April 2016 Running Challenge
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2 April – 5 km parkrun
3 April – 10 km PB 1:02:23
5 April – 8.2 km
7 April – 7.1 km
9 April – 5 km parkrun PB 29:12 Sub-30 goal achieved!
10 April – 15 km ran to the next town and back!
12 April – 8.4 km
14 April – 7 km
16 April – 5 km parkrun PB 28:43!
17 April – 12 km
19 April – 10 km
21 April – 7 km intervals
23 April – 5 km parkrun PB 28:35!
24 April – 13.8 km
26 April – 10 km
Total: 128.5 km
Goal: 100 km – achieved!
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Another view from yesterdays hill run.
Taking the day off, most likely just walking, maybe an evening short run.
Next hill run tomorrow.
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I am a little late to finding this challenge but I will definitely join May's running challenge!
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@MobyCarp - I think we all can relate to the hypochondria feeling. Sorry you are hurting but you will be back soon. I was wondering about the guy from December also. Can't think of his name and no time to look, but I was amazed by his mileage. And you are right, he got hurt and disappeared. Hopefully he's okay.
@elise4270 - oh no, I missed that you might have a sprained ankle.
@4leighbee - kitten picks a funny place to lay! How cute.
Well... maybe I will make my goal after all. This weekend with all the biking I did, I was thinking it wouldn't be possible, but only 14 to go and Saturday is a run day instead of bike, so I'll get it.
4/1- 5.1 miles in the rain
4/2 - rest/travel day
4/3 - 34 miles on bike
4/4 - 5.1 miles (intervals)
4/5 - 5.1 miles - intervals (although slower than yesterday)
4/6 - 22 miles on bike + Strength training
4/7 - 4.2 miles - slow and steady
4/8 - strength training
4/9 - 34 miles on bike
4/10 - 50 miles on bike
4/11 - 5.1 miles - recovery run from all the biking + strength training
4/12 - 4.2 miles
4/13 - rest day (biking rained out).
4/14 - 4.8 miles
4/15 - sick day
4/16 - 4.2 very slow miles (feeling better)
4/17 - 35 miles on bike
4/18 - 5 miles (intervals)
4/19 - strength training
4/20 - 4 miles + 24 mile bike ride
4/21 - 5 miles
4/22 - strength training
4/23 - 34 miles on bike
4/24 - 50 miles on bike
4/25 - 3.9 miles - recovery run
4/26 - 5.2 miles - intervals! Or Fartleks whatever you want to call them.
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Date Miles today. Miles for April
4/1 REST DAY
4/2 14.3 miles - 14.3 <<< 13.1 HM + 1.2 warmup
4/3 REST DAY
4/4 4.2 miles - 18.5 << will try and get a second lunch time run in
4/4 4.0 miles - 22.5 << daily double, 3E +1HMP
4/5 8 miles - 30.5
4/6 4.2 miles - 34.7 << easy recovery 4 (taper week)
4/7 6 miles - 40.7
4/8 5 miles - 45.7
4/9 3.3 miles - 49
4/10 14.2 miles - 63.2 << 13.1 + 1.1 w/u
4/11 6.2 miles - 69.4
4/12 9 miles - 78.4
4/12 6.2 miles - 84.6 << daily double
4/13 6.2 miles - 90.8
4/14 9.6 miles - 100.4
4/14 6.2 miles - 106.6 << daily double
4/15 6.2 miles - 112.8 << recovery run
4/16 16 miles - 128.8 << LSD run with a fast finish
4/17 REST DAY
4/18 10.5 miles 139.3
4/19 8 miles 147.3 << Tempo pace for a few miles
4/19 6.2 miles 153.5 << daily double
4/20 6.2 miles - 159.7
4/21 9 miles - 168.7 << Madkin Mnt + some tempo work
4/21 4 miles - 172.7 << daily double
4/22 6.2 miles - 178.9 << recovery day
4/23 17.5 miles - 196.4 << Long run on Madkin & Weeden Mnts 1193 ft elev
4/24 REST DAY
4/25 8 miles - 204.4 << have a daily double planned for later on today
4/25 4 miles - 208.4 << daily double
4/26 8 miles - 216.4
Upcoming races:
UAH 8K - 3/6 <<< 34:33 3 in AG
Oak Barrel HM - 4/2 <<<< 1:38:00 3 in AG
Bridge Street HM - 4/10 <<< 1:36:33 3 in AG
PEO-AVN Team Day 5K - 5/4
Cotton Row Run 10K - 5/30
Firecracker Chase 10.2 miler 6/25
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4/1- Rest
4/2- 6.23 miles
4/3- 4.01 miles
4/4- Rest
4/5- 4.02 miles
4/6- Rest
4/7- 4.02 Miles
4/8- Rest
4/9- 6.24 Miles
4/10- 4.01 Miles
4/11- Rest
4/12- 4.14 Miles
4/13- 2.2 Miles (first Wednesday Run)
4/14- 4.13 Miles
4/15- Much needed Rest
4/16- 8.2
4/16- 1.4 <- Second little jog, with wife
4/17- Rest <- made myself rest
4/18- Rest <- Normal scheduled Rest day
4/19- 4.1
4/20- Rest<- Part of cut back/heal up
4/21- 4.28 Miles
4/22- 2.0<- Wife’s second run!
