November 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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MegaMooseEsq wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »I work from home so 1) I have a nice view from my window of the trees and condo buildings outside and doggies passing by and 2) I have a flexible schedule.
Two jobs prior to this one I was full-time work from home. I miss that. I do not miss the pay though. I am making 50% more here.
I am surprised how happy I've been working from home full-time. I was worried about it since the last time I was at home all day was during a prolonged period of unemployment - I probably should have realized that having work plus not being in a much better mental health space (not unrelated) would make a lot of difference. I'm seriously considering not looking for work for a couple of years at least. It helps that the money's good, of course.
Anxiety is so rough. A friend recently posted an article about why it's so frustrating when people claim that running or other exercise is a cure for mental illness. Running is a great boost to my mental health, but I never could have gotten into running the way I have if I hadn't already done a lot of work to get to a healthier place mentally. For me, it's kind of like weight loss - I don't consider exercise alone to be a sustainable way to lose weight, but it is an excellent way to maintain after losing.
ETA: I certainly don't mean to denigrate anyone who personally feels that running/exercise was genuinely a cure for them. Also I'm making a distinction between anxiety as an emotion everyone experiences sometimes and anxiety as a mental health diagnosis.
@eleanorhawkins: Individual counseling worked for me for a long time, until it didn't. It's absolutely an important tool but it's not the only one. My primary treatment these days is medication supplemented by journaling and running. I've been getting my medication through my primary care doctor as my prescription has been fairly stable, though I am considering trying a new psychiatrist for quarterly sit-downs. I've never gotten along well with psychiatrists in the past, but my husband really loves the one he's seeing and I'm thinking it might be worth a try.
I also work from home and love it but, as mentioned, the pay is pretty cr@p so it isn't all good.
Re: anxiety and running and my daughter I certainly don't expect it to be a cure but I really do believe (based on my own experience only, however she is like a carbon copy of me!) it would do her a lot of good.
Personally:
I find that my brain calms down a bit when I'm physically tired after running, reducing the amount of 'mental overexcitement' and random fretting it indulges in for a while.
While running I have time to think out and churn over issues that are bothering me without gnawing my nails off up to the knuckles or mindlessly munching through the contents of the kitchen while I'm at it.
The sense of accomplishment and achievement I get from my increasing ability to run for longer/further/faster boosts my self-confidence and makes me feel better with and about myself.
There are more, but those are the things I think would help her and the reasons I keep on trying. Oh, it has also given me better control over my breathing, and breathing techniques/exercises were the only thing that seemed to help at all when she was seeing the psychologist. Medication has yet to be offered and to be honest, she's only 13, we're not all that sure we would want to be putting her on medication so young unless all else fails.
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I have general anxiety. Running helps me but I know others have different levels of anxiety and depression so I'd never say it's a cure.
Even Running is my Therapy never said it was a cure all. It's the authors personal story with research. And a lot of explaining every one is different.
I think everyone needs to find what works best for them and it might include running.6 -
After the kidney stone issue earlier this week, I finally got back on the trails!
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November Running Totals (miles)
11/1 – 7.58 warmup, speed work, cool down
11/2 – rest day
11/3 – 12.08 paced run
11/4 – 9.43 warmup, 6K XC race, cool down
11/5 – rest day
11/6 – 10.10 commute, warmup, speed work, cool down
11/7 – 6.30 easy
November running total to date – 45.49
Nominal November mileage goal: 160 miles
Real Goals: Avoid injury. Run well in the Pete Glavin XC series. Have fun at the Syracuse Half and Race with Grace 10K. Build base toward the start of Boston training.
Today's notes – Felt pretty creaky this morning after yesterday evening's substantial speed work. Took it easy all morning, got out to run in the sunshine at 2:47 PM. Garmin says it was 50º F (10º C), which would normally be shorts and a tee running weather; but 26 mph wind motivated me to go with shorts, long sleeve tech, and a jacket over that.
The wind was not steady, but 26 mph is a reasonable estimate of the average in exposed areas. There were gusts that felt quite a bit stronger. On the route I chose, I ran about a quarter mile crosswind, then turned and ran about 1.5 miles into the teeth of that wind. That was a bit of a mental challenge on legs that felt tired, but I knew it wouldn't last forever. After that, I turned and had only short segments into the wind without some shelter; and after the first half mile, all the noticeable uphill segments were either crosswind or with the wind at my back.
