October (2016) Running Challenge
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I am of the opinion of getting the mileage buildup as much as possible while you can now. The more big long runs (18 miles or more) you can get in before your race, the better prepared you will be, which means a better experience you will have on race day. Put in the work now so you can enjoy race day. Wait to start the plan now, and you may get stressed out when you actually execute the plan because unforeseen circumstances prevent you from actually following the plan.
That is some serious truth right there. My 1st & 2nd attempts both had 4 runs of 18+, this time I had 4 runs of 20+ and 4 runs of 18 or 19. Shortest Long run of the plan pre-taper was 15, in week 1.2 -
I'm hoping to get in 4 20+ miles in this spring when the weather is nice. That's the number of runs over 20 miles in the 10 week plan I'm looking at, with an additional that 16-20. I'm going to try to get all of my long runs over 12 miles before the end of February, so when I start outside training in March, I can run a lot of 16, 18, 20 mile runs before I even begin "the" training plan.That is some serious truth right there. My 1st & 2nd attempts both had 4 runs of 18+, this time I had 4 runs of 20+ and 4 runs of 18 or 19. Shortest Long run of the plan pre-taper was 15, in week 1.
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WhatMeRunning wrote: »Active recovery today. That means it was a rest day and I didn't run. But I parked on the far side of campus on the 4th level of garage giving a 16 minute walk to my building plus some stairs to my personal cage. Then back out for lunch, back in to work again, then back out again to go home. So I had some cookies.
10/24 - Turtle!
10/25 - Cookies
I like turtles..... and cookies!
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@Stoshew71 Thank you sooo much for taking the time to answer my question! Your 2nd response explains a lot why the beginning of the run is always easy. That's how I feel. And to make pacing more difficult, my neighborhood run usually begins with a short downhill followed by an uphill stretch
Referring to your 1st response, for a reference of discussion, just this past Sunday, I ran 6 miles in ~57 minutes. Prior to that, my best 10k effort is 1hr 1 minute. So, I am close to the 10k-in-an-hour group with LTP ~9:39 min/mile. I often run my easy runs in the pace of around 11~12 min/mile, slower for uphill, and it would somewhat match what the calculators says. Going by feel, this pace would be easy enough, sometimes, even 10:30 would feel easy enough. But if I talk or sing, it would very quickly sound obvious that I am not sitting down. To bring myself to a pace to talk like normal, I probably would need to slow down to 13 min/mile pace, or even slower. Between the calculator based 11 min/mile to the real conversational pace 13+ min/mile difference, every time I go out to run, it is like a mental battle of asking myself if I am slow enough.1 -
10/1: 20 miles
10/2: 4.6 miles (am), 5.4 miles (pm)
10/3: 6 miles with the Coffee Crew
10/4: 5 miles (am), 10 miles (pm)
10/5: 5 miles
10/6: 3.5 miles
10/7: 9.5 miles
10/8: 6 miles with a 5k in the middle
10/9: 4 miles
10/10: Oh my god finally a rest day
10/11: 10 miles
10/12: 6 miles (am), 4.2 miles (pm)
10/13: 8 miles (am), 6.4 miles with the Thursday crew
10/14: Rest day
10/15: 7.3 miles with the Saturday crew
10/16: 2 miles + 13.1 HM
10/17: 3 miles with the Coffee Crew
10/18: 7.5 miles
10/19: 5.7 miles (am), 5 miles (pm)
10/20: Rest (am), 8.1 miles solo + 6.2 miles group (pm)
10/21: Rest day
10/22: 10 miles with the Saturday crew
10/23: 20 miles with friends!
10/24: 6 miles
10/25: 12 miles
This run was supposed to be fun and scenic. Instead it was more like a "please don't hit me with your car!" run on some narrow roads during rush hour, and about 6-7 miles in became a "oh please do not poop yourself!!" run. Managed to not get hit by any cars, and I didn't poop myself, and my pace wasn't awful, all things considered! Definitely will be lounging around quite diligently watching some Netflix tonight though as recovery!