4/23- 6.3
4/24- Rest <- took a day after pushing on my 10K TT yesterday.
4/25-Rest
4/25-5.1
Totals: 70.44/60
Notes on Today's run: Today's running assignment was 40-60 minutes at E pace (10:30-11:20). Because I know that my upcoming HMs and 10k will be somewhat hilly, I decided that my Tuesday E runs will be hills, so that's what I did today. Total was 5.1 miles at 10:35/mile including a .4 mile warm up jog and .4 mile cool down, basically jogging to and from home to the hill. In the middle I did 7 hill repeat laps for a total of 4.7 miles of hill running. Pace felt good, but by the 4th mile of hills, I could really feel. tomorrow is a rest/recovery run day and I'll be deciding later today whether to just rest or to do the 30-45 minute Easy/Recovery pace run.
Side note: Strava and Garmin Connect show a 45ft difference in elevation for the run. Not sure which one to trust.2 -
@skippygirlsmom Skip's meet sounds like lots of excitement. And wow, what an awesome mile time - you must be really proud of her!
@goin2cruise Lol, I wouldn't say I *love* almost puping after sprints, but if I don't feel that way after the finishing sprint in a race, I feel like I didn't push hard enough, so I guess I see what you mean...
@5BeautifulDays Those entirely-uphill-pathes are miracles of nature. Now all it needs to be perfect would be a round-the-loop headwind (I swear those exist too!)
@EvgeniZyntx Looks like you found some beautiful trails, great photos!
@ceciliaslater Love the photo with you on the horse! It's been years since I did any mentionable amount of horsebackriding - pics like that remind me I miss it *sigh*
@4leighbee Awwww, cute kitten!
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I think today is going to be one of those days... I had a meeting at work scheduled at 9:30, and on top of that I'll have to stay until midnight today. Which meant I had to get up an hour early to get at least a short run in, and I'm not a morning runner!
Managed to waste enough time before/after running that there wasn't any time for breakfast left, and if I wanted to bike to work, I had to take the "short" route to work. Which is half as long as the "long" route, but with the same elevation, so it's killing me. And it started to rain after the first five minutes, when it was already too late to change my mind and take the car. Oh, and when I arrived, I found out the 9:30 meeting was cancelled, so there would have been no need to rush like that...0 -
April
1-no run yet, maybe later
2-13.2mi
3-nothing
4-nothing
5-5.35
6-yoga tonight
7-nope
8-late night tonight(ani difranco concert), so no run this morning
9-nothing
10-nothing
11-4.27mi
12- slept in
13-yoga (foam rolling-esque aerial yoga)
14-nothing
15-nothing
16-my bacholette party-lots of dancing
17-recovery from party.
18-nothing
19-4.86mi hard one
20-5.00mi and yoga
21-nothing
22-2+ hours of aerial yoga
23-1+ hour of aerial yoga
24-nothing
25-nothing yet, maybe later
26-5.15mi easy run. i want to work more on hills than speed. hills are coming in my half marathon.
RACES:
Jan 16-Frosty 5k-33:43:123 (gun time-don't have chip time)
Feb 13-Steve Cullen Run 8k chip time: 53:37
Feb 15 Puppy Love Virtual Run 10k runkeeper time: 1:13:20
Mar 12-Great Pi Run 5k 32:17
May 7-Door County Half Marathon
May 28-Top Gun Run 5k
June 11-Rock n Sole 1/4 Marathon?
