Bravoyeur

Hope the race went well. My keeping up with BravesBlast during training for the ING half marathon was a little sparse as well so everyone’ll understand. Now you just have to post twice as much.

How’d the race go?

Well, we’ll just keep turning Ash’s site into a running discussion

Anyways, my training for the ING half was awful. I was down for a month with foot problems and then another month with knee problems. Which really isn’t the best since I was trying to train in 3.5 month period haha. But no, I usually stick to about 4 days a week depending on my schedule at work. 3-6 miles MWF and then a long run on a weekend day. For the month before the race, I try to have built up to getting at least 5 in on the weekdays.

I’m trying to get started training for the RnR half in Virginia Beach over Labor Day (registered for that one, Disney in January and the next ING) but the knee is still struggling from the one in March. The orthopedist and physical therapists are doing their best though. I ran the Big Peach 5k a couple weekends ago to feel it out. Ran it in 32 min but the knee held up well so I was happy about that.

Ok, that was longer winded than I meant to write. I’ll go ahead and throw a link to your site on BravesBlast, Ash. If nothing else, so I don’t have to type the URL.

Haha, don’t worry about it too much. Are you planning on training for longer distances? My biggest recommendation is don’t try to increase distance or make changes to your routine too quickly. My knee problems from the ING are just from that; I got behind on training because of the foot injury and tried to increase my distance too quickly.

You’ll be alright though. I didn’t play many sports throughout college either and then in these two years since I’ve decided that I needed to do something with myself.

I played baseball up until the middle of high school and then didn’t really do anything outside of occasional rec sports once I moved to Atlanta for my 6 years in college. I think I must’ve started and quit on running about 20 times.

But once I got out and settled into my job, I started running with a few friends and that made it easier. At least you have some running background . . . I’m fighting some serious unathletic genes.

Thanks

I guess that’s a valid point. I sustained a couple of those myself, but usually from getting hit in the face after running my mouth………you learn the hard way sometimes.

I don’t think we’ve been Braves-related for awhile….but neither was the original post, so it’s okay.

IT-bands can be a little tricky, but it’s pretty common and they have good braces for them if you really want to keep running with it.

Good stretching routines are key. I usually stretch for about 20 minutes after a run. Some days I’m exhausted and just don’t do it . . . I can tell for like a week afterwards.