Yeah, along those lines.

Here is the one that I bought according to my amazon order history. The price looks like it went up a bit since I bought it though.

Amazon.com: PB Elite Molded Foam Roller 3' Long, 6" Round (Most Popular Size): Sports & Outdoors

The main idea behind foam rolling is that it takes the place of a deep tissue massage. With the roller you can get spots for yourself without relying on someone else. I generally use it for my ITB, my calves and quads myself. (even though there are better items for massaging below the knees)

Dola,

Here is some tips on how to use a foam roller from runner's world:

How to Use a Foam Roller From Runner's World | Runner's World & Running Times

Awesome! Thanks Alan! My high school cross country coach told me I was the least flexible runner he had ever coached, so I need all the help I can get.

my son is in a hockey camp this week and I'm on vacation which means I have to get up every morning and drive him to the rink. Where I run around the house is pretty flat but I had scouted some hills and knew I would take my running shoes one morning and after dropping him off, would go on a little hill run, today was the day.

http://app.strava.com/activities/71161873

That hill is pretty brutal, in my eyes at least, but the view was pretty awesome, looking down to the St Lawrence River, seeing the Chateau Frontenac. Posted a picture that shows up on the Strava run...

Did the hill four times and was getting spent by the last run up and knew I had some elevation to make to get to my car so I called it a day for the hill then but I kept going up to 8 km. Fun run in a neighborhood I'm not used to run...

FM

Looks like it was a fun run, and a great view!

My wife did a hill run this morning herself for 10k and sent me a picture via text half way up a mile long hill climb (250ft). She texted "I think I was crazy to try to do this".

She doesn't enjoy hills too much :)

Dola,

On hill workouts, I always used to like looking at the GAP on Strava. I am glad they recently added it back. I know that it is not necessarily precise, especially with GPS involved.. but it usually gives me a good idea of how much "effort" I had put into the hill when comparing it with my HR.

It was, as crazy as pushing yourself may seem fun to the unitiated ;)

And seriously, the view was very neat. I don't often even drive by this side of the city. We've take the ferry to Quebec City a few times, parking the car down the hill and walking in the Old Quebec part, but I'd never taken the time to take in the view on foot. The view is kind of hidden when you are coming down and it curves pretty sharply but when I came to see the river, I found it kinda breathtaking.

One thing I found hard, and my calves are talking to me right now, is putting on the brakes on the way down and always looking down. The sidewalk is a mess, all broken up. It's usable all right, but you gotta be careful not to take a bad step and with that kind of grade, it was even more important to that a fall going down...


Yeah, I was just looking at that, and even though the hill work was kind of "only" half the run, my overall average GAP is much better than my average pace so that's encouraging...

FM

One of the ultra-marathoners that I read a blog from regularly comments that one of the biggest mistakes often made by long distance runners is that they work on hill work going up, but not going down. Running down a hill uses completely different muscles, and if yours aren't used to it, you could trash them pretty nicely in a race or speed run.

With hills, what I try to do is:

Ensure my step size is small (increased cadence). This is both up and down the hill. Going up a hill, a smaller foot step becomes more efficient when your body is doing its most work. I have learned to just motor my legs up the hill and they don't bother me too much now. Going down a hill, taking smaller steps help retain form and prevent things like hill striking or landing super hard on the pavement. Taking a shorter stride down the hill allows you to land smaller, keeps your center of balance better and gives you more control on loose surfaces or rough surfaces.

For a while when I first started hills, my calves and quads burned nicely, they really felt it for days after, but as you get used to doing them, they toughen up and you won't notice them as much in the future.

good points, thanks for the input!

FM

A little disappointed in the challenge offerings from Strava this month. The 8K one is the only thing they have and there are 0 cycling challenges.

I keep watching, expecting something else to show up. In the least they said they were doing the monthly reoccurring challenge which hasn't been posted yet either.

