The Running Thread --2025

[marty3d]

Congratulations @rick1zoo2 !

 

[col1]

Congratulations

 

[accm]

Is anyone else having issues with Garmin treadmill runs not syncing with Strava? I'm considering not bothering with Strava anymore, but all my shoes are currently tracked through Strava. I tried adding them to Garmin, but short of going back and editing every run, I can't add existing milage to the shoes. Does anyone know of a workaround for that?

 

[avondale]

Is anyone else having issues with Garmin treadmill runs not syncing with Strava? I'm considering not bothering with Strava anymore, but all my shoes are currently tracked through Strava. I tried adding them to Garmin, but short of going back and editing every run, I can't add existing milage to the shoes. Does anyone know of a workaround for that?

If you're tracking the shoes so that when you hit X mileage, you know to retire the shoes: when you put the shoe in Garmin, just change the "max distance" for the shoe to be X - whatever mileage the shoe had on Strava. Then you'll have your "retirement distance" for that shoe in Garmin.

Then when you get new shoes, just start them out in Garmin, and eventually they'll all be there.

 

[camaker]

Is anyone else having issues with Garmin treadmill runs not syncing with Strava? I'm considering not bothering with Strava anymore, but all my shoes are currently tracked through Strava. I tried adding them to Garmin, but short of going back and editing every run, I can't add existing milage to the shoes. Does anyone know of a workaround for that?

If you're tracking the shoes so that when you hit X mileage, you know to retire the shoes: when you put the shoe in Garmin, just change the "max distance" for the shoe to be X - whatever mileage the shoe had on Strava. Then you'll have your "retirement distance" for that shoe in Garmin.

Then when you get new shoes, just start them out in Garmin, and eventually they'll all be there.

@avondale is right on the mark here. The easiest way to do it is to edit the max distance for each pair of shoes. When I run longer ultras, I'll sometimes use 3 or 4 pairs of shoes in a single race, but if you add them to the run in Garmin, it adds the total mileage to each pair. To accommodate for that, I'll just add one pair to the run and edit its maximum mileage up by the amount run in the other shoes. For the other shoes, I'll subtract the mileage run in each pair from their maximum mileage, so everything nets out correctly.

 

[Dopey 2020]

Is anyone else having issues with Garmin treadmill runs not syncing with Strava? I'm considering not bothering with Strava anymore, but all my shoes are currently tracked through Strava. I tried adding them to Garmin, but short of going back and editing every run, I can't add existing milage to the shoes. Does anyone know of a workaround for that?

I don’t use strava so if it’s ongoing I don’t know, but if you mean just today there was a pretty big outage affecting them that should be fixed. I use a simple app to manually track my shoes and put in miles every run myself because I don’t trust any app to sync properly every time.

 

[Zutroy]

Is anyone else having issues with Garmin treadmill runs not syncing with Strava? I'm considering not bothering with Strava anymore, but all my shoes are currently tracked through Strava. I tried adding them to Garmin, but short of going back and editing every run, I can't add existing milage to the shoes. Does anyone know of a workaround for that?

Strava is currently suing Garmin for patent infringement, and is demanding that Garmin cease selling all of their fitness/outdoor watches, as well as cycling computers, and to remove a bunch of feature on Garmin Connect. Your issues could be related.

 

[accm]

If you're tracking the shoes so that when you hit X mileage, you know to retire the shoes: when you put the shoe in Garmin, just change the "max distance" for the shoe to be X - whatever mileage the shoe had on Strava. Then you'll have your "retirement distance" for that shoe in Garmin.

Then when you get new shoes, just start them out in Garmin, and eventually they'll all be there.

@avondale is right on the mark here. The easiest way to do it is to edit the max distance for each pair of shoes. When I run longer ultras, I'll sometimes use 3 or 4 pairs of shoes in a single race, but if you add them to the run in Garmin, it adds the total mileage to each pair. To accommodate for that, I'll just add one pair to the run and edit its maximum mileage up by the amount run in the other shoes. For the other shoes, I'll subtract the mileage run in each pair from their maximum mileage, so everything nets out correctly.

It's not so much to track it so I know when I retire, since I retire my shoes by feel rather than a set number of miles. It's more so that I know once I retire a shoe, how many miles it has. I could just start using Garmin and then when it comes time to retire the shoes, manually add the milage from Garmin and Strava.

Strava is currently suing Garmin for patent infringement, and is demanding that Garmin cease selling all of their fitness/outdoor watches, as well as cycling computers, and to remove a bunch of feature on Garmin Connect. Your issues could be related.

I had heard about that but honestly don't know much about it. My outdoor runs have so far been syncing properly, it was just the treadmill ones, so I wonder if you're right.

 

[jmasgat]

Rude surprise of the day…..pulling up the tab of your BAA 10k training plan—and finding all the training content gone. Not too bad since I’m in the final week, but I do use these plans for other distances. Managed to find a cached copy on Wayback Machine.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

My news feed this morning with the breathless headline, "Does Earth now have two moons?"
And the accompanying photo:

 

[nancipants]

That's no moon.

