December 2016 Running Challenge
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Good luck tomorrow @shanaber!!!1
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December Running Totals (miles)
12/1 – 8.08 warmup + speed work
12/2 – rest day
12/3 – 10.13 warmup + 5K race + easy 30 minutes
12/4 – 8.07 easy
12/5 – rest day
12/6 – 5.96 warmup, speed work, cool down
12/7 – 6.00 easy
12/8 – 3.78 easy
12/9 – 3.80 course preview
12/10 – 5.01 USATF Club Nationals Masters 8K
12/11 – 2.57 easy
12/12 – 10.15 easy
12/13 – 6.21 hills
12/14 – rest day
12/15 – 5.25 with wind and snow
12/16 – 6.27 easy
12/17 – 6.40 warmup + Reindeer Run 5K
December total to date – 87.67
Nominal Challenge Goal – 150 miles
Real Goals: Finish transition to healthy running. Use Club Nationals as a learning experience on managing air travel to a race. Build a base toward Boston training. Avoid re-injury
Today's notes – Today I ran the Reindeer Run 5K, to benefit the Strong Museum of Play. I didn't run in temps as cold as some of the hardier members of this group. It was 19° F (-7° C) for my warmup and 21° F (-6° C) for the race, with wind not a major factor. That having been said, today had its running challenges.
It was a late decision to sign up for this one. I wanted to wait until after Club Nationals and see if I felt healthy enough to run a race on my fourth consecutive weekend (assuming Thanksgiving Day counts as the start of a long weekend). Went online to look Wednesday, and found that the price went up at midnight. And the forecast was for wintry weather. What the heck, this one is fun. I signed up.
There was snow overnight. Yesterday evening the radio was full of the "no unnecessary travel" message. Got up this morning to snow in the driveway, snow in the air, and roads that were not yet plowed. As I was driving into town for the race, I wondered what made me think it was a good idea to go out *driving* in this nonsense.
Weather concerns aside, I arrived safely and parked in a garage that the city leaves open to the public on weekends. I didn't want to have to scrape my car after the race. About time for the warmup, I found a friend who wanted a 2.5 mile warmup while I wanted to preview the course. So we previewed the course, though he omitted the last 600 meters or so.
There was snow. It was on the ground, it was in the air. Where roads were plowed, it was a light slippery cover. Where roads were plowed less recently, it was an inch or two. Good footing was rare. Got to the turn around, and found that the Riverway Trail was unplowed for the second half of the course. There were tire tracks to run in, apparently from the truck that hauled equipment for the water stop. Then there was a totally unplowed sidewalk with fences on both sides before we got back to the not recently enough plowed streets. It looked like a stretch of over a mile where it would not be possible to pass anyone.
The warmup was as hard as I've ever worked for an average pace of 8:21 per mile.
Got to time to line up. I lined up right at the front, because I wanted to be ahead of anyone foolishly wearing flat shoes. (I was wearing my trail shoes, which I use to run on snowy roads.) Of course, the young runners at the front took off faster than me; but I didn't see anyone slip or fall down, so I must have stayed ahead of who I wanted to be ahead of.
For an idea of the conditions, I found myself in two of the pictures posted online. The first one is not even a quarter mile from the start, and I'm kind of off to the side; but it shows the weather nicely:
The second one is on the Riverway Trail. I'm having some fun at that point:
I kind of sort of raced the first half of the course. The idea was to survive the second half. It turned out that the Riverway Trail got plowed before race time. Under the snow there was bumpy ice, from people walking on earlier snow. The footing was marginally better where the plow didn't scrape down to the ice, and much better for 6 or 8 steps at a time in a few places where the edge of the plow uncovered grass. Then came the unplowed sidewalk, then some snow-covered roads.
Near the end of the course, an access road to the museum was unplowed. But volunteers had shoveled a path for a finish line sprint. By that time, I wasn't really racing, just running. Ended up finishing the 5K in 23:27, my slowest 5K race ever. But most runners were 3 to 5 minutes slower than a normal 5K in these conditions, so that was good for 29th of 1105 overall finishers and 1st of 30 in the M 60-64 age group.
