The Running Thread - 2016

[dmross]

Finally got caught up.

August mileage was low.

Haven't done a pace group yet, but what everyone commented made sense. You've got to stay in your own rhythm even in the group, I suppose.

 

[disneydaydreamer33]

Got behind in 15 pages in reading. Lost my father last week and, no matter how old I am, I feel a little like a sad orphan. He was't a runner but was 89 1/2 and lived independently until the middle of June when he started having health problems. Hope those good genes keep me running for a little while longer. My running schedule has actually kept me sane, and I only missed 2 scheduled runs during the very hard month!

August mileage:
108 mi
19.41 hrs
Pace: about 10:48/mi - slow but consistent finishes the race!

Started with a pace group once. Felt like I was in a constant bottleneck with people all over me. Ran ahead a little to get breathing room and finished a minute or two ahead of them.

So sorry for your loss. It's good to hear that running has helped keep your head above water during such a tough time.

 

[MeridaAndAngus]

Got behind in 15 pages in reading. Lost my father last week and, no matter how old I am, I feel a little like a sad orphan. He was't a runner but was 89 1/2 and lived independently until the middle of June when he started having health problems. Hope those good genes keep me running for a little while longer. My running schedule has actually kept me sane, and I only missed 2 scheduled runs during the very hard month!

August mileage:
108 mi
19.41 hrs
Pace: about 10:48/mi - slow but consistent finishes the race!

Started with a pace group once. Felt like I was in a constant bottleneck with people all over me. Ran ahead a little to get breathing room and finished a minute or two ahead of them.

Really sorry for your loss.

 

[MeridaAndAngus]

I used run :30 or 1:00/walk :30 intervals last fall for 1.5 months to finish my Dopey training after developing Piriformis syndrome (glute muscle). It did help keep my conditioning up even though my mileage was cut back. If intervals help than I would definitely do them! Walking uses different muscles too so then by starting them now if you have to do them in your races you'll be built up for them and good to go. Just make sure you gradually go from the run to walk and walk to run to not mess anything else up, use the shuffle as Galloway calls it I think.

I've had ITB issues, and have found crosstraining to be more valuable than altering my run-walk intervals. I do barre, cardio kickboxing, and some yoga. I've found than strengthening my glutes & hips, and working on my core has helped to alleviate most of the IT band pain I was experiencing.

 

[bellrae]

Have you tried doing regular stretching and strengthening exercises for your ITB? When I had ITB problems, I found strengthening my glutes, aligning my hips properly, and keeping the ITB stretched on a daily basis helped resolve things quickly and keep any problems from recurring.

Yup, this is what my PT has me doing, along with some strength exercises. My interest in intervals is around how I can pick myself up for wine & dine. by the time we get to November, if things stay the way they are now, I won't have run over 5km since July (when I did a PB half). I don't want to go out and hurt myself again by being under trained and in recovery all at the same time. Trying to develop a strategy for the next 7-8 weeks.

 

[FFigawi]

Yup, this is what my PT has me doing, along with some strength exercises. My interest in intervals is around how I can pick myself up for wine & dine. by the time we get to November, if things stay the way they are now, I won't have run over 5km since July (when I did a PB half). I don't want to go out and hurt myself again by being under trained and in recovery all at the same time. Trying to develop a strategy for the next 7-8 weeks.

I'd recommend a strategy of slow, easy, and steady. Take time to build your strength and flexibility up than to rush back into things and hurt yourself even worse. As the saying goes, come race day it's better to be undertrained than overtrained and injured.

 

[surfde22]

It looks like Minnehaha will be a bit too far, so I guess I'll try out the wildlife refuge. I'm impressed someone was from near the right area - MN is a big state (compared to my tiny home state of CT).

We'll also be going to the Rennaissance Festival while we're there, so I'll get some extra walking in along with my runs.

The light rail might be an option for heading to Minnehaha if you want to do that. Funny that you'll be heading to Rennaissance Festival, as I live near that now.

 

[Dis5150]

@Disney at Heart I'm so sorry for your loss. I will keep you in my prayers.

 

[LSUlakes]

@Disney at Heart I am sorry to hear of your loss. Prayers for you and your family.

QOTD: Last night as I was driving home from my run I tuned into the radio broadcast of the FSU Ole Miss game and the announcers are talking about players cramping up. Then I the guys mentions how the team is taking in GU and taking in fluids. He said for those who don't know what GU is look at a marathoner. So with that in mind, what other sports or activities have you have heard of the athletes using GU? (Lets go ahead and say Tri events = running.

