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Your cheating yourself, I believe the comment means. There is a reason why training plans have long slow runs planned in to them. If you are running those too fast because of your split times you are not getting the actual benefit of the long slow run. If you can't control your pace on your slow runs then you need to leave…

Sadly it didn't. Around the start of April I managed to put my back out in the gym, which meant I couldn't run for most of the month. Started slowly back at it and was doing okay in May only for it to go again at the start of June. Started physio and am slowly working back up the miles. Saturday was the first "long" run,…

No one has said she should be.

Don't forget that the ability to blow of some steam to a "stranger" works both ways. Her chatting to you probably makes her feel better because she isn't bottling things up and likewise you know that if you have a crappy day at work or anywhere you can probably vent about it to her and then just get on with your day. So…

It's the Thames Path challenge, so a mix of both. Mostly gravel paths though.

Got 8 weeks until my 60 miler. Holy crap, that came around quickly. I really need to get in some long runs. Haven't done anything over 12 miles since March!

When I first started going to the gym years ago, I had a free trainer session. Was all going well and feeling good until I stood up after she has helped stretch out some muscles. Next thing I knew I was being carried across the gym to the area where there were chairs. I had had a massive head rush when standing up and had…

What distances have you been able to successfully train for while following 5x5? I was training for a 50 miler and in the end there was just no way I could recover enough from my long runs before the next lifting session. Ended up with a number of injuries which meant I had to actually pull out of a planned race. I find…

You can easily train for a 5k and continue lifting. It's only when you start training for long distances that you can't do the two. Training for a marathon and trying to do 5x5 wouldn't work.

moobs.

Also known as the hell mile. The first mile which makes you question why you are doing this! Why not just go home and put your feet up, just stop! Then your heart rate comes back down and you settle in to the rhythm of the run.

I know how you feel after completing an ultra. Training for something like that running can stop becoming fun. You are always running to a plan, you have to do X and get in Y miles. It can feel like a chore. Get back out there but just run for the enjoyment of running. Don't pick a distance or a time, just run and when you…

have an easy, light meal early the night before. Give your system time to work on it and then get up nice and early on the day of the race and have a couple of large strong coffees. Give it 30 mins or so and you should be well and truly empty. This has got me through, halfs, marathons, 30 milers and 50 milers.

I've got a much better idea, those people who choose to get offended by someone being polite can continue to stew in their own negativity about how they don't "need praise" from a random stranger. The rest of us can continue to be happy that others in this world want to add a little bit kindness, caring and consideration…

currently dealing with a bout of Piriformis Syndrome, which is causing sciatic pains down my left leg. Not quite sure what the initial cause was but have got some stretches to do, finally bought a foam roller and am going to do the stupid thing of continuing to run. Mostly because I have a 100km run planned in September…

Are people saying this in the first 5 mins of a run or after you have been out running for an hour plus. I have a loop on my local trail. It's an easy 5k and most of the time you just nod or wave to fellow runners on the first pass. But when doing a long run 10+ miles on the trail, you see the same faces over the time you…

Why do you think it is your current trainers causing your problems? Shin splints are normally from running to fast when your body isn't ready for it.

So looking for a bit of advice because once again I'm flitting between thinking I should cut down 10lbs and bulk back up or just recomp at my current weight. I'm 36 year old male, 5'7'' and 151lbs. Before Christmas I was down to around 145lbs, I then put on around 10lbs from just eating "junk" food and the gut and moobs…

chalk it up to a bad run, have a rest day and then head out again and see how you do.

Psst - http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/03/18/why_i_could_care_less_is_not_as_irrational_or_ungrammatical_as_you_might.html

What advice is being given that shouldn't be? The advice that your body is perfectly capable of dealing with the 5k distance without worrying about changing her normal routine? That she doesn't need to be overly concerned with carb loading or any of the myriad of concerns that new runners can get caught up in?

I had to pull out of the 50 miler I had planned for July, a long list of injuries were slowing crashing in to my training and I just had to accept that I wouldn't be ready. So now I'm back to easy training for my 60 miler in September, slowly ramping the longs runs back up.

I think you are overthinking this a bit. It's a 5k. There just isn't a situation in which you burn though your normal energy stores for a run that distance unless you have been intentionally starving yourself before hand. Just go about your normal routine, eat whatever it is you would normally eat on a Friday night. If you…

mmm, there is a mountain at the end of that road....probably worth the run to get there.

I end up staring at people really hard in the gym. But that is just because I pretty much space out when I'm resting between sets. Does anyone remember those magic eye pictures. Where you had to focus "behind" the picture before it stood out. That is pretty much what I do in the gym.

Spirit, there was a couple of weeks between them. But marathon in 5:13 and 30 miler in 6:07. Thanks for asking. Loved them both and having a week off from any serious running. Good luck to all running this weekend. Looking forward to your bling reports.

http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1012.html That's quite an interesting site about use of cycling helmets. Seems that, as previously mentioned in this thread, They don't have any real impact on reducing fatalities because most cycling fatalities involve multiple injuries meaning death would have occurred with or without a helmet.

There is no reason to avoid the gym for incidents like this because even if this did occur as the OP has presented it, which has been questioned quite a bit, this is in no way shape or form even close to the normal behavior in a gym. I have gone to various gyms over the last 10 - 15 years and never have I ever seen someone…

Wait, do I only get pull-up powers when I'm a super fit meathead?

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