May 2017 Running Challenge
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WhatMeRunning wrote: »Although I'm a little confused how you can heel strike with an underbody foot fall.
Ask Meb.
http://runforefoot.com/meb-keflezighi-wins-boston-marathon-ditching-heel-strike-helped/
https://runnersconnect.net/heelstriking-running-cadence/
Actually the picture in the second link shows a really bad over stride combined with a heel strike. Yikes, how did he win the Boston Marathon running like that? LOL3 -
I am eagerly awaiting the publishing of the book @Stoshew71 is going to write someday on running. Maybe us MFPeeps can get a signed copy? I've learned a lot from that blog. Not to mention this forum!5
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WhatMeRunning wrote: »I am eagerly awaiting the publishing of the book @Stoshew71 is going to write someday on running. Maybe us MFPeeps can get a signed copy? I've learned a lot from that blog. Not to mention this forum!
I agree. oh, and I'm going to need to get some pictures of myself running, to see what my stride actually looks like, as I have no clue. My run cadence is pretty high (185 average according to my Forerunner, including walking during strides) so I'm curious to what my form looks like now.0 -
May Running Challenge
5/1: 8.69 miles biking, Strength training
5/2: 4.1 mile run
5/3: 5.2 mile run
5/4: Strength, 6.4 mile trail run
5/5: Tex Mex and a rest day
5/6: 6.2 mile super late night run
5/7: 12 mile super hot run
5/8: 10.24 miles on the bike
5/9: 4 mile run
5/10: 6.3 mile run, 6.87 miles cycling
5/11: 4 mile run, 6.98 miles cycling
5/12: 2.2 mile dog walk
5/13: 14 mile run
5/14: 6 mile run, 6.94 mile bike ride
5/15: 10.33 mile bike ride, strength, 2.2 mile dog walk
5/16: 4 mile run
Goals:
Running: 72.2 / 100
Cycling: 50.05 / 60
Upcoming Races:
Chicago Spring Half Marathon: May 21 (Registered)
Run the Rails 5K June 3 (Tentative)
XTERRA Jurassic Trail Run (HM at night) Jul 8 (Tentative)
La Sportiva Vail Half Marathon: Jul 22 (Tentative)
Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon: Oct 1 (Tentative)
POOP Trail Run (HM) Dec 2
Hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day weekend. I've enjoyed reading about your races.
My runs and cycling have been going well lately. Still not doing speed work yet since my calf is still tight, and Im getting more comfortable on the new bike. I'm getting better at scratching itches although it's still very scary to me.
New shoes arrived today!! Yay!!! The new Altra Escalantes have been getting awesome reviews, so I had to buy them. So far, they worked really well in the house. I don't think I can wait until tomorrow morning to try them so Spotty McSpotterson gets to go on a short run with me tonight. I also am trying injinji socks since I'm still getting blisters on my toes.3 -
A slow 8km - recovery run. Was feeling my legs more than I expected after my 10km Race on Sunday.
Definitely tells me that I put out max effort or close to it.
Had a hard time to get down to sub 6:00min/km tonight - no juice left in the legs.
05/01 0 km – 160 km - 0 km – YTD 420.15
05/01 11.5 km – 148.5 km - 11.5km
05/02 5.5 km – 143.0 km - 17.0km
05/03 10.0 km – 133.0 km - 27.0km
05/04 7.5 km – 125.5 km - 34.50km
05/07 7.0 km – 118.5 km - 41.50km
05/08 11.5 km – 107.0 km - 53.0km
05/09 6.0 km – 101.0 km - 59.0km
05/08 7.7 km – 93.3 km - 66.7km
05/14 9.9 km – 83.4 km - 76.6km
05/14 8.0 km – 75.4 km - 84.6km – YTD 504.75 Riverbank Recovery Run2 -
WK 5.15.17 - 5.21.17
M - Rest
T - 10 @ 9:50
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S - * Cleveland Marathon 4:55 Pacer
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JessicaMcB wrote: »Gearing up for RDM had taught me that taper is not for my temperament- pray for my husband, haha! Not 100% if I will be able to check in again until after the marathon as we are tenting out that way for the long weekend with the kids.