Upcoming Races:
10/8: Coe College Homecoming 5k: 21:26
10/16: Superhero Halloween Half Marathon: 1:42:24
11/20: Philadelphia Marathon (Goal: 3:30 or better)
3/26/17: Philly Love Run HM
5/14/17: Delaware Marathon Running Festival HM
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kristinegift wrote: »
This run was supposed to be fun and scenic. Instead it was more like a "please don't hit me with your car!" run on some narrow roads during rush hour, and about 6-7 miles in became a "oh please do not poop yourself!!" run. Managed to not get hit by any cars, and I didn't poop myself, and my pace wasn't awful, all things considered! Definitely will be lounging around quite diligently watching some Netflix tonight though as recovery!
I actually LOLed at this....I wish I could say I didn't know the feeling.0 -
kristinegift wrote: »
This run was supposed to be fun and scenic. Instead it was more like a "please don't hit me with your car!" run on some narrow roads during rush hour, and about 6-7 miles in became a "oh please do not poop yourself!!" run. Managed to not get hit by any cars, and I didn't poop myself, and my pace wasn't awful, all things considered! Definitely will be lounging around quite diligently watching some Netflix tonight though as recovery!
You know your a runner when you can say in a public forum "I didn't poop myself"!
whew! 
Idk why, but I start singing the please don't poop song. It helps, as long as you don't laugh between crap cramps.1 -
October running
10/01: day off
10/02: 3.5
10/03: 3.5
10/04: day off
10/05: 3.5
10/06: 3.5
10/07: day off
10/08: 3.5
10/09: day off (major rain)
10/10: 3.5
10/11: day off
10/12: 3.5
10/13: 3.5
10/14: day off
10/15: 3.5
10/16: 3.5
10/17: day off
10/18: 2.0
10/19: 3.5
10/20: 3.5
10/21: day off
10/22: 4.25
10/23: 4.25
10/24: day off
10/25: 3.5
Total: 56/60
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@MNLittleFinn & @Elise4270 I think we can all relate to that don't poop feeling! I was definitely mantra-ing it to myself. It's been years since I cried on a run, but I got choked up at mile 10 thinking about running downhill, needing to poop, and yet being so far from a toilet/port-a-potty/anything. Tragedy!4
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October Running Totals (miles)
10/1 – rest day
10/2 – 0.56 test run (big mistake)
10/3 – no running day
10/4 – no running day
10/5 – no running day
10/6 – no running day
10/7 – no running day
10/8 – no running day
10/9 – no running day
10/10 –no running day
10/11 – 0.55 run/walk intervals
10/12 – rest day
10/13 – 0.56 run/walk intervals
10/14 – rest day
10/15 – rest day
10/16 – 0.85 run/walk intervals
10/17 – rest day
10/18 – 0.83 run/walk intervals
10/19 – rest day
10/20 – 1.17 run/walk intervals
10/21 – rest day
10/22 – 1.53 run/walk intervals
10/23 – 1.52 run/walk intervals
10/24 – rest day
10/25 – 1.43 easy
October total to date – 9.00
Nominal Challenge Goal – no stated distance
Real Goal: Return to regular running
Today's notes – At PT today I got a new, more challenging balance exercise. Then she measured how far I can extend the legs to the side, in front, and to the rear. The injured side is one inch less than the uninjured side in each direction. She says that for a severe injury, there could be as much as 5 inches difference.
What I've been doing with running is definitely showing progress. Keep doing it, keep at the PT exercises, lather, rinse, repeat.
No PT for 2 weeks, because she will be on vacation and I declined coming in to see her office partner. If two weeks of doing the exercises on my own and working on transition gets me up to running 3 miles, I will probably cancel that appointment.
After the PT appointment, I went out and ran for 12 minutes continually, no walking intervals. Average pace was 8:23, which was pretty consistent across the run. 12 minutes was about what I could handle today, and I wasn't as beat up as I was after Sunday's 2 x 5 minutes + 1 minute. This is indeed progress.
Got an email from Coach. It's time to decide whether I'm going to Tallahassee for the 2016 USATF National Club Cross Country Championships on December 10. Went to club practice this evening to talk about it; I'm not healthy enough to run 8K right now, but it's quite possible I will be by early December. Coach said I should go. What with schedules and injury, I have never run a cross country race; it should be an interesting experience, assuming I get healthy enough to run it.
