December 2016 Running Challenge

AnnyisOK

December miles total.



Dec. 1 - Cross training.
Dec. 2 - Rest/cross training.
Dec. 3 - Cross training/strength training.
Dec. 4 - 3.32 miles
Dec. 5 - Cross training.
Dec. 6 - 4.86 miles
Dec. 7 - Cross training/strength training.
Dec. 8 - Rest.
Dec. 9 - 6.11 miles
Dec. 10 - 4.08 miles
Dec. 11 - 14.07 miles
Dec. 12 - 35 mins. elliptical.
Dec. 13 - 5.60 miles
Dec. 14 - Core De Force/strength training.
Dec. 15 - 6.02 miles
Dec. 16 - Rest.
Dec. 17 - 5.34 miles
Dec. 18 - 13.2 miles + 20 mins. elliptical.
Dec. 19 - Core de Force + lifting.
Dec. 20 - 5.62 miles
Dec. 21 - Core de Force + lifting and 10 min. weighted jump roping.
Dec. 22 – 7 miles
Dec. 23 – Rest day
Dec. 24 – 5.24 miles
Dec. 25 – 10 miles
Dec. 26 – 6 miles + Core de Force.
Dec. 27 – 70 mins. elliptical
Dec. 28 – Core de Force + deadlift
Dec. 29 – 7.38 miles + 5 min. jump rope + deadlift
Dec. 30 – Rest day
Dec. 31 – 5 miles + deadlift

bmelb1

MobyCarp wrote: »

@bmelb1 - Don't let this experience get you down, it's not normal. A couple weeks ago I ran a 5K with perhaps a touch less snow than you had, and turned in my slowest 5K time ever. Good runners were taking 3.5 minutes longer than normal to complete it. Average runners were taking 5 minutes longer than normal to complete it. The total number of finishers was low, and I suspect some of the slower runners and walkers missed the cutoff for getting an official time.

The thing is, running in 10 cm of snow isn't the norm. How you did under these conditions doesn't say much about how you could do under more normal conditions. And I'd consider under an hour for walking 3.1 miles in 10 cm of snow to be an pretty good walking result.

Thank you for your words of encouragement! I guess I'm going to look at my first race as a learning experience. Things don't always go as planned and I need to be able to accept and adapt to whatever happens instead of panicking and getting down on myself.

ereck44

@bmelb1 I think that you did great! Heck I can barely walk in 10 cm of snow much less run in it. Kudos to you for attempting it. Don't get discouraged based on it...anything that can get in your way such as heavy wind, rain, exceptionally hot weather will affect your results.

Elise4270

Frick. Wrong month.... Let's just edit it to look like I'm reposting the January group.....

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10493483/january-2017-running-challenge

Nothing to see here.

9voice9

Final posting for December ('cause I'm home, finally!):
104.11% of goal

01-Dec: 5.42 miles
02-Dec: 5.26 miles
03-Dec: 10.49 miles inc. Reindeer Run 10K
04-Dec: <Life Day>
05-Dec: 10.33 miles - double day
06-Dec: 5.48 miles on dreadmill
07-Dec: 5.56 miles
08-Dec: 2.77 miles
09-Dec: 5.51 miles
10-Dec: - unplanned rest day :P
11-Dec: <Life Day> but 10.22 miles
12-Dec: 5.16 miles
13-Dec: 3.30 miles
14-Dec: 8.18 miles
15-Dec: 6.53 miles
16-Dec: 12.71 miles - double day
17-Dec: 13.38 miles
18-Dec: <Life Day>
19-Dec: 10.16 miles
20-Dec: 8.68 miles - double day
21-Dec: 5.77 miles
22-Dec: 4.03 miles
23-Dec: 6.73 miles
24-Dec: 10.50 miles
25-Dec: <Life Day> - JAPAN
26-Dec: - JAPAN
27-Dec: - JAPAN
28-Dec: 3.63 miles - JAPAN
29-Dec: - JAPAN
30-Dec: - JAPAN
31-Dec: 1.57 miles - JAPAN

Woke up this morning (relativistically speaking) in Tokyo, gonna sleep tonight in my own bed. It was great trip - good to see my son and how well he's doing, interesting to be in a COMPLETELY foreign country ('cause Europe is only partly foreign, being still Western and all), seeing and experiencing and eating some very different things.

Made my goal, but lost a day of the 10K step goal on the airplane. Didn't run today (thought about putting in a couple miles tonight just because but it's raining pretty steadily with thunder and lightning, so NO GO!), and tomorrow looks like really yucky weather too, so it's looking like a long run on the dreadmill tomorrow, at or near HMGP (10:41). The race is less than 2 weeks away. I didn't do an actual training plan this time - just my regular 42.5 avg/week, changing the Saturday 10-miler to a HM once a month, for the last 4-5 months. I guess we'll see what happens on 14-Jan.



Upcoming Races:
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, Macon

9voice9

BTW - my spreadsheet says I did 1894.73 miles in 2016. And yes, my OCD is kinda having fits.

ashleighgetsfit14

I'm starting over and trying to be more consistent. I have ran off and on for the past two years. Completed several 5ks and walked/ran a half marathon. I'm setting a very low goal of 10 miles for January. Excited to be part of this challenge!

7lenny7

I imagine everyone has already gone to the January thread but I'll close out my December running with this post. I haven't been on due to the holidays and going for a short vacation with some good friends of ours.

Runs since my last post:

12/23 - 10.4 road miles in heavy, wet snow. The snow melted, then froze to the roads making it pretty treacherous. I was doing great until midway through the run when I cut to turn and fell on my *kitten* & elbow. It hurt, a lot.
12/24 - 13.2 road miles in spite of my sore hip & screaming elbow. The roads were icy at the start but the ice started to melt halfway through the run and I stayed upright.
12/25 - rest
12/26 - 4.0 road miles in strong wind. This run sucked.
12/27 - 19.2 road miles! This was meant to be about 10 miles between my son's games at a basketball tournament but he hit his head in the first game and was pulled out for the day as a precaution (he's turned out fine). He wanted to stay for the entire tournament and since I no longer needed to be back for his games, I ran further. An AWESOME RUN and a great pace along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis & St. Paul! An the sights! City skyline, frozen waterfalls, historic ruins, frozen river, aftermath of a car tumbling down the riverbank, and even wild turkeys on the University of Minnesota campus.
12/28 - rest
12/29 - 10.1 trail miles on a snowy rail trail in Wisconsin. Beautiful!
12/30 - rest
12/31 - 16.9 trail miles on ice covered wooded trails with a local trail running group. Holy crap was it slick! I was caught unprepared. 6 in our group of 8 had traction aids such as screws or yaktrax. I was one of the two who didn't. The other guy was smart and bailed out after 2.5 miles. I stuck with it and fell three times. Still, a great run to end the year!

So the month ends with 159.5 miles, a new PR for me and easily beat my goal of 135.
The year ends with 1202.5 miles, another PR (but it was just my first full year of running) but falling woefully short of my year goal of 1500 miles. I'm ok with that because I was able to spend more time sailing this past summer than running, which was awesome.

RunsOnEspresso

@7lenny7 I love the last photo, the juxtaposition of old and new is one of my favorites to photograph.

hootmom109