TechKnowGN

I ran today. WTF are people thinking when they do this? I mean I started interval training so I could go from walking to running in my triathlons, and if I ever met the man that invented running as a sport, I'm gonna take him out behind the woodshed for a whoopin.

Seriously though 5 1/2 minutes walking, and then 30 seconds running, repeated 5 times.

My other sports (swimming and biking) make me feel skinny, powerful, and fast. Running makes me feel fat and slow. My belly feels like a large rock moving up and down as i run. I hated it.

Did any of you who do run hate it at first, stick with it, become better, then like it?

Brando_T.

I've got some sort of fused bones in my ankles that keep me from running. That's why i'm on a bike!

txvintage

I've got fused bones in my spine and I'm bone on bone in one knee, and possibly the other by now. Running is a bad plan for me.

perryw

I was running for about 6 months, go myself up to around 5 miles. Then shin splints started kicking in. I was on a roll with my exercising, and I didn't want to be cooped up in the fitness center during the nice weather, so I went out and got a bike. I feel odd saying it, but I actually enjoy both activities now. I've only had my bike for a new days now, but it's great to finish up my workout tired, rather than in pain. I do intend to do some more running after a month or so of just biking.

DelusionalDude

Fortunately, each time the cops were after me I'e been able to get away without running. the secret is.....

wait, I can't tell that part.

Hill-Pumper

I tried running at the first of the year, my hips hurt for a month afterward. I have not made that mistake again.

sakonnetclip

Interesting, I never ran much at all for most of my life. After dropping 40 lbs last year I moved from walking to running as my fitness allowed. Before I started biking a lot more, I was running 2-3 times a week for 3 miles or so a run.

At first I thought I was going to die, but as my muscles adapted it became a lot easier. I'm not light at 6-2 and 225 lbs, but I don't feel the weight nearly as much any more. I don't run really fast, but I am in the 9:30 range, perhaps a bit faster if I'm feeling good.

Solution: Run more.

-spence

cod.peace

I used to run a ton when I was in my teens, even becoming captain of the HS cross-country team. Running is something the human body is uniquely designed for, see, for example: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4021811.stm
and there's a recent book on the subject: "Born to Run."

This doesn't mean it doesn't hurt like a mother****er when you get back into it. I plan on picking up some running again once I de-Clyde myself. I personally believe there really is something to the idea of barefoot running, or at least running with minimal footwear like the Nike Free or Vibram Five Fingers shoes. Personally I have no interest in running asphalt with bare feet. The merits of this will probably depend on how healthy your feet are to begin with.

hairnet

My knees cry when I think about running.

Missbumble 

I have been walking really fast ont he treadmill and then did a 5k jogging.. 41 minutes a few weeks ago... So I voted no cause really I am just dabbling in it. It is hard as all get out. The Itrain.com website has some great treadmill workouts - that may help you run. I am gonna get on the treadmill tomorrow..and maybe you have inspired me to try and jog for atleast 30 minutes. I will report back. I know it will s$ck.

Sue

StanSeven

+1. You understand running. Running is good only when the feeling involves no effort.

MikeM21

Yes, I love running!

I used to be pretty serious about running, completing two marathons, three half marathons and multiple 10Ks in 1995. I was shooting for qualifying for the 100th Boston and was in shape to do it before the injuries kicked in. Multiple knee surgeries, back surgery and painful sciatic problems led to the end of my marathoning career and started my descent into bad physical condition.

In my best running shape I was just a little over 200 lbs - too heavy for long distance running (a running Clyde is anyone over 180 lbs.)!

I'm trying now to train for my favorite race - a Thanksgiving Day 10K. I did it four years ago, and then promptly quit exercising and started the latest weight gain. This time, as last I'm doing almost all of my training on a treadmill. I highly recommend training on a treadmill for us Clydes. It's MUCH easier on the joints. My first marathon was in January of '95 so I had to do most of my training for that one on a treadmill so I avoided injuries for the most part.

I'm so happy to be back running. I'll never do the 65-70 mile weeks I used to do, but now I have two teenagers who are starting to do 5Ks, so I have to show them how it's done!

So, go ahead and run you cycling Clydes, but do it mostly indoors. Nothing gets you fit faster than running!

MM

racethenation

I started running a year ago (after I had lost about 50 pounds) I started pretty close to where you are. I had been walking a descent amount so I thought that I could run some. The first day, I walked 5 minutes and ran 1 minute, and then I walked the remainder of that mile, and I was done. After several weeks, I was to the point where I could walk 5 minutes and run 1 minute alternating for two miles. After a few more weeks, I could do that for 3 miles. After that, I started to trying to run more and walk less. After a year almost a year now, I can run 3 miles non stop. On Memorial Day I ran a very hilly 10k and only walked about 7 minutes total. I was aiming for only walking 5, but I actually had tonsillitis at the time, and that slowed me down. Very few times have a run more than twice a week in the last year, because if I do I still get shinsplints, although are not as bad anymore.

