The Running Thread --2025

[jmasgat]

My mitts are ASICS (had DH text me the brand)…but as with much of my gear, it is older and discontinued.

 

[flav]

Is Decathlon the brand of the first one? I am looking for something similar and can't find it. I found some similar versions to the Auclair that you have in the middle. And you're right, they're a bit pricier.

Decathlon is the store that sells them. It is their own Kiprun brand 12$CDN
https://www.decathlon.ca/en/p/8759614/running-gloves-mitten-cover-evolutive-v2-black

Auclair seem to be three time that price. Lululemon and Craft are about five time that price.

 

[dobball23]

Decathlon is the store that sells them. It is their own Kiprun brand 12$CDN
https://www.decathlon.ca/en/p/8759614/running-gloves-mitten-cover-evolutive-v2-black

Thanks for the link. It is almost impossible to find those that will ship to the U.S.! I'll keep an eye out, though.

 

[PrincessV]

Posing a candidate for Question of the Day…

Do you take a break from running following a race/race weekend? If so, how long? Do you also take a break from other workouts?

ATTQOTD: I thought I recovered quickly from the WDW Half - I was out at a park later that day, stood cheering for a few hours Sunday and went to a park all afternoon. Then I did a light ST+easy yoga session last night… oh. Yeah, I’ve definitely still got some sore spots lol! My brain is antsy for a run, but I’ll wait until at least Sunday and see how I feel then.

 

[kleph]

ATTQOTD: yes, if it was a target race. basically i try and have a "mirror image" of the taper, gradually adding miles until I'm fully recovered.

no if it's part of training for a specific race. then i stick to the plan. if it's "for the heck of it" i dont run hard or far enough for it to matter.

 

[Zutroy]

ATTQOTD:

I did the Goofy last weekend, and I went out for both at medium-hardish pace. My body was sore, but not too bad. I’m doing Princess next month, so I’ll be resuming running soon. How soon depends on how my body feels.

I haven’t run since Sunday, but I still exercise every day. Monday I did 30 minutes of yoga. Tuesday I lifted weights for an hour. Today I lifted weights for 90 minutes. I’ll get back to running either tomorrow or Friday. I’m probably going to do 5 miles easy pace, but I’ll listen to my body and adjust accordingly.

 

[The Expert]

ATTQOTD: I read somewhere once that you should take a day off per mile run when you've made a hard effort, but for me that's long enough to risk breaking the running habit. I just go by feel. I've been foam rolling and doing light yoga type stretching daily since Dopey and things are feeling pretty good. I may jump on the treadmill today or tomorrow for a few miles of easy walking or even short intervals. I don't have any races planned until SS 10K, so I'll get back into some maintenance running in another week or so.

 

[marty3d]

ATTQOTD: Depends on pace and distance for me but post Dopey, I was out at the parks Sunday, Monday was DATW and AH with yesterday as a travel day (and if I wasn't travelling - I would have kept walking to a minimum). My plan is to start working out (weight training) again tomorrow and running next weekend - I'll slowly build up my mileage until I start HM training again in late February.

After a half, I usually take 5-7 days off from running so extending that to 10-14 for Dopey.

 

[marty3d]

ATTQOTD: I read somewhere once that you should take a day off per mile run when you've made a hard effort, but for me that's long enough to risk breaking the running habit. I just go by feel. I've been foam rolling and doing light yoga type stretching daily since Dopey and things are feeling pretty good. I may jump on the treadmill today or tomorrow for a few miles of easy walking or even short intervals. I don't have any races planned until SS 10K, so I'll get back into some maintenance running in another week or so.

I remember reading the same thing when I first started running and running 10k races. Taking 6 or 7 days off after a hard 10k seemed to make sense. But like you, Id worry about getting out of the habit if I took 26 days off (or is it 48.6 days?).

 

[Herding_Cats]

ATTQOTD:
Since I only seem to do long races, I usually take about a week off and then see how I feel. I find that if I take off more than about a week I have a really hard time getting started again.

 

[sandam1]

Do you take a break from running following a race/race weekend? If so, how long? Do you also take a break from other workouts?

ATTQOTD: I finished Dopey on Sunday. Doing the after hours at the Magic Kingdom on Monday night and flying home yesterday morning equaled an additional night of about 4.5 hours of sleep so right now I'm running on fumes and massive amounts of caffeine. While I probably could do the easy recovery runs that I originally had on my schedule, I asked my coach to take everything off until next Friday and replace it with cross-training. I will try to get in some aqua jogging, biking, light strength, or short walks in the meantime, but I am putting catching up on rest/sleep above everything else.

