Feel Like I am Ready
michellersalo
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So I am registered for my first half marathon in October and I have been training since May. I wanted a target half because I typically have many injuries during my training and wanted to build in time to rest through them. Well, my running partner and I have done an 11 mile run this AM (the furthest that I have EVER run in my life)!! While my muscles were sore, my cardio felt very strong! Tomorrow may be a different story though! I feel so accomplished and ready to tackle the challenge (after I take a nap though).
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Well done!!!0
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Congratulations on your 11 miles, you are so going to love your first half marathon, I did mine back in June and had a ball. It is so different at a race from just pounding the roads training. The spectators cheering, the hundreds maybe thousands of other runners, so exciting, I can't wait for my next one, also in October.0
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Congrats! I am pretty much at the same point - my long is 11.3 and I am planning to register for an October half. The registration fee goes up in September, so I need to pull the trigger and commit soon.0
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Enjoy your first half marathon! I think it's a great distance - reasonable to train for, reasonable to run and you pretty much carry on as normal afterwards.0
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Congrats on a good run. Keep up the good work.0
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fantastic! congrats on your first of what will no doubt be many!!
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So I am registered for my first half marathon in October and I have been training since May. I wanted a target half because I typically have many injuries during my training and wanted to build in time to rest through them. Well, my running partner and I have done an 11 mile run this AM (the furthest that I have EVER run in my life)!! While my muscles were sore, my cardio felt very strong! Tomorrow may be a different story though! I feel so accomplished and ready to tackle the challenge (after I take a nap though).
That run must have felt good but this stands out like a sore thumb - "typically have many injuries during my training and wanted to build in time to rest through them".
How about stop getting injured?
An injury of even a few days causes measurable detraining but has other impacts, as well.
I started running in June 2011 and ran about 450 miles that year. In the entire year of 2012 I ran…about 450 miles for the simple reason that I got hit with a variety of "out of the blue" injuries. Some of it was due to having not exercised for 25 years and some was the damage from a decade of obesity (3 of them almost morbidly obese) but the key was that I was spending so much time recovering from injury that it was very hard to make any progress from training.
After recovering from my last injury (early December 2012) I've made a conscious effort not to get injured and it's paid off - I've been able to train nonstop for 8 months. It makes a huge difference.
Yes, it's nice that you've done a "longer than ever before" long run but, if you're constantly fighting injuries, change what you're doing or you're hampering your progress.
I collected two "$100 dollar tee shirts" (my nickname for when you get the shirt for the race but can't run 'cause you're injured) last year and vowed "no more" - there's no glory in being the healthiest spectator.0 -
If I could "stop getting injured" trust me I would. I have played organized sports and have taught group fitness classes all of my life (basketball, softball, soccer, rugby, danced for 15 years, step, spinning etc) so I have injuries that have been there for years (chronic patellar-femoral syndrome, plantar fasciitis, 4 knee surgeries, separated pubic bone during pregnancy) and am working through them. It also doesn't include those injuries that come from accidental contacts.
I spend a lot more time stretching, icing and tweaking my running technique to be sure that I don't come across those little "annoying" injuries that could become much worse. But I have not yet missed a run this time around because of an injury. Before this, I would train for 6 or 7 weeks and something would happen and out I would be for 2-4 weeks...0 -
If I could "stop getting injured" trust me I would. I have played organized sports and have taught group fitness classes all of my life (basketball, softball, soccer, rugby, danced for 15 years, step, spinning etc) so I have injuries that have been there for years (chronic patellar-femoral syndrome, plantar fasciitis, 4 knee surgeries, separated pubic bone during pregnancy) and am working through them. It also doesn't include those injuries that come from accidental contacts.
I spend a lot more time stretching, icing and tweaking my running technique to be sure that I don't come across those little "annoying" injuries that could become much worse. But I have not yet missed a run this time around because of an injury. Before this, I would train for 6 or 7 weeks and something would happen and out I would be for 2-4 weeks...
Sorry 'bout the bluntness of my comment - should have worded it differently.
My question came from my having had a really bad training year last year - I only ran 450 miles (+/-) last year so I've switched over to be tres careful.
You've made, pardon the pun, great strides in cutting down time lost. My thinking would be that if you're not missing any training sessions, you're not injured. Sore, yes but it gets down to the definition of an injury and that's a problem for the industry.
Vague reports that "XX% of runners are injured every year" don't indicate what "injured" means. The standard that I've embraced, I don't know the source for this metric, is that an injury precludes you from training for 3 or more days. I had hip pain in July that caused me to cut short training runs but I'm not putting that in the injury category.
No question that you've turned things around. Going from 6-7 weeks on//2-4 off to not missing any runs means you've broken the cycle - congratulations!0
