OK it is about that time of year where we are supposed to be doing some “prep training” for 100/100 so as not to get injured in the first three weeks when it starts (my first grievance is we don’t have a start date, I vote for Dec 15, but you all decide).
In any case, here is the link to the 2013 Airing of the Grievances thread:
Here’s the link to 2022/23 when the minimum was reduced from 3 miles/5K or 30 minutes to 2 miles or 20 minutes
My grievance is that I don’t know if this is happening here, or on the non-affiliated site, which was previously affiliated
Oh… It’s happening… We are already planning something big 
With all due respect, your proclamation “We are already planning something big” doesn’t exactly inspire confidence LOL /pink
I started my own 100/100 last year on 11/15, so I could include all my Thanksgiving weekend nonsense
Looking forward to it this year! Need to (dramatically) bump mileage starting this fall to prep for a 200miler I got volunteered into next fall.
I’m intrigued to see how this gets implemented with the new site and all of the recent changes; I’m optimistic it will be smooth
Whelp. While we wait for the “big news”…
I’'ve been down to nearly zero running since early April with a grade1, medial, tibial stress fracture. I was training for a 50k trail race, and was up to 85 mpw, with a long run in the 26 mile range. Then I began to feel deep pain in my left shin AFTER most runs. The pain was a small spot about 4mm in diameter, 8cm above my ankle. It NEVER hurt while weight bearing, running, walking or anything. Just a bit of an ache, and it was very tender to the touch in that one, precise spot. The spot was an actual bump on my shin, kinda like a cyst (but no discoloration). I passed all the diagnostic tests, but the Ortho did an MRI anyway since Xray didn’t show anything. MRI showed a grade 1 stress fracture.
I took the next three months off until I had ZERO pain, and couldn’t even find the spot any longer. Then I began a long slow rehab progression. I’m back up to 5 runs per week.
I have been taking calcium supplements, ~2000mg per day divided 3-4x throughout, plus vit D. No deficiencies were noted, but its pretty harmless.
Anyway, today I ran three miles straight for the first time since being diagnosed.
To the part in bold, that’s nothing to grieve !!! Great news !!!
Now let’s get back to the airing of the grievances !!!
To get ready for 100/100 I am trying to make sure I get 15000-20000 steps per day between swimming (typically 3000-6000 steps from there) and the rest moving around walking, or jogging. So really 12000-17000 per day. My run is so slow that it barely resembles a power hike, so at this point in the 100/100 prep, time of feet is all I can feel good about !!!
I’m doing a similar scheme, having not run since last fall and spending the late spring / summer training on the bike. 4x a week it’s brisk walks (15-16 min/mile) for 2.5-3 miles for the last 2 weeks just to revive some muscle memory - morning ‘walks’ with my Frenchie don’t count, as we spend lots of time stopped for her to smell stuff and try to eat it. Run / walk starts next week (more like a jog/trot & walk), then transition to just jog/trot/run.
Yes, that’s true—Thanks for reminding me. As many of us do, I have a tendency to see the fitness lost, rather than the current accomplishment.
Grievance: I’m fat and slow and old.
My understanding of The Airing of Grievances is that you call out specific individuals and let them know the precise ways that they have injured, maligned or disappointed you (as if they didn’t know already)
“I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it!”
Unless someone in your life has willingly and thoughtfully put actions in place to add to your body mass in non-optimal ways, or has deliberately reduced your training pace, “fat and slow” is all on you (providing you’ve had not serious medical issues, in which case I withdraw that statement)
As for “old” that’s just something that happens to all of us as result of Einstein Theory as it relates to Time. However, I also quote David Byrne
Time isn’t holding us, time isn’t after us.
Time isn’t holding us, time is a pony ride
That’s a particularly precise definition of what counts in this annual thread as a grievance. Furthermore, it is not consistent with prior threads.
Consider me aggrieved by your definition, and I subsequently reject it.
That’s the spirit!!!
I am heading to 70.3 Tangiers Morocco 2 weeks from now and all that stuff in bold defines my run segment. Oh well. 6 min per km feels harder than 6 min miles felt just 8 years ago !!!
Most days I find it easier to swim 5km than run 5km and certainly hitting the ST 2 mile minimum is easier swimming than running!!!
I definitely want to read a race report for this.
What watch do you use? My Garmin doesn’t give me any steps when I swim…
arent you on statins? they lower testosterone (which maintains bone density): Do statins lower testosterone and does it matter? - PMC
natural food and sunlight should be first choice over supplements.
I appreciate you concern. However, I have two internists, and endocrinologist, an orthopedist, and a cardiologist (actual doctors) who I prefer to get my real medical advice from, thanks.
on this note of thinking, with the current semaglutide craze and doctors being wined and dined by Novo Nordisk to prescribe it, this is the same with statins a few years ago. Have they offered repatha for you? The trade off being having to have the medication readily available on ice every 2 weeks
That’s not how that works.
It was discussed.
