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U of A

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May 16, 2015

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Male

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Other

Running Accomplishments:

Ran 200 miles in under a week(nov 2019) . Ran 226 miles in under a week twice in 17 days(oct 2023). Ran 250 miles in under a week(mar 2024)

Personal:

25. braves fan/canes fanatic/broncos sufferer

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Miles:This week: 33.00 Month: 450.00 Year: 1666.00
Fly's Lifetime Miles: 215.00
Pegs 36 #8 Lifetime Miles: 451.00
Pegs #9 Lifetime Miles: 322.25
Peg 37 White Lifetime Miles: 289.50
Streak LT Lifetime Miles: 11.50
Peg 37 Navy Lifetime Miles: 494.50
Peg 37 Magenta Lifetime Miles: 508.75
Peg Shields Lifetime Miles: 795.00
Peg Shields 2(orange) Lifetime Miles: 770.00
Total Distance
18.50

alarms didn’t go off again >:( !!! about to go buy a new LOUDER alarm clock. so i woke up around 5:40am and just chilled and ran 3 miles at 7am. ran on RV bc even though it’s tougher on my legs, i always run faster there and i wanted to get some feel-good miles before i jump back into high mileage again. 6:57 pace with some strides at the end. felt easy, i’m a long way from having legs strong enough to do that at my kind of mileage though. genuine question: is there any drawback to doing strides after every run?

PM : 15.5 miles, 3 at 8pm, 12.5 at 9pm. Wanted to go 15 and legs were up for it but stomach was seriously rebelling after a few miles, after I started running after the umpteenth bathroom stop and my stomach was already telling me it needed another pit stop I just stopped there. Also got wifi set up in the apartment, FINALLY. ik there's that whole conversation about being plugged into a virtual reality, etc, but I've never been huge into social media, but still was getting kind of depressed being at home without it, losing the ability to look up whatever I want whenever I want is like making my brain feel claustrophobic 

SOTD: Never Catch Me - Flying Lotus

Pegaroos Pair 2 Miles: 18.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jason D on Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 21:07:36 from 73.144.88.57

Probably no real drawback to do strides more often than the suggested 2-3 times a week, but I doubt it helps much either. Doing them with the number of runs you are doing per week is likely detrimental not from any taxing of the system since that is not the purpose of strides. But I imagine you are setting yourself up to pull something, or land wrong, or whatever.

From Eugene on Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 22:23:13 from 104.189.16.160

True. I was just thinking how with all these runs strides could help keep the legs loose for the next run by ending on a good note. Maybe something I'll experiment with once I'm consistent at high mileage - I have a lot of experimental training ideas I can't wait to try out, but my legs need to be able to run crazy mileage week in, week out before I start trying new things. The mileage is the foundation to everything following.

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