I’m so square I didn’t even know that 196 went back to Reddit.

Thank you.

Months after joining I still cannot decipher the rule thing. Can you please tell me?

One of the top 100 reasons I left.

Same here. I know a lot of people that go crazy with numbers, but for me it is the key for staying interested.

Yeah I’m in the Midwestern edge of the Northeast. Humidity is no joke. This summer I have come to embrace shirtless running for the first time because my pride is just not worth the heat.

What’s the climate where you live?

I never really liked winter until about 4 or.5 years into running. Now I don’t mind it at all. But late fall has really become my favorite season.

My feet change. Shoes that work in one season might not work later. And since shoe companies constantly change designs, there’s no point getting attached to any one brand or model. Keep experimenting, but slowly.

Also don’t try to run through pain. Take a break. Use heat. Talk to a physical therapist. Whatever. Just don’t assume it’ll go away without me addressing it.

I felt that way at 4 years. I’m at 7 now and it no longer feels like a grind. The major difference for me is that I started following detailed training plans 2 years ago.

I first tried upping cadence using 90 or 180 BPM music, but I could never get it to stick and my feet didn’t catch the rhythm. A few years later I used a metronome and boy howdy did that work for sticking to the rhythm. I nailed my cadence for a couple of weeks until I started getting hip flexor pain. Recently I saw some research about how cadence isn’t as important as people think lol. Now I’m back to feel and HR too.

That’s awesome that you felt better. It sounds like it was a good move for you.

Responding to your eg. Did you change your cadence to match? Did you run faster? I’ve done some things like this before with various results so I’m curious about your experience.

I got some good advice once about running new distances. The first time you race it you might want to just focus on finishing the event, enjoyimg the course, and listening to your body rather than worrying about time. It’ll give you a baseline to work from and help you figure out if you even like the distance.

I feel like I turned a corner with running some years ago when I was deep in the discomfort of a particularly grueling session and I very reasonably began thinking about being done. It then occurred to me how the anticipation of finishing was what made the actual finish so great. I realized in that moment that the grueling post was in fact the entire point, and how lucky was I to be in the middle of it?

I love running. But I’ll never love it as much as I love getting done running. I totally understand the motivation to get there faster.

I’m no expert in cell biology but I get a completely different feeling from running hungry than I do from weight lifting hungry. For whatever reason I can do plenty of anaerobic lifting in the morning but running without any carbohydrates is much harder. That said, I can only take a very small amount of food when I run off I don’t want discomfort, e.g. a small amount of applesauce and a slice of deli ham or something.

This is what worked for me when I had hip flexor problems from overtraining. I had to take some time off and then build back slowly. It’s the only thing that worked for me after months of trying to “run easy” while doing leg work in the gym. I’m the end I just needed to let it heal. Oh and I used a heating pad every day.

Awesome job! What kind of training are you doing on a typical week?

One key to happiness for me is to start from the assumption that I’ve been unclear.

This feels like reading a language that you only kinda know.

Ok so in defense of dumbasses, we don’t always understand the question. Eg, whose left? In those cases we don’t want to make your clarify the question and drag things out, so we give you what we hope is an unequivocally clear response. It comes from a deep-seeded fear of miscommunication resulting in too many mailboxes with their flags on the wrong side or whatever. We apologize for the pedantry, though. I get that it’s annoying.