I was told before the race that over 1500 people registered for the 5K. I don't know how many were no-shows and how many just missed the timing cutoff in the poor footing.
Got a friend to take a mug shot, on the assumption that certain people wouldn't believe I ran in antlers without a picture. (This was before I knew I could find an action shot online the same day.)
A text message told me my finishing time. An email notification provided a link that let me know I'd won the age group. So I wandered over to the awards, to look at the trophies. I was pleased to see that this year, I recognized all the toys on the age group winner trophies:
The tradition is that the age group winner picks which trophy he/she wants. Some of the "more mature" runners had complained to the race director that the picking were slim by the time they were announced; so this year the age group results were announced from "maturest" to youngest. As a result, I had a tough choice between characters. I decided I was more of a Linus type of guy than a Charlie Brown. Oh, and there was nut butter:
This is the fourth consecutive year I've done Reindeer Run, with 3 age group wins and one age group second place. The trophies are getting to be a bit of a collection:
Came home, took a nap, fixed lunch, and got out to shovel the driveway at quarter till 3. Two weeks ago, I ran a 5K and felt the need for an additional half hour of running when I got home. Today, I am content with shoveling snow instead of adding another four miles of running.
I'd like to say I ran this race smart, and deliberately chose not to work all that hard. That was part of the plan; but the reality was simply that the weather mostly beat my competitive instincts out of me. Most of the last half of the course, I was just running to run and not particularly trying hard to finish as fast as possible, or even to run fast enough to not get passed. It was good enough for this race. The weather made up for the lack of winter weather for the Freezeroo 5K two weeks ago.
This is my last race of 2016. I'll take the next two weeks off, before running Freezeroo #2, the 7.5 mile Resolution Run on New Year's Day. During this period, I'll make a decision on going to Bend, OR for the 2017 USATF Cross Country Championship on February 4, 2017. There is some pressure from the club to go, but I need to be comfortable with the budget and the travel time. If I can make the numbers work, I'm inclined to commit to Bend.
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) finished in 42:38, First Senior (60+) Male
December 3, 2016 Freezeroo #1 (Don Curran Memorial 5K) (Gates, NY) finished in 20:06
December 10, 2016 USATF National Club Cross Country Championships 8K (Tallahassee, FL) finished in 33:38
December 17, 2016 Reindeer Run 5K (Rochester, NY) finished in 23:27 in the snow
2017 races:
January 1, 2017 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY)
January 7, 2017 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY)
January 14, 2017 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds Park 5 mile) (Spencerport, NY)
January 28, 2017 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY)
February 11, 2017 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY)
February 25, 2017 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 10K) (Webster, NY)
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)
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December Goal: Trim my Thanksgiving turkey thighs and mashed potato/pumpkin pie paunch
12/1 rest
12/2 4.25
12/3 3.05
12/4 2.40 + strength/core training
12/5 rest
12/6 3.80
12/7 6.42
12/8 2.20 + core/strength training
12/9 snorkel 2 hours
12/10 rest
12/11 6.17
12/12 4.10
12/13 lazy
12/14 snorkel 15 MINUTES!
12/15 3.60
12/16 1.25 + core/strength training
12/17 3.80 Planned a rest day today...but DH surprised me with my birthday gift 2 days early: a new treadmill (yep, nearly wore out the old one!)....so I had to baptise it (with perspiration, of course....)
Total: 40.04
@MobyCarp and @louubelle16 :awesome races!
Upcoming Races:
12/7/16: Races For Awareness Virtual 10k for Outrun The Sun Skin Cancer Awareness
Ticker is my goal for 2016 and total to date:
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patrikc333 wrote: »Got measured and bike will be set up according to builders guidelines according to my sizes initially, then I'll see how I will cope and make adjustments accordingly
Super excited, will also buy clothes on Friday, I don't think I can recycle running clothes right?
