The Running Thread --2025

[Dopey 2020]

@Mr_Incr3dible
I didn’t even start until after 45, I might have been even less …. polite …than you were. Let’s just say we are in agreement

 

[RuntheMouse]

@Mr_Incr3dible
I didn’t even start until after 45, I might have been even less …. polite …than you were. Let’s just say we are in agreement

Same, I’m north of 50 and had a year of PRs. Not quitting anytime soon!

 

[LatebloomerultraF3]

Yup. Midlife crisis distance runner here. It’s better than taking up drinking, no? Something is going to get all of us eventually. I am challenging my joints now. But I will tell you, I feel a whole lot younger now than I did in my sedentary 30’s.

 

[AZMermaid]

So I’m in LA with my daughter for dance. We are staying right next to the Chinese Theater. I went for a run this morning. I walked the first mile and then started run/ walk 15/30. My ankle is doing well but still tender. So I’m running up Hollywood Blvd which has a million lights but it’s going fine. I turn around to come back and come across the most amazing farmers market. So of course I stop! I buy a delicious croissant and then decide to buy two plums. We leave today so I didn’t get much. But they had pistachio butter! Omg- it was so good. But also $28 haha! But I get it. So then I eat the croissant and decide to finish my run. So I’m running down Hollywood Blvd with my two plums and pistachio butter Then I stopped at McDonalds and got a Diet Coke which had no Monopoly tag and was $3.27!! But a memorable run for sure! Ha!

 

[camaker]

Race Report - RDC Marathon
This has really been quite the week, both in family and running life. My older daughter was due to have our first grandchild on Dec 10th. Unfortunately, she was admitted to the hospital with severe preeclampsia on Wednesday. After a hospital transfer, they decided an emergency caesarean was required, and he was delivered on Friday afternoon, 7 weeks early. Both mother and child are doing very well, but he'll be in the NICU for a week or two to help with his breathing. We're just happy they're healthy and thrilled to be grandparents.

After that, running the RDC Marathon this morning seems like an anticlimax, and, well, of all the marathons I've run, it was one of them. The weather this morning was perfect for a race, starting at 41 degrees and slowly rising to 58 degrees, with cloud cover just about the whole time. The course, however, was about the most boring course I've ever run, even if it was a relatively unchallenging one. The start line was at Southpoint Mall in Durham and started with a lap in the parking lot around the mall before heading out onto the American Tobacco Trail for a straight 12.5 mile out and back on a mix of crushed gravel and pavement. Spectator support was nonexistent and aid stations were a bit too far apart for my tastes.

My training was disrupted by knee pain over the last couple of months, which limited my number of runs and their pacing as I worked to get it under control. It was very much a case of "better to race undertrained than injured." My only goals for the race were to finish and assess the state of my hamstring under full load after the debacle of Marathon Weekend and losing 2 1/2 months of running due to it.

I'm happy to report that the hamstring held up just fine under the load of a marathon and I finished marathon #17 in 5:14 with steady pacing, consistent with my training. I realized towards the end of the race that this will also extend my streak to 10 consecutive years with at least one completed marathon. I'll take it.

 

[col1]

Race Report - RDC Marathon
This has really been quite the week, both in family and running life. My older daughter was due to have our first grandchild on Dec 10th. Unfortunately, she was admitted to the hospital with severe preeclampsia on Wednesday. After a hospital transfer, they decided an emergency caesarean was required, and he was delivered on Friday afternoon, 7 weeks early. Both mother and child are doing very well, but he'll be in the NICU for a week or two to help with his breathing. We're just happy they're healthy and thrilled to be grandparents.

After that, running the RDC Marathon this morning seems like an anticlimax, and, well, of all the marathons I've run, it was one of them. The weather this morning was perfect for a race, starting at 41 degrees and slowly rising to 58 degrees, with cloud cover just about the whole time. The course, however, was about the most boring course I've ever run, even if it was a relatively unchallenging one. The start line was at Southpoint Mall in Durham and started with a lap in the parking lot around the mall before heading out onto the American Tobacco Trail for a straight 12.5 mile out and back on a mix of crushed gravel and pavement. Spectator support was nonexistent and aid stations were a bit too far apart for my tastes.

My training was disrupted by knee pain over the last couple of months, which limited my number of runs and their pacing as I worked to get it under control. It was very much a case of "better to race undertrained than injured." My only goals for the race were to finish and assess the state of my hamstring under full load after the debacle of Marathon Weekend and losing 2 1/2 months of running due to it.

I'm happy to report that the hamstring held up just fine under the load of a marathon and I finished marathon #17 in 5:14 with steady pacing, consistent with my training. I realized towards the end of the race that this will also extend my streak to 10 consecutive years with at least one completed marathon. I'll take it.

Congratulations of becoming Grandparents how fantastic Glad to hear they are doing well.

Congratulations on Marathon # 17 and more importantly finishing healthy and your Hamstring cooperation

 

[nancipants]

Congrats on the race and the grandbaby! Preeclampsia is so scary, I’m so glad they’re doing welll.

 

[SheHulk]

Congratulations @camaker and I am so glad it worked out, hospital transfer and all. What miracles medical personnel can do these days!

 

[AZMermaid]

Congrats on the grand baby and race! How exciting!

 

[GollyGadget]

Congrats @camaker ! 10 years of marathons is impressive. Also glad to hear the family is doing well despite a small scare.