February 2017 Running Challenge
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@7lenny7 Those eyes in the photo... are they bigfoots (bigfeet?) out there?
I've been in a slump, which is really affecting training for my race on 4/1. I was running nearly every day until 2/14. Then was super busy and didn't get another run in until 2/19. And now, I haven't run since then... been feeling generally unwell with some BG fluctuations (long story) and have been super busy and very tired. If I don't get out for a run tonight, the next chance won't be until Sun. (possibly Sat., depending how things go).
I know I will feel better when I run regularly, but being exhausted makes it tough to get my first foot out the door. If I'm going to make my goal (or get anywhere close), I can't miss a medium length run tonight and 3 more days this month.0 -
Ok. I took another day off from running yesterday. I still felt like absolute crud. I figure it's fine to have a little bit of a cutback week, since last week was the final week in a mileage-building plan, and I'm jumping straight into my HM training plan. I AM running today. No ifs, ands, or buts, come hell or high water, lol. Actually, it should be pleasant, in the upper 50s/low 60s, partly sunny, with a slight breeze. Tonight will also be zumba, a good friend who I recently reconnected with teaches it, and is covering a class at a gym near me. I might look to make up a few of my missed miles on Saturday (usually just a cross-training day), we'll see how it goes.0
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2/1 7.5
2/2 athletic conditioning class (60')
2/3 8.0
2/4 11.0
2/5 1.5 warm up + athletic conditioning class (60')
2/6 7.2 with 3' pickups
2/7 4.5 (hard) with 6x strength circuits
2/8 7.25
2/9 athletic conditioning class (60')
2/10 3.75 + 30' stair climber
2/11 3.6 + athletic conditioning class (60')
2/12 7.2
2/13 7.25
2/14 3.5 + 40' tabata class
2/15 6.0 (hard, with 6 X 3' pickups)
2/16 5.0 EZ run + 30' with trainer for strength
2/17 10 (with 5 miles at just under 8 mpm)
2/18 3.6 + athletic conditioning class
2/19 7.5 EZ (sore after AC class!)
2/20 7.25 with 8 x super sets of 6 mins each
2/21 4.5 (hard) with 6x strength circuits
2/22 6.0 with 4 @ 10-miler pace (hard!)
Strength on tap for tonight. Still a bit sore from Tuesday's strength circuits so we will see.
121.75/135
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2/1 - 3.4 'mill miles and a quick weight session. The scale was ugly today.
2/2 - 4.1 treadmill miles.
2/3 - Rest day.
2/4 - 2.3 'mill miles and then Bodypump class
2/5 - Super Bowl = no run AND way overeating.
2/6 - 4.01 miles.
2/7 - 4.25 miles.
2/8 - Shoveled in lieu of running. I hate snow.
2/9 - 5.3 treadmill miles. Trek class with a lot of "tempo".
2/10 - 3.4 treadmill miles, then upper body weights.
2/11 - 4.33 miles. Red Flannel Run. Was supposed to be a 5 mile course! Someone sure missed on that. I was very happy with my pace and would have finished the 5 in under 40:00, so I was a little disappointed with that.
2/12 - 2.3 treadmill miles and Bodypump class.
2/13 - 4.1 miles.
2/14 - Impromptu rest day. Woke up with significant pain in both feet and some discomfort in my right hip. Not sure what's going on, but thought it best to rest a bit.
2/15 - 4.47 miles. (I think it was more like 4.62...GPS waited a block or so to start, weird).
2/16 - 5.17 treadmill miles. Trek class.
2/17 - 4.25 miles.
2/18 - 5.75 miles. Longest run in a while, starting to stretch out. Felt good!
2/19 - Rest Day.
2/20 - 4.51 miles. 58° F at 4:45 a.m. in February? Yes, please!
2/21 - 4.47 miles.
2/22 - 4.52 miles. Again, nearly 50°! I could get used to this!
2/23 - 4.20 miles. The nice weather is ending today.
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Time constraints meant I had to do point-to-point run today, but some creative diary juggling meant I got to run back from my morning appointment rather than run to it, which meant I ran with a strong tailwind instead
Assignment was 45 minutes easy, but in the end was 55minutes verging on very easy with the tailwind. I had just over 1km which was cross-headwind and that km split was about 25 seconds slower than the tailwind sections and more effort - was a bit blowy out!
