May 2016 Running Challenge
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TresaAswegan wrote: »I've been looking into watches/trackers with GPS...
Any thoughts on the Garmin Vivoactive HR? Amazon only has it available for preorder, so not a lot of reviews yet.
I watched a few YouTube reviews and a comparison to Fitbit (I'm more familiar with the more basic Fitbits as several of my friends and myself use them regularly.) I also had a basic Polar until my dog chewed up the chest strap...
I like that it can also be used as a daily tracker, so I could essentially ditch the Fitbit and not need to wear both.
This guy has the best reviews when it comes to GPS watches.
http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/02/garmins-vivoactivehr-vivofit3.html1 -
PoppetsMaster wrote: »
I am going to attempt it... all my races this summer are basically being used as training runs. My brother has done two 100 mile races so far and he really wants me to do this with him. I have some concerns though.... one is the time I have to put into training for it. When the program starts calling for 70-75 mile weeks, I will have to do doubles to get all the miles in and that sucks away big chunks of time. Two, I wonder how I will hold up under the wear and tear of that many training miles. And three (the biggest concern) is the course itself. UltraRunning magazine rates it as the second most difficult course on the East Coast... and with a 40 hour cutoff, it is a substantially more brutal course than I would have chosen for my first attempt. But we will take a good hard whack at it... lol
Yeah! I am going to stick with my marathons for now. Big props to you tho.0 -
@ceciliaslater Ya avoid the boot! Awful that you'll be down so long. I've been working with my hip surgeon for 9 months and we are just getting to a surgical option. I'm glad he's been conservative, but it seems those docs loose track of the time. I guess that's easy when your not the one hurting.0
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »If I run in anything over 4mm drop, I develop multiples pains and injuries. Zero drop keeps me running virtually pain free... My trail shoes are the only 4mms that I have, but I really don't notice it on the trails.
I find that as well. I am a cheap CHEAP girl and I tend to buy my shoes in thrift stores...even running shoes. I lucked out and just happened to grab some that turned out to be zero drop....loved them to death, but they were second hand so they didn't last as long as new ones would have due to the amount of mileage they get. I didn't know what I was missing until I went to get another pair of shoes, NOT zero drop, and all of a sudden my knees and hips hurt like a mother trucker. I've hunted high and low for zero drop.....even willing to pay for something brand new. NOTHING anywhere where I live. reDONKulous0 -
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meganjcallaghan wrote: »PoppetsMaster wrote: »If I run in anything over 4mm drop, I develop multiples pains and injuries. Zero drop keeps me running virtually pain free... My trail shoes are the only 4mms that I have, but I really don't notice it on the trails.
I find that as well. I am a cheap CHEAP girl and I tend to buy my shoes in thrift stores...even running shoes. I lucked out and just happened to grab some that turned out to be zero drop....loved them to death, but they were second hand so they didn't last as long as new ones would have due to the amount of mileage they get. I didn't know what I was missing until I went to get another pair of shoes, NOT zero drop, and all of a sudden my knees and hips hurt like a mother trucker. I've hunted high and low for zero drop.....even willing to pay for something brand new. NOTHING anywhere where I live. reDONKulous
@meganjcallaghan Hard to beat Ebay! New and used women's Altra shoes widely available. Altra is zero drop shoes. Wide toe boxes.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Womens-Shoes/3034/i.html?_sop=15&_from=R40&_nkw=altra&_blrs=spell_auto_correct0 -
PoppetsMaster wrote: »
I tried....they don't ship to Canada
I've ordered a pair of Skora....THEY ship to Canada. I'll have a crack at those because I also need ones that don't lace all the way up at the ankle as my right heel is so much narrower that I have to lace super tight to keep the shoe from slipping on the back of my foot...ones that lace at the ankle end up giving me a weird lump. The ones I found...Skora Phase, I think they're called, they don't make it all the way up to the ankle and they lace asymmetrically so there's no pressure at all in the lumpy spot. Hopefully that'll give it a chance to go away.0 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »How come new shoes always arrive before long run day? This whole waiting for another run so I can wear them kind of stinks.
I wear them no matter when they come in... lol... two weeks ago I got a new pair of Merrells and got up the next morning and did 23 miles in them... of course, that's a credit to Merrell for making shoes that are ready right out of the box... I have no patience to "break in" a pair of shoes.3 -
meganjcallaghan wrote: »PoppetsMaster wrote: »If I run in anything over 4mm drop, I develop multiples pains and injuries. Zero drop keeps me running virtually pain free... My trail shoes are the only 4mms that I have, but I really don't notice it on the trails.
