September 2015 Running Challenge

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  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    @skippygirlsmom love the pics! Such determination and focus!
  • ddmom0811
    ddmom0811 Posts: 1,881 Member
    @7lenny7 - better than 25 pennies I suppose.
    @shanaber - I agree, I'm not picking up any loose change I see!
    @skippygirlsmom - great pictures! Great time and Go Skip!

    I didn't have to leave the house at my usual 6:30am today, so I got my long run in. Would have liked it to be 13 miles, but I'm fine with 11. I ran out of time, even with the extra time. I think that will be my last long one until the HM in a few weeks. Got strength training this afternoon ... but will have to focus on just the abs/upper body. Legs/ankles are feeling that run.

    9/1 - 5.25 miles
    9/2 - 3.55 miles
    9/3 - strength training + cycling class
    9/4 - rest
    9/5 - 34 mile bike ride
    9/6 - 12.82 mile run.
    9/7 - 36 mile bike ride
    9/8 - rest
    9/9 - 5.06 miles + strength training
    9/10 - cycling class
    9/11 - 6.02 miles + strength training
    9/12 - 34 mile bike ride
    9/13 - 62 mile bike ride
    9/14 - rest day.
    9/15 - 3.3 miles. + cycling class after work.
    9/16 - 11.03 miles + strength training


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  • kstarallen
    kstarallen Posts: 116 Member
    9/16 -- am: 1.12mi - walked Cooper for sis in law
    pm: 2.79mi
  • dennie24
    dennie24 Posts: 251 Member
    @skippygirlsmom Skip is definitely awesome! :)

    45 minutes for me today. My quads were still a bit sore from squats and deadlifts on Monday but I got it done. I have a goal in mind that I would like to meet by January and if I get close enough to it then I am going to reward myself by signing up for a half marathon in June in Estes Park, CO. I really hope I get to my goal!
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  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    skippygirlsmom wrote: »
    @shanaber I concur with everything @stoshew71 said. It's an amazing place to live if you like to run. Even things like cross country meets are like old home week for the runners (like Skip) who see friends from races outside of school.

    I'm on a rest day today.

    So you know I like to brag on my girl. She PR'd yesterday at the mud run with a 22:00.15 26th of 160, she's ill about the .15 she wanted under 22 so bad. But that time cut 34 seconds off her previous 5K PR and considering she was running through creeks with water up to her thighs I'm thinking Great Job! She came back to the finish shoeless. I told her if one comes off in the creek (cause that Alabama clay will suck their shoes off) to run without and we'll fish it out later. Well she ran the last mile or so with nothing but socks. She said her shoes were getting too heavy because of the water and mud so she pushed them off...ah there's her .15 she lost ha ha! They were somewhere around 2 miles and her and a team mate went to find them. I love these two pictures. Stan Gregg took these.

    Congratulations to Skip. And I saw Gregg post the link to the meet in the WRH site.
    You need to buy Skip some minimalist shoes now. :smile:

  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    I've been trying that butt squeezing technique as well, but I had some difficulty last night. I couldn't find a quarter so I opted for two dimes and a nickel. About every mile or so I had to stop to pick up the loose change.

    SMH

    shanaber wrote: »
    @Stoshew71 - That is so great that you have such a large running community there. You would think it would be similar in So CA but it just doesn't seem to be. As I have mentioned before, even the running stores are few and far between. I do think there are more in some regions, like some of the beach communities and for sure in San Diego.

    That's a shame. And you would think. Maybe too much surfing going on.

    dawniemate wrote: »
    I was trying to picture all our running group squeezing our bums as we run lol☺☺ you can't help but smile at the thought of it! !! Happy running everyone

    Oh dear Lord what did I start? LOL



  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @stoshew71 She was complaining her ankles hurt afterwards so though she likes them I'm not sure they would work for her.

    I have laugh at the quarter comments, when we were growing up my Grandmother used to tell us girls to keep a nickle between our knees :blush:
  • aprilcanrun
    aprilcanrun Posts: 62 Member
    5 miles tonight with running club. Normally they split near the end and the crazier faster/longer runners go off and do another couple of miles. Tonight was the first night I stayed with the faster/longer runners and it was a bit challenging as they ran about 1.5 mins faster then I'm used to. But I survived!

