re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

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I had to learn to jog in my 20s, I would run too fast and die too soon every time at first. Now that I can do my 3.5, I have no idea how some of you do much longer runs, and faster. I'm done when I hit my driveway, there is no more to give. I think I'm just not built for distance, the lungs don't cut it.

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Yeah, the running too fast has always been my problem I think, or to put it another way, running too hard. I’m sure I’ve never been guilty of running too fast.

I’m trying to get into running again for the first time in years, as a guy approaching middle age, and after researching running plans a bit I’m realizing that I fell into the category of person that pushed it too hard, too fast, and never allowed my body to build a proper aerobic base. Instead my heart rate was likely always at an anaerobic level, and i’d end up straining something eventually, or just burn out too soon. As a result I was never really able to put together longer runs.

I think the hardest part right now is having to put aside ego, and be ok with slow arse runs, and trust that in time my heart will start to get stronger, and then in several months of building a solid base, hopefully injury free, I’ll start to see those runs get quicker, with the same level heart rate.