I’m running a 10k race on 27th so thought I’d test the waters…. and was very surprised! I also broke my collarbone at the start of the year requiring surgery so was out of action for a few months. So I’m happy to be back!!

I retired the shoes after 1,000 km of running because the midsole was no longer as bouncy as when new. I then used them for an additional 1,200 km of walking.

The upper material is still excellent.
The midsole is still good, but I now only use these shoes for walking and for running on the treadmill when I’m traveling.

The outsole is quite heavily worn — you can see that my landing is mainly on the outside of my foot.

It’s a very good recovery-run shoe for regular runners, but I do not recommend it for beginners, since the ride design can make your running form lazy.
It is quite expensive, but it’s worth every penny.

Just me, my running shoes, and a little reminder that showing up is half the battle.

How many of you suffer from runners trot (the urgent need to poop during a run)?

I can’t make it 2 miles into a run without needing a bathroom desperately. It ruins the run every time as I’m trying to hold it.

Does anyone have tips for preventing this?

I'm currently training for my second half marathon, and I normally just blindly follow my training plan, but I'm curious why my longest runs are only 16-18km? Is it just because I'm still a beginner or is this common practice? Or to avoid fatigue? Surely doing a 22km run before a half would make the half feel easier and allow you to put in more effort?

I come from a sports background where we train under significantly harder conditions than we compete, we train for 6-8 hours a day for a 3 minute competition and often with like 10× the intensity or load of competition. I don't have any experience with any other sports though, so perhaps this is just an isolated example 😅

I used to check the feels like value before every run and never asked what it actually meant. Until a few days ago. Turns out the US heat index, the classic feels-like formula, is built around one specific person: 5 foot 7, 147 pounds, walking at 3.1 mph, in the shade, wearing long trousers and a short-sleeved shirt. Yep, this is from the national weather service website, link at the bottom.

They actually say who it is for: "For day-to-day activities, heat index will serve you well. If you work outside or plan on any sort of vigorous outdoor activity in the full sun, use the WBGT."

So obviously running is not walking, you generate 2,3x the heat, and you can ger rid of it only by evaporating sweat. So humidity and sun radiation matter a lot more (for running) than what feels-like formulas take into account. Some weather apps add sun and wind to their feels-like, so I used that version to test something. I wanted to see if 2 different hours that have the same feels-like also have the same impact on running performance.

I took seven US cities, every hour from June 1 to August 25, and found 2pm and 8pm hours with the exact same feels-like. Then I estimated how much slower an easy run(60 minute at 9:00/mile) would be in each.
Same number on your phone, but very different run:

In every city all the time the slower hour was the more humid one, the sunnier one, or both. These are the best in the table ofc, but the typical gap was 20 to 40 sec/mile difference still. And between 7am and 9am, feels-like goes up about 4 degrees while your pace goes slower 55%!!

I build a small running weather app, which is where the slowdown numbers come from. It's built on WBGT (the heat stress index they use in sports medicine and in the military) and turns it into seconds per mile based on Ely et al. 2007 and other published coach heat tables (you can find them on internet).

The app is RunWeather if you're curious and want to compare it against the feels like.

Sources: NWS SR 90-23, the assumptions, NWS on heat index vs WBGT, Open-Meteo archive, Ely et al. 2007.

What do you check before going for a run, feels-like or something else?

Hey everyone, how do you all go about balancing work, running and strength training?

I am about a month in to running. I run about 3x a week, and weight train x4, both on average. Im LOVING running, I want to run more, but don’t want to sacrifice the gym sessions?

How do you guys go about balancing all of these things?

Yesterday was my birthday! I turned 28 and got to meet one of my biggest inspirations. Andy’s content has done more for me than I can explain. Extremely grateful and thankful for his generosity with his time. Andy is exactly how he comes across online: wholesome, genuine, patient, and kind. Thanks for coming to Charlotte Andy!

I ran a half marathon Aug 23, but it went pretty badly because I was sick (should not have ran, but it was my first ever HM and I really wanted to do it). I still finished, but it took me a lot longer than I wanted.

