March 2017 Running Challenge
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@dkabambe Way to go. That's a great time, I think first time out. I was so sore after my first half I immediately told anyone that cared I'm never running that distance again. I did though. As far as calf, I get pretty much the same (they spasm out and I can't even move my legs) thing by mile 8 or so the last two that I've run. And last year it stayed an issue for at least two weeks. I talked to my, "primary care" physician about it and she recommended magnesium. Did the trick. I now take before every run 10 miles or more and every bike ride over 36 mi.
@dpwellman - Thanks for the tip about Magnesium. I do have some Epsom Salts so will chuck them in a bath tomorrow if the calf still feels as it does. Not sure how I'll feel tomorrow, but right now on a massive high and would definitely do it again!
The medal itself is a fairly chunky affair which is nice and then there were a couple of food bits: Coconut Lemon Protein Energy Ball, Coconut & Chia bites and a Peanut Butter squeeze pack. Not pictured was a bag of cappuccino flavoured popcorn as I had eaten those! There was also a pack of small post-it notes of the official charity. The T-shirt is a medium weight cotton affair and seems to be decent enough quality, but no sign of the promised Salomon Head ruff that listed in the small print. Assuming they meant a head buff, I don't mind as I have a few anyway and never really use them.
NB: They have just removed the results from website with a note saying they're being updated, so hopefully will get official times soon! (And yes, I have been checking every 2 minutes!)16 -
"Even a bad run is better than no run"
That's what my running motivation calendar had to say for this weekend. Maybe the calendar was predictive, because Saturday's run really sucked. Part of it was the weather - I didn't mind the cool temps and the light drizzle, but the really, really strong wind was another story. Even worse were the new running socks I wore for the first time that day; they had a really stupid seam across the toes, and that turned out to chafe. A lot. It got so bad I had to turn back home, where I arrived after 7 instead of my planned 16km. I was sorely tempted to call it a day; especially since by then I had matching blisters on both feet from the stupid socks.
In the end, I just put a thick coat of bike chamois crem on the blisters and changed into some old socks and the shoes with the roomiest toebox I own, then headed back out into the horrible weather. The toes were actually not hurting too much, but it was such a struggle against the wind, I kept arguing with myself for the rest of the run wether I should cut it short or not. I finished the planned 16km in the end, but I was completely wiped out afterwards.
Overnight, the weather changed completely. 16°C and sunshine. A nice surprise for my long run day!
Luckily, yesterday's blisters mostly healed overnight. Only one of them was bothering me for the first few kilometres, and then I mostly managed to forget about it. All in all, the first ~22km were really nice - well, there was a long hill from km-10 to 14, without the tiniest bit of shade, after which I was soaked in sweat and wishing for a return of winter
, but mostly nice. But after that my legs started feeling really heavy; guess that windy run yesterday was just as tiring as it felt... I hadn't planned my route exactly, so I already got back to my apartment after 29.5km. Again, really tempted to stop right there. I think if it had been even the teensiest bit above 30km, I would have... Instead I just dropped my hydration pack and ran another small loop to get to 32km. And now I'm really glad tomorrow will be a rest day! 10 -
Congrats on your first and an impressive half marathon! Hope your calf recovers quickly.
Date :::: Miles :::: March MTD (goal = 95)
03/01/17 :::: 2.3 :::: 2.3
03/02/17 :::: 6.7 :::: 9.0
03/03/17 :::: 5.1 :::: 14.1
03/04/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 17.2
03/05/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 19.9
03/06/17 :::: 4.4 :::: 24.2
03/07/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 24.2
03/08/17 :::: 2.7 :::: 26.9
03/09/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 29.5
03/10/17 :::: 3.5 :::: 33.0
03/11/17 :::: 2.7 :::: 35.7
03/12/17 :::: 7.7 :::: 43.4
03/13/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 46.0
03/14/17 :::: 5.0 :::: 51.0
03/15/17 :::: 3.5 :::: 54.4
03/16/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 54.4
03/17/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 54.4
03/18/17 :::: 7.4 :::: 61.8
03/19/17 :::: 4.0 :::: 65.9
A lovely 43 degrees F outside this afternoon so took an easy-paced 4 mile run on the mostly dry streets. Felt a little better than yesterday's long cold run, but my left leg is still a little twingey from my cross-country skiing on Friday. I'm doing a lot of stretching and will try some rolling too. I don't think it's anything major and it seemed to feel better rather than worse to get it moving.
