Trying to juggle full-time job on feet with summer base, need tips

Last summer i did just about the same thing you're trying to do now. I felt worn out a lot but managed to get the milage in. I worked 35-40 hpw for a large retail sporting goods store and handled a lot of presure when just about everyone above me in the footwear dept. quit or was busted for stealing. Had an alright xc season but the base i got in was fine. Don't sweat it, just get pleanty of rest at nights and be flexable in your running schedule. Standing that long doesn't hurt that bad if you wear a good pair of trainers.

shouldn't hurt you

only 60 mpw, wood floor, air conditioner and ... you don't actually sweat while "working".

when you bump up to 70+ and start working a manual labor job in the southeast, get back to me.

Go 2 a-day's. You can get in 6 in the am and loosen up with 3 after work. Get in 1 one-hour run on the weekend. That's how I got in 60-mile weeks while working full-time.

9X5 days - 45. 1 hour (approx 9) = 54. 1 other day with only 1 6 mile run and you have 60 miles.

Peas Out wrote:

only 60 mpw, wood floor, air conditioner and ... you don't actually sweat while "working".

when you bump up to 70+ and start working a manual labor job in the southeast, get back to me.

Well thank God you are doing manual labor and not molding the minds of young people. Could you imagine this athlete/coach conversation...

Athlete: Coach, I bumped my summer mileage up this year and I'm looking to run X:XX!

Coach: Well, Dominic Fitzgibbons, I'm sorry I ran X seconds faster than your X:XX, "get back to me" when you are there.

I guess there will always be that "one" guy.

Thanks for everyone's help.

Whilst the poster who responded about doing hard labor in the south east prob went too far - he has a point.

If I was a college coach and one of my athletes came to me with this dilema it would raise serious questions about their mental and physical toughness.

However. The days you work till 4 why not come home and relax and go out running at 7/8.

The days you work 10 till 7 make these your easy days. The days you do not start till 1 do your workout in the morning.

I do not think you should split your runs into 2. And if you are keep the longer run the same and just run more miles for the week.

I agree with the above poster--take advantage of your schedule and relax. Move your runs around if you have to. When you have breaks at work, stretch in the break room--this really helped me in college when I was working full time on my feet.

You'll really get used to standing up all day. It won't feel great ever, but you will handle it better by mid-summer. Make sure you take time off your feet when you get it and you'll be fine.

I worked a 10 hour shift on my feet the day before NCAA XC districts my senior year, and I had the best districts race I'd ever had. I don't think there is a correlation, but I can honestly say that the work that day didn't bother my legs.

Peas Out wrote:

when you bump up to 70+ and start working a manual labor job in the southeast, get back to me.

I agree with this guy.

Back when I was in college, I put in 75-80 mpw while hauling hay (square bales) and doing other ranch work all day long in 100-degree heat. Best of all, I didn't need a strength program after all that. We also had to wear boots because of the snakes.

I ran just fine that fall and had absolutely no problems at all with the heat in the early season meets. When it cooled off, I was flying.

Anyway, to answer your question; get some good insoles for your shoes. That will take some of the stress off your legs if you're on a wood floor all day.

Apparently no one recalls that the "Men of Oregon" worked in the lumber mills in and around Eugene?

The road from the Eugene airport passes several lumber and plywood mills, visible within a blue haze of their own making. "That was where Oregon runners worked when I was in school in the '60s," ... "When Bill Bowerman was coach, he gave no full scholarships. You had to come out here on weekends, graveyard shift, midnight to eight, and putty patch-panels onto plywood on a conveyor or, if the mill was down, blow sawdust out of the block-long dryers, or clean the glue spreaders with a wire brush and ammonia. Horrible jobs, but we all did them."

DSG sucks bawls wrote:

I felt worn out a lot but managed to get the milage in.

Don't sweat it, just get pleanty of rest at nights and be flexable

"mileage"

"plenty"

"flexible"

Interestingly no one wants to hear that "Pre" and other greats at Oregon also busted their asses on the weekends and during the summer at the lumber mills.hmmm....

Peas Out wrote:

Apparently no one recalls that the "Men of Oregon" worked in the lumber mills in and around Eugene?

The road from the Eugene airport passes several lumber and plywood mills, visible within a blue haze of their own making. "That was where Oregon runners worked when I was in school in the '60s," ... "When Bill Bowerman was coach, he gave no full scholarships. You had to come out here on weekends, graveyard shift, midnight to eight, and putty patch-panels onto plywood on a conveyor or, if the mill was down, blow sawdust out of the block-long dryers, or clean the glue spreaders with a wire brush and ammonia. Horrible jobs, but we all did them."

r3 wrote:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/12/99-grammar/

I'm not quite sure I understand - you think it's a bad thing to think people should generally spell at above a six year old's level? Basic education is not a bad thing. Neither is trying to help others along in learning how to express themselves without disadvantage before their point is even made, due to poor grammar and/or spelling.

And by the way, it's very poor taste to somehow bring race into the issue, as if non-whites don't care about spelling and grammar. What makes you think I am white? :)

I worked in a factory that made door hinges for 9 hour days for the summer when I was in college. I walked in and out of an oven that was at about 135 degrees and the factory obviously did not have air conditioning. Did this while building a base for xc. There are tons of runners that do jobs worse than mine while still getting in the mileage.

suck it up dude. Try only carrying 3 boxes of shoes at a time.

is this a joke? You have the easiest job I've ever heard of and you only run 60 miles/week. EVERYONE works in the summer!

Where have I complained about it? I asked for TIPS, and received a few. I already bought insoles for the wood floor. I didn't complain besides the fact that I said it is probably going to take a toll on my legs. I have never worked in retail before and someone told me I would get used to it, which I can start to feel I am.

I just asked for tips or help because this is my first full-time job.