July 2018 Running Challenge

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  • LaDispute57
    LaDispute57 Posts: 371 Member
    girlinahat wrote: »
    So er @LaDispute57 - is the second picture you posted you after rolling about in the second sign of a trail runner? Just wondering......


    I wouldn’t recommend it you know. I mean, I know dogs like to roll in stuff but.....

    LOL.... Actually it's my brother after a particularly hard fall... We carefully document all of our wrecks... Then, and only then, do we inquire about injuries...
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Teerai wrote: »
    @PastorVincent \
    Like I said, in context, the exercise was to introduce a bunch of healthy freshman runners to that state.
    It worked for us.

    Not like any other drug, alcohol, sugar, caffeine, or even other adrenaline highs, etc that I’ve experienced.

    And despite Runners Worlds cautions, IMO, ‘all-out’ is one of the best places ever even if not on the ‘high’.

    Not all the time or everyday but blowing-out-the-carburetor has it’s perks haha.
    It used to be called hardening-off or sharpening-up a few days before the competition.
    Of course, it is done intelligently, monitoring physical response of muscles during and afterwards.

    Later ‘the high’ came in daily training usually not at All-out.
    Also different than a second wind, but, curious PastorV if you get a ‘second-wind’?

    Oh, I am sure whatever the runner's high is, that there are many different ways of triggering it. Humans just tend to be pretty diverse in that kind of thing. So, I would fully expect PERSON A to say the only way to get it was to do THING and PERSON B to say that the only way to be sure not to get it was to do THING. :lol:

    But biochemically it is the same, as I understand it, as drugs. I have read that in many places at least. People may experience it differently, but at the "what is actually happening" level - you are literally getting high. I have heard some people describe it as a VERY umm... let's go with "joyous" feeling. Others as merely pleasant. I suspect that various a quite a bit too. Again, people are complex and diverse.

    I was on the track team in HS (a long long time ago in a state far away) and we did all out exercises many times. Hated every second of them. So that did not work for me either :lol:

    As for second wind... not sure what that is. I mean I have heard the expression used many times, but not sure what it really means to a runner. If you are asking that around mile 20 or 22 of a marathon if I suddenly get a burst of strength and finish strong, then nope. If you mean starring down the last miles of a long run and by force of will alone pushing through pain, fatigue, and finishing strong, then yes. But that is under the "mental toughness" category, IMO, and not some biological mechanism designed to reward survival based behaviors.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    garygse wrote: »
    In support of my eldest brother and the life he felt he had to conceal for many years, I decided my next few pairs of Epic Reacts would be from the BETRUE collection. Love you, bro!

    Very cool.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    They are so light and I don't even feel like I have shoes on, but don't feel as good as my current shoes so these may become my short run week day shoes, and I'll save my favourite pair for weekend long runs. Is that sensible?

    I have heard many runners do something like that. So sure! Go for it! Whatever makes your feet happy. :sunglasses:

  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    @PastorVincent - I don't much notice Runner's High while running, but I guess I must have experienced it for the last 6 miles or so of Boston; because when I stopped running, I felt about 30 years older.

    Never, ever got anything resembling Runner's High from running all out. That trick must be for sprinters.
  • abutcher2122
    abutcher2122 Posts: 175 Member
    @shanaber I was just telling my family the same thing this morning as I was double checking our kits to make sure we were fully stocked.
  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    Well I was going to run today but now there's quite a lot of thunder & lightning happening outside.

    Its supposed to clear up by morning so I'll do tomorrow's scheduled 8km and make up today's run on Friday. Maybe I will sleep in my running clothes. Wouldn't be the first time...
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,556 Member
    Welcome @CeeseOrtiz and @missevil.
    Regarding your shoe dilemma @missevil, did you buy them at a running store where they fitted you? If so, I would go back and tell them what you are feeling and have them analyze your gait and feet again. Sounds maybe like you have motion control type shoes and may need a more neutral or cushioned shoe.
  • workaholic_nurse
    workaholic_nurse Posts: 727 Member
    Checking in this morning with 2.6 outdoor miles for 15.3 so far this month plus 2.6 treadmill miles.
  • LaDispute57
    LaDispute57 Posts: 371 Member
    July goal is 150 miles

    7/1 5.00............ 5.00/145.00
    7/2 Rest............ 5.00/145.00
    7/3 7.00............12.00/138.00
    7/4 5.00............17.00/133.00
    7/5 7.00............24.00/126.00
    7/6 5.00............29.00/121.00
    7/7 Rest............29.00/121.00
    7/8 16.00..........45.00/105.00
    7/9 Rest............45.00/105.00
    7/10 6.00...........51.00/ 99.00
    7/11 4.00...........55.00/ 95.00


    Upcoming races:

    October 20: Sinnemahone Ultra Marathon Trail Race (50K)

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