December 2015 Running Challenge
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01-Dec (46 days to HM): 4.48 miles
02-Dec (45 days to HM):
03-Dec (44 days to HM): 2.78 miles; 2.13 miles (walk)
04-Dec (43 days to HM): 4.47 miles
05-Dec (42 days to HM): 10.04 miles (7K w/ Saturday running group, screwed-up Reindeer Run 10K)
06-Dec (41 days to HM): <HM Training-mandated Rest Day> but 3.28 miles
07-Dec (40 days to HM): 6.54 miles
08-Dec (39 days to HM): 4.46 miles
09-Dec (38 days to HM): 3.26 miles
10-Dec (37 days to HM): 2.68 miles
11-Dec (36 days to HM): 3.58 miles
12-Dec (35 days to HM): 6.60 miles
13-Dec (34 days to HM): <HM Training-mandated Rest Day>
14-Dec (33 days to HM): <severe case of "the runs">
15-Dec (32 days to HM): <severe case of "the runs">
16-Dec (31 days to HM): 3.34 miles (slow recovery run>
17-Dec (30 days to HM):
18-Dec (29 days to HM):
19-Dec (28 days to HM):
20-Dec (27 days to HM): <HM Training-mandated Rest Day>
21-Dec (26 days to HM):
22-Dec (25 days to HM):
23-Dec (24 days to HM):
24-Dec (23 days to HM):
25-Dec (22 days to HM):
26-Dec (21 days to HM):
27-Dec (20 days to HM): <HM Training-mandated Rest Day>
28-Dec (19 days to HM):
29-Dec (18 days to HM):
30-Dec (17 days to HM):
31-Dec (16 days to HM):
Upcoming Races:
16-Jan: Museum of Aviation HM, Warner Robins, GA
19-Mar: Cherry Blossom 10K, Macon, GA
16-Apr: Running for Ronald 5K or 10K, Macon, GA
04-Jul: Peachtree Road Race 10K, Atlanta, GA
Way behind on miles for the month. Gonna have to hold to a semblance of my HM training plan (with bonus distances/runs) to make my goal. But I have already told SHMBO that I will be running on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, as well as New Year's Eve and Day. She rolled her eyes at me....0 -
Dec 1 - 2.64
Dec 2 - 5K
Dec 3 - 1.4 streak
Dec 4 - 5.16 miles
Dec 5 - 4.16 miles - Savannah! Wish I had more time because this was the best run ever.
Dec 6 - 5.5 miles
Dec 7 - 1.1
Dec 8 - 4 miles
Dec 9 - 1.4 miles - streak + strength training
Dec 10 - 3.75 miles
Dec 11 - 6 miles + strength training
Dec 12 - 35 mile bike ride, 1 mile run
Dec 13 - 32 mile bike ride, 1 mile run
Dec 14 - 3.5 miles
Dec 15 - 4.72
Dec 16 - 1.4 + strength training
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Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ----- Dec 01 4.3 4.3 Dec 05 8.1 12.4 Dec 06 8.1 20.5 Dec 07 3.5T 24.0 Dec 09 6.3T 30.3 Dec 10 3.4T 33.7 Dec 12 8.2 41.9 Dec 13 4.3 46.2 Dec 15 5.4T 51.6 Dec 16 5.1 56.7
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runner_girl83 wrote: »Quick question.. How long does it take you to wear in new shoes?
Although the Nikes started hurting my arches after 300 km, the only other problem I had with them was I didn't feel they were stable enough around the ankle.
I am finding the new Asics Cumulus 16's comfortable with the extra support and cushioning, though my feet/legs are taking forever to warm up in my runs and I seem to be slapping my feet on the ground? This used to happen with the Nikes while I was warming up, though it would pass after the 2nd km.... But I am slapping my feet constantly in the Asics.. Not sure what's happening?
Another thing I've noticed.. The Asics are slippery on wet pavement.. Do I need to scuff them a bit or is that just how Asics tread are? The nikes are a soft rubber and grip really well in the wet - I may have to wear my old pair this afternoon if I go for another run in the rain!
