slow runners pity party (Page 6)

I'm with you, a 10 min mile would be amazing. I can do it for 1 mile, but anything longer and I am at 13:00/mi, all day long.

What about that guy is built to run??  I would say you are more built to run.  You have better posture, you most certainly weigh less, your hips and knees appear to track better.  What I see is a guy that appears to be suffering a hell of lot more than you.

9:20 is a very respectable pace, mind if I ask how much you are running per week?  You can PM so as not to take away from the pity party!

I think your avatar photo is perfectly fine as is.

My 5k PR is 29:51. I did my first marathon a few weeks ago in 4:53:18 (11:12 pace). I did my long runs at close to that; my 20 mile training run was something like a 11:45 average pace, but I got super bored and it was a hot day so I 4/1 gallowalked the last hour.

Anyway, your pace goal for the marathon is totally reasonable!!

This is me in my first triathlon. They also had a 5k race (same as the tri race course) that started about the same time that I happened to be starting the run leg of the race. I'm near the finish line (pardon the goofy expression on my face) and I am keeping pace with a middle-aged gentleman in a knee brace....and he's walking. (To be fair, I hadn't ran in two months due to injury and this was less than a month after I'd been cleared to run again....)

It'll happen. I finally got one of my own. Not sure how I managed to be airborne as this was 23 or 24 miles into my first marathon....but I'm flying!!

Thank you!  But it still doesn't take away from the fact that I don't have a single race pic of me actually 'running'... or at least my version of running. 

Nice!  I actually just went to take a look at any race photos... and I've got plenty on the bike, and a few finishers poses, but absolutely NONE on the run.  Probably because people took pity on me and decided that it would be too painful to share the evidence of my non-run ability! 

And he's like a foot taller than you! You look cute. I love the shoes.

Oh, I love a good pity party.  Nice to know I'm not the only slow runner out there, because it sure feels like I am!  During all of our tri training classes, I'm always the last to finish our runs.  By the time I'm done, most people are gone and the coaches are packing up to leave.  Recently, when running on a track, there was a nice family out there running with their kids, and I even got passed by their little 3 year old.  Sigh.  BUT, I am a very new runner (started 4 months ago).  As a kid, I could NEVER run a mile.  EVER.  Well, I just ran my first solid mile a couple of weeks ago (11:15), and I'm freaking 39 years old, so that to me is exciting!!  Today, I ran 3 miles on a treadmill, and wanted to see how fast I could do it because about a month ago I couldn't get below 40 minutes.  Today I did it in 37:04.  So I'm hovering around a 12mm now, which is amazing to me.  Maybe next year I'll be averaging a 10mm and throw a serious party! 

I'm happy to be running at all, considering I was in chemotherapy a year ago and told I wasn't likely to make it.  Not only did I make it, but I'm running now.  Ya can't beat that!!  Oh, I guess I'm a bit too cheery to be very good at this pity party stuff, huh?

^That!!!  Nice to find "my people"  

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I think of myself as a tank...Slow steady and pretty tough, at that speed!  

Here are a couple of 'run' photos....I really am running but looks like I'm walking. The real bad ones I"m not posting...

This one is pretty good as I saw photographer so I smiled....5 miles into IM run after being sick on bike for hours.

Dude, you can go 10 mph on the bike? And you call it slow? Do I have to start a new thread on slow biking?

Actually, my first tri had a beast of one hill on a 12 mile course. I averaged 9.2 mph since I walked the bike up the hill and hit 27.5 on the downhill. I went out today to try to redo the course so I could pedal the whole thing instead of walking it. I got partway up the hill and the road was closed for a bridge out that would have required a Dukes of Hazzard move to get over, so I turned around and came back. Felt like I had a good ride. Avg mph - 13. Getting there.

Thank you run zen master.

I gave it my all today.  My all happened to be 9 somethings with a walk break.  I'm cool with that.

^^^^This is great!^^^.  I have taken Scout's advice and am running more frequently, mostly at an easy pace. I went out the other day and was able to do 3 miles at a 12m pace while keeping my HR in zone 2.  This is a huge accomplishment for me.  I literally felt like I was flying and had this big smile on my face the entire time.  You'd think I just qualified for Boston or something  I am more than OK with this pace, I'm elated!

See....this is why this kind of talk is so non-productive. My stand alone 1/2 mary PR is 2:18:59. (Actually, I hit 2:17 and change at the half mark of my 26.2, so I consider that to be my PR.) I was super proud of that time. I know it wasn't the intention, but it does sting a little to think, "Yay! 2:17!" and then see someone else pooh-poohing that time.

This is why I'm not a fan of self-deprecating humor...because the thing you deprecate may be the same thing that someone else is incredibly proud to achieve!!