I think we have enough runners here to form a team. :D

Running Events, Lifetime Highlights :: Ragnar Relay Series

I know some people that run ragnar out here every year. It is a little more than my wife and our friends are ready for yet. We've been looking at relay races though and I think we may try to fit in a marathon relay at least this fall.

I have always been tempted by Ragnar.

The new trail run series seems more doable.

I'm also tempted by the Bourbon Trail relay. But could very possibly die of dehydration/bourbon intake on that one.

I will always do Ragnar. The six person team concept seems the most nuts, so I would definitely want to do that one.

I have a bad feeling that I won't be able to keep ahead of Subby in fitleagues this month if he's biking 150 miles a week plus running half marathons.

Haha! Thanks. I had unchecked all the audio cues (time, distance, avg pace, etc), which stopped the cues from happening without stopping the announcement at the start & end, but after your suggestion I went back and found I had to set 'Time Trigger' and 'Distance Trigger' to 'none' as well, under Audio Timing.

At least I think that's what did it. Thanks, in any case.

Just an FYI, I haven't stopped running - just having problems with the connector to my Garmin watch again. 2nd time in about six weeks, pretty frustrating.

I did get my 8K in, think it was in 43:30 range but very much want to pull up the watch data (when I can get it charged again) and correlate with heart rate info and all the other good stuff I'm normally able to capture.

Also, it has been a little weird running this week without having a definitive date for when my next 5K should be. I think I need to get a couple on the books for September so I've got that out there to prod me along a bit in terms of pushing myself on the runs. Not having that firm date set (besides "sometime in September") allows my mind to get a little too lazy during the early/mid stages of the runs when I'm figuring out pace.

I have started the 10k in less than 60 minutes 16 weeks training plan in Run keeper. Was going to do my own plan, but finally decided to use that one that seems similar to what i was planning, 4 days per week, mixing slow, tempo, interval and long runs and it's easier to track with the app what i need to run every training day. I wish you could design and import your own plans.

My current best is 64:30 and it had a big ending uphill, so maybe under 60 min won't be that hard (and it's not that the time is very good either) and should aim for under 55, but... let's go step by step as in Sept i want to go back to the gym for some upper body training, plus the mountain bike rides on Sundays with friends... there aren't enough week days for all that.

What is the problem that you are having?

2.2 miles today. During my 5 minute run near the end, I could feel the tank getting depleted. Pushed through. Hoping for a better distance in a couple of days.

The four-prongs where the adapter plugs into the watch - I've seen it stop getting a clean connection so the watch will not charge. Or allow me to sync up to the PC, since the PC doesn't recognize the USB device.

The problem the first time was in the "charger" device, rather than the watch itself. I took it to a Garmin store, and ended up ordering a replacement watch through Amazon ... just swapped out the part that was identified as the issue and was back operational for a few weeks. But seeing the same behavior again, so wondering if I should have shipped back the whole watch.

I'm not sure why they need to charge this way, rather than using a connector similar to the ones I see in current cell phones. Or Bluetooth. Or something that doesn't require what appears to be a custom connection that is easily damaged and blows the whole value proposition with the watch.

I had problems like that until I upgraded my garmin USB drivers on my computer for some reason. It would just not be detected by my computer at times and I would have to fiddle with it endlessly. Or sometimes when it was detected, later on I would come and find it somehow stopped charging and had run the battery down trying to reconnect.

Once I upgraded the USB drivers, all of those problems went away for me. Not sure if it is the same issues you are having, but a 3 minute thing to try to see perhaps?

Garmin: USB Drivers Updates & Downloads

I went all out for my 8K run this morning. Wanted to keep a 4:45 per km pace and finished at an average of 4:41 over 8:3 km, VERY happy about that.

Still thinking about entering my first ever race which would be a 10k on August 18. Activities are about to restart at the dojo and there would be a big happening on the weekend of August 24-25 around here, centered around the local marathon, but I can't take part in anything over that weekend since it's our open door weekend at the dojo.

FM

Races are great fun, you should do it. It usually is a great atmosphere, and depending on what type of race you sign up for, there might be great entertainment or goodies available too.

