The Running Thread - 2016

[CheapRunnerMike]

Hey, I resemble that remark!

I was looking squarely at you John! Mr @Baloo in MI as well as a few others too...50K has me rattled enough, I can't imagine 50/100 miles!

 

[kirstie101]

Ran RnR San Jose on Sunday. My left IT band forced me to walk by mile 8.5. So my possible PR finish turned into a 3:05:49 finish. The race was on city streets with quite a slant to them. I swear it wasn't flat unless you were on the center line, which I was not usually as I run intervals and try to stay to the right. Pretty sure this is the reason for the pain. Having dealt with IT band issues before I know what to do at least. Went to the chiro for some ART yesterday. Going back on Monday. Lots of ice and stretching. I'll ease into the foam roller tonight probably. Not planning any runs this week. We'll see how I feel on Saturday. I have RnR Vancouver in less than 3 weeks so hopefully its better by then.

Accidents: knock on wood I've only fallen once while running and it was close to the house so I just walked home.

Goals for October: 1. Get my IT band all healed up. 2. Enjoy the experience at RnR Vancouver. 3. Get back to my training plan as soon as the IT band lets me.

 

[michigandergirl]

Local marathon on not, I am taking the day off from work after a marathon.

I may call in sick.

 

[camaker]

I've read a lot of goals for the month (and any time goals come up, for that matter) to "not get injured" and to "stay healthy" which also can be taken as not to get injured. As a result, I wanted to share some of my experiences from a lifetime of playing team sports before I took up running.

In my experience, one of the surest ways to get injured is to worry about getting injured. When you worry about injury, you tend to tense up a little more and not perform as relaxed as you might otherwise. It can also result in favoring a little "niggle" that is felt in one location leading to an imbalance injury. Both can increase the likelihood of injuries occurring.

I'm not saying that injury signs should be ignored or that staying healthy is not a good goal to have. I just wanted to point out that the key to those goals lies not in worrying about their happening, but to run relaxed and do the underlying things (core exercises, stretching and strengthening) that prevent injuries with a positive focus.

It's also very important to know your body and know the difference between "hurting" and "injured". In training, expanding your ability to run both distances and pace, you will hurt through the breakdown and build up of muscles. The key is knowing the difference between how that feels and what an injury feels like.

I hope everyone is able to relax, focus on running with good form, and stay healthy as a result! Run safe!

 

[Tasmen]

Goals for October: 1. Get my IT band all healed up. 2. Enjoy the experience at RnR Vancouver. 3. Get back to my training plan as soon as the IT band lets me.

Vancouver is a beautiful city. Hope you heal quickly!

 

[dis_or_dat]

Ran RnR San Jose on Sunday. My left IT band forced me to walk by mile 8.5. So my possible PR finish turned into a 3:05:49 finish. The race was on city streets with quite a slant to them. I swear it wasn't flat unless you were on the center line, which I was not usually as I run intervals and try to stay to the right. Pretty sure this is the reason for the pain. Having dealt with IT band issues before I know what to do at least. Went to the chiro for some ART yesterday. Going back on Monday. Lots of ice and stretching. I'll ease into the foam roller tonight probably. Not planning any runs this week. We'll see how I feel on Saturday. I have RnR Vancouver in less than 3 weeks so hopefully its better by then.

Accidents: knock on wood I've only fallen once while running and it was close to the house so I just walked home.

Goals for October: 1. Get my IT band all healed up. 2. Enjoy the experience at RnR Vancouver. 3. Get back to my training plan as soon as the IT band lets me.

Are you going to get one of the cool gigantic medals for running multiple RnRs?

 

[kirstie101]

Are you going to get one of the cool gigantic medals for running multiple RnRs?

This one earned me the "Double Beat" medal. RnR Vancouver will earn me the Rock Trio and World Rocker medals

 

[CherieFran]

ATTQOTD: My goal for October is just to get my training runs in and stay healthy for W&D weekend! Flying down one month from today!!

