The Official Hype Fitness Thread 6.0 - Part 8

[Iceman]

21.47 miles today. 88.8 miles / 142.9km for Sep.

 

[Babillygunn]

21.47 miles today. 88.8 miles / 142.9km for Sep.

Good heavens man. That’s quite a day. Good job. Very impressive!

 

[Iceman]

Good heavens man. That’s quite a day. Good job. Very impressive!

Hopefully I can get my weekly long run to about 20 miles each week.

 

[Iceman]

10.6 miles today. 92.4 mile week. Sep runs: 99.3 miles / 159.8 km.

See if I have intervals in me as I feel sore after this run despite it being shorter than most of the other recent ones.

 

[Babillygunn]

Lack of sleep finally caught up with me. I was planning a long run yesterday afternoon, but got hit with an annoying migraine and I kept putting the run off until finally I made the decision to crash last night.

I’ve got to get sleep and stress under control. I was a complete ogre at home this weekend.

 

[Iceman]

Lack of sleep finally caught up with me. I was planning a long run yesterday afternoon, but got hit with an annoying migraine and I kept putting the run off until finally I made the decision to crash last night.

I’ve got to get sleep and stress under control. I was a complete ogre at home this weekend.

I’ve been having my troubles with sleep too. It makes a world of difference to how the next day goes for me. Good luck getting yours sorted out.

 

[Iceman]

16 mile treadmill run with intervals thrown in last night.

28x200m.
Paces kph 12x14, 4x15, 4x16, 4x17, 4x18

Sep runs: 115.3 miles / 185.6 km

 

[Iceman]

10.5 miles this morning, super slow.

Sep runs: 125.8 miles / 202.5 km

 

[blueharvest]

I’ve been having my troubles with sleep too. It makes a world of difference to how the next day goes for me. Good luck getting yours sorted out.

Whenever I have trouble sleeping, I just take the Amazon version of ZZZquill:



Amazon product

They seem to do the trick.

 

[Iceman]

Whenever I have trouble sleeping, I just take the Amazon version of ZZZquill:

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Amazon product

They seem to do the trick.

Is that a sleeping pill? I try and avoid those. My dad used them a lot and they affected him
badly long term.

 

[Babillygunn]

Yeah. I am not touching a sleeping pill.

I try not to even take cold medicine because of the ingredients that cause you to sleep in them.

My problem isn’t an inability to fall asleep. My problem is too busy a schedule which results in staying up too late when I get up early.

 

[Babillygunn]

I did sprint intervals on the treadmill last night. Good run. Got a lot of energy out. It was really fun.

 

[gohei_]

My problem isn’t an inability to fall asleep. My problem is too busy a schedule which results in staying up too late when I get up early.

Same here. I know I should put more effort in sleeping more, but either I can't find the time to sleep or I choose to do other stuff instead. During the week I am probably averaging 5-6 hours of sleep, with maybe 7-9 hours during weekends.

So far this week I haven't done any exercise at all. I had a mole removed on my upper back this past monday, and I need to careful when I move so the stitches don't pop I should be fine with going for a run in another day or two though, hopefully.

 

[Babillygunn]

3.23 miles today. So I basically ran a 5k.

I only got about 3 and a half hours of sleep last night because I was helping one of my sons with some homework. So the run today was pretty crummy. I was really dragging. Everything felt stiff and “heavy”. And it was really hot and humid, so it was actually hard to regulate breathing. I had planned on a longer run but I cut it off at the 5k. My pace was pretty awful too.

But…a bad run is better than no run. And I ended it out injury free. So that all makes it a good run in my book.

 

[Iceman]

Weds 16.1 miles
Thurs 16.2 miles

Also Friday walked 7.7 miles.

For September runs I'm up to 158.1 miles / 254.4 km.

Tomorrow morning planning to do my first park run 5k in a while having missed the last few for various reasons. Hopefully I can see good improvement on my time from about a month ago, especially with those interval sessions added to the training.

 

[Iceman]

3.23 miles today. So I basically ran a 5k.

I only got about 3 and a half hours of sleep last night because I was helping one of my sons with some homework. So the run today was pretty crummy. I was really dragging. Everything felt stiff and “heavy”. And it was really hot and humid, so it was actually hard to regulate breathing. I had planned on a longer run but I cut it off at the 5k. My pace was pretty awful too.

