August 2015 Running Challenge
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Date Miles today. Miles for August
8/1 17 miles - 17
8/2 REST DAY
8/3 10.5 miles - 27.5
8/4 9.25 miles - 36.75
8/5 5.65 miles - 42.4
8/6 REST DAY Unplanned (domestic emergency and bad weather)
8/7 6.4 miles - 48.8
8/8 18 miles - 66.8
8/9 REST DAY
8/10 10.15 - 76.95
8/11 9.25 - 86.2
8/12 6.25 - 92.45
8/13 10 miles - 102.45
8/14 6.2 miles - 108.65
8/15 18 miles - 126.65
8/16 REST DAY
8/17 10.5 miles - 137.15
8/18 10.5 miles - 147.65
8/19 6.2 miles - 153.85
8/20 9.4 miles - 163.25
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8/1 - 5.82 mi
8/2 - 4.05 mi
8/3 - 4.35 mi of on-track speed work...tough!
8/4 - Rest day; might sneak in a walk this evening though.
8/5 - 2.0 mi on indoor track; 45 minutes of aerobics / cross-training with HM group.
8/6 - 3.1 mi, beautiful morning in Central Iowa!
8/7 - 4.25 mi, love that 70° and humid now seems pleasant!
8/8 - 5.7 mi with my HM training group
8/9 - rest day
8/10 - 3.5 mi along the Galena River.
8/11 - 4.48 mi, cool morning
8/12 - 4.6 mi; 2.5 of hill repeats with 2.1 run to finish up (HM training group)
8/13 - 4.75 mi, Trek/treadmill
8/14 - 4 mi; one of those runs that is hard, but you don't know why.
8/15 - 6.01 mi with HM training group
8/16 - 3.18...5k PR woo hoo! 24:39 chip time
8/17 - 5.58 mi, some tempo intervals bookended by a few easy miles. Sore from the weekend.
8/18 - rest day
8/19 - 5.23 mi with HM training group...lots of hills. Now I am seriously hungry!
8/20 - 4.4 mi, Trek/treadmill
@7lenny7 - I have never looked at the grade too specifically, but I find a 0.25 mile hill works great for repeats. Congrats to your son on making the soccer team!
@kristinegift - your two-a-day schedule makes me tired just reading about it
@WhatMeRunning and @Elise4270 - is this some conspiracy to make us all look like extras from The Walking Dead? Not sure about the arms part.
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Goal: 40 miles
8/4 - 3.66 miles. Darn ITB bothered me around 3. I thought I was over this.
8/6 - 4.33 miles. No ITB pain, but slowed WAY down. Cautiously optimistic
8/10 - 4.53 miles. No pain again! Still very slow, but slow running is still running
8/12 - 3 miles. Taking it easy so I can start adding long runs on the weekend.
8/14 - 3.5 miles
8/16 - 5.3 miles - felt great, no pain. A little sore in my hip a few hours later, so taking an extra rest day.
8/19 - 3.1 miles - Moonlight 5k. It was HOT and HUMID, but averaged 10:30 miles on a hilly course. I'll take it!![exercise.png[\img]](http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wh6nyyw/exercise.png[\img])
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1/8/15 - 3 miles
3/8/15 - 1.5 miles
4/8/15 - 1.5 miles
6/8/15 - 1.5 miles
7/8/15 - 2 miles
8/8/15 - 3 miles
10/8/15 - 1.75 miles
11/8/15 - 1.75 miles
13/8/15 - 1.75 miles
14/8/15 - 1.75 miles
16/8/15 - 3 miles
17/8/15 - 2 miles
19/8/15 - 1.5 miles
20/8/15 - 1 mile
decided to check my pace. i ran the mile in 11 minutes 5 seconds. im still slow as molasses but getting better
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5BeautifulDays wrote: »I have a question--I'll probably post over on the "Long Distance Runners" group, but if anyone here can help me, I'd love the input. I seem to have something going on with my long run where my left achilles/arch hurts and my right knee/hip flexor hurt. I'm fine (except for the normal first mile stiffness) until about mile 5 or so, and then the twinges start. I don't think I'm to the point I'd call anything an injury--but I'd like to keep it that way! What is the most likely thing I'm doing wrong that would cause these problems? I don't have any pain to speak of when I run on the treadmill, or outside on shorter runs. I don't know if the problem is my gait, the distance, or the fact that my long run is in my trail shoes (a neutral shoe with orthotics, vs my gym/street shoe) and primarily on gravel.
