I’m sure I’ve run at least five miles several times in my life.
Wait, did you mean all at once?!
I can run 5 miles but have a bad hip and knee. I do 2 or 3 half marathons a year but it’s more of a brisk walk.
Cycling is really my ‘thing’. I put in over 4,000 miles a year and seldom go out unless I can get in a 20 mile ride. Tomorrow I’m suppose to do a century (100 miles) ride if the weather is OK. Might be major thunderstorms in the area. I’m crazy, but not that crazy!
I could run 5 miles in a day, lots of 100-200m jogs and breaks in between. I could walk 5 miles in about an hour but running hurts my shins, hips and knees. I used to ride 200 miles a week, swim 40 lengths a day, and, back then, still hated running. My body’s not built (properly) to run, I’ve never been able to comfortably sit cross-legged either.
I was running six miles every morning before work until I stopped in July because the bone spur on my foot that I’d been dealing with since last year became too much to bear. I had surgery last month to remove it.
I started running again last week, only to do something to my thigh. Right now I’m struggling getting to two miles before the pain becomes too much. I’m going to the doctor next week to find out what’s wrong. I’m frustrated right now because I’ve gained 20 lbs since I stopped running and need to lose that weight ASAP.
Here’s the thread I started one year after.
Basically, I was hit cycling to work. Tore away part of the hamstring and the sciatic nerve, broke the femur. Took about two years to progress to walking with a cane.
Shortest ride I ever did on my handcycle was 28 ft. I had just started the cyclecomputer and a bolt hit about a quarter mile away.
I ran 8 on Wednesday. That was my long run of the week; shorter ones are in the 3-4 mile range, typically.
I’d love to be able to do it at Cubsfan’s “not very fast” pace. 
I do these longer runs at 10:00-10:30/mile, and my 5K PR is an 8:22 pace.
I’d love to be faster. Right now I’m happy that I’m speeding up through increasing fitness more quickly than I’m slowing down through advancing age (I’m 43).
I could certainly run five miles today. Probably not continuously, but with stops and starts and sufficient water and snacks along the way, I’m 100% sure I could cover five miles, by running, well before it got dark tonight.
I know I can run one mile continuously because I do it from time to time, just to make sure I don’t lose that ability. I might be able to do five miles without stopping, but there’d have to be a damned good reason to try.
I used to be able to, but with a bad knee and a hip that will be replaced by the end of the year I don’t think I’ll try today!
Correct, it’s the Badwater 135. They run it on pavement in the middle of summer; air temps can exceed 120F. I’ve run a few ultras (100km is my farthest distance) and know a guy who has run many 100 mile races.
I haven’t checked recently but IIRC around 1/3 of the people who start get an official “DNF”, they either dropped out or just couldn’t make one of the time cutoffs - I think Badwater has a 60 hour max and there may be some intermediate cutoffs as well. That doesn’t seem to be an unusual DNF percentage; when I ran the Miwok 100K I was on my way back with another guy and there were still a few people heading towards the turnaround point; there was no way they were going to make it on time so they’d get pulled from the race, but they were still giving it their best shot.
The harder the race the more prepared the starters tend to be which probably accounts for why the DNF rate is similar on many long runs. There are exceptions like The Barkleys which is a run that is intended to stop anyone from finishing it (something like 20 people have completed it on time, you can look up details online).
I just happened to read today that the Badwater Ultramarathon is running into problems with new National Park Service rules. The 2014 running of the event is taking place in Lone Pine, and they’re still trying to figure out what will happen after that.
Interesting. I like this quote from the article:
“Visitors have questioned why the park allows running events to take place during the hottest time of the summer, when they are advised not to engage in outdoor physical activity,” the report said. “By permitting events to take place during summer months, the park has provided a mixed message to park visitors and other users.”
At least as far as Badwater goes, it’s not a collection of random people who can run a few miles - you have to submit an application, be qualified to run it, have a support vehicle and so on. I don’t think it’s a mixed message to say “This is an extremely hostile environment. We do not recommend that you run around out there. We do allow a competition to take place however it has strict rules to ensure that only very qualified individuals enter and they must obey a number of safety rules.”
