Distance Run

This past Saturday I did another 20 mile run.

On my Tuesday run, I was feeling strong. I felt great. Two days after running 20 miles I blasted out my mid-week 7 mile “warm up” run at less than 8 minutes per mile, which is pretty damn fast for me.

But I paid the price. By Tuesday night and most of Wednesday, parts of my calf muscles were very sore and soft. Hurt like crazy. The result is that I had to scratch what would otherwise been two “hard” training workouts later in the week that I may have been able to do if I could contain myself Tuesday.

Your body can put up with a lot, but the distance can crush you.

Learning Lesson: Never run hard after a long run. Get back into it slowly. Respect the distance.

Bill

For the record, the Nike’s Dri-Fit fabric does not live up to it’s name.

This fabric holds water like nobody’s business.

For a long time I used a pair of Nike Dri-Fit compression shorts under my running shorts to prevent chaffing on long runs.

But I’m realizing that the cause more problems than they solve. The fact that they hold water for what appears to be an eternity (they took almost 5 hours to dry after being removed from the wash), means they keep water close to the skin. This makes the skin more susceptible to torturous chaffing.

I will be retiring the Dri-Fit gear I have, and focusing on finding running shorts that don’t chaff or bunch :)

PS, Hey Nike, did you ever think that some people don’t use Flash player! Their site is useless without it, so I can’t even link you to the products that I’m retiring…

Bye bye, Nike.

To be honest, I was never sold on the fact that Nike could make good endurance running gear… I guess I’ll still wear the cap. It does keep the sun out of my eyes, and fortunately I don’t chaff behind my ears! :)

Bill