December 2016 Running Challenge
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Purdue (B1G) grad here living in Alabama. lol Rooting for the Buckeyes!!!!!
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patrikc333 wrote: »Hi guys, do you have a particular type of gloves to suggest? I tried many different ones, but my hands freeze super easilly even at 3-4C and before investing more money I thought to ask for an advice.
I get a lot of use out of plain, cheap work gloves like these. When it gets single digit (F) cold, I can wear a tighter fitting pair of knit gloves inside a pair of these. They're not the most stylish, but if you lose one you're not going to be upset about it. They're great as throwaways on race days too.
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12/1- 7.04
12/2- 4.01
12/3- 10.01
12/4- REST
12/5- 5.32
12/6- 5.01
12/7- 3.01
Total: 34.4
Nominal mileage goal: 100 miles
Real goal, get into the swing of Marathon training, and get used to doing 3 days a week of some strength/core while running 35+ MPW
Today's notes: 3.01 miles running. Ran it on the treadmill because I was going to be in the gym for my XT anyway. Today was Burpee Death Drop day. Just a reminder, it looked like this:
5 burpees -> 10 inch worm
5 burpees -> 20 jumping jacks
5 burpees -> 30 push ups
5 burpees -> 40 squats
5 burpees -> 50 high kicks (per leg)
5 burpees -> 60 calf raises
5 burpees -> 70 starter jumps
5 burpees -> 80 skaters
5 burpees -> 90 push jacks
5 burpees -> 100 skaters
5 burpees -> 100 skaters
5 burpees -> 90 push jacks
5 burpees -> 80 skaters
5 burpees -> 70 starter jumps
5 burpees -> 60 calf raises
5 burpees -> 50 high kicks (per leg)
5 burpees -> 40 squats
5 burpees -> 30 push ups
5 burpees -> 20 jumping jacks
5 burpees -> 10 inch worm
You know this was killer for me when the Burpees became one of the easier things for me at the end. I think it took me like 45-50 minutes to complete this, and I was just trashed at the end. That said, no hip problems and no soreness now, but I have a feeling that DOMS could be really "fun" tomorrow.3 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »I just realized that today is my Runniversary, or, at least the day of the run I count as it. A year ago today, I ran my first sub-33 5k, and averaged 10:00/mile for the full 3.24mi run, despite actually running intervals of running and walking. Since then, I've run 2 half marathons, 2 5ks (incliding a 23:322 PB), a 10k, over 1000 miles, and signed and began training for my first Marathon. A year ago, I NEVER would have thought I would have done that.
HAPPY RUNNIVERSARY!!!! I am so sorry, I am trying to catch up everyone!!!!
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12/1 - 4 - lazy
12/5 - 3 miles
12/6 - I'm a baby 0
12/7 - 3 miles
6 out of 100 miles
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Strandbergm wrote: »Hi everyone,
I'm new to the thread. I just got my treadmill today so I don't need to shut down my running over the winter this year!
I'll set a fairly arbitrary goal of 50 miles for December. So far I'm at 5.1
I'm curious how often everyone replaces their sneakers? Is it by mileage, time, wear? Does running on a treadmill help them last longer?
Good luck to everyone!
Good question.
To start, I have multiple pairs that I rotate through during the week. And they are all in varied states or closeness to retirement on purpose. Some only have a few miles, some have a midlife amount of mileage, and some are ready to be retired. My longer runs I prefer to use my newer shoes while I use my older shoes for my shorter easier runs.
On average, shoes should last between 300-500 miles. That depends on the brand and shoe type, your body make up (heavier people wear shoes faster), the care you give them, and your running style. I normally will retire them if they get near 500. Some I have to retire a bit short because they just no longer feel right. Others I notice will continue to feel good well beyond 500 miles. I think my longest lasting shoe was slightly above 600 miles before I retired them.
