The Running Thread - 2016

[Chaitali]

Very cool site. It even has the small local races I've done. Here's my page.

http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/246418399

 

[LSUlakes]

Last week we talked about unique races, and I mentioned the Navy 10 Nautical Mile race. Some of yall thought it was interesting and mentioned you would like to run it. Well a small group from here has started talking about it, and it appears I am making the trip this year. I am hoping to register soon, maybe tomorrow. It has a cap on runners, but I am not sure on that number or how close they are to reaching it at this point. I am trying to find out that info in the coming days. Anyway, maybe a small group of DIS runners showing up would be cool as well. Race fee is only $55. After the race head to Memphis for BBQ! Ill update yall later when I make it official.

 

[Baloo in MI]

QOTD: When not training for a particular race, how far is your long run for the week?

I have a go to loop that runs through several Neighborhoods and through downtown that is 10 miles. I use this as my standard long run between training plans.

 

[FFigawi]

QOTD: When not training for a particular race, how far is your long run for the week?

Not training for a race? What kind of nonsense is that?
I'm either training for a race or taking time off after a race. Even if the race is months away, my coach and I still set a maintenance training schedule to keep me going. In those cases, the long runs are 8-12 miles depending on how I feel when I get up in the morning.

ATTQOTD X 2= Taking it easy this Winter.....doing 2 or 3 workouts weekly to strengthen core , hips and back. Anybody got any good suggestions for good exercises?

Yoga! It'll build strength in those areas while also keeping you flexible. Running tends to tighten us up, so flexibility is important.

 

[FFigawi]

Athlinks is a very handy site. It doesn't have all of my races, but it's got some of them.

http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/63603591

 

[pclvnmcky88]

Last week we talked about unique races, and I mentioned the Navy 10 Nautical Mile race. Some of yall thought it was interesting and mentioned you would like to run it. Well a small group from here has started talking about it, and it appears I am making the trip this year. I am hoping to register soon, maybe tomorrow. It has a cap on runners, but I am not sure on that number or how close they are to reaching it at this point. I am trying to find out that info in the coming days. Anyway, maybe a small group of DIS runners showing up would be cool as well. Race fee is only $55. After the race head to Memphis for BBQ! Ill update yall later when I make it official.

After you mentioned this race I looked it up and it's only about 3.5 hours from me! I think the hubs and I are going to run it. We're also going to try and register for the Army Ten Miler and I might put my name in for the MCM.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

Last week we talked about unique races, and I mentioned the Navy 10 Nautical Mile race. Some of yall thought it was interesting and mentioned you would like to run it. Well a small group from here has started talking about it, and it appears I am making the trip this year. I am hoping to register soon, maybe tomorrow. It has a cap on runners, but I am not sure on that number or how close they are to reaching it at this point. I am trying to find out that info in the coming days. Anyway, maybe a small group of DIS runners showing up would be cool as well. Race fee is only $55. After the race head to Memphis for BBQ! Ill update yall later when I make it official.

My father, who passed a few years ago, was retired Navy and taught at Millington - we lived there for a few years when I was young. Would love to do this race - didn't know that it existed. Sadly, can't be this year. I won't want to push my recovery that fast.

 

[LSUlakes]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

ATTQOTD: The only way to be successful is to work hard and there are no shortcuts to achieving success. (This is true in running and at work)

After you mentioned this race I looked it up and it's only about 3.5 hours from me! I think the hubs and I are going to run it. We're also going to try and register for the Army Ten Miler and I might put my name in for the MCM.

It's a cool event and I am glad you are interested. Hope to see yall out there! The MCM is on my list, but its a tricky one for me. Its early fall, which means training for a marathon in South Louisiana. It's doable, but wouldn't be PR type race for me, so I am going to wait a few years when PR's are harder to come by. I e-mailed the Navy 10 NM folks, and the limit for the race is 1,500 folks which sold out last year. As of yesterday they have 498 folks registered and will have 100 bibs available on site. I will register at some point today.

 

[BikeFan]

Just had to say, 200 miles is awesome! Wow!

Thanks. I'm running two ultras this spring, so I've got to keep the mileage up!

QOTD: When not training for a particular race, how far is your long run for the week?

I try to go 10+ at least once every week, but preferably 2-3 times per week. I rarely run a "long" run (14+), but I try to run multiple "medium" runs (10-14) per week.

I added a bunch of you all on athlinks. I'm at: http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/135772078

 

[dsnyfn1022]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

Things got busy and I wasn't able to visit the Dis! Wah!

The single most important thing that I've learned from running is that I can do more than I thought I could. When I first started running I was walking more than running and wasn't even clearing at 16 min mi. But as I've gotten more in shape I started running more, but still taking walking breaks. Then I started a Hal Higdon training plan which included interval and tempo runs. I didn't think that I could run 30 minutes without walking but I tried it and I did! And I did 35 minutes of running without stopping. Clearly, I was underestimating myself. I'm capable of more than what I give myself credit for.

