Triathlon/Marathon/Endurance Sports Thread

[mtwarden]

^ congrats!

 

[lhbackcountry]

Once again, Thanks for all the advice.

Here's the #'s guys. I did finish. It was a much hotter and much slower run than I expected. I did add in an extra challenge they had, which was an extra mile with a series of steep hill climbs.

I forgot to wear my HRM of course, which is something I never do. If my #'s are close, the majority of the run would have been high Z2 or low Z3. I'm not sure of the last hour, which was around a 160 average. I'm guessing that would be roughly my lactate threshold. I haven't got far enough into my training to check that yet.

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congrats man!

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Congratulations on finishing, man!

 

[OregonSteeler]

Once again, Thanks for all the advice.

Here's the #'s guys. I did finish. It was a much hotter and much slower run than I expected. I did add in an extra challenge they had, which was an extra mile with a series of steep hill climbs.

I forgot to wear my HRM of course, which is something I never do. If my #'s are close, the majority of the run would have been high Z2 or low Z3. I'm not sure of the last hour, which was around a 160 average. I'm guessing that would be roughly my lactate threshold. I haven't got far enough into my training to check that yet.

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Congrats and solid effort for sure! Your first mile is around a minute and a half of your last mile, meaning you did great at pacing yourself. How did you feel after? Signed up for any other races?

 

[OregonSteeler]

For those who are looking to get better/faster at running, I highly suggest reading "Running Rewired" by Jay Dicharry. It's helpful by understanding the most efficient way to run and avoid injuries as you ramp up the mileage. Has plenty of exercises, mobility tests, and tips on how to correct form if you have deficiencies (I have plenty). Borrowed it from my local library and going to purchase it to have as a reference.

Happy training everyone!

 

[Truck24hr]

Thanks everyone.

Congrats and solid effort for sure! Your first mile is around a minute and a half of your last mile, meaning you did great at pacing yourself. How did you feel after? Signed up for any other races?

I felt pretty good afterwards. I stayed active throughout the day, and ran around playing with the granddaughter yesterday without feeling it too bad.

Squats, bench press, and situps went well this morning. I'll get a few miles in running again tomorrow morning.

I've got a 100 miler in October

 

[Mtaylor]

I am running my first marathon April 18 in Kennewick Washington. Been doing 9.5 min miles, but when I get up to 10 miles my right knee starts hurting. Then it’s down hill from there. I have been doing lunges and squats trying to get it stronger. Do any of you use a knee brace?

 

[Truck24hr]

@Mtaylor By chance is it inside of knee? I think meniscus? pain?

Not sure what you call the stretch. It's similar to a lunge position, but extreme enough that your calf touches the back of your thigh.

Doing those three times a day for 3 sets helped me.

 

[Mtaylor]

@Mtaylor By chance is it inside of knee? I think meniscus? pain?

Not sure what you call the stretch. It's similar to a lunge position, but extreme enough that your calf touches the back of your thigh.

Doing those three times a day for 3 sets helped me.

Yes inside!

 

[Truck24hr]

Yes inside!

That stretch I mentioned worked wonders for me. I had pain before getting to the point my calve was touching the back of my thigh, but as it got near touching the pain would go away.

Took a few weeks of doing that repeatedly, but it got to where there was no pain. I'm still doing them
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[Mtaylor]

That stretch I mentioned worked wonders for me. I had pain before getting to the point my calve was touching the back of my thigh, but as it got near touching the pain would go away.

Took a few weeks of doing that repeatedly, but it got to where there was no pain. I'm still doing them
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Similar to this?

 

[Truck24hr]

Similar to this?

3rd stretch this chick does. Says ATG Split Squats

 

[Mtaylor]

3rd stretch this chick does. Says ATG Split Squats

Got it! Thanks!

 

[Marbles]

I am running my first marathon April 18 in Kennewick Washington. Been doing 9.5 min miles, but when I get up to 10 miles my right knee starts hurting. Then it’s down hill from there. I have been doing lunges and squats trying to get it stronger. Do any of you use a knee brace?

Deep lunges (full depth, but sits on front heel at bottom), probably the stretch referenced above.

Box step downs

High box step ups

Lateral box step ups

Backwards sled drag or backwards incline treadmill or leg extensions

Romanian deadlift or Nordic curls


Do some combination of the above. For each, do sets of 3-6 for 3-6 reps. If you can easily do the last one of the last set, add weight or increase the box hight.

I screwed my right knee up years ago packing down a muddy trail. Last year with running it got to the point where I couldn't take stairs two at a time or go down stair without dropping my weight onto the leading leg. With a decrease in volume and adding the above I finished my first 50 miler 3 months later with no knee pain.

 

[Mtaylor]

That’s pretty impressive! I will start that right away!!

 

[eamyrick]

Anyone gonna be at Cocodona? Headed out on 5/5 to a pace a buddy. Gotta get some downhill miles in before so I don’t blow out my quads.

