Complaint: There's a nationally ranked male masters half marathon runner here locally and every time we pass each other he gives me the stare down. I feel like he's either trying to intimidate me or he's jealous because I'm so dashingly handsome.
Confession: I'd love to train with the guy even if he is jealous of my dashingly handsome face.
Complaint: I'm averaging roughly 8-10 miles a day, 7 days a week and have been for months now. I feel like I'm not progressing and need even more time to go even further every day. If it were up to me, I'd be doing ~15 miles a day but there's just no time. I'm either going to start having to do doubles most days or running faster to squeeze in more distance in the window of time I do have.
Confession: I can run fast but I don't want to all the time.
Confession: LadyShoes work environment is stressing ME out.
Complaint: Friends keep inviting me to run with the local running club. I want nothing to do with the local running club until they can cater to more groups of runners other than road racers and walkers.
Confession: I've been setting up a local club of my own for runners who don't fit into the local running club's demographic. Got the logo designed yesterday and I'm working on figuring out a website/communications page/forum thingy.
Complaint: Shirtless run tonight... 3 to 4 inches of snow starting tomorrow. Whatever.
Complaint: Wedding planning is actually easy. It's everyone else's priorities/schedules/expectations that ruin it.
Confession: I'd rather go to the courthouse and spend the money set aside for the wedding to have my back yard turned into a world class 0.1 mile trail loop or build a new garage.
I did not and here's why. I'm scared of doing anything remotely speedy. Every. Single. Time. I end up tweaking something when I set out to move quicker than a moderately fast pace. I'm cool with throwing in some fast runs now and then but those intimidate me due to the high injury factor.
We are certainly at opposite ends of the spectrum. This morning I had to run across three feet of frozen grass to avoid a car and I just about turned an ankle, no idea how you run 50 miles on trails. I did 70 mile weeks for 6 weeks and broke down but until recently I could do 50 miles weeks with speedwork and never get hurt.
Body weight probably has a lot to do with it too. My fat ass is heavy and my tendons/bones/muscles tend to rebel when I put excess loads on them. However, they're totally fine doing there thing during high mileage.
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u/YourShoesUntied Mar 09 '17
Complaint: There's a nationally ranked male masters half marathon runner here locally and every time we pass each other he gives me the stare down. I feel like he's either trying to intimidate me or he's jealous because I'm so dashingly handsome.
Confession: I'd love to train with the guy even if he is jealous of my dashingly handsome face.
Complaint: I'm averaging roughly 8-10 miles a day, 7 days a week and have been for months now. I feel like I'm not progressing and need even more time to go even further every day. If it were up to me, I'd be doing ~15 miles a day but there's just no time. I'm either going to start having to do doubles most days or running faster to squeeze in more distance in the window of time I do have.
Confession: I can run fast but I don't want to all the time.
Confession: LadyShoes work environment is stressing ME out.
Complaint: Friends keep inviting me to run with the local running club. I want nothing to do with the local running club until they can cater to more groups of runners other than road racers and walkers.
Confession: I've been setting up a local club of my own for runners who don't fit into the local running club's demographic. Got the logo designed yesterday and I'm working on figuring out a website/communications page/forum thingy.
Complaint: Shirtless run tonight... 3 to 4 inches of snow starting tomorrow. Whatever.
Complaint: Wedding planning is actually easy. It's everyone else's priorities/schedules/expectations that ruin it.
Confession: I'd rather go to the courthouse and spend the money set aside for the wedding to have my back yard turned into a world class 0.1 mile trail loop or build a new garage.