I have 2 FamDamly events about 200km apart so Travel-Travel for me.2 -
May goal: 50 miles
5/1/17: 4 miles
5/3/17: 3.5 miles
5/4/17: 3.1miles
5/6/17: 3.1 miles
5/7/17: 3.5 miles
5/9/17: 4.1 miles
5/10/17: 3.5 miles
5/12/17: 2.5 miles
5/14/17: 3.5 miles
5/16/17: 3.8 miles
34.6/50 miles
I had a good run tonight. I did sign up for a 5k on Saturday. I'm a little worried because there are thunderstorms in the forecast, I'm just hoping the weather will be ok. I'm planning to run unless they cancel it, but I have never really run in real rain. I've had a little bit of light rain, but we tend to either have drought or thunderstorms with hail etc so I don't have a lot of experience with rain. I did run without music today. It was different, but not unbearable. If this race, or any future races, don't allow music I think I will be ok. I'm looking forward to Saturday's race. It will be at Possum Kingdom lake which is a really nice lake that isn't too far from home. I will have to get up pretty early though for a Saturday but surprisingly I don't mind.
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May Running Totals (miles)
5/1 – 5.16 easy
5/2 – 6.67 easy
5/3 – rest day
5/4 – 8.08 easy
5/5 – rest day
5/6 – 11.23 loosely paced run
5/7 – 11.08 easy with fast finish
5/8 – 5.23 easy
5/9 – 8.16 warm up, speed work, cool down
5/10 – 5.66 group run
5/11 – 7.25 easy plus 5 strides
5/12 – rest day
5/13 – 15.07 paced run
5/14 – 7.20 easy
5/15 – 6.03 easy
5/16 – 10.63 warm up, speed work, cool down
May total to date – 107.45
Nominal Challenge Goal – 200 miles
Real Goals: Stay healthy. Build base. 5/28, start training plan toward MVP Rochester Marathon.
Today's notes – 66º F (19º C) is warmer than I've been running in, but it's about time to start acclimating to summer. Yeah, that's a little cool for summer; but not to worry. It's supposed to be warmer when I run tomorrow.
This evening was the first summer workout at Nazareth College. We can run intervals on the track, or for intervals measured in miles run the long parts on the Erie Canal Trail. There are options to run roads as well, but mostly we use the trail or the track. Today's assignment to train for Lilac 10K was warm up; then continual run 1 mile at E; 3 miles at MP; 3 miles at T; and cool down. For something like this that's measured in miles, I want to get away from that track.
It's a mile and a half from base to the Erie Canal Trail, so I ran the first half mile of MP on a non-technical trail before getting to the Canal Trail, which is not really "trail" as runners understand that term. Where I ran, it was part asphalt and mostly stone dust surface. The stone dust is softer and easier on the legs than asphalt, at the cost of not being as firm to push off so it's more work to run at a faster pace. I estimated that my T pace might be around 6:40 per mile on the stone dust surface in the slightly warmer than optimal weather. I targeted 7:30 for MP last training cycle, and didn't see any reason to change that. So how did I do versus target paces?
The mile at E came in at 8:08, right in the middle of my easy range. Three miles of MP came in at 7:22, 7:18, 7:23, a little faster than intended. Three miles of T came in at 6:44, 6:49, 6:37; but there were reasons. I ran further out for the first part of the first mile of T, so it includes the turn around in the out and back. That might have cost me 2 to 4 seconds. Then a shoe came untied. I waited till I got the first mile of T done to stop and tie it, so the 6:49 includes time spent tying my shoe . . . which was also a brief recovery period that the assignment did not contemplate. Then in the third mile, I look at my watch and see a 7:15 pace. But it *feels* like T. Try to run harder. That 7:15 doesn't budge. Oh, well, it's hot. Just run T effort.
I later realized I was looking at the average pace for the entire run, not the current pace. It's really hard to change the average pace when you're 6+ miles into a 7 mile run. So I ran part of that third mile a bit harder than I should.
