I don't understand the premise of this post. Do you mean a workout will put you at greater risk than a slow run? A workout is faster and you will get back home quicker.
I don't understand the premise of this post. Do you mean a workout will put you at greater risk than a slow run? A workout is faster and you will get back home quicker.
no races wrote:
Baba Yaga wrote:
I almost forgot that there are no social net in your country. Personnally, I am paid 85% of my wages in temporary unemployment and I will be able to make all my payments with minimal losses until it restarts. Long term damage to the economy is another story.
Anyway, it's a great time to train, even if you are lacking money. It can help your mind and body to focus on another thing and avoid feeling depressed.
Because get real, you won't find any new job in this situation. Maybe if you mind to pick fruits in some farms....
Dream on!! Run hard workouts while they are reposing your car and you are losing your home. Let's not forget your starving family!! All focus should be on survival and making any dollar you can. How selfish to your family it is to be doing a massive workout load why they suffer. Run 2 miles and then spend the rest of the day looking for opportunities.
If you don't have enough money to get by for a few months of no employment, then you are doing it wrong. At the very least, you should have enough available credit that you can tap into for emergencies and then pay off as quick as possible. It is especially important to have enough $1 bills around to wipe your behind after all the idiots hoarded all the toilet paper. I am pretty thrifty so I just throw them in a bucket and wash them every few days.
makes you wonder wrote:
Running a lot has nothing to do with being broke. If running workouts is all you have to make your life better right now then go run workouts. It's not our fault you don't love running.
I love running, and l am not speaking about myself,85% of the population lives paycheck to paycheck, then add in the business that let people go, and you have serious problems for most people. So people aren't going to get unemployment in a lot of areas because of back ups and some won't get checks for months, so if their lucky to have a job on April 30 so be it, but many will suffer. All they can do is try to make anything they can til then. It will be almost 2 months come April 30 that a huge portion of the population hasn't been paid since March 10, then figure in the majority of the population lives paycheck-to-paycheck, you're going to have some serious problems. How do you advise a person in that situation, who is probably dealing with serious problems to start doing hard session?????
work in your weaknesses.
eat good
rest well.
keep an aerobic base.
do strides
get a haircut and get a real job wrote:
no races wrote:
Dream on!! Run hard workouts while they are reposing your car and you are losing your home. Let's not forget your starving family!! All focus should be on survival and making any dollar you can. How selfish to your family it is to be doing a massive workout load why they suffer. Run 2 miles and then spend the rest of the day looking for opportunities.
If you don't have enough money to get by for a few months of no employment, then you are doing it wrong. At the very least, you should have enough available credit that you can tap into for emergencies and then pay off as quick as possible. It is especially important to have enough $1 bills around to wipe your behind after all the idiots hoarded all the toilet paper. I am pretty thrifty so I just throw them in a bucket and wash them every few days.
This should be put up as the stupidest statement ever. You do realize that many people work two and three jobs to get by, THEY CAN'T SAVE BECAUSE THEY MAKE SO LITTLE. That's the real American. Now let's figure in the small business, and others, and so on who had everything pulled out from under them, so save me your BS that's it's their fault they didn't SAVE. I personally know people in this boat and see it in my community, people are sleeping in cars.
no races wrote:
There is absolutely no point in doing hard sessions now, yes all the restaurants and all business will open, but mass gatherings aren't going to happen. So as everything opens football, basketball, baseball, track, rock concerts, and road races won't. You're putting yourself at risk of catching the virus by pounding in the workouts. Right now with everything going on; just chill and run whatever you feel like. You can consider this your down time. Bob Kennedy used to take a month off of no running, so do that and then slowly work back. There are plenty serious things going on, so focus on making it through this with a job, your health, and family. Mindless workouts will do nothing, but harm.
Oh FFS, you can eff right off with that sort of mid-pack, 30:00+ 5k hobby-jogger sort of thinking. Keep training, peak, time trial, recovery & repeat. Nothing too long though (tt'ing anything further than ten miles just seems pointless).
no races wrote:
get a haircut and get a real job wrote:
If you don't have enough money to get by for a few months of no employment, then you are doing it wrong. At the very least, you should have enough available credit that you can tap into for emergencies and then pay off as quick as possible. It is especially important to have enough $1 bills around to wipe your behind after all the idiots hoarded all the toilet paper. I am pretty thrifty so I just throw them in a bucket and wash them every few days.
This should be put up as the stupidest statement ever. You do realize that many people work two and three jobs to get by, THEY CAN'T SAVE BECAUSE THEY MAKE SO LITTLE. That's the real American. Now let's figure in the small business, and others, and so on who had everything pulled out from under them, so save me your BS that's it's their fault they didn't SAVE. I personally know people in this boat and see it in my community, people are sleeping in cars.
Yup.
To trash people who are likely doing all they can to support their family before/during this... it shows your privilege.
Zev wrote:
Oh FFS, you can eff right off with that sort of mid-pack, 30:00+ 5k hobby-jogger sort of thinking. Keep training, peak, time trial, recovery & repeat. Nothing too long though (tt'ing anything further than ten miles just seems pointless).
