jogging and motivation thread

[LWZ]

My condo gym treadmill gets wonky at higher speeds, will start to record higher distance than it should.

 

[WussRedXLi]

Nearly broke course record (7 seconds off)

Anyway, Two Running Brooms are not young youtubers.......Dawn is a female 60.
Even older than me or Ender

Anyway, hands itchy....went to running level and see see look look.

For F60, her current 5k PB is right about at F40 elite level (it's just a very rough/general classification...dont over read it).

If convert to M60, she should be around 18 mins mark?
(and anyway she runs 3:30 FM so she is definitely talented and has excellent range)

Anyway she got 20:56 at Chester 5k

 

[winningeleven]

Anyone have good blister resist socks recommendation other than balega? A bit ex for me. My current saucony good for training but longer runs I blister sometimes.

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I highly recommended this foot glide. I never have any blisters after applying this and my toes and heel . It used to be available at Watson for $16 and now I ordered thru Amazon sg.

 

[Skyrillex]

Like what Ender said, the metrics of other runners is different. 5 minute runner will usually have better cadence (turn-over) and stride length than 6 minute runner.

The more you run, the better you get. But if you focus on long distance, then consistency is more important than fast pace. If you focus on shorter distance like 2.4km, then running fast is important.

If base on my treadmill speed then it's 45 mins at 6Km per hour so I had ran about 4.5Km.



I asked a few people and they told me no need to calibrate cause the treadmill is not accurate so base on your watch.

Did you run with any incline % during treadmill runs? I realized that the treadmill at my usual gym has lower distance (~9.3km) when I ran 10km distance at my clock with ~1% incline, but the distance is near 10km when I set incline to ~3%. Might be related to stride length but I'm no expert on this, or the treadmill I'm running has uncalibrated belt lol.

 

[WussRedXLi]

Nobody ran this yesterday/today ah.

I got stuck in the horde when heading back. Super many walkers.

 

[Jeremy1]

Did you run with any incline % during treadmill runs? I realized that the treadmill at my usual gym has lower distance (~9.3km) when I ran 10km distance at my clock with ~1% incline, but the distance is near 10km when I set incline to ~3%. Might be related to stride length but I'm no expert on this.

I usually will set my incline at 1% but then if you base on the treadmill, the reading will be base on the speed you set on it irregardless of how fast or slow you run.

The inclination will only burned more calories if you set higher but distance wise will still be base on the pace you set on the treadmill.

And treadmill is not calibrated so that's why people asked me to base on my watch.

 

[Ender]

If base on my treadmill speed then it's 45 mins at 6Km per hour so I had ran about 4.5Km.



I asked a few people and they told me no need to calibrate cause the treadmill is not accurate so base on your watch.

If base on watch in a indoor gym, it uses a assumed stride length to calculate distance, which itself is very inaccurate if there isn't a calibrated foot pod.

 

[WussRedXLi]

Tried some new stuff, tricep extensions, wow these are hard! Could only do 2.
Then did full 1 and followed up with knees support type (drop set)

Been only doing 60-70cm height decline diamond push ups partial reps + full ROM.

See if got improvements. Need new stimulus.

BTW these would benefit cycling, but running also probably got a bit of benefit.

 

[Jeremy1]

If base on watch in a indoor gym, it uses a assumed stride length to calculate distance, which itself is very inaccurate if there isn't a calibrated foot pod.

Unless I can manually set my stride length base on my outdoor running

 

[sph777]

Nobody ran this yesterday/today ah.

I got stuck in the horde when heading back. Super many walkers.

Yeah so many of them

 

[sph777]

Got try applying very thick layer of vaseline on the blister spots? Sometimes feet can get 'seasoned' into problematic shoes by growing callous on the affected area.

I use Aonijie Coolmax E4802 or and ankle low cut E4801. 99 RMB for 3 pairs before shipping. Been using them for many years. The only time I had blister which was from a problematic shoes, a Reebok one.
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The exact colors for the E4802 and E4801.

That time you recommended and I bought but don’t really like the toe socks. Feels very weird. Maybe just need to get used to it

 

[sph777]

@Jeremy1

he also did a marathon one

 

[Jeremy1]

@Jeremy1

he also did a marathon one

I heard there's a 9 min pacer

 

[dreamaurora]

Finished my FM at 8 AM SG time this morning. Quick review of the marathon.