But.... It's been 11 years since my last ride! You think I'll still be able to cycle? My plan is to come home, lock in my garage and try it first without locking shoes, then try the locking mechanism, then go out and hope really hope I won't fall down in front of people
Looks nice! You can do it! The falling will happen when you first start out with the locking shoes. At least it has with everyone I know. It usually happens when you are stopping, starting or just standing waiting to go. That's because it is just hard to get used to unclipping them. After a few weeks, you don't even think about it. Hopefully you are in a bike-friendly city.
Enjoy!
@patrikc333 I be fallen several times on my bike. It's always in front of people. Just try to fall in the grass and not hurt your bike!
I think I'm going to die if I ride the road bike on grass! 1 -
Miserable day, fog, 1C constantly, frozen ground, mobile dead at 10km from home, completely frozen hands (and I even wore cycling gloves that are supposed to go to - 15) and finally leg cramps. And still not received my new shoes after 2 weeks. What a nice day! I decided I'm not going to run tomorrow, need a break after today miserable awful crappy 17 mils (just realised I run 17 miles, my bad luck number, this explains everything)
On the other hand, Im still able to cycle! I had to lower the saddle, not ideal but even if i lost my dignity at the same time I must take it easy, it's incredible how our brain works and needs to be re train for doing stupid things. Or other option is that I'm a wuss
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12/1: 6 miles with Pacers crew +lifting
12/2: 2 miles
12/3: 8 miles with the Saturday crew
12/4: 5.3 miles on trails +lifting
12/5: 6 miles
12/6: 2 miles + lifting
12/7: 6 miles
12/8: 6 miles + lifting
12/9: 1 mile
12/10: 13.1 miles
12/11: 4.6 miles on trails
12/12: 2 miles + lifting
12/13: 6.1 miles
12/14: 6 miles + lifting
12/15: 6 miles
12/16: 6 miles + lifting
12/17: 4.6 miles
12/18: 6 miles
Today was much nicer than yesterday. It went from 41F when I left at 7 am to 50F at 8 am, and it's not yet raining, so yay! Yesterday's snow is now wet pavement and/or slush which made for some challenging footing. My hip flexor was not at all a fan of the slick crap so I had to stop at 6 miles instead of running my planned 8. But a running group friend who moved to Ohio was back in town so it was really lovely to see her and get coffee afterwards!
Winter/Spring 2017 Races:
1/8/17: NYCRUNS Cocoa Classic 10 mile
2/18/17: FebApple Frozen 50 - 10 mile option
3/12/17: E. Murray Todd HM
3/18/17: Looney Leprechaun 10k (trail)
3/26/17: Philly Love Run HM
4/1/17: NJ Ultra Fest HM (trail, maybe)
4/9/17: Rutgers UNITE HM (maybe)
5/14/17: Delaware Marathon Running Festival HM
5/21 or 5/28: Cleveland or Vermont City Marathons (maybe)
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Missed a lot staying off the internet yesterday!
I meant to do 10 miles this morning but it was the first real cold day here (39 when I left) and it was a shock to m asthmatic lungs. I got in 3.4 before I gave up. I used my Headsweats ultra band to cover my nose and mouth but the issue was my chest. The spot between the top of my sports bra and the neck of my t-shirt. I didn't wear my vest but I think that will help. I've been back for like an hour and my lungs are still burning a bit.
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@orphia - wow, beautiful pictures! Love that motorcycle Santa too. I had the same problem when I started my streak. I was supposed to start it on Thanksgiving, but there was perfect running weather for several days prior... so I just kept going.
@mobycarp - love all your pictures and the trophies!!! So cute! Charlie Brown!!! I am a Snoopy lover myself.
Yesterday I felt sore in so many places. Knee, lower back and on and on. Started thinking I guess I've overdone it (no, not me!) Then I woke up around 2am and felt a really bad sore throat -- like that kind you get the day before you get a cold. So when the alarm went off at 6:30 to get ready for bike ride, I thought I'd be telling my husband... can't do it. However, I got up and it was so weird. I was completely fine. Throat, back, knee, etc. On the bike ride and run I was fine. Both bike ride and run were very slow so maybe that helped. We were just chatting and having a great time.