From a running perspective, the adrenaline boost you get from during the race is usually good for a little improved performance too!

I've shelved the running for a bit because every time I think my ankle is better and I go for a run, I end up re-aggravating it. So, for now I'm trying to be content with walking a lot and using the roller thing that Alan suggested to loosen my tight hips.

Running was easier when I was a teenager.

I love when I luck out and get great weather on a speed day!



Ran my 5 miles (8k) 51 seconds per mile faster than my 5 mile race I ran in the start of May. Days like this help me feel good about the progress I'm making!

:banana:

LIKE!

That's awesome! (I'm jealous.)

Do your times on strava include any warm-up/cool-down periods or just the main part of your workout? I noticed of couple of separate posts for cool-down, but I was wondering what everyone else does?

I separate out warm-ups/cool-downs from the run.

Just the main part for me, a little walking before/after I leave out completely.

Me too.

For me, if I know that I've got a longer walk back home (>1 mile, usually) then I'll track it separately.

Or if it is something like a tempo/interval run, I'll include warm-up/cool-down.

But if it is just a couple tenths of a kilometer, I don't separate it ... will include if I'm not worried about time, will exclude if I am targeting some kind of a performance time.

you've probably seen it from me at least. I don't really do warm-up, mostly some walking before I hit the start button on my watch but I do stop my watch when I end running, reset the watch and start it back up right away because I like walking after a run. I then upload both workout sessions in Strava and set the second one as a walk. Since I usually walk at a good pace after a run, I also want to keep track of calories for that walk...

FM

I don't do a warm up on most runs. Since most of my runs are "easy pace" they serve as their own warm up. For speed runs, I'll do a warm up and cool down and just include it all in the same work out since it doesn't really matter to me. The only time I separate it out is for races, where I want it as a separate activity.

I don't track my walking to or from my runs though (roughly .2 miles each way usually)

well, I just confirmed it, I just signed up for my first race ever, a 10k that will take place on Sunday August 18.

The course is at an outdoor recreational/leisure park (don't really know how to translate it to be honest) that's in the town where I grew up and where my parents still live although they will be out of town on that weekend. Wife has said she will come to cheer me on. :)

It's a 5k loop that is very flat that we'll be doing twice:
http://www.lafoulee.com/Comm/Galipot...20Galipote.pdf

My current PR is 49:05 for a 10km stretch within any run but 49:45 from the start of a run (in that same run btw) but after holding a 4:41 per km average pace over the 8k challenge, I'm hoping to be able to do 4:45 over 10k. That'd translate to a 47:30 time for 10k.

FM

Awesome FM! You're going to rock it I am sure. Your cardiovascular seems really strong, so just make sure your legs are rested and I'm sure you'll break your PR easily. Good luck!

Big day today.

Run Profile | First sub-2hr Half Marathon | Times and Records | Strava

And overall it was a slight uphill. Very pleased.

Very nice!

Great job, Ben!

That's amazing! I'm not good at running at the sort of pace that wold allow me to run for 2 hours/13 miles, but want to try and work on that. At te moment though can't imagine running that far!

Did what is becoming my standard 10k yesterday. I promised myself I would take it a bit easier: legs were a little tired and i had to my rehab exercises on my calves immediately before, so just planned to do the distance rather than try too hard.

Turns out I broke my PB by 43 seconds! Normally I come back off a 10k looking like I've had my own personal shower folling me: I'm so drenched in sweat. Yesterday, despite being quicker, I was only slightly sweaty, and not anywhere as out of breath as normal. So think i must have been going out too fast previously, and dying over the last mile (which is when the sweat usually pours)

Will try deliberately holding back for the first 5k again next time, as after a 45:10, a sub 45 time is suddenly becoming realistic.

Great job Ben and Alex!!