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  • annekka
    annekka Posts: 517 Member
    September goal 100km
    9/1—Rest
    9/2–-5.3 km
    9/3–-6.24 km
    9/4—exploring
    9/5—rest, exhausted from exploring couldn’t get my butt up
    9/6—12.5 km, walked three times, but that’s okay
    9/7—rest
    9/8–5.06 km
    9/9–5.44 km
    9/10–5.15 km
    9/11—rest
    9/12–6.13 km
    9/13—the big 35 birthday…rest after a night of drinking and indian food
    9/14—weights at the gym, start of the k2fit challenge. Traditional rest day for me
    9/15–5.17 km—half way through the month and half way to my goal of 100 km! 51/100 km
    9/16—run tracker said 5.89 km, but I know the run is about 5.3 km
    9/17–5.29 km, finally seem to be back to hitting under 7 min per kilometer

    62 km so far...should be right on track for hitting 100 km.
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    edited September 2015
    In in it for 50
    Thanks @shanaber , Your DUCTTAPE suggestion seems to be working :) . Still on the same pair of sneakers, with no toeshow, (yet).
    • 02 - 6.2
    • 04 - 4.3 (Fisherman's Wharf..dodging tourists)
    • 07 - 5.1 (pre race workout)
    • 08 - REST DAY
    • 09 - 3.5 (5K JPMCC Corp Challenge (under 7m mil..best ever :) !!)
    • 09 - 4.8 ..but missed the buss so had to run home :/
    • 16 - 6.4 stopped short..for bio break :o (thank god for QuikiMart :p )
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  • juliet3455
    juliet3455 Posts: 3,015 Member
    edited September 2015
    skippygirlsmom wrote: »
    I'm on a rest day today. So you know I like to brag on my girl. She PR'd yesterday at the mud run with a 22:00.15 26th of 160, she's ill about the .15 she wanted under 22 so bad.
    @skippygirlsmom Brag you should that's an amazing time- she's got me by 6 minutes and that's not running through water hazards. Loved the pics - the determination in her expression is inspiring.
    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    You need to buy Skip some minimalist shoes now. :smile:
    Skip needs a sponsor and they should be keeping her in gear. Don't forget to add some fisherman floats so you can find the shoes in the ponds.
    monkeymintaka wrote: »
    5 miles tonight with running club. Tonight was the first night I stayed with the faster/longer runners and it was a bit challenging as they ran about 1.5 mins faster then I'm used to. But I survived!
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    Great Job - we usually under estimate what we are capable of.
    When you copied your Ticker Link You missed the [ img ] at the start and the [ /img ] at the end of it.

    8.2 km tonight with the Wednesday Night Boomers Running group - 1/2 of the Sunday Tims Trotters group and 1/2 of the TGIF Gang. Went up Pats Creek Trail - which was the original Highway into town before it started to slide. Will have to take my phone someday and take some photos.
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    9/1 0 - 0 - 140km goal
    9/3 6km - 6
    9/4 6km - 12
    9/7 7.4km - 19.4
    9/12 11.4km - 30.8
    9/13 6.5km - 37.3
    9/14 6.8km - 44.1
    9/16 8.2km - 52.3 - 87.7 km to go
  • ewrook
    ewrook Posts: 90 Member
    30 mile goal

    9/2/ 1.8
    9/4 1.5
    9/6 3.7
    9/8 2
    9/10 2.2
    9/12 2
    9/14 3.5
    9/16 2.0 Hot in the sun!

    14.8 miles to go!
  • Ohhim
    Ohhim Posts: 1,142 Member
    Took a rest day yesterday as I was out biking for most of the day to/from each of the double-header games (as they did it as a day/night split). Ended up running 9.5 miles today as I'm almost out of days up north this month and would rather get in my remaining mileage here vs. back in the super-hot & humid south.