01-Feb: 1.7km treadmill intervals [TM]
02-Feb: 3.4k treadmill [TM]
05-Feb: 6.6k + 5.5k easy
06-Feb: 7.5k tempo
07-Feb: 4.1k easy
10-Feb: 10k easy
13-Feb: 16k MP
14-Feb: 6.4k steady
15-Feb: 7.9k as 10min hard/3min recovery intervals
16-Feb: 6k easy
17-Feb: 9.2k steady
19-Feb: 10k fast (race-sim) + 2k cool-down
20-Feb (AM): 4.5k easy
20-Feb (PM): 7.9k steady
21-Feb: 9.5k off-road, hilly fartlek
23-Feb: 9.2k easy
2017 Confirmed Races:
19-Mar: Richmond Half Marathon
14-May: Bexhill Starfish Marathon1 -
midwesterner85 wrote: »@7lenny7 Those eyes in the photo... are they bigfoots (bigfeet?) out there?
I've been in a slump, which is really affecting training for my race on 4/1. I was running nearly every day until 2/14. Then was super busy and didn't get another run in until 2/19. And now, I haven't run since then... been feeling generally unwell with some BG fluctuations (long story) and have been super busy and very tired. If I don't get out for a run tonight, the next chance won't be until Sun. (possibly Sat., depending how things go).
I know I will feel better when I run regularly, but being exhausted makes it tough to get my first foot out the door. If I'm going to make my goal (or get anywhere close), I can't miss a medium length run tonight and 3 more days this month.
@midwesterner85 - I've found that when I'm tired and short of sleep, my motivation goes down the toilet. The good news is, when I feel like you describe and just focus on getting enough sleep for a few days, the motivation comes right back. Being generally unwell might make this a bit more complicated for you, but my advice would be focus first on getting enough rest and enough sleep. I predict that will make it a lot easier to get the first foot out the door.1 -
Date Miles today - Miles for February
2/1 5 miles - 5
2/2 10miles - 15
2/3 5 miles - 20
2/4 18 miles - 38
2/5 REST DAY
2/6 10 miles - 48
2/7 10 miles - 58
2/7 5 miles - 63 << Daily Double and leg workout in the gym
2/8 5 miles - 68
2/9 7.5 miles - 75.5
2/10 REST DAY
2/11 14 miles - 89.5
2/12 REST DAY
2/13 7 miles - 96.5
2/14 7.5 miles - 104
2/15 4 miles - 108
2/16 7.5 miles - 115.5
2/17 REST DAY
2/18 13.1 -128.6
2/19 REST DAY
2/20 10 miles - 138.6
2/21 10 miles - 148.6
2/21 5 miles - 153.6 << Daily Double
2/22 4 miles - 157.6
2/23 10 miles - 167.6 << Hill Repeats x8
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 << 2:44:41
Elkmont Hound Dog Half (unofficial) - 1/21 << 1:46:48 2 OA
Elkmont Hound Dog Half (rescheduled) - 2/18 << 1:41:04 1 in AG & 24 OA
Kentucky Derby Marathon - 4/29
So sore this morning, but I was able to crank my 10 miles out in pretty decent time plus 8x Cabelas Hill Repeats.
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Haven't checked in here since Monday. I felt sick on Sunday but had to go to work Monday because we had no subs available.
Tuesday morning went to doctor and found out I had Influenza A. I have been in bed since then. I finally feel much better today but I had to concede last night there is no way I can run HM on Sunday. So my daughter decided to cancel coming down as well. It was supposed to be a fun mother-daughter weekend - Disney princess run, and then go to Universal on Monday. She was able to change her flight for free to come down Memorial weekend and we were able to cancel the room for free. However Disney no longer lets you cancel/get a deferral on a race -- so we both have $175 Disney Princess tee shirts that will be mailed to us. It may have been even more than that, I forgot because we had to pay last July. And it filled up in 3 minutes!
You'd think lying in bed for days I would be able to read all these posts and catch up. But I was so sick I just couldn't do anything other than post a quick status on my feed and go back to sleep. I did call doctor today afraid I had pneumonia or something because the cough is still bad and my chest tight (not heart - just coughing related). So they are calling in something for that.
@HonuNui - that is a beautiful picture! I would not be interested in taking a boat ride close to that myself.
Hope to catch up with everyone's runs later.