Reading about you all running in negative temps... I guess I am lucky after all. Until May-October are here.
12/1 - 3.2 miles
12/2 - 1.5 miles
12/3 - 45 miles biking + 1 mile run
12/4 - 27 miles biking + 1 mile run
12/5 - 4 miles
12/6 - 4 miles
12/7 - 1 mile on treadmill for streak (after strength training)
12/8 - 4.47 miles
12/9 - 1 mile on treadmill for streak (after strength training)
12/10 - 77 miles bike and 1 mile run for streak!
12/11 - 27 miles biking and 1 mile run for streak
12/12 - 4 miles
12/13 - 5 miles
12/14 - 2.1 miles - day 21 streak + strength training
12/15 - 4.5 miles
12/16 - 1.5 miles
12/17 = 44 miles biking + 1 mile run (streak)
12/18 - 27 miles biking + 1 mile run (streak)
Upcoming races
2/5/17 - Daytona Beach HM
2/26/17 - Disney Princess HM Orlando
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Gooday to you all!
Goal for December: 120k
12/1: 8k
12/2: 2.2k (warmup for strength training)
12/5: 6.8k
12/6: 6.8k intervals
12/7: 2.1k (as a warmup for strength training)
12/9: 10.2k (easy run, quad testing)
12/10: 8.7k (intervals)
12/11: 6k
12/13: 2k treadmill (leg test)
12/14: 10.1k beach running
12/17: 6.1k easy+strides
12/18: 10k RACE!!
78.2/120k
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Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ------- Dec 01 4.4T 4.4 Dec 03 5.6 10.0 Dec 04 5.1 15.1 Dec 07 5.2T 20.3 Dec 09 6.5 26.8 Dec 11 8.2 35.0 Dec 13 5.1 40.1 Dec 16 6.2T 46.3 Dec 18 6.6T 52.9
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I'm heading out in a few minutes to go pheasant hunting in South Dakota so I wont' be posting for a few days.
Last run was Friday night during a heavy snowfall. Kody & I enjoyed 9 miles of wonderful, beautiful snow!!
I wanted to get a run in today when it was -22F (-34F wind chill), just to say I did it, but I had to finish packing for hunting. Kody knows what I'm am doing and he can't wait to get out there!
Enjoy your runs, all!!
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@Orphia your running trail looks awesome!
@louubelle16 Congratulations on your HM PB
@MobyCarp Congratulations on your win in such difficult conditions, love the antlers and trophy collection.
@juliet3455 You win bragging rights for running in the coldest weather, that's just nasty!
I ran on my treadmill today. We had snow and freezing rain here last night and today and I decided the ground was just too slippery to try running outside.
Date Km Today - Km for Dec.
12/1 6.17 - 6.17
12/4 5.77 - 11.94
12/6 5.34 - 17.28
12/8 3.23 - 20.51
12/11 5.76 - 26.27
12/13 5.67 - 31.94
12/15 5.7 - 37.64
12/16 2.32 - 39.96
12/18 5.82 - 45.78
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Goal 75 km
Upcoming Races:
Resolution Run 5km - 12/31
Polar Hero 5km OCR? - 2/4
Tamarack 10km - 5/27
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@MobyCarp love the trophy. Good thing you posted an antler picture or it didn't happen. Sounded like you needed ice skates.
@louubelle16 super HM congratulations!!
