June (2016) Running Challenge
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6/1 - 3 miles
6/2 - zip
6/3 - 5 miles
6/4 - 5 miles (I did 2 miles of intervals with my friend then walked 2 miles with her) after that I ran 3 miles with Skip so I'm going to count 5 miles
6/5 - 5 miles
6/6 - rest
6/7 - 7 miles
6/8 - 5 miles another perfect morning to run!
6/9 - 4 miles loving the weather woohoo!!!
6/10 - rest day rest day I hate rest days but I need to do a long(est) run tomorrow so it's rest day rest day
6/11 - 6 miles 80F at start of run almost 90F when we were done...hot hot hot
6/12 - 5 miles by myself and then 5 miles of intervals with my friend so I'm going to call it 8 miles - another way hot one
6/13 - rest day after running and working over the weekend for 10 hours scrubbing the liner of my pool and shop vac'ing all the water out of the bottom, my body said *kitten* no we are not moving when the alarm went off.
48 of 100 miles
@whatmerunning woohoo for anniversaries that make us not run the next day
@karllundy sorry for the hip pain
@mbaker566 nice new name I see. I love laser tag. Years ago I went with my friends for their son's like 10th birthday and the Dad and I played too. OMG we were out of control, what a blast.
@respectthekitty when I hear knees I tend to automatically think shoes. Did you get fitted at a running store for your runners?
@sweetdianachka great race and super time!
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@Elise4270 Here's another story for you. Saturday I apparently swallowed a gnat trail running. I drank some water - didn't help. Started to cough - didn't help. Then right when I got by another person (hiker) I gagged loudly! LOL A really nasty almost puked gag. I feel like such an impostor when trail running because I'm such a wuss
@skippygirlsmom "Manual labor" does me in every time.
@mbaker566 That definitely sounds like exercise to me!
@RespectTheKitty I don't have any real experience with knee pain but knee damage freaks me out. Take it easy and see a doc if it doesn't clear up quickly. Knees are very importantI didn't hesitate to see the Dr when my left knee bothered me recently, but that was apparently just a strained muscle behind my knee. Other than that my knee was popping a lot lately but I think biking caused it so I quit biking and skipped my midweek run last Tuesday to try and clear that up.
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1/6: 4.5 Miles
3/6: 3.4 Miles
5/6: 3.7 Miles
6/6: 3.4 Miles
8/6: 3.7 Miles
10/6: 5.0 Miles
12/6: 4.2 Miles2 -
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@Stoshew71
Thank you for all the info on GPS (in)accuracy and running tangents, I am learning so much!2 -
It's a rest day and my inlaws gave me $50 as an early Father's Day gift to buy something for running.....what to get????4
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@skippygirlsmom - Ugh! Scrubbing the pool, in what I imagine was brutal heat, does not sound like how I would like to spend Sunday (or any day)!
@MNLittleFinn - If you are only spending the $50, I would get some lightweight/summer socks and maybe something reflective / safety. If you are adding money to it...shoes, always shoes! FWIW3 -
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Where is everyone? Heat, injury, recovery? I'm working... well, at work.
My running days are short. I wanna hear about others pounding it out.2 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »It's a rest day and my inlaws gave me $50 as an early Father's Day gift to buy something for running.....what to get????
@MNlittlefinn I vote socks too, didn't you say recently you needed better socks.
@karllundy yeah it was my fault I emptied it a left a little water on the bottom and then some it of evaporated so some of the yuck from the winter stuck to the bottom and sides. Skip was a huge help though scrubbing away. The upswing to Sunday was a small rain came through just as I was walking out into the yard and the temp dropped over 10 degrees.
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greenolivetree wrote: »@Elise4270 Here's another story for you. Saturday I apparently swallowed a gnat trail running. I drank some water - didn't help. Started to cough - didn't help. Then right when I got by another person (hiker) I gagged loudly! LOL A really nasty almost puked gag. I feel like such an impostor when trail running because I'm such a wuss
Haha! Gnats make me pee.... (coughing and running makes me pee).2 -
WhatMeRunning wrote: »Where is everyone? Heat, injury, recovery? I'm working... well, at work.
My running days are short. I wanna hear about others pounding it out.
Hope your ready for a comeback!
Be 95+ here rest of the week... soul sucking hot.. I feel ya.2 -
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They finally posted the updated map for my HM and I got it loaded into Strava: https://www.strava.com/routes/5060879 Just 3 weeks away now.....the planning of strategy and fine tuning last couple weeks of training has begun4
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pretty confident that I'm coming down with something. husband was sick this weekend
ever feel like there is always something wrong with you. and then i have to take it easy and not run like i'd like.2 -
PoppetsMaster wrote: »Two days with no running... one more tomorrow... Maybe see how the knee feels on Wednesday. Will be at the beach all week so maybe I just skip the running all week and drink at the pool all day...
A good friend of mine who's a long time runner & former competitive marathoner recommends the RICES method for knee injuries (or pretty much any running injury):
Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation
Scotch3 -
PoppetsMaster wrote: »Two days with no running... one more tomorrow... Maybe see how the knee feels on Wednesday. Will be at the beach all week so maybe I just skip the running all week and drink at the pool all day...
A good friend of mine who's a long time runner & former competitive marathoner recommends the RICES method for knee injuries (or pretty much any running injury):
Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation
Scotch
Irish
Canadian
Especially bourbon
Scotch
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@cljoe7... I have been doing some of your RICES, but I have been doing A LOT of @WhatMeRunning's RICES. And that was long before I hurt my knee.5
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My Parkrun on Saturday was a PB. Only by two seconds, but still, a PB is a PB, and it was nearly a minute faster than I've run that course before (it has a few slight hills and is about 60% road, 40% trail) so I'm happy
Give me a flat course and who knows, maybe I have a sub-25 in me soon.
Did my long-run today instead of yesterday because life. Doing a long run after work is horrible, but I did need the stress relief.
I will catch up on everyone's posts tomorrow when I'm at my work computer working pretending to work.
2nd June - 3.53 miles
4th June - 3.41 miles
5th June - 7.12 miles
7th June - 3.33 miles
9th June- unplanned rest day
11th June - 3.56 miles 5km PB 26:09
13th June - 8.52 miles
MTD - 29.47/80 miles
Upcoming races:
18th Sept - Run Reigate Half Marathon
2nd Oct - Tonbridge Half Marathon
30th Oct - River Thames Half Marathon
9th April 2017 - Brighton Marathon5 -
Today's run was not quite as humid as yesterday but definitely HOT. Ran 4.81 miles in 58.5 minutes. I was too hot and tired to run anymore to make it 5 miles and/or 60 minutes even. I lament that the weather back home is 20 degrees cooler than it is here in the midwest currently. It's good training though I guess.
I had put my two water bottles in the freezer over night and was so happy I did. I held one in my hand for a while to melt some and then used them to drink and squirt over my head a few times. The hydration belt still bugs me a little because my arms sometimes bump it, but the water is definitely necessary.
I'm just about at the halfway point for my June mileage goal:
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