By the time I got to the corner 2 miles from home and turned for 1.3 miles with the wind at my back, I was feeling pretty normal. Still only wanted to run about 10K, but I noticed my pace creeping up there. So I tried to control it, and afterwards looked at the HR data. Average HR 127, max HR 145, 42:56 in Zone 1, 3:42 in Zone 2, nothing higher. Say what? Zone 3 should start at 143, and max was 145??
Poked around Garmin Connect. My zones were right where I had set them based on RHR 45, MHR 185, and the Heart Rate Reserve method. But today the zones were higher, with Zone 2 running from 134 to 148. Poke around some more. The new zones started on October 24. I had let the watch auto-detect my max HR, and it had become convinced that my max HR is 194. I see no evidence that my HR has ever been that high.
So reset the max HR on the watch. Left auto detect of max HR on, mostly out of curiosity. I want to see if it resets my max HR again, and whether I can detect what triggered that.
So there's my example to go with the comment that training by HR zone is more of an art than a science. The zones will vary from one runner to another, and determining where they should be for any individual can be tricky.
And while I'm here, on the work at home thing: I spent most of the last 2 years of my career working at home 3 days a week. I really liked it, for many reasons. Among the things I liked was that it gave me sufficient free time to train for Boston 2016.
Then the policy changed to only allow one work at home day a week. That was a very good policy change for me. It pi$$ed me off so much that I retired, when I might have otherwise worked another 5 years. And I've had a really good 2 years of being retired, so far. Thank you, pointy haired idiot who didn't like work at home!
2018 races:
February 17, 2018 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) finished in 54:48
February 24, 2018 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) finished in 28:46
March 17, 2018 USATF Masters 8K (Shamrock 8K, Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 31:55
March 24, 2018 Spring Forward 15K (Mendon, NY) ran at MP, finished in 1:10:47
April 16, 2018 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA) finished in 3:28:43
April 29, 2018 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble, Dedham, MA) finished in 41:33
May 20, 2018 Lilac 10K (Rochester, NY) finished in 42:21
May 26, 2018 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY) finished in 20:12
June 3, 2018 USATF Masters Half Marathon (Ann Arbor, MI) finished in 1:34:42
June 9, 2018 Ontario Summit Trail Half Marathon (Naples, NY) DNS - injury
June 17, 2018 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY) short course, 18:04 for ~2.9 miles
June 30, 2018 Charlie's Old Goat Trail Run 5 mile (Victor, NY) 4.89 miles by Garmin, 43:15
July 14, 2018 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hamlin, NY) finished in 1:45:54
July 28, 2018 Battle at Bristol 10K (Naples, NY) survived in 1:28:33
August 1, 2018 IEXC 5K #1 (Rochester, NY) finished in 22:17
August 8, 2018 IEXC 5K #2 (Rochester, NY) finished in 22:10
August 15, 2018 Pound the Ground 10K (Mendon, NY) finished in 43:11
August 22, 2018 IEXC 5K #3 (Rochester, NY) finished in 21:59
August 29, 2018 IEXC 5K #4 (Rochester NY) finished in 22:00
August 29, 2018 IEXC TDP 1 mile (Rochester, NY) finished in 6:07
August 29, 2018 IEXC TDP 400m (Rochester, NY) finished in 1:14
September 2, 2018 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY) finished in 1:36:41
September 9, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #1 5K (Newark, NY) 2.9 miles finished in 20:50.9
September 23, 2018 USATF Masters XC 5K (Buffalo, NY) finished in 20:03
September 30, 2018 Wineglass Marathon (Bath, NY to Corning, NY) finished in 3:18:02, PR with negative splits
October 7, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #2 6K (Akron Falls, NY) finished in 24:41
October 13, 2018 Finish Strong 15K (Hilton, NY) finished in 1:03:27
October 21, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #3 6K (Mendon, NY) finished in 24:17
November 4, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #4 6K (Trumansburg, NY) finished in 22:48
November 11, 2018 Syracuse Half Marathon (Syracuse, NY)
November 18, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #5 8K (Syracuse, NY)
November 22, 2018 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
December 15, 2018 Freezeroo #1 (Don Curran Memorial 5K) (Gates, NY)
2019 Races:
January 1, 2019 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY)
January 5, 2019 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY)
January 12, 2019 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds 5 Mile) (Spencerport, NY)
January 26, 2019 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victory, NY)
February 9, 2019 Freezeroo #5 (Tom Brannon 8 mile) (Greece, NY)
February 23, 2019 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY)
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA)
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@7lenny7 Glad to hear that your recovery is coming along nicely!
