January 2017 Running Challenge

ereck44

Forgot to post my monthly challenge goal. After failing to meet my goal 2 months in a row, I am staying with the 50 mile goal for this month and at least one in outside per week.

1/1......rest day Happy New Year!
1/2......6 miles...pace 12:30.
1/3.....work
1/4.....Jillian Michaels Banish Fat Boost Metabolism, Classical stretch
1/5......3.72 miles on treadmill @ 12:14 pace, average heart rate at 88% max.
1/9.....3.87 miles on treadmill at 11:45 pace, average max heart rate st 85%.
1/20.....3 miles...pace 11:30, av max heart rate at 89%
1/24....4.32 miles....pace 11:45 at max heart rate at 88%. Spinning class
1/30....3.74 miles....pace 12:14 at max heart rate of 87%.rolling hills. Felt like vomiting afterward.
1/31....3.44 miles...pace 11:45 at max heart rate of 87%, focused on breathing.

Strength trained the last 2 days and tried a boot camp conditioning class. Was able to run outside twice this month.

Total...28.11
Goal...50 miles

Didn't meet goal but did better than usual during a typical January. Fought a cold this month, malaise, and gym being pretty crowded.

zipsterj

a final post to close out Jan, finished of fairly happy

SweatsOnSunday

My goal was 80 and I did 112.50.

Thanks for posting this challenge. It was fun, and I enjoyed following everybody's progress.

mustb60

January Running challenge
Goal: 50 km
Ran: 30.6 km/50 km

31/1/17 walk 10 km Easy day no run.
30/1/17 5 km
29/1/17 5.2 km
28/1/17 2 km
12/1/17 4 km
11/1/17 6.4 km
5/1/17 5 km
3/1/17 3 km

Consolation is that at least I could run 30 km this month. Better than no run. Seems like I am able to move from just walking to running. In February my goal would be being more regular.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

midwesterner85 wrote: »

Finished January with a late treadmill run because I worked late and it was well after dark by then:

January was 35 miles, I got to 39.8 miles. Ticker is screwed up from when I made February's ticker, it apparently over-wrote Jan. Ugh... I seem to be the only person that has problems with these tickers. I'm actually better than average with computers for most everything, but these tickers just seem to give me trouble.

KeepRunningFatboy

January - 267 miles; 1 half marathon. And onto February

lporter229

Jan 1-5.3 miles
Jan 2- Rest day- P90X3 yoga
Jan 3- 6 miles w/ 3 @ tempo
Jan 4-5.1 miles (1 with crazy Stella)
Jan 5-5 miles treadmill fartlek run
Jan 6- 4 miles total -1 mile warm up outside with Stella then 3 miles of intervals on dreadmill
Jan 7-7.7 miles
Jan 8-14 miles
Jan 9- Rest day
Jan 10- 4.5 miles treadmill
Jan 11-6 miles (slow and icy)
Jan 12-5.7 miles
Jan 13-4.3 miles 12X30 second hill sprints
Jan 14-16.3 miles
Jan 15-6.2 miles
Jan 16-Rest day
Jan 17-5.2 miles
Jan 18-6.6 miles
Jan 19-4.7 easy miles
Jan 20-4 miles of dreadmill intervals
Jan 21- 5.1 miles (2.1 w/ Stella, 3 solo)
Jan 22-12.3 miles
Jan 23- rest day-P90X3 yoga
Jan 24-6 miles
Jan 25-8.1 miles with fast finish
Jan 26-4.7 miles
Jan 27-4.7 miles dreadmill intervals
Jan 28-7.2 miles (1 w/ Stella)
Jan 29-18 miles
Jan 30-Rest day
Jan 31-3.7 miles with Stella

Yay! Stella and I ran 1.9 miles last night for a total yesterday of 3.7 miles which put me over my goal of 180 miles by 0.4 miles. Yesterday's miles were a little "lame" you could say. Our evening run consisted of segments of running and walking,stopping,sniffing. Overall we did about 2.5 miles, but I only clocked the run parts with my Garmin. So I cheated a little bit, but I did bust my butt most of this month and I was not letting that silly dog keep me from missing my goal. Not to mention, I think we both had a lot of fun on this one! On to February!

7lenny7

Well done, everyone!!!

mustb60

FEBRUARY Running challenge
Goal: 50 km
1/2/17 Rest day slow walk 3 km

Hoping to achieve the target this month.

Stoshew71

MobyCarp wrote: »

OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »

Thanks to everybody who weighed in on my question about running with a group or alone. It's nice to hear everyone's perspectives on the topic. I echo what a lot of you said about running alone for "me time" or to focus on speed work/tempo runs specific to your training plan. Also, I value being able to plan my runs when it fits best into my schedule, especially finding the best time to do long runs on the weekends. There's a meetup group as well as a group from a nearby running store that both do informal pub runs one evening a week, so I may start out by trying one of those to see how I like running with a group. It would also be nice to try out a long run with a group at some point to help myself keep a consistent pace (something I'm really bad at without constantly looking at my watch). I ran a half marathon with my step-sister last year, who is about the same pace that I am, and I enjoyed running with her more than I thought I would because she really helped me to keep a consistent and manageable pace throughout most of the race.

@OSUbuckeye906 - As I read this, I have to ask what the definition of "running alone" is. I run a lot of long runs in a pace group which is definitely not alone. Most of my speed work is done with the club, where I have a coach and teammates present; but different people have different workouts, and my paces are not the same as anyone else's, so mostly I'm running the speed workout by myself, but on the same track with other people running the same or different workouts at their proper paces. Is that running alone?

From my introverted perspective, this is close enough to group activity to give me a motivational nudge, i.e. I will actually *do* the speed work. I joined the club originally because I noticed I wasn't getting the speed work done on my own, and I hoped the group would provide enough peer pressure to get me to do it. It worked.

I do see clumps of club runners doing workouts together. I know they can't all have the same precise paces, so some of them must be running a bit too fast or a bit too slow for where their paces should be. I have occasionally been joined in my intervals by another guy whose proper paces should be a bit slower than mine; but he's usually willing to work his *kitten* off running faster than the workout calls for.

This is exactly the reason why I end up running alone. Either I am running too fast to try and keep up with people who are either slightly faster than me or starting out way too fast, which I end up just letting them go. And there are not many in our group that are able to do that. Mostly everyone else ends up behind me and go way too slow for me.

it's not so bad if it was a track workout and you can actually see everyone. But when you are trying to run a route along the streets in the early morning hours like my group does, then it's like, why did I get up super early to run with these people when I am not even running with them and no longer see them.

But it is nice to see some faces gathering together before we all leave together, even if we don't stay together. Plus there is the social aspect of it after we all get done. But then again, by the time I get done, everyone else already had their coffee already. So I end up scratching that. I run 10 miles, most everyone else runs 4-6 miles. Whatever route they come up with, I end up modifying it and stretching it out further. I like the people in my group, just very hard to make the commitment to want to get up super early to run with them. I have been thinking about finding other groups and rearranging my schedule. But I am in the middle of training now and don't want to mess with the good formula I have down, even if it means running alone.

A good buddy who is an awesome training partner for me but I haven't seen him in a few weeks said he is going to be at our group run tomorrow morning, which is encouraging for me.