March 2017 Running Challenge

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  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    dpwellman wrote: »
    JessicaMcB wrote: »
    @dpwellman I am fairly certain I've effed up (idk how, I'm not booking into my ortho over this lol) the bone in the top of my left foot, about two inches up on the tendon near my big toe. If I put any pressure on the foot it's fine but when the tension is released there is sharp pain and the area is visibly raised through my socks.
    If it's not a metatarsal stress fracture. . . Does it feel better with shoes on or off and whether your laces are tied or not?
    If anyone has any great shoe recommendations for overpronation I am ready to absorb all your shoe feelings
    Go with comfort. My shoe recommendation has always been go with the most minimal shoe one can, er, stand. My current favorites are Flyknit Nike Free Motion (previously Free 4.0), but Free 5.0 / RN Distance would be a better bet for most. Seeif you can try Nike Free RN Distance and Brooks PureCadence

    Thanks for the shoes suggestions, I'll add them to the try list for my trip to the city in a couple of weeks! My ortho surgeon is always pushing me to go for more shoe and is a big Saucony fan but I feel like it's gonna be too much shoe for me.

    It is a bit better with shoes off but walking around in my socks it is still there. At its worst/limpiest with my shoes on and laced
  • MissMaggieMuffin
    MissMaggieMuffin Posts: 444 Member
    RespectTheKitty wrote: »
    Look what was waiting for me when I got home yesterday!

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    Fancy!

    Love the shoe porn!! :smiley:
  • KeepRunningFatboy
    KeepRunningFatboy Posts: 3,055 Member
    WK: 2/27/17 - 3/5/17
    M - 8 m. TM - 9:30 pace.
    T - 10.4 m. TM - 8:50 pace.
    W - 3 m. TM - 10:00 pace.
    T - 7.3 m. TM - 8:38 pace.
    F - 9 m. TM - 9:20 pace.
    S - 9 m. TM - 9:15 pace
    S - 20 M LR - 9:55 pace
    Total -66.7 m.

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  • RespectTheKitty
    RespectTheKitty Posts: 1,667 Member
    3/1 6.3r + 4.2w
    3/2 7.25r + 4.5w + 1000m row
    3/3 6.5r + 4.8w
    3/4 10.2r + 0.5w
    3/5 0.0r + 4.0w
    Total so far: 30.25r + 18.0w = 48.25 miles

    Resting my stiff legs today, so just walking for me. I may not even make 10,000 steps today, oh the horror.
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    edited March 2017
    @BeeerRunner and @ariceroni - I definitely need the wine shirt too, it would go well with my 'Will Run for Wine' hat :smiley:
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    Non running check in for today. Knee felt really good most of the day. Then I installed my little guys new car seat, a forward facer! And *kitten* up my knee by k ealing in the back seat of my truck for 20 minutes. Bad news: it hurt like he'll for a half hour. Good news: I went up and down the stairs twice in thr last hour with no pain!

    I'm going to rest, with a little walking tomorrow just to be safe, then try cycling at the gym on Tuesday. If everything seems good I MIGHT try a short jog on Friday, but probably not.

    Hoping the few days of rest is all it takes. Just glad I stopped running when I did. Nice to see I can learn to stop and not just push myself into further injury.
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    Thanks @dpwellman ! My current issue is courtesy of my Nike's haha ;)

    So I set out to make today a rest day...I'm not very good at rest days incidentally :/

    March 1- 15km
    March 2- 18km
    March 3- 15km
    March 4- 22km
    March 5- 13km

    83/250km
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    Take it easy @MNLittleFinn , you've got a marathon to slay after all!
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    JessicaMcB wrote: »
    Take it easy @MNLittleFinn , you've got a marathon to slay after all!

    Copy that. I always just think ahead. Real plan is rest tomorrow thesee if I can cycle the rest of the week and see about building back into running next week.
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    March Running Totals (miles)
    3/1 – 7.32 easy with hills
    3/2 – 13.10 long intervals
    3/3 – rest day
    3/4 – 16.09 paced run
    3/5 – 12.67 easy with hills

    March total to date – 49.18

    Nominal Challenge Goal – 225 miles
    Real Goals: Stay healthy. Train well toward Boston. Run well at the USATF Masters 8K Championship in Virginia Beach.

    Today's notes – Today's assignment was 60 minutes easy, but after yesterday's snowy debacle I thought I'd add a few miles. 14 miles sounded good when I was planning.

    Got out to run a bit past 2 PM, with the temperature up to 28º F (-2º C) and supposed to rise a bit. It ended up rising all the way to 30º F (-1º C) by the time I got done. Because the plan for yesterday specified "with hills" and there weren't any significant hills where I paced, today I took a route with hills. The base route is 10 miles, but I can do some things near the end to add distance.

    The wind was from the ENE, and was a bit stronger and colder than I expected. The wind in the winter here usually has a strong westerly component, so today different parts of the run were uncomfortably cold than I'm used to. On the bright side, it was quite warm enough where I was running with the wind, and we had an uncharacteristically sunny day in the winter.