@debrakgoogins Also glad to hear that you've recovered from the kidney stones!
Re wrist-based oHRMs: modern ones are very accurate for running, but do have their downsides. One is the lag they suffer, in that by the time you notice your heart rate is too high and slow down, it'll take a short while (maybe up to 30 seconds or so) for the oHRM to stabilize at the correct heart rate. This generally isn't a problem for the majority of runs, but if you're doing HIIT exercises, or want to maintain an exact HR (such as a tempo run), then it makes things difficult. Also, they are more prone to cadence-lock, where it'll latch on to your cadence instead of your HR. On the flip side, their huge win is that they're just so darned convenient, and as I said, they are generally accurate enough to make them a great choice for most runners.
Re working from home: I used to work from home several years ago, which was great until the times when the kids weren't at school. They had no appreciation that dad was working, and so trying to get stuff done while they were arguing and screaming at each other was not easy. Now, my workplace is flexible in that they allow me to work from home whenever I wish, but my desk is in an open work space and I sit by a corner window, so I actually prefer to go in to the office these days.
Today was intervals, so after a 2-mile warm-up, it was 6 x 1000m @6:45 / 600m recovery, and then a cool-down/return-to-start run of 5 miles. Next time, I intend to increase the intervals to 1200m/400m. Speaking of heart rate zones and Z5, I pushed hard on the final interval with a pace of 6:05 which took my HR up to 188 bpm, or 93% of max, and even with this level of effort (after which I was pretty much spent), I was in Z5 for a grand total of less than 2½ minutes.
01 - 14.71
02 - 22.16
05 - 15.66
06 - 14.90
07 - 13.09
Total: 80.52 / 300 miles7 -
Ran 3.2 miles this evening. Super muggy and still in the mid 80's out as a storm is preparing to blow in. But it brings some cooler temps and I'm really looking forward to that!!
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Charlene____ wrote: »My running plan calls for approx 105 miles for the month ( I do long runs by time instead of distance). So far, I've logged 18.2 which is on target for my plan:
11.1: 3.5 @ 8:09/M (3.5)
11.2: 7.2 @ 9:46/M (10.7)
11.4: 4.0 @ 9:04/M (14.7)
11.5: 3.5 @ 8:27/M (18.2)
11.6: 4.0 @ 9:20/M (22.2)
11.7: 8.3 @ 9:35/M (30.5)
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Normally, I warm up on the treadmill before strength training. Today, all the treadmills were in use when I arrived. They looked to be high school aged boys, so I'm guessing the HS track kids went indoors now that it is cold outside. Anyway, I did strength training and they were gone by the time I was done, so treadmill 2.35 miles at the end of my workout instead.
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@7lenny7 I'm sort of new to this thread and have skipped some of the posts, so I'm not familiar with your injury. What happened? I'm glad you are going to get out of the cast earlier than you thought. Sorry it'll be a while before you can run again.0
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polskagirl01 wrote: »Was this a foil pack of 6 oreos, or the gigantic packs they sell in the US with 3 rows of cookies?
It's the gigantic packs they sell in the US! I won't eat them all in one setting, but will get one or two every time I'm near the pack, so they don't last long. LOL If I had a pack of ONLY 6, I'd probably eat them in one setting.1 -
@MobyCarp I like how your at-home work schedule led to your retirement! now if I only could soon...dream on ducky...
@debrakgoogins what a relief! it must feel so good to be back on the trails.
