Thank goodness I've been pretty healthy the last 8 weeks since getting back into the sport. Being older, a bit overweight, with a long history of sports injury, and a full-time student who needs to prioritize my health, I can honestly say I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT lol. Easy truly means easy. Almost all of my runs, I feel like I could have kept going without much effort. Slowly starting to integrate strength days and proper nutrition. Injuries really ARE mostly preventable.
What people don’t seem to understand is that super shoes are only 1% of the equation for the most elite runners. They are virtually useless (minus the physiological effect) for the average runner. As an “over 60” runner, short walk break intervals have allowed me to continue to enjoy the wonderous sport of distance running.
I can attest to the walk breaks. I do a 30 second walk break, every 6KM's. I managed to smash my marathon PB using this strategy. Clocked a time of 3:28
I'm not always injured but I did get a pretty bad case of runner's knee a few months back and it still isn't completely healed. Oddly enough I think my new bike gave me runner's knee lol. I just hope eventually this gets back to 100% but I'm starting to worry that won't be the case.
When I was diagnosed with runner’s knee, the physio identified weak glutes, hamstrings and abductors. As an older runner, that’s a common issue since we tend to lose strength in these areas as we age if we don’t take care of them.
May I get some advice? If I'm training for a 5k road race, but I want to train some track intervals, should I practice in spikes? Even if I'm faster in spikes on track, does that TRAINING translate to road race speed in road shoes? Thanks.
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Thank goodness I've been pretty healthy the last 8 weeks since getting back into the sport. Being older, a bit overweight, with a long history of sports injury, and a full-time student who needs to prioritize my health, I can honestly say I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT lol. Easy truly means easy. Almost all of my runs, I feel like I could have kept going without much effort. Slowly starting to integrate strength days and proper nutrition. Injuries really ARE mostly preventable.
What people don’t seem to understand is that super shoes are only 1% of the equation for the most elite runners.
They are virtually useless (minus the physiological effect) for the average runner.
As an “over 60” runner, short walk break intervals have allowed me to continue to enjoy the wonderous sport of distance running.
True.
I can attest to the walk breaks.
I do a 30 second walk break, every 6KM's.
I managed to smash my marathon PB using this strategy. Clocked a time of 3:28
I'm not always injured but I did get a pretty bad case of runner's knee a few months back and it still isn't completely healed. Oddly enough I think my new bike gave me runner's knee lol. I just hope eventually this gets back to 100% but I'm starting to worry that won't be the case.
I think I also developed a knee issue from doing cross training on a stationary bike, ironically to give my body a break from running.
@@kelli130I got this too, I think it was from my seat being slightly too low
When I was diagnosed with runner’s knee, the physio identified weak glutes, hamstrings and abductors. As an older runner, that’s a common issue since we tend to lose strength in these areas as we age if we don’t take care of them.
You are likely correct, if I over do it on my bike it can definitely make my running painful
would not blame the bike, rather, maybe you are not doing strength work ?
What are the strength training exercises I can do to make my knees strong and keep them fit to withstand my running activities
Walk backward on a treadmill and do wall sits and stuff imo. Basically do PT for a knee injury but before you get injured.
One legged squats by way of dips down from a box or stair step.
this video has a link to a strength training video
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May I get some advice? If I'm training for a 5k road race, but I want to train some track intervals, should I practice in spikes? Even if I'm faster in spikes on track, does that TRAINING translate to road race speed in road shoes? Thanks.
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