May 2016 Running Challenge

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  • PoppetsMaster
    PoppetsMaster Posts: 200 Member
    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 (GRT 50k Ultra)
    5/15..................REST................76.50
    5/16..................REST................76.50
    5/17.....................5.50...............82.00
    5/18.....................5.00...............87.00
    5/19..................REST................87.00
    5/20.....................2.00...............89.00
    5/21.....................8.50...............97.50
    5/22..................REST................97.50
    5/23.....................7.00.............104.50
    5/24.....................5.00.............109.50
    5/25.....................7.50.............117.00
    5/26..................REST...............117.50
    5/27.....................3.75..............120.75


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    2016 Races
    5/14: Glacier Ridge Ultra -- 50k (Portersville, PA)
    7/9: Buckeye Trail 50k -- 50k (Brecksville, OH)
    7/16: ColorRun --5k (with my 15 year old)(Pittsburgh, PA)
    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)
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    Trying to decide if I should map out another mile for tomorrow's run, just in case.....I've averaged 10:33 over my last 5 long runs, (7-10 miles), and with the time limit on the run scheduled for tomorrow (2:15:00) I could average 11:57 and make the time limit with the 11.2 miles I have mapped out.....so, I'm kind of tempted to add another mile on the end, just in case I'm feeling it......
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    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
    5/15 REST DAY
    5/16 8 miles - 103.3
    5/16 5 miles - 108.3 << Daily Double
    5/17 9 miles - 117.3
    5/17 4 miles - 121.3 << Daily Double
    5/18 6.2 miles - 127.5
    5/19 9 miles - 136.5
    5/20 6.2 miles - 142.7
    5/21 18 miles - 160.7
    5/22 REST DAY
    5/23 9 miles - 169.7
    5/23 4 miles - 173.7 << Daily Double
    5/24 9 miles - 182.7
    5/24 4 miles - 186.7 << Another Daily Double
    5/25 6.2 miles - 192.9
    5/26 9 miles - 201.9
    5/26 6.2 miles - 208.1 << Daily Double
    5/27 5 miles - 213.1

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    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
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    @PoppetsMaster nice run!
  • Rabid_Hamster
    Rabid_Hamster Posts: 338 Member
    edited May 2016
    5/1 - rest
    5/2 - 4m
    5/3 - 5m
    5/4 - 6m
    5/5 - weights
    5/6 - 5m
    5/7 - 10m :D
    5/8 - rest
    5/9 - 3.8m
    5/10 - 3.5m
    5/11 - 7m
    5/12 - weights
    5/13 - 3m
    5/14 - 6.2m
    5/15 - rest
    5/16 - 4m
    5/17 - 6m
    5/18 - 7m ****breaking in new shoes: Asics Gel Nimbus 17s
    5/19 - weights
    5/20 - 6m
    5/21 - 12m :DB) **new personal distance record
    5/22 - rest
    5/23 - 5m
    5/24 - 5m
    5/25 - 8m ****Officially logged over 100 miles this month **** Yay!!!
    5/26 - rest (scheduled for weights but decided I needed an extra rest day this week) :p
    5/27 - 3m

    Distance to date: 109.5m
    Goal: 126m (86.9% complete)

    Training Plan (in case anyone is interested)
    coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_4/134.shtml



  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    @Lord007 Great running!
  • CChen8520
    CChen8520 Posts: 64 Member
    5/1 25 min spinning, no run
    5/2 3.9 miles
    5/3 4.2 miles
    5/5 4.5 miles
    5/6 2.8 miles
    5/9 4.56 miles
    5/19 4.34 miles
    5/21 1.5 miles
    5/23 5.2 miles
    5/27 4 miles

    It's getting really hot here I need to get up early and get my run in.

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  • Ericsmi
    Ericsmi Posts: 128 Member
    Goal of 75 Miles for May

    5/2 – 5.73 Mi
    5/4 – 5.56 Mi
    5/7 – 7.67 Mi
    5/8 – 5.60 Mi
    5/10 – 5.67 Mi
    5/12 – 5.86 Mi
    5/15 – 6.62 Mi
    5/17 – 5.60 Mi
    5/21 – 6.63 Mi
    5/24 – 5.59 Mi
    5/27 – 5.56 Mi

    Progress toward Goal 66.09 / 75
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    1---0.5 test run, 6.0 walk/trail runnish
    14---6.48 walk
    15---2.3
    17---4.2 run!
    19---4.17
    22---3.0 walk
    23---4.4 walk
    25---4.14 heat run 84°, 82% humidity
    27---3.48 lunch run away from work. Such a good thing.

    38.47/anything

    Upcoming races:

    11/05/16 Jenks Half Jenks OK
    12/11/16 Dallas marathon, half
    Run the year 2016  806.59/ 2016
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    @RespectTheKitty Great job finishing C25K
  • Ohhim
    Ohhim Posts: 1,142 Member
    4 quick miles this morning along some trails as I was a bit behind on time and heading back south. I might run tonight with a neighbor one I get back to Florida though, and am looking to avoid too many long runs in the heat this weekend.