 

[LSUlakes]

Posters from the East coast, are you close enough to the coast that you are taking preparing for this storm? Looks like USCe is closed for the remainder of the week and South Carolina has order a evacuation for 1.1MM folks. Any of yall in Florida along the east coast, at what point are you thinking of leaving? The latest model runs swung the cone back west this afternoon. Good luck to all that may have to deal with this storm, let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

I was looking squarely at you John! Mr @Baloo in MI as well as a few others too...50K has me rattled enough, I can't imagine 50/100 miles!

I did a 50 (actually 52) miler back in April. Just break it down into smaller races; like 2 marathons with a really really short taper for the second one.

For a 50k, break it down into 5 10ks and 'reset' mentally after each one.

 

[Miranda]

I am currently in SW Florida visiting my parents, so no real threat over here, but I am flying home tomorrow so it was a concern for me if it would impact my flight back up to Boston or not. I think the flight path usually goes over the middle of the state and comes up the Atlantic, and the early models this weekend had the hurricane in the vicinity of the middle of the coast with the edge of the cone up around Jacksonville on Wednesday (tomorrow) and my flight leaves here at 7:50pm.

But it seems to have slowed and now will not be that close until later in the week... but now I need to watch out for it over the weekend back at home in NH! I have a 5K race on Sunday and we are in the outer edges of the Tropical Storm cone for Sunday.

I am supposed to run 10 miles this weekend at some point and I still hadn't figured out when I was going to do that with the 5K on Sunday.

 

[Keels]

QOTD: What are your running goals for the month of October?

October 17. I want to start training by October 17.

 

[disneydaydreamer33]

ATTQOTD:
Finish my training plan for my October 22nd half marathon
Successfully run half (success for me is running it a bit faster than my recent long training runs and to enjoy it!)
Determine and start on my post-half running goals

 

[keahgirl8]

Ran RnR San Jose on Sunday. My left IT band forced me to walk by mile 8.5. So my possible PR finish turned into a 3:05:49 finish. The race was on city streets with quite a slant to them. I swear it wasn't flat unless you were on the center line, which I was not usually as I run intervals and try to stay to the right. Pretty sure this is the reason for the pain. Having dealt with IT band issues before I know what to do at least. Went to the chiro for some ART yesterday. Going back on Monday. Lots of ice and stretching. I'll ease into the foam roller tonight probably. Not planning any runs this week. We'll see how I feel on Saturday. I have RnR Vancouver in less than 3 weeks so hopefully its better by then.

Accidents: knock on wood I've only fallen once while running and it was close to the house so I just walked home.

Goals for October: 1. Get my IT band all healed up. 2. Enjoy the experience at RnR Vancouver. 3. Get back to my training plan as soon as the IT band lets me.

I was thinking about doing that one some day. I may want to rethink that!

ATTQOTD: My goal for October is to run. Even if it's for 5 minutes, I hope I'm able to.

 

[MommaoffherRocker]

Posters from the East coast, are you close enough to the coast that you are taking preparing for this storm? Looks like USCe is closed for the remainder of the week and South Carolina has order a evacuation for 1.1MM folks. Any of yall in Florida along the east coast, at what point are you thinking of leaving? The latest model runs swung the cone back west this afternoon. Good luck to all that may have to deal with this storm, let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

I'm just south of Jacksonville and everytime an update comes in the path gets closer to us. I think the latest was that the eye could be 60 miles off our coast. So if it stays the same we will have tropical storm winds 45mph+ Thurs. night and Friday. Some of the models are putting it right over us as a cat 3. We are still too far out for the NHC to issue warnings. I am signed up for a half on Saturday and they just put out an email saying it doesn't look good. Even though the storm is suppose to be past us my then they expect the police and firefighters that usually help out are going to be busy.

I told DH we should just have a long weekend at Disney since it's further inland but I don't think he is buying it so we probably won't leave unless they issue an evacuation

 

[camaker]

Posters from the East coast, are you close enough to the coast that you are taking preparing for this storm? Looks like USCe is closed for the remainder of the week and South Carolina has order a evacuation for 1.1MM folks. Any of yall in Florida along the east coast, at what point are you thinking of leaving? The latest model runs swung the cone back west this afternoon. Good luck to all that may have to deal with this storm, let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

At this point the Raleigh area could get anything from nothing to drenched to a direct hit. I'll wait a bit longer to see what we need to do. I've been here for Hugo, Fran and Floyd, so it's just a matter of riding out what's thrown at us.