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) DNS - recovering from face plant
July 16, 2016 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hamlin, NY) finished in 1:31:11
August 13, 2016 Bergen Road Race 5K (Bergen, NY) finished in 19:07 (5K PR)
September 4, 2016 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY) finished in 1:31:37
September 18, 2016 Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY) DNF a mile from finish
October 15, 2016 Finish Strong 15K (Hilton, NY) DNS – Achilles tendonitis
October 22, 2016 Scare Brain Cancer Away 5K (East Rochester, NY) DNS – Achilles tendonitis
November 24, 2016 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
2017 races:
January 7, 2017 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY)
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)
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Thanks for all the congratulatory messages and "awesomes", lovely people!
Thanks also for the laugh out loud and new phrase, "crap cramps", @Elise4270 ! 1 -
Easy 5k on the treadmill tonight. Passed the 75 mile goal. Let's see how much more I can get before Halloween.
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Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ------- Oct 1 6.2 6.2 Oct 2 6.5 12.7 Oct 4 4.3 17.0 Oct 5 4.3T 21.3 Oct 8 10.1 31.4 Oct 9 4.3T 35.7 Oct 12 4.6T 40.3 Oct 13 5.2T 45.5 Oct 15 6.5 52.0 Oct 16 4.3 56.3 Oct 19 4.3T 60.6 Oct 22 5.3 65.9 Oct 23 11.0 76.9 Oct 25 4.2T 81.1
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Thanks for all the congratulatory messages and "awesomes", lovely people!
Thanks also for the laugh out loud and new phrase, "crap cramps", @Elise4270 !
It's a technical term.5 -
As a person with IBS, I find it amazing that I've only had to poop during a walk or run only once. And it happened to be on my lunch walk, so the bathroom was just in the building. A few other runs, I've had some bad gas and was tooting all the way. I just know one of these days it's going to happen when I'm in the middle of the Prairie Path with no bathroom in sight on a long run.0
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RespectTheKitty wrote: »As a person with IBS, I find it amazing that I've only had to poop during a walk or run only once.
That is amazing! I have IBS too. I plan my runs around porta pottys.0 -
102.46% of goal
01-Oct: 10.17 miles
02-Oct: <Life Day>
03-Oct: 5.96 miles
04-Oct: 10.86 miles - Triple Day (Alan, Team RWB)
05-Oct: 3.40 miles
06-Oct: 8.49 miles - Double Day (Alan)
07-Oct: 5.53 miles
08-Oct: 11.20 miles
09-Oct: <Life Day>
10-Oct: 10.81 miles
11-Oct: 7.57 miles - Double Day (Alan)
12-Oct: 3.37 miles
13-Oct: 7.56 miles - Double Day (Alan)
14-Oct: 5.44 miles
15-Oct: 13.57 miles (Monthly HM Day)
16-Oct: <Life Day>
17-Oct: 5.46 miles
18-Oct: 7.29 miles
19-Oct: 5.55 miles
20-Oct: 7.98 miles
21-Oct: 5.56 miles
22-Oct: 10.48 miles - inc. Race Day (SCARE 5K) - PR!!
23-Oct: <Life Day>
24-Oct: 5.69 miles
25-Oct: 6.88 miles
26-Oct:
27-Oct:
28-Oct:
29-Oct: - Race Day (Jay's Hope 10K)
30-Oct: <Life Day>
31-Oct:
GOAL accomplished. That is all. Even if TickerFactory doesn't show it.
Upcoming Races:
05-Nov: Ridge Run 5K, Macon
12-Nov: FUMC 5K, Warner Robins
03-Dec: Reindeer Run (10K), Macon
26-Dec - 01-Jan: Random running in JAPAN!
14-Jan: Museum of Aviation HM, Warner Robins
04-Mar: Albany/Snickers HM, Albany
25-Mar: Cherry Blossom Road Race 10K, Macon
08-Apr: Running for Ronald 10K/15K, Macon2 -
Official result of the Bloody Long Walk 35 km:
Start Time: 07:21:31 AM
Finish Time: 1:39:15 PM
Total Time: 6h 17m 44s
394th place out of 1718 finishers
312th female out of 1411
49th in my age group out of 250
Pretty happy with that!8 -
You go away.....and you come back to find this group talking about poop and tooting
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