May 2016 Running Challenge
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@MNLittleFinn Thanks! Yeah, I'm OK with a little walking as needed. Although on my second walking break, the team coach for the one marathon I've run drove by, rolled down her window, and yelled, "Why the hell aren't you RUNNING?!" Timing is everything.
LOL I had to laugh....That's the luck I would have too.0 -
5/1 - 5 miles
5/2 - 4 miles
5/3 - rest day
5/4 - 6 miles
5/5 - 5 miles
5/6 - rest day
5/7 - 5 miles
5/8 - trip to Nashville
5/9 - 5 miles
5/10 - family day
5/11 - 5 miles
5/12 - 5 miles
5/13 - family leaving I'm sad day
5/14 - 4 miles (5K and 1 mile warm up)
44 of 100 miles
Skip and I ran in a small local 5K today, I think it gets about 80 - 90 runners. She finished 1st overall female for the 2ND year in a row (8th overall) with a 24:45. Love this race since it raises money for orphans both domestic and international. I like when a course is set up so I can see her during the race. The leaders came toward me, it was a bunch of guys and her.
The next female finished 2 minutes behind her. I finished 1st in my age group woohoo me LOL 36th overall with a 30:08. I love the medal, it's made by a local jeweler, last years was similar. We both won Fleet Feet gift cards, since I volunteered to carry the results back to the FF store Skip was able to use her card to buy some new compression socks and some electrolyte stuff.
Some pictures hhmmm they look the right direction until I post them
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Congratulations @WhatMeRunning ! My PR is 2:17:28! Maybe I'll be able to keep up with you in Jenks!
If this doesn't turn out to be a stress fracture, I anticipate being able to run next weekend. I'll be curious to see if the weight loss is water weight.
1---0.5 test run, 6.0 walk/trail runnish
14---6.48 walk. Different shoe. Same drop. Stiffer sole. Merrell all out charge
12.98/anything
Upcoming races:
11/05/16 Jenks Half Jenks OK
12/11/16 Dallas marathon, half
Run the year 2016 746.35/ 20161 -
Congrats @WhatMeRunning! My PR is 2:18! WTG!
Congrats @skippygirlsmom and skippy!! I love the medals!
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Tried to catch up on all the posts but gave up. I did see quite a few injuries, and I am very sorry for those who can't run right now. Just coming off an injury I know what it is like to be forced to take time off. To all of those who posted race results, congratulations! Please keep them coming, I love reading about what everyone else is doing.
The Cleveland Marathon is this weekend and even though I am not running, I wanted to go to the race expo. I have never been to one before and thought it would be cool. Nothing prepared me for the experience! There was around 100 booths in total, everything from shoes, shirts, a Garmin rep, Honey Stinger, Nuun and best of all, Great Lakes Brewing Co giving away free samples. I got to try samples of the Honey Stinger waffles and chews, different flavors of Nuun and picked out my next Garmin. Hopefully next year I will be able to run of the races (not the full, but maybe the half).2 -
Great race and Great pictures @skippygirlsmom It's great seeing you and Skip running together and enjoying yourselves!1
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@WhatMeRunning - Way to go! You gotta love it when a race comes together to feel great and produce a PR!
@skippygirlsmom - Just tell people the pictures are a demonstration of your core strength.
@9voice9 - I was still in weight loss mode when I set out to become a runner, and made initial goal about the same time I got through my first 5K training plan. Then I lost 12 more pounds learning how not to lose weight. Now, I've been making the weight trend sideways for 4 years. I track everything most days. Once in a great while, I have a disaster day on the intake side, and I'll just record 2000 to 4000 calories for the binge as a marker that I was way over normal target. The last time that happened was April 18, with my See Food diet after finishing the Boston Marathon.
I will be a contrary voice to the theme of following MFP and eating back 50% or 75% of your exercise calories. The important thing to know is, what MFP says you should eat to maintain weight is an *estimate* based on broad averages. If you're close enough to the average that MFP uses, this doesn't matter much in weight loss mode. Say you're about 250 calories off the MFP estimate. If you target a 500 calorie deficit, instead of losing a pound a week like the plan says you will, you lose a half pound a week if your burn is lower than the estimate, or a pound and a half if your burn is higher than the estimate. No big deal, you just get there slower or faster, as the case may be.
But when you're trying to maintain, the picture changes. Now, you're targeting a net zero balance in calories. If you eat to the estimate, and the estimate is off by 250 calories, you gain or lose a half pound a week. Over time, that adds up to 26 pounds a year.