    5/1 - 26.2 miles (Pittsburgh Marathon - 3:08:25 - 7:11/mile, 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
    5/15 - 3 miles
    5/17 - 11 miles
    5/18 - 10 miles
    5/19 - 11 miles
    5/20 - 2.5 miles
    5/21 - 7 miles
    5/22 - 11.5 miles
    5/23 - 9 miles
    5/24 - 8.5 miles
    5/26 - 12 miles
    5/27 - 4 miles

    Total: 158 miles
    Goal: 180 miles
    Remaining: 22 miles

    Next Races:
    Ironman 70.3 Augusta - September
    Chicago Marathon - October
    Ironman Florida - November
  • CChen8520
    CChen8520 Posts: 64 Member
    all the discussion on biking makes me really want to bike! haven't been on one in 11 years :( new york is the worst city to drive and bike in, imho....
  • greenolivetree
    greenolivetree Posts: 1,282 Member
    45 min low impact cardio this morning. Other than that, scrubbed floors and this dreary weather has killed my interest in being outside. But who knows. I may still jump on the bike this evening.

    Ordered the 12oz version of @WhatMeRunning's water bottle and it's already shipped from amazon/third party. Woohoo! I had a $10 amazon card (coke points - because I'm a diet coke addict) so $14 instead of $24 helped me bite the bullet and order.

    Highly considering a trail run in the morning.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    CChen8520 wrote: »
    all the discussion on biking makes me really want to bike! haven't been on one in 11 years :( new york is the worst city to drive and bike in, imho....

    But there are so many bike paths in NYC... Sure riding in the street is scary (omg) but I was really pleasantly surprised by how far I could go just on paths.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    Hhhmmm my Nike Pegasus 32 are next in he rotation but part of me wants to wear my Brooks Ghosts.....probably just go with the Nikes
  • ddmom0811
    ddmom0811 Posts: 1,881 Member
    EvgeniZyntx wrote: »
    CChen8520 wrote: »
    all the discussion on biking makes me really want to bike! haven't been on one in 11 years :( new york is the worst city to drive and bike in, imho....

    But there are so many bike paths in NYC... Sure riding in the street is scary (omg) but I was really pleasantly surprised by how far I could go just on paths.

    I've been shocked when I visit my daughter in Manhattan how many ride in the streets... like right along with the traffic. I don't think I could do that!
  • PoppetsMaster
    PoppetsMaster Posts: 200 Member
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    Hhhmmm my Nike Pegasus 32 are next in he rotation but part of me wants to wear my Brooks Ghosts.....probably just go with the Nikes

    Go barefoot.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    A 26-second PB at parkrun this morning gives me a hat trick of PBs... 3 in 3 days!

    26 May – 10 km PB! 1:00:29
    27 May – 12.1 km – 10 km PB! 58:55
    28 May – 5 km parkrun PB! 27:21

    Total: 169.5 km (105 miles)
    Goal: 150 km (93 miles)

    Semi-rest day tomorrow. Just climbing a mountain instead of running. ;)

    (Real rest day Monday.)
  • greenolivetree
    greenolivetree Posts: 1,282 Member
    You're on a roll @orphia!
  • Ohhim
    Ohhim Posts: 1,142 Member
    Neighbor wanted to run tonight after I got in from the airport, so I joined him for 4 miles of Florida steamroom like running conditions, even when it poured for a half a mile, it returned to icky humidity immediately afterwards. On the plus side, only 18 more miles to hit my goal for the month, and I'm returning north in a week.

    5/1 - 26.2 miles (Pittsburgh Marathon - 3:08:25 - 7:11/mile, 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
    5/15 - 3 miles
    5/17 - 11 miles
    5/18 - 10 miles
    5/19 - 11 miles
    5/20 - 2.5 miles
    5/21 - 7 miles
    5/22 - 11.5 miles
    5/23 - 9 miles
    5/24 - 8.5 miles
    5/26 - 12 miles
    5/27 - 8 miles

    Total: 162 miles
    Goal: 180 miles
    Remaining: 18 miles

    Next Races:
    Ironman 70.3 Augusta - September
    Chicago Marathon - October
    Ironman Florida - November
  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
    May Goal: Run just a scootch more than last month...

    5/1 deep mucking of the chicken coop and environs
    5/2 4.0
    5/3 life day
    5/4 7.54
    5/5 snorkel 3.5hours
    5/6 3.21
    5/7 4.05
    5/8 rest
    5/9 4.05
    5/10 meh
    5/11 4.54
    5/12 3.26
    5/13 6.05
    5/14 rest
    5/15 4.02
    5/16 3.16
    5/17 snorkel 3.5 hours.
    5/18 4.00
    5/19 snorkel 4.5 hours (a 2 snorkel week!)
    5/20 sickface (swallowed too much salt water?)
    5/21 4.12
    5/22 3.23
    5/23 rest
    5/24 4.10
    5/25 4.19
    5/26 so for those of you who remember Lily the rescue whippet, she is no longer terrified of DH, and happily follows him everywhere, especially to the cookie bin. However, she and Akamai the border collie/Australian shepherd play so hard....that he ruptured his ACL and needed semi-urgent surgery. So, instead of running much, I am dog-nursing. Not too sure I'll scoot past my scootch this month
    5/27: 3.15 (on the treadmill with Akamai close by.....)

