How many miles did you run today?

[bdavro23]

A lot of ppl in commercial gyms have really ****** squat form. Too many ppl are using the low bar wide foot stance when they should be doing a high bar narrower stance to get better quad engagement and development

Low bar is also a great way to **** your lumbar discs. If you dont do it right, which almost anyone at a commercial gym will be guilty of, it creates a ton of shear force and your sciatic nerve will be good and tingly in no time...

 

[Dusty Heaters]

The AlphaFly makes me think of @Dusty Heaters. How you doin', bud?

Hey! Doing great man. How are you?!

Sorry I have not been as active. We’re expecting our first child here in a couple months AND my wife gave me permission to build a home gym. Per usual, anything I do gets done to an extreme… So I overhauled this utility room in our basement and built a really nice setup. Put all the running on the sideline in favor of building my strength back. Back to a 1246 total - squat, bench, deadlift. Aiming for 1500.

Spoiler: Home Gym Progression

 

[jbarwick]

Hey! Doing great man. How are you?!

Sorry I have not been as active. We’re expecting our first child here in a couple months AND my wife gave me permission to build a home gym. Per usual, anything I do gets done to an extreme… So I overhauled this utility room in our basement and built a really nice setup. Put all the running on the sideline in favor of building my strength back. Back to a 1246 total - squat, bench, deadlift. Aiming for 1500.

Spoiler: Home Gym Progression

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Congrats on the upcoming kid! Based on some of you Strava pics I knew you were lifting some heavy weight

 

[sugarbutch]

Hey! Doing great man. How are you?!

Sorry I have not been as active. We’re expecting our first child here in a couple months AND my wife gave me permission to build a home gym. Per usual, anything I do gets done to an extreme… So I overhauled this utility room in our basement and built a really nice setup. Put all the running on the sideline in favor of building my strength back. Back to a 1246 total - squat, bench, deadlift. Aiming for 1500.

Spoiler: Home Gym Progression

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Awesome news about the home gym. And I guess the baby, too... Happy to hear you're doing well.

What about you @FlyingMonkey?

 

[Michigan Planner]

I raced in a mile run and then a 10k this morning. I thought the mile was going to be at the track but it was only partially on the track, then out to the street for a few blocks to a poorly marked turn-around and back. It wasn’t officially timed and I missed the turn around by a bit but I ran it in 6:24. If it were on the track, I think I could have shaved a few seconds off.

The 10k was on very flat streets through a residential neighborhood with the sun beating down. The temperature wasn’t quite 70° but it definitely felt warmed. My goal for the first 10k of the year was something under 45:00 and I met that with 44:28.

Looking at the results, I was second in my 40-49 age group but first in the male masters division. I didn’t even realize I was old enough for that.

 

[jbarwick]

Great workout in the gym this morning followed by yard word then a 7.3 mile run. Now just cooking some dinner before my body gives out to sleep

 

[Fueco]

4.8 miles on the local trails.

 

[sugarbutch]

30 miles this morning. The week:

74.2 miles
5h23m
3,301 ft

 

[jbarwick]

7.3 miles tonight after not wanting to run in the midday heat. Humidity is starting to rear it’s ugly head so back to nonstop hydrating

 

[Fueco]

5 miles on the local flat gravel trails. This was the warmest weather I’ve run in so far this year, with temps in the mid-80s.

 

[sugarbutch]

7 “miles” this evening. Abandoned hour-long Z2 ride after 25 minutes because it felt too hard for what it was, and HR stayed in Z3.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

So I was diagnosed with an inguinal hernia, and I am supposed to get a surgical consultation, but I decided I was going to start running again anyway. Apparently it's okay. I am in Ottawa for a few days, the first time I have been outside of my hometown for 2 years. So I've been out along the rivers today: just 8.4km, no idea how fast, I'm just getting out to get out.

 

[jbarwick]

That does not sound fun FM! I feel like hernia surgery has come a long way since I had one in the 80s as a kid. One "memory" I have from that time is sliding down a slide to my parents after the surgery. The thing is, it was a slide out of the hospital window. I must have been really high from the meds.

7.3 miles last night but the bugs were out in droves.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Same again today... 8.4km, no idea about the time. I love running here though.

 

[Michigan Planner]

7.6 easy miles this morning.

I went to the gym a couple of times just before Christmas but otherwise haven't been going regularly since March 2020. I've decided it's time to get back in there. I go early enough that it's never very crowded, I'm vaccinated and boosted, wipe things down where needed, etc.

Anyway.... my plan for now is to get in there Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings and maybe mornings it's too rainy to go running outside. In the summer I'm going to add spinning once or twice a week into the routine again as well. I've been twice now and am starting back slowly and never really lift a lot of heavy weight (for me it's more about trying to tone back up and work/move some muscles that don't get used much), but man am I feeling it already!