    9/1 - 5 easy miles
    9/2 - 6 miles total (1.5 run + 4.5 run)
    9/3 - 11 miles total (1.5 run + 4 run + 5.5 run)
    9/6 - 6 miles
    9/7 - 5.5 miles
    9/9 - 5 miles
    9/10 - 8 miles
    9/11 - 8 miles
    9/12 - 4 miles (7 x 1/3 mile repeats w. 2 minute recovery jog at 6 min/mile pace)
    9/13 - 12 miles
    9/14 - 8 miles
    9/16 - 9.5 miles

    Total: 88 miles, 1 speedwork session
    Goal: 150 miles, 5 speedwork sessions
    Remaining: 62 miles, 4 speedwork sessions
  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
    September goal 65 miles

    9/1 3.51
    9/2 3.35
    9/3 rest
    9/4 3.16
    9/5 life day
    9/6 6.19
    9/7 a "I'm too darned lazy to move a muscle" day
    9/8 snokeling 3 hours
    9/9 3.15
    9/10 3.34
    9/11 3.35
    9/12 rest
    9/13 Hilo Bay 5k: 3.12, 2nd place in my AG
    9/14 3.3
    9/15 rest
    9/16 6.06

    Total 38.53
    Ticker is my goal for 2015 and accumulation to date:


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  • ACSL3
    ACSL3 Posts: 623 Member
    rockstar53 wrote: »
    ACSL3 wrote: »
    rockstar53 wrote: »
    Hi all! I have just started running again after years off and many pounds heavier. I am not yet into measuring mileage…still in minutes! LOL! But I intend to get there! Taking it slow and steady! This thread is extremely motivational!

    Welcome :) Are you doing the couch to 5k running program? If not, it's a time based program with a walk/run cycle. I found it helpful a couple of years ago when I was first getting back into running after taking several years off.

    Hi there, @ACSL3,
    No I am doing a Darebee 30 day program, called Walking to Running. Almost at the end of it and will have to figure out my next step. It will have me running intervals of 2min walk/5min Run. I am really enjoying it.

    I haven't heard of that one, but it sounds good :)
  • dawniemate
    dawniemate Posts: 395 Member
    Good morning everyone! I need a bit of advice please. I'm fairly new to running and am doing it to keep my body ticking over and lose the last 6 lbs. I thoroughly enjoy it. I'm doing 4.46 Miles per morning 5 days a week. I run for about 45-50 minutes at a time. But .... I feel totally shattered. ...even if I have a day or two off. I do my run sometimes walking a small part of the way and feel fine but later in the day I feel exhausted. Do you think I should run faster for a shorter period of time.
    I love getting out running and don't want to stop but not sure what to do next. My bloods are all fine,blood pressure normal etc.....I'm 47 5 ft 132 lbs. Any advice from you lovely people would be great. ...☺☺☺
  • mwyvr
    mwyvr Posts: 1,883 Member
    @rockstar53 Welcome to the group! Don't worry about posting your mileage. It's all good! Don't forget that pretty much all of us were once right where you are now.
    @JoRocka Nice pace you are turning in there - great job!
    @7lenny7 You know what you've done? You've redefined what Runner's Bonk means!
    @patrikc333 Very impressive mileage racking up!
    @Stoshew71 Huntsville sounds like a great place to live and run! I think I've seen a documentary on it - isn't track a huge spectator sport there? Very cool in any case.
    @skippygirlsmom Your daughter is doing some impressive running!
    @dawniemate You might consider slowing down your run pace a bit. Do you have any idea where your heart rate gets to during your run? Are you refueling well? Eating those run burned calories back? Are you by any chance a blood donor? Even if not, are you up on where your iron levels are?

    Only had time for a short run today - story of my life lately - so decided to pick up my pace a bit on the lakeside trail and it felt pretty good.

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Month to date:		110.10 km
Goal:			322 km / 200 miles (34% completed)
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Sep 16 10.05 km Pickin' up pace on trail run around the lake
Sep 15 11.93 km Easy pace, river run and a few laps with soccer team at track
Sep 14 -----    Rest day
Sep 13 12.86 km Up up up trail run
Sep 12 15.04 km MAF HR, somewhat hilly, felt good
Sep 11 07.63 km Recovery run / Date run in the forest
Sep 10 10.99 km Dead flat run around seawall
Sep 09 -----    Rest day
Sep 08 04.68 km Pushing it on the track 3x1km. I hate the track.
Sep 07 07.82 km Exploring a different trail to the dog beach
Sep 06 21.21 km Running gentle hills around the lake, felt great save for blisters
Sep 05 -----    Life break, coaching soccer 
Sep 04 07.90 km UBC forest - Date Run Friday!
Sep 03 -----    More of same
Sep 02 -----    More of same
Sep 01 -----    Life break, running an evacuation centre
  • GenoPrice
    GenoPrice Posts: 477 Member

