I’ve been back to running. I hate it.
I’ve never considered entering any events.
My limit is around the 3 mile mark because I hate running.
And I hate running more because my dog loves it.
I think because of his love of running I hate him.
Hate.
Reading that needed a mellow drum circle in the background.
haha that was right at the finish line over 26miles into the run. The day was freakishly hot for Seattle and I had leg cramps so bad from not hydrating early in the race when I knew I was sweating too much. Anyhow I was in some of the most pain of my life the last 6-7miles. Learned a lot from it though.
hahaha
I look happy in the other pics! I had a blast.
i loved this book… i hadn’t run with any seriousness since freshman year in high school cross country- and i sucked at it them. read this book and decided everything about it was right…started training for a marathon the next week…work got in the way so i only ended up doing a half marathon halfway through the training, then too much work again so i ended up running the army ten miler this past fall after not running at all for 4 months…did about the same pace as the 1/2 marathon. this year i’m going to do a full one way or the other. warming up with a relay team for the pittsburgh marathon in early may then hopefully the buffalo marathon at the end of the month- maybe a warrior dash in there somewhere as well.
what i’ve discovered is that once you get the right mindset you are most of the way there. my brother, my wife and i decided one weekend to run 15 miles from my parents house to a bar to get lunch and drinks…it was really stupid, but a lot of fun and probably the closest i’ve ever come to dying from dehydration- the important thing was it wasn’t a chore.
footwear wise i’ve tried out the vibram five fingers and they are fun on trails but are too tough on roads and sidewalks. usually i just buy whatever reasonably priced nike i can find. i try to wear them casually for a couple months to wear them in before running in them though to beat some of the padding out of them.
Talking to Mike on here and hopefully doing a marathon in the next few months. Going to go rock out 10ish miles here in a bit.
Deadlifts, rowed 2,000m, then ran about 3.6 miles last night. Got some funny new pains this time I’m trying to start running again (I got pretty comfy then work travel got in the way and I took a few months off). Is there a ligament on the back of your knee? PCL or something? If so then that’s sore. Plus some weird nerve thing under the front part of my foot. Waah. 
Oh well, I’ll just keep running and my legs will figure it out.
Dear Fry,
Please wear running shoes.
Thanks,
Andrew
I know you like that book and it sounds great and all but your body is not going to adjust to that while you still wear normal shoes every day and decide to make the change 2x years into life. You would need to do serious miles and take months to get where your body will adapt. It is a nice story. But among the running community not something people should be taking to heart so much.
Make me.
Any advice for running in the cold? I entered a 5k at school that’s this Sunday…
Dress warm. 
Fufufufufufufu I barely finished my 40 minute treadmill hamsterthon last night. At about 37 minutes that pinched nerve under my foot started acting up. Felt like there was a knife in the bottom of my toe. That weird behind the knee pain started at about the same time. I’m either going to go barefoot or give in to sound advice and have the wife take me to fleet feet for my birthday.
On the plus side any time the bad spot in my knee starts hurting (I’m missing a bunch of cartilege <3 soccer) or pretty much any other pain starts I am invariably hunched over. If I straighten up my back the pain goes away within 4 strides. Form. :tup:
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Also you are right form is huge. I constantly am checking my form while I run. When I get really tired i tend to let the chin drop and roll the shoulders forward(slouch). I just chin up, shoulders back and relax.
Chin up usually pushes the shoulders back automatically.
I did 22 minutes on the treadmill last night (a few minutes of warm-up cool down) and ended up doing just over 2 miles total. Going to attempt to repeat that tonight. My calf muscles are really holding me back. Stamina-wise I was good to continue. I ended up doing another 15 minutes on the bike after a quick walk to the water fountain.
I did 9 miles two days ago and ran into geoff while running the UB indoor track. It was a pretty bad run and I was irritated so I took two days off and am going to try to squeeze in a quick 3-5mi here in a few.
i hurt my back yesterday, probably from trying to stare-yet-not-be-staring at the eyecandy. I’m down for the count for a couple days… might concentrate on some core training
I’m kind of dreading this 5k on sunday. Gonna go to the gym prior to warm up good though
you all suck at running…
Wow that is incredible.
I don’t even understand how that’s possible. Fuck.
thats a lot of running shoes.