August (2016) Running Challenge
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81.14% of goal
01-Aug: 5.11 miles
02-Aug: 5.38 miles
03-Aug: 5.57 miles - Daily Double
04-Aug: 8.41 miles - Daily Double
05-Aug: 5.69 miles
06-Aug: 5.08 miles
07-Aug: <Life Day>
08-Aug: 5.60 miles
09-Aug: 7.35 miles - Daily Double
10-Aug: 3.40 miles
11-Aug: 6.87 miles
12-Aug: 7.29 miles - Daily Double
13-Aug: 8.68 miles
14-Aug: <Life Day>
15-Aug: 8.80 miles
16-Aug: 8.16 miles - Daily Double
17-Aug: 5.52 miles
18-Aug: 7.08 miles - Daily Double
19-Aug: 5.02 miles
20-Aug: 4.59 miles - Dreadmill
21-Aug: <Life Day>
22-Aug:
23-Aug:
24-Aug:
25-Aug:
26-Aug:
27-Aug:
28-Aug: <Life Day>
29-Aug:
30-Aug:
31-Aug:
Upcoming Races:
27-Aug: John 316 Cancer Awareness 5K, Lizella
05-Sep: Labor Day Road Race 10K
10-Sep: Glazin' a Trail Donut Run 5K, Centerville
17-Sep: Joshua's Wish 5K, Macon OR
Race for Education 5K, Warner Robins
24-Sep: Georgia Golden Olympics 5K
01-Oct: Terry's Run 5K, Eastman
22-Oct: S.C.A.R.E. 5K, Macon
05-Nov: Ridge Run 5K, Macon
12-Nov: FUMC 5K, Warner Robins
25-Mar: Cherry Blossom Road Race 10K, Macon
08-Apr: Running for Ronald 10K/15K, Macon
Didn't feel it (again). I think I'm just flippin' tired of the heat/humidity. Or maybe I just needed another rest day. Or something. Anyway, I turned off the alarm this morning, and got up slowly around 9:30. Lazed around a bit, and when SWMBO went to work at school, I went to the gym. Did an hour on the dreadmill, then my arms circuit. Tomorrow is a real rest day. And the forecast is for lows in the low 70s to high 60s overnight for the next week or so. I'm gonna push thru this malaise, and enjoy this running life again.1 -
One thing through mud run reminded me of today: I've been neglecting my upper body. Looks like I might have to start a morning run evening lift/kettle bell schedule after my September HM. Hard part will be finding a balance where I don't lose too much cardiovascular0
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8/1 .......... Rest
8/2 .....5
8/3 .....3.1
8/4 ...13.7
8/5 .....2.2
8/6 .....3.1
8/7 .......... Hiked 5+ miles
8/8 .......... Rest
8/9 .....8.1
8/10 ........ Skipped...
8/11 .10...
8/12 ........ Skipped...
8/13 ...2.4
8/14 ........ Rest
8/15 ...6.2
8/16 ........ Rest
8/17 ...3.8
8/18 ...3.2
Total according to Strava: 64
Decided to take this "warm-up" run before tomorrow's half marathon. I chose to do a shorter and flat path. I am getting very excited, anxious, nervous, restless about tomorrow's race
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Good luck tomorrow @mom3over40! Have fun and let us know how it goes.0
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@_nikkiwolf_ I've heard that most US marathon training programs top out at 20 miles, and most European programs top out at 30 km. It seems the science of how much less than a full marathon to run in training is imprecise, and each side of the pond picked a nice round number. I've done programs where the longest run is 22 miles (~35 km) mostly because those are the programs I found that have human coach support. Whatever works for the trainee is good.
Is your watch a Garmin? If so, you might want to contact customer support. They replaced my Garmin 640 when the battery started failing on 13-15 mile runs, even though it was out of warranty. I paid the cost of shipping the old watch to them, and got free shipping (in the US) back because I wasn't in a hurry. I *was* in a hurry to have a working watch, so I bought a 630 locally at full retail price (ouch!) to have it when I needed a watch; but now I have the replacement 620 as a backup if something happens to my 630.
