May 2016 Running Challenge
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »I am taking a small break from creating ex-wives...
Oh oh me next!5 -
I'm already starting to feel guilty about tomorrow's rest day....but with the goal of a distance PR on Sat, I know I need to get the rest in first.1
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I'm back from my "meeting".
And I'm really not sure what to call my job. People ask me what I do and I often have a hard time explaining. So I just say I'm in IT and leave it at that.
This is actually just an AI bot that I spawned speaking on my behalf while I grab lunch.2 -
@RespectTheKitty Good job. It is hard to not run once you really get into it.0
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »@RespectTheKitty Good job. It is hard to not run once you really get into it.
So true! When I'm not running, I want to be running. It's really hard to not overdo it.4 -
RespectTheKitty wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »@RespectTheKitty Good job. It is hard to not run once you really get into it.
So true! When I'm not running, I want to be running. It's really hard to not overdo it.
yup. I'm really thinking about skipping my rest day tomorrow, but my planned LR for Saturday will be a distance PR, so I'm going to try to be good.0 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »yup. I'm really thinking about skipping my rest day tomorrow, but my planned LR for Saturday will be a distance PR, so I'm going to try to be good.
Screw that... just go for it... its about time you learn the sweet heaviness of doing a long run on tired legs...
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »yup. I'm really thinking about skipping my rest day tomorrow, but my planned LR for Saturday will be a distance PR, so I'm going to try to be good.
Screw that... just go for it... its about time you learn the sweet heaviness of doing a long run on tired legs...
If my MTC joint wasn't giving me issues, I would. But there is the whole I shouldn't injure myself thing. Tomorrow is XT day too, so there is that, squats, lunges and core work....yay.0 -
I was teasing. Mostly. And as an ongoing caveat, you will always be better off listening to @Stoshew71 and @WhatMeRunning and @MobyCarp rather than me... lol... I am allergic to science stuff so my advice is borderline irresponsible.2
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »I was teasing. Mostly. And as an ongoing caveat, you will always be better off listening to @Stoshew71 and @WhatMeRunning and @MobyCarp rather than me... lol... I am allergic to science stuff so my advice is borderline irresponsible.
My problem is, I usually take that advice! LOL. If I wasn't in a routine, I'd probably run tomorrow, but I have a decent run/recovery routine at the moment. If/when I bump to 6 days a week, Friday will be the run I add, as a recovery between Thursday's Stamina runs and my Saturday Long Runs. Just not there yet0 -
I run 5 days a week... take Mondays and Fridays off... Fridays let me rest up for my long weekend runs and Mondays let me recover from them... I lift weights on those days.0
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Those are my same days off of running.0
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »My problem is, I usually take that advice! LOL.
Now I feel like a really bad dad.... I better not even get into how much bourbon I drink...
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »My problem is, I usually take that advice! LOL.
Now I feel like a really bad dad.... I better not even get into how much bourbon I drink...
I prefer Rye, so it's OK0 -
I really thought, after that horrible half on Sunday, that I was done with running, doomed to look back on this as nothing but a little 'phase' and laugh about that time I nearly passed out and thought it was a 'hobby'. I honestly have not hated anything more in my life.
But, today I bribed myself with some new shorts and a new playlist to drag my butt out for a little recovery 3-miler. I convinced myself that, if I ran my favourite route, the one I used to run over and over and over again when I first started running (because I had just moved here and was obsessed with how beautiful it was there) then maybe it would all be ok again. I put my GPS watch in my pocket so I didn't obsess over pace or distance or anything and just ran. I'm so glad I did, it was what I remember running to be like before that half, before being ill, before being in a bit of a 'funk' generally in life. I even sat down half way through my run and just listened to the river and the water falling and watched the sunset. It was like something out of a cheesy film
So anyway, hopefully my hating running was actually just a little phase and I'm back on track now! I should still make goal this month, although it looks like I'm a long way off, but my training plan says I will still be over. I think I will also keep on hiding the running watch for a bit and just get back to running for fun. I have a couple of months before I need to start training again (thank goodness).
2nd May - 3.06 miles
3-4th May - poorlysick
5th May - 2.40 miles
8th May - 13.1 miles Hackney Half 2:05:24
12th May - 3.27 miles
MTD - 21.83/70 miles
Upcoming races:
2nd Oct - Tonbridge Half Marathon
30th Oct - River Thames Half Marathon
9th April 2017 - Brighton Marathon5 -
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
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
Got so busy this morning that i never got a chance to check in. Here I thought I get into the office early at 7:30. But no, find out that I had an 8:00 morning meeting in a completely different building 10 minutes away and I still needed to take a shower down stairs.
I come in straight from my group run into the office to beat the gate traffic getting onto the base. There is a gym and showers downstairs in my building complex that I just go into after I take a quick look at my work email and log my runs. Find out the guy scheduling the meeting this morning forwarded the email to me at 6:45 this morning when everybody else got it yesterday afternoon. Gees! Anyway, checking in now. Gees. 95 updates since yesterday afternoon. Don't you people have lives... wait. Don't answer that.
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louubelle16 wrote: »So anyway, hopefully my hating running was actually just a little phase and I'm back on track now! I should still make goal this month, although it looks like I'm a long way off, but my training plan says I will still be over. I think I will also keep on hiding the running watch for a bit and just get back to running for fun. I have a couple of months before I need to start training again (thank goodness).
@louubelle16, a great idea! Sometimes those things we use to track our progress end up impeding us. The joy of running is just that...joy from running, not knowing splits.
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@louubelle16... about 18 months ago I attempted my first 50 mile trail race. I made some crucial, rookie nutritional errors seven miles into the race and spent the next several hours intensely nauseous and unable to consume anything except Peanut M&Ms and Coke. Needless to say, by the time I hit the 25 mile turn-around (barely three minutes within the cut-off time), I was feeling starved and dehydrated and was plagued with severe leg cramps on top of the nausea, and my throat was raw from puking coke and candy. It was hellish. I tried to keep pushing through it, but I missed the cut-off at the 38-mile aid station and was prohibited from continuing with the race. So on top of everything else, I had to take my first DNF and got no finishers medal, despite my months of training... a mere 12 miles from the end. I cried like a child.
I kept running after that, but it was several weeks before I began feeling the joy again. The sting of that DNF and the utter suck-*kitten* bitterness of that race had me convinced I would not do another race, but it eventually evolved into being one of my favorite running memories because it ultimately made me a smarter, tougher, stronger runner. Embrace the shltty runs... they may very well be the best ones for you.
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