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Running shorts that hide leakage

I’ve had mild leakage ever since having a baby 1.5 years ago. I’ve done a boatload of pelvic floor PT which has helped, but still experience some leakage during races. I also use an OTC pessary which helps with the feeling of heaviness, but not so much with leaking. Im usually fine on training runs where I keep an easier pace. My favorite running shorts are brooks 7’ chaser shorts. Any suggestions of something similar that will hide the leaking more? Maybe a bike short?

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u/Mjw9846 — 11 days ago

▲ 48 r/XXRunning

I DNFed my half marathon and feels so shitty about it even though probably the right call

I DNFed my half today in San Sebastián after 12K while attempting sub-1:40.

All my training data had backed up the goal for months, but then I battled some sort of cold/infection for weeks. It started with three pretty bad bouts of sore throat (suspected tonsillitis), then moved into my lungs, and I’ve basically been coughing up mucus for the past three weeks.

I kept training but scaled things down a lot. I still managed an 18K at 5:25/km entirely in Z2, and during the week and a half before the race I finally seemed to be getting back to normal.

Then this morning in San Sebastián, my HR during my warm-up was unusually high, around 25–30 bpm above what I’d normally expect. I kind of dismissed it as race-morning nerves/adrenaline.

Started the race at my planned pace and my HR shot up to around threshold almost immediately. I knew something was off, so after about 5K I started backing off. Even as my pace got slower and slower, my HR barely came down.

By around 10K I was getting chills, feeling cold and developing a headache. I stopped at 12K.

It was probably the right call because now, a few hours later, I’m properly sick again. Still no fever, but I have a horrible pressure/bar-like headache above my eyes that feels very much like the sinusitis I’m unfortunately prone to.

And yet I’m still fucking angry at myself for stopping. 😂 I know logically that continuing while feeling progressively worse probably wouldn’t have achieved anything, but a DNF is so out of character for me that part of my brain keeps going, “You should have just powered through.”

I have another half planned in three weeks, so hopefully there’s a silver lining and I can actually get healthy for that one.

Also, apparently my coping mechanism for being angry about DNFing San Sebastián was to impulse-sign up for the 2027 edition. 😂

San Sebastián is such a beautiful city and the parcours is so great. If anyone of you was there I hope you had a good race!

Anyway, thanks for reading my rant if you made it this far.

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u/matmodelulu — 11 days ago

▲ 49 r/XXRunning

A day of PRs and finally sub a 30:00 5k

My goal was to finally go sub 30:00 this year, and by golly, she did it. Plus a couple other cheeky PRs. 😁

It’s been a looooong time coming after EIGHT years of on and off running, struggling with weight fluctuations, injuries, and asthma.

I feel like things just fell into place this year. I’ll be 43 at the end of the month, I’m down 43 lbs (from 193 to 150), my fitness is the best it’s ever been, and finally checking off some running goals.

u/yourpaljax — 11 days ago

▲ 56 r/XXRunning

Squeaked my first sub-30 5k

I started running 18 months ago (April 2025), first casually and then started training regularly in July. I was 38 when I started and just turned 40 a month ago.

Before training (18 months ago), I ran/walked a baseline 5k in 40:36.

I started training with Nike Run Club and ran a 33:46 last October.

Over the winter, I used NRC still and trained for my first 10k. I ran my first 10k in March 2025 in 1:12:24, and then in April I returned to the scene of my first 5k crime and ran a new 5k PB of 33:10.

I then switched back to 10k training, just making my own plan with what I learned, and in June I ran a 10k PB of 1:09:09.

I kept feeling like I had more to give and could get to sub-30, but the mental aspect to push just wasn't clicking with NRC and running by RPE, so after my 10k I decided to sign up for Runna's 5k Improvement Plan. I started that July 1 so I trained for 14 weeks with that.

Runna definitely made me push myself, and I proved a lot in workouts that I was capable of more than I had thought I was. I didn't run into any issues with injury. During this time, I was also diagnosed with an iron deficiency and started treating that, and that's been a big boost in my ability to perform and recover.

I ran two B-races during my program and set PBs in each (32:23 and 30:17) so I could tell I was on the right track.

When race day came, I was feeling really confident that I could blow 30 minutes out of the water. I had a typical pre-long run breakfast, the weather was perfect, and I did my usual mile warm-up before the race, which felt good.

For some reason, I felt like absolute shit from minute 1 of this race. As soon as the whistle blew, I was feeling my quads, and they felt tired despite the fact that I rested for three days and was fueling really well through that time. My watch kept yelling that I was going too slow, and I switched to ignoring it and focusing on chasing a couple local runners I know who usually run around what my goal pace was.

I tried my hardest to hold on, but my legs just felt sluggish and my heart rate was crazy. I ended up taking three short walk breaks, totaling 30 seconds of walking throughout the race, and totally lost track of the ladies I was trying to chase. As soon as I walked the first time, I resigned myself to not making sub-30, but thought at least I could finish under the 33:46 I did in this race last year.

At about .25 miles from the finish, I tried to pick up and finish strong, and I got absolutely slammed with nausea out of nowhere. I was ready at that point to just walk it in to avoid hurling, but then I saw the finish line clock and realized that if I pushed through, I could still make sub-30.

I ran through the increasing nausea and squeaked out the original goal... somehow. Immediately had to bend at the waist and breathe like crazy because I really thought I was going to throw up, but managed to not.

Despite what was undoubtedly the worst I've ever felt during a race, I managed to make my goal and took 2nd in my age group, with the woman who took 1st only passing me right at the finish and getting two seconds under me.

I'm not sure what happened with this day for everything to feel so wrong throughout. Last week in training, I ran two miles in 8:40/mi pace, but suddenly yesterday I couldn't run three miles under 9:30. My best two guesses would be either a) I rested too much and was sluggish from the longer taper than normal or b) it was some kind of effect from the fact that I got my flu shot two days before the race.

Either way, I did make my goal of sub-30, and I'm going to take how bad I felt as evidence that on another, better-aligned day I could still run faster.

u/npctomc — 11 days ago