As I was running along beside the Erie Canal, I noticed that it was quite pretty. But I wasn't about to take pictures in the middle of a tempo interval. But there's the cool down. I ran past the turn off back to base to finish the T interval on the canal trail. Then I took pictures of the view to the west and to the east:
Took the slightly more technical trail back for my cool down. It was pretty, too, as an oasis of rural-looking territory in the middle of suburbia:
And just so you all don't think everywhere I run is scenic and drop dead gorgeous, I also expect to do quite a bit of running this summer here:
2017 races:
January 1, 2017 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY) Finished in 50:45
January 7, 2017 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) Finished in 1:32:40
January 14, 2017 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds Park 5 mile) (Spencerport, NY) Finished in 33:42
January 28, 2017 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY) short course, finished 4.88 miles in 32:50
February 4, 2017 USATF Cross Country National Championship Masters 8K (Bend, OR) Finished in 35:39, team won the 60+ Men's cross country championship
February 11, 2017 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) sat out due to training schedule
February 25, 2017 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) short course, finished 4.34 miles in 27:51
March 11, 2017 Johnny's Runnin' of the Green 5 mile (Rochester, NY) finished in 33:25
March 18, 2017 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Shamrock 8K, Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 30:59, PR for 8K
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA) finished in 3:49:42
April 30, 2017 USATF Masters 10K Championship (James Joyce Ramble, Dedham, MA) finished in 39:54, PR for 10K
May 21, 2017 Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY)
June 9, 2017 Charlie McMullen Mile (Rochester, NY)
June 18, 2017 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY)
July 28, 2017 Karknocker 5K (East Rochester, NY)
September 17, 2017 MVP Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY)
November 23, 2017 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
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5/16 - 8 miles in 3 separate runs
42.9/100
traveling for work, but a coworker is running the same half as me and usual run buddy. So, ran to meeting point, ran with her, and ran home. May or may not have have detoured route home to go past the wine store- but it made run home longer- balance, right?
I am game for joining facebook group whoever was heading that up. Might make me more likely to post pics, I understand that bit better at this point.
@MNLittleFinn - my usual running buddy is a nurse for the OR at the hospital. At least once a month we have to plan our long runs (and frequently our weekday runs)to a loop that allows her to not only get back to her car, but to the hospital in 30 minutes or less, as she is on call. So, we do loops, a lot. Our original loop was .9 miles around the lake at a park- I kept telling her I felt like a race car. Someone luckily taught us a new option about the time we passed 8 miles that is a 2.5 mile figure 8. So, to answer your original question - BOTH!! But in terms of logistics, we are not always good pedestrians, often break the with vs against traffic rules, and will cross the street away from the light if we happen to observe a break in traffic. But we also live in Wyoming - a city in Wyoming, but it's not like we are jaywalking on horribly busy roads.
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2---3.11
4---5.16
6---6.62
7---2.4 walk
9---4.64
10th-15th in Georgia- lots of walking and ghost tours.
14---5.23 beach run
16---4.22
31.38/60+
UPCOMING RACES
July 8- XTERRA Jurassic Trail Run, 5K. Glen Rose,TX
Dec 2- POOP trail run, Hoping for a half! Norman OK.2 -
May goal: wear sunblock
5/1: sat on my okole. All. Day. Long.
5/2: 3.13
5/3: 6.06
5/4: 4.08
5/5 rest
5/6: 4.15
5/7 3.56
5/8 snorkel 3.5 hours
5/9 4.58
5/10 3.38
5/11 rest
5/12 3.25
5/13 life
5/14 6.40
5/15 4.13
5/16 3.30
Total: 46.02
Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:
upcoming races:
Volcano Rainforest Runs 10k 8/19
BlockThe Sun Run 5k Oct 14 (https://walk.aimatmelanoma.org/Hilo2017) (physical and virtual options available)
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@MobyCarp @WhatMeRunning @ctlaws44 @Stoshew71 your post were very insightful any novice runner like me can learn a lot from you thanks!
@NikolaosKey also, thanks, I only knew about recovery runs
I ran at 8.5 mph in the less deteriorated threadmill my gym has. I was happy keeping the pace but the machine couldn't reach the goal speed after 15mins and was slowly reducing some digits until I ended running at 7.5, it was annoying. When the payment expires I want to buy an activity tracker and run outdoors instead.
Also I felt a lot happier after running, like felling the endorphins flowing throught my body, does that has happened to some of you? is it a runner high?3 -
RespectTheKitty wrote: »Oh! I forgot to mention... I'm going to be starting up bowling again. I was a pretty serious bowler for a long time, but I took last year off for various reasons (I just needed a break, basically). Well now it's time to get back to it. I'm starting a summer league tonight. Bowling is actually pretty good exercise for me. It has a lot of strength elements to it (albeit only on one side of the body).