The pain you are describing in your knee/hip flexor sounds like how my ITBS started. Maybe start adding some glute strengthening to your routine to head off any problems? Google clam shells & fire hydrants. Bane of my existence but they got me back on the road!0 -
The pain you are describing in your knee/hip flexor sounds like how my ITBS started. Maybe start adding some glute strengthening to your routine to head off any problems? Google clam shells & fire hydrants. Bane of my existence but they got me back on the road!
So helpful! Thank you. Those are exactly the sort of exercises I'm not doing and should. I suspect the achilles problem on the left is just my normal repetitive stress issues/flat feet, but I can usually solve that with rest and good cushioning in the shoe. The hip flexor/knee problems are far more concerning because they hurt even when I'm not running.
8/1 3.2 @ 10:55 (race)
8/2 5.0 @ 20:00 (hiking)
8/3 4.5 @ 18:00 (walk with kids and dog)
8/4 4.0 @ 11:30 (treadmill) and strength training
8/5 Amusement Park Day
8/6 3.0 @ 12:00 and strength training
8/7 Aquarium Day
8/8 4.0 @ 15:00 (my first technical trail)
8/9 5.0 @ 12:00 on my normal trail--felt a little sluggish
8/10 4.5 @ 12:00 on a new trail near my house
8/11 3.5 @ 11:00 on the treadmill, laughing like an insane person, and strength training
8/12 Rest Day. Yuck.
8/13 7.5 @ 12:56 (the first 10K were at about 12:15; I walked the last mile and a quarter with a terrible stitch in my side)
8/14 3.25 @ 11:04 on the treadmill and strength training
8/15 5.0 @ 11:48 road/flat trail combo
8/16 Rest Day
8/17 4.0 @ 12:47--I got out late and it was really hot. I also got "lost" a couple times, exploring a new section of trail.
8/18 4.25 @ 11:17 on the treadmill and strength training
8/19 7.5 @ 12:42 --it was drippy muggy but at least overcast, so not *too* hot. I'll take it!
8/20 2.25 @ 12:45 (last quarter was really slow, just walking) short recovery run in 100% humidity
70.5/100
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I'm going to make my way up there!! Technically I have a 5K race slotted for the 29th- so I could make it up there to come run with you- esp if you're doing a shorter quicker run- otherwise program calls for a long run.kristinegift wrote: »
@kristinegift - seriously- it's been beautiful in the mornings!! I rolled out around 535 and it was so.gross.Total slog today. It was 75 degrees and 90% humidity when I left at 6, and 75 degrees and 88% humidity when I got back an hour and a half+ later. Could not get my feet moving and made the dumb decision to put lots of hilly stretches in my route. Cannot wait til some storms come through and knock these 90+ degree days out of here!
On the bright side: there were a ton of other runners slogging it this morning too who were all quite friendly, and for the first time since I moved out here I saw a FOX! I ran past it and it jumped out of a bush and dashed through someone's backyard. It was so fluffy and cute!
All my long runs are on Saturday at this point so I don't' think our mileage lines up well- but at some point- we should do a thing LOL- esp since you said the magical "hilly stretches"
Haha well if you're ever running in Princeton, anything UP from the canal parking lot on Alexander (north/west-ward toward main Princeton) is all uphill. I live close to the canal, so I'm running up for the first half of most of my runs, and still these hills kill me some days!