2/1 - strength training
2/2 - 4.30 miles
2/3 - rest day(5)
2/4 - cycling 34 miles
2/5 - Daytona HM - 2:22.01
2/6 - Strength training
2/7 - 3.5 miles
2/8 - Strength training + 3.1 miles with running group
2/9 - rest day (6)
2/10 - 4.1 miles
2/11 - 44 miles biking
2/12 - 53 miles biking
2/13 - 3.2 miles + strength training
2/14 - rest day (7)
2/15 - 5 miles + strength training
2/16 - 4 miles
2/17 - strength training
2/18 - 5 miles
2/19 - sick.
2/20 - sick
2/21 - flu
2/22- flu
2/23 - flu
Upcoming races
2/5/17 - Daytona Beach HM
2/26/17 - Disney Princess HM Orlando - DNS
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2/1-5.2 miles +1 mile with Stella
2/2-1.2 miles with Stella +6.9 miles solo
2/3-1 mile with Stella+2.3 shakeout miles
2/4-6.2 miles Cyclones Frozen 10K-PR!
2/5-14 miles
2/6-rest day
2/7-5.7 miles
2/8-7.5 miles
2/9-6 miles
2/10-unplanned rest day due to nagging hammie. Lots of yoga and foam rolling
2/11-20 miles
2/12-4 gimpy recovery miles
2/13-Rest Day
2/14-Unplanned rest day for hamstring
2/15-Unplanned rest day for hamstring/travel
2/16-3.4 miles-easin' back into it at the beach
2/17-4.5 miles
2/18-2.1 miles12/19-6.0 miles
2/20-10.2 miles
2/21-4.4 miles-1.4 miles with Stella + 3 miles solo
2/22-6 miles
Upcoming races:
March 12: Cincinnati Heart Mini Half Marathon
March 18: Shamrock Shuffle 10K
April 17: Boston Marathon
These are the races I am looking at for the next two months. I am trying to decide how to plan for them given my current hamstring problems along with Boston coming up soon. The Heart Mini is one that I do every year. It's a tough course, so not a PR, but I would really like to see if I can beat my course PR. Also, this race and the Shamrock Shuffle the following week are part of a competition series I entered with our local running store. It is a schedule of 12 races over the course of the year. You are awarded points according to where you place within your age group. Currently, after only one race, I am leading my age group. They only take the top 6 races, so I guess it would not be the end of the world if I did not race these two races hard, but sometimes that is easier said than done. Additionally, the Shamrock Shuffle course goes up a big hill that I run all the time. I own this hill, so I would love the opportunity to race it. Dilemmas!
Of course, all of this hinges on what is going on with the hamstring. I have requested an appointment with a PT and I am waiting for them to call back to schedule. I hope I can get in sooner than later. Yesterday's run felt pretty good. It was on the flat bike path. The hamstring was tight, but nothing too serious. Right now my legs just kind of feel like really tight muscles. I am going to do some body weight squats and lunges at lunch today and take a short, easy run on the bike path tonight. I am not going to push anything until I see the PT. then maybe I can make my decision about what to do with my next two races.
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BeeerRunner wrote: »@garygse Great job on your PR and I'm sure you'll do great in your upcoming HM. Which race are you doing? I've only got 2 races planned in DFW. One is a 5 mile trail race I just found out about yesterday. It's on the trails at Eagle Mountain Lake. I'm so excited since it's one of my fave places to run. The other is a HM night time trail race on the trails at Grapevine Lake.
@BeeerRunner I'm running the Frisco HM (http://runtexasbigstar.com/)...as this is only the second race that I'll have participated in, I'm looking forward to getting an official HM time set!2 -
BeeerRunner wrote: »OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »I hope everyone who is sick with all the sinus/cold/respiratory/flu crud feels better soon! We've had a lot of illness going around work and I'm trying my best to avoid it.
@lporter229 @Elise4270 Hawaii would be so fun! I watched a documentary on Netflix recently called Fat to Fit (if I'm remembering correctly). It's about an online weight loss group whose members started running to aid their weight loss. They're from all over the US and they decided to meet up and run a Ragnar race as a team. Most of them lost 50-100 pounds or even more and the documentary touches a little bit on each of their running and weight loss journeys. Pretty neat watch!lporter229 wrote: »@Elise4270- Did you say MFP MRC destination race??? I'm in! Can you imagine everyone here showing up for a race together? That would be awesome. And if it's Hawaii, then hell yeah!
That really would be great! I'd love to go!
You can count me in!! Would be soooo awesome and sooo fun!
