Anyone here tried this new thing called "jogging" ?

GlowGirl said:

beano.79 said:

GlowGirl said:

beano.79 said:

33c here today, too hot for me so I waited until sun set. Combine harvester was kicking up a dust too which made for a dusty mile but a cool photo.

Nice photo. It has been too hot here as well. I surrendered to the treadmill twice this week. I am going to try to get outside tomorrow morning. The temperature won't be so bad, but it depends on the humidity. How is the training going?

It's going well thanks! Can be a slog at times but coming out of a rest after the 50 and building back up so feeling a little fresher. Just 6 more weeks of training before we taper.

Awesome!! I am really excited for you for the big day. I like hearing about the training. I ran outside today. It was not as humid as last week, but still fairly humid. I managed to keep my time pretty good, but based on the forecast will likely be on the treadmill on Wednesday. Are you using a treadmill at all in your training?

F Me In The Brain said:

Nice run!
Today was actually the first time I carried both of the liquid bladders in the vest.  Worked ok...a bit of rub on the old nips, lol, but nothing too bad.  Perhaps on much longer runs I'll notice it more.

Tried to do the 5/5/5 approach to the half marathon distance today....but by the 5km part where I'm meant to go all out, going all out was not very fast.  The last mile was slow as fuck, just out of energy.  Not hot yet today but still super humid and that was a bit tough.
Not an awful time, though.  A good memory to think that in 2019 I ran my first half in a race environment and was dead at the end, and now I'm running it solo, faster, and feel pretty good.

GlowGirl said:

reditalian said:

beano.79 said:

reditalian said:

F Me In The Brain said:

reditalian said:

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reditalian said:

I'm training for a marathon in Oct in Ann Arbor. Anyone else running in that one?

No, not for that one.  Have you run marathon(s) before?

Saw that you are a Goggins fan -- as a fellow fan I am sure reading Can't Hurt Me while training will crank up that training a few levels.

How are you training?

Love having another person here to join our encouragement for each other's running desires.

Speaking of, @Spiritual_Chaos is it almost time to start back up for you?

I have run a couple but not in 10 years so it's been fun ramping back up to that level. I went on the runners world website and they have programs set up for depending fitness level. My goal is to qualify for Boston. Yes Goggins ramps up the internal intensity for sure lol.

Awesome, congrats on getting back to it.

If you are in the standard Pearl Jam Fan age range I am guessing you need to be sub 3h20m (male) or 3h50m (female) to qualify.  I am a slow runner and to qualify I would have to pretty much run as fast as I can run a mile, about 26 times in a row.        

Props to you for your speed! 

Is your goal to qualify for Boston in your first Marathon back?

Very interesting to see the different goals we all have -- they are all meaningful and drive us to put in the work to get there, which (for my thoughts) is the point of setting goals!

Thanks! You're bang on with my age, I'm 42 so yeah sub 3hr20min. Thank you! That is my goal but the training is just ramping up now so we'll see in a month if it's still the same lol. 100% agree with you. On the days even Goggins can't motivate me I just think about Boston and letting my kids down if I don't make it. That's not what they would think but that's what I tell myself they would think lol

That's a great goal 👍 and welcome to the place where it's cool to tell us about the stuff nobody else understands or gives a shit about 😂

Hahaha thanks! this might turn into my favorite spot in the forum

Welcome!! The few of us that post regularly like it here. I am the non-competitive runner compared to the rest of you all. But, I still find it motivating to share. Whatever works, right? Good luck with your training. Running the Boston would be amazing.

GlowGirl said:

beano.79 said:

Good running lads!👌 

I feel like I'm running with boobs with or without the pack 😂 but I get what you mean, It sometimes takes me a moment to adjust the bungee just right to decrease bounce but not hug to tight

I am always running with boobs - so no sympathy here 

GlowGirl said:

beano.79 said:

This weekend was 8 and 16 miles. 6 weeks building back up to a peak of 18/30. Then a 2 week taper to the big day 😬 it's really gone as well as we could hope to this point 🤞

Awesome!! It’s great to hear about all your progress. I will be remotely cheering you on during the big race 👏👏

F Me In The Brain said:

Nice run!
Today was actually the first time I carried both of the liquid bladders in the vest.  Worked ok...a bit of rub on the old nips, lol, but nothing too bad.  Perhaps on much longer runs I'll notice it more.

Tried to do the 5/5/5 approach to the half marathon distance today....but by the 5km part where I'm meant to go all out, going all out was not very fast.  The last mile was slow as fuck, just out of energy.  Not hot yet today but still super humid and that was a bit tough.
Not an awful time, though.  A good memory to think that in 2019 I ran my first half in a race environment and was dead at the end, and now I'm running it solo, faster, and feel pretty good.

beano.79 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

This should not make a person as excited as it does, me.


I'm not a fan of their color options (have a wide shoe size limits them even more) but look forward to running in them

😍 I went for the 2E width with my most recent pair of 1080's. I just love running in these shoes. As bit of a hefty heel striker they're perfect for me.