Took Skip to Fleet Feet yesterday for new shoes. The owner had way too many new toys to show us. A $200 battery operated foam roller ha ha on high Skip was getting moved around the floor. Also these air compression leg sleeve things you use after you run. $1600. I'll take 2! You can use theirs for $100 for 30 minutes. Skip was very happy with new Brooks Hyperions, new Nike vest, new Brooks 1/4 zip jacket, banjees by Sprigs, it's a wrist wallet with 2 pockets very cool. She even got a free Brooks water bottle. Merry Christmas to her lol
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12/1: 5 miles
12/2: 4 miles
12/3: 4 miles
12/4: 11 miles
12/5: 5 miles
12/6: 7 miles
12/7: rest day
12/8: 4 miles
12/9: rest day
12/10: 5 miles
12/11: 11 miles
12/12: 4 miles
12/13: 4 miles
12/14: rest day
12/15: 4 miles
12/16: rest day
12/17: 5 miles
12/18: 9 miles
TOTAL: 82 miles
I haven't checked or kept up with the thread the past few days due to family in town and being busy with work. A few notes from the past few days below.
Friday I felt a bit under the weather and had more shin and knee pain than I'd like, so I took another rest day. I also decided that if I couldn't run outside in regular road shoes, then I need to run on the treadmill as I then the traction aids I was using were partially contributing to the knee/shin pain. The Friday rest day helped a bit and Saturday I ran 5 miles (48:21, 9:40 pace) but was forced onto the treadmill due to very icy conditions. Today was the same deal with the ice and so I dragged myself to the gym for 9 miles on the dreadmill 1:28:28 (9:50 pace). I saw a few others getting their long runs in on the treadmill too (including one guy who ran almost 12 miles in the same time I ran my 9), so at least we were in misery together. I'm happy to report I ordered a pair of trail shoes today! Also, the road conditions seemed to be a lot better this afternoon, so I may get to run outside tomorrow.1 -
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
12/8: 4.35 miles (m)
12/9: Rest Day
12/10: 3.5 miles
12/11: 5 miles (m)
12/12: 4 miles
12/13: 4 miles (m)
12/14: 5 miles (m)
12/15: 4 miles (m)
12/16: Rest Day
12/17: 3 miles (m)
12/18: 7 miles (m)
My Total/December: 62 miles
Mike's Total: 40 miles
Wow! That's what I get for complaining about the warm weather. We went from 74F yesterday to a brisk 35F for our run today. Gotta love Houston! At least it was dry and not rainy. (I can handle the cold or the rain but the two of them together are a special kind of suck!) Mike, Fergus and I went out anyway and got 7 miles done. This is my longest distance since I have been back to running so, yay me! Average pace was just under a 12 minute mile. I tried to go a little slower, but the cold kept us moving.
@MobyCarp What a fun race! Nice trophies, too!
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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Got back at 9pm from dropping my daughter back at her mums after spending the day at my brothers place, so popped out for quick run very similar to last night. Unfortunately phone died so I just downloaded yesterdays GPX, altered the time stamps to today and uploaded it again so I have some sort of record of it, (even though today's route was probably ~300m longer - close enough for govt work!).
My daughter (3yo) and two nephews, (3/5yo) have worn me out so back from run and now straight to bed for me!
1-Dec: 6.2k easy run
2-Dec: 11.5k - 10k tempo plus warm up/cool down
3-Dec: 2.1k TM
4-Dec: 5.3k easy run
5-Dec: 21.7k long run
6-Dec: 8.3k 'tired' run
7-Dec: 3.1k TM
8-Dec: 5.3k easy
9-Dec: 12.6k easy
10-Dec: 2k short run
11-Dec: 11k - 10k tempo plus warm-up
12-Dec: 8.2k easy
13-Dec: 1.8k streak run
14-Dec: 12.5k hill circuit (4 laps; 295m climbing total)
15-Dec (AM): 5.2k treadmill (5k fast)
15-Dec (PM): 6k inc 5k fast
16-Dec: 5.5k easy
17-Dec: 2.3k streak run
18-Dec: 2.3k streak run2 -
Date:: :::: Miles:::: Dec total (goal = 80)
12/01/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
12/02/16 :::: 2.6 :::: 2.6
12/03/16 :::: 3.1 :::: 5.7
12/04/16 :::: 6.0 :::: 11.8
12/05/16 :::: 3.3 :::: 15.0
12/06/16 :::: 2.4 :::: 17.4
12/07/16 :::: 2.4 :::: 19.8
12/08/16 :::: 3.7 :::: 23.5
12/09/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 23.5
12/10/16 :::: 7.0 :::: 30.5
12/11/16 :::: 3.5 :::: 34.0
12/12/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 34.0
12/13/16 :::: 2.6 :::: 36.7
12/14/16 :::: 2.5 :::: 39.1
12/15/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 39.1
12/16/16 :::: 4.0 :::: 43.2
12/17/16 :::: 6.3 :::: 49.5
12/18/16 :::: 3.5 :::: 53.0
Treadmill at the Y again today. This morning it was sleeting and I had to go out for errands in the afternoon so just packed my stuff to get a run in on the way home. Started a new audiobook but had trouble getting into it until I was nearing the end of the run. Hopefully it will be pretty interesting.