I need to schedule some afternoon- or later in the day runs- running super early is great for me for a lot of reasons- but I know my race won't be that early so I'll need to be in some sort of heat at some point much to my dismay!@JoRocka, I enjoyed your poop story! Sorry for you, but good humor for us. My log runs are on a trail with no facilities, but plenty of trees. I've started taking toilet paper in a ziplock bag with me...just in case.
I have considered bringing some baby wipes with me in a baggie- I was wondering yesterday if it was going to be the sock or the underwear!!! Unfortunately - where I live- VERY VERY few places to duck!! But it's been super dark at 5:30- so I might be able to get away with it! LMAO
Congrats on the son making the team. My college year of soccer- that was my coach's philosophy- if we can't out technique them- we'll run them into the ground. Which we did. We were excessively fit. lots. and lots. and lots of running LMAO
8.1.15.... 5.41 M... 52:30.
8.2.15.....Rest
8.3.15.... 1 HR Lift + 2 hrs dance
8.4.15.... 3.19 M.... 28:10 Afternoon Hot Run + 2 hrs of dance
8.5.15.... 4.18 M....39:06 Nice cool morning run- feeling stiff-
8.5.15.... Pt And Chiro Rest otherwise
8.6.26.... 3.05 M..... 27:59 super cool morning
8.7.15..... PT and Chiro- Rest otherwise
8.8.15.... 6.30...1:01 Calf problems
8.11.15... 3.02...30... super slow and rainy
8.12.15.... 4.19 ...37:57... moderate-
8.13.15.....3.00.... 35........Tread mill hills
8.15.15..... 7.51.... 1:17- Hill run- WOOT WOOT
8.18.15.....3.12..... 26:16-solid 3 miles
8.19.15.... 4.16....39.27- holy.crap. humid lying run was lying- also- hysterical sweaty poop
8.20.15.....3.04.....27- odd- my watch gave me a solid 26- but both phone apps gave me 27 and a half- I cut the difference and called it 27 even. little stiff this am- fortunately no poop- but I am grossly concerned with the fact I may have just flip flopped my schedule- I'm usually an afternoon bathroom person- I missed a day- and the resulting day was yesterdays touch and go run. This morning was a morning constitutional after my run. I can't afford time wise to be dealing with that in the morning!!! ARGH- BACK TO THE AFTERNOON YOU!! BACK TO THE AFTERNOON!
50.17 of 75 miles
71.02of total 225- WOOT 1/3 of my training is done! WOOOOHOOOOO0 -
8/1 - 10 miles
8/2 - 3.2 miles
8/3 - 5.5 miles 1st day of school here, can't believe my baby is a Sophomore!
8/4 - 3.2 miles
8/5 - rest day
8/6 - 1.8 miles ending up not getting back out last night - had to bring work home with me and worked until 9:30
8/7 - 4.4 miles in the fog
5K Run to the Rescue with Skip and some of her teammates tomorrow.
8/8 - 3.1 Run to the Rescue 5K today. Skip and I ran, it was trail for almost 2 miles (I've never run off the road) then onto the road, then onto parking lot gravel (ugh) then back to and finish on grass. We don't have official times, I was I did a 9:43 pace just over 30 min so not near a PR, Skip said she was about 23:49 not near her PR either. I thought it was a tough course, a few hills. The trail was hard for me very rooty and uneven, but it was a lot of fun. I finished 3rd in my AG and she finished 1st in her AG.
8/9 - 9.3 miles
8/10 - 3.5 miles of recovery - it's my birthday it's my birthday!!
8/11- 6.1 miles
8/12 - 3.5 miles - Wed is usually my rest day but I need to be in work at OhDark30 the next two days so I ran today.