Just wonder how long it could take for my feet/legs to adjust to using the Asics... Another part of me wonders if I should have just stuck with the Nikes Pegasus and just got a new pair of them, rather than trying Asics
AND.... shin splints are back in both legs!
I would think they should not have to be broken in. Maybe your feet may have to adjust a little to them but you shouldn't have to break them in.
I would say that after a week of wearing them, you should take them back and get a different pair of shoes. If you went to a good running store, that should be normal policy. No questions asked and full refund (of full credit for a different pair of shoes). If they don't have that policy, then you need to find a different store.
If the Asics are not helping you on wet pavement, then you may want a different pair for when it is wet out. With the amount of miles I do, I am constantly rotating different shoes anyway. I have one pair specific for trails. One specific for speed work (even though i haven't really done all that much of trails and speedwork yet). Then others have different ages so that I have some that are almost ready to be retired (I use them mostly for recovery days), some in the mid-life, and some that are brand new or almost brand new. I just bought 2 new pairs of shoes at the RCM Expo that i will start using after I officially retire 2 pairs. Hey. They were $50 each pair.
But I am an example of extreme with the number of shoes I have. I am currently tracking 10 pairs on strava right now. LOL (that's not including the 2 pairs I just got). But, if you had 2 or 3 pairs that you could rotate then that would seem reasonable. Especially if you run close to every day. It gives your shoes a couple of days to dry out before the next workout if you have a different shoe to wear.
But to make a long story short. If you are not happy with a specific pair, you should return it and get a different pair. If they don't take returns, take your business else where.
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runner_girl83 wrote: »
...though my feet/legs are taking forever to warm up in my runs and I seem to be slapping my feet on the ground? This used to happen with the Nikes while I was warming up, though it would pass after the 2nd km.... But I am slapping my feet constantly in the Asics.. Not sure what's happening?
It may take a while to get warmed up. It is perfectly normal for your legs to need about a mile maybe even almost 2 miles of a slow jog before they are fully warmed up.
When I do my tempo runs, I always start with a slow easy mile or 2.
As far as your feet "slapping the ground", you need quick feet and shorter steps. This is where the 180 cadence discussion comes in. I am not sure if you saw us discussing that a couple of months back?
If not, I have a list of links in our group page on that:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10228828/good-running-form-overstriding
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From reading the recent posts, I think I have been lucky. I have never had to "break in" a pair of shoes (and I have a lot). As soon as Fed-Ex drops them them off, they have all been ready to go right out of the box... which does surprise me at times, because I have never tried any of them on before ordering them.0
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December Running Totals (km)
12/1- 1.61
12/2- 1.61
12/3- 1.61
12/4- 1.61
12/5- 1.61
12/6- 8.21 (5k Red Nose Run)
12/7- 1.61
12/8- 1.61
12/9- 1.61
12/10- 1.61
12/11- 1.61
12/12- 1.61
12/13- 1.64
12/14- 1.61
12/15- 1.61
12/16-
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12/20-
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12/22-
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Total- 30.78
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@runner_girl83 I'm chime in about the break in period too. I've read some about this and every where I read says there is no break in period for running shoes that are properly fitted. However, there could be a up to 50 mile period before you decide if they are the shoes for you. I have had only one pair of new shoes gives me a blister and there were the same make and model as the ones before, so I think it might have been more of a sock issue. Besides that once I was fitted with something I like, never a break in period.
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I could register for the Rock n Roll Denver Half today for $50. I want to but for some reason I can't seem to find the courage to hit the submit button. It's next October. LOTS of time to get ready for it. It would be my first actual registration for a real event. There are others that I was planning to do before this race, but it's my first real registration. I'm I nuts for being so nervous? It's only $50. That price is only until midnight.0
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@virkati when I signed up for my first 5K I was nervous, my first 10K scared, my first HM I almost threw up! All that just registering! I totally know how you are feeling, hit the submit button
Just saw this on my FB feed, love it!
