Anyone here a runner?

[fdiron]

Man your kind of old to be doing that aren't you?

I sure hope I'm not too old, I'm only 19.

[SirLoin]

I'm still goin!..Ran the Ottawa Marathon a couple of months ago right in the middle of the Leafs/Senators playoff series!...Ran with a bunch of Toronto guys and whenever we saw someone in the crowd with a Senators jersey,we razz him/them and get a round of loud Boooo!'s from the crowd!...This was actually helpfull in the last 10k as we discovered that inflicting verbal pain on loser sports fans helped you forget how much pain your legs were actually in...


My PB's

5K..................18:10
10K................38:30
Half Mara..........1:28
Marathon..........3:26

[Daff]

"still happens unless I run at a snails pace. I can work myself silly in the weightroom or walk for 10 miles at a fast pace with a ruck"

I might get the terminology the wrong way around, so bear with me .

It's because you need to run below your anaerobic threshold, which is around 75-80% of your max heartrate. If you stay below that threshold, your body can produce energy enough for longer periods of time, but when you go above, you will use the 'emergency' reserves.
Weight-work will do nothing for your heartrate, walking will, but it will be at the lower end.
So..most likely, you will have to start at snails pace and then work it up from there.Technique is most likely also a big factor.

FWIW's, I'm crap at running myself, but I have recently started cycling fairly seriously and they spend a lot of time talking about heartrates, etc.

Daff

[Kieran]

Daff-

You have it right. And you are also correct, bikers pay very close attention to heart rate- but sometimes runners do, too. (I own a polar monitor, used it for both).

The thing I tell people about running is it isn't like you think it is, or should be. The worst mistake most people make is going out with the mindset it's supposed to hurt all the time. What you should do is run no faster than you can if you were trying to hold a conversation with a person running next to you. This means you are actually finding a pace where you are quite comfortable. If you get serious later on and want to train hard, you would still find that most runs in a week are comfortable. There would be only 2 or 3 days a week where the running would get uncomfortable.

Daff is right, going beyond your body's ability to provide oxygen is key (not to mention lactic acid buildup), but you also have to consider what distance you tried to start at, your weight, the type of shoes you're wearing, etc... If you are seriously competitive, you have to learn how to break your training up into phases. You have to plan long-term, and chart yourself a path to get there. One little-known thing about running is it is notoriously easy to get hurt, and taking off without a plan is a good way to do it.

Fdiron, how did you get hurt? Curious...

[Kieran]

BTW, sorry if I went overboard. As I said, I coached CC for a few years but had to give it up due to job change. It's still in my blood.

[Ripsnort]

I was up until 6 years ago, then the knees starting squeaking at me...when in my 20's I used to run 6 miles every other day.

[midnight Target]

Kieran..you broke 3:00 in a marathon! That is outstanding sir! All you couch potatoes out there, go try to run a mile in 6:20. Then do that 26 times in a row. Dam!

[Udie]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Kieran..you broke 3:00 in a marathon! That is outstanding sir! All you couch potatoes out there, go try to run a mile in 6:20. Then do that 26 times in a row. Dam!

 jeeze if you want to kill me I'd much more prefer a bullet in the old noggin!

[LePaul]

Same story as Rip...knees bug me when I run...got a clicky kneecap that bothers me if I run too much.  I used to run cross country in school and all that.

Lately, the hard workout nightly at UPS, eating right, and drinking lots of water have brought me from a weight of 241 last year, to 173 (as of this morning).  Slimmed down, working on toning up some.

Like walking at a brisk pace tho...gimme my walkman and I'll walk 5 miles easily...just keep the tunes rolling!  Or, if I have the dog with me, one squirrel and we're off into a sprint to get that bastid!  

[Elfenwolf]

Originally posted by Udie




 jeeze if you want to kill me I'd much more prefer a bullet in the old noggin!

Udie, I think your brain is on the other end:)

[Monk]

I run about 5ks everyday

[lord dolf vader]

have run as a ameture for years i suck compaired to anyone else but love it. started when i was 22 and got up to 3 miles 2 or 3 times a week and 5 or 6 on weekend . loved it stayed thin blew it off when bod got stressed but went back cause i missed it . ( runnin with a good walkman and good music is a drug) at 31 i had a injury to my bellybutton and had to stop as my bellybutton hurt when i ran = not godamn runnin .i saw a doc had a operation and got that prob fixed but  it takes a while to heal and i HATE pain in my ass.  so here i sit 2 years later and a hard walk half kills me . i have gotten up to 3.5 miles fast walk  now . and hope to run again soon.

and keiren said it all if it hurts your probly runnin to hard.

[gofaster]

See that nickname?

Started out as a competitive volleyball player, but at 5foot 7inches, 34 years old and getting older, I couldn't push like I wanted so I started running to get into some sort of better physical condition.  Won my age group once, PR of 24:30 in a 5k and was on my way to getting faster when the siren of beach volleyball started calling me.  Running is fun, but its not the social activity that volleyball is.  Now I juggle both sports and can't win in either one, but I feel great.

I've run 5k, 10k, and 15k, and ran both a 15k and then a 5k back-to-back last Winter.  I like the 10k distance the best: I can do it fast enough that it feels like a race, but its long enough to enjoy the trip.  5ks are over too quickly, and there aren't many 15ks held.  10k is the happy medium.

I prefer to train on grass, and then race on asphalt.  The grass saves the strain on my joints and since its a training run I can focus on the path instead of my pace.  When running on asphalt, I can focus on my pace and not worry about obstacles in my path.

[Kieran]

I disagree on the social aspect- running is the most social sport I've ever done. I have made my best friends from the sport, and it was not uncommon to have a pack of us (6-8) trotting along, discussing politics, training ideas, etc.

MT-

I shouldn't have posted those times, I am quite unremarkable. There are some very good runners where I come from, I am nothing special.