I say just run till you need to walk, then start up again when you get your wind back. The run segments will quickly get longer, walk segments shorter.

Where do you run? If the answer is treadmill then there is no way to make it enjoyable.
I dont run with music but I will usually have a song stuck in my head and then start making up different lyrics for it.

I have been running regularly since February, and yesterday I reached the 10 mile milestone for the first time. Before February, the farthest I had ever run was 4 miles like one time. Feeling pretty proud of myself, albeit sore.

Great job man. That 10 mile mark really is a mental milestone.

6 miles last night pushing the stroller/dog and then a nice hard 15 miles today. I'm at 43 for the week and I plan on doing another 10 tomorrow.

I always felt like a beast when I do 50-60 mile weeks, then you realize there are guys doing 200 miles a week.

lol, I know. I've been listening to ultrarunnerpodcasts on my mp3 player during runs lately, and to hear guys like Geoff Roes say they did an easy 120 mile week with 10,000feet of vertical just makes me shake my head. I've had one 200 mile month in my running career.

It does feel good to put in some heavy mileage and have the body cooperate...even feel great afterwards.

My goal is to really make this upcoming marathon feel easy.

I'm not going to read the whole thread - I'm sorry noob here

When you are running, do you always listen to music? Where does your mind go?

I was just thinking about this, as I have been progressing to longer runs. I have been trying my best to focus on feeling good and enjoying the run, my legs, bla bla. But a lot of the time I'm kind of thinking about random stupid things, like my nose is getting snotty or my baby toe is feeling smooshed.

Any thoughts on what I should be focusing on?

Time to knock out some hills in the new kicks today!

I don't run, but I do cardio.

Just picked these up so I thought I'd share.

RG3 kicks nigga!

Congrats man...I know exactly how you feel. I was just talking to a friend tonight about how much I love this point in my running where a 10 miler feels like a 5 miler did a year ago. I can go out and do 3 days of 10 or 11 mile runs and never feel tired. Fitness is an awesome thing.

Let me know how you like them, because my toes were killing on my little bullshit 6.5 mile jam today.

That's a great time period, let alone for it being this late in the year! And that's a fun looking route. Congrats!

Consider turning on automatic mile splits on your watch - the instantaneous pace is too noisy to be useful but the mile splits are nice for seeing where you might have sagged.

Edit: and while I'm giving out unsolicited Garmin advice, I always paste my line from the race results into the comments field, it helps me because I can go back and see what my official time was, especially helpful if I forgot to hit Stop.

What do you guys do in this heat?!

OMG! I can only do early am runs on Sundays, so it's generally evening when I can get one in....but even then, the temperature has been between 90 and 100 degrees. By the time it's decently cooled down it's around midnight (and I've long gone to sleep)

Do you actually run in the stiffy heat? Is there something I can do to make it easier/less deathly? Or is it just a case of sucking it up and getting used to it?

As a crossfitter you should be familiar with HTFU! The heat isn't going to hurt you as long as you're smart. Wear sunscreen, visor, sunglasses, and hydrate accordingly.


Me, I'm begging for some epically hot days over the next two months. I'll be doing my next Ironman in fucking Louisville....historically near 100 on race day with an equal level of humidity. I plan on having ice down my shorts the entire run.

When is your race? Come up to Cincinnati afterwards and we'll have some beers.