@MNLittleFinn - You might not need to spend a lot of time on upper body. I do 3 sets of pull-ups and 3 sets of push-ups every morning, but am not consistent with other upper body strength training. I get a bit of core work out of the pull-ups and push-ups, and my arms don't go totally weak on me. Over time, the number of reps has increased. Vanity has me doing half as many pull-ups as push-ups, and push-ups greater than my age. A set of 68 push-ups takes a bit over a minute; a set of 34 pull-ups takes less than a minute. Having a pull-up bar in a convenient location at home is crucial; otherwise, I never would have advanced from being able to do 2 pull-ups to being able to do a more substantial set.2 -
August goal.....run
8/1 3.12....and I struggled through that!
8/2 snorkel 4 hours
8/3 life
8/4 more life
8/5 3.15
8/6 4.00
8/7 lazy (can't blame life) (however, I DID mow the 2 acres and muck out the chicken coop, so I wasn't a complete slug....)
8/8 5.83
8/9 snorkel 3 hours
8/10 3.2
8/11 snorkel 2 hours
8/12 3.30
8/13 3.57
8/14 rest
8/15 4.10
8/16 couldn't
8/17 5.87
8/18 3.20
8/19 rest
8/20 7.50...mucked the chicken coop....racked the new batch of mango wine......baked bread......
Total 46.84
Upcoming races:
SHEPower Virtual Half: July 18
Las Vegas RocknRoll Virtual 5k runs--making the band
......Guitar Solo 6/28 3.85
......Drum Solo 7/21
......Lead Singer 8/20
Las Vegas RocknRoll Half 11/13/16
Ticker is my goal for 2016 and accumulation to date:
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2 August – 10.1 km
4 August – Body Balance then 13 km
6 August – 8.1 km including parkrun
7 August – 21.3 km
9 August – 10.3 km
11 August – 10.1 km
13 August – 8.3 km including parkrun
14 August – 15 km
16 August – 12 km
17 August – 10 km
18 August – 10 km
20 August – 10.7 km including parkrun
21 August – 12 km
Goal: 161 km / 100 miles
Total: 150.9 km / 93.8 miles
12 km this morning in some light rain. So close to my goal and medal!
Really tempted to go back out again this afternoon and do the final 9 km.
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Rest day tomorrow!1 -
Spent part of the day in the urgent care, having my right knee x-rayed. The good news is no fracture or dislocation...the doc thought that it was a contusion and that it would be better in about a week ...if I kept it elevated, wrapped, iced and took Ibuprofen or Aleeve. It was extremely painful most of the afternoon but improved significantly this evening. So the plan is not to run until next Friday...it should be better by then. I calculated how many days left in August and realized that I probably won't make goal.
@_nikkiwolf_ Thanks for the advice. Amazing accomplishment at running 30 km....I think that running in that much humidity is worse than extreme heat.
@katharmonic Congratulations on your 5K pr! I love your narrative...I felt like I could visualize the whole race.
@Orphia About 10 or 15 pages ago or so, you asked about Prednisone and maintenance weight. I am actually at my maintenance weight, but was taking Prednisone for poison ivy rash that was on my face and throat as well as my arms...it has to be tapered. It helps decrease the symptoms of a rash but the side effects are increased energy and restlessness and lack of sleep. At the end of the taper, I got pretty irritable and my husband's cheerfulness was really getting on my nerves.
Awaiting watching the men's marathon tomorrow. Meb K. was at our expo but I was too shy to meet him.1 -
@Orphia About 10 or 15 pages ago or so, you asked about Prednisone and maintenance weight. I am actually at my maintenance weight, but was taking Prednisone for poison ivy rash that was on my face and throat as well as my arms...it has to be tapered. It helps decrease the symptoms of a rash but the side effects are increased energy and restlessness and lack of sleep. At the end of the taper, I got pretty irritable and my husband's cheerfulness was really getting on my nerves.
Sorry, couldn't have been me, I don't know what Prednisone is, and we don't get poison ivy here in Australia. I do recall someone having poison ivy rash, though, so I'm sure they'll be grateful for your thoughts.
Sorry to hear about your rash and side effects. Hope you're OK now.Awaiting watching the men's marathon tomorrow. Meb K. was at our expo but I was too shy to meet him.
That would have been cool.
It's on so late at night here! I want to see it, but after getting 4 hours sleep due to tuning in to the women's marathon last week, I'm a bit wary.