I originally planned for only upper body today: I walked to the gym (1.5 miles) did 20 minutes of the arm crank erg, then walked home. While my arms work hard on that arm crank (they feel it afterwards!) and I'm holding myself steady in a standing position, my heart rate just will not go beyond 110 bpm (maybe 120?) while it will easily reach the 140's and more in a run. I don't think my arm crank workouts burn many calories but it's good to do arm cardio as well.
But then I kept feeling like running...and I finally headed out and ran 3. It felt great. Probably because I had plenty to eat today.
23.7 miles so far in November.6 -
11/1/18 5 miles
11/3 3 miles
11/6 3 miles
11/7 2 miles
Total 13 /60-90 miles
The dreaded taper! 2 miles? Who runs just 2 miles? And soooooo slow!13 -
11/1 - 0 km
11/2 - 12 miles
11/3 - 0 km
11/4 - 13.1 km
11/5 - 0km
11/6 - 8.5 miles
11/7 - 12 miles
It is getting dark on my runs now. I need to remember to take lights with me. I am in all black running down unlit trails and roads.. eternally in an invisibility cloak. heh
Upcoming Races:
Harvest 10 Miler - November 2018
Steel Challange 5k - May 2019
Pittsburgh Marathon - May 2019
Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Race - May 2019
--More as I find them - need to find a nice trail race
2021 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)
2019 GOAL: Knock a full hour off my 50k time at Glacier Ridge.7 -
My right knee was hurting going up stairs a couple of times today.
That's not supposed to happen, I've got a HM on Sunday!15 -
@Orphia - hope the knee is nothing. I have weird pains here and there that seem to just go away!
Lots of good news!
Granddaughter was born on her due date, 11/6! Mom and baby are doing great. It's the coolest thing to watch my son staring at his daughter in total amazement! Her name is Eleanor Rose, but we call her Ella.
I FINALLY went to the podiatrist. I've had what I call my second ankle for over a year (this swelling under the regular ankle on right foot). I just kept running because it wasn't painful and I would ice it to bring swelling down. But what sent me to the podiatrist was this burning on the bottom of my feet -- pad of the foot. It started out that it was only after about 6 miles. It was really bad last Feb at the Daytona Beach HM. Over the last 8 months it started happening sooner .. mile 5, then 4.5, and now it is at mile 4. Never happens any other time. Podiatrist said it is neuropathy. He is having me try some pills for 3 weeks and then I see him in a month. So the good news is I can still run! He said to cut down the miles a little the next 2 weeks, but I can still run.
I was a little confused on my "second ankle". I think he said it's an extra bone with a little tendonitis. But the extra bone sounds strange so I'm wondering if I heard him right.
I don't know what's with me, but I can't ever seem to fully listen to doctors. (Sorry, MDs on here). I am very squeamish and actually started to faint when looking at an x-ray of my daughter's back one time. So I think I have a natural habit of not hearing everything they tell me and I leave wondering what happened.
This doctor used to be a runner and had to stop 5 years ago due to hip. He is now a cyclist and is my cycling club and is in the fastest group. He also said I need to get orthotics and to STRETCH. I do... but I've gotten a little lazy with it.
Armed with the news that I can run, I got up earlier than normal (4:10am!) and went out front to discover it was pouring rain. Trudged back inside and did my strength training for glutes/legs/hamstrings. So many squats and lunges!
11/1 - 4 miles
11/2 - rest day
11/3 - 44 miles cycling + transform app - deload week, arms
11/4 - 3 miles + transform app - deload - legs
11/5 - 4 miles + transform app - deload - back
11/6 - 4 miles
11/7 - Transform App - Chest, arms
11/8 - Transform App - Glutes and legs
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So last night I saw an advertisement *I* bought and paid for running in *my* Instagram feed. I am torn between being annoyed at seeing an advertisement and being happy my ad is actually running! 🤣7
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I love the name Eleanor Rose! Congratulations!@Orphia - hope the knee is nothing. I have weird pains here and there that seem to just go away!
Lots of good news!
Granddaughter was born on her due date, 11/6! Mom and baby are doing great. It's the coolest thing to watch my son staring at his daughter in total amazement! Her name is Eleanor Rose, but we call her Ella.
