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Where is the swimmer in the picture? Discrimination of that body type, I tell ya!

Why the rush? Yes, you can find many people who started running with the idea to do a marathon within their first year of running and made it through and are glad they did. And finding those people will make you think it's a reasonable thing to do. What you won't intuitively realize is that for every person who made it…

When does it do this in your run? Is it early in the run? Most HRM straps conduct better when there is moisture between the sensor and your body. So if it takes a while for you to sweat, you can get funky readings. I always solved that by just putting some warm water on the sensor right before I put it on to go out. If…

Congratulations Marathoner. That is something you will now always be.

My 13 year old daughter is a swimmer. While she has spent tons of time in the pool, she is just now starting to do serious dryland. She already has the broader shoulder and lat physique from the hours in the water. In ways, she is stronger than me. And most of the boys in her grade know she could kick their butt. I'm OK…

You run seriously also, right? Did you find 5x5 to be doable, effective and not negatively impacting your running?

GIven where you are experience wise, the biggest thing that will make you run faster is to run more miles. If you want to do speedwork, feel free - it's fun to run fast and may help you mentally to feel good and prepared. But building a more solid base will give the biggest payback in terms of improvement. So, if you…

Weights, bike, swimming seem like good suggestions from others. If your achilles is hurt, ignoring the doctor and running anyways is a road to disaster. With it's poor blood flow and slow healing, you run an ever increasing risk of rupturing the achilles. That will mean surgery, therapy and a lot longer than a few weeks…

Are you sore from weights or something cardio related? I don't train the same muscle group with weights on back to back days - sore or not. Running soreness I'll do an easy effort run, but no speedwork and no driving up hills.

Bravo!!! i know that feels good!

Bump - because I'm sure all you lifting experts were in the gym banging out deep squats and deadlifts when I posted.

As others have said, it takes the tissues time to catch up to cardio fitness. And the temptation is to push too fast. Nothing wrong with intentionally plateauing the increase for a few weeks to let things catch up. That will help on the injury prevention front. Competitive runners, when building running volume (weekly…

Another 305 wearer. Had it for years also. Most valuable running tool I have. Between having accurate data, the ability to program workouts into the device before running, it's great. I use sportstracks for downloading data, which then keeps a running log, shoe milage log and more info than i really need on the computer. I…

Rare for me to run inside. It has to be something that makes it a safety issue - lightning, ice storm. That kind of stuff. Agree with a couple of other comments. Headlamp. Reflective vest or arm/ankle bands. I'm also a fan of wearing a flashing LED light on front and back. Some may think it screams dork, but at least in my…

DL > DNF >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DNS

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30 miles a week. Fitness level - rebuilding. I'm coming back from knee surgery for a non-running related injury, and that is requiring an extremely conservative increase in mileage. Before injury I had done largely distance races - a couple of 50 milers, marathons, halfs. Now I'm focusing on 5ks for a year or so. Not sure…

I do "both". I have several headlamps. Black diamond, Petzl brands, and a couple of cheap ones from Walmart or Lowes type stores. I also have flashing LED lights and reflective wrist/ankle bands. When running in dard places I both want to see and be seen. I notice a huge difference in the running/hiking specific headlamps…

One group of ultramarathoners I know used to call those "walkie talkies". Figure if there's a name for it, then it must be pretty common!

Start at an effort you feel you could maintain for the full half. This is your first one, so no need to go too fast and suffer needlessly if you make a mistake on pace. Save that mistake for after you know you can do them well and you're learning where you limits are. Nothing new on race day. Shoes, clothes, food, drink…

Congratulations!!! Excellent result for you today. Glad you're ready to do more.

:smile: Love reading that! :smile:

Good shoes from a local running store where experts can fit you based on your foot. Not a big box sporting goods store. Not a regular shoe store. Run slow. It is hard to run too slow when you are starting out. It's a more common mistake to try and run too fast. Be proud - you're a runner on Day 1! You are in a wonderful…

Ouch! But that's how we gain wisdom, isn't it? In my 5k today, I though I was pacing very well, until I got to the top of a long hill that ended at the start of the third mile. By then I realized I'd lost concentration and drove up the hill too hard. I still won my AG, but it wasn't a fun last mile at all. But I learned…

Excellent! You've got some good training background then. The 5k, as you intuitively understand with your background, is an entirely different animal than track sprints. You don't need to ever do an all out sprint in workouts to improve the 5k. Have fun! I'm looking forward to reading about your success going forward.

Expanding on that a bit. A good introduction to speedwork is fartleks (and it's fun to say!) Means speed play. On one run a week, pick an object somewhere ahead of you = 50 feet, 100 feet, 100 yards, whatever - and pick up the pace to a comfortably hard tempo and run to it. Slow down until you feel recovered, and pick…

are you doing right around 4 miles each of the 6 days to get to your 26? If so, consider adding distance to a couple of the runs each week. Do so slowly. Perhaps build one run up to 7 miles over a period of a couple of months. If you want to keep weekly time running the same, drop a couple of your runs down to 3 miles to…

Run about 270 minutes spread over 6 days of running. Lift twice - complex joint exercises in the 5 rep range. Usually squats, Bench, chin-ups, etc.. Do some core work and leg exercises 4 days. I do all of this for racing purposes.

You said you ran 4 miles before, but how often and for how long? As a realtively novice runner, more miles will have the biggest impact to reducing your times. Both more per week and more in the bank from longevity. You don't need speedwork yet to reduce time from a physiological standpoint, but if you want to do some…

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