I am doing "just" the half during Princess weekend so that impacts things a little bit as I do have a deadline to get running again.

But like you, Id work about getting out of the habit if I took 26 days off (or is it 48.6 days?).

I will tell you that, after my first Dopey, my runs until the end of February were terrible. They were hard. My paces were off. It was like I was back to when I first started running. But right about the 48 days mark, things flipped and I felt "normal" again. So, personally, I do put a lot of stock in the one day per mile. That doesn't mean to not run, but it does mean to scale back your expectations and how hard you are going to be pushing.

 

[nancipants]

ATTQOTD: The wise DopeyBadger told me two weeks no running after the marathon, so that's what I'm sticking to.

 

[pluto377]

ATTQOTD: It just depends. I usually take at least a few days off, sometimes a week or more. I'm hoping to get back out there on Friday or Saturday because I have Princess 10K and NYC Half coming up.

 

[accm]

I just registered for Moonlight Magic, and the view on opening multiple windows to improve your chances in the DVC boards are very different from here. I had some lower queue IDs after I registered, but ended up not sharing it since everyone is so openly against it. It's so different from here, where we all help each other out.

 

[KCO5988]

ATTQOTD: For an A race that I'm going all out on and is the focus of my training plan, I'll usually take 3 days off after and then pick up with shorter easy pace runs. Then I try to keep 2-3 weeks of easy pace runs before I pick up with speedwork again. I usually try to incorporate rundisney race weekends into my training plan for an A race so will only take the day after the half off, as I normally do the day after long runs.

 

[SheHulk]

ATTQOTD: I read somewhere once that you should take a day off per mile run when you've made a hard effort, but for me that's long enough to risk breaking the running habit. I just go by feel. I've been foam rolling and doing light yoga type stretching daily since Dopey and things are feeling pretty good. I may jump on the treadmill today or tomorrow for a few miles of easy walking or even short intervals. I don't have any races planned until SS 10K, so I'll get back into some maintenance running in another week or so.

I think that advice is meant to be: Don't do any hard efforts for as many days as you had miles, not no running at all for that long. And I'll bet that only applies when you were racing all out at that distance. But even that advice seems pretty long when you are in the range of something like Dopey!

ATTQOTD: I told myself I was taking 2 weeks off after the marathon, more to give myself a mental break than anything else. But that was prior to the race, when I planned on running it, if not all-out, then at least at a reasonable effort for me. But everybody has a strategy until they get punched in the mouth, and I wound up not running the race at a good effort. So on Monday I was thinking maybe one week off, since I didn't feel too bad afterward. Today I'm already thinking maybe I'll get back to it on the weekend. Depends on the weather more than anything else. That's the mental break that I need: I can run if I want to, but if it's cold or inconvenient I don't have to.

 

[sandam1]

ATTQOTD: I told myself I was taking 2 weeks off after the marathon, more to give myself a mental break than anything else

I'm going to second this thought! I definitely feel like I need to "cleanse my palate" a little bit and that has really factored into my decision-making progress over how to handle the next couple of weeks. Also, for me, I did A LOT of my final long runs on the indoor track. Just the thought of spending more time on the track right (sadly a fact of life in Buffalo in January) makes me twitch.

 

[fatmanatee]

ATTQOTD: after NYC in November I wanted to get a couple of runs in before heading to Japan for a couple of weeks so I did so a few days after the race and it felt like I was running in quicksand. Not doing that again!

I have another race in a week and a half though so I might try to do something this weekend. Priority for the rest of the year is to get a new half POT in my pocket and I might try chasing sub 2:00 again.

 

[Dopey 2020]

ATTQOTD I take a break but not nearly as long as a few years back. I go by feel but go slower than usual knowing that even though I feel good, my body is still recovering. Post dopey and having raced the marathon, I was planning on 5 miles this coming Saturday, it may happen on Friday as I feel great right now and don’t want to lose the 5 day/week habit over winter.

 

[GuinnessRunner]

I have some gift cards I received during the Christmas season and I would like to buy myself some gloves for running. I live in PA and my hands are always cold. I can never find gloves that keep my hands warm. I've added some rechargeable hand warmers to my options this year, but I'm still looking for warmer gloves/mittens.

Any suggestions? For me, it's more important for them to be warm than to be streamlined.

I have poor circulation in my hands so they are often too cold even with gloves. So I found these running mittens on Amazon. Keep me warm and ability to flip back the tops (rather than take them off) to use my phone is great.

https://www.amazon.com/Fingerless-C...-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1