The Running Thread - 2018

[PrincessV]

QOTD: How many weeks do you dedicate to prepare for any one race?

ATTQOTD: No set number of weeks - just however many it takes to get from current long distance run to race distance run. Right now, my base is 10 miles, so I guess my marathon training would be 19 weeks: increase distance every other week, plus a 3 week taper.

 

[SarahDisney]

Yesterday ATTQOTD: I have a water tracking widget on my watch. Sometimes i use it. Mostly i try to go through at least 2 32-oz water bottles per day.

Today ATTQOTD: however many weeks I have. I pick the races first, and then the plans go between races. There isnt really a set number of weeks.

 

[LSUlakes]

Someone mentioned something about beer delivery earlier in the thread and it made me thing of something we have that I believe to be unique. Maybe it is not, but I thought its worth mentioning. We have drive through daiquiri shops everywhere! To make it legal, they do one of the following: Do not put the straw in it, put the straw in it, but leave the top piece of paper on it, a piece of tape over the spot your straw goes in. Another thing they have is basically a drive through liquor store. They will load up your ice chest for you with whatever beer you want or other adult beverage. This probably has a lot to do with why car insurance in Louisiana is so high in our state.

 

[Simba's Girl]

AYQOTD: I make it a point to fill up my water bottle (I alternate between a 28oz one and a 32oz one) at least 4X a day. Some days I don't make it. Most days I do.

ATQOTD: Well...I was stupid last year and didn't do a TP for the 10K. It was my worst one ever and I was injured. Boo! This year for the M I'm doing a 20w plan. Fun runs, like 5Ks...depends upon if I have a goal or it was a last minute decision. It gets a little annoying sometimes because I can be pretty competitive with myself.

 

[gjramsey]

Well, this thread only grew by 55 pages or so while I was away for 3 weeks. Only took a couple of days to go through everything! LOL

Some QOTD Answers:

Over Warm weather running, ready for cooler weather (not cold). Geez, my first run back this morning it was 77 at 4:30 am. We saw temps that warm only a couple times the whole 3 weeks in Europe. I was really kinda jealous seeing folks run in London with temps in the 60s and low humidity and I did not take any running clothes....

Races per year: 6-8

Hate summer colds more than winter.

Sunscreen - nope, usually run before sunrise

World Cup - as much as I can. Rooting for Germany, even though they have looked bad. Iceland next, but I think they blew their chance to advance with their loss

Group runs - I do for long runs. Conversations really help the miles go by. But will do an 18-20 miler by myself, since most races will be run alone.

Water during races - use race provided most of the time, will carry my own if it is really hot/humid

BBQ - I love all kinds of BBQ and different areas of the country do some types better than others. Yes, Texas seems to do Brisket really well, but I love a good pulled pork, and that can be hard to find in the Houston area.

Summer goals - survival and base miles


Also, for the CWS.........WOOOOOOOO PIG SOOOIEEEE GO HOGS GO!

It was really nice to come back home and see my Hogs in the Championship series....plus beating two former SWC teams in the process.

 

[kbenson13]

ATTQOTD:

I've already begun training for my January 2019 Marathon (sort of--I guess the training cycle will start for real in September). I think it will be a 16-week cycle and it will be set up for me by @DopeyBadger For past Half Marathons, I've done an 10-week FIRST training cycle. For my last HM I actually followed a 16-Week FIRST marathon training program, but without religiously adhering to the cross-training days. I was originally planning to run the full but failed at my long runs during training and chickened out and only ran the half instead...

 

[cburnett11]

ATTQOTD: 18 weeks for a marathon. For any shorter distance, 90% of the time I'm not doing specific race training and it just sorta happens when I'm in "maintenance mode".

 

[huskies90]

Unofficial QOTD: It's heating up out there, folks! How do you make sure you get enough water each day? Do you track ounces? Have a favorite cup/water bottle that helps?

ATTUQOTD: I drink water throughout the day. I just fill my cup/bottle when empty.

QOTD: How many weeks do you dedicate to prepare for any one race?

ATTQOTD: Historically, I have not had much of a plan for any race. For the half marathons I have run, I have increased mileage a few weeks before the race just so I know I can do it. For the Disney marathon in January, I will start preparing in the Fall. I am not even sure what that means as I am not sure how I am going to approach the race. It will be my first and possibly only marathon. I may try to "run" it which will mean seeing how fast I can do it with goals of at least breaking 5 hours and possibly trying to break 4 hours. If that is the case, I will have a more formal plan and will be more physically ready. Or, I may take the approach of just trying to finish it where I would take it easy, walk more than run and stopping more for pictures, etc. If that is the case, I will most likely approach it like I do the half marathons: (significantly) increasing mileage as the race approaches.

 

[jennamfeo]

ATTQOTD: I don't have a set time frame. Just depends on when my race is, when I get that info to Coach, and how long that gap is. My current plan for my "A" Goal Half Marathon is 17 weeks. After that I have 16 weeks until Dopey. I will probably take a week or two break in between, which would put me at a 14 week Marathon plan. But this all depends on what Coach thinks is best. Luckily, I feel like after my Half Marathon plan I am going to be in the best shape of my life, so I will have that going for me, maybe.

