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The Official OGBoards Running (and Cycling) Thread: (Insert Season Here)

DeacHawk said:
I'd suggest going watchless and running by feel (or watch on time of day if you need it for distance). You may run faster but let your body dictate easy pace, not what your watch says.
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I held out for years and just ran with my phone in my pocket, but now that I have one, I'm too much of a data geek to ever go completely watchless. Probably comes from my days in race cars trying to find 10th's and 100th's of seconds around particular turns on a 2+ minute lap. That said, on "fun runs" like the fast hike I did for my birthday, I strap the watch to my bag and don't look at it until I get home and upload the data.

My version of the watchless run is actually to setup a screen on my watch where I remove all pace/time data and only show heart rate, distance, and tempo. I use those runs to work on my tempo, and use HR to keep my effort in check, trying to stay between 145-148 with occasional peeks up to 155 on hills. Again, I'm a data geek, but I've found heart rate to be a much better indicator of effort, and the potential recovery afterwards, than feel alone. I can set out some mornings, feel great, and look down after a mile to see my HR is 165, and I know muscle recovery will be tougher if I keep it up for the rest of the run. Other mornings, I feel like shit, but my heart rate is hanging out at 140 and I know I need to pick up the pace a little. If I keep my heart rate in check, recovery is generally easy no matter how good/bad I felt on the run. It's also a nice way to set a constant so that I can track improvement. It's fun to run between 145-148 BPM and watch your pace improve over time. I probably use HR more than pace when it comes to my training runs now...there's a lot of difference in effort between an 8 minute/mile run on a cool 50 degree morning and a 8 minute/mile run on an oppressively humid 80 degree morning. I'd rather run at 145 BPM and let the conditions/terrain/etc dictate my pace.
 
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BillBrasky said:
Don't even get me started on the heat man. I generally have a window of 9 PM-7 AM in which I can run anything more than 4 miles without wanting to pass out.
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My run from my house starts off with a pretty quick 100-120 foot drop down to a greenway along a creek. The last two weeks, when I get down to the bottom, the humidity jumps up to about 99.999%. I go from mostly cool and not sweating at all on the way down to drenched within about 1/4 mile of being on the greenway. Was talking to a guy in my neighborhood the other day who has started looping back to the house and changing his shorts every 5-6 miles due to the humidity. It sucks. I might have to start getting up another hour earlier.
 
Who's in for Ultimate next weekend? RTQ/Hawk, Imma probably be crashing your setup this year instead of camping out under the Ultimate Race Management tent. Hope that's alright.
 
iodeac said:
WAT. How come?
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Needed more of a break after HAT. Been just doing easy maintenance miles before my next training cycle. Might do the 10K in Greensboro that morning. I've already done Ultimate twice, just not feeling like being out in the heat for it this year.
 
Running a half this weekend. Its a 6:30 a.m. start. Right now, the weather is calling for 75 degrees and 94 percent humidity at the start. This should be fun.

The run is being put on by the local Air Force Base. I was speaking with the Vice Commander of the base last week and he told me his first question to the Rec Center when they called him about staging it was "Why the hell do you want to run a half marathon in South Georgia in late June?" And they didn't have plans to set up any water stations or anything. At this point, he (who is also a runner) stepped in and told them they had to have water stations and get so many volunteers before he would approve the run. He told me he will not be running that day as he will be driving around in a golf cart with water checking on all the runners.
 
GaDeac said:
Running a half this weekend. Its a 6:30 a.m. start. Right now, the weather is calling for 75 degrees and 94 percent humidity at the start. This should be fun.

The run is being put on by the local Air Force Base. I was speaking with the Vice Commander of the base last week and he told me his first question to the Rec Center when they called him about staging it was "Why the hell do you want to run a half marathon in South Georgia in late June?" And they didn't have plans to set up any water stations or anything. At this point, he (who is also a runner) stepped in and told them they had to have water stations and get so many volunteers before he would approve the run. He told me he will not be running that day as he will be driving around in a golf cart with water checking on all the runners.
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Good luck with that.
 
Completed the half marathon yesterday. Was pretty happy with the finish, although I was 9 minutes off of my PR. The race was the longest run for me since completing a full marathon in January 2013 and the first race of any distance since having back surgery last October.

It was 75 degrees with 85 percent humidity at the start of the race. Combine that with the fact that my mother, who was going to baby sit, got ill Friday and wasn't able to make the 4 hour drive up, meaning I had to push the little one in a stroller for the whole run (31 pound youngster and 25 pound stroller), and that explains the pleasure with being 9 minutes off of my PR.

