October (2016) Running Challenge

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  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,407 Member
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    This was an interesting article and the comments/responses are eye opening. I don't know a women who hasn't experienced this while running or otherwise. It is also across all ages... as old as I am I never expect it and am surprised when it occurs. I actually told off some workers who were making comments in Spanish. They shut up pretty quick when I asked if they would talk that way or put up with anyone who talked that way about their wives or mothers, sisters or daughters. In other situations I have also just ignored the comments and kept on going because you don't know the intent. I have also gone to others on my trail for safety when I have been followed or felt fearful. Please be respectful of everyone and teach the young men in your lives to also be respectful.
    http://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/readers-respond-running-while-female?utm_campaign=10282016&utm_source=RWD11&utm_medium=email&smartcode=YN_0003509274_0001583817
  • OSUbuckeye906
    OSUbuckeye906 Posts: 315 Member
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    So I did end up resting from running today. My shin was hurting me a bit when I woke up and if it's hurting me without even running, I'm taking that as a sign to rest/slow down. I babysat during the day today, which included ~1.5 mile walk roundtrip to the park and many more steps chasing after the little ones, so that definitely counts as my workout for the day. I'm going to attempt a slower 6 miles tomorrow.


    @kristinegift I'm with you on the cold/numb butt season lol! And numb fingers/Raynaud's season started for me already too
    @_nikkiwolf_ Yep, I was a bit crazy and ran them back to back last year. I actually ended up running the much hillier Baltimore 24 minutes faster than Chicago. Chicago was just a horrible race for me due to many different factors, but I learned from it and made sure all of those things were taken care of the next week....worked out pretty well. Good luck on your marathon tomorrow!
    @shanaber Beautiful pic!
    @greenolivetree Yikes!!

  • juliet3455
    juliet3455 Posts: 3,015 Member
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    @MobyCarp Like you I switched the mower and snow blower around. We are lucky if we get week or 2 before the heavy snow hits. All the snow we had earlier has disappeared in town. 10km out of town it is a completely different world - 12-20 cm of snow ( 4.7-8in ) Hopefully my final mow of the year - Actually used the mulching blade to pickup the leaves - much easier than raking and bagging.

    Well today was the Halloween Howler. 10 km through the Cross Country Ski club bush trails - Gun time was at sunset so a Headlamp mandatory event race. I wore 2 Headlamps - one facing back with the Flashing Red Led turned on. It was a lot of fun tracking around all the bush trails in the dark looking for the Yellow and Green Ribbons, Fluorescent Paint Arrows on the Grass/brush along the edge of the Trails.
    Following the glow of other headlamps, wondering why a headlamp was coming towards you ( did I miss a turn ? ) and then it would turn and head away from you ( parallel trails with a short row of brush separating them ). This was a " FUN " Event so not one you really worried about a clock time on-except certain super serious runners- I think they missed out on having a lot of fun. Quite a few costumes especially in the 5km Family Event. Had a few Goblins and Zombies popping out of the shrubs at select points - even a few Trick or Treater's at the AID Stations handing out Jelly Beans, Honey Stinger Waffles, Hot Chocolate (???) and water. Just a lot of fun. Like a Sunday Social run with friends.

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    October Running 140km Goal 160km Stretch
    10/01 – 0.0 km – 0.0 - 140 km – YTD 954.5 km
    10/01 – 6.0 km – 6.0 - 134 km
    10/02 – 1.0 km – 7.0 - 133 km Gimpy Calf
    10/04 – 2.0 km – 9.0 - 131 km Gimpy Calf
    10/06 – 2.0 km – 11.0 - 129 km Gimpy Calf
    10/08 – 6.0 km – 17.0 - 123 km
    10/11 – 10.0 km – 27.0 - 113 km
    10/12 – 10.0 km – 37.0 - 103 km
    10/13 – 5.0 km – 42.0 - 98 km
    10/14 – 6.0 km – 48.0 - 92 km
    10/15 – 8.0 km – 56.0 - 84 km
    10/17 – 11.0 km – 67.0 - 73 km
    10/18 – 5.0 km – 72.0 - 68 km
    10/21 –12.0 km – 84.0 - 56 km
    10/23 –5.5 km – 89.5 – 50.5 km
    10/25 –7.0 km – 96.5 – 43.5 km
    10/29 –10.0 km – 106.5 – 33.5 km – YTD 1061.0 km Halloween Howler

    A short run tomorrow so I will miss Goal - Lost a week due to the Gimpy Calf and a week worth of run days due to travelling for work.
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
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    MobyCarp wrote: »
    After a rest day, I hoped to be able to run 2 miles; 1.82 miles in 15:37 is what the recovering leg was good for.

    @MobyCarp Am I reading this correctly? Are you trying to run a ~7:40 pace on injured legs?

    @Stoshew71 That's a super impressive workout; I've only done it as an isolated speed session, max 10 miles total, never part of a long run! And you nailed it.

