April 2016 Running Challenge
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WhatMeRunning wrote: »@instantmartian - You sure seem to have a lot of runs up there that revolve around beer. Maybe I'm in the wrong part of the country!
Hope the knee issue clears up soon @AdrianChr92.
Yeah, I am in the wrong part too. LOL
Take it easy @AdrianChr92 and I hope the knee gets better soon.
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4/1-2.5 miles running with the puppy
4/2-16 miles
4/3- rest day
4/4-4.5 miles
4/5-6 miles w/ 3 @ tempo
4/6-5.1 miles
4/7-7 miles
4/8 3.3 miles
4/9 20 miles
4/10 rest day
4/11 yoga only
4/12-8 miles
4/13-3.3 miles
4/14-5.4 miles
4/15-5.1 miles
4/16-6.5 miles
4/17-16 miles
4/18 yoga
16 mile long run yesterday was my first solo long run since I decided to help my girlfriend along on her May 1st marathon, so this was my first long run done at my own pace. I finished at the Starbucks near my house then walked two miles (mostly up steep hills) to get home, took my dog for a walk, then went roller skating for our friend's 6 year old's b-day party. I have only roller skated once in the past 20 or so years. I do not recommend this sequence of events to anyone in their right mind. Today's workout is dedicated to yoga.
Very excited for the Boston Marathon today. And then the countdown begins until next year when I will likely (hopefully?) be running it too. Until then, best of luck to @MobyCarp and my other friends that will be there! Go kill it!!!
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Watch the Boston marathon live: http://watchlive.baa.org/
It's going to be streaming on my computer here at work, so I can check in every once in a while.0 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »Watch the Boston marathon live: http://watchlive.baa.org/
It's going to be streaming on my computer here at work, so I can check in every once in a while.
Already shamelessly streaming it!
Behind on posts, haven't checked in here since Thursday. Will try to catch up.
4/1 - 3.5 miles on indoor track + weights/abs
4/2 - Life day
4/3 - 10 miles. Very windy.
4/4 - Rest day.
4/5 - 4 miles on the treadmill, then weights/abs.
4/6 - 4.3 miles. Cool, damp and breezy.
4/7 - 4.5 miles on treadmill (Trek class)
4/8 - Rest day...lots of housework/painting/yardwork
4/9 - 4.05 mile trail race...super fun with local microbrews at the end! Had way more fun than I expected!
4/10 - Skipped my long run due to back pain / spasms. Not sure if they were from the trail race or from moving my son's room. Had to skip my planned 10+ mile long run. Hope it gets better fast!
4/11 - Woke up with continued back pain. Getting cranky.
4/12 - 4.4 miles. Chilly, but tolerable. Back was tender, but not painful.
4/13 - 5.43 miles. Went further than planned, because it was beautiful out.
4/14 - 3.48 mile evening run.
4/15 - 10.01 miles. UGLY. Hot, humid early afternoon run. Went out too fast. Had to take a short walk break in the middle.
4/16 - Rest day.
4/17 - 5.19 miles. Cool, comfortable.
4/18 - 4.72 miles.
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Looking at the stats of the 2015 Boston, The winners run fulls a half hour faster than my goal for a half. Awesome2
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kristinegift wrote: »@pthyay That is some wonderful progress! You are going to smash that 10k goal!
Thank you so much for the encouragement!
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There'll be a half marathon going through my city on Saturday, btw, and while I won't be trying to take part (armed with my newfound ability to run 2km!
), I'll be watching for a while. I might even pick up a few hints regarding form etc. 
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@MNLittleFinn - In all seriousness, my "time goal" for my first HM was to not let the Kenyan elites finish the marathon before I finished the half!4
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@MNLittleFinn - In all seriousness, my "time goal" for my first HM was to not let the Kenyan elites finish the marathon before I finished the half!
LOL - I'm right with you!
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »
You have some awesome vertical on your runs, from what I've seen, wicked awesome. This run is the most vertical I can pack in from my house, without repeating the same section several times, and that gets boring for me. I'm working on adding some more hills into my runs just to get the strength training from them and to mix things up since I always feel like I'm cheating on flatter routes.234ft vert for 8mi ain't bad! You'll be fine. Just run a very easy pace and cruise.. If you do have to walk a hill(s), walk. I do it all the time. Still get a solid run. And on a long run, time on you're feet is what matters really IMO.
We do hill repeats every other Thursday in my group. There's a hill between Cabella's and Crystal Mountain Water. We run up and down the hill 8x.
https://www.strava.com/activities/545028243/segments/13146009055
You can do that possibly to get some good hill work in. Pick a good hill, run up pretty hard, run back down pretty easy, and run back up it again and repeat as needed.