 

[GuinnessRunner]

Strava is currently suing Garmin for patent infringement, and is demanding that Garmin cease selling all of their fitness/outdoor watches, as well as cycling computers, and to remove a bunch of feature on Garmin Connect. Your issues could be related.

Suit was voluntarily dismissed by Strava so guessing that wasn’t part of it.

 

[accm]

Suit was voluntarily dismissed by Strava so guessing that wasn’t part of it.

I did an outdoor run today that didn’t sync, so now I’m really not sure. I’ve tried disconnecting them and reconnecting them and nothing…

 

[jrsharp21]

Random question, but has anyone ever re-trained their running striking type from going to a heel striker to more fore-foot? I am a heel striker and yesterday on my run I tried to play around with striking more towards the ball of my foot. I am convinced that a lot of my hamstring cramps has to come from my heel striking. If you have gone from heel striker to fore foot, any tips or drills you did to change?

 

[Goofed98]

Random question, but has anyone ever re-trained their running striking type from going to a heel striker to more fore-foot? I am a heel striker and yesterday on my run I tried to play around with striking more towards the ball of my foot. I am convinced that a lot of my hamstring cramps has to come from my heel striking. If you have gone from heel striker to fore foot, any tips or drills you did to change?

I did.

Barefoot running made all of the difference in the world. I might suggest trying it on grass, if you have some available, and start slowly (your calves will feel it).

I run in shoes now, typically something with a very low drop, but I'e had few to no issues in the last 10 years or so since making the change.

There are a number of books and websites that mention the feelings, like "falling forward" as opposed to really lunging out there, but in reality, the running barefoot is what made the difference. I just wasn't going to be heel striking once I took my shoes off.

 

[SheHulk]

Random question, but has anyone ever re-trained their running striking type from going to a heel striker to more fore-foot? I am a heel striker and yesterday on my run I tried to play around with striking more towards the ball of my foot. I am convinced that a lot of my hamstring cramps has to come from my heel striking. If you have gone from heel striker to fore foot, any tips or drills you did to change?

I did! I used to get extremely painful stabbing calf cramps at anything over maybe 18 miles. I decided it was from heel striking and somehow trained myself not to. One tip is to kind of lean forward when you're running... It's important not to just bend at the waist but lean from the ankles if that makes sense. Kind of imagine you are pushing a heavy shopping cart up a hill? There are a lot of YouTube videos showing what I mean:

Sage Canaday talks about this a lot.

I also lost a lot of weight over that time I shifted my strike, so I don't really know whether it was the weight loss or the strike change or some combination, but I have never had those calf cramps again, and I had had them for years prior.

 

[Dopey 2020]

@jrsharp21 Still working on it but have improved noticeably. Just as others said, forward lean, shorter quicker steps, try all the different tips and tricks to see what works for you. The biggest thing I could say is know that it takes time, don’t get frustrated and rush, it will only hurt you.
Also, heel striking itself isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it’s just the way your body works. If your heel contacts first because that’s how you flex your ankle but there isn’t much force on it because you foot is under your knee at 90 degrees or less it may not be an issue. It’s when you are overstriding that it becomes a problem. The farther forward your foot is from 90 degrees under your knee, the more a heel strike acts as a brake and the more stress on your body.
You have to decide what is the actual root of any problems you are trying to correct.
If overstriding is your problem, work on that and your heel striking may fix itself in the process

 

[Zutroy]

Random question, but has anyone ever re-trained their running striking type from going to a heel striker to more fore-foot? I am a heel striker and yesterday on my run I tried to play around with striking more towards the ball of my foot. I am convinced that a lot of my hamstring cramps has to come from my heel striking. If you have gone from heel striker to fore foot, any tips or drills you did to change?

Heel striking often comes from how you position your body during the run. Keep your upper body straight, lean forward, drive with your knees, and your feet will naturally fall where they need to.

 

[SheHulk]

Heel striking often comes from how you position your body during the run. Keep your upper body straight, lean forward, drive with your knees, and your feet will naturally fall where they need to.

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Somehow I still look much more like the left in race photos, even though I swear I am telling my body to do the right!

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

Slightly off-topic, but relevant to this crowd.
I'm at the dermatologist yesterday, getting large portions of skin frozen off (just let it go) or cut off. For anyone curious, sun damage from teen years now manifesting itself in my pale skin, but I digress...
The doc notices my running shirt and is asking for updates, and then mentions that one of his friends is a surgeon who posts stuff almost daily on his social feeds, and a recent one was "Top 5 things men over 45 should stop doing immediately", and the doc was curious as to my thoughts.
The first ones were the usual suspects: Stop smoking, minimal drinking, no sugary drinks.
#4: Stop distance running. <record scratch>
My pithy comment can't be repeated here, but the second word was "that".
I told him that I'll do it until I can't, and mentioned the octogenarians that are still running/walking in distance events. He proceeded to ask if the endorphin high and such were real, etc and we finished up.
But stop running after 45? Um, no.