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12/1 3.5 @ 11:17 on the treadmill plus strength training
12/2 5.25 @ 11:04 on the treadmill. Oh my heck, please let it be sunny tomorrow. Or at least not so wet.
12/3 4.75 @ 12:03 on the park trail with the doggy. Yay! Sunshine!
12/4 3.5 @ 11:03 (really 3.25 at 10:48, plus .25 at a walk) on the treadmill, plus strength training
12/5 3 miles hiking with the cub scouts
12/6 Woke up feeling sore from Friday's strength training, so took a rest day
12/7 9.25 @ 12:26 on the park trail, nice and easy
12/8 3.75 @ 10:48 on the treadmill (3.5 at 10:39, .25 walk), plus stretch/yoga
12/9 5.25 @ 11:32 on the treadmill
12/10 Sort of rest day? Trip to Colonial Williamsburg with my daughter's history class. Lots of walking!
12/11 6.25 @ 11:18 on the treadmill.
12/12 Rest Day
12/13 3.25 @ 10:10 (5K race chip time 32:06--I finished 191/395 women 30/64 in my age group)
12/14 7.25 @ 12:03 (7 @ 11:57 and .25 walking) on the park trails
12/15 2.0 @ 10:29 on the treadmill and strength training
12/16 5.0 @ 11:49 on the park trail
@runner_girl83 I haven't had too many pairs of shoes but I've wondered about "breaking in", too. The first pair of shoes I bought didn't need it and I've bought the same kind three times now (Saucony Guide 8s). I did have some trouble with my trail shoes (Saucony Peregrine 5s), because my street shoes are 8mm drop and these are neutral--eventually I wound up buying insoles to make up a little for the lack of support, as well as learning how to lace them for better support. I wouldn't call it breaking in though, just figuring out how to make the shoe work for me. I wonder if your problem might be the opposite from mine; you've been used to a flattened out older shoe and now your arches (and therefore your gait) are adjusting to the extra fluff in the shoe. Well, that, and it sounds like maybe you were wild to get back into your running and overdid it a little (not that I blame you one bit!)
On a related note--how do those of you with lots of kinds of shoes (I'm looking at you @Stoshew71 ) pick out the ones you buy? It's hard to know when trying on a shoe in a store if I'm going to love it when I run. It happened to work out with my street shoes, but with my trail shoes, I thought they were super comfortable when I purchased them but was disappointed when I actually started running. It took some Super Feet and about 100 miles before I felt like they were really comfortable. Now I don't know if I should re=purchase them (and another $50 set of insoles? Ouch!) or try to find something with a little more support already in..or just skip trying to get trail shoes at all. About half my running is on trails, but only about half of *that* is on anything other than cleared dirt paths (so truly natural, forest running), and I probably won't run those in the winter at all.0 -
Three miles at lunch today. The wind stung my eyes, even with giant sunglasses on to block it. Otherwise, it was pretty pleasant--28:52 total time.
Current progress: 43/96 completed0 -
fat2fitshley wrote: »I'm having a lot of shin pain since starting to run again, it's been going on for a few months now. I went to my local running store and got fitted for shoes but it seems that my shins just can't recover... Any tips or tricks? I stretch really good after a run and ice them. In addition I've been doing strength training on the side to aid my running (work my legs about 2x/week). Today it hurts just to walk. I know there's an adjustment period when starting a new exercise, but this seems to be lasting a while and I've never experienced this before. Part of the reason my runs are scarce is because I'm trying to get my shins to feel better. I feel it every time my foot hits the ground when running.
I use calf sleeves when running. Sometimes I wear them for up to a few hrs after too, if I'm staying at home. I can't tell you how good they are to run in. They keep everything surrounding your calves and shins nice and tight so its not painful and they also aid blood flow in the legs. I don't wear them for walking though.. I find I'm usually a bit better as walking is lighter effort onmy legs.
If they are really painful to walk on right now.. I would have a week off running (walking is oOK if its not too painful) no jumping, hopping or skipping.
Go for shorter runs for a few weeks.. Add 1km more each fortnight on 1 of your runs (I need to use this advice myself .. Again!