The only trouble is, I will be out late tonight, and therefore getting to bed late, which means getting up at 5:30 might be extremely difficult tomorrow. Therefore, I have decided to designate Wednesdays as a cross training day, so I can wake up a little later and do yoga or strength training before work. And of course all the walking I do during the work day.
If I use the Hal Higdon HM plan, I will have to adjust the schedule to account for various life aspects such as the aforementioned bowling. The program has the LR on Sunday, but I would much prefer to do it on Saturday and take Sunday as a rest day. I don't know, maybe Hal Higdon isn't the right program for me. I may have to research other plans.
@RespectTheKitty Yay on the bowling!
You can so do a HM!
Free plug for @Stoshew71 's blog!
http://therunningstan.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/my-gripes-on-training-plans.html
For my first HM, I read Stan's blog and loosely based my training on a Hal Higdon plan, plus a Strava Premium training plan, and on how I'd been doing at the time.
Even training plans written specifically for an individual still need tweaking as time passes. Am I right, @MNLittleFinn ?2 -
02 May – 8 km
03 May – 8.1 km
04 May – 7 km
06 May - Go the Extra Mile Melbourne 50 km walk
10 May – 8.7 km
11 May – 2.8 km
12 May – 10.2 km
13 May - 8.3 km
14 May – 1 km
15 May – 10.2 km
16 May – 9 km
17 May – 2.6 km to the gym and back
Total: 74.9 km run; One 50 km epic walk
Goal/Events:
6 May – Go the Extra Mile Melbourne 50 km walk – Done in 10 hours 39 minutes.
Ran to the gym and back to do a new Les Mills strength and plyometrics HIIT class, Grit. I'd never tried doing HIIT before. Challenging!
Also, on my Tuesday run, I used Runtastic on my phone to track it.
I can't remember who asked about advice running in the dark, but I recommend not using a strange app when you do it. There was a voice announcement I thought sounded like a man in my left ear saying, "barenaked". Needless to say I spent the rest of the run trying to calm down.
After some discussion with a Runtastic-using friend, I worked out the announcement was due to people cheering me on on my run, and it saying, "I like it". Dammit, I want my planned Zone 2 run back!!!5 -
Really hoping on building on this total this week!!
3/5/17 4.7K
6/5/17 5K
9/5/17 2.7K
10/5/17 5.1K
13/5/17 5K
15/5/17 3K
16/5/17 4K (TOTAL for May 29.5K)
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@Bakins929 Your new shoes look great! The well-known "red is faster" was also why I bought a red bicycle last year
@BeeerRunner Also yay for your new shoes! I tried toe socks in hiking boots, since that's when I get blisters, but they didn't help me. I hope you have more success.
@RespectTheKitty Bowling is fun, but I always fail horribly at making the ball go where I want it to go
Hal Higdon also has the "HM3" plan which includes two crosstraining days, three running days and has the long run on Saturday. Maybe that fits what you are looking for?
@MNLittleFinn I never thought about clockwise or counter-clockwise for loops. On long runs I usually (i.e. almost always, unless I feel particularly crazy that day ^^) plan the run so that the majority of the uphills is in the first half. That usually means running north first; and then it depends on whether I want to go west or east if that ends up being clockwise or not. And on short runs it doesn't matter where the hills are anyway, so I sometimes go in one direction and sometimes in the other, to have a bit more variety.
@MobyCarp Thanks for sharing all the photos, it's always great to see where other people run!
@Orphia LOL on the "I like it"
I just switched to a new phone last week, and the last two runs I had a man's voice saying random numbers or things like "fantastic" between music clips, so weird! I just figured out after coming home yesterday after my run that it imported all sound files it found on my old phone as "music" on the new phone, including the sound files from the "Wings for Life Worldrun" app that I used for their virtual race two weeks ago.
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I didn't run a lot in the last week and a half, even less than in the Hal Higdon marathon recovery plan, because I want to make sure my knee has a chance to recover. Only 20km in 10 days! I did sneak in a few bike rides of ~25km each on four of those days, so at least I got a bit fresh air and exercise anyway. And I'm dreading the day the DVDs I ordered get here and I have to start doing some kind of strength training again...