So, what to do? I weigh myself daily, and watch the trend. When the weight trends up, I decrease the calories I'm allowed. When my weight trends down, I increase them. I add a lot fewer calories back for running than Garmin says I burn, because there's no way I'm eating 1200 more calories on a day that I run 18 miles than on a rest day. So part of the calorie burn from running is built into my base calories for every day.
Over time, as my activity level changes, the base calories have to change. Sometimes I can see why the change is needed. Gee, a month ago I ran a marathon. Now I'm on injured reserve. You think I need to eat fewer calories now than a month ago? Yeah, I think so too. In four years, my base daily calorie goal has ranged between 2200 (stress fracture, in a boot, unable to get anywhere near 10K steps a day) to 3400 (peak effort of marathon training, with more calories added back for running). Picking where that number belongs is more of an art than a science. The important thing is, I have to watch what the scale does for me and ignore what MFP *thinks* the scale should do for me.
Enter running. Everyone says not to try to lose weight while running, just eat at maintenance level. That makes the issue pretty much the same as long term weight maintenance, in that the MFP estimates of how much to eat may not be good enough. First pass, take a look at how much weight you put on over how long. If you put on 10 pounds over 20 weeks, that's a half pound a week. Cutting 250 calories per day would, in theory, take you from gaining a half pound a week to maintaining. In practice, that's a reasonable first estimate to follow for a while and see how it works before making further adjustments. Of course, to do this you need to track everything you eat, or at least track enough so that you know how much cutting 250 calories is.
This is not the only way to lose or maintain weight; it just happens to the be the way that worked for me. I believe there are people who can learn to eat to hunger and maintain their weight without actually tracking the details. To date, I am not such a person.1 -
Just as I went to post my morning adventures the site went into Maintenance Mode.
and all was lost.
10 km run - Java Domain to Judah Hill . 3.5km to the top of the hill ( 227m / 745ft ) then 1.5 km on top and looped back to the Coffee shop. Mapmyrun does not have a Hill Grade. it shows the Elevations and Distance. Privacy settings? One of the mid grade hills in our little valley. I had a good run as it was the first time this year that I managed to do the whole hill without dropping into a walk. Once the dark days of winter hit last year I lost a lot of Hill Endurance so to get it back already promises to be a good spring/summer/fall. During the winter I would have 3 walk breaks, 2 walk breaks in March/April. Now doing it to the top with no walk breaks.
As one of the slower runners in our club I tend to leave a 10-15 mins early so we end up finishing together. Well I had the schedule crossed up and when I got to the top of Judah Hill and stopped at the Viewpoint - Looking back - expecting to see the other members half way up the climb - NADA. Looking across the Hart River Valley ( 5 km ) I could see the bright orange and white shirts of the other members heading up 12 ft Davis Hill. Since there is no realistic way to catch up to them I just kept going out and completed my loop. The speedsters were doing 16 km today with 3km of that as speed work on the River bank Paved trail. I got in about 20 minutes ahead of them
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
05/08 – 8.0 Km – 32.0 - 108 km
05/11 – 11.0 Km – 43.0 - 97 km
05/12 – 9.0 Km – 52.0 - 88 km
05/14 – 10.0 Km – 62.0 - 78 km – YTD 576.8 km
@7lenny7 Time for some IPA Therapy-recovery Electrolytes - Good Job Sir.
@skippygirlsmom Those are Great Medals, Elegance in Simplicity.
@MobyCarp Hope you are able to get through Physio and back on the trails.
@WhatMeRunning! My PR is 2:12 so we could run together along with @ddmom08111 -
@9voice9 I lost ~20 pounds after I joined MFP; while running. Gained 10 of those back again in some stressfull month end of last year and lost them again by now, while at the same time increasing my weekly running distance to 50-60km. I didn't have any "cheat days", I always ate what I liked, as long as it fit my calorie goal for the week. Making sure the balance is right at the end of the week is easier for me than doing it on a day-by-day basis. If I go for a long run on Saturday, I usually have lots of calories left over for that day; but I'm usually still hungrier on Sunday. Or sometimes I "borrow" against Saturdays burn already on Friday evening for beer and pizza.
@WhatMeRunning Great that the muscle pain went away during the night and you could race the half! Congratulations on the PR, what a great race!