But…a bad run is better than no run. And I ended it out injury free. So that all makes it a good run in my book.

Absolutely agree. Any run of any kind, any length/any pace where you complete it without injury is a success IMO. You live to fight another day while banking some gains vs zero gains. Believing this philosophy is why I'm proud of every time I get anything done and those gains continually compound while you avoid injuries.

 

[Iceman]

I did sprint intervals on the treadmill last night. Good run. Got a lot of energy out. It was really fun.

I'm doing intervals every Monday now on the treadmill. Really loving them and want to get faster asap and have more endurance at speed.

 

[Babillygunn]

I'm doing intervals every Monday now on the treadmill. Really loving them and want to get faster asap and have more endurance at speed.

During the pandemic, my kids and I would play a game we called “super-tag” where you had to touch our tree in our front yard and the tree in the back corner of our property before being tagged. Once you touched both, you become it and have to tag one of the other players. We played that every night and it was an insane sprint workout. Unfortunately, after a year, my youngest got deeper into puberty and then no one could tag him or escape him.

But as much as I’m more of a distance person, I love doing sprints as well.

 

[Babillygunn]

Weds 16.1 miles
Thurs 16.2 miles

Also Friday walked 7.7 miles.

For September runs I'm up to 158.1 miles / 254.4 km.

Tomorrow morning planning to do my first park run 5k in a while having missed the last few for various reasons. Hopefully I can see good improvement on my time from about a month ago, especially with those interval sessions added to the training.

I looked it up and they do a park run in my town. It’s actually in the same park where my high school cross country home meets were held. So I used to run that all the time.

I think that I may start doing those in maybe a week from now.

 

[Iceman]

I looked it up and they do a park run in my town. It’s actually in the same park where my high school cross country home meets were held. So I used to run that all the time.

I think that I may start doing those in maybe a week from now.

Awesome!! Hope you enjoy it and it becomes a habit that can drive you on. Great doing stuff like this with the local running community.

 

[Iceman]

During the pandemic, my kids and I would play a game we called “super-tag” where you had to touch our tree in our front yard and the tree in the back corner of our property before being tagged. Once you touched both, you become it and have to tag one of the other players. We played that every night and it was an insane sprint workout. Unfortunately, after a year, my youngest got deeper into puberty and then no one could tag him or escape him.

But as much as I’m more of a distance person, I love doing sprints as well.

Haha, sounds like a lot of fun, I want to play.

I love sprints, always did them more than long distance as a kid.

 

[Iceman]

Just got done. Jogged 4 miles to a very scenic park run (route there not great, boring main roads). Did the park run in about 26 minutes, don’t have the official time yet. That would be a nice improvement on my last time about a month ago which was just over 27 minutes. My PB from a few years ago is just under 24 mins. Then jogged back 6.4 miles to round it off at 13.6 miles total.

Sep runs now: 171.7 miles / 276.3 km. would be nice to get to 300km within the first half of the month.

 

[Babillygunn]

I did a 3.5 mile run late morning. I was on an empty stomach and I conked out. Lol. I was planning a 5 miler. But it was for the best as I had a lot of work to do on my staircase, which I am replacing and I probably would’ve been really dragging even more than I wa sig I’d have run farther.

 

[Iceman]

Treadmill Intervals today within a long run.

13.3 miles total.

Intervals: 10x500m & 9x200m

Paces kph:
500m 1x13, 1x14, 8x15
200m 3x16, 3x17, 3x18

Sep runs total: 206.5 miles / 332.4 km

On Sunday I did a 21.6 mile long run and for once had good paces (for me) up to the 15/16 mile mark. I’m very happy with that and it feels like proper progress as my long runs have all been snail pace till now.

 

[Iceman]

I did a 3.5 mile run late morning. I was on an empty stomach and I conked out. Lol. I was planning a 5 miler. But it was for the best as I had a lot of work to do on my staircase, which I am replacing and I probably would’ve been really dragging even more than I wa sig I’d have run farther.

I’m the opposite! The vast majority of my runs are on an empty stomach (fasted) for convenience. I also don’t feel good running with food in my stomach. That’s why the short runs home after work often seem harder than the fasted long runs first thing. I much more often have to stop during those evening runs than any of the morning runs.