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Rocksteady, take a second and ponder this simple question:

 

"What the hell does my post have to do with Kanye West and/or Graduation?"

Figured I would wait until the hullabaloo on this died down a little bit, but if anybody got tired of their box set I would be down to trade a combination of several rare records for it. Up to and including:

Periphery (blue)- Periphery

Periphery II (red) - Periphery

The Sound of Madness - Shinedown

AB III - Alter Bridge

Fantastic Planet - Failure

Jane Doe (orange/red tour pressing) - Converge

Pssh! No Trapt NO DEAL

come see how kewl my vinylz are

 

http://instagram.com/scanlonchris

The world air guitar champion has a 7" with no grooves.

But seriously. Quit crapping up the board with these.

Just logged my first VC run in Endmondo. Nice app. Never checked the elevation of my route before so that was cool.

 

Hopefully more people join as the year goes along. It's a party for two ATM.

(or if you care at all haha)

Hahah yeah I wanted to look it up. I have a list of places I'd like to run and it sounded worthy. Also making sure there weren't any dormant volcanoes in Maryland I was unaware of.

Haven't looked at halfs yet. I signed up for a few 5k's that I'm overqualified for coming up in April but that's it.

yeah, that was how I hurt myself haha I was running 5km 3 times a week and then decided to run a half that was only 6 weeks away. Also, it was around an inactive volcano and I didn't do any hill work, lesson learned haha. So now I'm scaling way back and building base miles before getting back into the half marathon game. my goal is to take it very very easy and gradually increase my distance and pace and then run the rock and roll half in Philly next September in under 2 hours, hopefully under 1:45.

Damn! That's a tight schedule for running a half. Where was it at?

I've never run more than 12 miles consecutively since I started. Hope to do my first half this year.

Dude that's awesome! haha I'll be lucky to log that many this year, but it doesn't bother me haha I know different people are on different levels ya know. I plan to be a lot closer to that level by next year and that's just some extra motivation. But that is pretty nice of you...haha

Was playing around with the app and figured out how to add you as a friend and see your activity. You did 13 miles in 2:05 last year? Looks to me like you can run pretty well! Just gotta stay consistent and do a few miles every day and you'll be racking them up like nothing.

End of a Year/Self Defense Family?

Someone please help me understand.

I know this should make very little sense but the increased comfort led to increased running which led to a significant weight loss which lead to a reduction in the soreness my knees get.

What shoes do you wear now?

Also congratulations on losing a bunch of weight. How much did you drop?

Sweet!

Unless you don't want to have to deal with uploading the files or inputting all of the information, I would say go ahead and add it in there. I'm assuming most people will do that since they'll only have to do 1 month of catch up. But it is just for fun, so either way is cool haha

I have 115 miles logged already in 2014. I just don't want to crush anyone's competitive spirit, haha.

Alright, I'm in!

Gonna start off at zero even though I have mileage logged. More fair for people just starting now.

Oh yeah, I mentioned it earlier but it was before more people were in the thread, now that there are some people in here, is anyone interested in doing the Endomondo challenge just for fun? Again, I can set up a challenge for most miles per month or year (or both) and you can upload workouts from .gpx and other file types, so if you're using something else that you like to track your runs, it would be easy enough to add your workouts to Endomondo just for the challenge.

On a side note, if you haven't used Endomondo I recommend checking it out! I tried 5 or 6 different running apps and none of them allowed me to do or see everything that I wanted to except Endomondo. For those doing triatholons or other sports, you can track all sports. It's pretty awesome!

I went ahead and created the yearly challenge, and you can go in and retroactively add your January workouts and they will count as well.

Join here:

http://www.endomondo.com/challenges/14197428

If there is interest I can make a monthly challenge each month as well. So join this challenge and see what you think and if you want to start the monthly one let me know.

Post in here if you join, and post your name as well so we know who is who. I'm currently the only one in the challenge, Rob Bailey. Try it out, I think it'll be pretty fun if we get a bunch of people to do it.

Never used Endomondo but I'm down for a VC challenge. Sounds pretty sweet.

Just signed up through Facebook(christopher scanlon) and clicked the challenge link but it says "access denied." Little help?

Anyone have any go-to places for deals on gear/accessories?

Checked Walmart for dri-fit tees and they have Starter Dri-star t-shirts for $6.47. Great deal and no ugly logos crapping it up. Bunch of colors, too. Same shirt from Nike, Adidas, or UnderArmour is $20-25.

The ice is what gets me. I would potentially brave the cold but this year there was inches of ice on the sidewalks for months. Still is sneaky patches, I see people doing it but I'm afraid I'd wreck myself.

I started running in the road when sidewalks get messy. May not be an option everywhere but drivers are more respectful than I would've guessed.

As to heel striking: have you tried to correct it? I had a slight issue but corrected it by shortening my stride. Night and day since.

Never tried to change my strike but I've learned to bend my knees to lighten my steps/prevent knee pain. Also cut out minimalist styled shoes from my rotation. Vibram five fingers and minimalist trainers(nike free) did me more harm than good.

How do you guys manage in that weather? Whenever I try to run and it is that cold my lungs feel like they are going to burst and I can only do short distances.

 

I have to experience the climate change firsthand to be able to handle cold temps. In the past I would stop when the weather hit 50 degrees and try to go back out when it's 20 and it was like pulling teeth. This year I kept up my weekly runs and I've been out in as low as 3 degrees with no injuries or negative side effects.

 

Got a couple new pairs of shoes on the way. I'm a heavy heel striker and decided to get some shoes geared toward that for the first time.

 

Mizuno Wave Precision 13

 

Asics Gel Nimbus 14

I'm also told that talking while running is good for lung capacity - anyone know if there is truth to this?

 

No lasting effect on lung capacity, but it can be a great tool for determining an appropriate pace during training. IE run 2 miles in casual conversation(warm up pace) 4 miles able to talk in short bursts(moderate to difficult pace) and 1 mile focusing on breathing(full sprint).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd4g1gMRceY

 

new entry with Ian from Modern Baseball

RJ is a good dude who got a bad wrap for shit that was beyond his control. 

 

You're gonna be popular here.

If you're gonna go through the trouble of putting RJ's business out in the open tell us the juicy parts of what happened with TOYPAJ

Yeah, that nagged the heck out of me back when I wore my basic apple earbuds. I'd always be adjusting them and feeling them about to fall out. Takes away from your concentration and breathing

Failing to see where the shitstorm begins.

 

Most people who have these are Brand New diehards or misers who want top dollar. How does this change that?

 

 

EDIT: In your case Ryan, you probably would have chosen a different variant for the raffle. But with the new press, I just don't see this changing the demand/prices much.

I've always found it as a great way to clear my head.

 

This x1000. Running is my way of clearing away stress and it works so, so well. Picked it up in 2011 from my roommate who is a fitness-head.

 

I run about 25 miles a week, currently at 8:30/mile pace(hilly terrain).

 

Headphones:

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/headphones/audio_headphones/in_ear_headphones/index.jsp

sound quality is top notch, but the real sell is these things NEVER fall out. price is high for my taste but I asked for these as gift.

 

Tracker: 

http://nikeplus.nike.com/plus/products/sport_watch/

nice looking watch overall. i wear it as my everyday. it saves all your runs/times and gives you interval times if you set them. has deeper nike+ functions too if you sync to your computer but i never bothered to mess with it.

Record where the preorder was so long you forgot you ordered it until it showed up.

Record you overpaid lazylab for because you were too naive to know better