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Did some inside miles today to get caught up a bit.
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12/2: .5; chest/arms
12/3: 10
12/4: .5; back/shoulders/core
12/7: 2
12/8: 4
12/10: 10
12/14: 2
12/18: 8
37 of 80 miles; 2 of 7 XT sessions.
42 or so laps inside the big dome this morning. Like last weekend's long run, not horrible and actually better than you might think. There's a lot to be said for escaping negative double digit air temps and trading a consistent sports turf surface for the icy crap out on the roads and paths.
I missed my mid week run this week, and cut today's run off short (was scheduled for 11). Hoping to get back on track this coming week.
Happy running all (and stay warm)!
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Finally got to run today after three days of not being able to. Felt good, managed to get 7.1 miles done. On the treadmill because it's - 2F out there. Just say no to frostbite.
Here's hoping I don't have another three day rest any time soon.
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@garygse and @ddmom0811 Thanks for the infos on the noxgear. AAA batteries I could replace with some chargeable ones, and they even offer free international shipping at the moment... Very tempting!
@kristinegift @MNLittleFinn @katharmonic and @7lenny7 nice snow/winter running pictures, all of you! We only had two days of snow yet this winter, photos like that make me appreciate the mild weather a lot
@louubelle16 Congratulations on that awesome half! Wow, you really smashed your goal, great job!
@juliet3455 Remind me not to ever visit your area in winter. I think the coldest I've ever been in was -12°C, and that was cold! The temparatures you run in are impressive. And scary. Even while wearing lots of layers, doesn't the cold air hurt when you breathe it in? I'd probably end up wraping so many layers of scarfs around my head that I couldn't get air through them anymore.
@Orphia Lovely route. And nice Santa decoration ^^
@MobyCarp Your speed is seriously impressive! Your "slowest 5k ever" on bad road conditions is still faster than my PR, wow. Congratulations! And I love the reindeer hat
@HonuNui Have fun with the new treadmill!
@patrikc333 17 miles in those conditions sound really miserable. I hope your bike ride tomorrow is more fun!
@skippygirlsmom Sound like it was a really successful shopping trip for Skip! Did you get yourself a Christmas present too? I'm really intreaged about the 1600$ air compression thingies now. If I ever win the lottery maybe...
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The construction works on my little neighbourhood hill are finished; I decided to celebrate that with a few hill repeats instead of the tempo run I had originally planned. Usually I only do 4-6 loops up and down, but I missed that climb
I had just finished #8 when everything around me went dark - power cut! Guess somebody overdid it with the Christmas lights... I don't even remember the last time something like that happened (apart from maybe a short flicker during a thunderstorm), so I decided to run home, light candles and "enjoy" it. But whatever was wrong, they fixed it too quickly - 5 min later the power was already back.
