One Hour Runner Thread

Guess I should log my first OHR run! I started last night.

Still on 30 minutes for now which I like because it gives me a chance to get used to that. I felt quite at ease not struggling at any point even though my hamstrings are really tight at the moment! I wish I had some scientific way to work out my exact pace and distance but my run (minus warm up and cooldown) probably came to 3 miles (based on mapmyrun.com)!

Forgive me is this already been mentioned but I have not read through all the responses. I use the runkeeper app on my phone to track my exact pace and distance of my runs. I don't start the activity until I actually start running and stop it before I start my cooldown. That way I know the exact distance I run. It even tells me my pace for each individual mile. Hope that makes sense.

I'm back! I took a month off or fell off the wagon for a month. Just depends on how you look at it.:embarassed: My girl friend talked me into running a 10k at the end of Oct. That gives us 12 solid weeks to train. We are both doing c10k plan starting with week 1. Although I completed c25k and have been running for a while, I feel like I should start from the beginning because I took such a long break from running. I've always said I have to desire to run for an hour and never thought I would do this. Well, we both decided we would give it our best shot to run the entire time, but also be perfectly ok with walking some. That takes the pressure off a little. This will be different from my 5k in a couple of ways. This time I will incorporate other workouts on non-running days, adjust the treadmill incline if I workout at the gym, and know that its ok to repeat a workout before moving on to the next week. My goal ultimate goal is to reach my goal weight by race time.

Needless to say, I will begin posting my runs here next week.

Happy running!

Acid~I look forward to hearing about your runs.

It's hard to hold in pee when you're running.




That was my lesson learned yesterday. I didn't even really have to pee THAT bad. But I couldnt' hold it in. I had to walk home so I wouldn't have pee dribbling down my leg. Once I was walking I had no trouble holding it - started running again to see what would happen. Not a good move.

So now you know.

Hello All! I was laughing at the earlier posts about the full bladders! Nothing worse...I wait until the last possible second to go right before I walk out the door because I have done it too. It's a horrible feeling.
I ran this morning again for 61 minutes so I am still trekking towards 80. I am guestimating that would be the time it takes me to fully run the 10k, with some time to spare. I signed up for one of those 'mini challenges' on here to do 3500 calories this week. I figured it would help motivate me to do 5 days of running this week. So far so good, but the back to back days are challenging to say the least:)

Glad to see we are hanging in there despite the heat!

Morning All! I got so offtrack over the weekend. One foot with a heel spur (OUCH!) ...could not even walk normally for 2 days. My kids were calling me 'grandma' while I was walking into church yesterday! Needless to say, when I cannot exercise, my motivation to stay on track with food is challenged. I ate terrible all weekend and felt so guilty.
Today is a new day and I was at the park by 7:30 and did my 61 minute run. It was tough but I kept telling myself, 'this is what you get !'
I am back on track for now. Glad to see everyone is too!

I have been STRUGGLING! :sick: This is what I get for slacking off on running to about twice/week AND I havent' been doing my other exercise dvds nearly enough. I'm not strong enough muscle or cardio-wise to run well anymore. I can't even run 3.1 without stopping anymore. That's horrible!! So I ran Saturday and Sunday to jump start myself (first time running back-to-back days!). I'm also going to start weight lifting since I have grown bored with doing dvds. I bought a weight-lifting for women book that has a program plotted out and I'm starting this week. I'm also starting yoga tonight- got a copy of the yoga DVD from P90X. I've done it one time before and loved it.

So there you have it. I learned that I cannot run well and feel good about it unless I do other things to strengthen my body. And since my goal is to be lean and strong, this is what I need to do. I've been floundering since I've gotten so close to goal weight but now I have a plan of action. Please feel free to hold me accountable!! :bigsmile:

edited to add:
Here are my sad stats from the weekend:
3.46 miles in 44:44 :brokenheart:
3.13 miles in 38:58 :grumble:

I'm heading out tonight after work to run. I ran Sat & Sun, did 1-1/2 hours of Yoga X yesterday and running today. I'm REALLY hoping I have a good run today!

yay - had a much better run yesterday than I've had in a few weeks. My slacking off was biting me in the butt - gotta stay with it to stay strong!
Ran after work but luckily it got cloudy, so even though it was very hot while I was running, it wasn't sunny and I think that helped quite a bit. Ran 3.5 miles with 3 walking/drinking short breaks.
Today I'm taking a day off since I'm very sore from yoga on Monday. I plan to run again on Friday morning before work.

