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  • #695398
    yoshi
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    VMR48843, Welcome to the runners group!

    Other types of training is an excellent idea. I do some weights, ab exercises, leg exercises, pilates, etc. If it wasn’t for the pilates I don’t think I’d have the balance or flexibility to run very well. Also the leg exercises and intervals give me the strength to run harder than ever! and the other exercises gives my body an overall strength, health and well being.

    I never thought about bringing a cell phone with me before. That’s incredibly smart and safe of you. From now on I will be bringing a phone with me. Thanks for the advice!

    I’m ALSO extremely excited to announce that I’ve been accepted to run the NYC Marathon!!!

    Good Luck to everyone else who applied, I hope you get in as well!!!

    Have a great shabbos!

    Happy Running!

    #695399
    yoshi
    Member

    Just wondering who from NJ will be running the NYC marathon this year?

    #695401
    yoshi
    Member

    Where have all my fellow runners gone?! 🙁 Waaaaaaaa

    #695402

    I would LIKE to not hate running. Does that make you feel any better?

    #695403
    Ashreinu
    Participant

    There’s the ING Marathon in Miami in January 31st, 2010 and one in Las Vegas DEcember 6th 2009. Chai Lifeline has a large group presence every year. If you sign up and join (and commit to raising abt. $1,500, they fly you down and you spend the weekend in a hotel w them), you have access to training and guidance from a top running coach.

    There;s a marathon and 1/2 marathon option. I have lots of friends who’ve done it.

    Check out : Teamlifeline.com

    #695404
    yoshi
    Member

    YW Moderator-80 – But running is so much fun! Plus it’s cheaper than getting an elliptical or joining a gym 😉

    Ashreinu – You seem to know a lot about races and places. Have you ran in one before? Can you tell us your experiences and type of training regimen you did. Thanks!

    #695405

    yoshi

    Actually I hate running and I enjoy it also. You might know what I mean. Sometimes I even feel a craving to run. I don’t though. Not yet

    #695406
    yoshi
    Member

    It’s ok. At least you have the craving to run. That’s a start 🙂

    #695407

    DO IT

    #695408
    yoshi
    Member

    mi keamcha yisroel – You sound like an old Nike ad, “Just do it.”

    #695409
    yoshi
    Member

    With the weather cooling down a bit, running should be a “breeze.” (lol) So how is everyone doing with their running routine? I was wondering, how many miles on average do you run a week? Also, anyone try the Nike+ that connects to your ipod? Does it work well, or is it just all a hype.

    #695410
    dunno
    Member

    will running about 20-30 minutes every day @ 7 mph keep me in shape if i eat relatively healthy foods?

    #695411
    yoshi
    Member

    dunno, That’s not too bad, but maybe running a little slower for at least 45 minutes is a bit better to keep you in great shape. Do you run that speed and time now?

    #695412
    dunno
    Member

    yeah not that i’ve been doing it that long…about a week so far lol but i don’t really have time or patience to do it 4 that long

    #695413
    yoshi
    Member

    dunno, A 7 minute mile is very good timing! You should be proud, that means you’re in good shape already. If you want, you can split up the runs. In the morning do 25-30 minutes of running, and in the evening do another 25-30 minutes of running. You can still get the same health benefits by doing it like that.

    #695414
    yoshi
    Member

    *Correction: I meant to write 7 miles an hour. Both are still good times 😉

    #695415
    dunno
    Member

    ya that’s the thing. i don’t have a set time that i run. it can be morning, afternoon, night, depending on the days schedule. i think as time goes on i’ll try to devote some more time 2 it…thanks for answering, though!

    #695416
    yoshi
    Member

    No problem! I love everything with regards to running, so feel free to ask away! And the more running you do, the more addictive it can become. Also, if you enter into a 5k (3.1 miles) race, your love for running will be even more intense. Just the thrill of running with a bunch of people, and having strangers cheer you on, and getting to the finish line is an incredible feeling.

    #695417
    yoshi
    Member

    The NYC Marathon is This Sunday! Anyone running it?

    #695418
    NY Mom
    Member

    Yoshi: Are you really going to run in the NYC marathon? Hatzlochoh! I heard that there will be several Jewish groups running including Team Ohel and Soveya. There will even be a shacharis minyan at the runner’s village.

