June (2016) Running Challenge
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Today it was supposed to be a long run but I was feeling tired from yesterday and slept all day so did only around 6 km. Very very slow. Now I go to sleep again.
Date.....Distance..Avg hr/Pace/km
June 1 - 6.1 km - 156/5:47
June 2 - 5.5 km - 154/6:00
June 3 - 5.0 km - 153/6:12
June 4 - 7.0 km - 184/4:25
June 5 - 6.0 km - 143/6:27
03/04: Bucharest 10k and Family run 48:28
16/04: Color Run Bucharest
17/04: Forest Run 5k 22:05
04/06: Happy Run 5k 21:573 -
June Running Totals (miles)
6/1 – rest day
6/2 – 6.11 easy
6/3 – rest day
6/4 – 7.21 easy with hills
6/5 – 7.42 easy
June total to date – 20.74
Nominal Challenge Goal – 100 miles
Real Goals: Recover from injury to the point where running feels normal again. Stretch goal, recover to the point where I can run at race pace.
Today's notes – Got up earlier than my body wanted to get to church, and ended up needing a nap after church. Then as I slowly started getting ready to run, a thunderstorm arrived. Well. Check the weather, and it's a front coming through. Clear behind, then more thundershowers this evening. Okay. Got out to run a bit past 3:30, at a reasonable 70° F (21° C) with an unreasonable level of humidity.
The plan was to run between 7 and 8 miles, paying attention to how my recovering leg felt. It felt better than it has since Boston. For the first two miles, I had to pay close attention to feel that it wasn't totally normal. The minor sensation in the hip abductor didn't rise to the level of "ache" until 3.4 miles or so. I happened to get to 5 miles right at the top of a hill, and followed my protocol of taking a gel; the consequence of that was I was messing with storing the empty packet on the downhill instead of paying attention to form. My leg let me know that it was *not* totally recovered, and downhill running still requires some care. By the time I hit 6 miles, I knew I was going to go home the most direct way for about 7.4 miles, and not stretch it any closer to 8 miles.
The good: I was able to run a normal-length Sunday run, after running on Saturday. More of the run felt like normal running than like I was babysitting an injured hip abductor.
The bad: The leg didn't feel quite as good when I finished as it did yesterday. While I finished, and I was fine after stretching, the idea of running another mile on that leg seemed pretty dubious late in the run.
It's progress, and I'll take it. Feeling normal for more of the run than not really outweighed the uncomfortable humidity on the scale of enjoyment.
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) DNS - injury
June 19, 2016 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY)
July 16, 2016 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hamlin, NY)
September 18, 2016 Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY)
November 24, 2016 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
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I made my long run a hilly route today to tackle a hill that, in my mind, I never thought I'd be able to run up, but I just wanted to see how far I could get. Anyway, I managed the whole thing, so I'm pretty proud right now, which is good seeing as the rest of the run was a bit of a disaster. My pace was all over the place (after having gotten so good at controlling a steady pace recently), I took a leaky water bottle, I kept getting harassed by two guys in a van who took to driving up and down the same road I was running to shout stuff at me, and I ended up with sunburnt KNEES. I mean, what the?! How did my knees get burnt when the rest of me was fine? Not sure what part of that run was more irritating
Oh, I and I registered for another half in the autumn!
2nd June - 3.53 miles
4th June - 3.41 miles
5th June - 7.12 miles
MTD - 14.06/80 miles
Upcoming races:
18th Sept - Run Reigate Half Marathon
2nd Oct - Tonbridge Half Marathon
30th Oct - River Thames Half Marathon
9th April 2017 - Brighton Marathon7 -
@louubelle16 - Congratulations on conquering that hill! You can get a better water bottle, you can work on pace control (though some variability is to be expected on a hilly route), and you can do something to deal with the sun; but nothing can change the fact that you ran that hill.