I broke a new personal record for myself, first time for me running over 40 miles in a week (41.3), and first time combined biking and running that I've topped 100 miles in a week (100.3).
Next week is a back off week for me, and then two more weeks of increasing miles before my taper.

just thought I'd comment on this. Ever since I got my Forerunner 210, I had been having connection issues with the USB/clip thing not always connecting and/or being recognized by my computer but ever since I downloaded this driver update, it's been much, much better, :thumbsup:

FM

I hate rest days. I am having to fight the urge so badly to go out for a bike ride today.

I have a feeling that I give in though, my body is going to implode at some point, so trying to stay strong.. the weather is just so nice right now....

ish, after a couple weeks of very nice weather to run in, they are forecasting a crazy hot kinda day, for us at least, for this Sunday. Something like 80 that feels like 90... :eek:

Race starts at 10

FM

Still lots of time for the weather to change between now and then.

Thats what happened on my first 10k race in June. went from 70s to the first 90+ day of the year right on race day. I went too fast and wiped myself out half way. Sometimes its just not a good running day.

oh, I know, especially around here. We could wake up on Sunday and it's around 60 and windy and rainy, ya just never know...

I was thinking I could push closer to 4:35 per km (7:22 per mile) over 10k if it's kinda cool, but if it's much warmer, I'd probably be safe at 4:45 (7:39)... Then again, I'm not all that sure that temperature would have that much effect on me. I've never felt like it did much on my heart rate in the past, not too sure about leg strength...

Anyway, that's just something I have no control over, so other that keeping an eye out for it, no need to really get worried about it...

FM

Our boy Alan T 2nd this month at Fit Leagues.

Can anyone here catch him? :)

Not I!

I'm taking advantage of my wife being out of town visiting family for 2 weeks! She comes back later this week, so I'm sure my 3 hours a day of cardio won't be able to continue :)

I noticed this week that Withings has a new web interface now. The old one wasn't very good, the new one is alright I suppose. For those with Withings scales, check it out I suppose.

Also, good luck Todd and Steve with your races this weekend. Have fun and knock it out of the park!

There is no chance I am completing this challenge, but the CTS Bucket List Challenge begins on Monday. Bike 574 miles in two weeks. That's all!

Thanks Alan. I'm feeling better and better about this 10k. Following my latest two 5k tempo stretches, I'm confident I can sustain a PR crushing pace over 10k. :)

I was originally aiming at 4:45 per km, or 47:30 for the 10k but think a pace of 4:40 is attainable, or at least a repeat of my 4:41 pace I did over 8k two weeks ago. 4:41 would give me a time of 46:50 over 10k which I would be elated with.

Weather looks nice and forecasted temperatures have kinda cooled off to about 25C, feels like 29C (77F feels like 84F). Race starts at 10 though and overnight from Friday to Saturday is supposed to be kinda cool, something like 10C (50F) so maybe it will not be the full on sun by then yet...

Got an easy 5-7k (that could get longer depending on how I feel) planned this evening before a couple days off leading to Sunday.

Wife and kids will be there Sunday to cheer me on but I still weirdly nervous at the idea of going out there and suffering for 45-50 minutes though... :)

It's almost a shame that our open doors/registration weekend falls next weeken at the dojo because next weekend will be the big local marathon weekend. Don't think I'm anywhere close to a marathon or even a half marathon but they also have a 5k and a 10k but as I said, it's the big weekend where we hope to have as many people sign up for classes at our dojo heading to the Fall schedule so a no go for the sensei to be missing... ;)

FM

I've only biked 403 miles all year, most of which has come the last two months :)


I'm trying super hard to get a biking badge or two this month though! 250km is almost done, but I have a very outside shot at getting the 500k badge.

Okay, nine days later I think I'm ready to start things up again. I felt like it was okay to run on last Saturday, but I held myself out for another week to give it time to fully heal. Hopefully I'll be able to hit the track tomorrow morning or Saturday without any further setbacks.

Strava introduced a route planner today which looks similar to the one that I use in Garmin to figure out where I want to run each day. Other sites have similar tools as well, but I like how Strava prints out cue sheets for you if you want.