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    10Km this morning

  • patrikc333
    patrikc333 Posts: 436 Member
    01/9 12 miles
    02/9 12 miles
    03/9 10k
    04/9 12 miles
    05/9 10k
    06/9 34.1k
    07/9 10k
    08/9 20k
    09/9 20k
    10/9 10k
    11/9 20k
    12/9 10k
    13/9 39.1k
    14/9 10k
    15/9 20.1k
    16/9 20.4k
    17/9 10k

    305km/400

    as usual, "fast" Thursday, first miles like my knees were falling off, last ones very fast

    quite warm as well, at least it's a sunny day and Thursday

    today a bit of relax in preparation of tomorrow early morning 20k, the toughest of the week

  • pearshapedmum
    pearshapedmum Posts: 131 Member
    another 5.5 miles for me this morning, but legs felt a bit heavy due to running yesterday and gym last night. That's 38.5 in total for me :-)
  • ddmom0811
    ddmom0811 Posts: 1,881 Member
    9/1 - 5.25 miles
    9/2 - 3.55 miles
    9/3 - strength training + cycling class
    9/4 - rest
    9/5 - 34 mile bike ride
    9/6 - 12.82 mile run.
    9/7 - 36 mile bike ride
    9/8 - rest
    9/9 - 5.06 miles + strength training
    9/10 - cycling class
    9/11 - 6.02 miles + strength training
    9/12 - 34 mile bike ride
    9/13 - 62 mile bike ride
    9/14 - rest day.
    9/15 - 3.3 miles. + cycling
    9/16 - 11.03 miles + strength training
    9/17 - cycling class


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    The ads popping up are reading my posts or exercise history. Just got one that I barely read but it said something like "spinning class affecting your sex life?" I was adding food so I clicked away so fast I didn't even see what it was advertising for. I never said that was happening! What the heck? I am losing a toenail... I need an ad for that.
  • Nettiejb
    Nettiejb Posts: 18 Member
    I realised I haven't updated my latest for September. ..
    Sunday I completed my first half marathon in 1:59:05. I am really pleased with my time. I was hoping for sub 2 hours.

    I have also done a post race run yesterday 5.5 miles

    Taking my total for the month to 59.4/100
  • ceckhardt369
    ceckhardt369 Posts: 115 Member
    This week's been tough with all the stress on the farm (husband is the farmer not me and he's out of the country!) then at my job. I finally got out yesterday afternoon and remembered why I run in the early morning!

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  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    Date Miles today. Miles for September

    9/1 10.5 miles - 10.5
    9/2 6.6 miles - 17.1
    9/3 9.5 miles - 26.6
    9/4 6.85 miles - 33.45
    9/5 20 miles - 53.45
    9/6 REST DAY
    9/7 10.4 miles - 63.95
    9/8 10.25 miles - 74.2
    9/9 7 miles - 81.2
    9/10 10 miles - 91.2
    9/11 6.5 miles - 97.7
    9/12 21.5 miles - 119.2
    9/13 REST DAY
    9/14 10.5 miles - 129.7
    9/15 10.5 miles - 140.2
    9/16 6.35 miles - 146.55
    9/17 10.1 miles - 156.65

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    Total run with my Panera Pounders grp this morning: 10.1 miles in 1:27:10 -- 1.5 mi warm-up (14:14 at 9:30) then 8.6 miles in 1:12:56 at 8:29 -- breakdown of 8.6 mi: First 3 were meant to be tempo pace: 7:06/7:24/7:37/9:14/8:36/8:36/9:12/9:09/5:57 << last one was only .6 miles
    Last 2 miles had 6x 30 sec strides in them.
  • kristinegift
    kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
    9/1: Rest
    9/2: 7 miles
    9/3: 8 miles am and 6 miles pm with the Thursday crew
    9/4: 6 miles
    9/5: Rest
    9/6: Brunch and walking around museums > running 6 miles in a new town
    9/7: 18 miles
    9/8: Rest
    9/9: 10 miles
    9/10: 7 miles speedwork am, 6.4 miles pm with Thursday crew
    9/11: Rest
    9/12: 5 mile race (set new 5 mile and 5k PRs!)
    9/13: 12.3 miles
    9/14: 5 miles
    9/15: Rest
    9/16: 7 miles
    9/17: 8.2 miles am

    Meant to do 10 this morning, but the cooler mornings are wreaking havoc on my knees! Ordered some capris to keep them warmer so I can get back to running like a champ ;) Looking forward to a warm evening run with the Thursday crew tonight!