    #695419
    koma
    Member

    Used to run. 2 mi/day, often 6 days a week. This was back in the day when it was very un-frum to do. I would catch all manner of snide and nasty comments. I started with really crummy shoes, and sort of flat feet. Two years of that gave me plantar fasciitis. A sports podiatrist made me arches with one side about 3/4″ higher, because he measured from hip to ankle and there was a difference. With these and fancy shoes I lasted about a year of running untill it became too painful. Years later, I learned from chiropractors and Osteopaths, that it is possible to twist your pelvis by missing a step or other minor tramas, and that my legs were not 3/4″ off. In my Hazolah carrer, I would run as necessary, but today, I am just a 50+ that walks like a madman.

    #695420
    yoshi
    Member

    NY Mom, Yep! Thanks so much for the encouragement, and information. I need all the help I can get. This is going to be my first marathon, so I’m extremely nervous.

    It was nice seeing Jewish people at the Expo yesterday. There was also a Jewish family who had a booth there. Hope everyone got their bibs already, I only found out only a week before the expo, that you have to pick it up there Thursday, Friday and Saturday, because they don’t mail it or give it out on race day.

    #695421
    Bais Yaakov maydel
    Participant

    for all those running the marathon tomorrow…just something interesting to know: there will be 40 israelis running with/for mayor barkat (of jerusalem)…you might spot them with “team barkat” jackets 🙂

    good luck!

    #695422
    NY Mom
    Member

    So, yoshi, how was it? How did you do? Hope everything went well!

    #695423
    yoshi
    Member

    Bais Yaakov maydel, Thanks so much!

    It was an amazing event! I want to thank everyone who cheered us on!

    How did it go for the rest of you?

    #695424
    mazca
    Member

    cousin won a medal

    #695425
    bein_hasdorim
    Participant

    I usually run when i’m late for minyan, or when i have to move the car for alternate

    side parking in the morning, this happens pretty often.

    This is how I get my exercise.

    Sometimes when the wind gets hold of my hat, I am also forced to run after it.

    Somehow it almost always finds it’s way into a nice puddle.

    This is how I get my mussar.

    Sometimes when i go away on vacation I use the hotels exercise room.

    When i’m on the treadmill I usually look in the mirror while running.

    That is when I get my mussar & exercise simultaneously.

    #695426
    yoshi
    Member

    NY Mom, Thanks! It was incredible! Even though I thought my legs would fall off, I actually finished the 26.2 miles! I never thought my body was capable of doing such things. There were times I wanted to cry, but I somehow crawled myself through that finish line, alive!

    #695427
    mybat
    Member

    Congratulations yoshi!!

    #695428
    dunno
    Member

    wow that’s incredible yoshi!!

    #695429
    yoshi
    Member

    mybat, Thanks! 🙂

    #695430
    bluechazzan
    Participant

    congrats yoshi.

    What was your time?

    #695431
    NY Mom
    Member

    Hurray for Yoshi! That’s amazing!

    #695432
    yoshi
    Member

    Awe Thanks so much everyone!

    It (somewhat) reminded me of having a baby.

    While going through the pain and agony you think, “I will never do this again, what was I thinking, Waaaa.”

    Then a few days pass, and you think, “okay, I’m ready for another!” (maybe more time needs to pass after having a baby though lol).

    #695433
    Ashreinu
    Participant

    Congratulations Yoshi!! Wow. What an inspiration!! Yasher Koach. May you continue to go onto bigger and better things…

    I was actually at the expo on Friday (as an observer) and was at the marathon in Central Park (yes, also as an observer)…. I must say, I was floored and I actually cried a few times.

    Watching people stream by me, from all walks of life, all ages, abilities etc, was cool. It hit me that each person trained for months even years to get to this point (I was watching at Mile 26.1). It really gave me alot of chizuk about sticking to goals and what can be accomplished with patience, fortitude and hard work…. If an amazing physical feat like this could be done, kal v’chomer the spiritual ones!!