2017 or 2018? Anyone serous? I hear it's a long flight but would be a great experience!
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BeeerRunner wrote: »OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »I hope everyone who is sick with all the sinus/cold/respiratory/flu crud feels better soon! We've had a lot of illness going around work and I'm trying my best to avoid it.
@lporter229 @Elise4270 Hawaii would be so fun! I watched a documentary on Netflix recently called Fat to Fit (if I'm remembering correctly). It's about an online weight loss group whose members started running to aid their weight loss. They're from all over the US and they decided to meet up and run a Ragnar race as a team. Most of them lost 50-100 pounds or even more and the documentary touches a little bit on each of their running and weight loss journeys. Pretty neat watch!lporter229 wrote: »@Elise4270- Did you say MFP MRC destination race??? I'm in! Can you imagine everyone here showing up for a race together? That would be awesome. And if it's Hawaii, then hell yeah!
That really would be great! I'd love to go!
You can count me in!! Would be soooo awesome and sooo fun!
2017 or 2018? Anyone serous? I hear it's a long flight but would be a great experience!
Start throwing out some dates y'all!
hmmm. I just checked out London to Hawaii flights August this year. nearly £1k and 19 hours with a stopover in Vancouver......this could be a pricey destination event!!!1 -
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That really would be great! I'd love to go![/quote]
You can count me in!! Would be soooo awesome and sooo fun![/quote]
2017 or 2018? Anyone serous? I hear it's a long flight but would be a great experience!
Start throwing out some dates y'all![/quote]
I'm in! er....wait....
Ok, I have 2 acres of grass you could set up tents on....
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Date :::: Miles :::: Feb MTD (goal = 70)
02/01/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 2.6
02/02/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 5.7
02/03/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 8.3
02/04/17 :::: 6.8 :::: 15.1
02/05/17 :::: 4.0 :::: 19.1
02/06/17 :::: 3.7 :::: 22.8
02/07/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 22.8
02/08/17 :::: 3.3 :::: 26.1
02/09/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 28.7
02/10/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 31.8
02/11/17 :::: 7.6 :::: 39.4
02/12/17 :::: 2.5 :::: 41.9
02/13/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 44.5
02/14/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 44.5
02/15/17 :::: 3.5 :::: 48.0
02/16/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 51.0
02/17/17 :::: 3.3 :::: 54.3
02/18/17 :::: 7.4 :::: 61.7
02/19/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 64.8
02/20/17 :::: 3.6 :::: 68.4
02/21/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 68.4
02/22/17 :::: 2.7 :::: 71.1
02/23/17 :::: 4.4 :::: 75.5
Great run today! Glorious morning weather so I took the dog for a hike and then decided to work from home for a bit and go back out for a run - before the forecast rain sets in. Ran an average 11:09 pace which is faster than I've been running my base runs, and for a longer distance. I'm excited about improvement there - little by little.
I'm over my goal of 70 miles for February. I think I can get 15 more in the next 5 days so I'm going to shoot for 90, which would make my 4th month in a row of at least 90 miles.2 -
@MobyCarp Thanks for your input on the strength training. I actually am not trying to power lift. Lighter weight more reps and building up to 5 sets is what I felt like best simulates the wear and tear on my muscles that running does. I appreciate Moby your thoughts on what good is it to "deadlift 245 lbs. for 3 reps"?
I know I can stick a 45 lb plate on each end and do 8 reps of squats. Now, I just stick a 25 lb plate and first started with 10 reps and built up to 15 reps and last Tuesday night did that for 5 sets (previously did only 3 sets).
deadlifts do get tricky as you suggested. I know if you don't do deadlifts correctly, that can mess you up bad. When I attempted to wrestle for Purdue back in the early 90's, I was fortunate to have a lifting coach walk over to me and said, that's way too much weight. Your form is way off. He helped me correct my deadlift form with lighter weight. So I remember that. Too many people try and lift with their shoulders and back which not only defeats the purpose of the deadlift but can cause injury. One of the key things about doing a deadlift is to let the arms just hang and let the legs do the work.