    Got through the last of the major hills on the route about 9 miles in, and I was feeling a bit tired. Spent some time debating 12 vs. 14 miles. And then, on the relatively flat terrain, I started back into that wind that hadn't been a problem for quite a while. 12 miles won. And I found a gravel road I'd planned to run was still snow covered, duh! It hasn't warmed up all that much from yesterday, and that road won't be treated with salt. So I had to run a bit further around. And I felt like quitting.

    The last mile and a half was all mental games. Going MP, slow down and rest a bit. Want to quit. It's a long walk home, but it won't take so long running. You can run to the base of that minor hill before you quit. You can run up this minor hill, it's nothing compared to what you've already done today. You can run to the next corner, it's downhill. It's only a quarter mile to home, and it's time for the rest room jog.

    Got home at 12.67 miles, took the necessary break, and thought that I must have had lousy pace control to be this beat after 12 lousy miles. Look at the stats. The pace wasn't all that fast. Average HR 127, max 145. Less than a minute in Zone 3, more than an hour in Zone 1, and a bit over a half hour in Zone 2. That sure looks like an easy run; how did I manage that little time in Zone 3 with all those hills?

    I concluded that I wasn't all that tired on the whole, but I had tired legs just as though I'd run a full 22 miles yesterday. The wanting to quit feeling came right around the time it came in the easy 100 minute run the day after my last 22 mile run. And sure enough, I was just under 100 minutes today; if I'd decided on an easy 100 minutes, I could have run another minute and a half past my driveway to achieve that. It didn't help that my sweat made the back of my neck sting; I ended up getting sunburn on the back of my neck, in March, running in cold weather. I hadn't even known that particular patch of skin was exposed to the sun! (Memo to self: Pack sunscreen for Boston. There is no premium package to hand it to me this year.)

    After a good stretching session (something I missed yesterday) and a shower, I felt much better. Rest day tomorrow, and I think my legs need it. Then I'll be back on the plan more or less as written. The legs are tired, not hurt. One day of rest should take care of that.

    2017 races:
    January 1, 2017 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY) Finished in 50:45
    January 7, 2017 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) Finished in 1:32:40
    January 14, 2017 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds Park 5 mile) (Spencerport, NY) Finished in 33:42
    January 28, 2017 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY) short course, finished 4.88 miles in 32:50
    February 4, 2017 USATF Cross Country National Championship Masters 8K (Bend, OR) Finished in 35:39, team won the 60+ Men's cross country championship
    February 11, 2017 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) sat out due to training schedule
    February 25, 2017 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) short course, finished 4.34 miles in 27:51
    March 11, 2017 Johnny's Runnin' of the Green 5 mile (Rochester, NY)
    March 18, 2017 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Virginia Beach, VA)
    April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)

  • bmelb1
    bmelb1 Posts: 224 Member
    Still torturing myself with the foam roller but it does seem to be helping my shins, they didn’t feel as stiff and sore today after my run/walk.

    3/1 3.54 = 3.54
    3/3 3.49 = 7.03
    3/5 3.48 = 10.51
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    Goal = 50 km run/walk

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    Upcoming Races:
    St. Patrick’s Day 5 km - 3/18
    Ottawa Tamarack 10km - 5/27
    Scotiabank Canada Day Road Race 10 km – 7/1
    Pure Protein Night Race 10 km – 8/12
    Canada Army Run HM - 9/17
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    Trail run was cut short yesterday, so no need to wait an extra day to recover. Did a run around town then.

    Something I like about my Garmin is that it calculates recovery time after a run. I'm not sure how accurate it really is, but it gives me a target. Yesterday's run gave me a recovery time of 26 hours and I stayed pretty close to that. Today was 19 hours... I'll be a bit beyond that, but not too far off for a run tomorrow evening.

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  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    midwesterner85 wrote: »
    Trail run was cut short yesterday, so no need to wait an extra day to recover. Did a run around town then.

    Something I like about my Garmin is that it calculates recovery time after a run. I'm not sure how accurate it really is, but it gives me a target. Yesterday's run gave me a recovery time of 26 hours and I stayed pretty close to that. Today was 19 hours... I'll be a bit beyond that, but not too far off for a run tomorrow evening.

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    You can't trust the Garmin calculated recovery time. If I stop my watch after a 2 mile warm up, it says I need 11 hours of recovery. I don't think so; I stop the watch because it will be 15 to 30 minutes between the warm up and the real workout, not because I'm done for the day.

    You're better off paying attention to your body and whether it feels like you still need a few more hours of recovery.
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    @midwesterner85 - That Garmin recovery advisor has given me some seriously crazy recovery times before. Some runs the number seems right, other times it is way off.
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    edited March 2017
    WhatMeRunning wrote: »
    @midwesterner85 - That Garmin recovery advisor has given me some seriously crazy recovery times before. Some runs the number seems right, other times it is way off.

    I've not seen anything too crazy, but I'm not sure if it is right either. It does give me something to target, though.

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