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Keep icing and elevating and do lots of calf raises and calf massage.
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I could register for the Rock n Roll Denver Half today for $50. I want to but for some reason I can't seem to find the courage to hit the submit button. It's next October. LOTS of time to get ready for it. It would be my first actual registration for a real event. There are others that I was planning to do before this race, but it's my first real registration. I'm I nuts for being so nervous? It's only $50. That price is only until midnight.
Better get while the gettin's good! You will LOVE it!
I ran my first half last October. I've planned 3 for 2016.0 -
@5BeautifulDays ... I have 12 pairs of shoes that I rotate. I have 4 pairs of trail shoes (Merrell Trail Glove, New Balance MT1010, Montrail FluidFlex and Inov8 Ultra 270) and 8 pairs of road shoes (New Balance MR00, New Balance MR00v2, New Balance Hi-Rez, Merrell Road Glove, Merrell Road Glove 2, Merrell Bare Access 3, Altra Samson, and Inov8 Bare-X200).
These are primarily zero-drop minimalist shoes with wide toe-boxes, which I discovered early on are what work best for me. I think some of the trail shoes have a 4mm drop which isn't too bad. I buy my shoes on-line because I don't trust shoe sales people... even in specialty running stores. All the companies I order from have amazing support staff and incredible return policies. Merrell once replaced a pair of Trail Gloves for me because the inner liner tore. I only asked them if it was ok to rip the liner out, but instead they sent me a brand new pair, even though the ones I had had 400 miles on them. With good companies, I don't have any qualms about ordering shoes online and trying them out. I have not, however, had to return any of my "babies" because they were uncomfortable.0 -
I could register for the Rock n Roll Denver Half today for $50. I want to but for some reason I can't seem to find the courage to hit the submit button. It's next October. LOTS of time to get ready for it. It would be my first actual registration for a real event. There are others that I was planning to do before this race, but it's my first real registration. I'm I nuts for being so nervous? It's only $50. That price is only until midnight.
Do it! I ran my first half on November 7th, and immediately turned around and registered for another on November 23rd (which I also completed, in approximately the same time -- 4 seconds slower, to be exact). You won't regret it! Races are so addictive. Especially at longer distances, in my case. 0 -
I could register for the Rock n Roll Denver Half today for $50. I want to but for some reason I can't seem to find the courage to hit the submit button. It's next October. LOTS of time to get ready for it. It would be my first actual registration for a real event. There are others that I was planning to do before this race, but it's my first real registration. I'm I nuts for being so nervous? It's only $50. That price is only until midnight.
Perhaps it is a mom thing... for me, I may find the courage from knowing that it'd cost $80 after mid-night
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@Virkati Spending that $50 will totally jack your motivation, your desire and your consistency... I don't like races, but I sign up for long ones just so I can train for them... having a big goal helps me get my butt out running even on days when I'm not feeling it...0
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I could register for the Rock n Roll Denver Half today for $50. I want to but for some reason I can't seem to find the courage to hit the submit button. It's next October. LOTS of time to get ready for it. It would be my first actual registration for a real event. There are others that I was planning to do before this race, but it's my first real registration. I'm I nuts for being so nervous? It's only $50. That price is only until midnight.
Did you do it @Virkati ??
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01/12 - 13.2 miles
02/12 - 13.6 miles
03/12 - 10.3 km
04/12 - 13.6 miles
05/12 - 10.4 km
06/12 - 20.8 miles
07/12 - 10.3 km
08/12 - 13.4 miles
09/12 - 13.6 miles
10/12 - 10.4 km
11/12 - 13.7 miles
12/12 - 10.4 km
13/12 - 21.1 miles
14/12 - 10.3 km
15/12 - 13.5 miles
16/12 - 13.6 miles
tot 306/500 km
good runs so far, back to back HM and tomorrow recovery 10k
miserable weather
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December goal — 60 KM…I’ll be traveling for 2 weeks this month and unlikely to be able to run
12/1—5.02km
12/3—5.23 km
12/6—6.52 km run at the GZ Mini Marathon! 28:29 5k time! Happy!