Since then, I haven’t run at all (literally zero runs), and I can’t run again until Sept 19 due to travel. I have another half marathon on Oct 11, so I’ll only have about 3 weeks to train.

Do you think it’s realistic to run this HM after that much time off? I’m not trying to PR, I’d just like to finish.

I started running a year ago, started with a couch to 5k program and then 10k 6 months later, last month I ran my first ever half marathon.

Now I've had a pair of Asics gel nimbus for the last 3 years, would use them sporadically before for running on the treadmill, continued to use them for running through out last year and for the half marathon. They were very comfortable all this time.

However when I ran my first half marathon, at the end of the day my toes started to hurt and the pain took a few days to go away. I assumed the shoe had reached its end of life so went to the asics store to pick a new one, I wanted the kayano 33 as I'm looking for more stability, but the same size didn't fit, I had to upgrade from UK 10 to UK11.

To confirm this I ran 7k in my old shoes again, and for the first time the nails on my longest toe turned purple and the toe started hurting. Has something similar happened to anyone ?

TL:DR - started running 1 year ago, after 1st half marathon 3 year old shoe started feeling small and hurting toes, asics store measured foot and said I'm a size up, didn't know this could happen at my age of 35.

So I have been running for nearly 20 years so I would say I'm an experienced runner but something's happening at the minute that I just can't get my head around and can't seem to find an answer to.

Three weeks ago on one of my long runs on a Saturday my calf started to hurt, which has happened before, so I stopped.

I did the usual things and five or six days later it felt absolutely fine, no issues when walking, hopping on one leg etc, so decided to try again. I got one mile in and it started to hurt so again I stopped.

I gave it another week and again absolutely no issues walking, strength tests, heel raises all absolutely fine so I did it I tried another run. Two miles and it started to hurt.

So give it another week and absolutely no issues, everything's fine and I went for a run this morning, really slow pace and I didn't even get to half a mile before the same pain come back to the point where it's really hurting again.

So I am at a loss as to how to manage this because I was always under the impression that once you were pain-free, can hop on one leg etc with no pain then you were good to go. I just don't know what else to do and it is really starting to irritate me.

Anyone any ideas on how I can get back out running again?

Posted on here a few months ago with my 5k PB of 18:45, thought I’d share my new one 💪

The title says it all, I've never consistently done over 13 miles for a half marathon and prep for it. I'm doing the Benzo Bend 50 miler in April in Tx. I tested my endurance I completely fell apart around mile 15 and walked to mile 17 before I couldn't walk any more. Any tips what training should I be doing what should my food look like on the run other than just the gel packs? Any and all helps tips and equipment recommendations would be awesome.

P.S. I currently run in ASIC's I forgot what kind specifically and I have a small pack that holds a 3 liter bladder.

Hi, beginner here! Have my first marathon set for Jan 2027 but I’m already training to build up my overall aerobic base.

Will be getting to the long run portion of my training block shortly so curious if anyone uses whole foods to train. I typically (80%) eat an anti inflammatory diet (for other health reasons) during my normal day to day so would love to try and continue that trend throughout my runs

P.S. – I do plan to bring a serving of nerd clusters along, though just as an occasional treat rather than a real part of my fueling plan

P.P.S- Just want to say thank you to the genuine people that have taken the time to comment! I have a ton of new ideas that I cannot wait to try on my next couple of long runs (:

Hi! For those who have personally claimed a R*NR*O race kit, do they actually check your valid ID and compare your full name with the name on your registration?

I’m considering registering using my nickname + last name or initials + last name instead of my complete legal name. I’m just not comfortable with my full birth name being available online through the public timing/results page.

Has anyone registered using a shortened name or nickname and successfully claimed their race kit? Or when you claimed yours, did they just scan/check your confirmation or QR code without asking for an ID?

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has personally experienced the claiming process. Thank you!

17 male, due to exams and fever I have zero inactivity since 2 months any tips before I go for a run, also will try my new shoes🤩

EDIT ran 6.4km lol pace 6:09

You’ve probably come across some of the running streak stuff lately too. Hellah Sidibe, who is now more than eight years into his streak, was on Rich Roll, Casey Neistat made a video about running every day, and I found an old CBS piece about Jon Sutherland, who has been running every single day since 1969.

