September 2015 Running Challenge

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  • 9voice9
    9voice9 Posts: 693 Member
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    01-Sep: 4.19 miles
    02-Sep: <Life Day>
    03-Sep: 3.75 miles - interrupted
    04-Sep: <recuperation>
    05-Sep: 2.72 miles (trial run - not a great idea)
    06-Sep: <recuperation>
    07-Sep: 3.15 miles (walk)
    08-Sep: 2.50 miles (dreadmill)
    09-Sep: <Life Day>
    10-Sep: 2.00 miles (dreadmill)
    11-Sep: <tired/lazy>
    12-Sep: 1.00 miles (dreadmill)
    13-Sep: 3.61 miles
    14-Sep: 4.10 miles; 1.00 miles (dreadmill)
    15-Sep: 3.39 miles
    16-Sep: 2.75 miles (dreadmill)
    17-Sep: 2.70 miles
    18-Sep: 5.41 miles
    19-Sep: 4.36 miles
    20-Sep: 5.71 miles
    21-Sep: 2.89 miles
    22-Sep: 3.00 miles (dreadmill)
    23-Sep:
    24-Sep:
    25-Sep:
    26-Sep:
    27-Sep:
    28-Sep:
    29-Sep:
    30-Sep:

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  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
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    Rest day today!

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    @stoshew71 goal! great job
    @juliet3455 beautiful pictures
    @dawniemate I live in the US, I'm a New Jersey transplant currently living in Alabama
  • 9voice9
    9voice9 Posts: 693 Member
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    @dawniemate - I'm in Middle Georgia (USA). 32°35'N 83°42'W
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
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    @dawniemate - I live in Des Moines, Iowa (USA).
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
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    dawniemate wrote: »
    Hi fellow runners. ...whereabouts in the world are you all? As we all post frequently it made me wonder ' where are you '??. I'm in Manchester in the UK:)

    Madison, AL USA

  • kstarallen
    kstarallen Posts: 116 Member
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    9/23 -- 2.17mi
    I accidentally did W5D1 and I made it! Guess on Friday or Saturday I'll go back and do W4D2?

    @dawniemate - I live in Connecticut, USA
  • AngieFlames
    AngieFlames Posts: 61 Member
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    Sept 22 - rest day (can barely walk or laugh from kickboxing yesterday)
    Sept 23 - 2.84 miles
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,493 Member
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    @dawniemate I live in a suburb south of Minneapolis.

    @Stoshew71, @pearshapedmum, great job surpassing your goal already!
    @patrikc333, an Amsterdam marathon sounds VERY cool! I visited the city once and fell in love with it.
    @juliet3455, great pix! I"m really looking forward to fall running here.

    Re: Running apparel - I find it interesting how my attitude has changed since I started just over 4 months ago. When I first started running I wore very plain colored clothes and would run at night or drive to a park to run so I didn't have to deal with neighbors asking me what the hell I thought I was doing. Slowly as I got more confident that I actually was a runner, I would start running from the house in daylight, then started buying brighter, more gaudy clothes (fluorescent yellow and orange!) so I would be more easily seen by passing cars.

    I then bought a pair of compression shorts, and hesitated even wearing those at all except under other shorts. But, they came with pockets and reflective stripes so they must be meant for wearing alone. Now those I won't wear if I start running from the house unless it's dark, but I'll wear them in public elsewhere because they are SO DAMN COMFORTABLE! but I think it would be awkward to end up talking to a neighbor with such tight shorts on. I save those for my long runs.

    Last week I bought an Amphipod Singlet Pocket, a reflective minimal harness-looking thing with a pocket. No way I would have worn that when I started running.

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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
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    dawniemate wrote: »
    Hi fellow runners. ...whereabouts in the world are you all? As we all post frequently it made me wonder ' where are you '??. I'm in Manchester in the UK:)

    I'm a VA/CA transplant now living in the Dirty Jersey.
  • corinne1977
    corinne1977 Posts: 144 Member
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    9/1 - 3 miles
    9/2 - 2 miles
    9/3 - 3 miles
    9/4 - 0
    9/5 - 6 miles
    9/6 - 1 mile
    9/7 - 5.50 miles
    Total for Week 1 - 20.50 miles

    9/8 - 0
    9/9 - 0
    9/10 - 2
    9/11 - 0
    9/12 - 6
    9/13 - 0
    9/14 - 3
    Total for Week 2 - 11 miles