12/10—5.21 km
12/11—5.03 km
12/13—12.56 km
12/15—4.98 km
12/17—5.3 km0 -
@runner_girl83 (Let's see how long it will take me to get used to your new name, when I was browsing some older posts one or two pages back I was totally confused ;-P ): I never had to "break in" shoes. Once, when I bought my first pair of neutral, 4mm drop shoes to replace some stabilising 10mm drop shoes, the beginning of the first run felt a bit weird, but that was all.
... speaking of shoes, now I'm really tempted to buy another pair. The longer I think about it, the more I'm sure I don't have enough yet ^^
I actually went to a sports store on the weekend. While I was walking through the running aisle to look for new gloves, I spotted some "power shirts & pants". Apparently, these are magical (under-?)wear that promise lots of nice things, like 10% more endurance, 7% less lactate buildup, 20% faster recovery and 2.4 BPM lower heart beat. I wonder if buying pants+shirt would give me 20% more endurance? All that for the bargain price of only 270 Euro.
Sounds very fancy, but I had other plans for my money, so I guess I'll have to keep running in boring shirts which don't do anything for my lactate buildup...
Run today: 3.8km during the lunch break.
This was the first time ever I went for a run in the middle of the workday. My new workplace has a shower, so I now have this option and wanted to try it out. I felt sort of odd to "sneak out" and run away while everyone else went to the canteen, just as weird as walking down the office hallway after the shower with dirty running clothes over my arm and the wet towel slung over my neck. Didn't meet many people though, since my run was finished shortly before everyone came back.
I thought it was a horrible run. My left calf felt really stiff, so I stopped twice to do some streching. After that, the second half of the run was much better (coincidentally, it happened to be all downhill ^^).
When I got back I saw that the average pace was the best I've managed in the last three month. Which doesn't say much, because the last three month were really show with a lot of non-running periods, but I was quite surprised anyway, especially considering I didn't stop the watch during the streching breaks.
A question to everyone else who runs during the lunch break: what do you do with the running clothes (potentially muddy or sweaty or rain-soaked) and the towel? My office roommate wasn't at work today, so I could spread the things out without bothering him, but I don't think this is will always be a valid solution.0 -
@_nikkiwolf_ These days, I only run on lunch break on work from home days and I don't have that problem.
A few years ago, I had a gym a few blocks from the office. I'd shower there and put my running clothes into a plastic trash bag in my gym bag, then sort them out to the laundry when I got home. Knowing what I know now, if I had that type of arrangement I might rinse the running clothes in the gym shower before putting them in the plastic bag. Rinsing running hats after a run seems to extend their non-stinky useful life when I'm only doing running laundry once a week.
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A question to everyone else who runs during the lunch break: what do you do with the running clothes (potentially muddy or sweaty or rain-soaked) and the towel? My office roommate wasn't at work today, so I could spread the things out without bothering him, but I don't think this is will always be a valid solution.[/quote]
@_nikkiwolf_ It's my regular routine to run or walk on my lunch break. Actually, if I were to show up and eat with everyone they'd probably call 911! As far as the clothes go, I stuff them into a bag that's just for them. If I have the time, I'll take them out to my car and hang them up somehow to let them dry and air out, otherwise, they stay in the bag til I get home. I don't have a shower at work, so I'm totally jealous! I use cold water, paper towels, and don't give a rip what anyone says after that. It takes a couple of times to get comfortable with using your lunch break for workouts, but now I wouldn't have it any other way!0 -
I get up at 4:30 in the morning to run so I don't have to try that lunch thing... I can't imagine putting my suit back on after a run... lol...0
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MorningGhost14 wrote: »I get up at 4:30 in the morning to run so I don't have to try that lunch thing... I can't imagine putting my suit back on after a run... lol...
@morningghost14 just run in your suit
http://www.details.com/story/fashion-exec-sets-world-record-for-running-a-half-marathon-in-a-suit
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