The Running Thread - 2018

[SarahDisney]

Hey @jennamfeo, when you come back from your fun Flagstaff adventure, can you please add Pennsylvania to my list of states?
Side note: People say New Yorkers are rude. But when I see people on my run in NY, we always say good morning to each other. Today's run ... none of the 3 people I saw responded to my good morning. Out of towners are so rude.

 

[YawningDodo]

Hey @jennamfeo, when you come back from your fun Flagstaff adventure, can you please add Pennsylvania to my list of states?
Side note: People say New Yorkers are rude. But when I see people on my run in NY, we always say good morning to each other. Today's run ... none of the 3 people I saw responded to my good morning. Out of towners are so rude.

Mmm, I feel this. Up here in Montana people are generally fairly courteous in day to day life, but I've discovered on morning runs that it's about 40/60 on people who will say good morning to me versus people who will just glance at me and say nothing regardless of whether I initiate with a good morning of my own. Honestly, I'd be fine with either everyone or no one saying good morning to me; it's the constant doubt of "okay, but does this person think a greeting is polite or intrusive? will they think I'm the rude one if I don't say anything? or if I do?" that drives me nuts.

 

[Slogger]

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Side note: People say New Yorkers are rude. But when I see people on my run in NY, we always say good morning to each other. Today's run ... none of the 3 people I saw responded to my good morning. Out of towners are so rude.

Mmm, I feel this. Up here in Montana people are generally fairly courteous in day to day life, but I've discovered on morning runs that it's about 40/60 on people who will say good morning to me versus people who will just glance at me and say nothing regardless of whether I initiate with a good morning of my own. Honestly, I'd be fine with either everyone or no one saying good morning to me; it's the constant doubt of "okay, but does this person think a greeting is polite or intrusive? will they think I'm the rude one if I don't say anything? or if I do?" that drives me nuts.

I get that in Virginia and South Carolina too. I wave or say hello to everyone, sometimes multiple times if I pass them again. Not everyone responds in kind.
Guess it's not a natural thing for all people to do. Maybe they can't multitask with running and waving/saying hello at the same time!!!!

 

[flav]

Color Run Montreal Recap

In short, the Color Run is a party and not a race. If you are interested, read on for details.

Registration

DD was hoping to register for that race since she first heard from it, rainbows and unicorns are her favourites. I kept looking for registration to open and had put my email for notifications but nothing ever came. Registrations started less than 8 weeks before the event. Everything went well on that note.

Schedule and transport

We woke up at 5AM and left the house after breakfast. It was a good way to jauge how DD feels about waking up in the middle of the pitch dark night for a race since it would be two hours earlier than that if we were at Disney.

Following the Runners’ Guide suggestion, we opted to put the car in a free parking to use public transit. Montreal driving is a nightmare with construction and onsite parking would have require more walking and enough cash to buy a tutu and long socks at the Color Store... Which is what we did!

We arrived a bit after 7AM and it was quiet so after bib pickup, shopping, snacking, tattoo installation, pit stop, warmup and bag check, we still had time to take some trampoline pictures!

Running

Departure were spread in mini waves from 8AM to 9AM. That was probably so that we would not be jammed in the four on course color stations (where they throw powder at each participant) but it meant that it was a bit lonely. It would have been more fun to be a big group of friends.

It was a go at your own rhythm untimed run and many were walking on the F1 track they used for the event.

We were handed a unicorn medal and a bag of powder at the end of the 5k.

After party

The stage animation was good but consisted mainly in throwing prizes (cap, T-shirts, socks, bracelets) and more bags of colors. Once in a while everyone was asked to open their bag and throw the colors. Imagine being in a corn starch and baking soda cloud... Well that is exactly how it is. Peculiar taste and odor, short breaths and slight disorientation. It is beautiful and colorful but, after a few of these, we had enough. We have great pictures to remember it and are glad to have tried it once.

On the way back, we decided to repeat another race than that one next year: After all, we like to race a run once in a while.

 

[JulieODC]

Anyone in the group have experience with chronic fatigue and running? Feel free to PM...

 

[LSUlakes]

@LSUlakes Midnight Flight 10K results: 1:04:25 and first in my age group. Got home a little after midnight.
Then DH and I got up and tried to run a 9 mile training run this morning around 10:00. He succeeded, but I cashed it in at 6 1/2. It was already hot and I had given all I could at the Midnight Flight.

Good job on the run! I got back late from my run as well. Race was for 8:30PM, finished 1:41:00, rested a minute or two and had a 1.5 hour drive home. Got home 12:15AM. Fun times!

 

[LSUlakes]

QOTD: If you are normally a road runner and run a trail run, how much of a difference in pace do you allow to be equal? If you have done this how close were you to you estimate?

ATTQOTD: I asked this question because I had a trail run this weekend, that also happened at night. I thought I could run about 9:30 for the run, which was a extra 30 seconds per mile I thought I could do for a race on pavement at this time. Well I was way off!!! I finished with a 10:30 pace. I underestimated the trail part and how much more difficult the night part would make things. I tried for the first few miles to keep it below 10, but after nearly falling a few times I decided to dial it back and just enjoy the run. Next time I think I will allow at least 60-90 seconds per mile for the trails.

 

[rteetz]

QOTD: If you are normally a road runner and run a trail run, how much of a difference in pace do you allow to be equal? If you have done this how close were you to you estimate?

