re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

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It’s an adjustment man although ours just hit six weeks and she’s starting to smile when she sees us so that’s fun.

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Yeah that’s the best. I would say it gets easier, but it doesn’t really…just the challenges change Biggest game changer for us was dropping overnight feeds around 3 or 4 months.

As for running, at least one of yall can handle her and the other gets some exercise. My girls just turned 8 months and while I was able to train for a hm recently, 35 miles/week was my highest mileage and it was beginning to put a strain on us. I didn’t get back to running at all until they were maybe 2 or 3 months old.

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man didn’t know that. Props to you for staying with it through that. Did the surgery fix everything it needed to or are there any lingering effects from the condition still?

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It was a one and done surgery for all tense and purposes (you can never be sure for 50 years from now etc.). She was born with a condition called tetralogy of fallot but in her case it was actually EXTREMELY mild and after they patched her 1 glaring issue everything returned to "normal human behavior"

To put it in perspective: when she was born her prognosis was the exact same as the Shaun White with 40 years of technological improvements.

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Props to you for staying with it through that.

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I mean, one of the things that probably helped was that I wasn't a serious runner until after she was born, like 3 months after her Surgery (when I started my first Marathon training). Remember, my first race I ever did was the Marathon last April cause I never do things in the right order

Trying something different today... 200m repeats at 1 mile pace. (13 times) then 1 mile tempo.

My original training plan had me tapering (1 week recover) this week but with my illness 2 weeks ago I'm treating that as the taper and pushing closer to 50 miles (45 last week, 48 this week)

Smallest interval I've ever done was 800m so this will be very interesting

I'll post pictures of the workout in a bit, but that felt AMAZING!!

Solid effort dude!

You had a 12 miler the day after that workout? Ouch

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thats a tough turn around. Did you keep it easy?

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Yes I kept it super easy, my anterior talofibular ligament (on my right foot) was; and kinda still is, giving me a bit of trouble as well. Normally I would add some Tempo and Marathon pace stuff in today but I think I'm going to just do a normal easy run today with not a lot of pace work. Glad my training plan only had me doing one 200m session because for an endurance runner it really feels like I put my body through the ringer this week.

(I'll probably add the Tempo work into my Saturday long run, or just be short this week on Tempo stuff... I feel like the 200m stuff was a pretty hard push on my body, and I did a mile of Tempo after all of it, so nothing to be ashamed of :shrug:)

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I'm also thinking I might remove Altras from my shoe collection... I don't know if it's a coincidence but my feet always seem to hurt more after running in my Altras than Saucony. I do feel like running in Altra every so often has kept my feet stronger and kinda kept me from getting injuries... but it's getting harder and harder to justify putting on my Altras when I just hurt SO BAD after every single run in them.

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I'm leaning this way too. I've been doing my base stuff in Xeros without the insoles. Feel amazing, but on my race pace efforts, I want a little more protection especially on pavement. Was using Saucony and got some Altras. Altras aren't my favorites.

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Does anyone else hate rest days??

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Worse, I get to the point where I hate easy days if it's a really nice day I hate having to get out the door and do an hour easy. Give me mile repeats or give me rest!