ATTQOTD: I have never heard of GU being used or discussed outside of running. After hearing that on the radio, I thought it made sense and wondered how many other sports use GU...


Off Topic Rant: First off, congrats to Wisconsin on the W. They knew exactly what to do to stop us and should have won by a much larger margin.
We could have FIRED LES MILES last year!!!!! But NOOOOOOOOOO, politics got in the way. So, the man says he will change the way the offense plays and fools Tiger nation again. Special teams and the offense is a dumpster fire. #7 should have packed his bags and gone to the NFL instead of stick around for this. Our offense is compared to everyone else is like this, everyone else has the latest and greatest iPhone and LSU is still using the Zach Morris cell phone

It's going to be a looooooonnnnnggggggg season for the Tigers.

 

[rteetz]

QOTD: Last night as I was driving home from my run I tuned into the radio broadcast of the FSU Ole Miss game and the announcers are talking about players cramping up. Then I the guys mentions how the team is taking in GU and taking in fluids. He said for those who don't know what GU is look at a marathoner. So with that in mind, what other sports or activities have you have heard of the athletes using GU? (Lets go ahead and say Tri events = running.

ATTQOTD: I have never heard of GU being used or discussed outside of running. After hearing that on the radio, I thought it made sense and wondered how many other sports use GU...


Off Topic Rant: First off, congrats to Wisconsin on the W. They knew exactly what to do to stop us and should have won by a much larger margin.
We could have FIRED LES MILES last year!!!!! But NOOOOOOOOOO, politics got in the way. So, the man says he will change the way the offense plays and fools Tiger nation again. Special teams and the offense is a dumpster fire. #7 should have packed his bags and gone to the NFL instead of stick around for this. Our offense is compared to everyone else is like this, everyone else has the latest and greatest iPhone and LSU is still using the Zach Morris cell phone

I have ever heard of Gu being used outside of running either. Even when I played football I never heard of it being used for that.

Off topic reply to your rant: Honestly I didn't think Wisconsin would win that game and if it wasn't for our kicker Gaglinone we wouldn't have won. Wisconsin had plenty of chances to score more but shot themselves in the foot. I thought LSU fans were quite nice even after the loss, well except for the one LSU fan that threw his full beer (which probably cost $10) at the garbage can once LSU threw an interception to end the game.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

QOTD: Last night as I was driving home from my run I tuned into the radio broadcast of the FSU Ole Miss game and the announcers are talking about players cramping up. Then I the guys mentions how the team is taking in GU and taking in fluids. He said for those who don't know what GU is look at a marathoner. So with that in mind, what other sports or activities have you have heard of the athletes using GU? (Lets go ahead and say Tri events = running..

I saw the FSU QB consuming a GU packet (or similar) once during the game, so it was really happening. I have never heard of the gels being used in sports other than endurance events before, so this was a first for me. That said, the science is improving so I am not surprised to see things like this being tried out in sports like this. I wouldn't be surprised to see this tried in soccer as well at some point.

Roll Tide!

 

[roxymama]

I had a DNS (did not show-up) for my 5k this weekend. But we kind of knew that may happen. It was our departure date from vacation to go home and timing just didn't work out. (I also wasn't feeling the heat or my energy level.)

ATQOTD: I never used GU or any kind of thing like it when I was a rower...we usually only had a banana...and sometimes opted not to have anything until after the race. Depending on the distance. Gatorade/powerade was our post race re-fuel. And then glorious chicken breasts on the grill only AFTER everyone finished their races...really! This was many years ago though and I'm not sure sports-science was as in play as "tradition" was.
Also...if we weren't dry-heaving over the side of the boat, we didn't race hard enough. Hence why sometimes we opted not to put anything in our stomachs until after our sprints. I'm sure it's changed since those days.

 

[opusone]

QOTD: Last night as I was driving home from my run I tuned into the radio broadcast of the FSU Ole Miss game and the announcers are talking about players cramping up. Then I the guys mentions how the team is taking in GU and taking in fluids. He said for those who don't know what GU is look at a marathoner. So with that in mind, what other sports or activities have you have heard of the athletes using GU? (Lets go ahead and say Tri events = running.)

Cycling. On the longer cycling events, they are consuming gels all the time. Other than that, I haven't heard of other sports using gels. I am quite surprised by football.