I’ve dropped 15lbs of fat since my 50k in January. Amazing how much quicker you are on your feet dropping useless lbs. I’ve also been integrating bi weekly zone 2 treadmill sessions which have helped my overall performance. On a Precor treadmill it’s usually an 8.5 incline on 4 or 4.5 speed. Take 9-10s minutes to get my HR to 125-130.

 

[cbailey1187]

I am running my first 50k in June. I’ve ran a handful of half marathons and decided I wanted something more. Should be a good time.

 

[Wiregrass Wilderness]

Completed my first 50k this past Saturday. I’m a former college football offensive lineman so I do not have the body for running at all. I was 6’5” and 255 pounds on Saturday morning, making me the largest man in the field. I tried to keep a good run and walk pace to start but found it easiest to walk the uphill and run the downhill/flat sections. Although, overall I did more power hiking than running for sure. I’m in Alabama so not crazy elevation, Garmin watch said I finished with 6,676 feet of elevation gain. I had some issues with a drop bag getting lost so it delayed me at the first two aid stations. My finish time was 9:04, definitely could’ve been faster without the aid station delays and if I pushed harder earlier in the race. Overall I’m happy with it since my main goal was to finish. I will say I’m proud of my last 6 miles after the final aid station. In those 6 miles I was able to push it some and pass 5 or so people, which was about 10% of the field since it wasn’t a huge race. Again, I’m not fast by any means, but I’ll take the last 6 mile push as a small victory.

Lastly, if anyone is considering a 50k go for it. I’m 100% proof that anyone can grind it out. It was a great experience and a nice way to spend time in the outdoors pushing yourself to get better. I’m already looking for another one to sign up for.

Congrats to all the others on this thread. I appreciate y’alls posts as they were good motivation leading up to my race on Saturday.

 

[BuckSmasher]

Completed my first 50k this past Saturday. I’m a former college football offensive lineman so I do not have the body for running at all. I was 6’5” and 255 pounds on Saturday morning, making me the largest man in the field. I tried to keep a good run and walk pace to start but found it easiest to walk the uphill and run the downhill/flat sections. Although, overall I did more power hiking than running for sure. I’m in Alabama so not crazy elevation, Garmin watch said I finished with 6,676 feet of elevation gain. I had some issues with a drop bag getting lost so it delayed me at the first two aid stations. My finish time was 9:04, definitely could’ve been faster without the aid station delays and if I pushed harder earlier in the race. Overall I’m happy with it since my main goal was to finish. I will say I’m proud of my last 6 miles after the final aid station. In those 6 miles I was able to push it some and pass 5 or so people, which was about 10% of the field since it wasn’t a huge race. Again, I’m not fast by any means, but I’ll take the last 6 mile push as a small victory.

Lastly, if anyone is considering a 50k go for it. I’m 100% proof that anyone can grind it out. It was a great experience and a nice way to spend time in the outdoors pushing yourself to get better. I’m already looking for another one to sign up for.

Congrats to all the others on this thread. I appreciate y’alls posts as they were good motivation leading up to my race on Saturday.

Was this a trail run? 6,676 sounds VERY hilly to me. Especially for Alabama. I am guessing the northern part.

 

[BuckSmasher]

Only 8 weeks to go until my marathon! Training has been a roller coaster for sure. I have almost always ran/jogged for fitness sometimes taking it more seriously than other times but really haven't built miles and went on long runs since I trained for my last marathon 14 years ago.

Learning that has occurred so far;I thought that with a baseline of running sometime 5-10 miles a week and sometimes not I would adapt pretty quickly to running a marathon training program, even at 43, that wasn't true. Shoes and their construction and design are SUPER important. I kept having odd calf pain on the medial anterior of my right calf. Couldn't figure it out. Didn't seem to be associated with stride. Put on my old beat up shoes and issue IMMEDIATELY resolved. Cost me a bunch of training miles that I converted to elliptical time. Turned out issue was drop. My new running shoes are zero drop my old ones are 6mm. I still want to transition to zero drop eventually but gonna stick with medium drop shoes until after this marathon.

It was SUPER discouraging to battle through pain and wonder if I could do this. Already booked lodging and told everyone I was gonna run a marathon, then not be able to complete a short 3 mile run without calf pain and go get on a elliptical for days at a time sucked beyond belief mentally. Last saturday ran 9 miles pain free, been cruising through 4 and 5 mile days this week and off today before 13 tomorrow. Cautiously optimistic.

The good news is that on shorter runs 10 min/mile used to feel easy zone two/three now 9 minutes per mile does. Did my first 8 miler at 12 min mile and did 9 miler last weekend at 10 still staying in upper zone 2 to middle of zone 3 by the end. Goal time for marathon is 4 hours (8:58/mile target 3:55 with 5 min buffer) so hoping to work those times down still but gonna concentrate on taking it easy and not injuring myself on long saturday runs and pushing the tempo a bit more on the weekday runs. I've got 8 weeks left hopefully I make a bunch of progress!