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@Orphia that's right. Even custom plans may need tweaking. I was told to try to follow the plan 80%+ of the time, but that still allows for some changes. He told me no plan is a silver bullet, but a tool to guide training.1
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5/1- 8.1
5/2- 4.6
5/3-9
5/4- REST
5/5- 5.7
5/6-20.1
5/7- 5
5/8- 8.2
5/9- 4.7
5/10- 10
5/11- REST
5/12- 5.7
5/13- 20
5/14- 5
5/15- 8.2
5/16- 4.6
5/17- 10.1
Total: 129.0
May Goal: Get through most of the last 5 weeks before taper healthy
Nominal mileage goal: 220 Miles.
Today's notes: Today's assignment was to run 10 miles, with miles 3-7 at Tempo pace.
Miles 1-2: Ran these part by feel, part by pace. Result was a 9:11 mile 1 and a 9:01 mile 2 with an average HR around 154
Miles 3-7 got interesting. For some reason, my pace alert on my Garmin (to keep me in nominal T range) was not alerting, and boy did it show. Splits were 8:16, 8:14, 8:14, 8:08, 8:08, when normal Tempo range is 8:20-8:35. That said, my average HR over the tempo miles was 167.6, so decently in the HR range I want for a tempo run, with a max HR of 176.
Miles 8-10 brought me back to more normal E pace, with splits of 9:30, 9:20, 9:21, and HR 164, 156, 158, so a little high, but not bad.
This was a great run and, according to Strava, I broke the 52 minute mark for 10k... by one second.... still, I feel pretty good after the run, not as tired as I would have thought.
Have a Runderful day all!
2017 Races
6/16- William A Irvin 5k
6/17- Grandma's Marathon (Full!)
8/19- Rampage at the Ridge 5k OCR
9/23- Ely Marathon (full)
10/21 Wild Duluth 50k
11/23- TBD 5k Turkey Trot1 -
5/1 - 5.1 miles. Fizzled a bit at the end of April, but good start to May.
5/2 - 4.1 miles of track/speed work. Then quick upper body weights.
5/3 - 5 miles. Nice, comfortable run.
5/4 - Rest day.
5/5 - 5 miles. Beautiful morning!
5/6 - 10 miles with a ridiculous amount of incline/decline. My *kitten* hurts!
5/7 - Rest day. See yesterday.
5/8 - 4.8 miles. Perfect weather at 4:30 a.m.
5/9 - 5 miles of track / speed work. Then upper body weights / abs.
5/10 - 3.5 miles. Overslept, so had to cut it short.
5/11 - 2.8 miles. Girls on the Run practice 5k with my daughter.
5/12 - Pre-race rest day.
5/13 - Market to Market Relay! So much fun! ~75 miles over 17 "legs" with a team of 6 other running friends. 5.3 miles (Leg 3), 5.1 miles (Leg 10) and 4.0 miles (Leg 17 + team finish). Total of 14.4 miles. Most I have ever run in one day. After the 5th leg, it was HOT! 80° F and sunny.
5/14 - Rest day.
5/15 - 4.8 miles.
5/16 - Unplanned rest day. A/C died and sleeping in 85-90° house did not go well for kids and dog.
5/17 - 4.0 'mill miles and upper body weights.
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@karllundy great running this month. Looks like you're well on your way to meeting/exceeding your goal!0
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Today is the last day for seniors!!! This year I have the best seniors, so it is sad to see them go. Really hard workers and so nice. Probably said this last year... but... at my school (Catholic) the religion teachers have the seniors write notes and collect small items like $5 Dunkin cards, cookies, nuts, etc., and they give every single teacher in the school a bag that is full of notes and these small gifts. (They give notes to everyone that works here, even the lady that cleans during the day - whom we all love). The best part about it is the notes. Since I teach Java, a lot of my students will write me a cute little program, a loop or an if statement and print statement. But the notes thanking us, is worth so much more than the monetary gifts. High school teachers don't get Christmas gifts or teacher's day gifts the way elementary teachers do. So... if you happen to have a high school student, particularly a senior, suggest to them to write a note to one or all of their teachers. The teachers will love it. And honestly, if their grade is on the cusp.. it may go up! They don't have to give any money, just a couple lines about how they thank the teacher. I can't even read mine during the day ... because I'm a crier. So I bring them home and cry there.
