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Chicago Marathon Weekend with Ten Junk Miles

Chicago Marathon Weekend with Ten Junk Miles

BY PATH PROJECTS OCTOBER 16, 2019

🚨Enter to Win a $100 gift card, see details below. 🚨

running in chicago
We just came back from 4 days of running, cheering and meeting with friends in Chicago. The marathon weekend was in full effect with many running activities. 
We met up with the Ten Junk Miles podcast to eat the best deep-dish pizza in town and to record a group show. We had a long conversation about how Path Projects started, things we have learned in the past 2 years, upcoming products and much more. Episode link to follow next month.
ten junk miles podcast
With Scott Kummer, Holly Lindroth and Adam Benkers in the Ten Junk Miles studio.
After visiting the marathon expo, we went for a running tour of downtown Chicago. The rain and wind was coming down in full force and gave us a glimpse of fall running in the Midwest.
running group in chicago
floris gierman and scott kummer ten junk miles
On Saturday morning, we set up a marathon shake out run with friends from Path Projects, Ten Junk Miles and Extramilest. Great to meet runners from all over the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. We ran by the water front and talked marathon training and racing strategies.
group run in chicago
On Sunday we cheered on more than 40,000 marathoners at mile 24 on Michigan Ave. Very exciting to see the elite runners flying by so fast and smooth. 
Incredible to watch Brigid Kosgei set a new women's world record in 2:14:04
Coach Morgan from The Run Experience hosted a 2 hour live web cast from mile 24, while everyone cheered on the runners.
path projects ten junk miles and the run experience

 

Join our upcoming group runs:

Oct 31 - Thu
Central Park Group Run, New York
Join us for a mellow 4 ish mile run.

Nov 1 - Fri
Path Projects photo shoot - Central Park, New York
Join us to shoot some photos for the Path Projects Blog

Nov 2 - Sat
New York Marathon Shakeout Run
Join us for a short (30 minutes) shakeout run. Hang, chat, and more!

Dec 7 - Sat 
CIM Marathon Shakeout Run - Sacramento, CA
Join us for a short (30 minutes) shakeout run. Hang, chat, and more!

🚨Enter to Win a $100 gift card🚨

Congrats to last week's winner AJ Neufeld for winning 1 Cascade T-shirt and 2 Tahoe Base liners. 

This week enter to win a $100 gift card from Path Projects. Let us know in the comments, what is one advice you would give other runners looking to improve their running?

 

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174 commenti

Vary your training. Running the same miles, at the same pace, in the same place, on the same schedule is a recipe for burnout. Shake up your training by exploring different locales. Improve your performance with a mix of speed, hills, recovery, road, trail, cross training, etc

Greg Smith,

In your mind start counting starting from 1 to infinity (repeat if your mind wanders or you get fatigued). Gets you in the trance zone!!!

Henry Wong,

Get plenty of sleep and cut down on sugar. Easy to say, but tough to live!

Tim McCleskey,

Some advice I would share is slow down to go fast. Work speed in short focused sessions. The rest should be easy miles building the foundation to allow you to explode when you need to pour it on. You’ll be amazed how strong you feel once the miles start clicking off.

Chris Johnson ,

Strength train, strength train, strength train. Makes a world of difference.

Cindy Sullivan,

When running long distances, you’ll be in pain but eventually you’ll realize that pain doesn’t get any worse. Keep moving and push thru the lows and ride the highs.

Brian D,

Find a local running club. You’ll meet like minded people. Then, seek out the veterans and listen to them and not much of the BS in the major running magazine. I’ve found that running marketing is becoming as bad as bicycle marketing in its efforts to convince us to buy so much crap!

Christian McMillen ,

Listen to your body.

Kathy Lampman,

Not every run looks like the opening scene of “Chariots of Fire”. It’s okay if it’s boring – that’ll build mental strength. But it’s also good to spice things up: new gear, new music, new trail, new companions, new race registration. Nothing changes if nothing changes.

Paul Weberg,

When I first began running I thought I had to run hard all the time to get faster. Tempo runs followed by too hard recovery runs. Long runs to hard which left me drained and unable to important workouts days later. One of the tools I used was a heart rate monitor. I was astounded to learn that my “recovery runs” were muck closer to tempo runs than to an easy run. So, once you get a good base built and want to do a formal training program, either get a heart rate monitor and use it properly. You will have to find your max heart rate (HR) and a resting HR to calculate your numbers and then have at it. Or you can go by a scale of 1-10. 1-2 is a walk, 3-5 is an easy run (you can carry on a conversation while running), 6-7 is moderate to pre-tempo(can talk in short sentences in between breaths, 8 is your tempo pace(maybe a couple words, breathing harder now), and 9-10 is your repeats or sprints. Maybe a word here and there. To sum it up: run hard when you are supposed to and super easy on your recovery days. Happy trails!!

Alan L Johnson,

I think my best advice, and the advice I wish I’d gotten earlier on, is to do whatever it takes to enjoy your running. It seems simple, but it took a long time to realize sometimes that means doing it a lot less, and sometimes changing training dramatically. I find I run least when it feels like a chore and an obligation. Then I switch up the objective and start focusing on different goals like journeys runs, etc.

Jordan Kit,

Find a group or two you can meetup to run with. They will keep you honest, They will keep you encouraged, they will push you beyond what you thought your limits were and will become your closest friends

Runningham,

Set realistic goals, stay consistent, try to find an accountability partner, keep it simple, don’t live by the watch, take care of yourself, take care of your trails, if you come up short don’t beat yourself up, join a local running group, make friends in the running community, X-train, learn your body, take it easy ,& enjoy the ride!

Jeremy Desch,

Set realistic goals, stay consistent, try to find an accountability partner, keep it simple, don’t live by the watch, take care of yourself, take care of your trails, if you come up short don’t beat yourself up, join a local running group, make friends in the running community, X-train, learn your body, take it easy ,& enjoy the ride!

Jeremy Desch,

If you are moving into a longer mileage training plan (e.g. more total weekly runs and/or increasing long runs) I’ve found that gradually implementing a plan is best. In other words, don’t be in a rush to crank up the mileage and risk injury/fatigue that will set you back. We all want to be running “for years to come”, so what’s the rush?

Kevin Hirt,

Just keep runnin’!!!

Keith,

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