I FINALLY went to the podiatrist. I've had what I call my second ankle for over a year (this swelling under the regular ankle on right foot). I just kept running because it wasn't painful and I would ice it to bring swelling down. But what sent me to the podiatrist was this burning on the bottom of my feet -- pad of the foot. It started out that it was only after about 6 miles. It was really bad last Feb at the Daytona Beach HM. Over the last 8 months it started happening sooner .. mile 5, then 4.5, and now it is at mile 4. Never happens any other time. Podiatrist said it is neuropathy. He is having me try some pills for 3 weeks and then I see him in a month. So the good news is I can still run! He said to cut down the miles a little the next 2 weeks, but I can still run.
I was a little confused on my "second ankle". I think he said it's an extra bone with a little tendonitis. But the extra bone sounds strange so I'm wondering if I heard him right.
I don't know what's with me, but I can't ever seem to fully listen to doctors. (Sorry, MDs on here). I am very squeamish and actually started to faint when looking at an x-ray of my daughter's back one time. So I think I have a natural habit of not hearing everything they tell me and I leave wondering what happened.
This doctor used to be a runner and had to stop 5 years ago due to hip. He is now a cyclist and is my cycling club and is in the fastest group. He also said I need to get orthotics and to STRETCH. I do... but I've gotten a little lazy with it.
Armed with the news that I can run, I got up earlier than normal (4:10am!) and went out front to discover it was pouring rain. Trudged back inside and did my strength training for glutes/legs/hamstrings. So many squats and lunges!
11/1 - 4 miles
11/2 - rest day
11/3 - 44 miles cycling + transform app - deload week, arms
11/4 - 3 miles + transform app - deload - legs
11/5 - 4 miles + transform app - deload - back
11/6 - 4 miles
11/7 - Transform App - Chest, arms
11/8 - Transform App - Glutes and legs
I'm not squeamish but I do get kind of dingy in the doctor's office. For a usually assertive person I also am subject to being steamrollered by forceful doctors. My solution is that I never attend doctor's visits alone - my husband or if he's not available a friend is with me, which acts as a security blanket and makes me more confident, and also they remember the details I don't. I also make a written list of questions on my iPad and write the answers.
I don't know what I got into but I was definitely sick - 102 fever, heart racing and throwing pvcs, bg readings out of control. I expected to wake up coughing with lungs full of stuff, but no, no respiratory symptoms to speak of, temp gradually went down. I do have pain in my liver area (which is not unusual for me, I have scarring etc) and I'm wondering if this is some sort of gallbladder attack since I felt nauseated and ate very little. In any case my temp and heart rate are normal this morning, don't know yet if I feel up to running. I wish I had a better doctor, but being self employed without insurance my options are limited to someone who really doesn't care unless there's an obvious sharp object sticking out of my body somewhere, not much point in going in with "I have a vague pain."10 -
I am humbled by the kind comments. I wish I could keep up with all the comments but it's simply overwhelming, lol. I am inspired by all of you. I am in awe of people who can run miles and miles like it's just an extension of their being. With that being said, this was my first week of my run intervals being longer than my walk intervals. My first run was three days after a kidney stone dropped me like an anvil and I still was able to run all the intervals without being winded or sore. That's a good thing, right? I was supposed to get three runs in but it will only be two before the run intervals are increased but I think I am going to be fine. I will back down if it's too strenuous but I think I'll be ok.14
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debrakgoogins wrote: »I am humbled by the kind comments. I wish I could keep up with all the comments but it's simply overwhelming, lol. I am inspired by all of you. I am in awe of people who can run miles and miles like it's just an extension of their being. With that being said, this was my first week of my run intervals being longer than my walk intervals. My first run was three days after a kidney stone dropped me like an anvil and I still was able to run all the intervals without being winded or sore. That's a good thing, right? I was supposed to get three runs in but it will only be two before the run intervals are increased but I think I am going to be fine. I will back down if it's too strenuous but I think I'll be ok.
You'll probably be fine! If you ever do get to a point where it's too hard to progress, just repeat the hard bit until it's easy. You'll be running miles before you know it!7 -
rheddmobile wrote: »You'll be running miles before you know it!