    105.9/200

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  • smithie092015
    smithie092015 Posts: 56 Member
    edited September 2015
    9.2: 1.25
    9.3: 4.1
    9.4: 2.4
    9.8: 4.3
    9.10: 5.25
    9.12: 6.1
    9.13: 2.75
    9.15: 5.3
    9.17: 4.5

    I did a bunch of squats and deadlifts yesterday, so my legs were tired! Intended to do at least 5, but I caved and took the shorter loop home. Seemed like the right choice at the time, but of course after a shower and some breakfast I always regret cutting a run short!

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  • jtarmom
    jtarmom Posts: 228 Member
    9/2 - 3.36 miles
    9/4 - 3.30 miles
    9/5 - 7 miles
    9/7 - 3.38 miles
    9/10 - 3.0 miles
    9/13 - 8.12 miles
    9/16 - 3.25 miles

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  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    edited September 2015
    9/1 - 3.5 miles - way too many pushes on the snooze this morning! :smiley:
    9/2 - rest day walked the doggie instead
    9/3 - 5.1 miles
    9/4 - 10 miles last 2 were HOT HUMID and MISERABLE LOL
    9/5 - rest day - cross country meet - Skip did great 24th in her division 23:37 no where near a PR but it was so hot and humid you could hardly stand to be out there to watch let alone run. Proud of my girl.
    9/6 - 5.1 miles
    9/7 - 5.2 miles of trail running - OMG we had so much fun!!! Skip wanted to practice trail running for her meets and folks gave me some great recommendations of trails to run. We went out this morning and had a blast. The first trail was marked as easy/difficult so it was some easy packed dirt and some gravel with harder roots and rocks to climb. The second was difficult and some parts were about 2' wide and quite a climb (for me LOL). We loved it!
    9/8 - 5.1 miles
    9/9 - 5.5 miles
    9/10 - 7.2 miles nice slow pace this morning, just wanted to get the miles in. Still pretty humid (97%) but the temp was 69 so it was nice. Annoying little doggie chased me this morning and nipped at my heels, honestly people it's dark out keep your doggies inside so they don't get run over.
    9/11 - 5.3 miles - cool 64 but humid 100% morning, but nice weather for a run
    9/12 - xc meet rest day
    9/13 - 2 miles - was going to rest, but did 2 miles at the lake to move my legs
    9/14 - 6.2 miles - good night 46 degrees in Alabama in September who would have thought it!
    9/15 - 5.4 miles
    9/16 - rest day
    9/17 - 8 miles - started off ugly and then got great and felt good. Negative splits the whole way...that never happens :smile:

    65.6 of 120 miles

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    Skip said thank you so much from the bottom of her :heart: She had me go out yesterday and look at recruiting info for colleges, she'll have to concentrate on track times because no college looks at XC times.
  • ryblueeyes
    ryblueeyes Posts: 257 Member
    Took 10 days off to nurse a sore knee. I'm not sure I'll be able to meet my goal, but I'm going to try!

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  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @karlundy @shanaber @elise4270 @7lenny7 - we would sit at our neighbors who had the tree and the "fruit" would fall off and hit us. Why they put a picnic table under that tree I'll never know. Once a week we would gather them all up, some times we'd get 50 or 60. Great memories...well not the getting hit, but the memory from my LONG ago youth.
    @juliet3455 I'll have to remember the fisherman floats LOL Her goal is to run for the Fleet Feet team, she's too young right now and needs to bring down times a bit, but it's a good goal.
    @ohhim okay I have to ask, what do you do? I've figured out it has to do with baseball but that's all I figured out
    @dawniemate I agree with @mwyvr you might need to slow down a bit. There are nights I'm so exhausted I can't move, but they are more the exception than the rule and probably has more to do with my life and not necessarily running. Also how many calories do you eat a day and do you eat back some exercise calories?
    @ddmom0811 OMG I spit diet coke on my desk reading about your ads!!!
    @nettiejb CONGRATS on the HM time, that is an awesome time. :star:
    @stoshew71 awesome run today, as usual
    @kristinegift come on you were just complaining about the heat LOL I was thinking this morning my arms were chilly and I was like okay girl last week you were saying you were hot pick one ha ha!!
    @smith092015 I do that too sometimes cut the run short and 10 mins later I'm like dang I could have finished!

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