1 2
Posted: 1/24/2007 5:45 AM
Quote
xebra
Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 1203
Hmmm ...
  • Stretch your knees before and after each run.
  • Get running shoes with good padding. Also, they should fit your stride. (To adjust for pronation.)
  • After the after run stretch, ice your knees.
  • Run on a track instead of on cement.
  • Make sure you run with proper form to minimize impact with each step. You should be rolling off your heels instead of coming down with a jarring step. You can listen to your stride easily on a treadmill. Most people, when they run on a treadmill, go *thudthudthudthud* but you should try to minimize that. You should be able to run on a treadmill with virtually no noise due to impact. Get a feel for that noiseless stride and use it always.
  • Get used to it? My knees always ached a bit on runs over 9 or 10 miles but it was never anything debilitating.
Posted: 1/24/2007 5:51 AM
Quote
laughing_gas
Former player
Joined: 10/1/2006
Posts: 1102
Location: boot_camp
Don't run up a lot of hills. Hills absolutely destroy knees.
Borg Collective wrote:
Negotiation is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You will be assimilated.
Posted: 1/24/2007 6:49 AM
Quote
IdeaMagnate
Player (80)
Joined: 3/11/2005
Posts: 352
Location: Oregon
I've found some knee stretches and am making them part of my stretching routine, both before and after running. I bought a pair of trail/road running shoes, but I'll have to learn more. It's becoming evident to me that running isn't as simple as 'buy good shoes and go x miles by foot'. I'd go nuts running on a track for more than a few miles. Fortunately there are some nice running trails around here. I guess I'll get to know them very well in the near future. It's a good thing I live in a city that likes to call itself Track Town, USA. Proper form is probably my biggest problem. There's a treadmill at work that will work nicely to help me get a silent stride. Google will also help me here. A little soreness is great. It reminds me that I went out running. As long as it doesn't mess too much with my ability to function (or only does so when I'm first starting out), I'm happy. This help is great. Thanks.
ideamagnate| .seen aqfaq <nothing happens> DK64_MASTER| .seen nesvideoagent * DK64_MASTER slaps forehead
Posted: 1/25/2007 2:32 AM
Quote
xebra
Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 1203
Also, don't slouch when you run. Listening to some music helps make running around a track a little less boring. I just bought an iPod Shuffle!
Posted: 1/25/2007 9:45 PM
Quote
BillBull
Former player
Joined: 5/22/2004
Posts: 462
I bought an iPod last week just for training - it's really nice to have some music to listen to while running. I am still training, even if I'm not updating the spreadsheet very regularly. The other day I ran 5 miles and was only a little winded afterwards, so I'm making progress. I'm also feeling a bit of soreness after I run, although it's not so bad anymore. It's mainly in my knees and shins, but I suspect good form and good shoes will alleviate this quite a bit. I think that's about it. I don't check here very regularly anymore because I don't have internet at home (I'm at work right now) but I am still training and looking forward to this.
Posted: 6/10/2007 11:23 PM
Quote
xebra
Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 1203
So, Dan_ and IdeaMagnate, am I going to see you there?
Posted: 6/10/2007 11:40 PM
Quote
laughing_gas
Former player
Joined: 10/1/2006
Posts: 1102
Location: boot_camp
xebra, you're supposed to be dead.
Borg Collective wrote:
Negotiation is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You will be assimilated.
Posted: 6/11/2007 4:17 AM
Quote
BillBull
Former player
Joined: 5/22/2004
Posts: 462
No. Work got in the way (lame excuse, I know). I've got a biiig meeting the first weekend in August that I have to go to or else. Sorry bud, it would have been fun.
Posted: 6/11/2007 8:40 PM
Quote
Chamale
He/Him
Player (178)
Joined: 10/20/2006
Posts: 1352
Location: Canada
I thought Xebra was dead. Umm...
Posted: 6/11/2007 8:43 PM
Quote
moozooh
Senior Moderator
Joined: 8/4/2005
Posts: 5770
Location: Away
Chamale wrote:
I thought Xebra was dead. Umm...
You really thought so?
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 6/11/2007 8:44 PM
Quote
Rridgway
Joined: 2/13/2007
Posts: 448
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Um, I seem to remember this post.
xebra wrote:
This is the 1155th time I’ll speak to you from this forum, and the last. Know that it is with a heavy heart I type these, the last words I will ever record. I need not be reminded of the oath forsworn, short days ago, that the unsuccessful conclusion of my run would perforce coincide with the ineluctable conclusion of my life. I know more than some see me as a naught but a nuisance, a bother, and I am pleased to think that I shall be able to free those from any further effects of my presence, though I fear it is at a cost which will give pain to my friends. I have already explained to you, however, that my career here has in any case reached its crisis, and that no possible conclusion could be more congenial to me than this. Indeed, if I may make a full confession to you, I was quite convinced that my effort would be rejected, and I allowed its submission under the persuasion that some development of this sort would follow. My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this site, and the kindness of its members, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a decade, and have passed from a boy to a man. Here my dreams have been born, and one is buried. But I never forgot, how oft we tremble in the frost to catch snowflakes, on nose, or lash, or lips, knowing they must melt. I take my leave of you with these simple words: remember me, and pray believe me to be, my dear friends, ......Very sincerely yours, ............xebra
On a unrelated topic, originally I thought it was like the race through saskatchewan with those bumper stickers. Good luck.
Renting this space for rent. Trying to fix image on this site. Please cut slack. As of April 6th, 2012: After a long absence, here we go again?
Posted: 7/30/2007 12:22 AM
Quote
flagitious
Player (200)
Joined: 7/6/2004
Posts: 511
How's training for that race coming along, when is it anyways?
g,o,p,i=1e4,a[10001];main(x){for(;p?g=g/x*p+a[p]*i+2*!o: 53^(printf("%.4d",o+g/i),p=i,o=g%i);a[p--]=g%x)x=p*2-1;}
Posted: 8/15/2007 1:42 AM
Quote
xebra
Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 1203
Chamale wrote:
I thought Xebra was dead. Umm...
Oh, it killed me, for sure. Anyone want to give it a shot next year?
1 2