Running up a tab - Mar 3 to 9

[emily_in_nc]

OMG... I ran a 9:30 MINUTE MILE! WOAH! I haven't run that fast... EVER!!!!

Congrats!!!! I would love to break under a 10:00 minute mile. I can run that, but no faster, so far. And I can't sustain 10:00 for an entire 3-5 mile run, though I have done as much as two miles at a time at that pace.

Good for you -- and after a long trainer ride, too! You IM you!

Emily

[teigyr]

12 miles yesterday Might I say ouch?! As slow as I think I'm going, it turns out I'm consistent when I average mph from my other long runs. I don't know why this one made me so sore though except for I did have a stress test the day before on a 16% incline I'm a wuss with the hills.

It's amazing how painful it is to go a "bit" faster than your comfort speed. I can run 10 minute miles for runs averaging 3 miles or so but when I try to do short bits of 9 minute miles, OUCH!!! It's fun but still, it makes me drool on myself

[KSH]

12 miles yesterday Might I say ouch?! As slow as I think I'm going, it turns out I'm consistent when I average mph from my other long runs. I don't know why this one made me so sore though except for I did have a stress test the day before on a 16% incline I'm a wuss with the hills.

It's amazing how painful it is to go a "bit" faster than your comfort speed. I can run 10 minute miles for runs averaging 3 miles or so but when I try to do short bits of 9 minute miles, OUCH!!! It's fun but still, it makes me drool on myself

12 miles is ouch! I have been doing 10-11 miles one day a week and when I stop it's like all the pain just settles into my muscles. OUCH.

Yea, a bit faster can be a lot more effort. I find this with swimming and cycling as well. If I swim a 1:40, 100 yards I'm cruising and relaxed. I swim a 1:36, 100 yards and I am working REALLY HARD. Something that I can't sustain.

[Wahine]

I sort of ran today. For a short while, on a treadmill while a bunch of PTs picked apart my running form. It was pretty educational. Now I want to stop running all together for a while, "fix" things and try again. Interestingly enough, my form gets better as I go a little faster. So *that's* my problem, I've been running too slowly all this time.

[teigyr]

I sort of ran today. For a short while, on a treadmill while a bunch of PTs picked apart my running form. It was pretty educational. Now I want to stop running all together for a while, "fix" things and try again. Interestingly enough, my form gets better as I go a little faster. So *that's* my problem, I've been running too slowly all this time.

You know, not that I know what I'm talking about but during those brief bouts of going faster, it feels MUCH better. Maybe it's more natural when you go faster? What did they pick apart? Did their suggestions make sense?

It's strange that we need to learn things that we should do naturally. Kinda.

Anyway, it sounds very productive

[Wahine]

Well, the biggest thing is that I'm not getting enough push out the back of my stride on the right that is leading to some stability problems there. And I don't have enough stabilization in the frontal plane. What that means is that my pelvis rocks a fair bit if you watch me from the front or back. I already knew about that one and it's mostly only there when I'm tired, otherwise I can control it. The bad thing is that I'm running tired most of the time, definitely when I'm racing so I need to work more on it.

[jesvetmed]

Teigyr: I remember a chiropracter I visited several years ago was horrified that I was jogging, and figured it was the root of all of my evil (OK, not ALL of it!). But he said that he always recommends running full out because it is less stressful on the body, and then walk fast until heart rate drops to a certain point, and sprint fast again until you can't go further... continuing the cycle for whatever period of time you like. I tried it short term, but like the mind-losing cadence of jogging much better. Maybe there's something to that, though?

[KSH]

Congrats!!!! I would love to break under a 10:00 minute mile. I can run that, but no faster, so far. And I can't sustain 10:00 for an entire 3-5 mile run, though I have done as much as two miles at a time at that pace.

Good for you -- and after a long trainer ride, too! You IM you!

Emily

HA! Well, I have only see that kind of pace on a treadmill before... and I did only run a mile. I just made my jello legs move as fast I could make them.

For any run over a minute, outside... I'm around a 11-11:30 minute mile. I'm such a turtle.

I'm sure you will see improvement on your pace with distance very soon.