 

[LSUlakes]

Todays 14 miler turned into 4.... A case of the jelly legs made it difficult to get just the 4 in. One of these days I will figure out what is causing this to happen. It seems to happen roughly every 3-4 weeks or so. Not sure if it is just my body telling me I need to rest or if it is something else.

@DopeyBadger Hows the recovery going?

 

[Waiting2goback]

October goals:
1. Not go crazy during the taper
2. Stay healthy
3. Get my head straight for this marathon. My long runs have been awful, all but one - that's messed with my confidence. I also feel like this race is not going to be fun. It's not Disney. I'm not travelling. I'm not wearing a tutu. I have to go to work the next day. Not FUN! So yes, I've got to get my head in the right place if I want to finish and hopefully PR.

I think this is good news. When I have a string of awful runs and I begin to feel defeated I go out one day and I have one of those runs where you are flying and it feels like you are barely trying. If you can get over the other stuff, like that it's not Disney, you're not travelling (meaning you get to eat normally and stuff as opposed to travelling) and you can still wear a tutu, then maybe you are due for one of those good runs. Remember, running is 90% mental. You need to tell yourself you are going to destroy this race and take no prisoners.


QOTD: My goal is to be running by October 2017 at this point. But, I will continue doing P90X workouts every other day. I hope to get 20 hours on the bike this month at minimum. It isn't strenuous work, as I am limited to Zone 2 effort at this point, but it works out perfectly. I just finished my HRT book. I am working on conditioning so when I can finally run my conditioning won't be an issue. Once I strengthen my muscles I will be ready to kick it all up a notch.

 

[DopeyBadger]

Todays 14 miler turned into 4.... A case of the jelly legs made it difficult to get just the 4 in. One of these days I will figure out what is causing this to happen. It seems to happen roughly every 3-4 weeks or so. Not sure if it is just my body telling me I need to rest or if it is something else.

@DopeyBadger Hows the recovery going?

If your "jelly legs" are like what I was experiencing where it feels like a loss of knowing how to run, then I'd presume it's the same reason I had mine. A fatiguing of a very specific set of muscles. My best suggestion is mid-run try to vary your paces a bit more to see if it remedies the occurrence. If it happens frequently during the training be cognizant that you may be very close to your physical limits at that current point in the training and you may want to consider pulling back for a week to give yourself a break. Your muscular/bone improvements may not have yet caught up to your cardiovascular improvements.

So far so good on my recovery. I've gone from:

Sunday: Immediately post-race - Walking very slowly in pain
Sunday: 2 hours post-race - Can't put any weight on left leg. Need assistance to walk at all.
Sunday: 8 hours post-race - Can walk unassisted but very painful
Monday: Walk unassisted somewhat painful especially if leg is placed in an awkward position (like avoiding toys?!?! so many toys?!?!)
Tuesday: Back to work. Slow walking still slightly painful, but definitely getting better. Had an x-ray today but no confirmed stress fracture. It's not that it isn't a stress fracture, just they couldn't see anything (which isn't uncommon with stress fractures and x-rays).

Lots of elevation, zensah calf sleeve compression, ice, and rest. I'm happy with the progress at this point. The doctor has given me the freedom to decide when to get back to running. If no pain, keep running. If pain, don't run. Pretty simple agreement. I'll give it the remaining 1.5 weeks off that was pre-planned and then decide what to do then. I'm currently thinking of taking it week by week. I'll likely choose not to even try running until I go a full week without any pain during walking. Taking a slow and cautious approach will win out in the long term.

Thanks for asking!

 

[asheleycs]

I'm a few days behind, but:

Total Miles: 45.37 miles
Total Time: 12:05:28
Average Pace: 15:59/mi

Which I guess is under the 16 min/mi pace for GSC, so it's a start...