Thank you for the advice. I honestly feel like I could run a whole mile without stopping now but I am purposely taking it easy to be sure I don't injure myself.
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@ddmom0811 Congratulations!
@debrakgoogins Glad you're feeling better and able to get out for a run. Your plan sounds wise.
I just finished W6 of C25K this morning. It was COLD out there (23F/-5C) but practically no wind so not bad. I need to remember to use chapstick, and maybe start wearing my buff across my cheeks. Brrr. I'm not sure if it is because it was cold, or because I started reading that 80/20 book previously mentioned, but this was a slow run. Almost more like a shuffle. But that's good at this point, right? Only 2.16 miles total, including warmup and cooldown walks.
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11-1 Rest
11-2 7k intervals
11-3 7k easy
11-4 10.5k slow
11-5 7k recovery
11-6 Rest
11-7 7k intervals
11-8 7k easy
November total: 45.5k
November goal: 150k
Another great day for running: high 30s F and hardly any wind at all.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a scheduled rest day - will have to look hard at the weather forecast and decide whether to run tomorrow and rest Saturday or rest tomorrow and run Saturday. Lake effect snow is in the forecast.4 -
7.54 km River bank trails last night in the dark. The trails were a lot better than yesterday as they now only had small patchs of ice, sublimation thank you for clearing the trails.
-17C a very cold run with friends, Dianne and Karen plus her Black Lab Griz. He still basically a pup so still a work in progress on Trail Manners.
@Orphia I believe that's called Taper Twinge's we are so in tune/nervous that every little thing gets amplified. Hang in there.My right knee was hurting going up stairs a couple of times today.
That's not supposed to happen, I've got a HM on Sunday!
and I had a comment for some one else - but lost it
@skippygirlsmom How are you doing and Miss Skip?7 -
debrakgoogins wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »You'll be running miles before you know it!
Thank you for the advice. I honestly feel like I could run a whole mile without stopping now but I am purposely taking it easy to be sure I don't injure myself.
SMART! This is a long game sport. Do not rush it. Learn your body and work with it.
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@eleanorhawkins: I think there’s a pretty solid chance that you’re right that running could really help your daughter. The way you describe running’s effect on you is almost exactly how I’ve described its effect on me. It’s like my brain is constantly buzzing, sometimes loudly, sometimes almost impossible to hear, but always there, except for when I run. I never thought about the breathing benefits, but you’re totally right there, too. It can just be so hard to take that first step towards building a new habit when you have to fight your own brain just to get out of bed and pretend to be a nominally functional human being. But that's nothing you don't know. *hugs*
I started on medication when I was around 12 or 13, maybe 14 tops - I wasn’t suicidal but I was self-injuring, and I started taking Prozac shortly after starting talk therapy (give or take a year maybe). I’ve been off medications for two periods since then and both ended fairly disastrously. It’s not right for everyone, but it’s like night and day for those of us it does work for. I accepted years ago that I’ll be on meds until I die. I genuinely dread the idea of not being able to run, but if it happens, I know I’ll be okay.
@RunsOnEspresso: I think I mainly wanted to draw a distinction between “cure” and “supplement” - I definitely never meant to say that running/exercise doesn’t help for a lot of people, myself included, because it absolutely does. But I don’t think that it’s a good idea for running to be one’s primary or sole treatment - if nothing else, we all know how common injuries are.
I really do regret that I didn't start running earlier - my life probably would have turned out very differently if I had started running regularly while I was in law school instead of drinking. But I can't spend my life questioning what I did ten years ago or even ten minutes ago. What I can manage is the next ten minutes, and hopefully what I do in that time will help the next ten years be better than the last.11 -
MegaMooseEsq wrote: »
I really do regret that I didn't start running earlier - my life probably would have turned out very differently if I had started running regularly while I was in law school instead of drinking. But I can't spend my life questioning what I did ten years ago or even ten minutes ago. What I can manage is the next ten minutes, and hopefully what I do in that time will help the next ten years be better than the last.
This. All of this. Nothing any of us can do about the past, we just have to keep on working on the present to improve the future.6 -
@PastorVincent do you have good returns on Instagram ads? I'm working on a Facebook ads funnel to test next year. I've never really tried them but took a class so I feel a bit more confident in running them.