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Hi guys! I basically disappeared from the July challenge and never came back. XD I was ill for a while and was struggling to even keep my MA thesis going, so I basically dropped off the face of the earth and the internet. I haven't been running either. I'm trying to get back to it now, but I'll have to start from the beginning. Got nine minutes of running in this morning (1.2 km) before deciding that that was enough for today. Oh well. I'm looking forward to autumn and cool mornings. 5
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Hi guys! I basically disappeared from the July challenge and never came back. XD I was ill for a while and was struggling to even keep my MA thesis going, so I basically dropped off the face of the earth and the internet. I haven't been running either. I'm trying to get back to it now, but I'll have to start from the beginning. Got nine minutes of running in this morning (1.2 km) before deciding that that was enough for today. Oh well. I'm looking forward to autumn and cool mornings.
@pthyay Yay for you! Kudos for your studying, MA no less, and bravo for getting back into running. Wise not to push it too far on your first day back.
Don't worry if you can't keep up with the pace in these threads. The important thing is you're hanging in there. Best wishes.1 -
@_nikkiwolf_ Congrats on the PR. I did a distance PR today too but it's only a measly 19km Also that nun had 8 years to train before her first Ironman. No hurry
Date.....Distance..Type/min/km
August 1 - 6.6 km - V.Easy/7:00
August 2 - 7.4 km - Reps/4:00
August 3 - 7.6 km - V.Easy/6:50
August 4 - 6.4 km - Easy/6:15
August 5 - 12+4km - Tempo&Reps and Easy/4:50
August 6 - 5.0 km - Easy/6:05
August 7 - 10.4km - Long(ish)Run/6:17
August 8 - 3.6 km - Easy/6:00
August 9 - 6.0 km - Easy/6:07
August 10- 10.2km - Speedwork/4:20
August 11- 6.0 km - Tempo/4:45
August 12- 8.0 km - Easy/5:55
August 13- 9.4 km - Easy/6:30
August 14- 12.8km - Long run/6:00
August 15- Rest
August 16- 11.0km - Time trial/3:59
August 17- 8.0 km - Easy/5:50
August 18- 8.0 km - Easy/5:50
August 19- 11.8km - Tempo/4:20
August 20- 7.0 km - V.Easy/6:30
August 21- 19.0km - Long Run/6:20
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 21:57
22/07: Bucharest After9Cross 9.5k 49:03
28/08: Fox Trail Half Marathon (10k)
18/09: Baneasa Trail Run (10k)
25/09: Black Sea 10k
09/10: Bucharest International Marathon (Half Debut)3 -
August
2Aug - 7m
4Aug - 8m
6Aug - 5m
7Aug - 6.4m
9Aug - 4.8m
11Aug - 7m
13Aug - 8m
14Aug - 6.2m
17Aug - 5m
18Aug - 6.2m
20Aug - 6.9m
21Aug - 6.4m
77.1/100miles
Let's felt great during first half of run today, took some mean hills to wear them out but still I keep being just slower than my PB. Grrrr when are all these miles and speed sessions going to make me quicker? 6 weeks to my 10k with a 2 week holiday in heat and humidity (not to mention the inevitable poor eating and alcohol choices) returning 1 week before the race. Any ideas what I am might be doing wrong?
I also think my iPhone is over reporting distance slightly which makes it worse. Moan over - men's marathon time.
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3rd August - 7km
4th August - 12km
8th - 5km
10th - 5.5km
11th - 3?km aprox.
13th - 5km
14th - 2km It turned into a walk when it got too steep and then my mum called me, so I never got to finish my run
15th - 5km
16th - 7km
18th - 14km trail marking day!
20th - 8km race! 49 mins by my Garmin
Went and helped set up for the trail run and some people I was working with convinced me to stick around and do the race (the long trails were on today) and it was really good! Even got a sweet little medal
71.5/100km2 -
Rest day here today. Glad of it, my butt is still hurting from the rock that attacked it yesterday.2
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Hope it's not hurting you to sit down on a rest dayMNLittleFinn wrote: »Rest day here today. Glad of it, my butt is still hurting from the rock that attacked it yesterday.