One more thing to add, I am not the type of person that has a very selective brand or style. They are all different, because I am cheap and try to find deals. I do prefer New Balance and Asics though. I notice that with all the different brands and styles I wear, my feet have gotten used to running in a large array of shoes. Change in foot drop or cushion does not effect me like most other people because of that.
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December goal: 100 miles
12/1: 3.25 miles
12/2: 2.75 miles
12/3: 3.15 miles (m)
12/4: Rest Day
12/5: 5 miles (2 + 3) (treadmill)
12/6: 4 miles (m)
12/7: 4 miles
My Total/December: 22.15 miles
Mike's Total: 7.15 miles
Monday morning the rain forced me to run the treadmill. I managed to slug through 5 miles in two sessions. I really have to get some rain gear. Winter in Houston is very rainy and I don't want to spend half of it inside. I really think I just need a decent lightweight, waterproof jacket and a hat. I might also need a second pair of running shoes so I can alternate when one is wet.
The last two days we took a different route and ran down by the lake. It is a nice run and Fergus seems to enjoy watching the water fowl as we go by. It is not a loop, so I go out a couple of miles and then turn around and come back. My other route is a 5 mile loop which I do prefer, but this one only has one street to cross and fewer schools to pass. It is a nice change of scenery and I will probably start alternating routes.
It has been a busy couple of days and I see I have missed over 200 posts! GOod grief! I have to make sure I check in here every day so I don't get behind like this! Going to try to catch up on comments. So sorry if I missed something!
@9voice9 Nice job on your Reindeer Run!
@loyalloo, @showjumper, @Strandbergm, @accn1, @sandsarita, @angmarie28 and any other new folks - Welcome!
@ariceroni Glad your recovery is going well.
@BeeerRunner, @alipsie19 & @garygse Look at all you DFW folks. I guess I picked the wrong Texas city when I moved here! LOL!
@greenolivetree Not sure about your watch's GPS. My watch uses my phone's GPS though and I carry my phone in a pocket or zippered pouch usually which doesn't seem to interfere with the GPS too much. I lose the connection once in a while, but it is rare.
@Orphia Nice going on your half!
@Calvin2008Brian & @shanaber A little late - Happy birthday!
@7lenny7 Those donuts look delicious! Hope you enjoyed 'em. Kody looks like he wanted one, too!
@Virkati I hope your interview went well!
@RespectTheKitty I am with you on Chicago having some of the worst drivers. I drive the way that I drive because I learned in Chicago looking out for all the crazy drivers on the road! I remember the first few days of snowfall were always the worst; everyone forgot how to drive it in from the previous year! Also, I'll second what others have said on depression. Share away. We are here for you.
@MNLittleFinn Congrats on the Runniversary! You are rocking it!
@ddmom0811 Be careful out there! Glad you are ok and nice going getting back out there and finishing your run!
@katharmonic Great Santa pic! Seriously, are you SURE we're the same age? LOL
@OSUbuckeye906 Re: Sports - For the pro teams I am a Chicago girl all the way - Cubs, Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls! If I followed college sports (which I really don't) I would probably be an OSU fan even though I went to Purdue. My dad has always been a big Buckeye fan and at least a little of it rubbed off!
Have a fabulous rest of the day everyone!
Completed Races:
12/3 Snowball Run 5K, Kingwood TX (35:34.2) *PR
Upcoming Races:
1/22 Choco Loco 10K, Houston, TX
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@ddmom0811 - Ouch! Hope it is just skinned hands / knees.
@accn1 - Hmmm...don't remember when I first started here. I think August or September 2014. @davemunger was organizing it and @stoshew71 was in it. So at least 26 months. I ebb and flow a little. It is a wonderful "place"!
Yup, I miss Dave's group.
