LOL - I’ve been waiting for you to hit me up. I follow all Atlanta and Georgia Tech teams so I may as well just punch myself in the nuts every morning and just skip the games.@AAABatteries - Are you a Braves fan, too? Interested in having to sending me some more liquor?
Awesome. Our teams are polar opposites. Brewers' top-3 starters all have ERAs in the 2s, but team hasn't been able to hit its way out of a paper bag lately. Braves' pitching is OK, but your guys can mash. Strength versus strength. Braves have more momentum, but Brewers are more well-rested after not playing a meaningful game in 2-3 weeks. Should be fun.LOL - I’ve been waiting for you to hit me up. I follow all Atlanta and Georgia Tech teams so I may as well just punch myself in the nuts every morning and just skip the games.
Sure - let’s do it.
Do you think the cushioning in the Alphaflys might result in less impact on the joints than a normal shoe? We usually think of race shoes being worse than trainers in this regard but your comments have me wondering.I tried out the Alphaflys for the first time this morning for my 600s. I didn't like how they felt during my warmup and they were very loud. When it was interval time I was sold within a few strides, I've put in a lot of work over the past 11 days so I had tired legs going into this, but I was able to get through this fairly comfortably and I am sure the shoes helped. For the cool down miles and put my Ghosts on and it felt like I was running almost barefoot being so much closer to the ground.
I get to try these things for real on Sunday for the Broad Street Run, unfortunately the suck index will be around 120. It will be a challenge to get in the miles the next two weeks with Broad Street this week and Bourbon Chase next week.
I have only run 6 miles in them, so I am far from an expert. I thought this was interesting:"Do you think the cushioning in the Alphaflys might result in less impact on the joints than a normal shoe? We usually think of race shoes being worse than trainers in this regard but your comments have me wondering.
I'll try one pair, but only if I can give you some money for them.I have a few pairs of Alphaflys if anyone wants to try them out. They are used and size 12.
If it'll make you feel better, you can give me money for his shoes.I'll try one pair, but only if I can give you some money for them.
This is true. And running warm-up/cool-down miles feels odd as well. But when pushing the pace? Ooooh. so nice and seemingly effortless.don't be surprised if they feel uncomfortable standing still in them.
I have a few pairs of Alphaflys if anyone wants to try them out. They are used and size 12.
Same.I'll try one pair, but only if I can give you some money for them.
...people are young and fit here making great use of the climate, locale and athletic apparel.
Brings new meaning to the cornhole these guys are gonna have in Indy.Lotta guys with big ...feet here.
So far I've got:Has someone already compiled a list of everyone running Indy? I'm not gonna be able to stick around long after the race (catching a flight to KC for Packers/Chiefs the next day that just got moved up from 7:11 to 3:46pm), but I think it would be cool if we could all get together for dinner on Friday. Once I get a head count, I can make a reservation for everyone who'd like to join. Let me know.
He’s uploaded rides to Strava but not runs. He doesn’t appear to be in training.PS: Anybody hear anything from @Harris lately? Wasn't he planning on running, too?
@ChiefD?So far I've got:
Me & my buddy
@pbm107 & his sister
Mr. & Mrs. @gianmarco
@Juxtatarot
@bushdocda
@The Iguana(maybe +1)
@SteelCurtain
@Zasada (tentative)
I'm gonna call tomorrow at try to make a reservation somewhere (hopefully Iozzo's) for 12 people at 6pm.
PS: Anybody hear anything from @Harris lately? Wasn't he planning on running, too?
Do you trust your heart rate monitor that much? Mine seems off a lot. I don’t think it is me. Maybe test the old fashioned way. I also like to take note of my breathing since they should be related.I'm not getting an official diagnosis, but I'm almost certain I've been dealing with elevated cortisol and it's caused my recent issues. To reiterate what I wrote before, I think I stopped myself before I went over the edge with my training but I certainly went (a nudge?) too far. More to it but one example is while my HR on workouts hasn't been a big issue my recovery has. Earlier September my recovery pace was getting to the low 8's with HR's around 130. Lately those recovery's have been quite a bit slower and I've had issues keeping my HR below 140. My right calf has been sore for several days, left calf worse, right hammy's not happy, and I noticed a bruise on my abdomen this morning. Early stages of taper madness? Sure, but there's more going on than just that.
I think work stress has been the primary trigger, but for all intents and purposes the cause doesn't matter...as long as I don't let it happen again. Point is, it happened and now I need to deal with it. I've already punted today's workout and am undecided about Thursday. If my HR is behaving then I may go more distance than a recovery today, but that'll be a decision for mile 4. So, any suggestions? literature? I'm not in a panic about being ready to race later this month, but rather want to make the appropriate adjustments now to ensure that I am.