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Eliud Kipchoge is a BEAST3
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8/1 - 6 miles
8/2 - 6 miles
8/3 - rest day
8/4 - 6 miles
8/5 - 6 miles
8/6 - rest day - went to a race with Skip
8/7 - 10 miles
8/8 - unscheduled rest day
8/9 - 6 miles
8/10 - 6 miles
8/11 - 6 miles in and out of the misty rain - so nice!
8/12 - 3 miles
8/13 - rest day
8/14 - 10 miles
8/15 - rest day Skip had an early dentist appt
8/16 - 6 miles
8/17 - 6 miles
8/18 - 5 miles
8/19 - rest
8/20 - 10 miles
8/21 - 3 miles - recovery run
95 out of 110 miles
Great marathon for the US men!!! Gold time was almost 3 mins faster than my HM PR. ha ha love it!!
Look at Rupp ordering a pizza from the finish line!
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RespectTheKitty wrote: »Eliud Kipchoge is a BEAST
Pretty sure they said his 5k time was 12:46. My husband said that can't be right! Haha! Idk man, sure that's what they said.
Rupp did well! Whoo hoo!0 -
ha ha the announcer needed sub titles to interview Kipchoge1
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Rest day for me...
much needed. Anybody want 3 kids under 6 for a few hours? 1 -
@skippygirlsmom LOL! I missed the interview and the pizza call. US rocks! (Except for our embarrising swim team). US runners rock!
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8/21 Long run 8.56 miles
So tired this morning, but the wanted to get the long run in before it rained all day. It was humid but cooler with a nice breeze every so often. My friend and I chose a trail we hadn't done before and it was nice to have some new scenery and a buddy to chat with during the 1:45 run. We re-hashed our 5k from yesterday and talked a lot about our upcoming half marathon in October.
I ended the week with 23 miles, so didn't quite make my goal of 25. Still pretty good on the August goal though as I'm at 75%.
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@skippygirlsmom LOL! I missed the interview and the pizza call. US rocks! (Except for our embarrising swim team). US runners rock!
@elise4270 Rupp was on the phone after he finished, from his face it didn't look like he was talking to family.
When they interviewed Kipchoge he was so hard to understand that the guy interviewing him asked him to repeat something but when he said it again he still didn't catch it and moved on.1 -
Long run this morning. I'm getting better at getting myself up early to get out on these runs, I was at my run location by 7:30am. Humidity was around 80% but the temperature was quite a bit cooler than the last couple weekends and there was a fabulous breeze! I was adding a mile to my distance, to hit 11 miles, so I went to my flat place. 3.66 laps around Rockland Lake gets me to 11 miles, lol. I really paid attention to my pace/hr to make sure I was keeping it easy, and I was very pleased that for that final mile I was able to crank up the pace and make it the fastest mile of my run, gives me lots of hope for being able to run even further! I'm also hoping to finish my half marathon on 9/25 in under 2 1/2 hours and I think that's looking super doable!
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Big biking weekend. We are ramping up the miles for a 100 mile ride on Sept 11th. But if it's too hot, I'll just go 63.
Ready for a recovery run tomorrow morning!
@ereck44 - oh my gosh - that’s awful about the fall on the ladder. Hope it is better!
@orphia - wow I love that James Fell quote. I need to read that every few months or weeks, or days!
@_nikkiwolf_ - lol that’s hilarious (the picture). Awesome run!!! 30KM!
@katharmonic - great job with the 5K!
@mnlittlefinn - Oh my goodness. - what a run - up hill! But downhill can even be worse sometimes!
8/1 - 5.1 miles
8/2 - 4.6 miles with intervals
8/3 - 4.6 miles + Strength Training
8/4 - 5.67 miles
8/5 - 5.1 miles + Strength Training
8/6 - 43 miles biking
8/7 - 30 miles biking
8/8 - 3.1 miles
8/9 - 18 miles biking
8/10 - strength training
8/11 - 5.2 miles
8/12 - 5.3 miles + strength training
8/13 - 44 miles biking
8/14 - 44 miles biking
8/15 - 4.25 miles
8/16 - 4.6 miles w/Intervals
8/17 - strength training
8/18 - 4.5 miles
8/19 - 5 miles w/ intervals
8/20 - 44 miles biking
8/21 - 58 miles biking
Upcoming races
2/5/17 - Daytona Beach HM
2/26/17 - Disney Princess HM Orlando1
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