If anyone else picks random paths to take each day, check it out. (Sorry if you live in the middle of corn fields, this might not help much)


Edit: Looks like it is just for premium users at least right now

looks like it's got some issues with some bike paths I'm using fairly regularly, especially how these paths are supposed to cross with some streets. Don't have this problem when drawing the route on Garmin connect...

FM

I don't have that many bike paths close enough to me to have noticed. Most of the bike paths I use are at least 30 minute drives from me in car.

From playing with it some, using the popular route mechanism probably works better in bigger cities than where I live. I would have to guess like 70% of the paths in the 3 miles around my house are my runs anyways :) I can see this being really cool for me to use when traveling though.. want to find a popular path to run between point A and point B.. cool deal.

It looks like Fit Leagues has stopped getting Ben's updates.

Speaking of Fit Leagues, I'm enjoying my battle with FrogMan. :)

No idea on Fit Leagues. *shurg*

Strange as it may sound, my slow "recovery run" today may well have been the most encouraging run I've had in all this time. It was six miles at a 10:04 pace and my average heart rate was only 133. As recently as around April of this year, 10 minutes per mile for 6 miles was a "if-I-run-and-train-really-hard-maybe-one-day-I-can-do-it" *goal* for me, and now it's a throwaway easy workout. As I've said before, I'm as stunned as anyone at the progress that can be made.

Run Profile | 6-Mile Run, Recovery Pace | Times and Records | Strava

hehe, hadn't realize we were in such a close fight :)

FM

Thanks! I'm feeling anxious and ready to go. I heard there are several strerches of road with loose gravel. That's unfortunate but I've dealt with similar conditions all summer.

The race went about as well as I could have hoped. My goal left unmentioned yesterday was to beat 1:45 so a pace of 8:00/mile.

The weather was perfect. Something like 60 degrees at the start and mostly cloudy throughout. The course was fine. Other runners around me were complaining about running through corn and bean fields. This was not an issue for me :). The loose gravel was fine too, just a fresh layer of gravel over tar. Again, not an issue.

I started faster than I intended but had no problem keeping my pace throughout. I think I was able to run all miles under 8:00 but mile 11 or 12 was close because I stopped for a drink.

I'm not sure about the official time - I had to leave pretty quickly after finishing to pick up my son from football - but it was close to 1:42:40.

How could I forget? The biggest accomplishment was finally passing wedgie guy in front of me. The guy had the worst self-inflicted wedgie I've ever seen and he would not let me pass him. He finally stopped for a drink around 6:00 and I was able to lose him. This poor guy's thighs have to be on fire right now.

Congrats! Great job! And great time!

that's awesome Todd, just saw the run on Strava, awesome pace for a half-marathon!

For me, I'm one of three regulars among the runners over on the Lose It! forums to have a race tomorrow. I have a 10k, my first run ever, but the other two are something else. One of them will be doing the Ironman triathlon at Mont Tremblant and the other will be doing the Pikes Peak marathon, on a course that looks like this:


:eek: :eek: :eek:

Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon [Home]

That's frigging crazy!!!

FM

Elite runners are just unreal to me. I started seeing finishers warming down at at 11 mile mark.

I don't even understand that Pikes Peak course. It looks a course made for Thomas.

Wow. Ran 14 this morning with the last mile being the fastest. It was nearly 4 1/2 minutes faster than last week's HM PR despite significantly warmer weather. I guess getting 6 runs (including two 13.1s) in the hills last week made a big difference.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/361043024

Well, it's done, the first race is in the books! Official time comes to 46:09, VERY proud of this time.

I usually don't do much warmup but this race situation forced me to read and everything I'd read about 5k and 10k races said a mile or two was ok, with some race pace strides in there. Ended up doing four race pace strides at the end of 2 km and I now know the importance of a good warmup.

After that warmup which ended with maybe 8-10 minutes to go before the start, I kept active in line for the start and I started with a solid pace at about 4:31 or so for the first 5 km then slowed down just a bit and had a VERY good last km (4:24 according to my watch).

