Be honest. How many letsrunners started with the run walk thing?

Hobby walkers!

Go back to RW board. Here we all ran 17min 5k w/ no training.

End of 8th grade ran the 200/400/long jump. HS XC coach had meeting for those interested in running XC where he collected contact info. I was either going out for football or run XC. Come August the XC coach called me. First practice was in aweek so I went to the track a few times leading up to that first practice. First day ran 1 mile in just over 6:00. Next day two miles just over 13. Couple days later two miles in the 12s. 1 first XC practice was a timed mile ran 5:35. First week practice ran 40 miles..5-6 miles a day plus 8 mile long run. First XC race 5k in 20:05. Last race of season ran 18:13. First race that track season 4:57 mile. ..down to 4:36 end of season. Then...17:35/4:28...16:16/4:27/9:38...15:53/9:32....it all started with 5:35 and 20:05

Everything has a beginning and an end. Learn to start over and you will always have the joy of new beginnings and endings

Alan

Our middle school XC practices involved walking, especially for first year runners.

We'd generally have one "long run" per week. I can't recall the mileage now, but probably 3-5 miles. We were broken up into groups and different groups would incorporate different amounts of walking to complete the distance.

Me - I've ran/walked a 2:45 marathon.

If you count junior high, most runners start with the run/walk thing. Usually just because in jr high you are out of shape and too lazy to run more than half a mile, and get bored easily.

esdf wrote:

Me - I've ran/walked a 2:45 marathon.

That is awesome. I'm guessing you pissed off a couple 2:46 guys who would pass you walking only to be passed back.

dial it up wrote:

esdf wrote:

Me - I've ran/walked a 2:45 marathon.

That is awesome. I'm guessing you pissed off a couple 2:46 guys who would pass you walking only to be passed back.

Ummm...Yay?

Serious question - how old are you? You come across as somewhere around 16 years old. Not that there is anything wrong with being 16.

Not sure about others but I definitely started walking first. At about 11 months I was walking up a storm. I don't think I worked my way up to running for maybe another year.

I did. I was 14 at the time and overweight. Could not run more than a half mile or so at a time. By 19 I had run a couple marathons, one less than 3 hours. I am 34 and still running.

I've taken my share of walking breaks (mostly unplanned).

I suppose they aren't too bad an idea for new runners that can't continuously jog for 30 minutes or so. Once you're at that point, I'd think there would be more to be gained by simply running slowly. going slow takes more discipline though (this was my problem when i've had to take those unplanned walk breaks...going too fast to start runs while out of shape).

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

I've taken my share of walking breaks (mostly unplanned).

I suppose they aren't too bad an idea for new runners that can't continuously jog for 30 minutes or so. Once you're at that point, I'd think there would be more to be gained by simply running slowly. going slow takes more discipline though (this was my problem when i've had to take those unplanned walk breaks...going too fast to start runs while out of shape).

This, and ...

There is a lot of use to walking beyond the Gall guy's program.

According to anecdotes, Paavo Nurmi used to take long winter walks through the woods. It's good for keeping on your feet, it's good for relaxation, reflection, the mood and the spirit. If you're always trying to run everywhere and get somewhere fast, you're not stopping to smell the roses, or, if you are immersing yourself in rapturous speedy-bliss, it's a different kind of communion with nature than walking. And a balance of experiences is nice and useful. Walking through various areas helps me get back in touch with various energies of life--my ruddy skin on a cool spring day, the smells, the sights, the sounds... it makes me feel like a kid again, it can make one love the force of life again.

13:52 self timed 10K time trial on a track when I was 250 pounds. I haven't raced due to tendinitis in my brain.

Randy Oldman wrote:

13:52 self timed 10K time trial on a track when I was 250 pounds. I haven't raced due to tendinitis in my brain.

That's a fast 10k

Some lunatic wrote:

Randy Oldman wrote:

13:52 self timed 10K time trial on a track when I was 250 pounds. I haven't raced due to tendinitis in my brain.

That's a fast 10k

It was self-timed so he may have been giving himself the benefit of the doubt. You know how quick people are on the watch when they come to the finish line.

Some lunatic wrote:

Randy Oldman wrote:

13:52 self timed 10K time trial on a track when I was 250 pounds. I haven't raced due to tendinitis in my brain.

That's a fast 10k

Must have been on that Beijing Track from 1993 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Games_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China)

Hahaha. Or maybe Randy's using a non-based ten number system for his timing purposes.

I snack on dirty cat litter

I never did the run/walk thing per se, but this thread reminds me of my first captain's practice as an incoming frosh in HS. I made it all of a half mile before I was so spent I had to turn back around and walked back to the school. Oh, the good ole times!

the gall of it wrote:

How many still do it?

I'm yet to start that running part.