June 2015 Running Challenge
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Today is National Running Day.
Anyone use the Charity Miles app? It's really neat. Each mile you track earns a donation to a charity of your choosing (on the app, there's a bunch). Walking and running is $0.25 per mile and biking is $0.10 per mile. I always donate mine toward Wounded Warrior Project. It's not much, but it's still something.0 -
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Jackie0Marie wrote: »Anyone use the Charity Miles app? It's really neat. Each mile you track earns a donation to a charity of your choosing (on the app, there's a bunch). Walking and running is $0.25 per mile and biking is $0.10 per mile. I always donate mine toward Wounded Warrior Project. It's not much, but it's still something.
I've downloaded it but haven't used it. How well does it work if you run it with other running apps, such as Strava, Runkeeper, et al?
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6/1 - 4.0 miles, still a little tender from Saturday's race
6/2 - 4.25 miles; 8.25/120
6/3 - 4 miles, indoor track; weights/abs0 -
Jackie0Marie wrote: »Anyone use the Charity Miles app? It's really neat. Each mile you track earns a donation to a charity of your choosing (on the app, there's a bunch). Walking and running is $0.25 per mile and biking is $0.10 per mile. I always donate mine toward Wounded Warrior Project. It's not much, but it's still something.
I've downloaded it but haven't used it. How well does it work if you run it with other running apps, such as Strava, Runkeeper, et al?
It runs in the background like other apps. I have several GPS tracking apps all running and tracking at the same time. It's a very simple app - only to track miles to calculate your donation, so it doesn't show a map or speak to you - just start run and end run.
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@caratayloruk I love a morning run. I find it really sets me up for the day and it's so good to know you've already got that under your belt while half the world is either still sleeping or just about conscious and crunching on their cornflakes!0
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3 miles down, 37 to go!0
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6/02/15 - 6.25 miles
6/03/15 - 3.3 miles
Arite, so we bought this treadmill in February because my husband was sick of me dragging him to the gym (yeah, I know - but whatever) and I thought I had lost all kinds of endurance with my ankle injury because it was such a struggle to run at 5.0 mph on this treadmill when only weeks earlier I had been consistently pushing 6.1 or 6.2 mph runs on the treadmills at the gym. Well, my treadmill is just calibrated so that it will claim 5.0 when I'm really running faster than 5.5 mph. I haven't got an exact number. Today was the first time I have been able to run a 5k on this 'mill faster than 30 minutes. It feels like a great success. Now I need to prove it with an official sub-30:00 5k race!
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5km on Monday and 5km this morning too, 10km down, 65km to go 0
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Yay I am back! Missed my goal for May due to illness/family emergency but I wanna get going again Going to aim for 25 miles as I am in the middle of my exams so know I'll probably miss a few runs for studying! 0
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First run of the month. 3 miles down 27 to go.0
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1/6 - Recovery
2/6 - 14.4 miles (2 runs Trail) Hill repeats
3/2 - 11.2 Miles (Trail easy pace)
An easy Paced Trail run today a lovely way to enjoy #nationalrunningday
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day 3 done 36.2 miles to go
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@shanaber: good to hear that your new shoes (the first half, anyway) fit so well. I hadn't even heard of Skora shoes until now. Love the colors :-)
@lenny: running a 5k with your daughter sounds great, I'm sure you'll have lots of fun.
@autumnblade75 : a miscalibrated threadmill, that's tough. But looking at the bright side, you can be happy now that you are actually running faster than you though - better than the other way around. How did you figure it out?
I would love a sub-30 5k race time! I'll run my second 5k next Sunday, but I don't think I'm quite there yet.
Yesterday I had a chance to make up for my missed run on the weekend:
2.6.2015 - 14.0km
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[quote="_nikkiwolf_;32755029@autumnblade75 : a miscalibrated threadmill, that's tough. But looking at the bright side, you can be happy now that you are actually running faster than you though - better than the other way around. How did you figure it out?
I would love a sub-30 5k race time! I'll run my second 5k next Sunday, but I don't think I'm quite there yet.
