Anyone here tried this new thing called "jogging" ?

F Me In The Brain

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I tried to not walk. Just took a short-short walking break when the Stephen King short story endes to switch to my friend’s horror podcast. 

Need to find a longer route.

Good work!
Going and doing it is the tough part.

F Me In The Brain

Rolled my ankle this morning...luckily I was almost at the end of my run, so once I picked myself up off the ground from full wipe out mode, I was able to hobble back. 
Looks and feels pretty crappy right now but as with most "ankles", the tell will be how it feels tomorrow.
Slated for 11 miles on Saturday and I'm hoping worst case will be to push that a day and do my Sunday cross work on Saturday.
The schedule gods demand sacrifice and commitment!

GlowGirl

F Me In The Brain said:

Rolled my ankle this morning...luckily I was almost at the end of my run, so once I picked myself up off the ground from full wipe out mode, I was able to hobble back. 
Looks and feels pretty crappy right now but as with most "ankles", the tell will be how it feels tomorrow.
Slated for 11 miles on Saturday and I'm hoping worst case will be to push that a day and do my Sunday cross work on Saturday.
The schedule gods demand sacrifice and commitment!

Ouch. Ankle injuries suck. Do you have a compression sock you can wear. That helped last time my ankle was giving me trouble. But you are right that time will tell. Rest and ice. Lucky, it was at the end of your run. Keep us posted. Feel better soon. 

F Me In The Brain

Thanks!  I do have compression items to wear, will see what things look like.  All sorts of experience with messed up ankles.  Luckily I only have 5 meetings today so I can elevate and ice periodically throughout the day.

bbiggs

Did a 10K yesterday in just under an hour, which is stretching out my average distance a bit.  Nice steady pace and it felt great.  I don't think I sped up or slowed down the entire run.  I just got in the zone with my pace and breathing and probably could have kept going a lot longer if I wasn't losing daylight.  All this talk about the weather has me concerned.  I've never run outside in the Winter (not regularly at least) and there's no way I'm going to my gym this year.  I guess I'm going to have to look into cold weather gear.  F*$@! 

GlowGirl

bbiggs said:

Did a 10K yesterday in just under an hour, which is stretching out my average distance a bit.  Nice steady pace and it felt great.  I don't think I sped up or slowed down the entire run.  I just got in the zone with my pace and breathing and probably could have kept going a lot longer if I wasn't losing daylight.  All this talk about the weather has me concerned.  I've never run outside in the Winter (not regularly at least) and there's no way I'm going to my gym this year.  I guess I'm going to have to look into cold weather gear.  F*$@! 

I started looking into that as well. I have never run outside in the winter. I found this chart from Runner's World that I copied. It is common sense, but nice to have it spelled out for me. I actually ordered a Nike long sleeve tech shirt from Amazon yesterday to make sure the size is good before I order a few more. I already have short sleeve ones, but haven't really needed the long sleeves. This year I will for sure.

What to Wear Running in the Cold

Still wondering what you should wear? You can use our clever What to Wear tool, or use this quick guide.

• 60+ degrees: tank top and shorts
• 50–59 degrees: short sleeve tech shirt and shorts
• 40–49 degrees: long sleeve tech shirt, shorts or tights, gloves (optional), headband to cover ears (optional)
• 30–39 degrees: long sleeve tech shirt, shorts or tights, gloves, and headband to cover ears
• 20–29 degrees: two shirts layered—a long sleeve tech shirt and a short sleeve tech shirt or long sleeve shirt and jacket—tights, gloves, and headband or hat to cover ears
• 10–19 degrees: two shirts layered, tights, gloves or mittens, headband or hat, and windbreaker jacket/pants
• 0–9 degrees: two shirts layered, tights, windbreaker jacket/pants, mittens, headband or hat, ski mask to cover face

PJNB

I am tapping out for training in August. I may do some running on my set off but doing 6 days of 13hr shifts and 3 of those being nights has me worn out. I am eating like crap again too since they are buying our meals and they are all shit food. Yes I could bring my own meal in and eat healthy but I have no willpower when it comes to that lol. From now to the 27th I will probably run 2 times then go right back to where I was prior to this outage. 

NewfieintheUSA

I did a 15K run this morning, but I seemed to have strained something in my inner thigh. It hurts alot when I am getting up or when I bend over. Guess I'll have to take it easy for a few days and see if it gets better.

NewfieintheUSA

GlowGirl said:

bbiggs said:

Did a 10K yesterday in just under an hour, which is stretching out my average distance a bit.  Nice steady pace and it felt great.  I don't think I sped up or slowed down the entire run.  I just got in the zone with my pace and breathing and probably could have kept going a lot longer if I wasn't losing daylight.  All this talk about the weather has me concerned.  I've never run outside in the Winter (not regularly at least) and there's no way I'm going to my gym this year.  I guess I'm going to have to look into cold weather gear.  F*$@! 