@MegaMooseEsq I think mental health is much like running, you have to find what works for you. Nothing works as well as running (as far as workouts) but because my issues don't affect my every day my doctor doesn't want me on drugs (which I love because I don't want to go down that road unless I really need to and sometimes I feel we overmedicate for everything - not just mental health).4 -
@ddmom0811 Eleanor Rose is beautiful name! I'm the opposite of squeamish. When I had foot surgery, I tried to talk the surgeon into letting me watch. He never did though, he said he didn't want me talking to him during the procedure because he needed his full attention on what he was doing. I was bummed, but he took a couple of pictures of it (anybody want to see these?) and it turned out there wasn't much to see. It was just a 2 cm incision.
@debrakgoogins we all started where you started. The longest, fastest runner here had to start right where you started. Don't compare your chapter 1 to someone else's chapter 26.2. We understand this thread can be overwhelming with the number of posts, but do what you can and stick around. There are no hurt feelings if you can't read every post! Kidney stones...OUCH!!!
@quilteryoyo last month while running a 12 hour trail race (this race was defined time, rather than the usual defined distance) I started experiencing pain on the top of my right foot. It wasn't a pain I had ever felt before while running, but I kept going because it came on gradually. For a while I was worried it was a stress fracture. After 25 miles I decided I had enough pain all over, and I had outrun my training, that I decided to power hike the rest of the time. While coming in for my eighth 5 mile loop at the trailhead I decided to run past the loop counter and the rest of the crowd there, and felt a sharp pain on the top of my foot. Right after it popped it actually felt better, so I kept going and completed two 1 mile loops before the time expired.
Other than the general aches and pains of running/hiking 42 miles, I felt pretty good. When I got home and was walking around the house barefoot, the second toe on my right foot got caught on the carpet, was curled underneath my foot as I stepped on it. Yes it hurt!! After the third time that happened, I decided to take a closer look at saw that my second toe was drooping down quite a bit. I could move it, but not to the same extent as my other toes.
I was going to wait a week or two to see if it got better, but @rheddmobile made the comment that if it was a tendon injury, I needed to go in right away. I'm very grateful she said that because it prompted me to go in and have it looked at. I called on a Monday, had my first appointment Tuesday, MRI and surgical consultation Wednesday, and surgery on Thursday! Only 54 hours between my first appointment and my surgery discharge.
What happened was that I completely ruptured the extensor digitorum longus of my second toe. This is the tendon which straightens the toe and helps lift up the foot. It's highly unusual for a rupture like this to be associated with athletic activity. My surgeon, with 30 years experience, had never seen this happen because of running. The surgeon took the remaining tendon attached to my toe and attached it to the EDL of my third toe so that they still fire together.
Surgery was two weeks ago, so one more week with a cast then three with a boot. No running for 10 more weeks.
Recovery seems to be going very well, but it's aggravating not to run. I'm trying to use this time to get things done at home that I never have time to do.
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What happened was that I completely ruptured the extensor digitorum longus of my second toe. This is the tendon which straightens the toe and helps lift up the foot. It's highly unusual for a rupture like this to be associated with athletic activity. My surgeon, with 30 years experience, had never seen this happen because of running. The surgeon took the remaining tendon attached to my toe and attached it to the EDL of my third toe so that they still fire together.
Did your surgeon happen to say what usually causes this kind of injury?
ETA: I did some googling and found an article from a Swiss sports-medicine journal (PDF warning) which seems to say that these kind of ruptures are usually associated with laceration injuries, either from falling objects or high speed collisions - they only found two sport-related EDL injuries in a literature review, one after turning an ankle playing squash and the other from a hockey player whose foot was cut by another player's skate (page 15). I'm not surprised your surgeon had never seen it happen because of running!1 -
I just have to say this here, where I know y'all will understand. I HATE whoever the heck it was who kindly added a weather app to my phone. Said app keeps sending me messages to tell me the weather in my location is excellent for running and I should go and make the most of it. On a busy work day which sore legs also dictated has to be a rest day. Gah!!!!!
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