re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

Ran a local 5K this AM. Got there early and did an easy 3 mile warm up at HR 140. This was their first year for the event. Some poor guy lost his wife to cancer and they were having the race to honor her and raise money for the school. He spoke to the crowd. If you weren’t tearing up after listening to him, they had a 9 yr old angel sing the national anthem. Kid was unreal.

So I’m totally pumped at this point.


Typical race start cluster. We are running the neighborhood I run every week. By mile two, there aren’t many people in front of me anymore. My Garmin says I put in a 7:06, 7:30, and a 7:10. Chip time says sub 22 min with a sub 7 min pace. Not sure who to believe on that one.

Normally, this would be good enough to win my age group 40-49. Must have been old man freak day as I only managed a top 8 in my group.

New PR for me and a testament to the slow running program and the Knees Over Toes strength training. Sold on both for sure.

Any good gel or something similar recommendations?

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What’s everyone warmup routines - specifically ones that help avoid shin splints.

Been running 4 days a week with no issues for months. Ran a 5k early November and every run since my shins have been killing me. I get shin pain and then usually my right foot gets numb. Idk what’s going on but I showed up late to the 5k and didn’t get much of a warmup so I’m thinking that didn’t help things.

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Not a warm up per se but I've been doing weighted tibia raises in the gym. It seems to have been working. No shin splint issues whatsoever. Been feeling a lot of lower calf pain lately with the heavy mileage and need to figure something out, however.

Nice work!

When I see posts like this, I feel like we need an age qualifier in there.

I PR’d a 5K last weekend at 21:30 and age 48.

You’re currently the dude that I’m aiming to be. Hope I can get there.


For reference, there were over 300 in the 10K today and another 670 in the 5K.

PR'd the NOAC Turkey Day 5 mile race right around 35:00. Think I probably went about 80% as I'm tapering and wanted to take it somewhat easy. Running the RnR San Antonio marathon next Sunday. Had a credit from the canceled RnR NOLA marathon last year so picked this one. Anyone else here running it? Weather's looking fairly warm, unfortunately, but looking forward to it regardless. Ran my first marathon in Birmingham earlier this year with a 3:51 time. Shooting for 3:30 this go round.

Gotten some motivation reading y'alls times haha. Recently ran a 55 minute 10K and was feeling it by the end! Shooting for a 2:00 hour half at St. Jude this weekend, but expecting a 2:05 or so depending on the weather.

I just don't see how I'm gonna have time to get over 40 miles in a week. I've been averaging about 30 miles per week with a VO2 max session in there.