I started looking into that as well. I have never run outside in the winter. I found this chart from Runner's World that I copied. It is common sense, but nice to have it spelled out for me. I actually ordered a Nike long sleeve tech shirt from Amazon yesterday to make sure the size is good before I order a few more. I already have short sleeve ones, but haven't really needed the long sleeves. This year I will for sure.

What to Wear Running in the Cold

Still wondering what you should wear? You can use our clever What to Wear tool, or use this quick guide.

• 60+ degrees: tank top and shorts
• 50–59 degrees: short sleeve tech shirt and shorts
• 40–49 degrees: long sleeve tech shirt, shorts or tights, gloves (optional), headband to cover ears (optional)
• 30–39 degrees: long sleeve tech shirt, shorts or tights, gloves, and headband to cover ears
• 20–29 degrees: two shirts layered—a long sleeve tech shirt and a short sleeve tech shirt or long sleeve shirt and jacket—tights, gloves, and headband or hat to cover ears
• 10–19 degrees: two shirts layered, tights, gloves or mittens, headband or hat, and windbreaker jacket/pants
• 0–9 degrees: two shirts layered, tights, windbreaker jacket/pants, mittens, headband or hat, ski mask to cover face

Thanks for posting this, need to stock up on some gear for the fall/winter 

F Me In The Brain

Ankle is fuckasaurased tonight.  
Hope your strained muscle heals quickly Newfie

I'm gonna give my ankle the best medicine I can give....some vodka, ice and elevation.  

oftenreading

F Me In The Brain said:

Ankle is fuckasaurased tonight.  
Hope your strained muscle heals quickly Newfie

I'm gonna give my ankle the best medicine I can give....some vodka, ice and elevation.  

Topically or....?

bbiggs

F Me In The Brain said:

Ankle is fuckasaurased tonight.  
Hope your strained muscle heals quickly Newfie

I'm gonna give my ankle the best medicine I can give....some vodka, ice and elevation.  

Easy on the ice. 

NewfieintheUSA

F Me In The Brain said:

Ankle is fuckasaurased tonight.  
Hope your strained muscle heals quickly Newfie

I'm gonna give my ankle the best medicine I can give....some vodka, ice and elevation.  

I'm on beer, ice and elevation.

Hope your ankle gets better quickly. 

bbiggs

All this talk of vodka and beer, I might have to marinate some ice cubes after my run tonight as well. Hope everyone heals up quickly. 

F Me In The Brain

oftenreading said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Ankle is fuckasaurased tonight.  
Hope your strained muscle heals quickly Newfie

I'm gonna give my ankle the best medicine I can give....some vodka, ice and elevation.  

Topically or....?

And waste good vodka?!  Lol

F Me In The Brain

Pre-drinks
10 mins with a pile of ice straight on until it wouldn't stay and then 15 in an ice bath after filling with water.

Always crazy at how much a simple ice bath can pain you the first few minutes.

crookedcross

Never been a runner, never ran more than 5Ks here and there, and that's only because my job requires it. A few weeks ago, I was deployed and we were "quarantined" within a 3-mile fence along a dirt road; not allowed to leave base. Nothing to do within that fence. At all. Out of boredom one day, as I was ending a 12-hr overnight shift wired on Red Bull, I told a co-worker who is a huge runner, I think I have enough in me to run a half marathon. I was just bullshitting. He said, "Dude, you can't just decide to run a half marathon after work. You have to prep for that. Especially... Especially! if you've never done it." That just hit me the wrong way and I pretty much said, watch me. Got off work, ate a light breakfast, let the food settle, and the Red Bull die so I don't get a heart attack running, and I just went for it. Well.. my co-worker was right. Lol I didn't get to 13.1, I was slow as hell, but I've never felt so accomplished after running.

Not to make excuses, but during my run, it went from 75° to 88° and the sun was out. I think even if it was just overcast, I would've made it. 1.6 miles left, I basically just decided there's a difference between being motivated and being stupid, because I started getting light-headed so I stopped and walked the rest (stopped my tracker though to not hurt the average Lol).

F Me In The Brain

Impressive!

bbiggs

Damn!  From no running at all to jumping off the couch and running 11+ miles is beyond impressive.  Bravo!

oftenreading

Wow! I'm guessing you're otherwise fit and active, unless you just hit the genetic jackpot.

But seeing the overlapping rectangles in that plain block and thinking about the utter boredom that must have entailed is almost painful