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I haven't been here for a while due to work demands and a family emergency. I spent Tuesday evening after training in the trauma ER with my daughter's grandma (84 yo friend who lives across the street). She fell while watering her plants and hit her forehead on a large rock. Amazingly she never lost consciousness and did not break anything. She does have a massive head would that took many hours to have stitched. She came home from the hospital yesterday and we have been busy visiting her and then getting her house clean and in order (this after my much needed long run yesterday!). I thought about running today since I missed out on my Friday run but I think I was still pretty exhausted and just slept in this morning. On top of all of that work has just been a zoo and I put in a 60 hour week. I am looking forward to getting back to my schedule tomorrow - it seems like I have been saying that a lot lately!
Just a couple of call-outs here as I am way too far behind to co back and catch up on everyone -
@dkabambe - Congratulations! Awesome time, pictures and bling!!
@Elise4270 - I love your new picture with Alex! I am so glad you had a chance to spend the weekend with him and his buddy! I will be hoping for Germany or Japan too! Once he gets to Ft Stewart you will have to post the new address.
@WhatMeRunning - Look at you getting faster and faster again!
Date........Miles.......Total
03/01......0.00........0.00
03/02......5.20........5.20 - Treadmill/Home from St. Louis
03/03......6.02......11.22
03/04......9.40......20.62
03/05......2.68......23.30
03/06......5.23......28.53 - + Agility class
03/07......4.17......32.70 - + Strength Training
03/08......0.00......32.70
03/09......5.36......38.06 - + Strength Training and Rally class
03/10......4.17......42.23
03/11....10.28......52.51
03/12......3.18......55.69
03/13......4.49......60.18 - + Agility class
03/14......5.46......65.64 - + Strength Training
03/15......0.00......65.64
03/16......5.48......71.12 - + Rally class
03/17......0.00......71.12 - Crazy life and work day
03/18......8.70......79.82
03/19......0.00......79.82
My completed and upcoming Races - Let me know if you will be running too!
02/05/17 - Surf City Half Marathon
07/23/17 - San Francisco 1st Half Marathon6 -
Thanks all for your messages, and your support the last few months which has instrumental in me getting this far. Anyway, official times are now out and mine is 1:51:00. I'm literally in shock at the moment!17
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18 km my PB
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@juliet3455 That's a sweet little hill in the middle of your run Not surprising your legs were tired on the run back.
@RespectTheKitty Sorry that you are sick. Gett well soon! After a 48 day exercise streak, you've earned some rest.
@garygse That's more than decent elevation for 7 miles, sounds like you found some nice hills to run your repeats!
@9voice9 You can manually enter a 10k PR on Strava (go to your profile and, next to "All-Time PRs", click on "Add PR"). You can still link that to the corresponding activity. You won't get the achievement, but it will show up as a PR on your Strava profile. Not the same, but that's what I did for my last half marathon when Strava "cheated" me out of the last few meters.
@RodrigoBuntan Congratulations on your amazing achievements! 10k PR and a new distance PR in the same week, awesome!
@midwesterner85 Even if your pace is not what you want now; with race day adrenaline you might still be faster!
@patrikc333 Sounds like a tough run. Talking donughts would freak me out! At least with the marathon only two weeks out, you can now relax a bit and start tapering, right? Will it be your first marathon?
Snowshoe and cross-country skis sound like quite the workout, kudos for doing a hilly run the next day!