@Elise4270 Oh no, your poor puppy! I had to look up heartworms (don't think we have them here), and it seems they are transmitted by moskitos, and there are treatments to cure the dog, so there is hope! I wish you and your puppy all the best
@vandinem I had to walk a few times too today. The weather was cool with a light rain when I left home, 5 minutes later the rain stopped and the sun came out, and it got warm rather quickly. Since I don't have a coach, at least there was no risk of anyone driving by and catching me at taking a break ^^
@skippygirlsmom Congratulations to both you and Skip, awesome results both of you!
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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
5/6....................REST................18.00
5/7.....................12.00...............30.00
5/8.......................6.00...............36.00
5/9....................REST................36.00
5/10..................REST................36.00
5/11.....................5.00...............41.00
5/12.....................4.00...............45.00
5/13..................REST................45.00
5/14...................31.50...............76.50
2016 Races
5/14: Glacier Ridge Ultra -- 50k (Portersville, PA)
6/9: Buckeye Trail 50k -- 50k (Brecksville, OH)
7/16: ColorRun --5k (with my 15 year old)(Pittsburgh, PA)
7/17: Presque Isle Half-Marathon (Erie, PA) -- This is a 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)
10/15: Buffalo Creek Half Marathon (Sarver, PA) -- This is also a maybe.. because people...
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Race report... 47 degrees, windy, steady rain, 24 of the 31.5 miles were sloppy, greasy shoe-sucking mud.... I love trail running. But the run sucked moose-balls.5
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@WhatMeRunning That is so awesome with your PR. 2:17:38 is quite a bit different than 2:30 or 2:40. Way to go!
@skippygirlsmom Awesome job you two. Love Skip's shirt.
@PoppetsMaster Love the concise race report.0 -
Date Miles today. Miles for May
5/1 REST DAY
5/2 6.2 miles - 6.2 << Taper and cutback week. 5K race Wednesday morning
5/3 6.2 miles - 12.4
5/4 4.4 miles - 16.8 << PEO-AVN 5K Fun Run (was only 2.9 miles; plus 1.5 w/u)
5/4 3.1 miles - 19.9 << got some extra miles squeezed in
5/5 7.5 miles - 27.4
5/6 4 miles - 31.4
5/7 REST DAY << Sick +daughter's birthday party
5/8 REST DAY
5/9 9 miles - 40.4 << Madkin Mountain (634 ft elev gain)
5/9 4 miles - 44.4 << Daily Double
5/10 8.3 miles - 52.7
5/10 4 miles 56.7 << Daily Double
5/11 6.2 miles - 62.9
5/12 9 miles - 71.9
5/13 6.4 miles - 78.3
5/14 17 miles - 95.3
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 <<< 19:10 (2.9 mi) 1 in AG 5 OA
Cotton Row Run 10K - 5/30
Firecracker Chase 10.2 miler 6/25
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Forgot to log
..Date.....Distance
May 01 - rest
May 02 - 4.1 km
May 03 - rest
May 04 - rest
May 05 - 5 km
May 06 - rest
May 07 - 4.1 km
May 08 - 5.8 km
May 09 - 4.1 km
May 10 - rest
May 11 - 5 km
May 12 - 4.1 km
May 13 - rest
May 14 - 7.5 km split in 2 parts but it still counts
03/04: Bucharest 10k and Family run 48:28
16/04: Color Run Bucharest
17/04: Forest Run 5k 22:05
??/??: VeterRUN 6.7k2 -
@Elise4270 - sorry to hear about your pup! I shall keep my fingers crossed! I had a cat die suddenly and we had no idea what happened. The vet looked into it and said her heart was huge, but she only had 1-2 heartworms. He thinks she had an allergic reaction to them, so we had no warning and no chance at treatment.
I really hope the treatment works and your pup comes out okay! 0 -
@Elise4270 - sorry to hear about your pup! I shall keep my fingers crossed! I had a cat die suddenly and we had no idea what happened. The vet looked into it and said her heart was huge, but she only had 1-2 heartworms. He thinks she had an allergic reaction to them, so we had no warning and no chance at treatment.
I really hope the treatment works and your pup comes out okay!
