I have vaped every day for 4 years and run a 4:40 mile

who knows whether it actually plays a serious effect. I do know kids who have said that vaping has made their running harder (in terms of lung capacity) plus nicotine is a blood thinner, which I don't think helps. I know kids who were really good, and the seasons while they vaped a lot they were still very good, but just did not improve (as they should have).

4:40 isn’t blazing fast, what are you trying to prove?

I’d like to know your PR, buddy. Might not be blazing fast but a 4:40 is nothing to scoff at for a non-competitive runner.

30 years from now...I’ll see you and your lungs in the hospital. Until then... enjoy the carcinogens!

Do your parents know you're gay(not that there's anything wrong with that)?

Yeah, they do. Thanks for asking, pal.

It’s better tham cigarettes, sure but that doesn’t mean there are no complications involved. You might get away with it now, cigarette smoke will kill you faster than vape smoke but vape smoke is condensed liquid so it will leave liquid residue (mixed with the ingredients in the vape) in your lungs and make your lungs heavier over time by making them retain the water, how much of this you detox is down to genetics. If you have poor detox genes (referred to as MTHFR genes) then you will be affected by this issue faster, if you have quite good detox genes then you might even get away with vaping for a long time as long as you don’t go overboard.

Cigarette smoke doesn’t make your lungs retain water, it shrivels them and makes them black with tar instead. The affects vapes have are different than the affects vapes have so you cannot really compare the two.

Another couple of things to consider is that you are breathing in heavy metal emitted from the coil every time you vape, excess metal in the body can lead to mental issues and a confused immune system. Something to consider.

Another thing is that there are food flavourings in the vapes, because they are sweet your body will confuse this with sugar (but your insulin won’t smoke as much as eating actual sugar) so the metabolic affects are also something to consider, if you find yourself putting weight on dispite no changes in diet and exercise one day in the future then the consistant insulin spike of vaping through the day is most likely causing it.

Just warning you mate. Your body, you do what your want and 4:40 isn’t bad at all! Just out of interest; were you a cigarette smoker before you started vaping? If so, what were you PRs then? Or did you take up vaping without being a smoker, if so then what were your PRs pre-vaping?

This is an intresting discussion. I agree that e-cigarettes don’t really look that cool but I’d be lying if I said I haven’t tried them a couple of times and enjoyed them. They do taste nice but make sure you get the food grade liquids! I am an ex-smoker and on the rare occasion I have a few drinks, I always want a cigarette but vaping has came to my rescue there a few times! Vaping does affect my fitness personally, I do find it harder to breathe well while running ir hit my usual interval paces after vaping but that’s just me.

Red striker wrote:

(but your insulin won’t smoke as much as eating actual sugar)

*your insulin won’t SPIKE

Damn, I have smoking on the mind now. You are making me want a vape!

I'm looking forward to completing your addiction...In time you will call me....Master. It is pointless to resist, my young runner. Give in to your Vaping...with each passing moment you make yourself more my Servant. It is unavoidable...it is your destiny.

I was not a smoker before vaping. I had a roommate who had one and I really liked it, so I decided to buy one so I didn’t have to keep asking to use his all the time. My mile PR from high school was 4:26, but I was running 60-70 miles per week then and getting in a lot of speed work. Now I only do one workout a week where I switch between a longer tempo effort and short speed work (200m-800m) on a track. All other miles are easy. This is also after basically taking 3.5 years off running. That 14 seconds is a lot, but I think I could be there or faster in a few months, maybe sooner if I were to amp up volume/speed. On the contrary, I have broken my high school 5k PR by 8 seconds recently, down to a 16:15. I hovered around my PR for a few straight races and then finally broke it. I think I’ve found what works for me right now though. Main goal at the moment is breaking 16 minutes in the 5k.

Eliud Kipchoge has never vaped and has run under 4:40 for 26.2 miles in a row.

Are you vaping weed or nicotine vape juice?

Technically you’re assuming he’s never vaped lol

Nicotine juice

There were guys on my college team who smoked pot everyday and ran 4:00 to 4:04 for the mile. That's guys plural. Much better runners than you smoke everyday.

I mean, it’s not like that’s an impressive time dude.

iRuniVape wrote:

Technically you’re assuming he’s never vaped lol

Oh yeah that's right, he once said "the vape gods in life are free"

That is 100% not true.

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Primo Numero Uno wrote:

There were guys on my college team who smoked pot everyday and ran 4:00 to 4:04 for the mile. That's guys plural. Much better runners than you smoke everyday.

That is 100% not true.

Are you sure? I seem to remember CU having a few guys that were into the weed back in the day and were fast. Didn't one of them get photographed at a 4/20 celebration on Farrand Field, and maybe got kicked off the team?