I could do it, but it would really hurt my knee. I work hard on the elliptical machine 5 or 6 days a week for 50 to 60 minutes (equivalent to about five miles). I’m sure running, even without my knee issue, would be a bit more demanding.
One page down and we are evenly split 50/50. I see a lot of cyclists posting in this thread. I still consider myself a cyclist before a runner. I have been cycling (mtn and road - a lot more road the last 15 years) for most of my life. In 2007 I decided to try running after being inspired by watching the local marathon here in Sacramento.
I have to tell you while I was confident my cycling had prepared me, fitness-wise, for running, the reality was quite different. I remember struggling to complete a 3-mile loop near home without stopping. It was WAY harder than I imagined, and not much fun to boot. I stuck with it and eventually I was able to complete that loop without stopping, and then faster, and then 4 miles, and so on.
When a cyclist adds running to the exercise routine, I noticed (in friends) that there was a lot of confidence in the beginning, but going out too hard and doing too many miles too soon can add to injury risk. I tell people to get into running REAL slow. You need to build up your muscles and joints to be able to take all the pounding - that does not happen over-night. While your cycling fitness may seem great, you still need to go slow when introducing running. Even if you are fit, those C25K programs may still be a good idea to allow your body to adjust to the new activity, at first.
So, cyclists, don’t give up on the running - it is good to mix things up with your exercise routine. Just go REAL slow at the beginning.
Incidentally, I found the same thing going from running to cycling. I was running 6-12 miles a day and needed to borrow a bike to go cycle into the next town (Oban) in a hilly part of Scotland. It was only 20 miles away. By the time I rolled into Oban, I thought there was no way I was going to make it back. Four hours and five or six pints later, I managed to muster up the energy, but I don’t ever remember ever feeling as wiped as I did after that 20 mile, somewhat hilly ride. I’ve run nearly that difference without feeling this terrible. Running and cycling are just different muscle groups. There’s some crossover, of course, but they’re different enough that if you’re not used to one, you may be in for a surprise.
I’m currently not training that much cardio, but if I switched my current routine to include more of it, I’d be able to.
The last longish run I did was about a year ago (Broad Street 10 Miler) and since then I’ve stuck to 3.5 miles a couple days a week before work, but I’m sure I could go outside right now and pound out 5. If I didn’t have boots and jeans on, and oh yeah, my job.
Yep, that sounds just about right. Running is very different! It’s partly for that reason that I’d really like to mix it in with my cycling, but it’s tough getting the pace right when you’re used to whizzing along at thirty miles per hour.
I bike almost every day, and can do a hundred gently hilly miles in about six hours (I haven’t found a hundred flat miles in the PNW yet, but could probably get that time down closer to five) and my legs feel fine the next day. But recently when I ran maybe three miles in one go, my legs didn’t completely stop hurting for almost a week! It was an unsettling experience, and definitely a sign that I need to do it more. 
Yes.
I don’t run as much as I used to but I currently run about 18 - 20 miles/week.
I can, and I have, but I am not a regular runner so doing so does leave me sore for a couple of days. Last race I did was on July 4th - a yearly 10K in my town called the Butte to Butte. I ran about 3/4 of it and walked here and there.
What I’ve been doing lately I just love! I jump rope every single day. It is amazing how fast you can get your heart rate up. I jump in various ways and speeds. Then I do weights, then jump again. The last 10lbs are coming off and I’m building muscle… finally. 
I am a bit fitness obsessed. I run usually about 6 miles when I run, sometimes 8. Sometimes it is mostly intervals or doing stairs and hills (a good spot near a Metra station). Sometimes steady state more for the mental relaxation of it. Never much faster than averaging a 10 minute mile. I run maybe once or max twice a week and mix up what I do constantly. I bike (averaging 17 mph is fast for me) at least once and more often twice a week (combine it with my commute), do the Concept 2 rower and/or the elliptical in my basement, jump rope, do weight routines of various sorts (also a basement set-up), do balance disc work, boot camp style calesthenics, running up and down my basement stairs with various weights of dumbells … as a result I am not great at anything! Certainly not fast. But I do consider myself pretty “fit” and more fit at 55 than I was at 35 or 25 anyway.