8/13 - rest day
8/14 - rest day - work got in the way for 2 days :-(
8/15 - 6.5 miles - halfway right on schedule
8/16 - 8.6 miles - longest run ever for Skip - so proud of her
8/17 - 3.5 miles of leisurely run in the rain
8/18 - rest day
8/19 - 6.4 miles legs still sore and they talked to me the whole run - they weren't cursing so I kept going
8/20 - 5.1 miles
83.9 miles of 120
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@7lenny7 congrats on the boy making the soccer team, Skip has played since she was old enough to walk and played for her high school this past year (we play in the Spring for some stupid reason). Her coached LOVED the fact she was a runner, they also did tons of core work for a good 7 weeks before they even touched a ball. I so envy her 6 pack!
@mwyvr lately when you post pictures my company blocks them, I'm starting to wonder what you are posting LOL
@5beautifuldays and jtrmom I 2nd the clams shells they worked great for with my hurt sciatic nerve and sore knee.
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@karllundy I'm not sure if it legit. I'm just desperate to try anything that can keep me running.0
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Hello ladies and gents, sorry I've been MIA. But I'm back! And I've been running! Completed my first 5 miler Aug 9th. Time was 45:20, and almost puked when I crossed the finish line. It was well worth it though! Also had a virtual 5k this past weekend. My sister invited me to run a half with her in NY in October. She's 4 months PP and is only doing it because she won a free entry and hotel night. She is running 30mins walking 30 mins until she finishes, so if I can get the time off work to travel I'm going to do it, it will give me some insight before I run my official half this coming spring! Happy running! I'll start counting my miles again next month. Oh, I also joined a local running club! Woo! Hoping to make some new friends 0
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Those are about what we have here. Hard to find steeper without resorting to stairs. I have found some routes that have one or more of those and run them regularly. If I want to do a run with all hills, the best I can do is go back and forth over the same hill. There is a nice "valley" here with similarly steep hills on either side, about 100 feet of climb over about a 1/4 mile each side. I just run up one side, back down and up the other, and repeat until I get my distance. Makes for a tough workout.All you veteran hill runners...how big of a hill do you look for? I ran one on last night that, according to my Garmin, rose 100ft in a quarter mile. Seems like it would do the trick when I start doing hill repeats. What's that...a 7.6% grade?0 -
All in all, you're just a, nother brick in the wall.....
and that wall's coming DOWN!- 8/02 - 7.2mi
- 8/06 - 5.2mi
- 8/14 - 8.1mi
- 8/18 - 6.4mi
- 8/20 - 6.3mi
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5BeautifulDays wrote: »The hip flexor/knee problems are far more concerning because they hurt even when I'm not running.
Re your knee issue, does it hurt more going down stairs than up stairs? That was always a hint to me that I had ITBS. For many years now I've been pro-actively stretching to avoid ITB issues; seems to work.
Earlier this year I had hip flexor tightness on one side and used stretching to good effect there too.
@skippygirlsmom I think your company is just blocking all content from Instagram; I'll post them via a different method.0 -
I am so far behind on all the updates here! Work is getting in the way again. I will post my updates later and hopefully get caught up on everyone. In the mean time I wanted to share a bit from an article in Runners World/Zelle that resonated with me:
'Running is just a form of exercise until you love it. It’s exercise until your training takes you beyond the emphasis on effort and into the realm of ease. It’s exercise until the physical becomes spiritual. It’s exercise until “have to” or “should” becomes “I get to,” “I can’t wait to,” or “I can’t imagine not.” It’s exercise until the daily try becomes more interesting and important than the outcome. It’s exercise until the energy becomes essential. It’s exercise until you forget to care what you look like doing it, or what you look like because of it.'