    Thank you very much @kristinegift


    Thanks for the clarification on the 11-14 miles @MNLittleFinn LOL
    I think you will have no problem getting into that Marathon Training Plan.
  • greenolivetree
    greenolivetree Posts: 1,282 Member
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    Elise4270 wrote: »
    I also ran smack dab into a tree branch tonight :o:*

    Ouch!

    It wasn't terrible. I felt it hit my forehead and I winced/blinked and it went across my closed left eye. I'm just glad my glasses survived somehow!
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,407 Member
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    @katharmonic - I love that t-shirt!!
  • greenolivetree
    greenolivetree Posts: 1,282 Member
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    shanaber wrote: »
    This was an interesting article and the comments/responses are eye opening. I don't know a women who hasn't experienced this while running or otherwise. It is also across all ages... as old as I am I never expect it and am surprised when it occurs. I actually told off some workers who were making comments in Spanish. They shut up pretty quick when I asked if they would talk that way or put up with anyone who talked that way about their wives or mothers, sisters or daughters. In other situations I have also just ignored the comments and kept on going because you don't know the intent. I have also gone to others on my trail for safety when I have been followed or felt fearful. Please be respectful of everyone and teach the young men in your lives to also be respectful.
    http://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/readers-respond-running-while-female?utm_campaign=10282016&utm_source=RWD11&utm_medium=email&smartcode=YN_0003509274_0001583817

    So far I've just encountered nice people. The closest thing I've had happen was a car came from behind me and seemed to purposely rev their engine to startle me but I couldn't say for sure. Until recently though I was either running trails with other runners or else not seeing anyone at all. Now I'm running with lots of traffic it seems but it's dark and been okay so far. I've been honked at but that's just the owner of the locally owned running shop :)
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
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    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    MobyCarp wrote: »
    After a rest day, I hoped to be able to run 2 miles; 1.82 miles in 15:37 is what the recovering leg was good for.

    @MobyCarp Am I reading this correctly? Are you trying to run a ~7:40 pace on injured legs?

    No, it was an average 8:36 pace per Garmin. The first mile split was 8:43. I was just running easy, trying not to pound things out; and it came out slower than an easy run would if I were healthy. Average HR 123, max 138. Garmin thinks top of Zone 2 is 128; it says 83% of the time I was in Zone 2.

    I think the last time I tried to run a 7:40 pace was at the Rochester Marathon. But yeah, I might benefit if I could learn to run a consistent 9 minute mile without someone else pacing for me. That would probably hold the HR under 120 for much of the run.
  • OSUbuckeye906
    OSUbuckeye906 Posts: 315 Member
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    shanaber wrote: »
    This was an interesting article and the comments/responses are eye opening. I don't know a women who hasn't experienced this while running or otherwise. It is also across all ages... as old as I am I never expect it and am surprised when it occurs. I actually told off some workers who were making comments in Spanish. They shut up pretty quick when I asked if they would talk that way or put up with anyone who talked that way about their wives or mothers, sisters or daughters. In other situations I have also just ignored the comments and kept on going because you don't know the intent. I have also gone to others on my trail for safety when I have been followed or felt fearful. Please be respectful of everyone and teach the young men in your lives to also be respectful.
    http://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/readers-respond-running-while-female?utm_campaign=10282016&utm_source=RWD11&utm_medium=email&smartcode=YN_0003509274_0001583817

    This is really infuriating that many women have to deal with this. Fortunately, I haven't had too many problems as I usually run in either the trail that is usually full of other runners or through the safe neighborhoods near me. I've heard a comment or two but that's about it. The stories about being followed really scares me.

  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
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    MobyCarp wrote: »
    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    MobyCarp wrote: »
    After a rest day, I hoped to be able to run 2 miles; 1.82 miles in 15:37 is what the recovering leg was good for.

    @MobyCarp Am I reading this correctly? Are you trying to run a ~7:40 pace on injured legs?

    No, it was an average 8:36 pace per Garmin. The first mile split was 8:43. I was just running easy, trying not to pound things out; and it came out slower than an easy run would if I were healthy. Average HR 123, max 138. Garmin thinks top of Zone 2 is 128; it says 83% of the time I was in Zone 2.

    I think the last time I tried to run a 7:40 pace was at the Rochester Marathon. But yeah, I might benefit if I could learn to run a consistent 9 minute mile without someone else pacing for me. That would probably hold the HR under 120 for much of the run.

    Oh OK. I calculated that wrong then. LOL
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,407 Member
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    @juliet3455 - your Halloween Howler run sounds like so much fun!
  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
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    October goal...run to earn wine and ice cream

    10/1: core/strength training, 2 mile run and 20 minutes of fancy footwork trying to herd the neighbor's stray cow out of our yard
    10/2 rest
    10/3 slug...never got out of my nightgown and played computer games (it was FABULOUS!)
    10/4 4.10
    10/5 3.11
    10/6 core/strength training
    10/7 rest
    10/8 3.25
    10/9 6.48
    10/10 3.18
    10/11 Snorkel 3 hours
    10/12 4.28
    10/13 core/strength and 2.41
    10/14 rest
    10/15 4.50
    10/16 core/strength and 2.07
    10/17 3.22
    10/18 rest
    10/19 4.30
    10/20 life day
    10/21 snorkel 3.5 hours
    10/22 6.50
    10/23 3.36
    10/24 rest
    10/25 4.48
    10/26 4.79
    10/27 dead battery and stuck at work without running shoes!
    10/28 3.35
    10/29 5.10

    Total 69.48


    Upcoming races:
    Las Vegas RocknRoll 10k 11/13/16

    Ticker is my goal for 2016 and accumulation to date:
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  • emmab0902
    emmab0902 Posts: 2,337 Member
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    Clearly I'm going to fail both goals this month. That's what over a week of travelling and half a week of illness does. Never mind, will get back on track for November.