June 19th through Sunday, July 10th SHE Power Virtual Half
July 20-Cream Puff 5k?
July 30-National Watermelon Day 5k?
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Well the forecast is trying to toy with me today. We were supposed to be getting thunderstorms early this morning that would break up around 9am. So I had set up the day so I could run around 10am. Now we are set to get some severe storms within the next couple hours that will last through around 1pm. Guess I'm playing it by ear on either running in the rain (depends on severity of weather) or running later this afternoon.
@MNLittleFinn - It probably varies, but I find Garmin elevation to be a bit more accurate for roads, particularly going over bridges. On Strava it seems to take the actual lay of the land so when going over a bridge spanning a river it is assuming you are running at the river level, so you descended and ascended a lot more to/from the river. Garmin does not always account for that, but I have seen some cases where it did. Even so, neither are particularly accurate for elevation to be perfectly honest, and no app that I am aware of really is.
The only thing that comforts me about all that is that if a run on either Strava or Garmin shows I had a buttload of elevation change, then it confirms that I had a buttload of elevation change.
They're the best options available, really. That I know of.1 -
@MNLittleFinn Probably neitherMNLittleFinn wrote: »Side note: Strava and Garmin Connect show a 45ft difference in elevation for the run. Not sure which one to trust.
Elevation seems to be a bit of a guess... I don't know about Garmin Connect, but I was a bit puzzled with elevation in Strava and spent a bit of time reading about it earlier this year:
When your watch doesn't have a barometric altimeter, Strava doesn't trust the GPS data and recalculates the elevation. The statement on their website is that elevation from GPS is more inaccurate. I'm not sure I'm buying that, especially since they use a rather rough grid outside the US, but you can't switch off the recalculation (side remark which surprised me when I found out: for activities will use some national databases, for the route creation tool they use their own database - my activities almost always how less elevation than my planned routes).
Also, Strava applies some smoothing, where they discard really short ups and downs as noise. I don't know if the Garmin website has something similar, but if they do, they probably have different thresholds and algorithms than Strava.
When you have a watch with a barometric altimeter, Strava doesn't touch the number it reports, in that case you'd get even another elevation gain for a certain route.
I had a race in March with some hills. The steepest of them was a climb of 13m, I had to run it twice, there were a few smaller hills - and the total elevation Strava reported in the end for the entire run was 11m. I saw on the activities of other participants with barometric watches that their elevation was in the range of 55m-75m, which is closer to what I think it actually was.
On the other hand, I have this mountain route which I run every now end then, and it's pure uphill. In the Strava elevation data, there seems to be a little up and down during the climb, so in the end it reports ~10% more elevation gain than I'm willing to believe.
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Thanks @WhatMeRunning and @_nikkiwolf_ interesting info on things. All I know for sure on the run is that it's all up hill on one direction, and all down in the other, for the loop. One of these days I need to take my Kestrel and see what it says the altitudes are at the top and bottom of the hill.0
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Great way to put it, @WhatMeRunning ! That's pretty much my approach as well.WhatMeRunning wrote: »The only thing that comforts me about all that is that if a run on either Strava or Garmin shows I had a buttload of elevation change, then it confirms that I had a buttload of elevation change.
Playing around with Strava, I just noticed on the Strava Club site that I'm on position 3 for "Total Running Time" for last week. First time ever! Only now I'm not sure if I should be proud of that or depressed because all the people who ran more miles were even doing that much faster than me
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4/1: Rest day!
4/2: 5 miles
4/3: 13.1 Caesar Rodney HM!
4/4: 3 miles with Joe to Go crew
4/5: Rest day
4/6: 10 miles (am), 6 miles (pm)
4/7: 7 miles tempo (am), 6 miles with Thursday crew (pm)
4/8: Rest day
4/9: 22 miles << Last super long run for this training cycle!
4/10: 10 miles
4/11: 6 miles with Joe to Go crew
4/12: Rest day!!!
4/13: 10 miles @ marathon pace
4/14: 8 miles (am), 6.4 miles with Thursday crew (pm)
4/15: Rest day!!
4/16: 10.75 miles + 6k (3.75 miles) race = 14.5 miles
4/17: 7.1 miles
4/18: 6 miles with Joe to Go crew
4/19: Rest day!
4/20: 8 miles
4/21: 6.4 miles with Thursday crew
4/22: Rest day!
