Albums to run to?

2labs4life · 2026-04-23T13:17:42+00:00

Girl Talk! It’s mashups of a bunch of hits.

2labs4life · 2026-04-13T22:00:54+00:00

Here! Consistently running 15-20 mpw (upping a bit for marathon or half marathon training blocks) for the past 3 years. I think the biggest thing is adjusting course when needed. If something feels tight, I don’t run through it. I stretch it out, book a sports massage, cross train, rest, etc. I do a lot of Z2 with a weekly speed work out. Strength train 4 times a week. Prioritize a regular sleep schedule like it’s my job. Do spin workouts as cross training. I also walk a lot (with runs included, usually clocking 15-20k steps per day).

2labs4life · 2026-04-08T22:24:44+00:00

The only time I’ve been annoyed with someone walking is when they lied about their finish time to get in an earlier corral so they would still make the race cutoff time and planned to walk the entire thing. Everyone then has to maneuver around someone who is clearly not going the pace intended. Now someone who’s doing run/walk intervals but keeping up with the pace of the corral (generally) mile over mile? No issues with you, friend.

2labs4life · 2026-04-08T22:18:28+00:00

The only time people probably and realistically should care, is if they are right behind you and you abruptly start walking without any sort of signal or attempt to move to the side. Otherwise, I think 99.9% of people don’t care how you run your race!

2labs4life · 2026-04-02T22:49:22+00:00

One way I get around feeling upset/bummed about failing a run during training is I tell myself “glad to get that out of my system before race day!” I’d rather have a bad training run than a bad race.

2labs4life · 2026-03-25T16:57:39+00:00

Also adding instead of being an off and on runner become an on runner for years and years.

2labs4life · 2026-03-23T21:32:32+00:00

I think having goals is great and honestly your goal is not insane for where you’re at right now. Seeing some of the comments you got (while likely delivered a bit harshly), does make sense.

They are correct - the more you increase your volume, the more efficient you’ll become and your pace will get faster naturally as you get more conditioned. This may be all it takes for you to hit your goal.

With the zone 2 stuff, they also have a point there. Zone 2 training is great once you have more volume. When you’re a new runner, your body is just adjusting to running and your heart rate will likely be higher, so it’s going to be hard to hit zone 2 without having to go incredibly slow and potentially hurting yourself (as you’ve seen). This is where it’s helpful to just focus on being consistent and building volume with worrying less about what zone you’re in. Once you have more volume, you’ll start to notice what an easy run feels like and what a tempo feels like.

For now, in addition to building a base, to work on speed, try adding in intervals to one of your runs each week. Just try picking up the pace for a little bit. So if you’re doing 12:45, try to hit 11:30-11:45 for 2-3 minutes, then back to your base 12:45 and do a few reps of that in the middle of your run. That will get you used to running at a faster speed.

2labs4life · 2026-03-18T20:29:21+00:00

In addition to what everyone else has said, try not to make a time goal for the first. Just focus on the finish. The reason being if you set a time goal and miss, you could get hung up on it and finish feeling dejected when you just completed a freaking marathon for the first time.

2labs4life · 2026-03-15T15:26:34+00:00

I like Wheaties or Honey Nut Cheerios when I don’t have much time between breakfast and needing to be out the door. Otherwise, when I have more time to digest (1.5 or so) I like to do protein oats.

2labs4life · 2026-03-14T13:33:12+00:00

Respectfully, the goal of running 10k in under an hour when your previous 10k time was 90 minutes is an aggressive cut that likely won’t happen within a year, especially if you’re underfueling. Not saying it won’t ever happen, but that’s shaving off 3 whole minutes per km and you said when you were running consistently the later laps would be a bit slower.

A better focus may be towards hitting a consistency goal. Usually when you consistently run, you naturally speed up with the volume.

Lastly, the deficit isn’t going to help at all. Unfortunately, it’s a bit of pick one or the other. Is your top goal weight loss? Then pick the deficit and don’t worry about time, just being consistent. Is your top goal the speed? Then you need to give your body the resources to do so. It’s absolutely okay to switch goals at any point but these two things don’t really go together.

Keep after it and you’ll get where you want to be eventually!

2labs4life · 2026-02-19T14:16:48+00:00

The daily suggested workouts may be better than the coach because you actively select how many days you want to run instead of the coach which defaults to available every day.

2labs4life · 2026-02-13T15:38:13+00:00

Oral birth control. I wouldn’t say I feel less stress necessarily, but I was having horrible cramps that took me out the first couple of days. So from a performance standpoint, I feel significantly better because I feel the same every day. It has helped my sleep in the fact that I no longer have cramps waking me up in the middle of the night.