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Would it be insane if I attempted to run a mile indoors, not on a treadmill (because I don't have one). Geez, I really don't want to go outside today! I just don't. It's sooooo dreary, 36F but feels like 28F with 10mph wind. Aargh!3
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Date Miles today - Miles for December
12/1 6 miles - 6
12/2 4 miles - 10
12/3 12 miles - 22
12/4 REST DAY
12/5 5 miles - 27
12/6 4 miles - 31
12/7 REST DAY
Upcoming races:
UAH 8K - 3/6 <<< 34:33 3 in AG
Oak Barrel HM - 4/2 <<<< 1:38:00 3 in AG
Bridge Street HM - 4/10 <<< 1:36:33 3 in AG
PEO-AVN Team Day 5K - 5/4 <<< 19:10 (2.9 mi) 1 in AG 5 OA
Cotton Row Run 10K - 5/30 << 44:57 PR
Firecracker Chase 10.2 miler 6/25 << 1:20:22 1 in AG & 15 OA
Huntsville Half Marathon - 11/12 << 1:35:55 2 in AG & 25 OA
Rocket City Marathon - 12/10
So today is the start of my carb load. 285 grams of carbs out of 760 down so far.
Tracking it via my food library. I haven't logged food on here since I maintained except during carb load days.
Sorry that I have been delinquent last few days. A lot going on. Not too bore you with any of that, I am 3 days away from RCM. Starting to get real. I think I am caught up on everyone's posts. Sorry that I didn't reply to all, but I scanned through most of it.
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@MNLittleFinn That's why I don't think I'd do well with a coach. To me, 10:20 and 10:40 are essentially the same. Happy Runniversary, BTW! You're kickin' kitten!!MNLittleFinn wrote: »My Running coach/Aunt just told me to slow down. She wants me running 10:40 pace on my long runs, the 10:20 I ran on Saturday was faster than she wants.....ugh...I know it's good having a trainer, but man, I'm going to have to get used to running slower and having someone call me on it when I go too fast.patrikc333 wrote: »Hi guys, do you have a particular type of gloves to suggest? I tried many different ones, but my hands freeze super easilly even at 3-4C and before investing more money I thought to ask for an advice.
@patrikc333 I think it's such an individual thing that it'd be hard to make a suggestion. I have 3 different pair of different weights, the thickest being a pair of touchscreen compatible gloves I bought at Costco this year. If it gets too cold or windy for those, I switch to mittens, my favorite being a pair of "glommits" which make it easy to regulate the heat, particularly when storing a chemical hand warmer in the finger portion of the mitt. So I guess my suggestion is to get 2 or 3 pair of different weight gloves as well as a pair of mittens.
My Costco gloves:
@Stoshew71 enjoy the carbo load! What types of foods are you using for that?
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@Stoshew71 I don't think I realized that your marathon is this weekend. Best of luck! I think I speak for all of us when I say that I'm sure you will crush it!0
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I believe my diary is open.
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Last night Kody & I got out for a 5.4 mile run. I'm happy to report that my new wind briefs did the job! It was 16F actual, 2F wind chill, with winds gusting to 32mph so not the best conditions. I don't mind cold at all but the wind gets a bit annoying.
Kody was a bit annoying too. We stopped at the park half a block away so he could take care of business. Evidently he was constipated and I must have waited for him to finish for 3 or 4 minutes. That wind was quickly taking my heat away. I finally started jogging up and down the sidewalk while I waited, trying to warm up but by then it was too late. He finally finished but my finger tips and ears lobes were already numb. I ran about a quarter mile hoping it would warm me up but gave up, went home, got a pair of glommits and a thin face mask and went back out. Once I finally did get warmed up it was very comfortable.
Looking ahead to next week, I see a day where I might be running in -5F temps, -20F wind chill. I may adjust my schedule if the wind is really going to be that strong.
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@greenolivetree Depends on whether you live in a huge mansion or an apartment, I guess. I know I'd go insane trying to run a mile between bathroom and kitchen and back. Lets say you could run 10m without turning (and I'm not sure I could), you'd have to do that more than 160 timesgreenolivetree wrote: »Would it be insane if I attempted to run a mile indoors, not on a treadmill (because I don't have one). Geez, I really don't want to go outside today! I just don't. It's sooooo dreary, 36F but feels like 28F with 10mph wind. Aargh!