I integrate leg presses and lunges as well cause that really hits your glutes which you need powerful glutes to run. And lastly, one legged squats (with just body weight).0 -
With the new talk this month about training plans, I feel like I need to repost the link to my blog about training plans.
http://therunningstan.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-gripes-on-training-plans.html0 -
@Orphia 10miles is actually 16.1km so that's a strange distance - they could have built the pub 300m closer
I've only ever run 10miles in long slow training runs, but you can use the Daniel's formula to scale up your 10K time to get a time for 16.4km as follows:
Race Time = ((Race Dist / Reference Dist) ^ 1.06 ) * Reference Time
i.e. 16.4km Time = ((16.4/10)^1.06) * 10K Time
So, 16.4km Time = 1.69 * 10K Time
I find if you run those sorts of distances regularly it scales up well, but if not it can tend to think you'll run quicker. For example it scales quite well between my 1mile, 5K and 10K times but at HM or longer it gives me a time faster than I can currently run probably because I'm not used to those distances yet.
Thanks, very much, @dkabambe ! I appreciate you taking the time to write that out. My maths is failing me. What does ^ mean?
@Orphia ^ means "to the power of". e.g. ^2 is squared; ^3 is cubed so 5^3 = 5×5×5 = 125
Gets more difficult when not whole numbers after the ^ sign, but just trust that your phone/computer/calculator will know what it means!
You need to find the "tooda" button on your calculator. As in 1.64 to da 1.06th power.
So if you bring up a calculator on your PC up, then click view->scientific then you get a whole bunch more buttons than your standard calculator. One of the buttons has a big x with a smaller superscripted y on it. That is your "tooda" button. So if you type in 1.64 then hit the "tooda" button (you will actually see a ^ appear) then type in 1.06 then press the = button, you should see the result "1.6894077375288721317723699634075" which you can round off to just 1.69. I say that because pressing ^ with my pc's keyboard with the calculator app didn't do anything.
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2/1 - cross-training - zumba
2/2 - 7 mile general aerobic run
2/3 - 6 mile general aerobic run
2/4 - cross-training - zumba/weights
2/5 - 9 mile long run
2/6 - rest
2/7 - 6 mile general aerobic run / cross-training - weights
2/8 - cross-training - zumba+7 min elliptical
2/9 - active rest - shoveling/walk
2/10 - 7 mile LT tempo run on the dreadmill
2/11 - 2.5 mile LT pace run to the gym / zumba / 3.5 mile general aerobic run home
2/12 - rest/some shoveling - snow day!
2/13 - 9 mile long run
2/14 - 7 mile general aerobic run / cross-training - weights
2/15 - cross-training - zumba + a little weighted ab work
2/16 - 8 mile general aerobic run w/8x100m strides
2/17 - 6 mile general aerobic run / cross-training - weights
2/18 - cross-training - zumba
2/19 - 9 mile long run
2/20 - rest
2/21 - unscheduled rest (sinus infection)
2/22 - unscheduled rest (sinus infection)
2/23 - 6 mile general aerobic run / cross-training - zumba
Total: 86/116
194 miles/2,017 miles - goal for the year
I possibly wasn't quite ready to be doing 6 miles today, with this sinus infection. This run felt less than wonderful, and towards the end, slightly like death, lol. Of course I forgot to charge my Garmin, so it only made it through the first 4 miles, ugh. My HR was out of control, I'm assuming due the the combined effects of still being sick, being dosed up on decongestants, and it being 30° warmer than I'm currently acclimated to. The last 1-1.5 miles I really felt like I was almost completely out of gas. Good thing the last mile of this route is all slightly downhill. Will still get to zumba tonight, but probably won't be pushing myself. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better!
In happier news, I've been going a little race-crazy this year! Below are all the races I have planned so far, and this still leaves 5 race-less months for the year. I am a little insulted that our local Women's Distance Festival only has a 5k option, lol. Not sure it should really be called a 'distance festival'!
3/11 - Bill Fortune 10k
4/9 - JFK Runway 5k
4/29 - Run for the Wild 5k (through the Bronx Zoo)
5/14 - Tinkerbell HM (Disneyland)
6/4 - GW Bridge Challenge 10k
6/10 - NYRR New York Mini 10k
6/25 - Bay of Fundy HM
7/8 - Women’s Distance Festival 5k
9/10 - S. Nyack 10 Miler (registration not open yet)
11/9 - Philadelphia Marathon (registration opens 4/1)1 -
Feb 1 - 20ish min walk in my office building
Feb 2 - same as above
Feb 3 - 3 mile run, negative splits but slow
Feb 4 - taking down Christmas decorations
Feb 5 - half mile driveway walk with MIL, 1 hr workout dvd (cardio/strength)
Feb 6 - nothing
Feb 7 - 5 mile run, slooooow with "pickups" in the 3rd mile
Feb 8 - 30 mi light walking in office
Feb 9 - 3 mi run
Feb 10 - nothing? how'd that happen? spent day with hub
Feb 11 - 3.8 mi walk, 3.0 mile run - 22,000+steps!
