runner. It increases the probability you will continue to be a runner.

 

[MAC_32]

This was a topical subject for me today. I joined in this conversation during a break between sets of my own workout. I realized I'm entering the phase in training in which I'm just using weights to sustain health. So I audibled the plan on the fly and trimmed all exercises down a notch. I frequently find myself tapping out of strength work with about 6-8 weeks left before race day, so I'm trying to be smarter this time and keep it in the mix all the way to the final week.

So, thanks y'all.

 

[El Floppo]

I haven’t been running recently and been away from this thread for a while because of it. I thought I’d give an update as to why.

After my 5 miler a couple weeks ago my wife was complaining that I was wheezing in my sleep. She convinced me that I should see a doctor and I agreed since I hadn’t seen one in a few years. I went into that appointment thinking that perhaps I had developed exercise induced asthma. She checked out my lungs and she thought they sounded fine, but agreed to prescribe me an inhaler. She agreed to refer me for a Pulmonary Function Test which is scheduled for tomorrow.

A couple of days later I decided to try a workout on the track and I bailed after the start of my 2nd interval. 

I skipped my run on Friday for the first time found it difficult to breathe during the day and started with a dry cough. Saturday morning I woke up and I really was struggling breathing, my wife went out and picked up my inhaler and %SpO2 tester from CVS. The first %SpO2 measurement I took was 90% and everyone else in my family measured at 99%. The inhaler helped but I was taking one hit every 4 hours per my doctors direction. It was a real struggle the last hour between hits, it was exhausting not being able to take a deep breath.

Late Saturday night my wife suggested that I take two hits every 4 hours in attempt to get my %SpO2 over 95%. I have been much more comfortable since then. 

I should note that I haven’t had a fever throughout this but for piece of mind I went to the ER 3:00 AM Monday morning hoping that they test me for Covid-19. They gave me a nebulizer and a chest X-ray which ruled out pneumonia. Since I didn’t have a fever and I wasn’t out of the country they didn’t test me. The nurse said that she didn’t think they had tests.

I don’t know what I have but I have to use an inhaler every 4 hours to get through the day, and I don’t have a history of asthma. I haven’t been in work since Friday. Hopefully the Pulmonary Function Test tomorrow will provide me with some answers. I don’t expect to be running anytime soon as carrying the laundry up the stairs is exhausting.

Fwiw, I am a long time allergy/bronchial sufferer with a chronic cough. 

After many Dr visits where it was basically - tough luck- I saw a pulmonologist a couple years ago who said I had an asthmatic reactive cough. Prescribed Pulmicort steroid inhaler morning and night as a proactive combatant and another one in case the coughing got bad (like an attacks- which it did frequently).

The Pulmicort has been a life changer for me. And I'm hoping once you get the diagnosis and medication right, you'll be back up and attem.

 

[gruecd]

Let's say you were home quarantined.  You could still go outside and run, right?  Wouldn't seem to do any harm as long as you were running alone and never came within 6-10 feet of any other people....

Even if I had to do 1/2-mile loops around my subdivision, I couldn't see myself not running for any length of time...

 

[JShare87]

Really sorry to hear that, @pbm107. Forget running, I hope you figure this out and get healthy. 

 

[Zasada]

Let's say you were home quarantined.  You could still go outside and run, right?  Wouldn't seem to do any harm as long as you were running alone and never came within 6-10 feet of any other people....

Even if I had to do 1/2-mile loops around my subdivision, I couldn't see myself not running for any length of time...

At the time of day I run, I almost never see anybody, let alone come within reasonable proximity of them.  

I'd still run, provided that I felt up to it.

 

[gianmarco]

Let's say you were home quarantined.  You could still go outside and run, right?  Wouldn't seem to do any harm as long as you were running alone and never came within 6-10 feet of any other people....

Even if I had to do 1/2-mile loops around my subdivision, I couldn't see myself not running for any length of time...

Now let's say it was a constant 87 degrees outside.....

I'm pretty sure global warming is more likely to keep @gruecd from running than coronavirus.

 

[belljr]

Fwiw, I am a long time allergy/bronchial sufferer with a chronic cough. 

