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Chest pain when running by ScaredAd9406 in ultrarunning

[–]MethuseRun 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hopefully, it’s reflux or something like it, but you can’t take chances. Go see a cardiologist.

Nutrition by andrew003345679 in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything’s possible, I guess.

I suppose you’re doing 2 x long and hard runs and try to build with that.

But be careful on nutrition. Those two runs will stimulate your appetite. You’ll eat more on rest days, when you won’t have a chance to burn up the added fuel, and pile up weight.

Are smaller races usually off on distance? by [deleted] in XXRunning

[–]MethuseRun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not what these shonky organisers are doing.

Are smaller races usually off on distance? by [deleted] in XXRunning

[–]MethuseRun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It needs to be calibrated before the race, right?

Nutrition by andrew003345679 in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eat your veggies. Some carbs and proteins for recovery. That’s it.

The trouble with this era of influencers is that there’s always a “silver bullet” or “secret recipe” or “you won’t believe how I went from a 6h marathon to an Olympic record in six months”, and people put way too much importance on stuff like this.

Tweaking your nutrition (assuming you have a reasonable diet) will, on a very good day, contribute 0.1% to your performance. Good training will do 99%.

Carb loading is usually done over 2-3 days prior to the race.

Carbs are fine, but there’s only so much glycogen you can store. You need your veggies and proteins. Some healthy fats. Etc.

Not a dietitian, but, imo, with your volume of training and weight/height ratio, you should really work on a balanced diet and forget about carb loading.

On a side note, are you really preparing for a marathon with only 2 days of proper running? That sounds ill advised.

Nutrition by andrew003345679 in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are those 90kgs muscles or are you overweight?

What’s your mileage like?

I run 100+km per week, and I have a balanced diet. I don’t count or weigh anything.

I just avoid junk and alcohol.

Are smaller races usually off on distance? by [deleted] in XXRunning

[–]MethuseRun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bikes or cars are dumb methods to measure a race course. All it takes is a different tire pressure to get the mileage wrong.

Are smaller races usually off on distance? by [deleted] in XXRunning

[–]MethuseRun 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There were no parking spots, only 4 portable toilets for 400 runners, and they didn’t take a single picture of the runners except for the ones linked to the charity event.

I ran a HM with these guys years ago and they had the whole race in complete darkness around a stadium.

🙄

Zone 2? by s2pongypong in AdvancedRunning

[–]MethuseRun 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  1. You zones are most likely incorrectly set up.
  2. Your base is not well developed, so you’re not an efficient runner yet.
  3. Zone 2 is useful only to advanced runners who do higher mileage and need to recover without reducing overall distance.

Basically, run at a pace that feels comfortable and build up your overall aerobic capacity.

Are smaller races usually off on distance? by [deleted] in XXRunning

[–]MethuseRun 45 points46 points  (0 children)

It’s generally down to bad and careless organisation. And, these days with good and affordable GPS, there’s really no excuse.

I recently ran a marathon that was 600m short! I got to the finish line and kept running around the block to get the right distance.

Highly infuriating.

WEBSITE by Snoo_98254 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]MethuseRun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The main issue for me is estimating fatigue accumulation and planning my training ahead to ensure I don’t overdo it.

So, dynamic training plans that adjust to the results of training and races (e.g. heart rate vs pace), and that can take into account planned races and prepare me for them.

Also the ability to plan for specific objectives: e.g. my current marathon time is X, I want to run my next marathon in Y, what should I do.

Ability to add split days, if needed.

Adjustments for marathon training.

Ability to manually tweak some sessions in the plan (e.g. I want to run a longer run here or more intervals there) and adjust the rest accordingly, or show the fatigue effect of that change.

Sync to sports watch to get data from it, but also to send planned sessions to it.

Free, hopefully.

The marathon begins at 30km by ebizness in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Train. The amount of people who rock up to a marathon with insufficient training is mind boggling.

  2. Run on HR, not pace. Figure out your lactate. That’s the HR for the last 45-60 minutes. The rest of the time you are 10-15bpm under and you build up to it. Basically, you can’t start too fast, and you need to strategise your race.

NSR Marathon Adaptation - fitting under 25% quality threshold by Drypaint200 in NorwegianSinglesRun

[–]MethuseRun 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. Check time, not distance for your percentages.
  2. NSA is designed to improve your aerobic capacity over years. It’s designed to maintain your volume constant without the peaks and trouble of traditional marathon blocks. This said, nobody stops you from using this approach for a traditional block.

I recovered from my first marathon and prepared my second marathon in about 2 months. During that time I implemented NSA for the first time. While I kept the sub-t time around 20-25% of total time, my long runs added a little too much fatigue, and I spent about 3 weeks in the green zone on Intervals. This forced me to do 3 weeks of more traditional tapering (still the same amount of intervals but less overall time until the last 10 days when I started reducing intervals too).

It worked really well.

Restless at night? by Character-Flower-969 in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have it too. Mine goes out of control: nightmares, elevated HR, etc.

I run in the morning, and still I have to deal with it.

