Running • Page 80

I always make sure to stretch after running, I also walk a mile after my longer runs and other workouts.

I almost never stretch before, unless I'm extra tight or feeling something, but I have a good dynamic warmup I do.

 

My garmin forerunner has likely bit the dust. Sucks right now since a new phone is the priority.

 

I used the same Forerunner for a long time. 7+ Years. It was a great watch, but it started randomly dying on long runs and even shorter ones at the end. I’m always really stubborn about gear and I waited way to long to replace/upgrade. The local running store owner made me an awesome deal on a Fenix. It was the prior year model. Love the watch, tons of features.

 

Today is day 20 of my planned 40-day running streak and so far so good. I've gotten about 10 seconds faster on the mile loop that I run each morning that I don't do a longer run and I've done 43 miles total so far.

 

i got 26 days in a row. 102 miles on the year. still 2 miles behind hitting my 2,000 mile goal on the year

 

Up to 156 miles on the year so far! Not sure what my streak is, but I don’t think I’ve missed a day since October.

 

i say this not being snarky at all, but an achievement like this is mind-blowing to me BECAUSE of learning you run the same loop every day. i get so sick of the same scenery that i barely run in / around my neighborhood anymore because i've done it so much over the years - i have to go somewhere else. if i go out the door and run for 3 miles it will almost always nowadays feel like 90 miles versus if i run the 3 miles somewhere else.

i know some people who do 50 milers and it will be like a 5 mile loop they do over and over again and to me that sounds awful - not because of the distance but because of seeing the same stuff again and again. by loop 4 i would be done. i know not every race i'll run will be a point to point or a circle (i've already experienced a few out and backs and whatnot) but they are not ideal. probably my biggest mental "weakness" when it comes to staying engaged and continuing.

 

i have 4-5 routes that i interchange w/. could never stick to one loop

 

Sometimes I run it in the other direction It is only a mile though, so I'm done in about 7.5 minutes, and I run early enough that no one else is out so I don't really even have to pay attention.

When I first started distance running in the mid-00's I didn't have and couldn't afford a GPS watch, but I knew the park a block from my house was close enough to 1.5 miles around so I would just run circles around there. I trained for a half marathon and 2 full marathons doing that.

Now I have loops/routes of different distances - 1 mile, 5K, 4 miles, 5 miles, 10k, 8 miles - that I combine together in different ways to get the distance I want.

 

Following up shin splints with probably having COVID is making for a fun setback

 

jesus, that sucks. Sorry to hear that. Silver lining - having covid likely means no energy to run which should help fully heal up shin splints? Right? Little bit of positivity maybe lol

 

I’m vaxxed, boosted, and symptomless, so I’m hoping that stays the same. Have my test on Friday morning to check, but my mom, my dad, and his wife all have it with symptoms so I’m quarantining for now. We had a family birthday dinner on Friday (their birthdays were Saturday and Sunday), and they all had symptoms by Sunday afternoon.

I’ve now had over a week off and my legs do feel a lot better. I’m a smidge anxious for my next run, but we’re getting ice overnight so I’m pushing it to Saturday or Sunday.

 

i had covid (or at least what I assume was covid since I was down for almost two full weeks and I’ve never been sick for longer than 2 days before that) at the end of December / first week of January, but by 1/8 I was back to running 8 miles with no issue whatsoever and I had some symptoms so I will assume that if you remain symptomless, you should be able to bounce almost immediately.

 

I’ve read this maybe a dozen times and I am blown away lmao. So you did all of your runs, including long runs, around a 1.5 mile loop???? You might be the mentally toughest person I’ve ever met online lol

 

I’m pretty lucky to live in an area with so many running options right out of my front door. I don’t think I could handle the same route or loop everyday. Part of what keeps me going is mixing it up even if it is all mostly within the same 20-25 mile radius.

 

You ever heard of this? an ultra-marathon around a single city block, utterly insane shit

Race of Self-Transcendence

 

that’s nuts haha. i ran seven miles today and did the last mile doing roughly a 0.5m loop twice and that was easily the most miserable mile of the run

 

ohhh yes. There’s a documentary about it on Amazon Prime (or at least there was) and I was just in shock the entire time. Like, at the very least do this shit in a park or forest or something. But just fucking running around a city block for days on end? No thanks! Insanity lol

 

Haha, I can barely stand a mile on a treadmill. I don't believe in hell, but if it exists when I end up there that's what I'll be doing.

But yes, that's what I did. Honestly, at the time it was better/easier for me to tackle running those kinds of distances that way. The 1.5 mile loop was something I knew, and knew I could conquer, so even thinking about running it 12-13 times didn't seem like a big deal. Running double-digit miles, let alone 20 for my longest run, was something completely unfathomable to me at that point though.

 

My marathon had a three mile loop that you had to run twice and it broke every runner who did over 3 hours in real time. Brutal.

 

The Iowa marathon I’m running in March is kind of an out and back and out again for some sections and I’m not sure it’s better to know that beforehand or just in the moment lol. Madison was great because it was 99% if not 100% a one way route. I did a half marathon that was an out and back and that was ok but not super fun. The 50K I tried last year was like two 13 mile loops after a 2 mile start and a 2 mile end and once I started that second 13 mile loop it was TERRIBLE. Even though it was nature and nice I also remembered every shitty ankle rolling part and everything else because I was just there doing it three hours ago lol

 

Training plan calls for a 13 mile run tomorrow, something I’ve done maybe two dozen times since I started running and it’s amazing how I’m just like “oh ok, that’s the distance for tomorrow” and don’t give it another thought. Like, I know every Saturday is a long run but sometimes the schedule says it’s a 7 miler, sometimes it’s 18 or 21 and I’m lucky enough to not have it be a big deal or wonder if I’ll be able to. I told some coworkers and they were, probably rightfully so, flabbergasted and horrified at hearing “13 miles” and my biggest concern was making sure my post run food was purchased and/or remembering to download the podcast I want to listen to in advance in case I lose signal lol.

 

Got the notification for my 8k in March of the suggested training plan, and with the temperatures going sub zero two of the next three nights and loads of snow on the sidewalks/streets, I am now overwhelmed

 

I definitely would want to know ahead of time. I know whenever I’ve done circuit routes in training (so that I come back past my car for water/snacks) that I regret it every single time.

 

Running a 5K this weekend and they just announced the course has changed from the 2020 run and it’s 95% where I train twice a week now. How lame.