How's it going everybody?

Ran last night after work. Had another good run. Drove to a different development to run in so I had new stuff to look at. Ran 3.5 miles in 41 minutes with 3 1-minute walking/drinking breaks.

Those of you who use Runkeeper - do you trust it? I wish I trusted it but I'm thinking I don't. Sometimes my half mile splits are not accurate I think. Like last night - one split included a walking break and it said the split was 9 minutes. Then a full running split would be 12 minutes. Just wondered if anyone else is having these kinds of troubles with Runkeeper.

Good Morning! I have not been on here much in the last couple of days. School started today, so the last week has been full of shopping and lots of laundry and cleaning out closets!
I got the last one on the bus today and off to run for 60 minutes this morning. Like many of us, I cannot bear to get up at 5 am, so sweat I will and suffer:)
I ran in my subdivision for the first time on Satuday, and what a great change of scenery! I always run at a park, but really enjoyed it.
I wish I could advise on Runkeeper....I live in a rural area and gps does not work for me. I have heard 'map my run' is really good too!
Back on track!

I will need this I am so far just getting to running 30 min at a time....

Bif - Great job getting back into it, you're doing great!

lcnelson - I wish I could get up and go running in the morning, I truly hate mornings! But I did hear something on the news about that being the best time of day to exercise because your core body temperature is at it's lowest. I need to get myself organized enough, that I have time to run in the morning before getting ready for work!

As for me, I had a busy weekend, which did involve lots of walking, which was good because even though I couldn't get a workout in, I did all of the walking to get the car and park the car, so at least I got some exercise. Saturday on my walk back to the car I had the worst itch to RUN, sometimes I really miss it when I haven't been able to do it for a few days! If I wasn't in flip flops I probably would have just run the rest of the way to the car.

So tonight I did step aerobics, but wanted to run a little bit before class, so I decided since it wouldn't be a long run, to push my speed up a little bit. I started off at 5.0, and then alternated back and forth between 5.0 & 4.7 (4.7 is my comfortable pace) I did 16 minutes total running, which was about 1.25 miles plus a 5 minute wu & 3 minute cd.

Tomorrow there are no classes I like at the gym, so I'm planning to do a long run.

As for runkeeper, I think it's fairly accurate. I don't know about time per mile because I think the individual miles can sometimes be fouled up because of the gps, but I think overall, it captures the correct distance, so with your time it is able to calculate the correct avg/speed, pace, etc.... But I would be interested to see what you get when you use it at the track.

Lets all have a great week!

Yay!! I had a great run today! This might be kind of long because I have a lot to say

So, I had planned all day to run tonight once it cooled off, then it started to downpour. I almost talked myself out of running today at all, but I pushed myself to get out there and do my normal route. I ended up running for 36 minutes! I was so excited! My average pace was a little lower than on the treadmill, but there are also no monster hills on the treadmill.

I powered through every single one of those damn hills that I always quit on! On the first major hill that I swear is about 1/2 mile long, when I wanted to quit 3/4 of the way up, I kept going, when I got to my last hill, which is a very steep incline and my calves were screaming at me, I kept going. I told myself that I wanted to make it at least as far as the beginning of my road and I actually went a little further than that. I probably could have gone a little bit longer, but I had been battling not just one, but 2 side cramps since the first 1/2 mile, so when I made it to 36 minutes I decided I had succeeded.

When I was at the beginning of my run today I passed a woman on a bike, no idea who she was, but she said to me "great job!" and I swear that's what got me through the rest of my run, I don't know why, it was just in my head the rest of the time.

So - 36 minutes jogging, total of 2.46 miles, plus a 5 minute wu & cd, total route was 3.17 miles

GREAT JOB!! You make me want to go out and run right now:) Keep up the good work and keeping us all posted, that's what keeps us going too!

Thank you!! Everyone here keeps me going and makes me get back out there, I love the motivation from my fellow running friends