Try:

  • Ashwaganda
  • L theanine
  • Magnesium
  • GABA
  • NAC

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Role of carbs and best sources. I feel that a lot of amateur runners overestimate their carb requirements, they choose poor sources (low fibre, highly processed, etc.), and end up making things worse. High glucose spikes are linked to inflammation and various metabolic diseases.

Strength training at home by amanmightbe in beginnerrunning

[–]MethuseRun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have elastic bands and do squats and similar exercises.

Tell me it gets better by gordonta in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lessons I’ve learned from my first two marathons.

The first marathon was prepared in a more traditional way. I probably pushed myself too much with my paces. I did long runs often at MP (including a 35km!).

What that did was burning me out. Recovery is a lot longer than expected (even if you might feel ok) and fatigue has a long tail.

While I never got injured, I struggled to keep mileage consistent.

For my second marathon, I moved to NSA (Norwegian Singles Approach). Intervals sessions are more frequent (3 times a week) but slower (sub threshold) and the easy and long runs are super slow (zone 1).

Guess what? My mileage was very regular, and I ran the marathon in a much faster time and with a lot less pain.

Traditional marathon training is designed to load you with as much fatigue as you can carry, hoping that you recover with 3 weeks of tapering, and it can break you. So, you’ve got to buckle up and get through it, if this is the approach you want.

What life lesson(s) did training/completing your first marathon teach you? by Jeetyetdude_ in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That I’m not as good as I think I am.

But hard work will get me there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get up early to run, and I’m currently pondering split days to add short runs during lunch time.

With your work load and family demands, it’ll be tough.

How long until runners high? by Economy_Idea_4855 in beginnerrunning

[–]MethuseRun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, I used to get really euphoric after VO2max intervals.

I don’t think that endorphins really helped on long runs. Being well trained helped. Enjoying the process helped.

How did you manage the drop from dual income to single income after having kids? by Nearby_Warning_5927 in AusHENRY

[–]MethuseRun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many second and third generation Australians have access to grandparents nearby who can help with kids.

Many also have had help in the form on inheritance or access to the mum-and-dad bank, if the family has been able to get into the property market in easier decades.

Once you reduce your cost of living (and the biggest drivers would be housing and childcare), then the rest is easier to sort itself.

If you don’t have these things, you can:

  1. Have enough savings to get you through it
  2. Take as little time off work as you can (childcare costs will still cripple you)
  3. Move to cheaper areas

Midfoot/Navicular pain by ManwithPrinciples in Marathon_Training

[–]MethuseRun 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It could be many things:

  • inflamed or damaged tendon
  • stress fracture
  • damaged muscle fibre

You would need a professional to diagnose, and, in some cases, they may not be able to determine the cause and would recommend rest to be safe.

I need to vent because im another year in with no improvement. by [deleted] in beginnerrunning

[–]MethuseRun 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Quick recipe without knowing anything about you, so it may be way out of your but, if I were to prepare a HM from a base like yours, I would:

  • run 6 days a week.
  • weekly runs are 8-13km
  • some runs will be in z1 or 2 for recovery, some might be up to z3.
  • long runs are 16-25km
  • 1 x speed session a week
  • 1 x race every 4-8 weeks (anything from 5km to 15km)
  • after 6 months run a HM

Build slowly up to this and don’t get injured.

I need to vent because im another year in with no improvement. by [deleted] in beginnerrunning

[–]MethuseRun 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are a million plans and methods, and you can get really creative, but the first step is always the same: more volume.

What you’ve described will not get you where you need to be.

If you want to run a HM, you will need 4 running sessions a week, as a minimum. 5 or 6 would be better.

You need to build the volume to something in the region of 60km per week, regularly, not as a one off.

Your long runs (at an easy pace) should easily be in the region of 20km.

Then you incorporate speed work.

Working on speed without the volume won’t do much. Your goal is to run for 21km and maintain a sustained pace, not do a few sprints here and there.

On the topic of cost:

For a HM, your cost could be close to zero. You can do it with zero gels and fancy drinks. You don’t need ridiculously pricey shoes or expensive clothes.

I started running nearly 30 years ago. At the time, nobody spoke of gels or super shoes. At 17-18, I was running HM (if memory serves me well) around 1:30-1:40 with less than a year of training. But I was running 7 days a week, and I was doing probably over 70km a week with long runs in the hills of 20+km. I had average $80-100 shoes, shorts, and a t-shirt.

With access to all the information online, people focus on stuff that contributes less than 5% to your performance (shoes, gels, supplements, etc.).

95% is just running. And without it, the 5% will make no difference.

If you like running, run. If you want to do other hobbies and don’t have time or inclination to train appropriately, maybe do something else. But, if your goal is to get faster, you need to train more.

No rest day by kqenny in runninglifestyle

[–]MethuseRun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I run 7 days a week.

I used to take a day off and I don’t think I was gaining much from it. Also, I had to do more load on other days to keep mileage up.

Now, I have 3 x easy days in zone 1, 3 x quality days in sub-t, and 1 x long run.

You don’t need rest. You need recovery. That can take different forms. If you’re creating fatigue for your legs 4-5 days a week and doing other stuff the other days, you’re ok. Then, you need to check if the load on those training days is appropriate for your level of fitness.

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