The Running Thread - 2026

[rick1zoo2]

Since its been so frigid outside, we have been doing most of our runs on the indoor track at my college. Since Marathon weekend, we have run 10 times. 8 of those were on the indoor track for about 41 miles. We calculated (and even measured it once) that it's about 7 laps per mile running in the outside lane, so that's about 287 laps. Kind of monotonous, but I like that as it's very easy to run it and I tend to lock into a pace like a metronome. It's easy to go fast. After each mile (7 laps) I take a short walk break and reverse direction. So today was 49 laps for about 7 miles. I am hoping it gets a little not-so-cold out so we can run outside more, not sure about doing longer runs on the track.

 

[Psymonds]

I think #3 was the hardest thing for me. I had done other goal based training for earlier goals and there the race really just did seem like a celebration, it was just a fun time. It's probably a "duh" statement but as your goals move to faster times the harder it will be on race day. I think that's why some people above may have the sentiment that training plans don't really train you well for a specific pace.

I think the mental part of that is the hardest part for me, but I have definitely had better luck with pacers. I met my goal at CIM in December but mostly because I really focussed on staying with the pacers, even when the mental energy wasn't there.

this has all been good feedback!