@WhatMeRunning That's brilliant that your run today felt so good, you're making a great comeback.
@dkabambe Great race report, and an awesome first half marathon too! I've never heard about the chip times getting messed up like that, good that they figured it out. And your time is even more incredible than you thought, wow! Love the photos
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Thanks @shanaber. @Stoshew71 I told Alex in one of my letters to EMBRACE THE SUCK. Idk if that's an Army/military term or not, but he and the soldier I had this weekend used the term freely. Haha!
Private Winchester can be written at the same address. Great kid. He's a "Nasty Girl" (national guard). He's from Hawaii. He's Alex's bunkmate.5 -
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
3/6 – rest day
3/7 – 10.20 warm up, speed work, cool down
3/8 – 7.02 easy
3/9 – 14.25 easy with MP finish
3/10 – rest day
3/11 – 10.10 warm up + race
3/12 – 9.65 easy with hills
3/13 – 5.01 easy + 4 strides
3/14 – snow day
3/15 – snow day
3/16 – 8.05 easy
3/17 – travel day
3/18 – 6.40 commutes + race
3/19 – 11.18 MP interval
March total to date – 131.04
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 – Yesterday's report still hasn't posted. I overlooked my total mileage of 11.18 miles less than today's containing a number that MFP considers spam. For those interested, the short description of yesterday is: Running national USATF races is fun. Traveling to them sucks. I ran a PR 30:59 8K in near perfect running weather. That's an average pace of 6:14 per mile or 3:52 per kilometer, about what I had been thinking of as a good 5K pace. My result was good for 8th of 18 in the M 60-64 age group in the USATF Masters 8K, 8th of 139 in the age group of the Shamrock 8K as a whole. I was 42nd of 161 overall in the USATF Masters 8K, 73rd of 7760 overall in the Shamrock 8K as a whole. I think the serious racers who weren't competing in the USATF Masters event did the Shamrock Half or Shamrock Marathon instead of the 8K. I earned no individual or team honors; the USATF national events bring out a tough field to compete in.
One of the consequences of the sucky travel yesterday was that I got home at 1 AM this morning. That let me get back on track with marathon training late this afternoon. Today's assignment was 4 miles easy, 3 miles MP, 4 miles easy. Temperature was near 40º F (4º C) with 8 mph N wind. It felt great. Mile splits were 8:18, 8:10, 7:52, 7:53, 7:21, 7:23, 7:16, 7:52, 7:49, 7:59, and 7:42. Then after the Garmin ticked 11 miles I ran a simulated finish line kick to my driveway, which Garmin says was a 6:02 pace. Got some good stretches in, and all is right with the world again.
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) finished in 33:25
March 18, 2017 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Shamrock 8K, Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 30:59, PR for 8K
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)
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March goal: lose (another)3lbs
3/1 2.54 + core/strength training 30m
3/2 3.20
3/3 5.25
3/4 yoga 45m
3/5 rest
3/6 4.17
3/7 3.55
3/8 4.00
3/9 rest
3/10 2.05 and yoga 30m
3/11 lazy
3/12 3.74
3/13 snorkel 4 hours
3/14 6.38
3/15 snorkel 2 hours
3/16 2.25 + yoga 30min
3/17 4.14
3/18 rest
3/19 3.10
Ran the 5k at Big Island International Marathon (...and other runs....) and all I got was this lousy keychain!
...oh yeah, and this plaque for first place in my age group (1 of 13) (it's good to be old.....). Today was the first time in a LONG time that I actually felt like a runner instead of an old lady moving faster than normal...
And since I presume most of you don't have Taiko drummers to start off your races: here is a clip of the 1/2 marathon start:
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Total: 44.37
@dkabambe Awesome job on your first half!
Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:
Completed and upcoming races:
Run through the solar system Virtual 10k: 3/14
Big Island International Marathon (---just doing the 5k) 3/1919 -
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
3/6 5.1r + 5.1w + 1200m row
3/7 7.1r + 3.5w
3/8 0.0r + 3.25w
3/9 5.3r + 1.25w + 1000m row
3/10 0.0r + 5.8w
3/11 7.0r + 1.0w
3/12 5.25r + 0.0w
3/13 5.3r + 4.4w
3/14 5.6r + 4.55w
3/15 7.2r + 4.5w + 1000m row
3/16 5.2r + 5.4w
3/17 0.0r + 3.7w
3/18 0.0r + 2.3w (sick)
3/19 4.0r + 0.0w (still sick)
Total so far: 87.4r + 62.75w = 150.15 miles
Still sick today, and for some reason my lower back hurts as well. Only did an easy four miles. My back felt okay during the run, but now it's really sore. Hoping it doesn't get any worse. I used to have lower back pain all the time, but haven't had much of it in the last year since I've gotten more active. So, not sure what's going on.5 -
3/1 - cross-training - strength training
3/2 - 7 mile general aerobic run (Holy wind Batman!)
3/3 - 8 mile general aerobic run
3/4 - cross-training - zumba
3/5 - 11 mile long run
3/6 - rest
3/7 - 5 mile general aerobic run w/6x :12 sec (gentle) uphills
3/8 - rest - sick
3/9 - 4 miles - still sick
3/10 - cross-training - strength training
3/11 - cross-trainng - zumba
3/12 - 6 mile dreadmill run - only 2 coughing bouts and 3 tissues used
3/13 - cross-training - strength training
3/14 - shoveling
3/15 - 5 mile dreadmill run
3/16 - 7 miles (huzzah, finally a decent distance again!)
3/17 - 8 miles
3/18 - cross-training - zumba
3/19 - 12 mile long run
March Total: 73/145
281 miles/2,017 miles - goal for the year
After the past almost month of being sick and missing some of my mileage I really needed this run. It was such a mental boost of confidence getting an almost half marathon distance in, with 2 months still to go before my next half. Took it easy on the first 9 miles, managed nice negative splits on the last 3, and still finished feeling pretty darn strong. Legs feel great. I definitely need a new battery in my heart rate transmitter though, or otherwise I need to be in the hospital, lol. 203 bpm while running easy on a flat path within the first few miles, but 150 bpm in the 12th mile? I don't think so!
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Congratulations @HonuNui!0
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March 1- 15km
March 2- 18km
March 3- 15km
March 4- 22km
March 5- 13km
March 6- Rest
March 7- 16km
March 8- 13.7km
March 9- 1.6km (RIP Treadmill
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March 10 & 11 - Snowing/Most Depressing Days Ever
March 12- 11.1km
March 13- 11.1km
March 14 to 17- Husband OOT
March 18- 7km
March 19- 9km
152.5/250km
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I'm baaacckkk! Lol! Had an awesome ski vacation last week. I didn't fall once!! While the NE got pounded with snow, Colorado had temps in the 40s and 50s at the base of the mountain our last ski day. My 9 year old did awesome. On our last day, he braved the terrain park and some moguls, only fell once! BTW, Copper Mountain is where we went...I would highly recommend it. My favorite Colorado ski area so far.
I'm 385 posts behind...yikes! My son played 7 soccer games over the weekend, so I fit in running where I could. Its hot here in Tx, so trying to run early mornings again. Ran a 10 mile trail run on some mountain bike trails that I haven't explored before. It was tough, and there were times I wanted to stop and walk, which hasn't happened to me in a while. I'd just remind myself that I ran a marathon so I can totally do this. It was fun, and I'm glad I pushed through.
On a good note, the runner’s knee I had in my right knee during marathon training seems to have completely disappeared. I can run downhill again with no issues at all. However, skiing has aggravated the arthritis I have in my left knee. It bothered me yesterday, and in the 1st few miles today, but once I was warmed up, the knee pain was non existent.
Hope everyone has a great week! Gonna do my best to catch up.11
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