Don't know what to say about the jerks in the van. There probably isn't a good thing to do to get rid of them, if they don't get bored and stop harassing runners.1 -
DATE...............MILES...........TOTAL
6/1.................BOYCOTTED ...0.00
6/2.....................7.00.................7.00
6/3.....................5.00...............12.00
6/4...................10.00...............22.00
6/5.....................6.25...............28.25
2016 Races
5/14: Glacier Ridge Ultra -- 50k (Portersville, PA)
7/9: Buckeye Trail 50k -- 50k (Brecksville, OH)
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)3 -
This month is not starting off well at all.1
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I have been thinking about the discussion generated by @7Lenny7 and how running can create family issues. It is not an easy topic, because running (especially long distance running) is inherently selfish and time consuming and not particularly conducive to healthy relationships. This is particularly true if you were not a runner at the beginning of the relationship and then became one well into the relationship.
A couple of years ago, I had a conversation with a hardcore runner (here on MFP) about this very subject. Both he and I had battled through some significant physical obstacles to become runners (he much more than me) and our spouses were struggling with the time demands made by our running and the obsessive drive we exhibited in our pursuit of miles. After one significant beotch session on my part about how my wife was giving me major shlt about my running, I clearly remember him asking me if running was the mountain that I was prepared to die on.
I thought about that for a long time and ultimately deliberately chose not to answer the question aloud. But I did not give up on my running and I am now going through my second divorce. I am not so naive to suggest that my running was the sole reason for the disintegration (after all I am a divorce lawyer), but my ultimate decision to keep devoting my priorities and my time to long distance running played a significant role in ending the marriage.
If your significant other is not a runner or is not willing to let your running take top priority from time to time, you will eventually find yourself in a tight spot... you may have to either risk continuing to damage the relationship or cut back on your running. You need to think long and hard about this because no matter what you choose, the price is expensive.
As I am moving forward, I have had to acknowledge that any future relationship of mine will either have to be with a runner or at least with someone who understands that when it comes to running I will most likely be a selfish, self-centered prlck and that she will lose out to my running more often than not... and she needs to be ok with that and support that.
And if I were to be an undeservedly lucky SOB, I would find myself with someone who is both. I think I have that... and she knows who she is.
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I also made it out between thunderstorms today and ran in not too hot but super humid weather. It was like a rain forest. I ran 5.25 miles at a pretty slow pace. I had to walk up a tough and muddy hill - which reminds me @louubelle congrats on conquering your hill!
Upcoming race: Chase Corporate Challenge (3.5 miles) on Tuesday 6/73 -
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Ok.. used to run a lot but havent in a while... lets say 40miles this month2
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^^^ Krav Maga... that is some bad-*kitten* shlt0
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I'm in. Goal is 25 miles4
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »I have been thinking about the discussion generated by @7Lenny7 and how running can create family issues. It is not an easy topic, because running (especially long distance running) is inherently selfish and time consuming and not particularly conducive to healthy relationships. This is particularly true if you were not a runner at the beginning of the relationship and then became one well into the relationship.
A couple of years ago, I had a conversation with a hardcore runner (here on MFP) about this very subject. Both he and I had battled through some significant physical obstacles to become runners (he much more than me) and our spouses were struggling with the time demands made by our running and the obsessive drive we exhibited in our pursuit of miles. After one significant beotch session on my part about how my wife was giving me major shlt about my running, I clearly remember him asking me if running was the mountain that I was prepared to die on.
I thought about that for a long time and ultimately deliberately chose not to answer the question aloud. But I did not give up on my running and I am now going through my second divorce. I am not so naive to suggest that my running was the sole reason for the disintegration (after all I am a divorce lawyer), but my ultimate decision to keep devoting my priorities and my time to long distance running played a significant role in ending the marriage.
If your significant other is not a runner or is not willing to let your running take top priority from time to time, you will eventually find yourself in a tight spot... you may have to either risk continuing to damage the relationship or cut back on your running. You need to think long and hard about this because no matter what you choose, the price is expensive.
As I am moving forward, I have had to acknowledge that any future relationship of mine will either have to be with a runner or at least with someone who understands that when it comes to running I will most likely be a selfish, self-centered prlck and that she will lose out to my running more often than not... and she needs to be ok with that and support that.
