New Psychotic Challenge

[ValidRouge]

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ice and wind and rain sound scary. You're a brave soul for trying to run in that!!!!

[julirama723]

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A brave soul, indeed! Plus, running in the winter always makes your lungs burn...or at least it makes MINE burn. I'm a wimp!

[Alexa]

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I did come back BRIGHT red like all my blood was in my face but the lung burn wasn't actually too bad. I hate lung burn - it reminds me of being forced to run laps at school in the freezing cold.

I think treadmill running has spoilt me. I've heard from people who've trained on treadmills that when you do an actual race it's much tougher, so I think I'm going to do an outside run at least once a week. I wonder if because actual running you have to propel forward and up, whereas with treadmills it's just up? It definately felt different to me. Anyone else thought this?

[julirama723]

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I think it's harder to run outside/on a track because you have to regulate your own speed--there's no machine to do it for you. And on a treadmill, the belt is moving towards you, so you're just basically jogging in place, rather than pushing yourself forward.

[Fatalblue]

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I agree, since the belt is moving for you all you need to do is keep up. When you're running outside you have to create all of the motion yourself. I'm doing the Couch to 5K program outside. Pretty soon when it gets more technical I'm going to have to calculate how far I'm going. For right now it's just a warmup of 5 minutes of brisk walking followed by intervals of 90 seconds jogging and 2 minutes walking for 20 minutes. I learned an important lesson yesterday... never eat a big meal and jog soon after. My tummy felt rotten.

[Lyssie]

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Joy!! Congratulations!!! You had like, an amazing day of achievements yesterday, eh?

Baarb and Fatalblue - When I run outside, I use gmaps pedometer thing to calculate out how far I'm going. You have to plot each turn separately, but it does it for, at least, anywhere in the US. It SAYS that it does the UK, China and Japan, but I just tried to look-up my company's branch in High Wycombe and it said it couldn't find it... but maybe that's because it's a general address. I dunno. If you google gmaps, pedometer it should show up as the first link.

My magazine had an interesting little blurb about the running outside vs. inside. It is harder, and it burns more calories than running on a treadmill. I have the whole speed regulating issue too. Inside, I just do like, 5mi/hour if I'm tired or whatever for long periods of time, outside, I feel like I have to go faster, but the one night when there was this old guy who passed us, and was keeping a slower running pace, I was *fine* with running behind him at his pace for a long time...

[julirama723]

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Yeah, I like to have a "pace car" when I run. I pick someone with a good speed, and keep an even distance behind them the whole time. HOWEVER, there was a guy who used to run at the SAC (Student Activity Center, workout facility at my college) all the time, and he was a #%@$ing @$$hole. He seriously would use people for this purpose, but I'm not joking, he would run about 2 feet behind them IN THE SAME LANE. And he was really sweaty and wore huge plastic frame 80s glasses. Oh my god, I hated when he'd run behind me. Sometimes I'd change lanes to see what he'd do, and he'd change with me. Sometimes I'd stop abrubtly and walk the rest of the lap, and that REALLY pissed him off, and then he'd have to go find a new pace car. But that was hard to do, because once I start walking, I don't want to start running again.

When he was behind others, I felt SOOOOOOOOOO bad for them. I think people complained about him (I didn't have the guts to) because he disappeared at some point, never saw him in the SAC again.

Ooh I left THAT line open for comments, didn't I?

[Fatalblue]

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Wow, that gmaps pedometer is pretty cool. Thanks!

[Lyssie]

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Ah yes, Julie talking about men being missing from her sac. The world is obviously still spinning in the correct direction.

[Alexa]

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Well I ran/walked my little legs off and I did a 5k in 39.51 wooooo! That's 1 min 51 seconds faster. Is it, brain muddled by running nausea. Yay! Am going to lie down for a year now....

[Lyssie]

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Congrats!!!

[julirama723]

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Yayyyyyyyyyy! Baarb!!!!!!!! Yayyyyyyyy!

[Lyssie]

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5k - 34:28!! I swear it's because I was trying to rush to yoga.

[ValidRouge]

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Great job, baarb and Lyssie!!!

[Fatalblue]

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Congrats Baarb and Lyssie!