At any one moment in time, no. As an aggregate picture, yes. I have felt consistently horrible during this high stress period at work. When I go out to run that feeling sustains for some period of time - whether it's 5 or 15 minutes. Some days I don't break through that fog and shut it down early while others I seem to run out the stress and finish much better than I started. There's been a strong correlation between my aHR and these good vs bad days.Do you trust your heart rate monitor that much? Mine seems off a lot. I don’t think it is me. Maybe test the old fashioned way. I also like to take note of my breathing since they should be related.
I wish I could. Not in any condition to run the half and there is too much going on right now in my household.Boooooooo.
Come on out and join the party!
Can't hook up a few sprinklers to a timer?4. Re-seeded my lawn so I have to find time every day to water that. Sometimes I'm watering in the dark til 10 pm.
I wish I could. Not in any condition to run the half and there is too much going on right now in my household.
1. Daughter in hockey - two days a week
2. Oldest son in high school soccer - two to three games a week right now. Praise the Lord he is 16 now and able to drive.
3. Second son in cross country and hockey - one meet a week plus I have to pick him up at practice a couple times a week. Then he has hockey practice and games are now starting.
4. Re-seeded my lawn so I have to find time every day to water that. Sometimes I'm watering in the dark til 10 pm.
5. Driveway, garage floor, and front steps and stoop is supposed to be replaced this fall, but they are way behind so who knows. Big expenditure though.
6. Unplanned vehicle replacement (well, sort of planned but wanted to wait another year). Wife's 2004 Suburban is sucking down anti-freeze these days. Not putting ten more cents into this vehicle. The positive is I get a new F150. The negative is I have to buy a car in the worst car buying environment in years. Yay Me!
7. Have a cardiac stress test this Friday, so hopefully that clears me of any potential heart stuff as I try and figure out why I feel like #### all the time.
It's been a brutal fall to be honest - clearly my running schedule has suffered greatly. I've been trying to squeeze them in as I can.
On the bright side, once cross country and high school soccer ends here this month it will free up time to get back on schedule. My plan in my head right now is once that happens, I'm going to try and go full bore for my usual spring half in early April.
I can but someone has to move them. My wife works from home but she doesn't really have time to do it and I honesty don't want her to drag a sprinkler across my new grass and try and set a timer over and over.Can't hook up a few sprinklers to a timer?
all the more reason to point to the shirt.I have no idea what this means.
#1-3: Quit fretting over your running and just enjoy these years with the kids. Several years from now, they'll be out of the house (mostly). Relish this time and all the surrounding craziness. You can run more when they're gone. I've heard that there's much to be said for later-in-life running.I wish I could. Not in any condition to run the half and there is too much going on right now in my household.
1. Daughter in hockey - two days a week
2. Oldest son in high school soccer - two to three games a week right now. Praise the Lord he is 16 now and able to drive.
3. Second son in cross country and hockey - one meet a week plus I have to pick him up at practice a couple times a week. Then he has hockey practice and games are now starting.
4. Re-seeded my lawn so I have to find time every day to water that. Sometimes I'm watering in the dark til 10 pm.
5. Driveway, garage floor, and front steps and stoop is supposed to be replaced this fall, but they are way behind so who knows. Big expenditure though.
6. Unplanned vehicle replacement (well, sort of planned but wanted to wait another year). Wife's 2004 Suburban is sucking down anti-freeze these days. Not putting ten more cents into this vehicle. The positive is I get a new F150. The negative is I have to buy a car in the worst car buying environment in years. Yay Me!
7. Have a cardiac stress test this Friday, so hopefully that clears me of any potential heart stuff as I try and figure out why I feel like #### all the time.
It's been a brutal fall to be honest - clearly my running schedule has suffered greatly. I've been trying to squeeze them in as I can.
On the bright side, once cross country and high school soccer ends here this month it will free up time to get back on schedule. My plan in my head right now is once that happens, I'm going to try and go full bore for my usual spring half in early April.
Right, as evident throughout summer I was skeptical I should be even making an attempt at a BQ, but ultimately I chose to in part because I realized I'm not going to have the time to do it in a future year. Our oldest is not athletically gifted nor interested, so his developing extracurriculars don't eat into training time. That's not the case with the younger two though. My evenings and weekends are going to be full of their activities in the near future, so it's about time to say bye bye to endurance training. As a result it's now when relatively insufficiently prepared - or not at all. And I'm okay with that. Isn't anything wrong with being a 10K'er...give or take.#1-3: Quit fretting over your running and just enjoy these years with the kids. Several years from now, they'll be out of the house (mostly). Relish this time and all the surrounding craziness. You can run more when they're gone. I've heard that there's much to be said for later-in-life running.