    Total 66.67

    Upcoming races:
    6/26 SHEPower Virtual 1/2 marathon
    11/13 Las Vegas Rock n Roll 1/2 marathon

    Ticker is my goal for 2016 and accumulation to date:
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  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    Hhhmmm my Nike Pegasus 32 are next in he rotation but part of me wants to wear my Brooks Ghosts.....probably just go with the Nikes

    One of each?
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    WhatMeRunning wrote: »
    @_nikkiwolf_ - I saw your Strava run yesterday with the crazy climb! Your slopes far exceed mine! I had to go 12 miles along the hilliest 12 miles I have yet strung together starting from my house to get my 1400 feet yesterday. The only reason I'm giving you any elevation challenge is just because I'm a bit worried about that hilly 50k I signed up for that supposedly has almost 7000 feet of elevation gain! :scream: So I've been doing lots of hills over the last week. I could use the mountains you live by right now for sure!
    @WhatMeRunning Lol, that climb was a little crazier than I had planned! The running through mud and rivers that day was fun, but the trail I was following sort of disapperard on me, and at one point I had to admit that I was completely lost in the forest. In the end, I chose to dig out the phone and used GPS to get back to the next track marked on the map in the most direct way - which happened to be up that 35% slope in the middle of the run. That bit probably can't be called a "run" - it was more a case of half-crawling, grabbing on to roots and branches to avoid sliding back down ^^
    I'm starting to get used to the slopes around here, but while 10% might be "comfortably hard", 20% are still borderline walking (depending on the length of the slope and the surface), and anything beyond that is a case of "are you *kitten* kidding me?!".
    Your planned 50k sounds awesome! If you enjoyed running in that hail storm, you sure have the right attitude for something like that! :tongue:


    @EvgeniZyntx Actually, that "cars hate bikes" thing is not limited to the US, sadly enough. In my little corner of France, a lot of people actually think I am crazy for riding my bike to work, because the number of bike accidents is so high. Not in the nearby cities, but out here in the countryside, a lot of the roads don't have any shoulders to speak of, so you need to ride in the middle of the lane. On the main roads connecting the different villages, people speed like crazy, even (or especially) when it is dark.
    And I can't count the number of times I was going round a roundabout and had to frantically break, because a car driver passed me on the inside and then pulled over in front of me to leave the roundabout - when it was absolutely obvious they had to have seen me! I was quite shocked the first few times, now I'm already expecting that every car driver out here will try to kill me. One of my colleages actually got into an accident like that a few month back, where she didn't manage to stop in time and crashed into the car. She flew forward and hit it with her head, and even the helmet couldn't prevent her from smashing a few teeth - not good!
    Once you get of to the small curvy mountain roads, you are actually fine, because people drive slower and expect cyclists. They just don't seem to be willing to respect cyclists that are using the main roads. I always ride the long way around on my way to work - takes me 25 minutes instead of 15, but a little extra "crosstraining" can't hurt...


    @kristinegift Congrats on the 1001 miles, that's really impressive!!!

    @ddmom0811 So cool that you saw Mars! I know what you mean about nauseating strobe lights - I have one which I need to but on my back where I can't see it, otherwise it drives me mad during the run. And as soon as I get home and it starts reflecting off the mirror in the lobby, I snatch it and switch it off, before wiping my feet or digging out my keys. So bright! But that means car drivers should be able to see it even in dark and foggy nights. I'm just hoping they won't be tempted speed up like crazy to get past that annoying blinking light :wink:

    @lporter229 That's so great that your puppy is learning to run with you! Sounds like you are both having fun :)
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    Thanks for commenting on my trail running questions @PoppetsMaster @4leighbee @EvgeniZyntx @instantmartian and everyone I might be forgetting! Sounds like I need to by some smartwool socks or something fancy like that - my "three pairs for 10$" running socks were defenitely not drying very quickly.

    @RespectTheKitty Congratulations on finishing C25k, great job!

    @DrLauraDVM16 Already past your first goal, well done!

    @AdrianChr92 Nice picture! Reading posts like that makes me wonder if I should try to find people to run with too - there's just don't seem to be any groups nearby, and spending an hour driving there and back with the car seems like a lot of trouble...

    @Orphia Congrats on the new PB!


    Work's been crazy the last couple of days. I'm on-call, and, annoyingly enough, that means people are actually calling me. All the time! I tried to go for a run this morning, planning to do short enough loops near my car that I could manage to be at work in under 30 minutes. After 5 minutes, I got the first call, could solve the problem on the phone, but then I didn't even finish the first loop when I got the next call and had to head over in person *sigh*. Hopefully the rest of the weekend will be more quiet, I might try another loopy run this evening and/or tomorrow to preserve my sanity!

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