 

[roxymama]

ATTQOTD: I pick an A race and ask Dopeybadger when would be the ideal time to start training for it. Then I look and see if that is possible and if not, we adjust. For short races that aren't really A races they tend to fall inside my training window for the bigger ones. So they just get worked into the plan. I think right now might be the first time in a long time I don't have a 5k or 10k just hanging out in the middle of my bigger plan. But if I find one it'll be a fun run smooshed onto a training run.
Also even when I say my plan is 16 weeks, it's usually right on the heels of another plan. So I'm almost always on a plan. The plans never end. (and that's ok)

 

[roxymama]

Luckily, I feel like after my Half Marathon plan I am going to be in the best shape of my life, so I will have that going for me, maybe.

Yes, this!!! If I am starting from scratch after a long break my plans need to be a little longer. But like last year I trained for a long time for a HM, then was in really great shape and my training for my next race wasn't as long.

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

ATQOTD: Somewhere between 16 and 22 weeks for a marathon. I try to stay in half marathon shape, so generally no training plan for a half or shorter, which works out well since I don't plan those too far ahead.

 

[FFigawi]

QOTD: How many weeks do you dedicate to prepare for any one race?

16-20 weeks for a full, 30-40 weeks for a serious ultra.

 

[Chaitali]

I was gone for 2 weeks (a conference and then vacation in San Francisco) and there are so many new pages I can't even try to catch up I'm just jumping in with today's question. I think generally 10 to 12 weeks for a half. I've only training for one full and I think I did 16 weeks for that one. But I had a pretty good base from consistently running over the Summer.

 

[Dis5150]

ATTQOTD: Usually 12ish weeks. This year - however long it is between marathons. So far it has been 7 weeks, then 8 weeks. Right now I have a 15 week plan, then I have 10 weeks after that race until marathon 5/5. Then WDW Marathon is 4 weeks after that one ! I may die, lol. Plans right now are to just have fun, character pics, roller coasters and drinks during that one though.

 

[Sleepless Knight]

ATTQOTD: I've discovered that tracking my water intake through my FitBit helps me out tremendously. Until I started doing it, I had no idea how little water I was actually drinking every day.

ATTQOTD: Aside from my insane idea to run Superheroes on just 3 weeks training in 2017, I've always followed the runDisney Galloway plans. Technically right now, I'm running to meet the San Francisco Giants 60 miles for 60 years virtual challenge and the Incredibles virutal 5Ks this summer, those are really just preludes to Dopey training.

 

[KingLlama]

Hey everybody....long time, no talk about running.

Nothing much new except that I went and ran a 5K two weeks ago, a year after running it as my first-ever 5k. I had more of a plan this time, and was about 30 pounds lighter, so I was able to carve three minutes off my time from last year.

Now I've got my race calendar pretty well charted out. Sticking with 5K's until a 10 in late September, and already have a half targeted for next Spring.

Since I'm only doing 5's and a 10 over the next several months, I want to keep things interesting by starting some kind of run streak. I'm trying to decide between:

-A mile a day run streak.
-A 5k a day(run or walk)
-10,000 steps a day, period.

Have any of you done any streaking? The run kind, not the fun kind. And if so, which one would you recommend, and how did yours go?

 

[jennamfeo]

Hey everybody....long time, no talk about running.

Nothing much new except that I went and ran a 5K two weeks ago, a year after running it as my first-ever 5k. I had more of a plan this time, and was about 30 pounds lighter, so I was able to carve three minutes off my time from last year.

Now I've got my race calendar pretty well charted out. Sticking with 5K's until a 10 in late September, and already have a half targeted for next Spring.

Since I'm only doing 5's and a 10 over the next several months, I want to keep things interesting by starting some kind of run streak. I'm trying to decide between:

-A mile a day run streak.
-A 5k a day(run or walk)
-10,000 steps a day, period.

Have any of you done any streaking? The run kind, not the fun kind. And if so, which one would you recommend, and how did yours go?

I am on day 30 of my current run streak. I am just adding on a mile run to my rest days on my current training plan. But I have previously done run streaks where I just did 1 mile every day for X amount of days. The first time I did a run streak, I loved it. I had something that held me accountable but didn't take up too much of my time and I also saw results. It was a win/win all around.

 

[YawningDodo]

@LSUlakes I have a race for the schedule!

Scheels Great Pumpkin Run - 5K - goal is to finish

Edit: October 27! Forgot that part!

 

[TheHamm]

A hearty Thanks! to @GreatLakes and @DopeyBadger for the explanations.
A solid bonus of DopeyBadger's posts is that all the equations and graphs makes it look like I am doing paid work, not reading up on LT and trying to compute my mm based on current VO2max. I now have plenty of new questions stewing away, but the one I still have is regarding the statement of cumulative fatigue and stacking long runs which turn out in the example given in the post to not simply be additive. Is this hyperbole or is there some additional basis to this? I have no plans to intentionally do this, but I would like to understand.