Smoking and running

yeah i suprised myself ... don't underestimate what you can do ... but i was around a lot of black sprinters in the hood that have been smoking like that since they were 14 yrs old ... and when you see that you really say to youself ... if that f***er can run so fast and he never even had a base in HS ... i can do this shit too ... just a mentality that you have to get over...you would be suprised how many sprinter smoke like i did and run 45-46. to them the smoke doesnt make a difference other than the throwing up after races thing ... but i want to do something in the 800 so it was something that i had to get over ... but am better b/c of it

Everyone on my XC team is a pothead. They all smoke at least twice a day. Can anyone relate? and how much does smoking effect your running?

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twice a day,, no offence are you sure of this?

or , are you prehaps a bit straight laced, and MAYBE stretching....abit.

I smoke when I jog, and my lung feels great!

I'm not exactly sure how often smoking pot will affect your running but during Xc season i smoked about 4 or 5 times a week and i wasn't even close to the shape i thought ide be in. This is why i vowed never to smoke again(of course i still do, but very rarely).

pot can be a bronchial dialator actually. chronic smoking obvisouly isnt good for your lungs, lets be real. but when you look at some of the good guys from back in the day im sure they were all clean all the time. and its possible to smoke twice a day and still compete at optimal levels, just because you smoke twice a day doesnt mean youre smoking a pound, it depends on the incriments in which you are taking in. some bodies are different than others.

The only marathoner I knew who smoked, smoked plain old cigarets. He was in his late 20's when he placed 29th in the 1962 Boston Marathon. He was dead of lung cancer within two years. I do not recall if smoking affected his running but smoking sure did affect his life. He died a hard death.

There was a fairly good freshman runner at my Son's school that ran 18:00 for 5k (on a difficult course) as a freshman, 18:50 as a soph, and didn't run as a junior. He is also a stoner. Smoking pot definitely decreases one's motivation.

There was a guy on our XC team in high school who smoked like a freight train, both cigarettes and pot. He ran a 16:xx 5k during cross season, and his PR's during the track season were 1:59 and 4:46 if I remember correctly. So, either smoking didn't affect him OR he would have been damn good if he didn't smoke.

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Smoking pot does not effect motivation theres no evidence what so ever for this. The reason it is percieved that way is because the good freshman on your sons team probably didnt train as hard and hung out with a crowd that didnt value running. Personally i think smoking pot(talking 2-4 times a week not twice a day) will have about a .5% effect on ones performance assuming you still eat healthy and go for runs. .5% can be alot though that can be the difference in many ways.

Doesn't affect motivation???? C'mon, it sure as hell does.

I've been curious about this ever since I started smoking pot my sophomore year of high school. I am a freshman in college now, and I've quit (at least for the remainder of my running career). Maybe I'll smoke here and there over the summer, but that's all.

It's hard to tell how much smoking really affects running. I always noticed it for at least a week after I did it. But, to give an example, I smoked during XC season junior year, and barely ran 19:00 for 5k (yeah, I sucked). Next year, my senior year, I only did it during the winter buildup, and I ended up running low 17s for 5k XC and low 4:40s for the mile. Granted these are not great times, but my conference was small and not competetive (I won the conference mile in 4:43). That said, I did improve a huge amount, and with more competition I think I would have been a 16:xx/4:3x runner.

And I'm not sure you can really argue against the notion that pot decreases motivation. Even though, ironically, I would go on runs stoned and race my friends after blazing, I know that mentally I was less hard on myself vis-a-vis getting in a higher level of training. I think ultimately, smoking pot definitely affects running performance, even if you are a good runner and you smoke. I think the bigger problem is that pot-smoking really alters your reality after a while, and, in my case, I became more satisfied with mediocre performances.

I say don't do it much if at all. If you want to keep your mind in the game, pot is way too much of a distraction. However, don't pick up drinking instead like it's no big deal. Alcoholism is FAR worse than being a pothead.

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holy shit, you ran 47/151 while smoking that much? That honestly astonishes me. You must have a lot of talent. I agree, it's something you have to get past eventually.

You know from experience right man?

Smoking anything will be detrimental to your health.

Marijuana does not have to be. I've posted this before, look into vaporizers if you want to enjoy MJ and running/living healthy!

if you're an experienced smoker, and just doing a couple of bong hits before class and another couple after dinner, no big deal.

if you're really hitting it hard, the detrimental physical effects are big.

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id agree, it doesnt do anything to your motivation. most people give it a few hits here and there on and call it. not everyone sits and smokes an ounce at a time. i have a friend who takes a few hits before every run, says it opens him up and he feels better, runs more successfully, granted he isnt a hard runner anymore, its all leisure. by the way, i smoked and had no problem training. granted im not that fast, but it didnt slow my improvement any. some can do it, some cant. depends on who you are. not to give specific names but one of the best runners to go through, and someone who also held a school record at Ohio State did in fact get shitty on lots of different drugs. some of you know this, some of you cant take the truth.

What ive always wondered is.

I know that many of the kenyan students at my scholl smoke pot.

i wonder if any good kenyan runners do(well it wouldnt be alot.)