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I ran outside a few times with my GPS, and the results were much closer to what I was expecting. The treadmill still feels harder than I think it should. I have no confirmation of miscalibration, but it's off by enough that I trust it's not just my imagination. I'm saying this purely because of perceived effort.
I was unhappy at first - and if truth be told, I'd still prefer a properly calibrated 'mill - but now I just try to use it to my advantage.
Seriously, the race results in my profile pic happened while I was still believing that my treadmill was telling me the truth, and I was expecting 12 minute miles based on the lies. Those 10 minute miles were not particularly "hard" miles. I was trying not to push my barely healed ankle. I PR'd! And I thought I was taking it easy! That proved to me that my treadmill was absolutely not correct.
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Hey! I'm new to the forums, but this sounds like a brilliant idea! I'm quite new to this running malarkey, I'm 2/3 of the way through Week 6 of Zenlab's C25K app. Last month I racked up 70 miles, but I was off work for the month. I'm back in work now, so I'm going to set my goal this month at 50 miles
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I guess that race time was a very nice surprise! If you got that PR taking it easy, I'm sure a sub-30:00 5k is just around the corner for you.
The only time I ran on a threadmill, I found it increadibly hard. Part of it might be that I somehow remembered that I read you should set a mill to a 10% incline to equal the wind resistance and forward movement you'd get outside. Those were really miserable 40 minutes with more than one walking break. I found out later that I'd remembered wrong and you were supposed to set it to 1%, but the experience was horrible enough that I never tried again ;-)
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Added another 5.1k this morning for a monthly total so far of 10.1/70.0
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5k pb today.
20/100k.0 -
6/1 -
6/2 2 miles
6/3 1 mile
Goal: 30 miles
Completed: 3 miles
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WhatMeRunning wrote: »@kristinegift - Wow. You made that PR time with quad cramping over 2 miles??? You are my hero!
Haha, thanks! It was intermittent and just the inner corners of my quads above my knees. But oh boy was it tough to push through!0 -
June goal 68 miles
6/1 3.95
6/2 3.3
6/3 4.03
Total 11.28
(Ticker is my goal for 2015 and accumulation to date)
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6/1: 1.0
6/2: 2.7
6/3: 4.02
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6/02 - 1.0 mile run - 3.0 mile walk
6/03 - 4.1 mile run - 2.2 mile walk
Progress: 5.1 out of 50 miles
Tonight was a GREAT night! I went to a nearby pond which has a 1.25 mile trail around it. The plan was to run two laps broken up by walking so I could see how my Achilles reacted after feeling no pain yesterday. I'm glad to say that I still didn't feel a thing. In fact, I felt so good, I ended up running 3+ laps, plus the walking for five laps total. I think I could have run a couple more laps, as good as I felt.
The night started out with a light sprinkle but by the time I was warmed up, it was a downpour. I LOVE running in the rain, so that wasn't a problem. 20 minutes later it went back down to a light sprinkle for the duration. The rain did have some ill effects, however.
1) I couldn't use my bluetooth headset. I normally use music to help me with pacing. Without that, I went by feel and had difficulty keeping an even pace. I finally started singing a song in my head and that helped. The net effect was that I ran faster than I normally would have. I don't have the average running pace, but the combined pace of running + walking was 12:30 min. That's normally my easy run pace so I must be improving! Perhaps I need to start running by apparent effort, rather than by the beat.
2) After a while I could feel my socks getting soaked. That was not not a problem until the last two laps. When I got home I had pruned feet. How do marathoners handle this when they run in the rain? Just suffer?
3) Chaffing. I wore the same type of underwear I've worn many other times with no issues, but with the rain it was different. I didn't realize it until I hit the shower and OUCH! Time to figure out what to wear for underwear in the rain, and perhaps when I start hitting longer distances.
I'm going to force myself to take a break tomorrow and hit it again Friday.
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I don't wear socks when running so I can't help you there. I don't like my feet getting hot. Funny you mention the chafing. I've never chafed when it's not raining yet, but I'm still building up my mileage. Body glide might be your friend. I don't have any yet, but I've heard good things about it. Also consider wearing different clothes if it's going to rain.0
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June 3rd = 3.7 miles0
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