Maybe this is a little motivation for running in the cold?
Well, some are motivating, and the others are funny-but-true
As it happens, I just spent the last half hour looking for those kind of pictures, because my hands were frozen from the bike ride home after work. My gloves (Gore Running Mythos Windstopper) are fine for running, but the bike is another story... So I was looking for an excuse to do something inside - I really needed to warm up a little before I can go out again for a run!
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@patrikc333 I like warm hands so I went with some Burtons0
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@OSUbuckeye906 - good job girl! We have a kitty in my complex who I swear waits for me to get home from the gym every night. My neighbor actually told me where his key is so I can let her in.
@OSUbuckeye906, @lporter229, @Stoshew71 - yes it would have been cool to have 2 Big 10 teams in, but hey I'll take 4 in the top 10 any year! Go Buckeyes!
@ariceroni - good luck on your finals!!
@9voice9 - running in Japan is as fun as it is in Germany; you get to run with the smell of all the food cooking in the air...and Japan in the winter is beautiful!
@jodilynnsanders5104 - looks like recovery is going well
@BeeerRunner - how's Chicago?
@MNLittleFinn, @Orphia - happy runnversary!
@ddmom0811 - way to gut it out!
@greenolivetree - that would be a ton of laps around the coffee table!
@Stoshew71 - good luck this weekend!
Quite sure I forgot something and/or someone. Please don't feel offended. Love reading y'alls posts and often just get so caught up in them I forget to make notes.
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greenolivetree wrote: »Would it be insane if I attempted to run a mile indoors, not on a treadmill (because I don't have one). Geez, I really don't want to go outside today! I just don't. It's sooooo dreary, 36F but feels like 28F with 10mph wind. Aargh!
@greenolivetree I'd love to see that route on your Garmin.1 -
greenolivetree wrote: »Would it be insane if I attempted to run a mile indoors, not on a treadmill (because I don't have one). Geez, I really don't want to go outside today! I just don't. It's sooooo dreary, 36F but feels like 28F with 10mph wind. Aargh!
I once tried to run in my backyard. I don't remember why. But it sucked. I ended up doing sprints and only getting like .83 in before I gave up.1 -
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Well I clicked treadmill run on my vivoactive so as to not confuse GPS indoors, but basically it was 20 laps from one side of my office building to the other, round-trip. So not a circle. And not a straight line. I had to turn left/right/left one way and then reverse it going back. I walk a mile in my building frequently so it actually wasn't bad because it went faster! I usually don't mind cold but the dreary gets me.2 -
@greenolivetree - Hahahaha! You burned a shot of Jack! Glad you reversed, so as to avoid repetitive stress injury
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lissadecker wrote: »@OSUbuckeye906 Re: Sports - For the pro teams I am a Chicago girl all the way - Cubs, Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls! If I followed college sports (which I really don't) I would probably be an OSU fan even though I went to Purdue. My dad has always been a big Buckeye fan and at least a little of it rubbed off!
@lissadecker Cool! Fellow Boiler. School of Science '95.0 -
@garygse ha ha love it!
@greenolivetree I thought you were running in your house. Okay did you actually run up and down the hallways ha ha!0 -
Why do life events conspire to put me in a hard position? I received a text from my sister that my BIL got his placement for a Cardiology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Now My thoughts of running the Med City Half Marathon have been rekindled....PROBLEM: it's 20 days before my marathon. 2 options,
OPTION 1: Be totally smart and not run it (not nearly as fun, but probably smarter)
OPTION 2: Run it with a goal pace somewhere in the mid to upper 9:00-10:00 range to use it as a gauge of what pace MIGHT POSSIBLY be
I have until December 31 to decide before the price goes up. The race is Memorial day weekend, so it would be a great way to run in the morning, then spend time with family the rest of the day.