Amazing experience, there's really something special about running in the middle of people. I didn't know what to expect at first and it was just a bundle of people so I almost got stuck behind some slower people, especially on a part of the course that was narrower, but it all worked itself out and it was some tough fun :)

Website with results isn't up but from the sheet at the race site, I finished 70th, 60th among men, 11th among men 40-49. There were 249 regsitered runners for the 10k last year and based on my initial goal of 47:30 I was simply hoping to make it into the top 100. Happy with #70 :)

FM

Great job with the race! great times and new PRs across the board for you!

I made a comment on your strava warmup, but copying it over here, about the warmup for a race:

Great job, man!

awesome frogman!

Very nice job, Frogman!

I think I have a freaking hernia. Headed to the doctor now. :-(

Ugh.

Thanks everyone!


I read the exact same thing and it's probably an habit I will take, to do maybe 4-5 60 to 100 meters strides toward the end of my easy runs.

Honestly, before the race, they gave me just what I needed in knowing that my legs would be able to push and when the start happened, I felt ready to push right from the start...

FM

Yuck. hope it isn't anything serious

I'll say like the others, ugh and yuck. Best of luck!

FM

Evidently they are very common in school track teams, but for people like me that never ran until I was almost 40, I hadn't heard of them before a few months ago. I link to this blog alot, but he has some good stuff in it. Here is his entry regarding strides:

What Are Strides? Why You Need to be Running Strides (Video)

Hope this isn't a hernia or anything serious.

Interesting and very informative video. Yeah, regarding strides, I was reading the word left and right but it's really the race warmup thing that kinda pushed me to find what they meant by "strides" ;) If anything, this race served the same purpose that my competing in karate did when I was competing, it helped me try to get better...

FM

It's likely an inguinal hernia. Pain right now is nil, so they can't really tell, but the doc says everything I've described points to it. (Just walking from our den to the bedroom was difficult earlier today, though.) He says I can keep running as the pain allows, but no heavy lifting. :( They'll do surgery, likely outpatient, hopefully rather soon.

some pics :)

Standing in line for start, looking serious and focused


Again more of the serious type


Time stamp is about 10:25 so about 5-6 km into the race:


After the last turn and entering the very last 200-300 meters


Going full out now, do or die time!


After race smile :D


More after race smile, from up close, thanks to my photographer, my 16yo son :)


Sweaty hug for my greatest supporter, my wife of 16 years :)


And even a sweaty after race kiss ;)


Sorry for flooding the thread, just very proud of my day :)

And as you can see, it's my almost-glow-in-the-dark orange shirt. With that one on, I know if I'm hit by a car, it's because the driver wanted to hit me, not because he didn't see me ;)

:( Get better soon Ben!

I think an updated Strava profile picture is in order here. :)

Congrats!

Looks like a great day FrogMan. Great job and congratulations.

Ben, sorry to hear about the diagnosis. Does it sound like it will be a couple months off? You should be fine even if you do need to take a break. With your eating habits you should have no problem maintaining until you can get back out there.

hehe, had changed my profile pic on Lose It! but didn't think about Strava. Funny you picked this one cause that's the one I used on Lose It! :) It will fit right in with the orange theme of Strava. :D

FM

Thanks, it was indeed a great day. Thought I'd be aching a bit more today after pushing this hard for this long but I was all right. So much so that I dropped my son for his goalie school and went out for a couple easy miles while he got dressed. :)

FM

I suspect that this is going to be a tough decision for now. No pain whatsoever since around 6pm yesterday. Did a warmup jog and body-weight strength training workout today with no issues at all, and planning to do a hard run in the morning. However, the possibility that the pain could come back at any second is probably going to be in my head whenever I run. I've got an exam and consultation with a surgeon scheduled for Wednesday. I guess I'll know a lot more then.

FM I just saw your finish line video on FB.

Fail.

You were supposed to cross the finish with your arms up in victory and a huge smile for the camera, not looking down at your watch. :)

yeah, well, when you are 70th overall, you're more interested in your own time than the victory celebration ;)

And I had not looked at my watch for at least 500m, until I turned that last corner. And even if I'd looked at it during that last 500m, I'm not sure I would have been able to see anything on that watch, my body was trembling so much ;)

FM

So lemme get this straight .... FrogMan ran so damned hard that he gave Ben a hernia?