Oh wow. I didn't know cats could get them. I worm them all, but it's easy to forget a month or two. ..Sorry about your kitty .1 -
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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
5/6: Rest day
5/7: 6.2 miles with Saturday RAP crew
5/8: 10 miles solo
5/9: 4 miles with Monday coffee crew
5/10: Rest
5/11: Lazy day
5/12: 4.5 miles (am), 7.3 miles with Thursday crew (pm)
5/13: Rest day
5/14: Lazy day
Boy oh boy, am I in a slump or what?! I got up this morning (after struggling for hours to fall asleep last night), and I just didn't have it in me. I drank some coffee, ate a little breakfast, tried to amp myself up... put on my running clothes... and then got back in bed to sleep some more. I was going to go out in the afternoon, and decided to just study for finals in the sunshine instead. I'm not sure why I don't feel like running -- let alone doing anything else -- but I hope my brain gets back in the game soon!
Meanwhile, I'll be running to my volunteer post tomorrow morning for a local 5k hosted by my trusty local running store, and then doing a ~13-14 mile route from the race around town and back home. Hopefully I'll be in a better running mood tomorrow!
Upcoming Races:
5/15: Princeton 5k << Volunteering, 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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@kristinegift - Sounds like you are getting a well earned break. You'll be back to normal soon!2
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Crap! I put in a long reply earlier but I guess it did not post!!
Gah!!!
I'll try again tomorrow. I'm going to bed.0 -
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@MNLittleFinn That means you should head North of the Line and run some HM's in Canada. With the exchange rate it will seem dirt cheap, unless you hit a community that is hosting a major conference at the same time.MNLittleFinn wrote: »PoppetsMaster wrote: »Damn Finn.... you are so far north you must be at least 25% Canuck....
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....I'm closer to Canada than most major cities in the state.0 -
1 May – 16.1 km Distance PB
3 May – 8.1 km
5 May – 10.1 km
7 May – 5 km parkrun PB by 48 seconds! 27:47
8 May – 8.4 km Mother’s Day Classic
10 May – 10 km
12 May – 10.1 km
13 May – 7 km
14 May – climbed a mountain, 30,000 steps but no running
15 May – 15 km PB!
Total: 89.8 km (55.8 miles)
Goal: 150 km (93 miles)
Saturday afternoon I climbed a mountain, and saw this guy:
He seemed as interested in us as we were in him.
Then this morning, my legs felt fine after the climb. Fired up by lots of friends doing events this weekend, I managed to run a 15 km PB!
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@PoppetsMaster - that mud sounded awful and then when I saw the picture of it, it was worse than you described. I don't think I could stand that in my shoes for that long. Great pics though!
@Orphia - how cute!
@kristinegift - finishing up masters is a little overwhelming. Especially if you are going to start working afterwards. Sounds like you just need a little break. You'll be back!
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Got in a nice easy run this evening once the temperature dropped back to a normal range. Planning on doing another 12 miles tomorrow night to get me to the 80 mile mark, and should be fine doing 2-50 mile weeks to finish off the month once I'm back up north Monday. Not sure what plan to put on the calendar for the October Chicago marathon (25 weeks out), as I'd like to do at least as well as my last marathon to lock in 2018 BQ but will need to make sure I'm giving myself enough recovery time as I'll be ramping up my swimming/biking for a full Ironman in November.
5/1 - 26.2 miles (Pittsburgh Marathon - 3:08:25, ran as bib #666 in full devil costume, got a BQ)
5/5 - 6 miles
5/9 - 15 miles
5/10 - 6 miles
5/11 - 3 miles
5/12 - 2 miles
5/13 - 4.5 miles
5/14 - 6 miles
Total: 68.5 miles
Goal: 180 miles
Remaining: 111.5 miles
Next Races:
Ironman 70.3 Augusta - September
Chicago Marathon - October
Ironman Florida - November
@whatmerunning - congrads on the PR. I suspect you have a sub-2 in the tank if you consistently keep up your mileage. Might be worth registering for a 5K then going all out for the race to gauge your upside (via the daniels vo2max calculator, or macmillan calculator). When I was losing weight I had a really hard time figuring out my pacing strategies at first, as my HM times went from a 2:30 to a 2:10 to a 1:47 within the span of about 10 months/while losing about 40lb. I didn't really think to go for the 1:47 until I tried some shorter distance sprints and did some estimating to give me the confidence to just go for it.
@poppetsmaster - Nice 50K medal! Hope you are recovering OK.