Am I totally out of my mind considering running it?
Route: https://www.strava.com/routes/71503350 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »Why do life events conspire to put me in a hard position? I received a text from my sister that my BIL got his placement for a Cardiology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Now My thoughts of running the Med City Half Marathon have been rekindled....PROBLEM: it's 20 days before my marathon. 2 options,
OPTION 1: Be totally smart and not run it (not nearly as fun, but probably smarter)
OPTION 2: Run it with a goal pace somewhere in the mid to upper 9:00-10:00 range to use it as a gauge of what pace MIGHT POSSIBLY be
I have until December 31 to decide before the price goes up. The race is Memorial day weekend, so it would be a great way to run in the morning, then spend time with family the rest of the day.
Am I totally out of my mind considering running it?
Route: https://www.strava.com/routes/7150335
3 weeks out should not be a problem, IF, you can stay on pace. Can you find someone to do it with you that will keep you from running it too fast? In all honesty, that is the main thing. If you can run this thing and resist the urge to get caught up in the race environment and run faster than you should, it should be no problem. If you end up running it and PRing saying " Well, I know I went faster than I should have, but it felt right and I feel good...yada, yada, yada..." it will probably spell disaster for your marathon. If you think you can exercise some restraint, then I say Go For It!1 -
lporter229 wrote: »
3 weeks out should not be a problem, IF, you can stay on pace. Can you find someone to do it with you that will keep you from running it too fast? In all honesty, that is the main thing. If you can run this thing and resist the urge to get caught up in the race environment and run faster than you should, it should be no problem. If you end up running it and PRing saying " Well, I know I went faster than I should have, but it felt right and I feel good...yada, yada, yada..." it will probably spell disaster for your marathon. If you think you can exercise some restraint, then I say Go For It!
That was kind of my thoughts....
My brother might be running it with me, if I run it so, unless he gets in way better shape, my pace could even be slower. If he runs it with me, it will be no problem, if He doesn't, I'm partially thinking that forcing myself to stay on pace for the HM would be good practice for not rushing out too fast for the full. Having a goal race will help in that respect, knowing that the HM is just "for fun" lets me have a different mindset.
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skippygirlsmom wrote: »@greenolivetree I thought you were running in your house. Okay did you actually run up and down the hallways ha ha!
LOL Yep. I'm here alone today. I would never do this with other people around :-o So basically it was .05 for each full trip to from west side to east side and back. 20 times back and forth. I think at home I'd have to run 100 laps around my kitchen and living room (it's a big loop or um, small loop).
@_nikkiwolf_ If it had been snowing, I would gone out just to say it was my first time running in snow :-D We may get a few flakes later but I doubt it.
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »Why do life events conspire to put me in a hard position? I received a text from my sister that my BIL got his placement for a Cardiology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Now My thoughts of running the Med City Half Marathon have been rekindled....PROBLEM: it's 20 days before my marathon. 2 options,
OPTION 1: Be totally smart and not run it (not nearly as fun, but probably smarter)
OPTION 2: Run it with a goal pace somewhere in the mid to upper 9:00-10:00 range to use it as a gauge of what pace MIGHT POSSIBLY be
I have until December 31 to decide before the price goes up. The race is Memorial day weekend, so it would be a great way to run in the morning, then spend time with family the rest of the day.
Am I totally out of my mind considering running it?
Route: https://www.strava.com/routes/7150335
Personally, I wouldn't do it. I'd want to have my longest training run, about 20 miles, at 3 weeks out, not a 13 mile run. If you want to have the HM race be any sort of indication of your FM performance, then you'd want to taper for it, meaning your longest training run is now 5 weeks before the FM. This is how it ended up for me because of an injury and it was definitely not ideal.
What does your coach think?
If the FM is your main focus, ultimately you need to decide if the HM will help that effort or hurt that effort.4 -
@greenolivetree I can't believe you didn't post pictures of your course Glad you kept your streak alive! 0
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