Buzz Out Loud Lounge: To Shalin - You are a runner?

Chicago Marathon, Galloway/Chi-Running method...

My sis ran the Chicago marathon last year, had a lot of fun and I decided to jump in this year. I'm doing the Jeff Galloway method (great for first-timers, run/walk scheme, http://www.jeffgalloway.com/) with a Chi Running biomechanics technique (http://www.chirunning.com/). I'm told that the way I run, the Chi Running will work for me - it's similar to the Kenyan method (little/no heel strike).

so, 6-8 miles + long run on the weekend. This weekend I'm going for 10 miles in Chicago (goin' home for the long weekend) and I'm REALLY looking forward to having more moderate temperature to run in. I'm behind on my training...but I'm thinking the Texas heat factor will make up for it.

I ran 4yrs of track/field (primarily a high jumper, sometimes hurdles and 200m) and I just haven't kept up consistency in my fitness over the last several years. When I signed up, I think it was a motivating factor of how much time, money, and energy (and food...did I mention I feel chronically hungry most days? I'm investing - I don't want to have to do this again Plus, I've always wanted to do a marathon, so it's inspiring and I'm doing it in the city I love and grew up just outside of.

Training in the Texas summer heat sux! I don't like treadmills and it's only below 85deg. outside between 8pm-7:30am...which is another reason I don't care to train for another one...although there is a marathon in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in January...that'd be fun - I'd get to seem my cousins and run around the city my parents grew up in ...hmm...maybe just the half that time...

Best,
Shalin
e-mail me if you'd like to find out more.

have fun man...I'll be riiight behind ya...

I'm shooting for ~5.5hrs.

yeah...I'm kinda freakin' out too...but I ran 8miles in ~90 min last Saturday so that was comfortable to me. ~10-12 minute/miles

say, do you use a pedometer or take splits? I extrapolated the 8 mile time so that I'd get 10% slower each 8 mile segment and it came out to about 5.5 hrs...so I'm happy. my Asics feel pretty good too.

e-mail me if you want to meet up.

Best,
Shalin

nike+ challenge?

Hey if there some people who use nike+, maybe we can have a Nike+ challenge for BOL listeners.

Have fun!

Have fun running the marathon!

No Nike!

I use a pouch which I would definitely recommend. Being an accelerometer, it doesn't really matter where in the shoe the piece is.

*Disclosure: I work for New Balance* haha, but I think I'm being unbiased.

I've tried two Nike shoes (one was the pegasus, and I can't remember what the other was) and I ended up switching to other shoes after about a month. Those two were even two of their better shoes, and I think that the shoes with the Nike + slot are some of the lower quality ones.

If you're looking into a pair, I'd recommend Brooks, Asics, or New Balance (#'s 700+). When you go though, make sure either yourself or someone helping you figures out whether you (over)pronate/neutral/supinate, and that you buy your shoe accordingly. It will save you a lot of injury.

(NT) thanks and have fun with the training and runs!

Ick

Yeah, I was one of the 300+ that got rocked by the heat. I had trained about 9 months, ate all the right things, did a 21 mile run and a 22 mile run which is about what is recommended, drank lots of water both the day before and the day of, so I felt as ready as possible. I had wanted to run the race in 4:00, but since the heat was going to be an issue, I dropped down to about a 4:30 pace, but somewhere around mile 10 I passed out from heat exhaustion and was unconscious for about 30 minutes and ended up in Lincoln Park hospital for about 7 hours getting pumped with fluids.

I'm pretty pissed because I really did everything right for the time that I was shooting for, but because of the weather, my body couldn't take it. I really didn't have any warning either, I don't remember much of the race, but it must have happened within a mile or less because I remember feeling completely fine at mile 9. It was just a combination of 88 degree weather, very humid, and 45000 people packed shoulder to shoulder creating just a ball of heat. I had a seeded start at corral D, but couldn't make it up there by the start, so ended up running with the masses. Oh, and the first two stops were out of water/gatorade, which is ridiculous for today.

Boo Chicago.