re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

Just checked. Yeahhh baw you had that gorilla jump on your back

shite happens though, and your next one will be better. You know as well as I do that bad races happen and you can start your revenge tour after recovering from this one.

We don't know the name of the racer yet, but we know it was a 25-year-old man. Officials say the runner was 3:49 into the race when it happened in the Shelby Park portion of the race.

Pedro

3:01 is nothing to be upset about but we know it isn't what you had in mind. Once you've thought about it can you maybe share some ideas on where your training may have been off or what race mishaps may have happened to that lead to a time slower than your goal / time you thought you were prepared for.

i've had the opposite training / race results. for marathons i've always thought i was under trained /not ready and put up better results than expected but for 100 milers I've felt ready and finished very disappointed.

Question for all of yall more experienced runners- I felt fine- surprisingly after the half on Saturday and yesterday as well.

But today- for the love of all things- I’m exhausted as all get out.

Is delayed exhaustion a thing??

For what it’s worth, I’m 50 and this is the first half I’ve run in a few years.
My long runs don’t wear me out so am I just a huge whiney arse or is there some type of post race crash that affects old ppl like myself?

Thanks man. I was telling my wife yesterday one of the things I have trouble with is the different level of “good” that I feel for myself vs what others is good for a normal runner (I’m fully aware I’m the weird abnormal one in this situation). Like I know a lot of people would love to run that time in a marathon and everything and it probably makes me look like an arse being pissed I ran that time but I also have my personal expectations and when I don’t live up to them it pisses me off. Maybe it’s a transfer of my coaching mindset I don’t know. It’s not even not running the 2:40. Honestly I could’ve lived with having run even a 2:55 yesterday if it meant I ran the whole thing. It was the fact that I had to stop repeatedly that gets to me. Same thing I ask of my kids. If you’re not always running your fastest that’s okay what I care about is the effort you give. Just feel like yesterday wasn’t my best effort.


Thinking on it I think I backed off of longer continuous workouts too soon. My body definitely wasn’t able to process the lactic acid as well as it should’ve been. Even though I felt great running those 6:36/37 paced runs last week that was probably a bit too much and I probably should’ve forced myself to take it easy. I also wonder how much being sick a few weeks ago threw things off. That was a pretty crucial week and taking 5/6 days off in that period probably wasn’t great.

How do yall feel about the Asics Nimbus 25s? I just got my first pair of Asics in about 4 years and these feel super plush. I got them because they were somewhat similar to the Nike Invincible 3s, but these have a much less rigid upper and slightly more stable.

I’ve definitely experienced some runs/races where I felt worse two days later than I did the next day. I’m sure there’s outside factors that contribute.

I like the changes theyve amde to the nimbus/kayano. I wasnt a huge fan of the old gel cushioning. theres still other shoes i like better for myself but theyre not a bad shoe.

day 5 post run. can finally walk without feeling like my calves are going to rip apart

I felt rough after grandmas but not like this. think spending a majority of the last ten miles in lactic hell took its toll on me.