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daft twat wrote:

turned2black wrote:10 miles in 75 minutes

Wanted to run outside, but the wife is sick and she really needed a break, so I took the older kids to the gym with me. About half-way there I realized I pretty much hadn't eaten anything the entire day. Luckily, I always stash energy gels in my glove box, so I downed two of them before the run. Created a Bat for Lashes running playlist and off I went. Ran sub-7s for the first 5 miles, then started to struggle. No finishing sprint, just terribleness.

I have a fairly nasty 14-miler (about 4,000 feet in elevation change) I'm suppose to do with a friend this weekend. Looks like I'll either be embarrassing myself or getting (cough, cough!) sick.

holy shit, dude, you're a conundrum. you run 10 miles in an hour and 15 minutes and refer to it as "terribleness." this, coupled with your location, which says, "in a dark place" led me to believe you were in africa. but you have a gym membership and a glove box, which i assume is part of a car, so that's probably not right. based on your posts, the only way i see you embarrassing yourself during your 14-miler (that's what i call them too) is if you shit down your legs. you are the champion of this thread, and i'd be lying if i said i didn't incredulously think of some of your posts when my gray balls are slamming against my thighs as i run 3 sub-9s on a treadmill between and elderly man i don't know and a large-breasted woman (who i sometimes fuck) at the Y.

daft twat wrote:

turned2black wrote:10 miles in 75 minutes

Wanted to run outside, but the wife is sick and she really needed a break, so I took the older kids to the gym with me. About half-way there I realized I pretty much hadn't eaten anything the entire day. Luckily, I always stash energy gels in my glove box, so I downed two of them before the run. Created a Bat for Lashes running playlist and off I went. Ran sub-7s for the first 5 miles, then started to struggle. No finishing sprint, just terribleness.

I have a fairly nasty 14-miler (about 4,000 feet in elevation change) I'm suppose to do with a friend this weekend. Looks like I'll either be embarrassing myself or getting (cough, cough!) sick.

holy shit, dude, you're a conundrum. you run 10 miles in an hour and 15 minutes and refer to it as "terribleness." this, coupled with your location, which says, "in a dark place" led me to believe you were in africa. but you have a gym membership and a glove box, which i assume is part of a car, so that's probably not right. based on your posts, the only way i see you embarrassing yourself during your 14-miler (that's what i call them too) is if you shit down your legs. you are the champion of this thread, and i'd be lying if i said i didn't incredulously think of some of your posts when my gray balls are slamming against my thighs as i run 3 sub-9s on a treadmill between and elderly man i don't know and a large-breasted woman (who i sometimes fuck) at the Y.

durdencommatyler wrote:Finally got out in the cold again. Did 8.5 miles. And it felt great. I did stairs yesterday, but it's not the same. I missed the stride. My body loved actually running again.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Finally got out in the cold again. Did 8.5 miles. And it felt great. I did stairs yesterday, but it's not the same. I missed the stride. My body loved actually running again.

I wish i could get to the point that i actually liked running, right now im motivated by trying to get healthy and by having a lot of new music to listen to, but i don't enjoy the running at all

durdencommatyler wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Finally got out in the cold again. Did 8.5 miles. And it felt great. I did stairs yesterday, but it's not the same. I missed the stride. My body loved actually running again.

I wish i could get to the point that i actually liked running, right now im motivated by trying to get healthy and by having a lot of new music to listen to, but i don't enjoy the running at all

I bet you'll get there.

When I started, it was only a way to spend time with my wife. She's a big runner. After seeing runners finish the marathon and walk around NYC in 2006, she decided she wanted to do it, too. She's got three marathons under her belt now. Would have four, bu they canceled this year's marathon.

Anyway, she was running a lot and I missed her. So I decided it would be a good way to spend time with her. Getting fit and healthy was just an added bonus. But I hated it at first. HATED it. I've been running now for just under three years and it wasn't until the last six or seven months that I started to feel that pull, that enjoyment, that need to do it.

Stay at it. You'll get there. But it's hard work.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Finally got out in the cold again. Did 8.5 miles. And it felt great. I did stairs yesterday, but it's not the same. I missed the stride. My body loved actually running again.

I wish i could get to the point that i actually liked running, right now im motivated by trying to get healthy and by having a lot of new music to listen to, but i don't enjoy the running at all

I bet you'll get there.

When I started, it was only a way to spend time with my wife. She's a big runner. After seeing runners finish the marathon and walk around NYC in 2006, she decided she wanted to do it, too. She's got three marathons under her belt now. Would have four, bu they canceled this year's marathon.

Anyway, she was running a lot and I missed her. So I decided it would be a good way to spend time with her. Getting fit and healthy was just an added bonus. But I hated it at first. HATED it. I've been running now for just under three years and it wasn't until the last six or seven months that I started to feel that pull, that enjoyment, that need to do it.

Stay at it. You'll get there. But it's hard work.

I know its still way early for me, so i know a lot of what i don't like is the fact that it hurts before i make to the half mile mark so we will see how it goes when i can get the mile in fairly easily

durdencommatyler wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Finally got out in the cold again. Did 8.5 miles. And it felt great. I did stairs yesterday, but it's not the same. I missed the stride. My body loved actually running again.

I wish i could get to the point that i actually liked running, right now im motivated by trying to get healthy and by having a lot of new music to listen to, but i don't enjoy the running at all

I bet you'll get there.

When I started, it was only a way to spend time with my wife. She's a big runner. After seeing runners finish the marathon and walk around NYC in 2006, she decided she wanted to do it, too. She's got three marathons under her belt now. Would have four, bu they canceled this year's marathon.

Anyway, she was running a lot and I missed her. So I decided it would be a good way to spend time with her. Getting fit and healthy was just an added bonus. But I hated it at first. HATED it. I've been running now for just under three years and it wasn't until the last six or seven months that I started to feel that pull, that enjoyment, that need to do it.

Stay at it. You'll get there. But it's hard work.

I know its still way early for me, so i know a lot of what i don't like is the fact that it hurts before i make to the half mile mark so we will see how it goes when i can get the mile in fairly easily

For me, it didn't even get comfortable (let alone enjoyable) until I could do 3 or 4 with regularity.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I've been saying that I'm going to start running since like October.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I've been saying that I'm going to start running since like October.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I've been saying that I'm going to start running since like October.

Start tomorrow, 10 to 20 minutes will make a huge difference in how you feel, I've already got so much more energy after 5 days

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I've been saying that I'm going to start running since like October.

Start tomorrow, 10 to 20 minutes will make a huge difference in how you feel, I've already got so much more energy after 5 days

I aint starting shit until I'm done with this bullshit at work.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I've been saying that I'm going to start running since like October.

Start tomorrow, 10 to 20 minutes will make a huge difference in how you feel, I've already got so much more energy after 5 days

I aint starting shit until I'm done with this bullshit at work.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I've been saying that I'm going to start running since like October.

Start tomorrow, 10 to 20 minutes will make a huge difference in how you feel, I've already got so much more energy after 5 days

I aint starting shit until I'm done with this bullshit at work.

Definitely get your work done, but there will always be something to keep you from doing it, you just need to make time