My Sunday run was really nice - sunshine! The last time I saw a blue sky must be a month ago. The forecast for tomorrow is fog again, but today the weather was perfect (maybe it could have been a little warmer or colder - as it was (0°C/32°F), I kept taking off and putting back the gloves...). My legs were feeling a bit tired from those hill repeats yesterday, but this was too good to miss; so I ran over to one of my favourite river side trails. It's not very long (~3.3km), and it's about 9km away from home (half small roads, half fields&forest), so the way there and back is much longer than the actual trail. But it's both beautiful and fun enough that it's worth it every time
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_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »@juliet3455 Remind me not to ever visit your area in winter. I think the coldest I've ever been in was -12°C, and that was cold! The temperatures you run in are impressive. And scary. Even while wearing lots of layers, doesn't the cold air hurt when you breathe it in? I'd probably end up wrapping so many layers of scarfs around my head that I couldn't get air through them anymore.
@_nikkiwolf_ I understand not visiting in the winter - Unless you are a Skier then we have some amazing Hills in the Canadian Rockies. Next year is Canada's 150th BD so lots of activities planned for July 1 all around the country. Also there are some fantastic summer HM, M and Ultra Races. So come on up for a RunCation.
For me the cold air doesn't hurt when I breathe. I wear a Neck Buff with about 8" of Fleece and then 12" of shear material that I pull up over my ears as a 2nd level of protection. I leave my nose/mouth open to the elements without any trouble. I credit my Norwegian/Ukrainian heritage.
Envy all the people still able to get out and run on the trails. We are severely restricted now, more of a personal safety issue than snow. The last place I want to be is 8 km out of town on a Bushy and end up with a sprained ankle or some other injury that makes for a long cold hobble back to safety.
Yesterday morning we had the nasty West wind 25km/h which set the wind chill factor at -42C.
In the afternoon warmed up to -20C and wind has dropped to -15km/h so wind chill was a mild -29C.
This morning it was -10C at 5am - no wind, at 10am it was 0C. So we had a 42C temperature change in less than 24 Hours.
Went for a 6 km morning run to get in a few of the km's I missed yesterday and more km's logged for the year. Saved some energy for the afternoon 5 km Jingle Jog - Fund raiser for Santa's Anonymous, Christmas Bureau and Food Bank donations. A total of 11 km for the day.
December Running Goal 140km
12/01–0.0 km –140km – 0 km – YTD 1210.5 km
12/03–8.0 km –132km – 8 km
12/04–5.0 km –127km – 13 km
12/05–12.0 km –115km – 25 km
12/07–7.0 km –108km – 32 km
12/10–5.0 km –103km – 37 km
12/11–4.0 km –99km – 41 km
12/14–8.0 km –91km – 49 km
12/16–6.0 km –85km – 55 km
12/17–2.0 km –83km – 57 km
12/17–9.0 km –72km – 66 km
12/18–6.0 km –66km – 72 km
12/18–5.0 km –61km – 77 km – YTD 1287.5 km pm 5 km Jingle Jog run
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I had a good run today for my HM - no PB for me though.
I did however get to meet another MFP friend and her husband at the race, @mom3over40! We had a nice chat in the cold morning (37F) before we took off running!
This was us in the cold before the race started
And this was the gorgeous view taken while running of the clear morning - you could see all the way to the ocean.
I will update miles tomorrow. Tonight I need to sleep. I am feeling very tired and a bit defeated... I wanted a PB and felt like I was on track and running better than I thought I would be able to given the Achilles issue. I am not sure what was different this year vs the previous years... I was over 10 mins off my best time and that seems huge to me. Hopefully tomorrow will bring a better perspective.
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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
12/8- 8.04
12/9- 5.0
12/10- 11.0
12/11- Rest
12/12- 5.21
12/13- 5.01
12/14- 5.4
12/15- 4.0 after a 30 min eliptical workout.
12/16- 6.03
12/17- 12.06
12/18- REST much needed rest
12/19- 5.01
Total: 101.19
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: Today's assignment was 6x400m at 8:52 pace with 2 mile w/u and 1 mile c/d. Since I was still feeling the cold from Saturday's run, I ran my miles on the treadmill. My paces were all a bit off, since it's not really exact finding the right speed on the TM, to match assigned pace. ended up cutting 2 of my recovery periods short too. All in all a pretty good run though.