Have you given yourself a day or perhaps even 2 in a row off? This doesn’t sound like you. Stress is stress so it’s not just the training so however you can ease the edge off of whatever stressors would help. Massage would be relaxing and help the body to boot. Running by feel for a couple days perhaps too and just allow an ease off a tad even if your analytical mind is telling you to push/peak.I'm not getting an official diagnosis, but I'm almost certain I've been dealing with elevated cortisol and it's caused my recent issues. To reiterate what I wrote before, I think I stopped myself before I went over the edge with my training but I certainly went (a nudge?) too far. More to it but one example is while my HR on workouts hasn't been a big issue my recovery has. Earlier September my recovery pace was getting to the low 8's with HR's around 130. Lately those recovery's have been quite a bit slower and I've had issues keeping my HR below 140. My right calf has been sore for several days, left calf worse, right hammy's not happy, and I noticed a bruise on my abdomen this morning. Early stages of taper madness? Sure, but there's more going on than just that.
I think work stress has been the primary trigger, but for all intents and purposes the cause doesn't matter...as long as I don't let it happen again. Point is, it happened and now I need to deal with it. I've already punted today's workout and am undecided about Thursday. If my HR is behaving then I may go more distance than a recovery today, but that'll be a decision for mile 4. So, any suggestions? literature? I'm not in a panic about being ready to race later this month, but rather want to make the appropriate adjustments now to ensure that I am.
For the record, "shape" should have nothing to do with coming to hang out and go for an easy long run with some friends, imo. Family stuff, on the other hand, is more than understandable. And if you ever let yardword keep you from a couple beers with buddies, you are doing it wrong! Yard work sucks.I wish I could. Not in any condition to run the half and there is too much going on right now in my household.
While I had not taken any rest days in some time I took the foot off the gas last week then I finally took an actual rest day on Sunday. I think that ensured I didn't go over the cliff. Given my HR readings on the 14 mile goal MP run Sep 25 I am mildly surprised I've been dealing with this. Had my HR gone haywire I'd have pulled the plug early and what I've been experiencing the last 10 days is exactly why. I suppose I was already past the line before that run, I dunno.Have you given yourself a day or perhaps even 2 in a row off? This doesn’t sound like you. Stress is stress so it’s not just the training so however you can ease the edge off of whatever stressors would help. Massage would be relaxing and help the body to boot. Running by feel for a couple days perhaps too and just allow an ease off a tad even if your analytical mind is telling you to push/peak.
Are we still in the running thread?Wife's given me a couple and promised more, but I'm gonna need the work of a pro too.
Iozzo's was booked solid, but I scored a reservation at Maialina at 6pm. It's not within walking distance, but it's hard finding someplace decent that will take a reservation for a group that big on a weekend night. Menu looks pretty solid.gruecd said:I'm gonna call tomorrow at try to make a reservation somewhere (hopefully Iozzo's) for 12 people at 6pm.
It's more the big wad of money I've had to outlay for this vehicle and driveway project. If I ask my wife for more I'll have to sell some shovels. And that ain't happening.The Iguana said:For the record, "shape" should have nothing to do with coming to hang out and go for an easy long run with some friends, imo. Family stuff, on the other hand, is more than understandable. And if you ever let yardword keep you from a couple beers with buddies, you are doing it wrong! Yard work sucks.
You would be so disappointed in my lawn but been aerated, seed & fert for early fall.It's more the big wad of money I've had to outlay for this vehicle and driveway project. If I ask my wife for more I'll have to sell some shovels. And that ain't happening.
Plus, I have to grue-proof the house for @gruecd the next day.
The last time he was in KC he broke my cooler. I can only imagine what he could do to a house.
What sort of structure / types of runs comprise the 40 mile week normally and what were you doing leading to the peak 10k? More time spent on easy miles with faster sessions increasingly woven in are generally the reduced injury risk path.Hello running people, I have been running for about two years now and am planning on taking it up several notches in the near future. Here are some basic stats:(all runs are on treadmill)
5'7 176(previously 225)
41:00 10K(pb), at roughly that weight
41:04 10K with a mask on. I feel this was my peak. Was about 163 then.
52:55 10K today, casual run. I don't do casual well. Always feel similar fatigue compared to hard run.
53:36 8M, maybe my best run
1:15:00 10M, a while ago. Very comfortable
37:30 10K is my goal
I'm more concerned with a faster 10K than adding distance for now. Will definitely add some long runs, but goals are 10K related. Currently have no intentions for any events. This is strictly an ego trip. I'd like to get my weight down to 150-55, but not too worried about the number. At my lowest, I was eating about 500 calories of sweets a day, so I'm hoping some weight loss comes easily. Also still had a decent belly at my lowest, so I figure 150 is possible.
I run on the treadmill 6x/week. Was at roughly 40M/week during most of the pandemic. I'm in hospitality, so work is of little concern for now. Hence why I want to really get after it.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I read his post and immediately googled Olympic times.Welcome Zigg. At those paces you don’t need us.