Feb 12 - nope
Feb 13 - 3.5 mi run
Feb 14 - 1 hour cardio/strength workout
Feb 15 - 1 hour light walking
Feb 16 - 40 min light walking
Feb 17 - 5 mi run, 20 min arms/abs strength
Feb 18 - 3 mi run, 2 mi walk, 15 min lower body strength
Feb 19 - 2 mi bad run, 15 min arms/abs strength
Feb 20 - 1 hour indoor cardio/lower body strength workout, plus lots of walking
Feb 21 - 5 mile run
Feb 22 - Hour walking off and on
Feb 23 - 30 min total body strength workout (later)
Goal: 32.5/50 running miles (I'm just hoping to get to 40 at this point! Darn short February!)0 -
2/1- 8.1
2/2- REST
2/3- 4.23
2/4- 14.11
2/5- 3.16
2/6- 6.16
2/7- REST
2/8- 8.09
2/9- REST
2/10- 4.04
2.11- 14.01
2/12- 3.04
2/13- 6.06
2/14- 3.16
2/15- 8.15
2/16- REST
2/17- 4.66
2/18- 15.04
2/19- 4.03
2/20- 6.06
2/21- 3.66
2/22- 8.15
2/23- REST
Total: 123.91
Monthly goals:
Mileage goal: 150
Real Goal: Stay healthy enough to get into the swing of real marathon training.
Today's notes: As always, I felt pretty great yesterday, but really felt yesterday's workout today. Not feeling sore, just tired. This has become par for the course for rest days. I'm taking it as a good sigh though, that I feel really good on the run days, and the rest days are when I feel like garbage. Looking forward to tomorrow's easy 4 miles.
and, looking at my goal, it looks like I'll just barely reach it for the month, but that's OK, since it was based on making all my training runs.0 -
Be careful out there, runners (and drivers too!).
This story hits close to home. The victim used to run with my club, and the driver is well known in my professional circles. I never met either, but I read this story and it feels like a gut punch.0 -
@Calvin2008Brian - That sucks all the way around. Prayers for all.1
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Calvin2008Brian wrote: »Be careful out there, runners (and drivers too!).
This story hits close to home. The victim used to run with my club, and the driver is well known in my professional circles. I never met either, but I read this story and it feels like a gut punch.
@calvin2008brain how awful for everyone involved. My uncle was hit and killed while crossing the street in the crosswalk, the driver was making a right on red and never looked to her right. We all need to learn to pay better attention.0 -
@MobyCarp Thanks for your input on the strength training. I actually am not trying to power lift. Lighter weight more reps and building up to 5 sets is what I felt like best simulates the wear and tear on my muscles that running does. I appreciate Moby your thoughts on what good is it to "deadlift 245 lbs. for 3 reps"?
I know I can stick a 45 lb plate on each end and do 8 reps of squats. Now, I just stick a 25 lb plate and first started with 10 reps and built up to 15 reps and last Tuesday night did that for 5 sets (previously did only 3 sets).
deadlifts do get tricky as you suggested. I know if you don't do deadlifts correctly, that can mess you up bad. When I attempted to wrestle for Purdue back in the early 90's, I was fortunate to have a lifting coach walk over to me and said, that's way too much weight. Your form is way off. He helped me correct my deadlift form with lighter weight. So I remember that. Too many people try and lift with their shoulders and back which not only defeats the purpose of the deadlift but can cause injury. One of the key things about doing a deadlift is to let the arms just hang and let the legs do the work.
I integrate leg presses and lunges as well cause that really hits your glutes which you need powerful glutes to run. And lastly, one legged squats (with just body weight).
The only benefit to deadlifting 245 lbs. for 3 reps is bragging rights to other weight lifters. With my focus on running rather than lifting now, I see the deadlift as a vanity lift. You can lift more weight doing a deadlift than any other lift there is, so you get that huge number to brag about. But even if you can competently deadlift a lot of weight, you could still mess up your feet running from having weak hip abductors. (Been there, done that.)
I gave up deadlifts entirely after hearing my PT's opinion of them. Turns out the PT can give me all kinds of exercises that don't use very much weight, but can kick my *kitten* while targeting whatever area I happen to need to rehab.