I find that as well. I am a cheap CHEAP girl and I tend to buy my shoes in thrift stores...even running shoes. I lucked out and just happened to grab some that turned out to be zero drop....loved them to death, but they were second hand so they didn't last as long as new ones would have due to the amount of mileage they get. I didn't know what I was missing until I went to get another pair of shoes, NOT zero drop, and all of a sudden my knees and hips hurt like a mother trucker. I've hunted high and low for zero drop.....even willing to pay for something brand new. NOTHING anywhere where I live. reDONKulous
@meganjcallaghan Hard to beat Ebay! New and used women's Altra shoes widely available. Altra is zero drop shoes. Wide toe boxes.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Womens-Shoes/3034/i.html?_sop=15&_from=R40&_nkw=altra&_blrs=spell_auto_correct
haha...i had done a BIT of poking around ebay...hadn't found anything in my size yet that I thought might suit. A lot of them seemed to be a bit high stack for my liking0 -
meganjcallaghan wrote: »
I tried....they don't ship to Canada
Oh... eff that... that is reason enough to move.
I wonder if I would get busted at the border smuggling in a trunk full of Merrells....
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May 1 - 17km run.
May 3 - Light parkour 2 km run.
May 5 - 8 km slow & gym.
Total 27 km goal 120 km.
Missed two runs this week due to travel, going to catch up on one tomorrow (and keep some flex over the next weeks). Reading a bit about the Dolomite range and the Via Ferrata and I hope to plan a climbing, hiking expedition there in the next year, maybe even a little running.
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »meganjcallaghan wrote: »
I tried....they don't ship to Canada
Oh... eff that... that is reason enough to move.
I wonder if I would get busted at the border smuggling in a trunk full of Merrells....
bahaha....well....we HAVE a website for Merrells...just no zero drop running shoes. All kinds of hiking shoes and such. I guess Canadians are apparently more apt to walk up mountains than go for a road run0 -
After 3 days of constant raining I managed to do some running again. Huray.
Noticed a lot of people got injured lately. That sucks. I know that feel. Just find something to replace running with for the time being. It feels like hell but you will manage
..Date.....Distance.......Sore spot today
May 01 - rest
May 02 - 4.1 km..........Arches of feet
May 03 - rest
May 04 - rest
May 05 - rest
May 06 - 5 km....................Butt
03/04: Bucharest 10k and Family run 48:28
16/04: Color Run Bucharest
17/04: Forest Run 5k 22:05
08/05: VeterRUN 6.7k2 -
@PoppetsMaster and @ROBOTFOOD, perhaps a silly question, but are these 50k and 100k's races? Are there mandatory rest stops? That kind of running is intriguing to me!0
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5/1...Rest
5/2...4.25 @ 12:22 on the hilly lake trail
5/3...3.0 @ 13:00 (this is really 2.0 @ 12:00 and 1.0 walking) on the treadmill and strength training day
5/4...4.25 @ 11:51 (most of it was around 11:30, but mile 4 is a brutal hill) on the neighborhood rail trail
5/5...2 miles walking. I'm not counting it, but thought I'd throw it in here as my "active rest" day
Completed races:
1/18 MLK 8K, Burke, VA 56:14
2/22 Princess Half, Orlando FL, 2:49:33
4/23 Healthy Strides Community 10K, Burke, VA 1:14:29
4/30 Run for the Children 8K, Fairfax, VA 56:35
Upcoming races:
5/21 RunFitKidz 5K, Springfield, VA (maybe--if recovered enough from surgery)
6/12 Celebrate Fairfax 5K, Fairfax, VA
7/4 Freedom 5K, Fairfax VA
9/5 Great American 5K, Fairfax, VA
Either Hemlock Half or Divas Half in September
10/30 MCM 10K, Washington, DC
11/6 The Parks 10K, Washington, DC
11/19 Potomac River Half, Carderock, MD
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@acorsaut89 - love the picture!!! None of us like our finish line photos. I always try to remember "Oh here's the end, smile, look good". Nope - I look awful in every one.
My husband asked me what I wanted for mother's day. I want the running shoes I just ordered! They arrived today!!! Beautiful! I'm wearing them in the morning on my run. They are Saucony's Triumph ISO 2. I am retiring my Triumph ISOs that I have really liked - although love my Brooks Glycerin 13s a little bit more. But I put them on tonight (yeah, not waiting till Sunday!) and they feel awesome. May just sleep in them. I know those of you who like the minimalist shoes wouldn't like them, they are very padded. But for me they feel great. I will probably wake up before my 4:15am alarm, lol.
I came up with a new system for rotating shoes. I have a shoe rack in the laundry room and I lined up the 3 pairs on it. So I get a pair from the left and then when I get home, I put the pair just worn on the right and push them all to the left. Sounds silly, but I seem to have trouble remembering what I wore the day before unless I look at my app. Before this system I had a pile in my closet and I'd throw them on the pile and it was chaos. It was getting to the point that I almost left with two different shoes because the pile was so messy. (I don't turn on a lot of lights because hubby still asleep).
