Saturday my couch to 5k thing said to do 2.5 miles and I pushed myself to 4 miles on Saturday and did an average pace of 13:45. Earlier in the week I did a 3.75 mile run at 12:52 average pace. For the week did a total of 13 miles. Hoping to get myself up to 15 miles this week and try and get my average pace closer to 12:00.
Did 24 miles at a 7:27 pace, It wasnt an "easy" run for me but by no means was I going 100 percent. Walt Disney or anyone else, do you think its the realm of possibility that I can get down to 7:05 per mile in 9 more weeks?
thats awesome do a half next week or week after and see if you can run it that pace (7:05) Then stop running your long runs that fast!!! Then dont ever run 24 miles again! :) You run the risk of peaking too early that way imo
I can do a half at that pace, and I think you are right, my plan called for 26 miles in two weeks and then 28 two weeks after that, but I dont think Im gonna go that far.
Thats insane I follow a lot of top marathoners (2:20's) and I don't think I've ever seen anyone run that long
Hal Higdon ran 30 while training for a marathon. Once. Said he probably wouldn't do that again. LOL I say go for it, fecta23.
Yikes. I'd have to go back to January 2016 for the last time I took this much time off. Crazy schedule + race on Feb 25th + then sick for a while. Felt good to get out there today. Time to get back into it with consistent mileage. Hope to PR a 5K race in 6 weeks.
I was walking with the wife and kids yesterday and saw someone running. The loop he did was probably around 3 miles and I swear he must of been around 6:00-7:00 minute pace. This dude was trucking. My hats off to all of you that are busting your ass like that. Much respect.
Finally dragged my ass out of bed to do a couple miles this morning after doing most of my running in the afternoon. So. Goddamn. Thirsty.
sem I'm very inconsistent. Look at my runs on Strava if you want to see closer. Sometimes I stick to a steady pace. Sometimes I go out faster than planned and slowdown throughout the run - like today. Sometimes I do negative splits. this morning https://www.strava.com/activities/895939831
Ran a very hilly 15K this morning. Something close to 800 total elevation gain. Ran at 10:04 pace, 11 seconds faster than my target pace for the half in May. The half has 100 more feet elevation gain total. I may want to re-think my half goal and try a more aggressive number with just under two months to train. I sure would like an under 10 pace. Turned around an hour later and ran a much slower 5K but I was with my 10 year old for half of the race before we split up for the second half.
That's a lot better than running on the flat.. also, running in the woods on a trail is the best. You have to adjust your feet, it's not as hard as a road and the air is perfect.
Finally getting back after it. Ran 8 at 6:48 pace. I haven't run that far in 4 months. Mostly been doing short runs to stay in shape through injuries. Scheduled a half for April 29th.
I have to go see a doctor but I think I have tendinitis in my knee. I won't run for a couple of days and I'll start feeling okay. But once I go out I am fucked for 3-4 days. First day and I won't even be able to walk and won't be able to function without 3-4 ibuprofens every few hours. Hopefully it's nothing serious but I've been taking it easy and doing some hip exercises.
St. Patrick's Day 5K @ 21 minutes. Felt like I had a little more to give but for some reason the legs didn't respond.
21? 21:00? Did you beat my PR of 21:22? Curious what you did the few days prior to the 5k race if you don't mind sharing. Back in December when I did my last 5k on a Saturday, on Friday I ran 12 very slow (9:30 pace) miles, on Thursday 3 slow miles, Wednesday 4 med-pace miles.
I've been mixing my training up pretty good. I'm usually doing 1 tempo run (5-7 miles, 2-3 easy, remainder at 7-7:30 with a break in there), 1 aerobic run (6-8 miles, most around 8 min/mi), and a long run (upwards of 10 with aerobic paced miles in there) and 1 recovery day (anywhere from 3-7 miles at a 9 min/mi pace). Where possible I'll throw a 5th day in there but that can be tough. This week included a long run last weekend, a tempo run on Monday, and a recovery run on Thursday. I took yesterday off.
Finished the Dallas RnR half. 1:41:08/7:44 per mile. Pretty happy with that at 42. But I can barely walk.......New Orleans Crescent City Classic, Easter Weekend, up next. Hoping for a sub 45 minutes on a completely flat course.
Time to start training for the Cedar Point half tomorrow. Offseason was not what I wanted it to be this year, not even close. Oh, well.
Do any of y'all do meditation/mindfulness training? I've found it seems to help with my running. Yesterday I went for a long run after meditating a lot lately and it was like I was more in control of my breath. Like instead of just gasping for air, I was calmly controlling each breath idk. And towards the end of the run I seemed to really reach an elevated runners high type state which isn't usual for me
You guys are all very fast. I been slowly picking up my running again the past 2 weeks. Did 7 miles yesterday at a smooth 9:30 pace. Thinking about doing a 50 miler this year in August. . . Fuck I have long way to go.