After the run I had my strength routine. today's assignment was:
100 kettlebell swings
100 rows
100 bicep curls
100 calf raises
100 chest flys
100 goblet squats
100 mountain climbers
100 russian twist
I did 2 sets of 50 for each, going through the first set of all the exercises then repeating the process.2 -
@_nikkiwolf_ here is their link to the "legs" ha ha http://www.fleetfeethuntsville.com/community/normatec-recovery
I got to keep the Brooks water bottle, wasn't that sweet of her ha ha Skip will be very happy Christmas morning, I also picked up (when she wasn't with me) an awesome Nike running jacket and Nike long running pants for her. The team has to wear Nike during meets and are supposed to wear black Nike during practice - seriously insane crap if you ask me. I almost gave her the jacket last night to wear to practice since it's was like 25F but Coach sent an email he would practice indoors this morning instead. We did very well on price, the Brooks clothing was buy one get 50%, she had a $20 first place finish gift card, I had a $25 loyal buyer credit and she gets 15% off for running on a school team. So it wasn't too painful.
Here is a link to the wrist wallet she got too: http://sprigs.com/banjees/2-pocket-phone-banjees/?gclid=CjwKEAiAp97CBRDr2Oyl-faxqRMSJABx4kh9hyK8uKdb8OVuF4nu2bGVM5zfUP2y8wXJ36SnTGWovxoCoSDw_wcB
She has such little arms that she can't seem to find anything to fit on her arm for her phone, at least nothing comfortable that we don't have to rig. This fit around her bicep comfortably and she thought it wouldn't bother her to wear it. I really don't like her running when I'm not home without a phone, but she usually does it because she hates to carry it. Hopefully this will solve that problem.
@shanaber and @mom3over40 how awesome you got to meet!!! Shanaber sorry it didn't go as expected, nothing worse then feeling good and not having the time you want, but congrats on the HM.
@7lenny7 your picture reminded me, at the marathon last weekend we took turns on who had to put the medal on the face of runners with frozen snot/sweat/whatever on their mustaches and beards ha ha1 -
Happy Monday everyone!
Busy weekend, as I am sure you can all relate during this time of year. I did not have a chance to check in. heck, I haven't even had a chance to upload my runs to Strava since Thursday. But I did manage to squeeze my runs in this weekend. Our "Steve" marathon/HM on Saturday was much fun. I ended up running with the 9:30 pace group because that is where most of the people I knew were running. Also, even though temps were warming up, the roads were still pretty ice covered. The whole group made it a point to stick together as much as possible and to wait for folks who were straggling to catch up so that we could all finish together. It is the true definition of running camaraderie. And then eating all of the great food at the end. Great time!
Sunday temps turned back to bitter cold. I used Stella as my motivation to get me out the door. We did two solid miles together and at that point I felt plenty warmed up to finish it up the 5.5 on my own. Was a good way to start off the day before heading down to the stadium for a frozen tailgate before the Bengals-Steelers game.
Looks like many of you had quite eventful weekends as well.
@louubelle16 -Awesome job on the PR! That is a pretty amazing gain in such a short time. Congrats!
@MobyCarp -Great job on you run too! Those age group awards are some of the best I have seen. I have never gotten anything quite that exciting!
@shanaber and @mom3over40 -How cool is that??? Looks like a great time!
@Honunui- New treadmill...Nice!!!1 -
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
12/8: 4.35 miles (m)
12/9: Rest Day
12/10: 3.5 miles
12/11: 5 miles (m)
12/12: 4 miles
12/13: 4 miles (m)
12/14: 5 miles (m)
12/15: 4 miles (m)
12/16: Rest Day
12/17: 3 miles (m)
12/18: 7 miles (m)
12/19: 3.5 miles (m)
My Total/December: 65.5 miles
Mike's Total: 43.5 miles
Not much to report. Easy run on a cold day.
@shanaber Congrats on your HM. And how cool getting to meet @mom3over40! Sounds like you had a fun day.
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 1
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