4/23: 6 miles
4/24: 10 miles big group run
4/25: 4 miles with Joe to Go crew
4/26: Rest day
Core work and foam rolling this morning. My calves are getting really tight with this lower mileage. Gotta keep 'em loose and limber for race day!
Definitely been hit by a major case of the taper lazies. I'm not thinking crazy or getting super emotional like during my last taper, but my brain is in a total fog. I have ~20 pages left to write of my thesis draft this week and yesterday I wrote half a page (in NINE HOURS) because I just can't focus/am easily distracted. Need to find a way to reel it in and focus. If I can focus, I can write those 20 pages in 1-2 days. I must get this draft done and to my advisor by the end of the week so that it's off my plate before the marathon and one less stressor to weigh me down during the race.
Upcoming Races:
3/12: Run O' The Mill 5K: New PR! 21:55
4/3: Caesar Rodney HM: New PR! 1:40:13
4/16: River Horse 6K (Ewing, NJ)
5/1: New Jersey Marathon (Lots of towns, NJ)
5/15: Princeton 5k << social event, not racing!
6/11: Pacers Princeton Halfway Half (Princeton, NJ)
7/4: a fourth of july race somewhere!
11/20: Philadelphia Marathon (Philly, PA)
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Goal of 70 Miles for April
4/2 – 8.77 Mi
4/6 – 5.55 Mi
4/11 – 4.28 Mi
4/20 – 3.59 Mi
4/23 – 6.09 Mi
4/26 – 4.75 Mi
Progress toward Goal 33.03 / 700 -
Reading some of your writeups I swear some of you are Catholics.
Forgive me coach for I have runned. It's been been 3 days since my last run, and even though my knee pain is still not gone I still ran.
You are blessed my dear child. For your penitence you shall do 5 downward dogs and foam roll and no running for at least 5 more days.
Thank you coach.
First, this is absolutely hilarious! Second, Catholic guilt is a very real thing and creeps its way into real life ALL. THE. TIME. It was something I struggled with for years. Seriously. I spent 3-year-old preschool through senior year in high school in Catholic School. It left me scarred for several years into adulthood. I'm recovered now, though. 1 -
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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.
4/19 - 3.98 miles while my daughter had soccer practice
4/20 - Unplanned rest day.
4/21 - 4.8 miles on treadmill (Trek class)
4/22 - 4.0 speedy miles on indoor track, then weights/abs
4/23 - 11.05 miles long run
4/24 - Rest day.
4/25 - 3.5 miles. Small taper leading up to HM on Saturday.
4/26 - 4 miles.
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@Elise4270 - Sounds like the race, while challenging, was super fun. Glad you had a great pre and post race too!
@MobyCarp - Sorry! That sucks. Hope you feel better soon!
@skippygirlsmom - I hope my daughter is as awesome as Skip one day! She's awesome now, but just getting into running. Is going to have her first ever meet next month with her Girls On The Run group.
@Stoshew71 - You continue to amaze. Your second run of the day is often longer and faster than my first. You just rock!
@KristineGift - hope you find the motivation you need to knock out those last pages. I used to have the same issue around finals time. Somehow, I would always end up spending way too much time playing video games I didn't play all semester until the week before finals.
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@WhatMeRunning @_nikkiwolf_ - I'd noticed the thing with Garmin elevation and bridges, because I have a few where the difference is dramatic. In particular, there's a bridge on the course of the Rochester Half (and twice for the Rochester Marathon) where you go down from the level of the Niagara escarpment about halfway to the Genesee River level, cross the bridge, and go back up. And I always wonder about overpasses; the programmed elevation has to be wrong for one direction or the other.
Essentially, I learned not to count the elevation level as totally accurate when I'm not on roads that are level with the terrain. I got in the habit of pretty much ignoring the elevation change, so I didn't even look to see if Strava believed the elevation feed from Garmin Connect. I do like @WhatMeRunning 's summary of how to look at it; a buttload of elevation change or not is about all the accuracy I mostly need.
@ddmom0811 - Upthread someone supplied the name, @patrikc333. He's definitely not here. I like to think that he's out there somewhere running smarter than he did, and isn't here because he decided that the incentive to always run more miles was counter-productive. At least, that's my fantasy because I thought long and hard about that incentive before diving into these threads. I really don't know where he ended up; I just want to believe it's a good place for him.0
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