5/1 - 35 mile cycling
5/2 - 5 miles
5/3 - 3.5 miles
5/4 - 5 miles - intervals, sort of.
5/5 - 25 miles cycling in a brutal wind
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5/1 25 min spinning, no run
5/2 3.9 miles
5/3 4.2 miles
5/5 4.5 miles - this is how far I can get in a full hour!
I really hope i'm not the last one in the 4mile race coming up at the end of June
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May Running Totals (miles)
5/1 – 3.11 easy
5/2 – rest day
5/3 – extra rest day
5/4 – 3.51 almost easy
5/5 – 6.34 easy
May total to date – 12.96
Nominal Challenge Goal – 150 miles
Real Goals: Recover from Boston and Flower City. Build Base. Start training program for Rochester Marathon.
Today's notes – Thursday is speed work with the club. I went, did my 2 mile warmup, noted that I was running it too fast. The assignment for the club was a continual run of 10 miles, first 8 easy and last 2 at T pace. I'm clearly not up to T just yet, and I was skeptical about being up to even 8 easy miles after the earlier 2. But there were some folks doing a preview of the Lilac run course, and I like previews. Lilac is a kind of out, loop, and back course; I ended up running the loop with some other people, letting them set the pace. That slowed me down and hopefully helped with feeling how to run easy again. We started the loop in the middle, and when we got to the out and back part I just finished the loop and added a bit of distance to get to a port-a-pot. A bit over 2 miles too fast, plus a bit over 4 miles nice and easy.
I'm down to one consistently sore spot in my right leg. I'm not sure exactly what muscle it is, but I'm happy that all the secondary aches and twinges went away. The stretches Coach gave me on Tuesday seem to be helping, i.e. I was able to run 2 days in a row. I'll take tomorrow as a rest day on principal, because I'm supposed to pace 11, 20, or 22 miles on Saturday. No way I'm up to 20 miles this week, but 11 might be possible if the leg gets better with another rest day.
In hindsight, I probably could have got away with running the full Lilac course, ending up with between 8 and 9 miles today. But I played it conservatively, and I don't regret that. Getting better is more important that adding miles on any specific day.
2016 races:
January 1, 2016 Resolution Run 7.5 mile (Mendon, NY) finished in 53:58
January 9, 2016 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) finished in 1:30:59
March 12, 2016 Johnny's Runnin' of the Green 5 mile (Rochester, NY) finished in 32:32
March 26, 2016 Spring Forward Distance Run 15K (Mendon, NY) finished in 1:05:24
April 18, 2016 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA) finished in 3:23:01
April 24, 2016 Flower City Challenge Half Marathon (Rochester, NY) finished in 1:36:50, targeting MP
May 15, 2016 Highland Hospital Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY)
June 19, 2016 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY)
July 16, 2016 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hilton, NY)
September 18, 2016 Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY)
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »
Oh... eff that... that is reason enough to move.meganjcallaghan wrote: »I tried....they don't ship to Canada
I wonder if I would get busted at the border smuggling in a trunk full of Merrells....
@PoppetsMaster Hey it's eBay or Merrel that have the problem. Us Canucks aren't that bad, we have strong beer and Whiskey that has won international awards.
If you came across the border with a trunk full of Merrells all you would have to do is have 4-6 pairs of wornout shoes of the same brand on top the pile. Say you were coming to run the Grande Cache Great Canadian Death Race
and you should be good to go.2 -
Just found this link which shows Screen captures of a Web Camera at the Fort McMurray Airport and really puts everything in perspective as to how fast the Wild Fire exploded into an out of control Inferno.0
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@PoppetsMaster and @ROBOTFOOD, perhaps a silly question, but are these 50k and 100k's races? Are there mandatory rest stops? That kind of running is intriguing to me!
The ones I run are trail races... and they usually have aid stations every 8-10 miles loaded with food you can eat on the run and various things to drink. There are no mandatory rests. In fact, it's quite the opposite... they all have cut-off times by which you have to finish, and some of the longer ones will have cut-off times at each aid station and if you miss one, you are out of the race.1 -
DATE...............MILES.............TOTAL
5/1....................REST................00.00
5/2....................REST................00.00
5/3.......................5.00.................5.00
5/4.....................10.00...............15.00
5/5.......................3.00...............18.00
2016 Races
5/14: Glacier Ridge Ultra -- 50k (Portersville, PA)
6/4: Kettle 100 Night Fun Run -- 38 miles (Whitewater, WI)
7/16: ColorRun --5k (with my 15 year old)(Pittsburgh, PA)
7/17: Presque Isle Half-Marathon (Erie, PA) -- This is maybe.. road races have too many people...