The feeling of sloshing around will get better over time. As you run more, you will be able to improve your form. Your upper body should be loose, but should not move around alot. That will help the bounces and jiggles. Work very hard on your breathing patterns. This is one area where running has helped my cycling speed. When you get out of breathe while riding you naturally tend to coast and let your body catch up. You can't do that as much when you run. You will have to learn how to control your respiration. As you are able to do this more and more running, you can transfer that to the bike. Breathe deeply and consistently and stop coasting and your bike speed will improve dramatically.

Do I like it? I honestly don't know. At first I hated it as much as you described, but I had to remind myself that my first few rides on the bike last year were horrible and miserable. I stuck with the bike, and it's wonderful most days now. I stuck with the running, and I don't hate it anymore. It will never be my favorite exercise, but I do enjoy the solitude when I run. My wife is a runner who also bikes, and I consider myself a cyclist who also runs.

TrekJapan

Yes. I'm a runner first and a biker second. Running is all about YOU. To some extent so is biking but you have a machine and sometimes gears.

Running is all about you. I've lost 100 lbs. total roughly over the last few years (factor in some yo-yo). Most of my weight loss was attributable to running. I started running at about 285 lbs or so when I was about 39 or 40.

Ran for an hour in some brutal Okinawa heat today and I have this mantra when I finish a run.

"Nothing I do today will be harder than this just was".

I love it. Until you've had the high you don't know what you're missing.

John

IbikezLA

Yes. My knees were never very good so I despised running for the first few months I was doing it (I was on a sports team so I had to run when Coach said so). Slowly slowly my knees adapted and my fitness skyrocketed so running became effortless. Only then was it enjoyable. I really can't describe what it was like running for a couple hours straight, on the beach bike path, at night, alone (the coach sent us out at different times). That runner's high was quite surreal, I just remember going and almost in slow-mo I would concentrate on the way the water moved and made noise in my bottle with every stride I took. I sound like such a junkie

Wogster

I voted no, but there is an exception, when I see the bus at the stop half way up the hill, and I run to catch it, sometimes.... Other times I simply walk home, it only takes about 10 minutes, or wait for the next one, which takes 15 minutes, depends on how rough the shift was at work....:

Fastflyingasian

i do enjoy running. i dabbled in running for 3 years until this year when i decided that i wanted to do a triathlon. i started on a treadmill and could barly make it more than a tenth of a mile before i would have to walk. most people end up suffering with shin splint of some sort. you really need to push through the pain. just like you would push through the pain of a large steep long hill. eventually that hill is no longer a hill and for me i no longer suffer from shin splints only because i really pushed myself. now 6 months later and i can run over 2 miles and typically run about 4 to 10 miles a week. biking comes first then running and weight lifting.


stick with it and it will come. i wear a compression shirt to help keep things where they should be. once you really start adding to your distance make sure you have some good properly fitting shoes. i went to a running specific store and the shoes they helped me choose (i pronate) made a huge difference. i dropped 42 seconds on my 1.5 mile and 30 seconds on my mile. dropped from 10:30 to 10:00 for my mile. what a huge accomplishment that is for me. it ranges somewhere near doing my first century

now if i could only do my first pull up ever

traitorhound

I would like to be able to run again but I'm scared I'll hurt myself until I lose some weight. Running is way more efficient to get into shape than biking. The only other thing I see being close is swimming but running is something that you don't' really need anything special to do.


A couple months back I was running 2-3x a week running 5 miles at a time (12 min mile pace) for a good hour workout. Then on April 18th I ran a 5k in 30min which was a pretty good baseline (slow to what I was in HS running 19's) but what happened there was I sprained my ankle within the 1st 500 yards and just ran through the pain.

In hindsight that was probably a very bad idea since its taken months to heal and sometimes if i step the wrong way my ankle hurts but I wanted to finish my first "official" 5k.

I would like to start running again but I figure I will want to lose about 20-30 lbs first (265 right now) and then hopefully a lighter frame will be easier on my joints.

hairnet

Try 30 second negative chin ups. They suck, they hurt, they seems to last an eternity, but they got me doing pull ups and all those lifts faster than other methods people have had me use in my training. Just a suggestion, I'm not saying it will work for everybody.

Neil_B

I'm such a wreck that running is out of the question. Hiking is pushing it for me.

cod.peace

When I was a kid I used to bike over to the start of the Boston marathon. It was always quite a scene!

Tex_Arcana

I ran when I was in the Army.....back in the '80s.

Probably why I have a left hip that tries to murder me when the weather is about to change.

vXhanz

I used to run when I was in Okinawa and Guam, but not so much anymore after leaving the service. I tried running/jogging a few weeks ago and my knees hurt really bad for several weeks. I figure once I get down about 40lbs I can think about running but as it stands now I can only dream about it.

V

float

I run. I do not like it.

cyclezealot

Used to . Even sort of enjoyed it.. Reason I got into cycling.. My right knee was not up to the pain of the impact of running.