u/Zealousideal_Crow737

NOT ASKING FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. I rolled my ankle last week and have been taking it easy. Thankfully, no loss of balance or strength can walk with minimal pain.

I have made the dumb mistake of ignoring injuries which led to a terrible muscle tear that took me out for a month and now want to listen to my body.

For ladies who needed to take a break to rest up, did you explore any new hobbies or try new things? It can be exercise or just a silly show.

I grew up in a valley town in New England and sometimes we would get 2 hour delays due to snowstorms. There were a lot of threshold situations where you thought you would get a snow day and didn't. I hear about how the South gets classes canceled with just an inch.

With the exception of my first half, I have always just made my own filled with base runs, a long run, and finding a random speed workout online that fits the intensity of where i'm at.

Is anyone similar?

Now for my first full I will ABSOLUTELY follow a plan since that mileage is new. I just find so much overlap between plans that I feel like it's not that hard to create your own since the majority of your runs are base runs anyway.

That being said, if anyone has a speed workout they really love, let me know! Been doing tempo increases by 10 mins on and off with 400m intervals other weeks.

Went to the movies last night and a bunch of people kept checking their phone during the movie like WTF? I don't want to see your fucking iPhone on full brightness. I get that we all have screen addictions but any self awareness?

A group of girls wouldn't SHUT UP next to me during the movie. Why even go? Whispering a little I can get, but cmon.

Groups of people showing up 15 minutes into the movie. What happened? People used to not be this rude.

I live in a city and I do have some friends that are single, but a lot of them are a coupled up especially in our 30s.

We were planning a fun beach trip for Labor Day and I was totally down but it turns out that three couples are going. There's eight of us. I have no desire to go on that trip now and I'm sad that I feel like I have to opt out because this has become a couples trip when I was one of the first ones to express interest.

Hi all!

I live in a walkable city and average 15K easily in the summer. Had a pair of vans for 3 years that offered little to no arch support but did fine.

I usually don't wear sandals or flats but I feel like they would be good to have for summer travels. I am a long distance runner and have the grossest toes, so need something closed toe lol. Any good recs?

After being single for nearly 2 years, I (31F) realized over time that I probably don't want to get married. Keep in mind, I don't plan on having children. I have divorced parents and while they were amicable and didn't fight at ALL and had a clean cut divorce (they even went through mediators and not attorneys) it took a few years to actually finalize everything.

My sister (33F) is similar to me and been with her SO for 7 years. My cousins all ask her when she's going to get married. We both live in a city and my family is in a tiny town. They tend to see marriage as making any relationship actually meaningful, like completely validating. To them, a couple married 2 years probably looks like a stronger connection than a couple unwed that's been together 20 years.

I know it means different things to different people, but I would personally just do domestic partnership. I know so many divorced people, and a lot of those divorces were couples that everyone thought would make it. My grandmother was also in an abusive marriage and could never leave.

For anyone else, is it just not for you?

edit: I get the legal protections for a reason, but it just seems like entrapment in a way.

Welp. It's finally that time of year where it's too hot to run midday anymore or after work!

I got up this morning and ran 3 miles and it was TERRIBLE. I felt weak and was discouraged by my heart rate spiking on a base run. I was able to do it, but half-asleep. And my sleep wasn't really garbage that day.

I ate a honey stinger prior, no cramping or anything, and carried water, but boy, it sucked. I'm hoping to do ~5 miles max and I think a waffle would carry me through that.

I don't have time for coffee + bathroom prior. So morning runners, how do you do it? I plan to keep my speedwork after work and just do my base runs early. The longer run I always keep on weekends.

Does it get better? How long did it take to adjust?

edit: Thank you for the advice! I plan to adjust my morning routine and slam a coffee earlier as an experiment.