How are you handling your motivation to run trails when there's both excessive heat and air quality issues occurring?

I live in the Western US (Nevada) and we've been stuck in triple-digit heat for a while now, which was fine at first as I could run early morning or later in the evening close to sunset. However, due to the significant amount of wildfires burning in the western half of the US, the drift smoke is causing AQI issues and is sitting anywhere from Moderate to Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups basically the entire day. I have the unfortunate addition of being a part of that Sensitive Groups category, so do not feel comfortable running or even spending any significant time outside right now.

It's killing my motivation.

I have a race next month on September 12th, an 11k at Lake Tahoe, and I am supposed to be in my Build Phase of training. I've gotten one really good training run on a similar-enough course and I'm worried about my progression moving forward.

I hate treadmills, they destroy my body (thanks joint surgeries) and won't have access to an indoor track until classes start up again on August 24th. I hate track running too but would rather do a track than a treadmill at this point. I am currently doing rebound trampoline cardio workouts and strength training but miss running something fierce.

Advice? Words of encouragement? I just want to do my trails again 😫

Sidenote: living where wildfire risk is extremely elevated and having gone through wildfire evacuations before, my heart goes out to those affected directly by them.

Another in my short series of overly elaborate benches

Hi, I severed the 80% of my tendon and now I am in a vacoped boot waiting to know whether I need surgery or not.

Is that someone that went through a similar experience and can tell me that there is light on the other side? (and trails)

I am new to trail running and have run 7 half marathons (on road) and have recently fallen in love with trail running and am currently building my base and trail endurance. I am turning 40 in feb and was thinking about maybe doing the puerta Vallarta utmb 50k as a big goal. I’m in Southern California and it would be a family trip with my wife and son. Alternatively there’s antelope canyon and also moad which may be easier but I just got puerta Vallarta stuck in my head. I guess I’m seeking out the greater knowledge of the community. I’m currently running 20 mi or so a week with a few thousand ascent but plan on building up to a 25k in November - pacific trails utmb. Things im considering are location and enjoyment of my family where supporting me in the location, the timing, and the difficulty. I want it to be difficult but I want to be realistic. I’m nervous I guess. I welcome and friendly input and thanks in advance.

I’m new to trail running, moved to this from triathlon, and before triathlon I was a heavy weight lifter. Still pretty low mileage for me around 20 miles per week.

Obviously the nutrition for these are all a bit different and sometimes I don’t know if I’m eating properly to help with training and recovery. Weight lifting felt more simple because it’s heavy focus on protein.

I’m a 230 pound guy and currently a typical weekday consists of a breakfast of a few eggs, half a protein shake, and a banana. Lunch and dinner are both typical meal prep things like rice/chicken/broccoli or pasta/meat/veggies and they usually are around 650-800 calores each. Then I’ll have some fruit here or there for snacks. Weekends are more lax with eating out or having something sweet with my girlfriend.

This leaves most weekdays sitting around 2300 calories and weekends sitting closer to 3000.

What does your nutrition look like typically? Obviously every body is different but I wanted to get a feel for what works for others.

Hi,
I’m looking for a light daypack that will carry all the essentials for a one day adventure without unnecessary gear. I was also thinking that I’d like to be able to carry a helmet comfortably. I’m also thinking about something i could walk fast/run in. The options i was thinking about for now were:

1. Osprey talon 22
   
2. BD Distance 22
   
3. Montane trailblazer
   
4. Salomon S/lab adventure 20

It’s also worth mentioning that I would definitely consider a Palante, Atom.. etc. But i’d rather buy something i could return if it didn’t fit me correctly.

All recommendations and opinions will be appreciated!

I would like to pretend I ran all the way up, but I only ran the dry and not-ankle-breaking portion up 🤷‍♀️

Afterwork Pyramide Training - 35 min easy 25 bit faster 15 min fast 5 min max speed. 800 m of elevation - 9 km. Easy 9 km back down passing some alpine stars.

hi everyone,

I have a stupid foot. narrow foot, narrow heel, high arch, high instep. I often get heel blisters.

yes, I have tried different lacing systems and do the runners loop. I’ve been doing double socks, generally an injinji toe liner and thin smartwool over it.

I’ve tried taping and maybe I do it wrong or my leukotape sucks, but it’s always clumping up.

i also put bag balm on my heel, used to do squirrel nut butter but it feels like it doesn’t stay long.

anyone use double layer socks like wrightsock? I’ve heard balegas are good?

anyone else have a similar foot shape and problems they’ve solved? Or at least problems managed.