 

[Chasing Dopey]

@Disney at Heart I am sorry to hear of your loss. Prayers for you and your family.

QOTD: Last night as I was driving home from my run I tuned into the radio broadcast of the FSU Ole Miss game and the announcers are talking about players cramping up. Then I the guys mentions how the team is taking in GU and taking in fluids. He said for those who don't know what GU is look at a marathoner. So with that in mind, what other sports or activities have you have heard of the athletes using GU? (Lets go ahead and say Tri events = running.

ATTQOTD: I have never heard of GU being used or discussed outside of running. After hearing that on the radio, I thought it made sense and wondered how many other sports use GU...


Off Topic Rant: First off, congrats to Wisconsin on the W. They knew exactly what to do to stop us and should have won by a much larger margin.
We could have FIRED LES MILES last year!!!!! But NOOOOOOOOOO, politics got in the way. So, the man says he will change the way the offense plays and fools Tiger nation again. Special teams and the offense is a dumpster fire. #7 should have packed his bags and gone to the NFL instead of stick around for this. Our offense is compared to everyone else is like this, everyone else has the latest and greatest iPhone and LSU is still using the Zach Morris cell phone

It's going to be a looooooonnnnnggggggg season for the Tigers.

I missed the commentators mentioning GU, but I did see a couple players taking it. It's the first time I've seen it, but it makes sense. We know they drink a good bit of gatorade, etc. so I wonder if this is an experiment of some kind.

Yeah... that wasn't pretty. I think there are two problems: 1) Les Miles is going to run the offense he wants, and that's the end of it. 2) Even if he wanted to do something else, I'm not convinced Brandon Harris can do it. He missed one guy all alone at about 12 yards at one point, and that told me all I need to know. I think if they had someone like Mettenberger this season, it would be a completely different story, but the QB just doesn't have it on a consistent enough basis to trust the keys to the car against SEC defenses. There's not a lot you can do about that.

But at least you didn't have Auburn's bizarro world offense!

(And Roll Tide)

 

[Chasing Dopey]

Oh, speaking of college football (and Roll Tide)... if anyone is in Disney World this Saturday, I'll be the guy in the really loud houndstooth pants. We'll probably be at ESPN Zone for the game.

 

[camaker]

[B]QOTD: [/B]Last night as I was driving home from my run I tuned into the radio broadcast of the FSU Ole Miss game and the announcers are talking about players cramping up. Then I the guys mentions how the team is taking in GU and taking in fluids. He said for those who don't know what GU is look at a marathoner. So with that in mind, what other sports or activities have you have heard of the athletes using GU? (Lets go ahead and say Tri events = running.

GU has been in use at Ultimate Frisbee tournaments for years. That's where I was first exposed to GU packs. When you're out on the field from 9-5 sometimes, it helps to have a quick energy source. If anyone isn't familiar with Ultimate, let me know and I'll post a quick descriptor. I've played for 25+ years and am currently on hiatus with a rotator cuff issue.

 

[DVCFan1994]

ATTQOTD: Like @opusone, I thought of cycling. My husband usually has a couple for his long rides. Other than that I have never heard of it being used for sports such as football or soccer. I can see its use, but it just never occurred to me. Seems like sports with breaks in play you could eat other stuff, you wouldn't need the on-the-go ease of GU.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

Oh, speaking of college football (and Roll Tide)... if anyone is in Disney World this Saturday, I'll be the guy in the really loud houndstooth pants. We'll probably be at ESPN Zone for the game.

Not there this weekend (though I almost always am this particular weekend). Watched the game with Clemson there in January - great game atmosphere. Enjoy!

Roll Tide!

 

[Anisum]

@Disney at Heart Sorry to hear about your loss. Sending good thoughts to you and your family.

QOTD: Last night as I was driving home from my run I tuned into the radio broadcast of the FSU Ole Miss game and the announcers are talking about players cramping up. Then I the guys mentions how the team is taking in GU and taking in fluids. He said for those who don't know what GU is look at a marathoner. So with that in mind, what other sports or activities have you have heard of the athletes using GU?

I never heard of GU being used outside of endurance races like cycling, running, or a combination of the two. I can see the benefits as a source of fuel though.

 

[ZellyB]

@Disney at Heart So Sorry for your loss.

I've seen cyclists who use Gu, but that's about it from my experience.