Damn, ya'll are hardcore ;)


Props to to da Frog, get well soon to BenELou

Thanks to all for the well wishes on the hernia. Taking a step back, I'd find the conversation with the doc on Sunday at the urgent care to be fairly humorous were it not about me and my own personal innards. (OK, I find it fairly humorous even though it's about me and my own personal innards...)

Doc: "So, no pain right now?"
Ben: "None whatsoever, but 30 minutes ago when I left the house to get here, it was hurting so bad that I could barely bear to take a single step."
Doc: "I'll take a look in a minute, but if it's a hernia, I may not be able to tell anything, and the scan we could do here won't show anything either if it isn't sticking out and causing you pain at the moment. But the reality is that hernias don't fix themselves. If you have one, you're going to eventually need surgery. I'll set up a consultation with a surgeon and you can work with them to set up the date. In the mean time, if the pain comes back and you can't get it to go back in, come back here or to the E.R."
Ben: "...if I can't get it to go back in? Do you mean that if the pain comes back I should feel around down there, see if something is sticking out, and push whatever is sticking out back down?"
Doc: "Absolutely. That's exactly what I'm gonna do if you come back here in pain and exactly what they'll do at the E.R."
Ben's Inner Monologue: "AUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHH!!!!!!"

The doc felt around in the area where I'd been feeling pain and said he felt "a possible small defect that could indicate a hernia," but didn't give a definitive diagnosis, and referred me to a surgeon (appointment is tomorrow.)

However, fairly early during my run this morning, I had some pain. My time at that point was looking really good for me, and I didn't want to quit, so, sure enough, I felt around where it was hurting, found something protruding, and gently pushed it back in. :eek:

Pain=gone.

*shurg*

I ran without any pain or discomfort for the next 35+ minutes. It isn't an official diagnosis yet, but given that little incident, sounds like that's the deal. I'm hoping to get it taken care of ASAP so I can get back to training hard for 10/20 and beyond.

Dola:

So for now, it's very likely that I can say that I set a new PR for the 10K, 2 1/2 minutes faster than 4 weeks ago today, and did a quick stopgap hernia repair along the way. ;)

Run Profile | 10K Self-Race For Training Pace Recalc | Times and Records | Strava

Not going to lie, that entire post made my stomach a little sick.....


As for the reality of the situation, my non-medical guess is that hernia was more likely going to be a problem for your strength based exercises than running ones, so hopefully it won't impact your race too much. Only issue I can think of might be similar to what happened when I had back surgery last December and had to take it easy for a few weeks after. I actually had to shelve my running until the end of January before I felt comfortable enough post-surgery to run more. Not suggesting what or how you should handle it, but make sure to talk to the surgeon about post-surgery running if you end up going that way.

Yeah. He told me I was fine to keep running, just no heavy strength training. And yeah, part of me wants to postpone surgery until after 10/20, but that's very likely just foolish short-term thinking talking.

One thing I've learned is that the short term goals are great and help keep us motivated, what we're doing is lifestyle changes, so you're likely right about that last sentence. If you did have to take a short break, it won't set you back too much in term of overall fitness, and anything you did lose would come back much faster the second time. Fitness is accumulated over a long term, so thinking long term is usually safest.

Ouch sorry to hear Ben, hope the best, but even a forced rest for a week or two could be good for you long term, as if not for a problem like this, you would never take that time off running.

Congrats Frogman!! Only saw something wrong with you... Those pants are too long for running!!!! :D

New running challenges are up.

September 2013 Long Run (20 miles in a single run, between 9/1-9/30

October 2013 Marathon (26.2 miles in a single run, between 9/29-11/03

Ben, that is simultaneously the most disgusting yet bad-ass running story I've ever read.

Icy, I see kneecap. Those shorts are already too short.