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RyanG
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Team no pants.
Long sleeves are another battle, which always leads to chaffing. Anyone have a brand they dig?
And use I bathe in body glide (the more you know!)
Are your gloves windproof? My hands actually run really hot, but windproof gloves can make a huge difference if you run cold. Look into cross-country ski gloves.
theLostWizard
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. Jealous of 
Mr Gundam
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Wasn’t cold enough to stick to the road, but I was up near Bottleworks running home and my purple running shirt was almost totally covered white with snow.
Heading to Omaha on Tuesday where it’s gonna be below zero. I won’t be running.
RyanG
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Those are lovely conditions especially by the ocean.
Today.
A lot more Carbon X 2 sizes available now that the other colors were added to the $79.99 clearance price. https://www.sierra.com/s~carbon-x/
I am going to hit the indoor bike trainer on Thursday. I don’t feel like running in the negatives. Just no motivation to run in that weather right now.
Weather, schedule, and the flu have really made it tough for me over the past 6 weeks. I can see my Apple-estimated VO2 max drop continue every time I log a run. With the lack of miles recently, I've been trying to focus on some simple strength training and stretching. I still can't seem to shake this tendency towards a sore left hamstring after most runs. Pretty sure it's a result of anterior pelvic tilt resulting from not engaging my glutes/understrengthened glutes, so I've been trying to focus on glute exercises. It's been really frustrating to feel like I can't just "go out and run," but I'm hoping that in the long run I can get this sorted before spring. I've also been eating less and drinking very little at all to try to compensate for running less. Sitting around 30 lbs down on the year and at as low a weight as I've had since early 20s.
I don't blame you. Thursday looks to be pretty miserable. At least it's only one day.
Nice. All that matters is that you are out thereGetting back into running/ cardiovascular shape. Going for time at the moment and starting small
I need to get back to running. I severely underestimated how much time and energy a new puppy would take
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A woman was attacked the other day in the park where I usually run. It's a five minute walk from my house. She was there alone after dark, which I wouldn't even do as a man. That's also part of the reason my running frequency slows down in winter. I'm not about to go running over there after dark.
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Attempted kidnapping suspect arrested after woman attacked in Salem park
A man has been arrested after a woman was attacked in a south Salem Park Monday night, according to Salem Police Department.
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I've been ramping back up with the improving weather the past couple weeks. I have been doing some glute engagement exercises prior to running and on off days, and while running, I have been totally fixated on using my glutes to try to hold a neutral pelvis. I've had really amazing results from this. No hamstring pain since I've started, so I think the anterior pelvic tilt leading to elongated and overworked hamstrings is my issue. My glutes have been pretty tired after runs, so clearly I need to catch up on strengthening there and have had to throttle down miles a bit, but I am just happy to be able to go out and run without pain.
capnmike
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What about running, though?
Kidding! I just wonder if you could explain what you mean in more plain language (like, I used to feel this, I noticed that, now I try this). For example, when I first started out here, this was super helpful.
Wow, alot of activity here - nice!
On form; I've heard something about imagining your nipples being lasers and your aim is to cut of peoples heads. Not sure it had anything to do with running...but surely makes life a bit more fun!*pew pew*
lol - well, my effort at that sort of thing to my wife was met with a heavy eye roll, but here goes:
It's kind of a three part part thing to get/keep the form I've been trying to use. (1) To get my initial posture, I'm holding both hands flat, right thumb touching around my diaphragm area, left thumb touching below my bellybutton (top of pelvis sort of area) and trying to remain more "upright" so that both hands are being kept level (vs. the forward slouch that would bring my top (right) hand down closer to my bottom (left) hand. (2) Once running, I'm imagining a wind blowing at my tailbone (I've coined the "tailbone wind" in my head as I think about this) that is sort of pushing my level pelvis forward, but I am trying to move the rest of my body to "keep up" with that wind and imagining that I still have my hands positioned as (1) and am seeking to keep them level without tilt in either direction. (3) I'm clenching my ass cheeks like I'm trying to hold something in my asshole (but have, thus far, avoided actually loading anything in the chamber) in furtherance of holding the pelvis in as neutral/non-tilted a place as possible (again referring back to the imaginary hand positions I check at the start of the run). I'm also trying to imagine these engaged glutes giving me more power and help me "pull" more in my stride than "thud."
