The Running Thread - 2018

[baxter24]

ATTQOTD: No music for me. I listen to podcasts during runs and all races except for a Disney. Disney races have been the only times that I have enjoyed running without listening to anything.

 

[derekleigh]

Need to formally add these races in:

October
28 - derekleigh - White Mountain Milers Half (sub-2:00/ n/a)

November
11 - derekleigh - Myles Standish 16.2 Relay (NG/ n/a)

December
1 - derekleigh - Santa Shuffle (23:00/ n/a)

 

[apdebord]

ATTQOTD: I have a run playlist with about 6 hours of music, but I just hit shuffle. Recently though I've been listening to a podcast. It's 2 guys dissecting all the shows on Bravo, so ya know, super intellectual stuff.

 

[Mickey Momma]

ATTQOTD: I listen to podcasts, if anything, for training runs and I have a race playlist that I add to throughout the year, but I haven’t found myself using it for my last few races. (Disney races, especially, tend to have plenty going on to keep me distracted.) When I do listen, I just hit shuffle.

 

[FFigawi]

QOTD: For those of you who run a race with music, do you arrange the songs in your playlist so they will play at a certain time during the race?

No music for me. And congrats on your team's big win on Saturday! Now all they need to do is win out.

 

[roxymama]

ATTQOTD: Listening to music is one of my favorite parts about running!! I've ran races without it (usually the really cold weather runs where my phone freezes) and been fine. But I enjoy running to music. For big city races, I download spotify playlists offline so I can run in airplane mode and save my battery/not worry about cell signal. Some races I listen with volume really low so I can hear the crowd or my running mates. The Chicago marathon I listened to a hip-hop & 90's era heavy marathon playlist of 315 songs on shuffle.
Fun fact: for easy training runs I listen to atmospheric mellow music (and oftentimes disney park music.) For speed/tempo workouts it's always bmp appropriate. For some long runs I'll legit listen to the Hamilton soundtrack...I can tell you how many miles will get you how far in the story.

 

[AFwifelife]

ATTQOTD: no music on race day but I do keep my headphones with me just in case I do need some music to push through. For training, I listen to Pandora. Mostly alternative rock/stuff from high school. I know some would advise against making your mind wander during runs but it helps me going down memory lane.

 

[TheHamm]

I run in Brooks Ghost shoes, and tend to buy them in batches when they are closing out an older model and releasing a new one. I've noticed that there are subtle differences between pairs, even though they are all the same model (but all different colors). So I think it is entirely possible that the shoe is just slightly different.

That said, I've had problems where it wasn't my feet that changed, but my gait. This is especially true if I let hip/gluteus-medius muscles get imbalanced, which causes me to land a little differently on each foot. This is usually followed by ITB Syndrome if I don't correct it quickly. Do you notice any difference in the wear pattern on the tread of the shoe compared to your last pair?

Thank you for the feedback. Both of these options seem logical but did not occur to me. The wear pattern on my shoes seems similar enough, but I can imagine a scenario where a small difference in gait + a manufacturing tolerance variation would lead to a difference.

 

[tigger536]

The Race half marathon report. My time was 1:58:08, 119 out of 702 overall and 5th/ 101 in my AG! My 45th half and a PR by over 1.5 minutes!

This was an inaugural race put on by my friend who runs the weekly run club I go to (West Midtown Run Club). She is an RD of many awesome races but this was the first time she has put on a half. The Race also runs through Atlanta's historic West End/ East Point neighborhoods, an area of town that has never had a half marathon (most of our halfs start and end in midtown). She knocked it out of the park! Great course, fantastic course support, Monday Night brewing beers at the finish (at least in the VIP area), great food (ahi tuna bowls, empanadas, cauliflower tacos). The course was very hilly (its Atlanta after all) but the uphills had some nice downhills to follow.

