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Running General Chat - Weekly Thread Sat 7 September 2024 (aussie.zone)

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Just a general thread about running. How's your running going? What are you training for? Did you get new shoes? Sporting an injury etc.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've decided to start getting up early on Sunday's so I can get an early morning run in, and finding the runs a struggle. I'm doing 10k (my longest ever run is only 11km) but they feel a lot more difficult than they do when I run at mid-day or the afternoon.

This Sunday I was up at 5:30, had an overnight oats breakfast, waited about 45 to 50 minutes and headded out for 7am. My legs felt stiff and my upper thighs a bit sore - maybe I need to do more on my warm up than I normally would do?

I've been wanting to start pushing past the 10km barrier and work for more but I really struggled, nearly gave up after 7km but just kept going. I'm glad I did but disappointed that I couldn't go further. Looking at Strava I've only done 9 runs that are 10km+ so maybe I'm being a bit hard on myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think if your body is not used to getting up at 5:30am and eating, its gonna feel weird. My only morning run is usually a parkrun, and I don’t eat before that. My other runs (12 - 16 km) I usually wait until I’ve had a large meal + 90 minutes then go.

I usually run in the evenings, I struggle with events because they usually are run early in the morning (so I have the same issue, having to get up early just to eat).

For getting past 10km, just make sure you are putting a long run into your weekly runs, and keep increasing your total mileage week on week. Yeah, it will be a struggle until your body can catch up to it.