And if I were to be an undeservedly lucky SOB, I would find myself with someone who is both. I think I have that... and she knows who she is.
@PoppetsMaster - I am also twice divorced, but I can't testify as to the impact of running because I didn't become a runner until well after the second divorce. I have thought about some of the issues you describe, though.
My first marriage hardly counts, because it was so short. My second marriage lasted 18 years as I tried to make it work. There is no way in he!! I could have become a runner while married to the mother of my daughter. But that's more about how she was and the dysfunctional dynamic of the marriage than about running. There was also no way in he!! I could have become a regular blood donor.
THBS, I know some runners who are married. Some of them are married to people who also run, some are not. I know at least one runner who married a non-runner while he was actively pursuing his running hobby. I know at least one couple who started running after getting married and having kids. And I know a lot of runners who apparently have functional marriages to non-runners, though I don't know the details of how they're functional. I've met a few of the spouses. It can work.
But dang, it's nice to be an empty nester when I'm training for a marathon. That pretty much sucks up all my free time. I don't know how the married marathon runners get it done. And it never would have happened if I'd stayed married, because running was not a mountain I would have been willing to die on. It might be that mountain now; but I'm not in the market for a third wife.5 -
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5---5.30
My foot isn't playing fair yet. I think I get some biking in and give it more time to recover. Been a problem since April 24th.
Surgery in 37 days.
I was hoping to capitalize on the time in the heat for cardiovascular gains. I'd like to still have a chance to place in my AG in November with a sub 2 time or least PR, 2:17:28 current.
16.36/80+
Upcoming races:
11/05/16 Jenks Half Jenks OK
12/11/16 BMW Dallas Marathon, Half
Run the year 2016 861.95/ 2016
Hopeful races:
March 19th 2017 RNR Half Dallas, TX
March 26th 2017 A2A 5k Ardmore, OK
April 30th 2017 OKC Memorial Marathon, Half.
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Wtg everyone!1
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@poppetsmaster interesting insight. I'm not a needy or jealous woman so I can't imagine being with someone who really enjoys something and giving them crap about doing it. But I have friends who are that way... he fishes too much, he runs too much, he golfs too much or whatever. I've thought a few times about a marathon but I know it's another full time job to train, I would be willing to put the time in vs being with my significant other, but I will not give up the time with Skip to do so. Of course the last almost 2 years my SO has been out of the country LOL.
I'll use my Dad and his racing again. We missed more weddings, birthday parties and special family events because he raced on weekends, seemed family was always pissed off at us. My mom supported him 100% because it was what he loved to do. I think with any successful relationship it's all give and take.5 -
Church, light lunch, nap, 7 mile run, 20 min stretching and rolling
Ran a 1.75 mi warmup (10:28 pace including a short walk to start). Started a new activity on my Garmin to mark off 5k for the Batten disease awareness virtual 5k I signed up for. 8:56 pace for the 5k Then I refilled my water bottle and ran 2.15 mi cool down (10:48 pace including a little walking and snapping a few pics).
It was 79 degrees but humidity dropped off to 48%. Still hot but feels different with lower humidity. I drove 15 min to run around a little lake. It's 1.75 miles around and the back half is all shade although the rest is full sun and it was sunny. Wore my hat. I felt well prepared and happy with how I handled the heat again.
@elise4270 Sorry your foot still isn't right
@louubelle16 Way to go on that hill!
Regarding family life and running... I was fit when I met my husband but quickly let myself go to pot. Spent 7 years very overweight and out of shape then 5 years ago turned myself back around. For some reason the running bothers my hubby more than anything else. He often praises me but just as often expresses concern and dislike of my running. He feels I'm in a special club that he's not part of. I don't even run that much and run alone. But have family and friends who run. I don't spend much time talking about running outside this forum. But it sure bothers him. He's into golf
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After the long jog/walk yesterday. I just walked today. Counting it anyway.
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