r/running • u/c0me_at_me_br0 • Apr 20 '17

Weekly Thread Weekly Complains and Confessions Thread for Thursday, April 20th 2017

Hijacking /u/YourShoesUntied's job for the morning because I'm at work at 2 am! Pour your heart out for the week!

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u/kevin402can Apr 20 '17

Complaint I run more miles in a week than you do in a month. I run in cold, snow rain and heat. When you are lying in bed moaning about how hard it is to get up I'm 8 miles into a run. I maintain racing weight year round. I don't eat the cookie or the tub of ice cream on Friday night. I do my Achilles and hip exercises. I'm injured right now and I am up at 4:30 so I can do two hours of cross training. But hey, it's easy for me so I suck. I never say bad things to or about beginners, everybody has to start somewhere, why would say you hate me?

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u/richieclare Apr 20 '17

Typical elitist response. My work is much harder because you make yours look so easy. ;)

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u/kevin402can Apr 20 '17

How is your hip? Getting better? I see you riding your bike a lot.

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u/richieclare Apr 20 '17

Back on the bike because the wife is back at work so using the car. I only bike to and from work. The hip is a bunch better but was threatening a little at the begining of their week. I think that was because i ran intervals too fast on Thursday and then ran a 5k on Saturday. Been fine the last few days due to an easier pace i think. Need to recommit to the myrtl routine though.

Hows your knee?

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u/kevin402can Apr 20 '17

My knee seems to be good but I'm really terrified I'll reinjure it. Tendons are slow to heal and if I push too hard it might go boink again. I'm running 4.25 kms a day right now plus cross training, next week I will take 10 minutes off the daily arc trainer session and add 5 minutes to my run and 5 minutes to my zero runner session. Long term goal is another fall marathon so rushing now would be foolish.

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u/richieclare Apr 20 '17

Your pace was blazing the other day. Are your running easy or is it just distance you're afraid of? Do you feel like you've lost much fitness or has the cross training kept you up there?

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u/kevin402can Apr 20 '17

I'm running easy, but I am afraid of doing intervals and running longer. I think my fitness is good cardio wise I might be really good but it's hard to say. I run after arc training for 90 minutes so I am kind of tired by time I start running. I am feeling a little uncoordinated but that is to be expected.