2012 Holiday Running Challenge! Who's game?

[ERCougar]

Holds on to the 0.1 mile lead!

Yeah, Ohio was my target on this one. It's ok--I'm not going to hang with him for much longer and niku will leave us all behind pretty quickly, so I wanted one more day in the sun.

On a side note, I've been trying to get in 6 days/week of running to see how my body holds up (from a prior pattern of 3 days/week). Today's a day I normally would have skipped because both knees were bothering me last night and this morning. It felt more like a runner's knee kind of pain than anything else, so I decided to chance it. I went out planning to run really slowly and just walk if the pain got worse. The pain stopped about 1/4 mile in and from that point on, actually worked as a check on my form--if I started "braking" at all, or my stride lengthened, it would twinge again and I'd fix it. So for the most part, I felt really good. I have a hill workout planned tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.

A weird injury experience: there was a point about halfway through the Ogden marathon six months ago where I felt a little pull in the muscle just above my pubic (not that, sickos!). I didn't think much of it at the time but ever since then, it really hurts whenever I cough or sneeze, or lift up my legs up on the pull up bar. It's not unbearable, but man, it won't go away. Anyone ever had anything like this?

[Jarid in Cedar]

Holds on to the 0.1 mile lead!

Yeah, Ohio was my target on this one. It's ok--I'm not going to hang with him for much longer and niku will leave us all behind pretty quickly, so I wanted one more day in the sun.

On a side note, I've been trying to get in 6 days/week of running to see how my body holds up (from a prior pattern of 3 days/week). Today's a day I normally would have skipped because both knees were bothering me last night and this morning. It felt more like a runner's knee kind of pain than anything else, so I decided to chance it. I went out planning to run really slowly and just walk if the pain got worse. The pain stopped about 1/4 mile in and from that point on, actually worked as a check on my form--if I started "braking" at all, or my stride lengthened, it would twinge again and I'd fix it. So for the most part, I felt really good. I have a hill workout planned tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.

A weird injury experience: there was a point about halfway through the Ogden marathon six months ago where I felt a little pull in the muscle just above my pubic (not that, sickos!). I didn't think much of it at the time but ever since then, it really hurts whenever I cough or sneeze, or lift up my legs up on the pull up bar. It's not unbearable, but man, it won't go away. Anyone ever had anything like this?

Sports hernia?

[ERCougar]

Sports hernia?

I don't know enough about it to say, but the pain is medial to the inguinal rings.

[Jarid in Cedar]

I don't know enough about it to say, but the pain is medial to the inguinal rings.

That sounds consistent. Check with Stults

[ERCougar]

That sounds consistent. Check with Stults

Hmm...I'll have to talk to him. I'd almost trust your partner more on this one though, no?

Also--it seems like a sports hernia would lateralize? This is dead center.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Hmm...I'll have to talk to him. I'd almost trust your partner more on this one though, no?

Good thought. And I concur

[The_Douger]

I have done horribly this week.

Gotta do better next.

[Moliere]

I did 10 miles this morning. My longest run ever. I woke up at 4am and couldn't fall back asleep so I was out the door at 5am and done around 6:30. It was cool to start running in the dark and have it be light outside when I was done.

My body is screaming sore right now. I played football for 2.5 hours yesterday, ran 10 miles this morning and then hung Xmas lights for 2 hours. MJ then made me do the heavy lifting for the Xmas decorations inside the house. I'm on the couch and will likely stay there until tomorrow afternoon

[Pheidippides]

Holds on to the 0.1 mile lead!

Yeah, Ohio was my target on this one. It's ok--I'm not going to hang with him for much longer and niku will leave us all behind pretty quickly, so I wanted one more day in the sun.

On a side note, I've been trying to get in 6 days/week of running to see how my body holds up (from a prior pattern of 3 days/week). Today's a day I normally would have skipped because both knees were bothering me last night and this morning. It felt more like a runner's knee kind of pain than anything else, so I decided to chance it. I went out planning to run really slowly and just walk if the pain got worse. The pain stopped about 1/4 mile in and from that point on, actually worked as a check on my form--if I started "braking" at all, or my stride lengthened, it would twinge again and I'd fix it. So for the most part, I felt really good. I have a hill workout planned tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.

A weird injury experience: there was a point about halfway through the Ogden marathon six months ago where I felt a little pull in the muscle just above my pubic (not that, sickos!). I didn't think much of it at the time but ever since then, it really hurts whenever I cough or sneeze, or lift up my legs up on the pull up bar. It's not unbearable, but man, it won't go away. Anyone ever had anything like this?

I hope by "quickly" you mean "today". I still have my long run this week coming up.

On your injury question, I have aches in my hips/pubic/groin all the time. It's not a seven year itch, either - it's just perpetually sore. Came on during StG, hasn't gotten worse, only gotten a little better.

[hostile]

I don't know enough about it to say, but the pain is medial to the inguinal rings.

Maybe a rectus or pyramidalis strain? Although I would expect that to be getting better at this point.

[Moliere]

I put together a Google map that has a marker for total miles ran each day. I started it at the top of Lombard Street (I wanted to be the one to run down the hill ) and just followed I-80 out of San Francisco. I figure I can update this from time to time, but as of Thanksgiving night we are already past Reno.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid...612d5fdc&msa=0

I need to find out how to label the markers and to show a line between them.

[ERCougar]

Maybe a rectus or pyramidalis strain? Although I would expect that to be getting better at this point.

That was my first thought when it happened but I figured it would go away. It definitely feels muscular, except that I can't reproduce it with palpation (or even with movement--only certain movements really hit it). Also, I haven't come across that as a common running injury. Have you?

[PaloAltoCougar]

I put together a Google map that has a marker for total miles ran each day. I started it at the top of Lombard Street (I wanted to be the one to run down the hill ) and just followed I-80 out of San Francisco. I figure I can update this from time to time, but as of Thanksgiving night we are already past Reno.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid...612d5fdc&msa=0

I need to find out how to label the markers and to show a line between them.

That's very cool. It's early yet, but we're going to have to pick it up a bit if we're going to make it to NYC by New Year's. There are a few who haven't started running yet, and we could always add more participants (it's not too late!). Or perhaps we could simply have cowboy or landpoke drive us across Wyoming.

[Moliere]

That's very cool. It's early yet, but we're going to have to pick it up a bit if we're going to make it to NYC by New Year's. There are a few who haven't started running yet, and we could always add more participants (it's not too late!). Or perhaps we could simply have cowboy or landpoke drive us across Wyoming.

I hate driving across wyoming so running it will be the lowlight of this competition. It's not too late to cut down through Springville and hit I70 for a more scenic run

[PaloAltoCougar]

I completed my longest run in well over a year. I'm posting the details as a public service--so that that most of you speed merchants can take pride in how much faster you are than I am, but also for the non-runners and couch potatoes to take a little motivation from the fact that if a 60 year-old can do this, they certainly can too.

My legs felt pretty dead from the outset, perhaps due to yesterday's ride (or simply that age thing), but I'm happy I got a bit faster as the run progressed, and I feel much better now than I did before the run, which is often the case when I run. I'm also a little embarrassed that a cute young blonde passed me around the five-mile mark, and that probably was a factor in my modest acceleration.