Hey. I thought I’d give this a shot, just a general chat thread about running… eg. How was your run today, how are you tracking, how’s your training going for that race that you decided to go for etc… if it’s popular, maybe someone knows how to write a bot to post weekly or monthly? (I don’t)
Just started the other day, and my legs hurt 🫠 my right knee has been acting up so I’m not sure what the best stretches are to warm it up. It mostly twinges when I stand up after squatting or bending over so that’s neat. Happy 36th birthday to me 😅
Pretty well. I’ve been increasing distance and time after some tendonitis and everything seems to be going ok.
I’m not very interested in racing much more than myself so atm I’m working on getting up to 10 km’s. Yesterday I did my longest in both time and distance with 1:20 9 km. Not prize winning but significant for me, that’s on hilly sandy trails as well so I feel I’m probably pretty close to my goal.
Still having difficulty building up speed but I’m happy with my progress and don’t want to push too hard all at once and end up on time out again.
@calhoon2005 I ran 5 times in the entire month of September. Not feeling too good about that.
My goal for this month is to hit 6-7 runs, that will be an improvement.
Dealing with shin splints for the first time in my life. This time last year I ran a sub-4-hour marathon and my overall volume has been way down since then so I’m really struggling to find a balance between enough running to keep me happy and satisfied without exacerbating the injury. It’s frustrating to see myself struggling with efforts that were once my easy days.
I have 33 weeks until a 50k trail run, so hopefully that’s plenty of time to heal up and get back to a good training volume.
Six weeks ago I finished my couch-to-10k training, and ran my first 10k after a gap of 3.5 years. It went well, but the fatigue lasted for two weeks. Afterwards, I fell sick and couldn’t start running for two more weeks. Finally last week, I started training again, for a faster 10k. And I realised that running couple of times a week actually makes me feel more rested and full of energy, as compared to a more sedentary life.