Anything over 5-6 miles, I'm probably finishing at over a 10 pace. Unless it's flat, but where I live, I have very little experience running any kind of flat distance over 3 miles, unless it's a track.
Ya I live in Michigan so my overall elevation is not severe, though there are some small hills. I want to incorporate more trail running into my training this year. I will say, playing basketball once a week has helped me pick up my speed a little. I think I am going to continue to play ball once a week as my alternative to interval training.
Hey guys I'm getting my long game back together recently. 2 weeks ago 9 miles around an 8:40 pace and today 10 miles 10:15 ... damn I used to be at 8 min miles about a year ago, I've fallen off since then. I mean I can finish that distance no problem but it's gonna take some work to build up my pace again
Weather sucked today (and will tomorrow as well), so did 4 miles on the treadmill. It sucked and I almost quit after 3.25, just because. Finished anyway, so Week 1 is in the books. Ready to get back outside regularly, but cold rain? Fuck that.
Did 5 at 48, swam 3k, then did another 5 but walked at least a mile in there so did it around a hour. Wasn't planning on doing so much but I decided to get incredibly drunk last night and made a family size batch of pancakes for myself at midnight.
Wanted to get opinions here on some of you runners. I have been doing this couch to 5k thing on mapmyrun app and I have started to divert from the plan a bit and wanted to get opinions. Yesterday my plan wanted me to do 2.9 miles and to walk at a pace for 22 minutes and run for 15 minutes and then cool down for 5 minutes. Instead I walked 5 minutes to warm up, ran for 12 minutes, walked for 5 minutes, ran for 15 and then after the cooldown of 5 minutes I continued to run until I was a few blocks from my home and walked the rest of the way. I ended up doing 4 miles in total. The opinions I wanted to get is should I stick to the plan that the app has in place or keep pushing myself in a manor like this? I notice that when I do the shorter runs that my pace is much better, should I not even worry about that since my end goal really is not to be competitive but to lose weight? Thanks in advance
Plans like those are guidelines not set in stone. I'd push myself but not so much that you risk an injury. Do as much as you feel comfortable doing. Don't worry about your pace you want to be out there a little longer and not faster since you're attempting to lose weight and not gain speed.
Do what feels good to you at this point without overdoing it. That sounds like conflicting advice, but what I mean is that if you go above and beyond the program you need to back down when you're tired. Take a day off that's unscheduled if you're pushing harder than the plan or doing more.
I've never cleared 7:05min/m. Got close with 3:07-7:08min/mil. That was my 6th marathon. I actually researched races in the SE that were flat and that others recommended to try and hit goal times. So much of it I've discovered is out of your control come race day. Weather, race logistics and how you're feeling that morning present so many fucking variables that I had to mentally let go and say fuck. Best advice is push it when you can and throttle back at set time intervals to conserve for the final 10k. I agree with Walt Disney scale back the training 24 is a little overkill. Good luck
As someone who has had tendonitis in my knee twice in the last 6 months from running too much, Don't ramp up the miles too quick. Most of these runners on here have years of running built up as a base.
I am dealing with what I believe is tendonitis. Did you self diagnose or did you go to the doctor? What did you do to heal up and to be able to get back running? Haven't been able to run without discomfort for awhile and last few times I tried to run it couldn't even walk afterwards.
Thanks for the input. The uncontrollable variables are what is stressing me out, but like you said since there is nothing you can do about it you just gotta let it go. I have two more hard weeks of training then its race day May 6th. I'm doing the Eugene Marathon which is a pretty easy course, but I don't think I'm quite ready to BQ.
Over the last year I've had to deal with tendonitis for the first time ever in all my years of running. Most recently long distances marathons mostly and a couple 50K's. I went to 3doctors, for multiple X-rays, deep tissue scans the fucking works but nothing explained the pain. I really thought maybe I'd worn the cartilage away or something. Nope even that looked good. Later tried a chiropractor, nothing. Then someone I run with recommend changing up shoes and adding inserts. Figured what the hell. Changed to Brooks Adrenaline and added inserts and slowly started adding miles back. I've been pain free since. Might work, might not, it did for me, but if you're desperate like I was could be worth a shot. I also attribute the pain free from the rest I gave my legs over the course of a few months as wel. That had to help in addition to the shoes and inserts
One thing that always calms my nerves was running the course. Break in up and run as much as you can, some may be impossible because roads won't be closed, to get a fee for it. I hate surprises and I always like knowing what to expect.
Races are so much fun. Never had much in the way of nerves problem. It is what it is... hot, cold, rain, whatever! But then again I'm not at that close-to-BQ level either... yet! I guess the one thing that does make me nervous is the fear of having to shit during a race. It'll happen one day and that will suck. So far been lucky/skilled enough to always get that done before the race.