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@MNLittleFinn - In all seriousness, my "time goal" for my first HM was to not let the Kenyan elites finish the marathon before I finished the half!
My goal is actually to run the whole thing with a happy happy goal of running it <2:30:00 but it's a long way off.0 -
instantmartian wrote: »greenolivetree wrote: »My hips were slightly sore after the pilates the other day, so I went for it again this morning. I really have no patience for slow exercise like pilates but I'm feeling the burn so it's my new thing for now.
I appreciate this. So many people don't like when I say that I don't like pilates and yoga: "Oh, but it's so relaxing." "You just haven't found the right instructor." "It took me a while, but I finally found a class I like, and now I can't live without it." No. I just don't like them. I don't have the patience for either and I get bored very quickly.
I'm not a class/group person but I use Fitness Blender workouts for my strength training and I'm finding I like Kelli well enough to get through the pilates. I find all of their workouts to be pretty un-boring because they are fast paced and don't repeat a lot of the same moves, etc. I'm still a long ways from loving yoga though
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Mobycarp is off and running!
God bless these wheelchair athletes.
Ladies wheelchair leader Tatyana McFadden is near and dear to our hearts at home, like Skip she was adopted from Russia. Read about her here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatyana_McFadden
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@MobyCarp - Good luck today!!
@kristinegift - Ha! Love the 11 mile warm-up for a 6k!
@WhatMeRunning - Fantastic race! Congrats on the PR!
Did you all just watch the Push-Rim men's finish! Wow!
Women running past Wellesley = awesome!1 -
4/1 - 5 miles on the bike around town, 3 mile walk, 45 min strength training
4/2 - 4.5 mile run, 3 mile walk
4/3 - rest day
4/4 - 3 mile run, 23 min strength training
4/5 - 4.25 mile run
4/6 - rest day
4/7 - 20 min light walk
4/8 - 3.1 run, 1.5 mile walk
4/9 - 5 mile run, 25 min stretching and foam rolling, 35 min strength training
4/10 - 1 hour indoor low impact cardio
4/11 - 1 hour strength training/pilates/stretching/foam rolling
4/12 - 5 miles biking, 50 mins low impact cardio indoors
4/13 - 30 mins light walking
4/14 - 30 min pilates, 15 min walking
4/15 - 3.1 mile run with 1.3 miles of warm-up/cool down time, another 2.5 miles walk later
4/16 - 2 mile run, 35 min lower body strength& pilates
4/17 - rest day
25 of 60 miles April running goal
No way am I getting even close to my 60 mile goal. After down time with aches/pains and now this week is super rainy, I'll be lucky to hit 45.
Streaming the Boston Marathon in the background at work
I got way behind here over the weekend, reading but not posting, so I won't try to catch up but everybody is awesome as usual 1 -
@karllundy -That was a very tight finish for the mens push rim at Boston!
Watching Tatyana McFadden screaming to the finish for womens push rim now. 3 -
@skippygirlsmom - Yay for adoptive families!! Tatyana McFadden is ridiculously dominant!4
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4/1 - 5.5 miles
4/2 - family day
4/3 - 5 miles
4/4 -6 - lazy butt days
4/7 - 5 miles
4/8 -9 - rest days
4/10 - 13.2 Bridge Street Half Marathon
4/11 - 3.2 recovery miles
4/12 - 13 - taking care of knee days
4/14 - 4.3 miles
4/15 - 16 - rest and track meet days
4/17 - 3.5 miles came home as soon as knee started to talk to me
4/18 - rest I'm going to try one day on and one day off until knee shuts up
38 out of 100 miles
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It's interesting watching @MobyCarp on the tracking map on the BAA website. It keeps steadily moving forward on the map! Makes me wonder how they track it like that. I assume it is estimated position based on last chip time. 0
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skippygirlsmom wrote: »
Zekela: 11758 Amanda Murdaugh: 21330 Andrew Hodges: 1086 Martin Schneekloth: 5398 Dink Taylor: 7441 and Tim Vinson 971
First 2 are from MFP and last 4 are locals near Huntsville area.0 -
Keep the Boston updates coming! I took the day off to watch it, run later and visit my PT for my once again uneven hips.
@skippygirlsmom love that you adopted out of the US.. My husband has no kids, we tried for a while. He wasn't keen on adoption. I'd have taken all of them in. especially from Russia. 0 -
Thanks!skippygirlsmom wrote: »@MNlittlefinn 11935
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WhatMeRunning wrote: »It's interesting watching @MobyCarp on the tracking map on the BAA website. It keeps steadily moving forward on the map! Makes me wonder how they track it like that. I assume it is estimated position based on last chip time.
I just started watching him on that. It's pretty sweet.0
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