Another 4 miles this morning, still at the slower pace whilst ensuring no injuries. It seems like I'm in a running rut - always doing around 4 miles in the morning. But it doesn't feel like a rut to me. I love it. Finally figured out that on Wednesday if I run in the morning and then do the women's cycling group at night, I need to rest Thursday morning. So that's the plan for tomorrow!
@RespectTheKitty - that's great on starting back bowling! I haven't done that in years.
@elise4270 - It is so fun to run in a different place. I'm doing quite a bit of traveling the next 2 months and plan on taking advantage of it!
5/1 - 4 miles + strength training
5/2 - 3.5 miles
5/3 - 21 miles cycling
5/4 - 5 miles + strength training
5/5 - rest day
5/6 - 34 miles cycling
5/7 - 43 miles cycling
5/8 - 4.6 miles + strength training
5/9 - rest day
5/10 - 4.5 miles + cycling 21 miles
5/11 - strength training
5/12 - 4.6 miles
5/13 - 34 miles cycling
5/14 - rest day
5/15 - 3.8 miles + upper body Strength training
5/16 - 4 miles
5/17 - 4.13 + 21 miles cycling
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All this talk about stride length and injury has me thinking. I know it's common sense that speed work should is the first thing to cut out when you are injured. Is this because of stride length? I guess what I am getting at is this: I am convinced that, in addition to inadequate rest this winter, my current hamstring injury situation is most likely the result of a 10K race that I ran in 16F temps in early February. It was cold and I did not have an adequate warm up prior to the race. My normal stats for easy pace are 8:45-8:55, 0.93m stride length and 195 spm cadence. My stats for this race were 7:15 pace, 1.06m stride length and 205 spm cadence. That is about a 14% increase in stride length. But I do not know if this is normal or not. Obviously, both cadence and stride length are going to increase with speed, but by how much?
So my question is, when you run faster, do you see a higher increase in cadence or stride length? What are your statistics for pace, cadence and stride length for easy runs vs, say, 10K? Just curious, as I am wondering if this is something I might need to work on in the future.0 -
@ddmom0811 - That's just awesome. It must be great to know that you have made such an impact on so many young lives!0
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@ddmom0811 that's so awesome. Skip will buy Hersey kisses for her favorite teachers and give them a thank you card and a kiss good bye at the end of the year.
@mobycarp I laughed out loud when I got the track picture. Awesome pictures of where you run.
Took an unscheduled rest day today, I had a huge headache that kept me up half the night and it still hurt at 5:00 when I got up. I got dressed started up the street and got really sick to my stomach. Decided to go home and get Macy and take her for a walk instead.0 -
lporter229 wrote: »All this talk about stride length and injury has me thinking. I know it's common sense that speed work should is the first thing to cut out when you are injured. Is this because of stride length? I guess what I am getting at is this: I am convinced that, in addition to inadequate rest this winter, my current hamstring injury situation is most likely the result of a 10K race that I ran in 16F temps in early February. It was cold and I did not have an adequate warm up prior to the race. My normal stats for easy pace are 8:45-8:55, 0.93m stride length and 195 spm cadence. My stats for this race were 7:15 pace, 1.06m stride length and 205 spm cadence. That is about a 14% increase in stride length. But I do not know if this is normal or not. Obviously, both cadence and stride length are going to increase with speed, but by how much?
So my question is, when you run faster, do you see a higher increase in cadence or stride length? What are your statistics for pace, cadence and stride length for easy runs vs, say, 10K? Just curious, as I am wondering if this is something I might need to work on in the future.
@lporter229 - When I run faster, I do indeed have both a higher cadence and a longer stride length. But I don't think the increased stride length is particularly relevant for injuries. Most of it will be because when I run faster, there will be more airborne distance in the stride than when I run slower. The cadence might make some difference, as I'm hitting the ground more frequently.
But the biggest thing about running faster and injury is simple physics. Force is proportional to velocity squared, and when I run faster I'm hitting the ground harder. If we take the force I hit with at an 8:00 pace to be standard, at a 6:00 pace I will hit the ground with 178% of the standard force. (8:00 = 7.5 mph, 6:00 = 10 mph, (10/7.5)^2 = 1.7777777)
Between hitting the ground with increased force, and having something in the running chain weak from injury, there's a good chance of both aggravating an existing injury and injuring something else because I compensate for the injury to use other muscles differently and harder than I normally do.
