Runners
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Music along the route is a big plus. Lots of bands, do's, and drum groups along the tour in Paris. As someone who usually scoffs at a drum group, while running on Sunday I totally fell for the physical power of the beat, especially at one point where a group of about 30 drummers played at the entrance to a dark tunnel along the Seine. Being underground intensified the beat and helped me pick up the pace. At another point in the Bois de Vincennes a band was playing a not horrible cover of Little Richard, and that too got a lot of us going. A guy behind me kept singing the song for the next few minutes after we couldn't hear the band anymore. So yeah, music along the way is really great. Maybe the best bit in Paris was the techno with laser lighting in one of the tunnels.
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@jerkules I felt the exact same way! I ran my first marathon a couple months ago and it was going great until mile 19-20ish. I think I may have messed up my calorie intake but not sure. Congrats on the accomplishment man!
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@mumonkey72 congrats on your first as well! My calorie intake was pretty consistent with training, I’m starting to think it might’ve been insufficient sodium intake. Only drank one electrolyte drink over the entire race. Other than that I just drank water. The weather was hotter than I’d been training in, and I am a pretty heavy sweater when I exercise. By the time I finished I was covered in gross salt deposits lol. If I ever do another, I’d be much more sensible about nutrition and hydration.
Do you think you’d do another?
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@jerkules So I am signed up to run the San Fransisco marathon in late July so I will do that for sure. Lately I have been getting into trail races and completed an ultra a couple weeks ago and I think I will focus on those from here on out. Even though ultras seem scary, I think the 40 miler I did was easier then the marathon. In the marathon everyone is killing themselves to get to 26.2 as fast as they possibly can. In the ultra I ran and the couple that I have crewed for its a much more relaxed atmosphere. You run slower and no one bats an eye if take an hour to eat some food at an aid station. The atmosphere is super friendly and everyone just wants to see you finish!
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@mumonkey72 If you're on the west coast-- I highly suggest doing Born to Run in Los Olivos. It's sold out this year but it's so much fun. Multi-day camping event with lots of fun events planned throughout the week.
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Really pleased with myself this morning!
Ran religiously during the first year of the COVID lockdowns and got myself to a level of fitness I was genuinely proud of, but fell out of the habit for the past few years...
Postponed getting started again through fear of having to go through those awful first few months again, but finally threw myself back into it two weeks ago.
Today I got my 5k PB @ 22:18, feels good to be back in the game.
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Great work
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@jerkules just out on the streets, I've never actually ran a proper race. Ran for my sanity's sake during COVID, and got myself back into it 5/6 weeks ago...
Body seems to have taken to it well, and I'm breaking previous PBs with minimal effort. Kinda makes me want to take it seriously and follow a marathon training plan over the summer, my friends who's a serious runner reckons I can do one in 3:30 with commitment to the cause...
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Good for you man, sounds like it’s going well. A 3:30 marathon would be a serious achievement, only thing to do now is sign up for one and give it a shot.
I’m looking to sign up for another marathon soon, if my wife’ll let me
. Now I know I can finish one, I want to try to beat my time and get the sub- 4hour I wanted. Funnily my PB half-marathon occurred at miles 3 to 16 in my actual marathon, with 1 hour 42 minutes. Goes to show how shit the tail end of the marathon went that I exceeded the 4 hour point -
Good work 10 miles is a fun distance. There's an old 10 mile event here in Portsmouth called the Great South Run. I find 10 miles less all out than 10k and more like the half marathon.
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@goosehd I don’t think I can count them anymore
Different shoes for different purposes. Easy/recovery runs, long runs, speed work, trail and race. For races I differentiate between races up to 10k and everything above. I don’t do track races, but the guys that do obviously have track shoes as well. -
Yeah I’m a multi shoe runner. Nike Vaporfly 2 is my race shoe, Nike invincible 2 is my slow shoe, hoka speedgoat 5 is my trail shoe, and currently don’t have a fast training shoe, the Nike tempo next would do that but it is due a refresh. Actually tried on the streakfly today but wasn’t convinced.
