That’s awesome. I’m in your general age group and it’s good to have a peer to remind me we can still PR and keep getting it done. Great that you are encouraging others to join us 🤣❤️
Mountains have taught me so much about running. When I first started learning to run, there was a steep uphill at the end of the forest path I frequented which required me to slow to over 10 minutes per kilometer to make it up. I learned from this a valuable lesson for running, and for life: to make it through, sometimes I've gotta slow down to the extreme. As a running friend told me then, "the only pace too slow is not to move at all."
I also really appreciate your description of combining running and hiking, although, so far, my experience has been a bit different. I am both a runner and hiker, but when I tried doing them in the same excursion, I ended up tripping because the shift in gait threw my balance off. Once I even injured my knee. But maybe I should give it another try, slowly and carefully....
Thanks for reading & commenting! Around here, a lot of the mountain terrain is unrunnable because it's so steep and/or technical with rocks, so it's useful to constantly shift between running (a slow jog that gets a foot off the ground going uphill) and hiking. For example, on switchbacks that go up the side of a mountain, I might run a few steps on the straight part of the switchback, then hike the hairpin turn, whatever feels most efficient.
What I wouldn't give to attend a workshop and learn the right way!
I injured myself doing a marathon on the street years ago and never really run since. Every once in a while I'll jog/walk... but road work kills me now at 65.
That’s awesome. I’m in your general age group and it’s good to have a peer to remind me we can still PR and keep getting it done. Great that you are encouraging others to join us 🤣❤️
Wow, that route indeed looks intense!
Mountains have taught me so much about running. When I first started learning to run, there was a steep uphill at the end of the forest path I frequented which required me to slow to over 10 minutes per kilometer to make it up. I learned from this a valuable lesson for running, and for life: to make it through, sometimes I've gotta slow down to the extreme. As a running friend told me then, "the only pace too slow is not to move at all."
I also really appreciate your description of combining running and hiking, although, so far, my experience has been a bit different. I am both a runner and hiker, but when I tried doing them in the same excursion, I ended up tripping because the shift in gait threw my balance off. Once I even injured my knee. But maybe I should give it another try, slowly and carefully....
Thanks for reading & commenting! Around here, a lot of the mountain terrain is unrunnable because it's so steep and/or technical with rocks, so it's useful to constantly shift between running (a slow jog that gets a foot off the ground going uphill) and hiking. For example, on switchbacks that go up the side of a mountain, I might run a few steps on the straight part of the switchback, then hike the hairpin turn, whatever feels most efficient.
Very interesting. Perhaps I have yet to master the art of the slow jog. Maybe I was switching from walking to a sprint.
What I wouldn't give to attend a workshop and learn the right way!
I injured myself doing a marathon on the street years ago and never really run since. Every once in a while I'll jog/walk... but road work kills me now at 65.
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