Right where you should be! The course at VCM would be a very tough BQ. Looking at the data from my Garmin, the course has 1013 feet of elevation gain and 1134 of elevation loss - that's a lot of hills. Looking at the website made me want to sign up.Thanks. I'm nervous. Alternating between fear that I won't finish and very vivid fantasies of running a Boston Qualifier my first time out.
Rock on Hildy! One of my Daily Mile friends ran the Chicago Marathon in 3:58 while undergoing chemo for large cell lymphoma. In addition to being amazing, she's also very friendly. Here's a link to her blog if you want to reach out to her. I'm sure she would love hearing from you.I'm setting my running goals for 2012 to Don't Quit. The next four months are going to suck (chemo) but from what I can tell, the more you can stick with an exercise regimen, the better off you are. I just need to figure out how to do it.
I totally missed this (don't check this thread enough). What Ryan said. We're all behind you in your fight!I'm setting my running goals for 2012 to Don't Quit. The next four months are going to suck (chemo) but from what I can tell, the more you can stick with an exercise regimen, the better off you are. I just need to figure out how to do it.
Some effective ones I have used in the past:Nice job Gunfighter !!
Can anyone recommend any good stretches for the gluteus maximus? I am very stiff and sore , uh ... downtown .
I had a couple that I used when my IT band was bothering me and I've been doing them, but I never feel like I'm stretched enough.
I have a 405 and have had success with the reboot. The watch may need to dry out some more. I've heard you can put electronics in rice to help them dry out. Supposedly it works well with cell phones.Question for the Garmin 405 users...a friend went running on Monday when it was raining. On powering up, the screen was black. Google revealed how to reboot the watch, no dice. Anyone else have a suggestion that might restore his running computer? As an aside, he's getting a little leary since the original purchase was through Amazon. Not much by way of service unfortunately.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22217561RESULTS:
Of the 52 runners studied, 36 (59%) primarily used a rearfoot strike and 16 (31%) primarily used a forefoot strike. Approximately 74% of runners experienced a moderate or severe injury each year, but those who habitually rearfoot strike had approximately twice the rate of repetitive stress injuries than individuals who habitually forefoot strike. Traumatic injury rates were not significantly different between the two groups. A generalized linear model showed that strike type, sex, race distance, and average miles per week each correlate significantly (p<0.01) with repetitive injury rates.
CONCLUSIONS:
Competitive cross country runners on a college team incur high injury rates, but runners who habitually rearfoot strike have significantly higher rates of repetitive stress injury than those who mostly forefoot strike. This study does not test the causal bases for this general difference. One hypothesis, which requires further research, is that the absence of a marked impact peak in the ground reaction force during a forefoot strike compared to a rearfoot strike may contribute to lower rates of injuries in habitual forefoot strikers.
Man, you handled that a lot better than I think I would have. I've been hit/nicked like that on many occasions over the years. A few times on purpose-- followed by some heated verbal exchanges. It is funny how a scrawny, defenseless runner wearing short-shorts can extract the worst behavior from insecure passerbys. Those confrontations can stick with you, though. Going to college down in MD (not near the cities, but in redneck western MD) there are some horror stories to be told. Now I feel conditioned and find myself waiting for these encounters to occur on each run. It has resulted in me being so psyched up before anything comes close to happening, imagining a foolproof plan for an immediate death-defying retaliation and a quick escape route, that I have morphed my ego into that of a freaking super hero's. Though I'm pretty confident that I'd never have the gonads to do anything remotely as badass, but just thinking about doing it puts my head on a swivel; ultimately keeping me aware of my surroundings, hopefully enough to not get hit by any more fucking cars.
But near the end of the return it opens up to 2-way traffic with one lane going in each direction with a traffic island in the middle. Nothing you could call a two-lane stretch of road. I was jogging along when a car pulled up next to me while passing. No problem. Then out of the blue a little red sports car came flying up an passed the original car on the inside, between the original car and me. The red car ended up hitting my left hand with it's mirror as it passed me. I yelled out "Asshole!" as the car simply sped away. I was a little pissed, but I'm fine.
I finished my run without further issues.