I have never done a trail run so I can't answer this one.

 

[run.minnie.miles]

ATTQOTD:
I often run on country roads with thick gravel/sand and my GPS would tell me that I slow down about 45sec-1min per mile from the 1st/last miles that are on pavement.

 

[KSellers88]

I have never done a trail run either. I am too afraid of tripping and breaking every bone in my body.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

ATTQOTD - I run both, and my road runs are at least 30 seconds per mile faster at the same effort level, even on the easiest trails. May advice - don't think pace, think desired effort level. Every trail is different, and if you target a pace instead of effort level, you could end up hurting yourself.

 

[Dis5150]

ATTQOTD: I have never run on trails. I also am afraid of falling and killing myself. Also ticks and chiggers.

I haven't been on the boards much lately as I am depressed about my lack of running. I had a sciatica flare up a couple of weeks ago. It only lasted a couple of days but walking, standing, sleeping poorly to compensate for my bad side made me hurt my back and I have been having pretty constant pain since. Doctors just want to throw pain meds at me so I am just taking it slow and letting it heal on my own. But I haven't run in weeks and even before that I was only running maybe 3 days a week. I feel like all my endurance is down the drain and I will have to start from scratch for WDW Marathon training. I feel like a wimp being depressed over this as some of you have so much more worse health problems to deal with. Sigh.

 

[GreatLakes]

QOTD: If you are normally a road runner and run a trail run, how much of a difference in pace do you allow to be equal? If you have done this how close were you to you estimate?

I don't really have a number in mind. My trail runs are pretty hilly compared to road runs and when you add in the physics of the running on trails as opposed to concrete I'm not sure I would be able to quantify it. If my heart rate is abut equal I consider the run equal if that makes sense.

 

[LSUlakes]

ATTQOTD: I have never run on trails. I also am afraid of falling and killing myself. Also ticks and chiggers.

I haven't been on the boards much lately as I am depressed about my lack of running. I had a sciatica flare up a couple of weeks ago. It only lasted a couple of days but walking, standing, sleeping poorly to compensate for my bad side made me hurt my back and I have been having pretty constant pain since. Doctors just want to throw pain meds at me so I am just taking it slow and letting it heal on my own. But I haven't run in weeks and even before that I was only running maybe 3 days a week. I feel like all my endurance is down the drain and I will have to start from scratch for WDW Marathon training. I feel like a wimp being depressed over this as some of you have so much more worse health problems to deal with. Sigh.

You got this! I took almost completely off for over 1.5 years and while getting started again was not easy, your progress happens much quicker than you think it will.

 

[PrincessV]

ATTQOTD: 95% of my weekly runs are done on a combination of pavement and trail - I make no differentiation and just run at equal effort. But my trails are coastal FL trails: crushed shell, sand, packed dirt, the occasional pile of leaves and stray branches, pretty darned flat, no more than a 1/4 mile in length per stretch. I'm not dealing with long stretches of root- and rock-littered mountainous single-track.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

ATTQOTD: I have never run on trails. I also am afraid of falling and killing myself. Also ticks and chiggers.

I haven't been on the boards much lately as I am depressed about my lack of running. I had a sciatica flare up a couple of weeks ago. It only lasted a couple of days but walking, standing, sleeping poorly to compensate for my bad side made me hurt my back and I have been having pretty constant pain since. Doctors just want to throw pain meds at me so I am just taking it slow and letting it heal on my own. But I haven't run in weeks and even before that I was only running maybe 3 days a week. I feel like all my endurance is down the drain and I will have to start from scratch for WDW Marathon training. I feel like a wimp being depressed over this as some of you have so much more worse health problems to deal with. Sigh.

Sorry to hear that. I deal with bouts of back spasms which can last weeks, so I totally get it.

You can handle this. Think of it as mental conditioning for your future runs.

 

[KaitlynJ]

ATTQOTD: I've never done a trail run.

 

[SarahDisney]

I have never done a trail run either. I am too afraid of tripping and breaking every bone in my body.

^This
If I was a trail runner, my answer to last week's QOTD about falls would have been very different

I haven't been on the boards much lately as I am depressed about my lack of running. I had a sciatica flare up a couple of weeks ago. It only lasted a couple of days but walking, standing, sleeping poorly to compensate for my bad side made me hurt my back and I have been having pretty constant pain since. Doctors just want to throw pain meds at me so I am just taking it slow and letting it heal on my own. But I haven't run in weeks and even before that I was only running maybe 3 days a week. I feel like all my endurance is down the drain and I will have to start from scratch for WDW Marathon training. I feel like a wimp being depressed over this as some of you have so much more worse health problems to deal with. Sigh.

Sounds incredibly painful. Yikes! I hope it heals up soon and you can get back to being pain-free and running.

 

[roxymama]

ATTQOTD: never done a trail run. Used to hike a ton when I was younger and I do miss it. I'm a big "stop and watch animals and stare at birds and plants" kinda gal, so maybe hiking is more my speed than trail running. Though I'd like to try it one day...I'm just too chicken about training since all I think about with lonely female trail runner is worst case scenarios. I'd try it in a group.
I'm also a big tripper in daily life...so I'm thinking I'd be much slower than road.

 

[huskies90]

QOTD: If you are normally a road runner and run a trail run, how much of a difference in pace do you allow to be equal? If you have done this how close were you to you estimate?

ATTQOTD: Not a trail runner