Another consideration is that at a faster pace, I may have less control of my form; but I think the less control thing is bigger from injury than from pace. My first trip into physical therapy, the sound track was that I probably hurt my feet because I had weak hip abductors and couldn't properly control my foot strike. Fixed the weak hip abductors, and that particular type of foot problem didn't come back.
The stats? You made me look. Recent 15 mile paced run, 8:02 average pace, 179 average cadence, 1.12 m average stride length. Recent 7 mile solo easy run, 7:49 average pace, 180 average cadence, 1.15 m average stride length. PR 10K, 6:25 average pace, 186 average cadence, 1.36 m average stride length. PR 8K, 6:13 average pace, 191 average cadence, 1.36 m average stride length. I would have thought the cadence would vary more than that, but the stride length is about what I expected before I looked. (do the math) 18%-21% longer stride in a race than on an easy run, in line with your results or a little higher.
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6 pages behind again! Today is a rest day so instead of running I will go back and get caught up here in between my meetings at work
Date........Miles.......Total
05/01......0.00........0.00 - Agility trial
05/02......0.00........0.00 - Rally/Obedience trial
05/03......4.78........4.78 - Del Mar run
05/04......4.14........8.92
05/05......0.00........8.92 - Spin class
05/06......0.00........8.92 - Spin class followed by Barre class
05/07......0.00........8.92 - Much needed rest!
05/08......5.68......14.60 - + Agility Class
05/09......6.22......20.82 - + Strength Training
05/10......0.00......20.82
05/11......0.00......20.82 - + Strength Training
05/12......5.63......26.45
05/13......8.64......35.09
05/14......2.00......37.09 - Dog Beach Mother's Day
05/15......5.28......42.37
05/16......5.28......47.65 - + Strength Training
05/17......0.00......47.65
My completed and upcoming Races - Let me know if you will be running too!
02/05/17 - Surf City Half Marathon
07/23/17 - San Francisco 1st Half Marathon
12/16/17 - San Diego Holiday Half Marathon
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But the biggest thing about running faster and injury is simple physics. Force is proportional to velocity squared, and when I run faster I'm hitting the ground harder. If we take the force I hit with at an 8:00 pace to be standard, at a 6:00 pace I will hit the ground with 178% of the standard force. (8:00 = 7.5 mph, 6:00 = 10 mph, (10/7.5)^2 = 1.7777777)
Very interesting point. The difference is huge!
Another consideration is that at a faster pace, I may have less control of my form; but I think the less control thing is bigger from injury than from pace. My first trip into physical therapy, the sound track was that I probably hurt my feet because I had weak hip abductors and couldn't properly control my foot strike. Fixed the weak hip abductors, and that particular type of foot problem didn't come back.
I am also wondering if there are additional things (not related to my hamstrings) that I can do to loosen up my hamstrings. Both my PT and his associate said that my hamstrings were among the tightest they have ever seen (yay me!). I am constantly doing the stretches and strengthening exercises he has given me, but my range of motion just doesn't seem to be budging very much.0 -
So looking at cadence and all these articles I need to pick mine up. From the looks of my runs I do a 158-160 spm and that should be faster from what I'm reading. The articles suggest using a metronome to work you pace and that should work well since I don't usually listen to music and can cue it up. Does anyone else have any other suggestions for picking up spm? I don't ever race so it's not a huge worry but I do like stay uninjured so it might be a good thing to look into.0
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So looking at cadence and all these articles I need to pick mine up. From the looks of my runs I do a 158-160 spm and that should be faster from what I'm reading. The articles suggest using a metronome to work you pace and that should work well since I don't usually listen to music and can cue it up. Does anyone else have any other suggestions for picking up spm? I don't ever race so it's not a huge worry but I do like stay uninjured so it might be a good thing to look into.
I think the "magic 180" spm came from an observation on elite runners in races. At least for me, my cadence changes with speed - it might be 160 in a slow easy run but will go to 180+ in a 5k race.
Here are some articles on running cadence I found interesting:
Running Speed: Human Variability ... and Stride rate and what it means.
My personal conclusion was to watch my running form (don't overstride), but don't obsess about the cadence reported by my watch. YMMV, of course.2
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