9/10: 1st Annual Possum Glory Endurance Race -- 50k (Northern Cambria, PA)
10/1: Cloudsplitter 100 -- 100 Miles (Pine Mountain, KY)
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So, I had to....wife wanted to go for a walk....so it wasn't a run....but I think I'm going to love my Ghost 8's evem more than my Glycerins.....Taking the Ghosts and my first pair of running shoes a pair of women's (Gasp! stupid small feet) Nike pegasus32, for my long run, then pacing mom for the 5k, respectively.2
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5/1: 26.2 miles (26.5 according to Garmin!)
5/2: Marathon recovery day
5/3: More marathon recovery
5/4: 3.5 miles with Pacers Wed squad
5/5: 3.5 miles with Thursday crew
Good run with the group tonight! I only did the first loop, but I am feeling much better than I was even yesterday. Everyone was congrats-ing me about Sunday, and when I mentioned my plan to take another shot at 26.2 in 3.5 weeks, everyone was like, "DUDE GO FOR IT." I may even be able to hitch a ride with some folks with another group runner's club, and if that works out then I will be A+. I'm just marathon crazy right now, when I'm not busy being "finishing my MA degree" crazy! Post-run was beers at the local pub for Cinco de Mayo. Overall the run today was really low-key and chill, since most of us ran a marathon 4 days ago! It was nice just to get out and socialize a bit after editing/writing all day
Upcoming Races:
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
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Work schedule due to the Fort McMurray Fire had us staying late preparing equipment for Emergency use by RCMP and Fire Fighters heading into the Battle to provide relief to the members on the ground. So tonight was my first chance to get out for a little stress relief run. Hit the Bush Trails for 14 km's and 300m Hill.
05/01 – 0.0 Km – 0.0 - 140 km
05/01 – 10.0 Km – 10.0 - 130 km
05/05 – 14.0 Km – 24.0 - 116 km – YTD 538.8 km
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5/1 - Resting from the previous day's 5k race (that was totally not a 5k and I'm still annoyed about)
5/2 - N/A
5/3 - 2 miles
5/4 - N/A
5/5 - 2 miles
Total: 4/25
Now don't you go thinking my N/A days mean I ain't moving. I got dogs to walk and strength training going on too. I'm glad it's not too humid in Wisconny yet, not looking forward to those months.3 -
May 1 - 4 miles
May 3 - 2.25 miles (of 3.1 scheduled)
May 4 - 1.3 mile short run to warm up for strength training & catch up a bit from yesterday
May 5 - 3 miles
Planned Races
May 7th - Wildflower 5K trail run
July 9th - Jingle in July 5K July @ Santa Claus House / North Pole
Dec 3 & 4 - San Antonio Rock N Roll 10K & 5K
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5/5 - Was resting, but decided to take full advantage of the cooler temps. Here in Vegas, they are RARE this time of yr! SO, 5mi shakeout run for Cinco de Mayo! Easy pace with a last mile pickup. Splits: 8:19, 8:21, 8:24, 8:18, 7:21
READY FOR MARATHON!!!
5/1 - Rest
5/2 - 3.1 (6:52/mi)
5/3 - Rest
5/4 - 6.5 (7:18/mi)
5/5 - 5.0 (8:07/mi)
May total: 14.6 / 185mi3 -
I have the vivoactive - was a little disappointed when I opened it at Christmas, because I'd asked for the Forerunner, but I have LOVED the vivo. Yes, it includes a good step counter, so I have tossed the fitbit One, and use Garmin Connect regularly (along with MapMyRun.com and Strava).
@9voice9 I've started using MapMyWalk/Run for my walks. Does it sync with Strava?@Orphia @Stoshew71 I think that's the doctor I saw! I heard a stat that 50% of docs are frauds.
@Elise4270
Ha, that video's the Web Doctor, did he tell you that stat? PoppetsMaster wrote: »
I am going to attempt it... all my races this summer are basically being used as training runs. My brother has done two 100 mile races so far and he really wants me to do this with him. I have some concerns though.... one is the time I have to put into training for it. When the program starts calling for 70-75 mile weeks, I will have to do doubles to get all the miles in and that sucks away big chunks of time. Two, I wonder how I will hold up under the wear and tear of that many training miles. And three (the biggest concern) is the course itself. UltraRunning magazine rates it as the second most difficult course on the East Coast... and with a 40 hour cutoff, it is a substantially more brutal course than I would have chosen for my first attempt. But we will take a good hard whack at it... lol
Good luck man! I will be running a 50k in 4 wks then possibly 80k in June and 100k in July. I haven't decided for sure yet. I'm waiting to see if I change my mind after the 50k lol. If all goes well, a 100miler would be next.
There is this 24hr run that's literally 3miles from my house. It's next year. I'm definitely running some distance there. 6hr, 12hr, 24hr, 48hr options.
Absolutely farking insanely amazing, both of you, @PoppetsMaster and @ROBOTFOOD2
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