Course: 7/10. Reasonably flat with a few up and down on their expressway similar to SCSM. Road not always in best condition so had to be alert. Majority of the race took place in narrower streets with older looking buildings. Some pretty sights but overall pretty much urban running. At least no boring long ECP run like SCSM. Towards the end the morning Hanoi commute had started so it was not always possible to keep running because need to alternate between letting the runners pass and the traffic.

Atmosphere: 7/10. Pretty basic race, most of the cheerers were stationed towards the last few kms of the marathon. The rest of the race could see the daily lives of Hanoi residents like the elderlies exercising in the park. The experience of running while navigating morning Hanoi commute was certainly something. The motorists did not give a hoot to the runners and traffic police so needed to be quite daring towards the later part of the race in downtown Hanoi.

Water Stations: 9/10. Well organised with decent spacing. Each station always have sufficient ice cold plain water, isotonic drink, and either banana or watermelon. Some also had cold water to douse though I did not see the need for it. No complain.

Vietbu: 8/10. Hanoi’s runner girls were definitely prettier than the ones in HCM. Figures also very good. Out of all marathons I had run so far the one with the most chio bus is still SCSM.

Medal and Finisher tee: 6/10. Medal looked nicer than the pic in social media. Finisher tee was disappointing, design was very basic. The event tee was nicer looking.

 

[dreamaurora]

I crammed up my left leg 40 km into the race but thankfully still managed to be able to jog very slowly to the finish line. Finished 5:01. Treated myself to a fine dining Viet restaurant for post race meal.

I chatted with this 58 yo Jap grandma at the pen. She ran faster than me

 

[Ender]

Finished my FM at 8 AM SG time this morning. Quick review of the marathon.

Course: 7/10. Reasonably flat with a few up and down on their expressway similar to SCSM. Road not always in best condition so had to be alert. Majority of the race took place in narrower streets with older looking buildings. Some pretty sights but overall pretty much urban running. At least no boring long ECP run like SCSM. Towards the end the morning Hanoi commute had started so it was not always possible to keep running because need to alternate between letting the runners pass and the traffic.

Atmosphere: 7/10. Pretty basic race, most of the cheerers were stationed towards the last few kms of the marathon. The rest of the race could see the daily lives of Hanoi residents like the elderlies exercising in the park. The experience of running while navigating morning Hanoi commute was certainly something. The motorists did not give a hoot to the runners and traffic police so needed to be quite daring towards the later part of the race in downtown Hanoi.

Water Stations: 9/10. Well organised with decent spacing. Each station always have sufficient ice cold plain water, isotonic drink, and either banana or watermelon. Some also had cold water to douse though I did not see the need for it. No complain.

Vietbu: 8/10. Hanoi’s runner girls were definitely prettier than the ones in HCM. Figures also very good. Out of all marathons I had run so far the one with the most chio bus is still SCSM.

Medal and Finisher tee: 6/10. Medal looked nicer than the pic in social media. Finisher tee was disappointing, design was very basic. The event tee was nicer looking.

Looks like a good race. Can consider for future overseas race.

 

[dreamaurora]

Looks like a good race. Can consider for future overseas race.

Yup, nice run. Weather was good too, cooling all the way.

 

[WussRedXLi]

 

[WussRedXLi]

@Jeremy1

he also did a marathon one

Why they Sheares bridge climb they used T100 bike leg footage.

 

[WussRedXLi]

That time you recommended and I bought but don’t really like the toe socks. Feels very weird. Maybe just need to get used to it

Actually can try the Taobao aero cycling socks. I run in them for the brick sessions....... however i only tried them for 10k total in 2 legs, definitely no HM and much less FM.


For cycling i use flat cycling shoes and i am not sure how that vs running, but then i have been in them for 6-7hrs straight no issue. And my cycling shoes ultra low end TB type.

They are just a bit semi compressive. Not sure if you cut them liao how it holds up, or maybe cut and ask you wife/mother to sew.

The top part (aero trip strips) is confirm the typical 12-20 elastine and 80-88% polyester material, very fine microfibre type. The below not too sure but confirm it dries damn fast, much faster than other socks.
edit - compare with my decathlon running socks that i used to use, dries faster than that.

Thickness i feel is ok, not too thick and not too thin.

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