    Thinking of getting into aquathlons - anyone here do them??

    1 October rest day
    2 October 5km run
    3 October 2.9km swim
    4 October 5km run
    5 October 2.4km swim
    6 October 3.2km run
    7 October rest day
    8 October 2.4km swim
    9-12 October rest days/travelling
    13 October 1.1km swim
    14 October 1.25km swim
    15 October rest day
    16 October rest day
    17 October rest day
    18 October 2.9km swim
    19 October 2.6km swim
    20 October 5km run
    21 October rest day
    22 October 2.8km swim
    23 October sick
    24 October sick
    25 October sick
    26 October sick
    27 October 2.2km swim
    28 October 10.6km run
    29 October 2.5km swim
    30 October 4km run

    Running total 32.8km
    Swimming total 23.05km

    Running goal 40km
    Swimming goal 40km
  • louubelle16
    louubelle16 Posts: 579 Member
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    shanaber wrote: »
    This was an interesting article and the comments/responses are eye opening. I don't know a women who hasn't experienced this while running or otherwise. It is also across all ages... as old as I am I never expect it and am surprised when it occurs. I actually told off some workers who were making comments in Spanish. They shut up pretty quick when I asked if they would talk that way or put up with anyone who talked that way about their wives or mothers, sisters or daughters. In other situations I have also just ignored the comments and kept on going because you don't know the intent. I have also gone to others on my trail for safety when I have been followed or felt fearful. Please be respectful of everyone and teach the young men in your lives to also be respectful.
    http://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/readers-respond-running-while-female?utm_campaign=10282016&utm_source=RWD11&utm_medium=email&smartcode=YN_0003509274_0001583817

    Some of these stories are really quite scary. I get cars/vans beeping at me a lot, which in the dark scares the living daylights out of me, but that's about it. I actually wear a hoodie/jumper tied round my waist because that seems to stop most of it if I don't have my bum on show. Only once did a van full of guys turn round to come back and shout at me again but I reported them to the company they were driving for and, fortunately, the manager I spoke to had 3 teenage girls so he was SERIOUSLY angry.

    I guess all those decisions that we make as women, e.g. not to run certain places at certain times on our own because it's not safe, isn't really something I've thought about before. I do all those things too because I want to stay safe, but the fact that men don't need to do that and that they therefore have so much more freedom wasn't something that really hit home until I read that. It's a rubbish world we live in really. This is 2016, how is this still a thing? :(
  • AdrianChr92
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    Checking in for the end of the month. Hadn't had much time to stay on the internets these weeks so I wasn;'t really active. Will try to catch up next month.

    Date.......Distance.......Type........How my legs are feeling

    October 1 - 5.9 km - Easy - Niggle in left IT band
    October 2 - 11.9km - Easy - Calves a little tight, fine after warm-up
    October 3 - rest
    October 4 - 6.7 km - Tempo - Fine, no pains
    October 5 - 6.2 km - Easy - Fine, taper fine, wanna go fast
    October 6 - 7.0 km - Easy - Very fine
    October 7 - 5.0 km - Easy - Springy, rested legs
    October 8 - 5.0 km - Easy - Ready to race
    October 9 - 21.1km - Race - Dead legs are dead
    October 10- rest
    October 11- rest
    October 12- rest
    October 13- rest
    October 14- rest
    October 15- rest
    October 16- rest
    October 17- 6.1 km - Easy - Tight calves
    October 18- 8.0 km - Easy - Tight calves AND tight IT band, probably DOMS
    October 19- 7.5 km - Easy+ST - I was right, it's just DOMS
    October 20- 6.0 km - Easy+Drills
    October 21- 7.2 km - Easy+ST
    October 22- 8.0 km - Easy and 1000 m trial (3:10,6)
    October 23- 10.3km - Easy+Drills
    October 24- rest (xt)
    October 25- 11.5km - Easy+ST
    October 26- 7.1 km - Easy
    October 27- 11.0km - Easy+ST
    October 28- 10.0km - Easy
    October 29- 5.8 km - Easy
    October 30- 18.3km - Long Run

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    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) 48:28
    18/09: Baneasa Trail Run (10.5k) 49:12
    09/10: Bucharest International Marathon (Half Debut) 1:31:53
  • DresdenSinn
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  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
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    Rest day here today and boy did I need it. I slept in until 0730, and I almost never do that! Cutback week this week, so I'll be starting g November on a low mileage week. After that it's a jump to 40 mile weeks!