When I was focused on lifting, I saw a guy I knew in the gym doing Samson squats with a 75 lb. dumbbell. I thought, what a wimp. I can squat 150, 160 lbs. and he's only using 75 lbs. My perspective now is, he knew what he was doing. He was a runner, and 75 lbs. was enough to get his quads strong enough for running. Heck, 50 lbs. is probably enough for me to keep the quads healthy while running; I use 75 because I can and because it's a bigger number. I do 3 sets of 10 reps, because that's an easy number to remember and it's enough. I'm not trying to get massively good at squats, I'm trying to support my running. Adding more weight or more reps doesn't appear to have enough benefit to be worth the time and increased risk of injury.
But I say this as someone who always lifted to be strong, not because he loved lifting. If you love lifting, the picture likely changes a bit.
I'm still pondering the distinction between muscular strength and muscular endurance. As a distance runner, I'm more interested in good muscular endurance than great muscular strength. I don't need to be strong enough to lift 500 lbs. with my legs; but I need the muscular endurance to lift my body weight with my legs for 50,000+ reps on Patriots' Day.0 -
BeeerRunner wrote: »@garygse Great job on your PR and I'm sure you'll do great in your upcoming HM. Which race are you doing? I've only got 2 races planned in DFW. One is a 5 mile trail race I just found out about yesterday. It's on the trails at Eagle Mountain Lake. I'm so excited since it's one of my fave places to run. The other is a HM night time trail race on the trails at Grapevine Lake.
@BeeerRunner I'm running the Frisco HM (http://runtexasbigstar.com/)...as this is only the second race that I'll have participated in, I'm looking forward to getting an official HM time set!
@garygse Well, you're just not messing around with those small races are you? Lol! Sounds like you'll have an awesome race! I've done 2 HMs and I really like the distance so I've got quite a few planned for this summer. They're all trail races though, except if I do one in Chicago, but that depends if I can make a work trip out of it.1 -
@KatieJane83 Sounds like you need more rest... Take care and don't do too much too fast. You'll recover faster if you let your body get the rest it needs.1
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BeeerRunner wrote: »BeeerRunner wrote: »@garygse Great job on your PR and I'm sure you'll do great in your upcoming HM. Which race are you doing? I've only got 2 races planned in DFW. One is a 5 mile trail race I just found out about yesterday. It's on the trails at Eagle Mountain Lake. I'm so excited since it's one of my fave places to run. The other is a HM night time trail race on the trails at Grapevine Lake.
@BeeerRunner I'm running the Frisco HM (http://runtexasbigstar.com/)...as this is only the second race that I'll have participated in, I'm looking forward to getting an official HM time set!
@garygse Well, you're just not messing around with those small races are you? Lol! Sounds like you'll have an awesome race! I've done 2 HMs and I really like the distance so I've got quite a few planned for this summer. They're all trail races though, except if I do one in Chicago, but that depends if I can make a work trip out of it.
My first race ever will be a HM in 3 weeks. 2 months after that I do a marathon!
I may or may not squeeze another race in between.3 -
I just realized there's only 5 more days/runs left in February! Having fewer days this month does put more of a crunch on getting the miles in!1
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midwesterner85 wrote: »@7lenny7 Those eyes in the photo... are they bigfoots (bigfeet?) out there?
I've been in a slump, which is really affecting training for my race on 4/1. I was running nearly every day until 2/14. Then was super busy and didn't get another run in until 2/19. And now, I haven't run since then... been feeling generally unwell with some BG fluctuations (long story) and have been super busy and very tired. If I don't get out for a run tonight, the next chance won't be until Sun. (possibly Sat., depending how things go).
I know I will feel better when I run regularly, but being exhausted makes it tough to get my first foot out the door. If I'm going to make my goal (or get anywhere close), I can't miss a medium length run tonight and 3 more days this month.
@midwesterner85 - I've found that when I'm tired and short of sleep, my motivation goes down the toilet. The good news is, when I feel like you describe and just focus on getting enough sleep for a few days, the motivation comes right back. Being generally unwell might make this a bit more complicated for you, but my advice would be focus first on getting enough rest and enough sleep. I predict that will make it a lot easier to get the first foot out the door.
Well, it looks like another 12 hr. day at work today anyway. I won't be home until after dark and just going to try to get some rest tonight. I will not reach my goal this month. FML0 -
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