    9/15 - 3.5
    9/16 - 1
    9/17 - 3.5
    9/18 - 0
    9/19 - 0
    9/20 - 0
    9/21 - 0
    Total for Week 3 - 8 miles
  • dawniemate
    dawniemate Posts: 395 Member
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    Wow so many from the USA :smiley: anywhere else? ? Welcome all :blush:
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Womens running is having a cover contest.... Some awesome ladies here might look good on that cover! I, of course, entered... Lol!


    https://www.etsy.com/listing/204303227/hooded-cape-cloak-for-women-in-black?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=cape&ref=sr_gallery_5


    This took me to a site that allowed me to buy a hooded cape.

    Did you mean this one?
    http://womensrunning.competitor.com/cover-runner-contest

    Yup. Sorry I'm on mobile and its not always easy to navigate...

    The cape is awesome, no?

  • Abakan
    Abakan Posts: 361 Member
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    Haven't posted for a couple of weeks because I've had an injury so no running for me, although I have kept up with all your posts which has help me stay positive .
    Took a 2 mile hill walk today to see how my hamstring would hold up and apart for a bit of discomfit when I first started up hill it soon settled down and felt fine. I'm continuing to use the foam roller twice a day and have done pilates almost every day. Tomorrow I'll be doing a short slow run to see how my hamstring holds up.
    Thanks to everyone for posting, it's great to see how your all doing. I love all the pictures, imfo and funny posts, I'm totally eddicted and even log on in the middle of the night if I can't sleep as lots of you in the USA are posting while were sleeping over here in the UK.
    I live in a little village by the sea in North Wales.
    Happy running all.
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
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    JoRocka wrote: »
    dawniemate wrote: »
    Hi fellow runners. ...whereabouts in the world are you all? As we all post frequently it made me wonder ' where are you '??. I'm in Manchester in the UK:)

    I'm a VA/CA transplant now living in the Dirty Jersey.

    Oh @jorocka you hurt me so! Okay depending on where you live I'm willing to agree.
  • 5BeautifulDays
    5BeautifulDays Posts: 683 Member
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    @dawniemate I'm in Virginia, USA--near Washington, DC (that's important, because this place is nothing like the rest of VA, in good and bad ways!)



    9/1 Strength training and elliptical
    9/2 6.5 miles (6 at 11:29 and .5 at 15:00) on the treadmill
    9/3 4.5 miles at 11:59 on the treadmill
    9/4 3 miles at 11:00 on the treadmill and strength training
    9/5 Rest Day

    9/6 5 miles-nice trail run with 4 at 11:35(ish) and 1 walking
    9/7 1.5 miles at 12:00 with my 10 year old.
    9/8 1.5 miles super-slow walking on the treadmill on max incline plus strength training
    9/9 7.75 miles on my local park trail at 12:33
    9/10 3.25 walking the doggy for my rest day
    9/11 3.00 at 11:30 on the treadmill and strength training
    9/12 Rest

    9/13 Rest
    9/14 4.5 at 12:30 on my park trail.
    9/15 3.25 at 10:46 on the treadmill and strength training
    9/16 2.75 at 11:17 on the treadmill (short run, since I had to go to a meeting)
    9/17 7.5 at 12:20 on the park trail
    9/18 3.25 @ 11:25 on the treadmill, plus strength training
    9/19 Rest

    9/20 4.25 at 12:00 through the neighborhood
    9/21 3.25 at 11:32 on the treadmill
    9/22 3.5 at 11:50 on the treadmill, plus strength training
    9/23 "rest day" 5 miles dragging recalcitrant dog around the lake at Nana's pace of 2.5 mph for two hours. I'm counting it because I wore my running shoes, lol!

    Goal: 75 miles


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  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
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    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
    9/17 lazy
    9/18 3.48
    9/19 4.01
    9/20 1 hour of surreal snorkeling
    9/21 3.52
    9/22 6.30
    9/23 3.15

    @dawniemate : Hawaii, USA (home of great snorkeling!!)

