{"id":979,"date":"2014-04-28T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2014-04-28T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:37:46","slug":"long-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/long-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Long run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/134447715\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/134447715<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning long run&#8230; got lots of Strava kudos&#8230; but the thing is &#8211; it was actually pretty\u00a0horrible.<\/p>\n<p>I carry my Car2Go card in my pack on these runs as my eject handle. Even though I&#8217;m on trail most of the time, I cross through downtown twice and in an emergency I could find a car and drive my sorry ass home with my tail between my legs.<\/p>\n<p>Right from the get go things were off &#8211; my legs were really tight from my run Friday and I started way slower than I normally do. I got up early with the plan of getting out the door early; had a piece of toast and a glass of water and then filled my bottles and shoved off. Right away I had some stomach issues &#8211; mostly just from pushing the schedule. My system wasn&#8217;t quite ready.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to Lower Macleay at mile 7 I had an espresso Clif shot and drank some Tailwind. So doubling down on Tailwind &#8211; that was the only gel I ate the entire time. I drank 3 bottles of Tailwind and was calorically set for the entire run &#8211; 2 big thumbs up for that &#8211; it&#8217;s working for me.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; first the horribles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HRM strap was super irritating. My top pack strap was\u00a0rubbing it and causing it to rub my chest &#8211; I considered just taking it off&#8230; then decided to leave it for a few miles and then decide. I must have forgotten about it.<\/li>\n<li>Gloves off by mile 7, but then I put them back on, then off&#8230; kept doing this for a while. Maybe it&#8217;s just Spring weather and I&#8217;m being fickle &#8211; but I always get cold hands &#8230;or hot hands.<\/li>\n<li>Serious shorts issues. I wore my Pearl Izumi Fly Shorts that I love for so many reasons &#8211; gel pockets on either side (although I lost a raspberry Hammer gel that fell out of a pocket). The zippered back pocket for a keycard. They&#8217;re great for runs up to about 10 miles&#8230; after that the chafing starts. I needed Neosporin Saturday night. I&#8217;ve got to figure out what&#8217;s up b\/c that kind of chafing will take me out of a 50 miler. *I had body glide everywhere and it didn&#8217;t help.<\/li>\n<li>My legs didn&#8217;t really feel warmed up until about mile 12. They were tight the entire time, so my stride was really short (or felt like it).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The goods<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tailwind rocks&#8230; which means I could leave some food behind and lighten my load.<\/li>\n<li>Finally started to feel okay \/ better around mile 17 &#8211; I guess that&#8217;s good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20110109_160042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20110109_160042-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20110109_160042\" width=\"310\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>Some changes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immediately when I walked into the house&#8230; I dumped the contents of the ice machine into a bowl, filled up the bathtub to my waist with cold water, sat down and then dumped the bowl of ice in &#8211; I took an ice bath. I managed it for about 20 minutes. All the blood from my arms and legs pulled back into my core&#8230; then I got out and stood in the sun for a little while to warm up, then took a hot shower. \u00a0The effect the next morning was noticeable. \u00a0It&#8217;s kind of like flushing the toilet. All the lactic acid and junk that&#8217;s in your muscles gets flushed as the muscle contracts from the the cold &#8211; then warming up circulates the blood around and transports oxygen back into the muscles. I&#8217;ll be doing more ice baths after long runs this summer.<\/li>\n<li>I ordered some new shoes. My form is falling apart at 20+ miles and I want some more stability when that happens. I&#8217;m going to try the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ICzthRM206g\" target=\"_blank\">Pearl Izumi Trail M2<\/a>. I love the weight of the Pure Grit&#8217;s, but the support is lacking later in the (long) runs and I&#8217;m feeling the trail a little too much in my forefoot with no rock plate. I want to try something with a little bit more cushioning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you never have a bad run, how will you ever know when you&#8217;ve had a great run?<br \/>\nTru dat. It was a good learning run. I felt like shit, but it got better &#8230; and then it was over.<\/p>\n<p>Some say that running is the most apt metaphor for life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20101213_124144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20101213_124144-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20101213_124144\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/134447715 Saturday morning long run&#8230; got lots of Strava kudos&#8230; but the thing is &#8211; it was actually pretty\u00a0horrible. I carry my Car2Go card in my pack on these runs as my eject handle. Even though I&#8217;m on trail most of the time, I cross through downtown twice and in an emergency I could find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}