@9voice9 - Started training for my first 5K back in November 2012 at 250lb. Slowly took off about 0.5 to 0.7lb/week over the course of 3 years (lost 10 in 2012, 25 in 2013, 40 in 2014, then 20 in 2015), plateaued for about 6 months around 165lb, then shaved another 10lb this year going into my marathon at 158lb. I was very religious about logging everything during 2013-2015, but have been a bit religious now that I'm in maintenance mode. I don't do cheat days, but haven't been logging as often during the last 6 months, and will just put in a 3-4 hour bike/run/swim day in order to enjoy a 4000 calorie day without too much guilt. Still, now that I've gotten (mostly) away from processed foods/flour/HFCS and mostly just stick with proteins, whole grains, and fruits/vegetables, my body is pretty good about letting me know when I'm full as it is pretty hard to binge on whole wheat bread whereas your body won't let you know if you've consumed enough calories of HFCS sweetened sodas, over-processed potato chips, and white flour dough-based pizza.2 -
Traveling/work are really kicking my butt - I am exhausted and have yet another trip starting tomorrow. I did manage to get in a decent 8 miles today but trying to get a treadmill run in at the hotel has only been moderately successful. I miss keeping up with all of you and all the running and racing excitement!
I did get my She Power virtual race kit and I am excited to get that one planned and done in late June! I love the shirt(s) and the medal and can't wait to earn it!
Hoping to be back here following all the goings on late this next week - in the meantime be as good as you can
Date..........Miles.........Total
05/01.......0.00..........0.00
05/02.......5.16..........5.16 - + Agility
05/03.......0.00..........5.16 - Dallas
05/04.......4.25..........9.41
05/05.......0.00..........9.41 - Home
05/06.......0.00..........9.41
05/07.....10.03........19.44
05/08.......2.50........21.94 - Dog beach run
05/09.......2.00........23.94 - Dallas
05/10.......4.31........28.25
05/11.......0.00........28.25 - Home
05/12.......4.07........32.32 - + Strength Training
05/13.......0.00........32.32
05/14.......8.32........40.64
Upcoming Races - Let me know if you will be running too!
06/25/16 - SHEPower Virtual Half Marathon
07/31/16 - San Francisco 2nd Half Marathon
09/xx/16 - Beat the Blerch Half Marathon, Seattle
11/19/16 - USA Invitational Half Marathon (Yay, I qualified again!)
xx/xx/xx - Nike Women's Half Marathon, Los Angeles
12/18/16 - San Diego Holiday Half Marathon2 -
5/1-4.12 miles
5/2- Rest
5/3- 5.01 miles
5/4- 3.12 miles
5/5- 5.1
5/6- rest
5/7- 8.44
4/8-3.11
4/9-REST much needed REST
4/10- 5.1
4/11-4.1
5/12- 5.11
5/13- Rest
5/14- 10.02
5/15- 4.1
Total 57.73/100
Notes: Today's assignment was 30m-45m at E. I ended up running for about 48m, but it was a very easy pace, and my legs feel much better after it, making for a great recovery run after yesterday's Fast Finish Long Run. Looking forward to tomorrow's rest day!2 -
1/5: 8.1 Miles
3/5: 5.0 Miles
5/5: 6.0 Miles
7/5: 9.0 Miles
10/5: 5.0 Miles
12/5: 3.8 Miles
13/5: 3.7 Miles
15/5: 13.1 Miles
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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
5/6: Rest day
5/7: 6.2 miles with Saturday RAP crew
5/8: 10 miles solo
5/9: 4 miles with Monday coffee crew
5/10: Rest
5/11: Lazy day
5/12: 4.5 miles (am), 7.3 miles with Thursday crew (pm)
5/13: Rest day
5/14: Lazy day
5/15: 2 miles + 10 miles
I ran 2 miles to the 5k I was volunteering at this morning, and then planned to do 13.5 afterward. But I cut it short at 10 for a multitude of reasons: a) Around mile 5, my heart wasn't in it anymore and then b) GI distress and then c) my left calf felt weird, and that was the straw that broke this camel's back. Still it's a 12 mile day and it was gorgeous outside, so I'm not gonna complain.
But I am definitely going to take a second spring marathon off the table. I wanted to do Vermont City in 2 weeks to try to make another solid BQ attempt, but the way I've been feeling about running lately... yeah, that's not going to happen. I think I'm going to keep my mileage low for another week or two, low pressure running (I even took the vibrate alert off my watch so I don't have mile by mile splits, which helps keep the pace easy by feel), when I want and as far as I want. I've been seriously underestimating the toll of the stress of finishing my degree/finding a job/needing to find housing/needing to move... it's really hectic in this ol' brain of mine! And it's all the worst kind of stress, the WAIT AND SEE kind. Ugh!
Upcoming Races:
5/15: Princeton 5k << Volunteering, 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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@Mathsrunner great run!1
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