You wouldn't TT a half marathon? If you find a nice flat section of road and head out the door early, you could run a very nice time and maybe even PR if your training is going well. A half isn't crazy to recover from.
Anything longer than that, I certainly agree it wouldn't be worth doing a TT
Say Word wrote:
Later this month? Keep dreaming, Trumpster.
trumpeteer is a better term. He does not deserve the capital letter.
The reason why I make this negative comment is he hurts our youth
as a role model. The President is always a role model.
Rhodium Nights wrote:
You wouldn't TT a half marathon? If you find a nice flat section of road and head out the door early, you could run a very nice time and maybe even PR if your training is going well. A half isn't crazy to recover from.
Anything longer than that, I certainly agree it wouldn't be worth doing a TT
Personally, I would consider TT'ing a half-marathon. Most marathon training plans have one racing a half anyway during the build-up. I'm just hesitant to suggest it because even though the distances are so close in length, some people just can't handle the extra 5k at the end and may blow up. I think TT'ing 10 miles would be the perfect way overall to judge one's fitness for both the 10k and the half.
How did this troll get three pages of responses??? Everyone stop!
Things will not “open up” until 2021,
Working Stiff wrote:
How did this troll get three pages of responses??? Everyone stop!
Because we're all home.
We've always been home.
We will always be home.
;)
Zev wrote:
Rhodium Nights wrote:
You wouldn't TT a half marathon? If you find a nice flat section of road and head out the door early, you could run a very nice time and maybe even PR if your training is going well. A half isn't crazy to recover from.
Anything longer than that, I certainly agree it wouldn't be worth doing a TT
Personally, I would consider TT'ing a half-marathon. Most marathon training plans have one racing a half anyway during the build-up. I'm just hesitant to suggest it because even though the distances are so close in length, some people just can't handle the extra 5k at the end and may blow up. I think TT'ing 10 miles would be the perfect way overall to judge one's fitness for both the 10k and the half.
I see. That's a good point, after 10 miles of grind it's tough to keep pushing yourself when you're all alone doing a TT.
I'll probably end up doing a TT of either a half or 10 miler once we start pulling out of this and people start going back to work..because I'd imagine races still won't be going on for another 6 weeks or so after that happens...who knows
Hingle 2.0 wrote:
Things will not “open up” until 2021,
That is so FN stupid!!!!
Rhodium Nights wrote:
I see. That's a good point, after 10 miles of grind it's tough to keep pushing yourself when you're all alone doing a TT.
I'll probably end up doing a TT of either a half or 10 miler once we start pulling out of this and people start going back to work..because I'd imagine races still won't be going on for another 6 weeks or so after that happens...who knows
It's almost serendipitous that you mention this. I was going to run the Pittsburgh Marathon next month but it ended up getting cancelled. I pulled my right calf the last week of February and ended up taking the first week of March off when I just cross-trained at my local gym. Came back, taking a 15% cut in mileage and then the race was cancelled.
I went for a run and decided to keep on training because I had an outside shot of BQing this year (on pace for a 3:00-3:05 finish first year as a master) before I got injured and was real damn curious to see if I could get it. This afternoon I PR'd my hard 7.2 mile course by 16 seconds. I'm still about 10-15 seconds too slow, but I'm going to continue doing some semblance of this plan...just less mileage. I'll peak again in in mid-Summer and mid-Autumn.
Best of running & training to you, however all of this plays out.
I've started a pandemic cycle of training for this time. It is similar to in between season cycles. It is important not to turn your body on like a light switch but more like a dimmer. Running hard does compromise your immune system but so does detraining. In my pandemic cycle i use a taper method to keep the immune system from being compromised with shortened workouts. Intensity, duration and volume are keys to building yourself stronger. If you can try not to decrease or increase all of these at one time your body will be able to adapt. Pandemic cycle i keep the intensity but drop the volume and the duration.
I'll be doing my usual workouts cause I want to get in sub15 shape wether they're races or not. I boosted mileage from 80 to 120 and it's going well. Never stop running
How would people starve to death? You know essential businesses are still open, right? People can go to stores and drive-thrus, or they can get food delivered. Nobody is going to starve. And this will NOT end by April 30. Italy's curve has only just started to plateau/decline, and they put the entire country on complete lockdown (you weren't allowed to leave your house in most places), which limits the spread a LOT more effectively than most US state governors issuing stay-at-home orders that entitled idiots ignore because "yOu CaN't TeLl Me WhAt To Do."
Sorry, this is going to take a while.
macdaddy wrote:
no races wrote:
This should be put up as the stupidest statement ever. You do realize that many people work two and three jobs to get by, THEY CAN'T SAVE BECAUSE THEY MAKE SO LITTLE. That's the real American. Now let's figure in the small business, and others, and so on who had everything pulled out from under them, so save me your BS that's it's their fault they didn't SAVE. I personally know people in this boat and see it in my community, people are sleeping in cars.
Yup.
To trash people who are likely doing all they can to support their family before/during this... it shows your privilege.
No one told you to have kids. If you can't feed them don't have them.
If you're a single, a min wage job will get you 900 a month. Split a studio 4 ways, eat rice and beans. Save. You fools need to live in a 3rd world country and learn what real poverty is.