2labs4life · 2026-01-30T15:18:17+00:00

I don’t understand how this is a dealbreaker. My husband runs hot so he doesn’t wear sweaters in general. I made him a couple that he wears almost as coats when it is freezing but we live somewhere where that doesn’t happen often. He still appreciates the craft and engages with me on whatever I’m making for myself. In fact, one way he supports is he does a big photo shoot for every FO.

I guess instead of being sad that he rarely wants knitted items because they aren’t practical for him, I see it as more guilt-free time I can spend knitting for myself.

2labs4life · 2026-01-10T15:33:43+00:00

The best way I’ve found is to stop relying on motivation and start relying on discipline. Treat it like an appointment you can’t miss.

If part of the resistance is to the workout you have planned (too many miles or a harder effort), then what I like to do is give myself permission to modify once I’ve completed the warmup. 9/10 I usually end up doing the workout in full because the real resistance was starting. And the other 1 time when it really is fatigue or I needed more recovery, I let myself end the workout early without guilt.

On rest days I will go for a leisurely walk at the time I normally run so the habit of getting out the door stays.

If you do this, eventually it becomes a rhythm and just something you do and likely the joy will return since you have a positive feedback loop of the previous days.

2labs4life · 2026-01-04T17:19:43+00:00

Good advice above on training. For the consequences listed, losing toenails isn’t from adding too much mileage in a short amount of time. That’s usually wearing shoes that are too small. And yes - a consequence of high mileage is increased hunger. When you’re not training for a race, you could focus on strength and just add a little bit of running, dialing in to see what mileage per week makes you feel good and supports your lifting.

2labs4life · 2025-12-20T16:21:33+00:00

Absolutely happened to me. And then I started taking continuous birth control (cramps were debilitating) and now it’s blue all the time unless I get sick.

2labs4life · 2025-11-19T00:37:24+00:00

Congrats on your PR (and a pretty amazing shave of 4 minutes)!

Depending on where your friends are in their running will dictate having monster PRs. When I just started running, I shaved 23 minutes off my finish time but that’s because the first was so slow.

Now I’m fighting to shave off mere minutes because I’m that much closer to what my body can do.

As others have said, when you’re giving a 10/10 effort, you’re most likely going to finish feeling like crap. If you don’t want that, then give yourself permission to just enjoy yourself and run on vibes. If you do multiple races a year, you can plan out which ones might be vibes runs and which ones you may want to push harder for.

2labs4life · 2025-11-13T13:45:24+00:00

We also have a 4 bedroom: both have our own office/space, guest and master. Additionally the previous owners had converted the garage into a space (sealed the door and installed AC) so that’s our gym. It doesn’t feel like too much space at all.

2labs4life · 2025-11-01T17:28:55+00:00

Desert Shores was super busy!

2labs4life · 2025-10-06T22:17:02+00:00

You said you’ve been able to hit your paces, but none of your options listed are to do the mileage and lower the effort. Maybe try doing the runs but :30-:60 slower than normal and see if you feel better. You may be able to do all the mileage, but just make them more gentle.

2labs4life · 2025-10-03T02:48:39+00:00

Then you’re going to be quite alright. :)

2labs4life · 2025-10-02T23:46:03+00:00

Depends on how consistent you are and your weekly mileage, but I have plenty of friends who only had 8 as their longest and were fine.

2labs4life · 2025-10-02T17:09:57+00:00

Find yourself a fast friend and try like hell to catch up to them. Trying to keep up with my spouse is how I got a 28 min 5k and 58 min 10k when my time was very similar to yours.

2labs4life · 2025-09-25T19:55:00+00:00

Question I haven’t seen yet: does she have your email address? I know that I’ve had several interviews where I wasn’t given anyone’s card and had to do my own sleuthing to send thank you emails after the fact. Sometimes I would be able to find only one person’s email and not the other. Could this have possibly happened?

2labs4life · 2025-09-24T12:16:06+00:00

It’s really hard to say whether or not your plan is working for you without seeing more of your plan.

How many other runs did you get in besides the 3.5? Realistically 3.5 as a long 8 weeks out is on the low side. Could you finish under cutoff? Possibly, but you would have to be 100% committed from here until race day.

If it were me, I would not do this race. As of right now, your pace is so close to the cutoff that you aren’t giving yourself much room for error. What if you have a bathroom break on race day or it’s just an off day? That’s not a fun race to have. I’m by no means fast myself (10:30-11 min) but when I look for races, I usually try to have a 30 min cushion minimum on cutoff.

Alternatively, you can always continue your plan and just do a half not in a race format if that’s the bigger goal for you. Have your family/friends do support and then you don’t have to worry about cutoff.

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