This is all to address what had been consistent hamstring pain (feeling of "tightness" or mild strain without actually needing to "stretch" the hamstring (and stretching not providing relief at all)). The idea is that if the pelvis tilts forward (anterior pelvic tilt), you can imagine how that would stretch the hamstrings (think of them like guy wires on a telephone pole). That overextension puts undue strain on them to do some of the work that the glutes/hips should be doing (bringing leg forward).
One thing that was very helpful for me in seeing how the glutes are impacted here was to try this:
Hold good posture with neutral pelvic position, squeeze glutes.
Tilt pelvis forward as if you are slouching at a computer then try to squeeze glutes. I saw immediately how difficult it is to "recruit" my glutes when in this tilted position.
So, by trying to observe these things while running, I am able to notice when I start to slip a bit (usually when distracted or towards the end of a longer run) because it becomes harder to clench the glutes.
Lastly, I try to use some mediation concepts to keep the focus on this stuff. In mindfulness meditation you often hear talk about focusing your awareness on a specific thing (ex., the breath) and then trying to "zoom out" and "wrap your awareness" around other sensations, all of which are, at bottom, the "same" inputs. So, I will do things like focus on any one of the steps above I mentioned and then try to incorporate another and then another and get to a place where the otherwise "separate" reference points are "becoming one" thing that I'm simultaenously aware of. If things go really well, I then try to keep wrapping my awareness around more and more inputs (sound of feet on ground, feeling of feet on ground, smell in air, feeling of breeze on face, etc, etc.).
Sorry you asked?
It's kind of a three part part thing to get/keep the form I've been trying to use. (1) To get my initial posture, I'm holding both hands flat, right thumb touching around my diaphragm area, left thumb touching below my bellybutton (top of pelvis sort of area) and trying to remain more "upright" so that both hands are being kept level (vs. the forward slouch that would bring my top (right) hand down closer to my bottom (left) hand. (2) Once running, I'm imagining a wind blowing at my tailbone (I've coined the "tailbone wind" in my head as I think about this) that is sort of pushing my level pelvis forward, but I am trying to move the rest of my body to "keep up" with that wind and imagining that I still have my hands positioned as (1) and am seeking to keep them level without tilt in either direction. (3) I'm clenching my ass cheeks like I'm trying to hold something in my asshole (but have, thus far, avoided actually loading anything in the chamber) in furtherance of holding the pelvis in as neutral/non-tilted a place as possible (again referring back to the imaginary hand positions I check at the start of the run). I'm also trying to imagine these engaged glutes giving me more power and help me "pull" more in my stride than "thud."
This is all to address what had been consistent hamstring pain (feeling of "tightness" or mild strain without actually needing to "stretch" the hamstring (and stretching not providing relief at all)). The idea is that if the pelvis tilts forward (anterior pelvic tilt), you can imagine how that would stretch the hamstrings (think of them like guy wires on a telephone pole). That overextension puts undue strain on them to do some of the work that the glutes/hips should be doing (bringing leg forward).
One thing that was very helpful for me in seeing how the glutes are impacted here was to try this:
Hold good posture with neutral pelvic position, squeeze glutes.
Tilt pelvis forward as if you are slouching at a computer then try to squeeze glutes. I saw immediately how difficult it is to "recruit" my glutes when in this tilted position.
So, by trying to observe these things while running, I am able to notice when I start to slip a bit (usually when distracted or towards the end of a longer run) because it becomes harder to clench the glutes.
Lastly, I try to use some mediation concepts to keep the focus on this stuff. In mindfulness meditation you often hear talk about focusing your awareness on a specific thing (ex., the breath) and then trying to "zoom out" and "wrap your awareness" around other sensations, all of which are, at bottom, the "same" inputs. So, I will do things like focus on any one of the steps above I mentioned and then try to incorporate another and then another and get to a place where the otherwise "separate" reference points are "becoming one" thing that I'm simultaenously aware of. If things go really well, I then try to keep wrapping my awareness around more and more inputs (sound of feet on ground, feeling of feet on ground, smell in air, feeling of breeze on face, etc, etc.).
Sorry you asked?