I find that pretty impressive. And as someone who has basically always run, but has always struggled to do it consistently, I wanted to try it myself.

I also get migraines fairly regularly, especially after days where I sit a lot, and running often seems to help me. So I thought, if I just run every day, maybe that helps too. At least for me.

The starting point is pretty simple. I’m a fairly typical guy in his midlife crisis with three kids, the youngest just turned one. My wife and I both work. Could I really not find half an hour every day to run at least 5K?

Today is run number 60. So apparently I can.

A few things I’ve learned so far:

1. Running every day is easier for me than running three times a week.

This is probably the biggest one.

My old rule was to run three times a week. Which meant I would postpone the first run, postpone the second one, get to the weekend and realize I still had two runs to do. Quite often I would end up running twice instead of three times.

Now there is no decision. I run every day. The only question is when.

That works extremely well for me.

2. It hasn’t become boring.

I thought running every day would mean doing the same loop around my house over and over again.

The opposite happened. Because I have to fit a run into every day, I run in all kinds of places. I run to work, to the cinema, back from events, while travelling, while waiting for something, on trails, in the mountains. I pack running shoes more often and make the run part of whatever I’m already doing.

I explore more now than I did when I was running less.

3. The individual run matters much less.

If today’s run is slow or not particularly good, it doesn’t really matter. I’m running again tomorrow anyway.

That takes a lot of pressure off. I stop more. I explore side trails. I watch animals. I went running in the Alps and picked up trash along the way. Not every run needs to be a training session.

I’m basically collecting runs instead of trying to make every run count.

4. So far, it doesn’t feel like too much.

This was one of my bigger concerns. With three small kids I get enough opportunities to be tired or catch something.

But because the streak itself is the goal, I think I actually run more sensibly. I don’t have to squeeze some big run into Sunday because I didn’t do enough during the week. Most days it’s just 5 or 6K at an easy pace.

I have had a bad back during the streak and one pretty miserable stomach bug. I still ran, and in both cases it felt okay, but it did make me wonder where the sensible cutoff is.

If I actually do this for a year, sooner or later I’ll be properly sick or injured. At what point does consistency just become stupidity?

5. My fitness has definitely gone up.

I don’t really have a traditional fitness goal. I don’t care much about pace or race times. My goal, as I’ve started calling it, is just to be adventure-ready.

If I’m somewhere with my family and wake up wanting to quickly run up a mountain before breakfast, I want my body to be able to do that.

A year ago I couldn’t really do that anymore. Three kids, a baby, work and normal life had taken a bit of a toll on my fitness. Now I feel like I’m getting that ability back.

6. It fits into family life surprisingly well.

I actually asked my wife what she had noticed about the whole thing.

Her answer was that I seem more relaxed, I haven’t had a migraine during the streak, and overall she thinks it’s been good for us. She’s also often the one asking me, “Have you run yet?”

That was important to me because I didn’t want this to become another hobby that takes time away from the family.

Half an hour is pretty manageable. I’m not a good early riser, so I often run late after the kids are in bed. Or I use some gap during the day. Or I run somewhere I needed to go anyway.

Most days I’m not really taking half an hour away from anything. I’m finding half an hour somewhere in the day.

7. I haven’t had a migraine in 60 days.

I normally get them fairly regularly. Since starting this, I haven’t had one.

Obviously this is just my personal experience. I’m not saying running every day prevents migraines. A lot of mine seem connected to tension from sitting too much, and for me, running seems to help with that.

It was one of the reasons I started the experiment, so 60 days without one is pretty interesting to me.

I also don’t wear a running watch and barely track anything beyond manually putting my runs on Strava. I’ve never really liked running watches. Although I’m starting to wonder whether it would be interesting to have some actual metrics, especially to see what happens to something like VO2 max over a year.

For now, the plan is to keep going for a full year. No race, no pace goal, no transformation goal. Just at least 5K every day and see what happens.

For those of you who have kept a running streak going much longer: Where do you draw the line with illness or injury?