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Never knew this thread existed, good to know.
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Did a long walk today.
The goal was walk a Marathon in 1 day.
Came up just short due to work in the evening.
Should knock over the 42.2 next timeā¦
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Can someone please explain to me why people run?
Forget about logic. āItās good for you!ā - it aināt about that (rarely is). They do it because they have motivation and or because they actually enjoy it.
Iāve tried it and absolutely hated every second of it. Do I feel a bit better when I finish? Well, yeah, for 60 seconds because Iām no longer running. Thereās no runners high or anything like that.
So if you like running, why?
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Why do people? Or why do individuals?
Iāll leave the species but to other.
To me, it is something I canāt imagine being without. Iāve always run. That freedom of just being able to run is something from childhood that never goes away. Sure I have had plenty of periods of not being able to run much, but I still live that feeling. Even when it hurts. Even when itās for no reason.
I will come back to this with a more detailed answer, but thereās nothing like running as fast as you can. That moment when youāre 12 again, and it feels like youāre flying.
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Long time ago I ran at a Club with good mates, and we would train together and run 10 miles most Sunday mornings at Flemington Racecourse. As @frosty said the freedom of running along without a care in the World, in charge of yourself is a great feeling. Even running competition and hitting the pain barrier gave a huge rush.
Had friends who swam, rode bikes or rowed, and that I could never get. Horses for courses maybe.
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I always hated running until one very hot afternoon about 40 years ago. My work was purely sedentary and I was doing no regular exercise and feeling very unfit, catching myself with bad breath, etc, and as jogging was the craze at the time I thought damn it, Iāll have ago. For some reason I decided to go very slowly, literally just jogging, so I didnāt get short of breath. It really was extremely hot, about 35 degrees, and I soon started sweating a lot, but I quite enjoyed it; Iāve always thought sweating like that is like having a bath from the inside out. I probably only ran about 3 or 4 km at about 6 minutes per km, but after about the first km I found myself in a rhythm that was easy, and the endorphins started flowing and by the time I got back home I was going considerably faster than at first and feeling supremely comfortable. I felt great, and after a shower and change of clothes and a big glass of water I felt even better. I kept up running until one of my knees wore out about 5 years ago and I had to stick to walking, but I loved it. I never really pushed myself because I was running for fitness, not to win a race, and for enjoyment. My longest was a half marathon but my standard run was 10 km, and I used to do the Run for the Kids every year which is about 15. I loved feeling the heart and lungs working.
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I reckon so. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
While I love long walks at a decent pace, I absolutely loathe running.
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A number of reasons:
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The social aspect - Iām in a great run club so get to spend time with some excellent people with a similar interest.
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Competition - I am a competitive person and find running good because it is just you (not a team sport so you arenāt relying on other people). I love challenging myself to get better.
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Relaxation - You wouldnāt think it but after you do it a while I find running becomes a lot like meditation (well what I expect meditation must be). You just get in the zone and switch off and it becomes great mental therapy. I am at the point now where if I miss runs it has a negative impact on me.
Of course the health benefits help. I can eat a lot more of the good stuff because I run so much.
Also acknowledging it can be brutally difficult to start running. I am a pretty full on runner (marathons, 4,000 plus kms a year). I had back surgery in late February this year and was out for three months. Reckon it took a good 8 weeks of running before I started to enjoy it and I am only just getting back to my usual fitness levels. I can see why so many people struggle.
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I reckon if you went to The Tan/Albert Park/Princess Park (or any other popular running spot) and surveyed a thousand people, the Number 1 & 2 answers would be Weight Maintenance and Cardiovascular Fitness.
No idea which would be No.1
No.3 would possibly be gaining a sense of achievement.
Typically, an individual would be training not only for the benefits acquired above, but to enter fun runs, a half marathon, full marathon etcā¦
The achievement may just beā¦doing something that is hard and NOT quitting, without ever entering a race.
Competing for No.3 IMO is the meditative, almost spiritual state that some experience from running long distances.
The wonderful simplicity of one foot in front of the other.
Iāll leave others to to verify this last one, as my memory is hazy given its been a quarter of a century since Iāve run at distance.
I do recall getting into some peaceful rhythms whilst running endless laps of a running track though.
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From my earlier experience running around the tan, reason 4 would be to enjoy the shapely young ladies also partaking in one of lifeās joys! Especially in summer.
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I am not sure about any of those I. Terms of the order, but agree all are likely components. Iād suggest āmeditativeā is likely behind āsocialā though, as I think the clubs, groups, running mates, park runs, etc are a significant part of a number of peopleās enjoyment of running, rather than solo, one out, only you, your legs and nature side of things. For me running on my own room years to ālearnā. I always ran in groups, from a massive swirling flock engulfing traffic through an intersection, and then disappearing into the night, chatting about all of the things that mattered in the world, and plenty that didnāt matter as well. Right through to groups of 2 or 3 just rolling along a lot slower than we used to, talking about how much better we used to be. This week it was a group of 8-10, old people and their teenaged children, running 200 reps, the old guys still thinking they can take the young guys at any moment, until they realised they couldnāt. Itās all the social side, the connections, the people you meet, and share the pain with that makes it easy to continue. Even when all the other parts are still a part of it.
New Year off to a running start.
5km warm up, 4x4 minute all out efforts, 2.5km cool down.
Goals for the year are
- under 20min for a 5km run
- do an official half marathon
- under an hour for a 40km bike ride
- swim 4km in the pool
- go under 40min at the local super-sprint distance triathlon
- do an official Olympic distance triathlon
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Have any of you been diagnosed as gluten intolerant later in life? I have recently turned 50 and was told yesterday that I am. My diet hasnāt really altered in 30 years (with no issues) so this is definitely something new.
I have had undiagnosed health issues for nearly 18 months which made me feel progressively worse over this time to the point where I would come home from work and within an hour I would go to bed because being awake felt terrible.. Finally my haematologist narrowed it down.
I now need to make lifestyle changes and see what happens over the next 3-6 months without gluten. Hopefully this is actually the final answer. It would be nice to feel normal again.
Have any of you been through something similar? How did you recover? Any tips?
Friend of mine completed the MVP Backyard Ultra Marathon over the weekend.
6.7km lap around a trail in Maribyrnong (ish) and you keep going on the hour until you miss the cut off.
He managed a mind boggling 24 laps and covered over 160km.
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Backyard Ultras are insane. I assume the winners will be going until Friday!
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Through shear volume (still want to go get some coaching) I just clocked 2750m in an hour in open water (though should emphasise the conditions were nearly pool-like apart from the jellyfish 
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Going into to get a knee replacement next week .
After many years of riding exercise through the pain itās time .
Had all the scans surgeon was like mmm
A bomb has gone off in your knee
You donāt have an ACL ā¦news to me I said to him
Numerous other issues
So thatās itās for me for 8 to 12 weeks no cycling golf just rehab
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Oh no! Good luck!!