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yeah, it's normal. That's why a lot of cycling glove have a soft towelling part for you to wipe your nose on. Luckily the worst of the snot dripping happens in winter when you're likely to have gloves to wipe it on. In summer you have to go for the 'invisible handkerchief' technique.

Yeah - those aren't officially measured, so it could be any distance! To the OP - once I went for a 16-mile run with my friend and when we got back to the house her garmin said 16 miles and mine said 15.7! Obviously I know that they're not exact, but that didn't stop me running up and down the road till mine said 16 too...…

Mine all come in 'short' on my watch, because its GPS is a bit weird. It partly depends on how frequently your watch or phone updates its satellite signals, and partly on the shape of the course. As an experiment, try running a mile in lane one of a 400m track and see how far your watch thinks it is and where it thinks…

I would always be inclined to trust a race that has been officially measured with a Jones counter using the most direct racing line rather than GPS on your phone, which is not as accurate, especially if there are buildings in the way, tight bends, etc. If the race has been accurately measured most people's GPS will come…

I think you're mostly over-thinking it and you should just get outside and do some easy-paced running, taking care not to build up your distance too quickly, as you suggest. However, I do have experience of twisting my ankle quite badly and was advised by my physiotherapist NOT to wear a compression bandage, because you…

Your friend probably knows your training and racing history better than we do - long run pace is irrelevant in this context because it's easy to run your long runs too fast and if you do them at marathon race pace that can sometimes make it less likely that you'll manage to race at that pace (because of the recovery…

The alcohol calories thing just sounds like sensible drinking behaviour to me: if I'm drinking because I'm thirsty, I'm going to choose water or something else with few calories in it, because I don't want to waste calories on sugary drinks when I could be eating some delicious cake or something. So my drink calories each…

Have you measured your maximum HR by doing a stress test to see how high it can go? Or did you just estimate it using 220-age? If the latter, it's possible that you don't need to be running that slow after all. For example, my max is around 215 (I'm not 5 years old) and 60% of that is 129 (which I could run at on a…

I wasn't being mean to the OP! just want to clarify that when I said 'don't you have a garmin' I was pretty sure she had, I wasn't being all snooty. :D

@GiddyupTim some of us are in the UK, where I think many races are a LOT cheaper to enter than in the US. Most races I do don't have t-shirts or medals at all!

I know, but it's pretty unlikely. I've never been in a situation on a run where I'd have needed a phone and I've been running nearly every day for years, since before I even *had* a phone (late adopter). In fact, the only time I've ever taken one on a run was the day I'd had a job interview and was waiting for a call!

Leave the phone at home and spend the £20 on doughnuts? Don't you have a garmin for running stats anyway? And how often do you actually use a phone on a run?

There are no supplements that will make you run faster, unless you are actually deficient in something your body needs. I take iron and vitamin D supplements because my blood tests showed insufficient levels of both. Otherwise, you just need to think about your training to make sure it will help you reach your goals.

If only you'd had the socks in advance, you could have worn them too. ;)

I often take the massive finisher's tech tees to races to warm up in; that way if I dump my t-shirt in a tree or under the car while I'm doing the race, I don't mind too much if I can't find it later.

In the UK if races have a finisher t-shirt you get it after you cross the finish line. Many races don't have a shirt at all (which I prefer because they are usually giant-sized, even the 'small' ones). But races are generally a fair bit cheaper than in the US. ETA: for races (usually big, more 'corporate'…

Definitely the right decision - and the money's gone at the point when you pay to enter; you're not getting it back whether you do it or not (given you couldn't defer) so the options become (1) lose the money and don't make your injury worse, or (2) lose the money, have a painful and miserable day, and make the injury…

I run for a club so I wear my club colours. The one exception where I live is the Chariots of Fire beach race where everyone dresses in white like in the movie. You can pre-order a special charity 'chariots' white t-shirt to do it in if you want.

Age grading has its uses, but it only compares you to the world record (or estimated equivalent) for that specific distance for people of your age and sex. For women, the marathon world record is so exceptionally good that we all get less good age graded scores for it, even if our actual performance is better than for our…

I actually think she could be fine - she'd have a pretty difficult and miserable race, probably, but if she can do 5 miles now and she's got 6 weeks, she can practise running slower, do three or four runs a week for 5 weeks (3 miles, 5 miles, 3 miles, 7 miles) building to a 'long' run of maybe 8 or 9 miles, and as long as…

Think she's using the special 'not coming last' definition of '...that makes me a WINNER!!!'

To be fair, she doesn't want to win the whole race, she just wants not to lose, and to make that happen, she plans to enter whichever race has the most runners who are likely to be less good at running than her. It's a solid strategy. Lots of people enter half marathons under-prepared and have a painful, miserable time -…

Congratulations on your first half! I think, from what you have said, that it would make sense for you to take 2 weeks completely off, if you feel like it (I never feel like I don't want to run, but you've said you feel burnt out), or just go for a couple of short jogs. After that, build back up gradually over a few weeks…

I don't think it's insulting or mistaken, but it's less of a familiar concept to me (and possibly some others on here) as I think maybe a true 'off-season' is more likely to apply to middle-distance (i.e. track) runners, especially at high school and college, racing 800s and 1500s in a quite clearly defined early summer…

Sorry, we are being facetious. The 'traditional' way to do it, at least in my part of the U.K., if you are an endurance runner, would be to have a couple of big targets (this year I am doing two marathons, Spring and Autumn, but normally I do a spring marathon and an Autumn half). You'd build up to those through shorter…

I'm not sure either. Is it the same as cross country season?

Are they doing the half marathon too? Because if not I think you should get to eat all the donuts.

Yep, this is absolutely right. I actually also *like* the term 'jogging', not to set up a hierarchy, but because when beginner runners think 'running' they automatically think of something that's meant to be really fast, like sprinting. Whereas actually jogging and sprinting are both types of running, and jogging is the…

Recently I went for a 16 mile run with my friend but when we'd finished her garmin said 16.1 miles and mine said 15.85. Luckily I didn't care (except I did a bit because I ran up and down the road till it was a round number ;) ). But in certified measured races measured with a Jones counter I'm more inclined to trust the…

Miles per week has more to do with your level of experience than the race distance. Basically, the more miles you can run without getting burnt out or injured (most of them easy), the better. So if you're comfortable peaking at 40 miles, you'll be better prepared for your half. As for runger, I'd agree with more protein. I…