After many Dr visits where it was basically - tough luck- I saw a pulmonologist a couple years ago who said I had an asthmatic reactive cough. Prescribed Pulmicort steroid inhaler morning and night as a proactive combatant and another one in case the coughing got bad (like an attacks- which it did frequently).

The Pulmicort has been a life changer for me. And I'm hoping once you get the diagnosis and medication right, you'll be back up and attem.

I may need to go this route

 

[Zasada]

BMFs, any tips for running in the rain?  I figured that I'm going to have to nut-up and do this at some point here in DFW, and this Friday looks like a possibility, as well as next week.  I'm not talking about a drizzle (which I've done), but some serious Texas rain.

It is just as simple as "embrace the wet/suck", or is there gear I should get to make it suck less?  I've tried running in jackets before, but it doesn't last long.  Too hot.  Thinking about GTX shoes, but not sure if they're going to get soaked anyway, perhaps taking longer to do so.

I'll hang up and listen.

 

[ChiefD]

BMFs, any tips for running in the rain?  I figured that I'm going to have to nut-up and do this at some point here in DFW, and this Friday looks like a possibility, as well as next week.  I'm not talking about a drizzle (which I've done), but some serious Texas rain.

It is just as simple as "embrace the wet/suck", or is there gear I should get to make it suck less?  I've tried running in jackets before, but it doesn't last long.  Too hot.  Thinking about GTX shoes, but not sure if they're going to get soaked anyway, perhaps taking longer to do so.

I'll hang up and listen.

Wear what you normally wear.

Pack your toilet paper in a ziploc. ChiefD Approved.

 

[El Floppo]

BMFs, any tips for running in the rain?  I figured that I'm going to have to nut-up and do this at some point here in DFW, and this Friday looks like a possibility, as well as next week.  I'm not talking about a drizzle (which I've done), but some serious Texas rain.

It is just as simple as "embrace the wet/suck", or is there gear I should get to make it suck less?  I've tried running in jackets before, but it doesn't last long.  Too hot.  Thinking about GTX shoes, but not sure if they're going to get soaked anyway, perhaps taking longer to do so.

I'll hang up and listen.

Gear

I always run in a white cap- helps keep the sun and rain out of my face and eyes. Lightweight shell top is a good investment. But shorts, socks and shoes are going to get wet no matter what.

 

[MAC_32]

BMFs, any tips for running in the rain?  I figured that I'm going to have to nut-up and do this at some point here in DFW, and this Friday looks like a possibility, as well as next week.  I'm not talking about a drizzle (which I've done), but some serious Texas rain.

It is just as simple as "embrace the wet/suck", or is there gear I should get to make it suck less?  I've tried running in jackets before, but it doesn't last long.  Too hot.  Thinking about GTX shoes, but not sure if they're going to get soaked anyway, perhaps taking longer to do so.

I'll hang up and listen.

This is why I have so many pairs of shoes lying around. I just strap on an old pair and hope for the best. If I get soaked then immediately stuff them with crumbled up paper and put them next to a heat vent.

Clothes?   I don't avoid rain, but I try to avoid downpours. It's a game of probabilities, so it doesn't always pan out that way. But I probably only get a good soaking a couple times per year. And if there's any chance of one that I don't do a something of substance run that day. That way if it's that bad out then I'll just cut that day's run short knowing I'm not missing much. I don't wear anything different though. Just more liberal with the lube.

 

[JShare87]

BMFs, any tips for running in the rain?  I figured that I'm going to have to nut-up and do this at some point here in DFW, and this Friday looks like a possibility, as well as next week.  I'm not talking about a drizzle (which I've done), but some serious Texas rain.

It is just as simple as "embrace the wet/suck", or is there gear I should get to make it suck less?  I've tried running in jackets before, but it doesn't last long.  Too hot.  Thinking about GTX shoes, but not sure if they're going to get soaked anyway, perhaps taking longer to do so.

I'll hang up and listen.

This guy..... Mr. I run in frigid temps and make fun of the Florida guy for wearing gloves. “How do I deal with water drops falling from the sky?”