Mine was quitting running when I got tendinitis. I gained 40 pounds and obviously got out of shape.
Mine was quitting running when I got tendinitis. I gained 40 pounds and obviously got out of shape.
how do you know that was a bad decision? Maybe you saved yourself from a debilitating injury.
The question you ask is a tough one becuase it would seem that most times, we don't really know with absolute certainty the outcome had we not made the decision being considered.
Forefoot running did nothing but injured me.
seattle prattle wrote:
how do you know that was a bad decision? Maybe you saved yourself from a debilitating injury.
The question you ask is a tough one becuase it would seem that most times, we don't really know with absolute certainty the outcome had we not made the decision being considered.
Well, I didn't fully explain myself, I suppose. I meant not coming back after my injury healed. Now I'm three years down the road, starting over, and I just think about how much better I could be.
Starting to run for the women when I was 16 instead of doing my workouts, simultanously boozing up and starting to smoke.
(Giving up smoking, most of the booze and some of the women 35 years later was a smart move though, enabling me to start running again).
Doing a hard 18 miler the day after running my 15K PR. Felt great, but eventually I got injured. A little restraint would have served me well.
A couple come to mind:
1. Actually trying to slow down in a 5K after going through the first mile too fast. Never ever do this. You'll spend the next 5-6 minutes trying to close the gap you purposely created.
2. Running a marathon in my first year of running using a Hal Higdon plan and bombing hard after the 18th mile. In retrospect, I needed 3 years of running to actually do marathon training.
Doing a 22-mile final marathon training run the day after a 5-mile race, at age 57. That was the beginning of the end for my right Achilles tendon.
Dumb wrote:
A couple come to mind:
Running a marathon in my first year of running using a Hal Higdon plan and bombing hard after the 18th mile. In retrospect, I needed 3 years of running to actually do marathon training.
Well crap. I guess I need to rethink my plan for this year... maybe switch to the half.
Reading these stupid running message boards and then never having any free time to do other things.
setyourselffree wrote:
Dumb wrote:
A couple come to mind:
Running a marathon in my first year of running using a Hal Higdon plan and bombing hard after the 18th mile. In retrospect, I needed 3 years of running to actually do marathon training.
Well crap. I guess I need to rethink my plan for this year... maybe switch to the half.
No you don't. "Dumb" just overestimated his fitness and went out too fast and blames the training.
setyourselffree wrote:
Dumb wrote:
A couple come to mind:
Running a marathon in my first year of running using a Hal Higdon plan and bombing hard after the 18th mile. In retrospect, I needed 3 years of running to actually do marathon training.
Well crap. I guess I need to rethink my plan for this year... maybe switch to the half.
Seriously don't listen to that guy. I ran a sub 4 hour marathon on a plan that capped out at like 40 miles per week. just go slow man you got it.
Yoga the night before my first marathon. It had helped me get through a bad case of PF, so to make sure I didn't suffer for it on race day I did a good long session 1.5 hrs the night before.
I felt like garbage on race day. My legs were shot
Running every run at a hard pace and never taking easy run days one season. Was in the best shape of my life, PRd in the half marathon, and then got injured.
showing up at the wrong Portland for the marathon.
Probably a tie between forcing myself to run more on toes which lead to bad PF
and training for a 50k off very low mileage which resulted in getting sick and developing IT band syndrome.
One time during a race I was leading and made a wrong turn in the last 300, while simultaneously telling my teammate to come with me.
wrong way peachfuzz wrote:
showing up at the wrong Portland for the marathon.
Not sure this qualifies as a "decision", but pretty funny nonetheless. Particularly if it's true.
amkelley wrote:
wrong way peachfuzz wrote:
showing up at the wrong Portland for the marathon.
Not sure this qualifies as a "decision", but pretty funny nonetheless. Particularly if it's true.
What, you never made a mistake?
It's okay since the frequent flier miles i earned got me to the Boston Marathon - the year i found out that they don't have day-of registration.
Mine was to take the shoes I was going to race the London marathon in to a race in France to ‘wear them in’ a bit.
The translation of the invitation read the race was road and some ‘roads through forests.’
The roads through forests turned out to be dirt tracks, knee deep in mud!