I have two marathons coming up (Detroit and MCM) in the next two weeks, so at first I was not going to run this one for time. But my PR race was cancelled last weekend (Buffalo women's half, I was there for a friends wedding - she was to do the 5k but that was also cancelled). Then the weather for Atlanta this weekend was AMAZING (mid 50s at the start). I put myself in between the 2 and 2:15 pacers (who I also know from my run club) and was going to see what happened. I got ahead of the two hour people in the first mile (in spite of the giant hill at the start). Then mile 2 brought a steady uphill and they overtook me. More rolling hills and by mile 3 I found myself ahead of them again. They never passed me again. I felt great, and seeing friends on the course (both ahead and behind me) during an out and back mid race boosted my spirits. That mile, 6, is usually my worst (the halfway point always sucks for me because there seems like so much left) but on this day it was my fastest mile due in part to this boost. When I got to mile 12 and realized I could average over a 10mm and still PR, I was elated. That math gave me the last boost and I gave it all I had to finish, even with the mile 12 hill that never seemed to end (Atlanta halfs love big hills in the last mile, its like the law or something.

I can't wait to do this race again next year.

ATTQOTD: I have a bigger training playlist and a shorter one for races. Both I use on shuffle, although I have a "lucky" song I like to start to - Tom Petty's American Girl. Soething about that beat at the start of a race.

 

[cavepig]

No actual music for me for races or training. I do get songs stuck in my head on repeat though. Like "Baby Shark" because my clients played it.

 

[Kazrak]

QOTD: For those of you who run a race with music, do you arrange the songs in your playlist so they will play at a certain time during the race?

I don't currently run with music, but when I was doing a lot of treadmill running, I listened to music a lot. I did at one point have a carefully-planned playlist for a half-hour run, with particularly-peppy songs toward the end. "Cup of Life" by Ricky Martin and "Rebel Yell" by Billy Idol were probably the top two there. "Rebel Yell", in particular, was exactly in time with my running cadence with the treadmill set for 5 mph.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

ATTQOTD: I listen to music on all of my non-Disney races. I have set playlists for paces and switch based on the pace that I am trying to achieve in a given race. Never tried to set up a playlist based on anything else.

 

[huskies90]

QOTD: For those of you who run a race with music, do you arrange the songs in your playlist so they will play at a certain time during the race?

ATTQOTD: I always run with music - training run or race. I do not listen to anything different for races but I do turn down the volume a bit so I can hear and be aware of surroundings. I either stream an apple music radio station or stream a 50+ hour playlist on shuffle that I created specifically for running. This was the main reason I got the Apple watch - to stream music without having to bring my phone.

 

[FFigawi]

Fun fact: for easy training runs I listen to atmospheric mellow music (and oftentimes disney park music.) For speed/tempo workouts it's always bmp appropriate. For some long runs I'll legit listen to the Hamilton soundtrack...I can tell you how many miles will get you how far in the story.

Let's say one was to run 48.6. How far would you be?

 

[PCFriar80]

ATTQOTD:
No music for me, but if I did have a playlist for a race it would include songs like:
"Long May You Run"
"The Long and Winding Road"
"Don't Stop Me Now"
"King of Pain"
"So Far Away"
"Fool If You Think It's Over"
"S.O.S" and
"Run, Run, Away"

 

[run.minnie.miles]

ATTQOTD: I don't usually run with music and definitely don't arrange songs. If I listen to anything during a race it's a podcast to keep my mind off the pain or Hamilton.

 

[Kazrak]

ATTQOTD:
No music for me, but if I did have a playlist for a race it would include songs like:
"Run, Run, Away"

I think I had this one, actually - the Great Big Sea version, along with "When I'm Up" and maybe "When I Am King".

The other one I remember was Queen, "Headlong", as the starter.

 

[Sanchez]

Music - never in a race and never while training on open roads. I find it to be a safety/courtesy issue. When training on the track or treadmill I always listen to music or a podcast.

 

[Bree]

ATTQOTD: Yes to music. I tried no music during my race last weekend and didn’t like it.

Autocorrect just changed music to McChicken sic

 

[Slogger]

Congrats @tigger536 on the great half and PR!!! Well done. Sounds like your friend puts on a great event.

Nice taste in music too.

Good luck with your marathons coming up.