Posted: 6/5/2003 11:29:58 AM EDT
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Are there any runners here? Hardcore? I've run a couple of marathons, PR'ed at 3:24 so far. Multiple halfs, PR at 1:35... all the way down to 5Ks. Anyone? |
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I ran the Dallas White Rock when I was 15 and again at 16 (right around 4 hours). Have run the Half several times. All my toenails came off during the first marathon. And my tits were bleeding. I vasolined up for the second. When I was 18 I was folded up in a car wreck and lost my knees. Had surgery on one and got a Deep Vein Thrombosis...Fancy for blood clot. Spent a year and a half on blood thinners. Never had the other operated on. I was 6 foot tall and 135 to 140lbs soaking wet. Now I am the same height and weigh 215. Still got bum knees, the one I had surgery on did not help. People Do not belive me when I tell them I used to run 70 miles a week, until I pull out the old scrap book. I have tried to get back into it several times, but my knees won't let me do it. Another Surgery is NOT an option. |
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chaos4570 - sorry to hear about your knees... that stinks. I am just coming off of my first injury. It kept me from running Boston this year. Thunderbolt - I only run a few races a year. Most of my time is spent 'training'. My first couple of years running, I was a 'race whore'. I still have so many race shirts, I had to give them away. |
| Used to be hard-core. Now I'm just old. Doubt I'll ever come close to my marathon PR (3:16) again--can't even run that pace for 10K right now. But I still consider myself a runner even though I'm lazy, unwilling to run nine times a week any more and have the extra 15 pounds to show for it. [:D] |
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Have been running for 25 of my (almost) 40 years. Distance has gone up, and so has the pace !! I used to run 5, 8, occasional 10K's, plus 2 mile for Army PT test. For the last couple of years I've been doing longer distances. 1 marathon (Chicago) and 4 half-marathons so far. I've done 2 half-marathons this Spring. Not fast though, just under 2 hours. You guys are some speedsters... Thunderbolt - 35-45 miles a week is a lot !! |
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Quoted: Started running last fall. Was LOUSY! Getting better. I run about 8-10 miles a week, running 3-4x per week. It does get easier as you stick to it. Running is tremendous strain on your legs. I started running to lose weight. Now I run because I really love it. |
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Quoted: I started running to lose weight. Now I run because I really love it. And one of running's overlooked benefits is that, generally, the better shape you get into, the lower your resting pulse becomes. For those who shoot--especially competitively--not having the front sight dancing away while you try to time squeezing off a round between "beats" is much more easily accomplished when there's more time between "beats." [:)] |