Have a great run today!!0 -
Hoping it is not too late to join
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DATE ... MILES
8/1 ... 16.5
8/2 ... 10
8/4 ... 5
8/5 ... 8
8/6 ... 5.25
8/8 ... 17
8/9 ... 6
8/10 ... 4
8/11 ... 5.5
8/13 ... 5.5
8/15 ... 13.1
8/16 ... 10
8/17 ... 6
8/18 ... 5.5
8/20 ... 9
126.35 done/200 goal
Ran to and from a group run this morning. I ended up running a much faster pace then I intended - a combination of leaving the house late and having to rush, then talking A LOT on the group run and not realizing my pace. Oops! Hopefully it doesn't effect my long run on Saturday.0 -
5BeautifulDays wrote: »The hip flexor/knee problems are far more concerning because they hurt even when I'm not running.
Re your knee issue, does it hurt more going down stairs than up stairs? That was always a hint to me that I had ITBS. For many years now I've been pro-actively stretching to avoid ITB issues; seems to work.
Earlier this year I had hip flexor tightness on one side and used stretching to good effect there too.
Yes--and it hurts more to run downhill than uphill, too. Sounds like I have some research (and exercises!) to do.
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8 more miles today as I'm getting a bit more comfortable with that number. Held off on speedwork though as today was a bit more social of a running day. Still, I'll get in a session of that tomorrow at the track.
8/1 - 3 miles
8/2 - 6 miles
8/4 - 12 miles
8/5 - 5.5 miles
8/6 - 8 miles (w. 8x800s @ 6:22 pace)
8/8 - 3 miles (sprint triathlon 5k @ 7:03 pace)
8/10 - 9.5 miles
8/11 - 3 mile run
8/13 - 1 mile run
8/16 - 5 mile run
8/17 - 7 mile run
8/18 - 8 mile run
8/19 - 8 mile run
8/20 - 8 mile run
Total: 87 miles
Goal: 140 miles
Remaining: 53 miles0 -
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'Running is just a form of exercise until you love it. It’s exercise until your training takes you beyond the emphasis on effort and into the realm of ease. It’s exercise until the physical becomes spiritual. It’s exercise until “have to” or “should” becomes “I get to,” “I can’t wait to,” or “I can’t imagine not.” It’s exercise until the daily try becomes more interesting and important than the outcome. It’s exercise until the energy becomes essential. It’s exercise until you forget to care what you look like doing it, or what you look like because of it.'
Have a great run today!!
Love this!Hoping it is not too late to join
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I got in a 5km training run with my 7 year old son last night, then after we got home I quickly put him to bed and went out for another 14km. He's running his first 5km this weekend. Actually, now that I think about it, it'll be my first 5k race too!
That puts me at 200km/124 miles for August with150km/93 miles to go.0 -
In the mean time I wanted to share a bit from an article in Runners World/Zelle that resonated with me:
'Running is just a form of exercise until you love it. It’s exercise until your training takes you beyond the emphasis on effort and into the realm of ease. It’s exercise until the physical becomes spiritual. It’s exercise until “have to” or “should” becomes “I get to,” “I can’t wait to,” or “I can’t imagine not.” It’s exercise until the daily try becomes more interesting and important than the outcome. It’s exercise until the energy becomes essential. It’s exercise until you forget to care what you look like doing it, or what you look like because of it.'
That's well said. I'm posting that on my wall.
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8/1 - 13.1
8/8 - 6.02
8/9 - 3.38
8/10 - 1.02
8/13 - 2.56
8/16 - 6.67
8/18 - 3.64
8/19 - 4.17
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didnt get out again, was a very emotionally draining day. planted a rose bush to remember/commemorate then took a 2 mile walk in search of a takeaway, 3 bites and i binned it, tasted awful
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3.2 km this morning for a total of 32 km this month. 18 km more to go to reach 50km for the month. Should have no trouble reaching that.0
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ruqayyahsmum wrote: »didnt get out again, was a very emotionally draining day. planted a rose bush to remember/commemorate then took a 2 mile walk in search of a takeaway, 3 bites and i binned it, tasted awful
tomorrows a new day
@ruqayyahsumum Hang in there, you are so right, tomorrow is another day0
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