12 Miler! (Read 779 times)

man today I ran my 12 miler after doubting myself (my achilles has been bothering me very slightly. I literally recovered from achilles tendinosis last october and took 2 years off from running in order to fully recover). my ankle isnt hurting at all right now but anyways.. I also hit 40 pounds lost and I got my 6 pack. I probably wont be able to get to 135 because I'll be too skinny or something. I have a question though.. if I ran 6.12 miles and had a super quick defecation attack and ran into my house for 3 minutes to use the bathroom, is that too long to count this 12 miler as one long run? I've never taken walk breaks or anything because taking breaks usually leaves me being too tired since I take off kind of fast. I timed my bathroom break and I can imagine someone out there has had this problem as well.

I suppose it would depend on weather or not you stopped the timer/garmin or let the time keep running during the event.

I stopped my watch but had my ipod timer running on the podcast I was listening to and it was a few seconds shy of 3 minutes in my house =/

whoa young man, if it took you 3 minutes for an "attack" you need some more fiber in your diet

Well I drink fiber and eat plenty of veggies and cereal.. but really it was 10 seconds with 2 minutes or so of recovering from it.

Defintely counts as one long run! I used to be very anal about it (oops, no pun intended), but when I heard that "real" runners on RA actually take walking breaks on some of their long runs, I stopped worrying about it. Great job, by the way. I got AT last June, and it's only been the last couple of months that I don't think about my ankle at all. I'm glad it went well for you! 3 minutes would be very short for me. Sigh. It doesn't matter what I eat or don't eat.

..and had a super quick defecation attack and ran into my house for 3 minutes to use the bathroom,..

I've looked at your...log..., and you could certainly shave some time off of this; down to 2:30,...maybe even 2:20. Try intervals.