    Total 58.99
    Ticker is my goal for 2015 and accumulation to date:

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  • annekka
    annekka Posts: 517 Member
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    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
    9/18—long work day so rest
    9/19—longest run yet 13.42 km in 1 hour 40 min.
    9/20—rest
    9/21—rest again
    9/22–5.05 km
    9/23–6.44 km
    9/24–5.24 km—run was a slog,
  • vandinem
    vandinem Posts: 550 Member
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    Date      Miles      MTD
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Sep 01      5.2      5.2
Sep 04      9.1     14.3
Sep 05      3.7     18.0
Sep 06      5.0     23.0
Sep 07      3.7     26.7
Sep 10      6.2     32.9
Sep 12     10.6     43.5
Sep 13      5.0     48.5
Sep 15      5.0     53.5
Sep 17      5.0     58.5
Sep 19      8.0     66.5
Sep 21      5.0     71.5
Sep 22      6.2     77.7

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    6.2 miles to get me to 77.7, because I like the number 7! The calculator says I'm on pace for the month but for some reason I'm feeling crunched for time.

    @dawniemate - Hingham MA by way of Pittsburgh PA!
    @skippygirlsmom - I am late to mention it but that was a perfect resolution to the story about Stroller Lady. Good on you for paying it forward, and let's hope we see her in the October Challenge!
    @jtarmom - Love the 45-degree angle on your profile pic!
  • juliet3455
    juliet3455 Posts: 3,015 Member
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    Missed the Wednesday Night Group Run due to Work. Did a short 5.5 km run on the River Bank trail in the twilight- good practise for Oct-Nov-Dec-Jan-Feb when all my mid week runs will be in the dark.

    9/1 - 0 - 0 - 140 km goal
    9/3 - 6 km - 6 - 134 km to go
    9/4 - 6 km - 12 - 128 km to go
    9/7 - 7.4 km - 19.4 - 120.6 km to go
    9/12 - 11.4 km - 30.8 - 109.2 km to go
    9/13 - 6.5 km - 37.3 - 102.7 km to go
    9/14 - 6.8 km - 44.1 - 95.9 km to go
    9/16 - 8.2 km - 52.3 - 87.7 km to go
    9/18 - 10 km - 62.3 - 77.7 km to go
    9/19 - 6.8 km - 69.1 - 70.9 km to go
    9/20 – 17 km – 86.1 – 53.9 km to go
    9/22 - 10.5 km – 96.6 – 43.4 km to go
    9/23 – 5.5 km – 91.6 – 37.9 km to go

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    @dawniemate Peace River, AB. Canada 5 hr drive north of Edmonton,AB
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,493 Member
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    I came home from work to find out that my son skipped soccer practice because he wasn't feeling well. He has a game tomorrow so I decide to skip the Twins game so he could get to bed early and I went running with Kody. He turned out to have a bit of intestinal distress and had to stop several times for him.

    3 days until my next race. A 5K put on my our church.

    9/01 - Rest
    9/02 - 6.1 Miles, 11:03 pace, 137 HR, 72F
    9/03 - 5.0 Miles, 10:53 pace, 142 HR, 77F
    9/04 - 8.1 Miles, 12:11 pace, 136 HR, 83F
    9/05 - Family Day! - Innertubing down a nearby river and going out to eat.
    9/06 - 7.7 Miles (5.2 + 2.5), First run: 11:05 pace, 139 HR, 76F, Second run with the kid. Also got in a 3 mile walk with Kody.
    9/07 - 13.1 Miles <-- New distance PR! 10:59 pace, 138HR, 68F
    - 2.3 Miles with The Kid
    9/08 - Rest
    9/09 - 8.5 Miles, 10:41 pace, 142 HR, 69F
    9/10 - 9.2 Miles, 11:04 pace, 138 HR, 60F
    9/11 - Road trip
    9/12 - 5.1 Miles, 10:13 pace, ??? HR, 52F <no GPS>
    9/13 - 5.1 Miles, 11:18 pace, 140 HR, 65F
    9/14 - 8.5 Miles, 10:38 pace, 146 HR, 80F
    9/15 - 8.5 Miles, 11:24 pace, 134 HR, 80F
    9/16 - MN Twins game - 12 inning game after a 1hr rain delay. Got home at 1:15am!
    9/17 - 8.5 Miles, 10:53 pace, 136 HR, 66F
    9/18 - Rest
    9/19 - 6.7 Miles, 10:01 pace, 136 HR,
    9/20 - Gluttony
    9/21 - Gluttony
    9/22 - 8.6 Miles, 10:38 pace, 138 HR, 68F
    9/23 - 5.5 Miles, 10:31 pace, 133 HR, 69F


    Goal: 135 Miles
    Progress: 116.5 Miles
    Remaining: 18.5 Miles

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