    As R’ Ratz says, “the physical world has hidden elements of the spiritual world in it. If you look right, you can learn about the spiritual world from almost all things physical…

    Seeing the many kinds of disabled runners made me cry all over again…. 1 man with no arms, raised his tiny stubs (what his upper arms would be) amidst the soaring cheers, another hand cyclist had a prosthetic leg attached to the back of his bike, and plenty of others. Old people, heavy people, very short people…..some people and me thinking, “if they can do it, I can do it!”

    26.2 just seems like so much.

    Yoshi, tell us how you did it. What helped you through all the training, training and running the race?

    Share with us some words of running wisdom.

    #695434
    yoshi
    Member

    Ashreinu, Thank you so much for your kind words!

    The race was absolutely incredible and magical, but there were times when things got so tough, I didn’t know if I was going to pass out or not. I may have shed a few emotional and physical painful tears from time to time. How I was able to crawl through that finish line still amazes me today when I think about the whole experience.

    I would suggest for someone to train for a good full year for a marathon. Maybe even enter in some 5ks, 10ks, 1/2 marathons, etc races, while training, just to give yourself a feel for what the real race day could be like. I wish I could say that I trained for the proper amount of time, or that I read up on everything regarding racing, but I didn’t, and boy was that seriously irresponsible and dangerous of me. I trained very little prior to the race. I kept pushing off training, or only running here and there once in a while.

    Come race day, I was incredibly nervous, my recent long runs were no more than 8 miles. As I began to run, I felt as if I was gliding along the paths. This feeling stayed strong within me for the first 15 miles which was done in 3 hours exactly. Then suddenly I felt sick to my stomach, my knees were giving out, I had the shivers. I slowed down significantly, but I didn’t allow myself to stop because I knew that the moment I stopped moving, I would not be able to go on with the race. After some tears, nausea, chills, and some purging, not to mention how much pain I was experiencing, I made it through the finish line. And to top it off, the volunteers, and cheerers were absolutely incredible! (Not to mention the nice solid medal they gave me the moment I passed the finish).

    As I may have mentioned before, not too long ago I started having this love for running. To elaborate on that “love” and “experience” would take me literally hours to write.

    Thank You All for the amazing support, and good luck to those who are in the midst of training for a race. To all those avid runners out there, keep up the amazing work, and if you are thinking about, or in the process of becoming a runner, don’t give up, anything you accomplish, even if it’s less than a mile, it’s more than you would do if you had not picked up your feet to begin with.

    #695435
    Chamanit
    Member

    First fifteen miles!? How far was your race?

    #695436
    yoshi
    Member

    Chamanit, The marathon was 26.2 miles. That’s awesome to hear that you run in races as well! My first race ever was a 5k.

    #695437
    NY Mom
    Member

    Chamanit: First fifteen miles!? How far was your race?

    If you read previous posts, you will see that Yoshi ran the NYC marathon – 26.2 miles.

    Yoshi: Amazing story! Don’t know how you did it!!!

    #695438
    dunno
    Member

    Time to bring this thread back up.

    Apparently, stretches don’t help me as I still have lower leg pain after I run. I usually still run even with the pain but I have a feeling I might end up paying for that in the long run. Any suggestions?

    #695439
    yoshi
    Member

    A big thank you to “Dunno” for resurrecting this motivational healthy thread!

    Leg aches are not always easy to diagnose the underline problem, which may be originating from a completely different muscle than one would think. Many lower leg pains (and in my experience) usually come from underdeveloped hip muscles and a weak core.

    I have found that on the days that don’t include running, are best for cross training exercises (i.e. biking, rowing, elliptical, etc). Also, adding exercises like pilates and/or yoga to your routine is essential for building a strong core and stability for running successfully.

    Don’t forget to add in some strength training to your routine as well (i.e. push ups, chin ups, free weights, etc).

    There are times when running through the pain is not a bad idea, but some injuries require a rest/recovery time or one can potentially further injure themselves, and have an even longer recovery time.

    Where exactly are the pains on your legs? Is it in one centralized area, or is it more of a radiating pain throughout an entire area? Is it a burning sensation, stinging, throbbing, or dull type of pain? When do you usually start feeling pain, and when does it feel better? Is it both your legs or just one?

    Any additional information will help.

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