Wasn’t sure what part of the forums to ask this question.
I was thinking of beginning a running program, and I’m still doing to the daily Crossfit WOD’s. So, would it be too much on my body to do the workouts and put in an additional 3 to 5 miles every other day? (don’t remember all the various mileages on a marathon beginners schedule I was looking at. I think the 1st week had like 15 miles over 4 days.)
my $0.02 is, yes it would, and why would you want to? Unless you are actually training for a marathon or a triathlon:
The WoD alone is enough to prepare you for “fun runs”
My personal testimony -
I stopped dabbling and committed to doing solely CrossFit in late summer of 2007. My first “run5k” wod took about 28 minutes. This past saturday was the McGuire’s 5k run. I finished it in 23:00, and would have been faster except that it’s a pain in the ass to weave around the 1000’s of other people for the first mile or so.
Over the last year, I have finished quite a few other local runs of various distances including a 4.8 mile bridge run (Garcon Point), a 10k along the beach (the Pensacola Beach 10k), and the notorious pensacola double bridge run(15k)
I know that I’ll never win any of them. The people who win those things specialize in running and look like they need to eat.
I’m with Joel on this one. What is the reason? Short runs and sprints will give you better stamina for short burst and long wods. If you just enjoy running, who am I to tell you not to.
I’m with Joel on this one. What is the reason? Short runs and sprints will give you better stamina for short burst and long wods. If you just enjoy running, who am I to tell you not to.
Yeah if you want to do long runs, I advocate doing some (long being >10k) because time on your feet becomes a factor in the equation of pain, or as we call it around here, the painquation . . . but your short runs give you a much greater bang for your buck.
Actually I might be doing better cardio wise than I thought. I did 1/2 Murph yesterday and my old time was 25:36, and yesterday was 20:41, almost 5 minutes faster!
Here’s another question about running. I just registered for my first half marathon (and have been focusing on the training for that, which is why I have been MIA fof the WODs). Anyway I have been having a tough time running first thing in the morning and feeling easily fatiqued and dehydrated. Any thoughts?
Here’s another question about running. I just registered for my first half marathon (and have been focusing on the training for that, which is why I have been MIA fof the WODs). Anyway I have been having a tough time running first thing in the morning and feeling easily fatiqued and dehydrated. Any thoughts?
Hmm. Tell us a bit about your training sched. Dehydration is easy enough, or was for me: keep drinking till the rivers run clear if you catch my drift. It takes about 20 minutes for water to cycle from your gut to the rest of you so if you run, drink 8-16 oz 20-30 minutes before hand. that used to work for me and I drank coffee before marathons . . .
I run a long run on Sundays, in the afternoon 8-10 miles, then about 4 miles on Tues, Wed, Thurs, and Saturday. I seem to do much better in the afternoon or evening, but I usually prefer to do it in the morning before work during the week. I’m thinking about working in some metcons on Tues or Thurs.
So is it that the morning runs are sluggish? I always expected (after lots of talking about it with other runners) that in a week of running, I could usually count on 1 really good run, 3 okay got them done runs and one would always just suck. And I’ve run every time of day and night and am is hardest for me too. Is there a pattern? i.e. are the middle of the week runs just okay? And oddly, I find that a 3 mile run gives me just enough time to warm up . . . .
It’s really only the morning runs that I feel like I have nothing left. Even this morning I tried to eat a little yogurt before my workout and still felt bad.
It’s really only the morning runs that I feel like I have nothing left. Even this morning I tried to eat a little yogurt before my workout and still felt bad.
I don’t know, unless you’re trying to go at your afternoon pace right off. I always like to start slow. I used to run a bit with my wife and brother in law and while I’m faster than them in races and once I get going, I always felt they were charging out of the blocks. In the am I always like to start from a shuffle and then about mid point crank it on up.
Sometimes I’d have a white trash power bar (aka pop tart) about 20-30 minutes before hand. That usually seemed to help. Other than that, sometimes it’s just a matter of getting used to it. Nothing magical, just if that’s when you’ve got the time, it works. I used to have to do it that way because once the sun comes up around here in the summer, it’s just too hot. So a great many of my runs started at oh dark 30 so that I was done before it got insufferable.
For what it’s worth, I ran the 5k at the Sedona Marathon two years in a row. In preparation I never ran more than 2 miles in a workout in training and usually that was interval work. I still managed to finish in the top 5 in my age group (and the next lower age group too) both years. Long training runs are quite over rated, IMO.
What are you eating before the morning run ? Before CF and before Zone, when I was running. I would eat a bagel / english muffin with some jelly. It was usually good for up to 10. I did drink a power bar sports drink mix as well during the run. Usually had a gel between 5-7. Did a long run up to 20 miles 2 different times. Didn’t make it to a marathon.
OK, I have another question about running. Before and after I workout when I warm up and stretch, my hamstring pops right in the middle of it. It loosens up a little after the pop, just one on each leg, and it makes my hamstrings feel better. What could be popping in the middle of my muscle?
Moved this thread from Jeff and Dan’s corner.
We’re crossing forum bounds in this topic so I’m not sure where to put this one, but the original question was best asked here.