 

[DopeyBadger]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

I can.

 

[BikeFan]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

ATTQOTD: The only way to be successful is to work hard and there are no shortcuts to achieving success. (This is true in running and at work)

I'll just second that answer. As Chuck Engle, the "Marathon Junkie", likes to say all the time, "Run More!". There is no substitute for miles. Well, actually, good genetics is a pretty good substitute. My son is a natural ectomorph, which is odd because my wife and I definitely are NOT, and he absolutely trounces me at 10Ks and shorter, on basically half the training miles I do, if that. Of course, because he doesn't run long, he's got no endurance, so the tortoise eventually catches and passes the hare when the race gets longer than a 10K.

 

[hotblooded]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

There's no cramming for race day, and it's possible to do it without being a "natural" runner.

The single most important thing that I've learned from running is that I can do more than I thought I could. When I first started running I was walking more than running and wasn't even clearing at 16 min mi. But as I've gotten more in shape I started running more, but still taking walking breaks. Then I started a Hal Higdon training plan which included interval and tempo runs. I didn't think that I could run 30 minutes without walking but I tried it and I did! And I did 35 minutes of running without stopping. Clearly, I was underestimating myself. I'm capable of more than what I give myself credit for.

I felt the same way the first time I ran a continuous 5K!

I'll just second that answer. As Chuck Engle, the "Marathon Junkie", likes to say all the time, "Run More!". There is no substitute for miles. Well, actually, good genetics is a pretty good substitute. My son is a natural ectomorph, which is odd because my wife and I definitely are NOT, and he absolutely trounces me at 10Ks and shorter, on basically half the training miles I do, if that. Of course, because he doesn't run long, he's got no endurance, so the tortoise eventually catches and passes the hare when the race gets longer than a 10K.

Way to go! I have a similar system with my sister.

 

[roxymama]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

ATTQOTD: Take risks and stop letting fear of failure hold me back... it's the only way to know what I'm capable of.
I had a lot of fear about running which held me back from doing it for longer than I'd like to say. I was in spectator mode for my family/friends and was letting fear keep me back. Fear of not being able to finish, fear of not being fast enough, fear of being seen in tight running material and shorts (I know!), fear of people thinking it odd that a curvy middle-age woman was running outside with fast skinny young people, fear of "gym people"...once I got over those I started holding myself back in races a little from fear...taking unnecessary walk breaks/running slower/not pushing my pace because of fear of being too tired and hitting a wall, etc.
Finally I just chucked that all out the window, signed up for more races than I even knew if I could do, bought a bunch of tight runner clothes, and good shoes (did I mention fear of running shoe stores?), I got a gym membership, I started running to my limit during long runs just to see what I could do. I'm gonna try to crush longer distances and maybe some faster times this year though and if they don't work out I'm forgiving myself already. And I think getting over all those weird anxieties is helping me in other aspects of my life as well...being healthier and trying more at work. It's better to try and not be perfect, then to not try at all. Did Yoda say that?

 

[rteetz]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

Well I still consider myself relatively new to running but I never thought I would be one. I have learned that running can be fun with the right mind set. Previously I had always been forced to run like say at football practice. That made it not fun for me running how I want has changed my perspective on it.

 

[Anisum]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

I feel better when I run regularly. I never thought that would be the case.

 

[RunDisneyDad]

I feel better when I run regularly. I never thought that would be the case.

I have a similar answer. I learned running helps regulate me, keeps me calm and gives me something to look forward to.

 

[Barca33Runner]

QOTD: What is the single most important thing you have learned from running?

This reminds me of a comedy bit by John Mulaney:

"Thank you for coming to this show by the way, I really do appreciate you coming to a thing because you didn’t have to, and it’s really easy not to go to things. It is so much easier not to do things than to do them, that you would do anything is totally remarkable. Percentage-wise, it is 100% easier not to do things than to do them. And so much fun not to do them! Especially when you are supposed to do them. In terms of, like, instant relief, cancelling plans is like heroin. It is an amazing feeling. Such instant joy."

Running has really driven home this idea for me. Getting out the door, or in my case onto the treadmill, is hard for everyone regardless of age, size, shape, gender, fitness, etc. That we are all choosing to do it is a great accomplishment. I still fight with myself everyday to not do the easy thing. It's getting easier to win the fight, but it's still a fight. Running has helped me realize how much more rewarding doing something is compared to doing nothing.

 

[LSUlakes]

I have a similar answer. I learned running helps regulate me, keeps me calm and gives me something to look forward to.

If I skip a run or two because of work, tired, ect, I almost always end up in a bad mood. Running keeps me sane.

 

[IamTrike]

ATTQOD:
It reinforces daily the importance of doing hard things.