This was the first half that the local air force base has ever put on, so they had some glitches, but overall they did a decent job for the first time. The grueling part of the run was the almost 2 mile stretch that ran down the flight line (runway). No shade, lots of concrete and no water stations as they have to worry about debris on the runway. However, it was pretty neat to run on the runway, at least for the first half. By the second half I began to wonder if it was ever going to end.

I really faded at the end. I was doing well until about mile 10 (my longest run to date had been 11 miles) when I turned a corner and ran into head wind. The stroller turned into a sail pushing back against me at that point and by the time I finished the half mile I was spent.

Regardless it was a good time and considering the heat and humidity of the day, I was pretty happy, especially when I realized afterwards that this weekend last year was when my pain got so bad I had to stop running and seek the advice of a doctor. I also later realized that yesterday was 8 months to the day that I had my back surgery.

Now that I have a race under my belt, I can focus on speeding up for the the Marine Corps Half Marathon in Jacksonville, Fla. in October. I will have to use the time from it for my qualifying time for my upcoming marathon in January.
 
GaDeac said:
Completed the half marathon yesterday. Was pretty happy with the finish, although I was 9 minutes off of my PR. The race was the longest run for me since completing a full marathon in January 2013 and the first race of any distance since having back surgery last October.

It was 75 degrees with 85 percent humidity at the start of the race. Combine that with the fact that my mother, who was going to baby sit, got ill Friday and wasn't able to make the 4 hour drive up, meaning I had to push the little one in a stroller for the whole run (31 pound youngster and 25 pound stroller), and that explains the pleasure with being 9 minutes off of my PR.

This was the first half that the local air force base has ever put on, so they had some glitches, but overall they did a decent job for the first time. The grueling part of the run was the almost 2 mile stretch that ran down the flight line (runway). No shade, lots of concrete and no water stations as they have to worry about debris on the runway. However, it was pretty neat to run on the runway, at least for the first half. By the second half I began to wonder if it was ever going to end.

I really faded at the end. I was doing well until about mile 10 (my longest run to date had been 11 miles) when I turned a corner and ran into head wind. The stroller turned into a sail pushing back against me at that point and by the time I finished the half mile I was spent.

Regardless it was a good time and considering the heat and humidity of the day, I was pretty happy, especially when I realized afterwards that this weekend last year was when my pain got so bad I had to stop running and seek the advice of a doctor. I also later realized that yesterday was 8 months to the day that I had my back surgery.

Now that I have a race under my belt, I can focus on speeding up for the the Marine Corps Half Marathon in Jacksonville, Fla. in October. I will have to use the time from it for my qualifying time for my upcoming marathon in January.
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Glad things are looking up, GA. #cheers
 
GaDeac said:
Completed the half marathon yesterday. Was pretty happy with the finish, although I was 9 minutes off of my PR. The race was the longest run for me since completing a full marathon in January 2013 and the first race of any distance since having back surgery last October.

It was 75 degrees with 85 percent humidity at the start of the race. Combine that with the fact that my mother, who was going to baby sit, got ill Friday and wasn't able to make the 4 hour drive up, meaning I had to push the little one in a stroller for the whole run (31 pound youngster and 25 pound stroller), and that explains the pleasure with being 9 minutes off of my PR.

This was the first half that the local air force base has ever put on, so they had some glitches, but overall they did a decent job for the first time. The grueling part of the run was the almost 2 mile stretch that ran down the flight line (runway). No shade, lots of concrete and no water stations as they have to worry about debris on the runway. However, it was pretty neat to run on the runway, at least for the first half. By the second half I began to wonder if it was ever going to end.

I really faded at the end. I was doing well until about mile 10 (my longest run to date had been 11 miles) when I turned a corner and ran into head wind. The stroller turned into a sail pushing back against me at that point and by the time I finished the half mile I was spent.

Regardless it was a good time and considering the heat and humidity of the day, I was pretty happy, especially when I realized afterwards that this weekend last year was when my pain got so bad I had to stop running and seek the advice of a doctor. I also later realized that yesterday was 8 months to the day that I had my back surgery.

Now that I have a race under my belt, I can focus on speeding up for the the Marine Corps Half Marathon in Jacksonville, Fla. in October. I will have to use the time from it for my qualifying time for my upcoming marathon in January.
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great to hear. congrats
 
Seedings are out for Ultimate. Mine is 60. What did everyone else get?
 
iodeac said:
Seedings are out for Ultimate. Mine is 60. What did everyone else get?
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65, we might be in the same heat again! what was your seed time? I submitted 6:45 but am not sure if I should change to like 6:55... might not make a difference.
 
RollTheQuad06 said:
65, we might be in the same heat again! what was your seed time? I submitted 6:45 but am not sure if I should change to like 6:55... might not make a difference.
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Heat 5, I think my mile time was 6:30
 
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