April 2017 Running Challenge

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  • juliet3455
    juliet3455 Posts: 3,015 Member
    edited April 2017
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    skippygirlsmom wrote: »
    OMG the local Fleet Feet is hiring, Skip already sent me a text asking if she can apply. Good Lordie we will not have any money if she is in THAT store all the time.
    @skippygirlsmom Staff Discount = Momma gets new kicks.
    Now I have an urge for Ice Cream - I wonder what caused that??

    @lporter229 Great Race report - Tip my hat to you for a BQ @BM. Glad to hear that you ran with a Canadian Lady for a while ( my people ) drawing support from each other. Your comments about Heart Break Hill reflect what my friend/mentor/coach Ken said about Heart Break Hill, he has 5 BM Completions. As he put it they need to put a sign on the Hill so people realize what/where they are. Supposedly there is a statue of John Kelly at the base of the Hill that is not visible from the road. Saying that I must add that in the heat of events he can be Course Blind, if his shoe doesn't land on it he won't see it.

    14 km today - missed the regular Wednesday night shorty (5-7k) Club run for a run up Judah Hill. My Strava of Todays run and the other March 20 run I completed on the same Route.
    I initially though that I had a big improvement in pace, then realized I was comparing a 13.5km run to a 14km run.
    Yet Garmin Connect definitely shows a 4 minute difference in time between the March 20 run and Todays run, not sure why Strava shows nothing different. :|

    I Think I figured it out. Strava seems to use Elapsed Time and Garmin Connect is using Moving Time. Which means Strava does not delete the Stop/Rest Time.

    Even though it was only 4C I was a wet sloppy mess by the time I was done. Still managed to add a little kick in the last 500m to get my pace down to 5:49/km.
    Now where is that Honey Brown Brew hiding. ;)

    04/01 0.0 km – 140. km – 0.0 km – YTD 300.05
    04/02 6.5 km – 135.5km - 6.5km
    04/05 5.2 km – 130.3km - 11.7km
    04/08 21.3 km – 109.0km - 33.0km
    04/12 5.0 km – 104.0km - 38.0km
    04/15 12.1 km – 89.9km - 50.1km
    04/16 5.0 km – 84.9km - 55.1km
    04/17 5.3 km – 79.6km - 60.4km
    04/19 14.0 km – 65.6km - 74.4km – YTD 374.4 Judah Hill Climb from home.

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  • ereck44
    ereck44 Posts: 1,170 Member
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    @lporter229 That was a terrific recap and worth the wait. I love how you didn't recognize Heartbreak Hill as if you faced harder hills than that. So amazing. I hope that you heal quickly.
  • ereck44
    ereck44 Posts: 1,170 Member
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    So planned and ran 12 miles today. Legs were fairly fresh until mile 9....and then could feel myself slowing down a lot. Also having more difficulty than expected with lungs. My mother's basement has a mold issue...I hope that I didn't inhale any spores. Or it could be that I am not in as great a shape as I want to be. I finished 12 miles in 153 minutes, had to stop once to tie shoes. My music shut off after 6.5 miles due to my forgetting to charge my mp3 player. Very tough to run without music. Had a little cramping in left calf at mile 6 which didn't last long. I had a pretty full meal 2 hours earlier....going to change that. Light meals from now on. 2 hours is still not enough time to digest prior to a long run.

    This will probably be my last run x 1 week. I am working the next 3 nights (12 hour shifts). On Sunday probably need to pack. My husband and I are headed to Nashville TN. On the agenda is a Joe Walsh/Tom Petty concert Tuesday night at the Bridgestone.


    4/19...12 miles
    4/18...4 miles
    4/17...8 miles
    4/14....8 miles
    4/12....4.36 miles
    4/9....10 miles
    4/8....8 miles
    4/2....9 miles

    Total ....63.36 miles
    goal...50 miles

    Indianapolis Mini Marathon (Half Marathon)....May 6
    Geist Reservoir Half...May 20
    Indy Women's Half Marathon....September 30 (tentative)





  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
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    juliet3455 wrote: »
    14 km today - missed the regular Wednesday night shorty (5-7k) Club run for a run up Judah Hill. My Strava of Todays run and the other March 20 run I completed on the same Route.
    I initially though that I had a big improvement in pace, then realized I was comparing a 13.5km run to a 14km run.
    Yet Garmin Connect definitely shows a 4 minute difference in time between the March 20 run and Todays run, not sure why Strava shows nothing different. :|

    I Think I figured it out. Strava seems to use Elapsed Time and Garmin Connect is using Moving Time. Which means Strava does not delete the Stop/Rest Time.

    Now you've confused ME. Not sure what you're saying. My Strava is always different and shorter than Garmin because Strava only shows moving time, and Garmin shows total time.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
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    Happy Birthday @jessicalferrara!

    Happy Birthday @kgirlhart!

    @7lenny7 "Proprioception" is my word of the week. Thanks!

    "Proprioception (/ˌproʊprioʊˈsɛpʃən, -priə-/[1][2] pro-pree-o-sep-shən), from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own", "individual", and capio, capere, to take or grasp, is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement."

    And thanks for the relink to Strava Global Heatmaps. Found some cool stuff. Weird, though, it doesn't show any heat where I've done quite a few runs. Must not have been updated for a while in my area.

    @lporter229 Brilliant recap! My eyes misted up. Equally brilliant run! I sincerely hope your hamstrings heal quickly and completely.
  • iofred
    iofred Posts: 488 Member
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    20/04 - 4.2 mile run (Taper #2) followed with 2 mile Interval & Shoulders

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    Completed
    • 11/03 - 10K Run The Solar System (thanks for the tip) - 52:01
    • 12/03 - TM Half Marathon (plugged in the MK HM route - attempt 1  ) - 1:54:02
    • 25/03 - TM Half Marathon (plugged in the MK HM route - attempt 2  ) - 1:53:53
    • 15/04 - TM Easter Bunny support run (plugged in the MK HM route - attempt 2  ) - 1:59:03
    Coming up:
    • 01/05 - Milton Keynes HM
    • 18/06 - Run-Bedford-Run - 10K
    • 02/09 - Bedford HM
    • 24/09 - Windsor HM
  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
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    Orphia wrote: »
    juliet3455 wrote: »
    14 km today - missed the regular Wednesday night shorty (5-7k) Club run for a run up Judah Hill. My Strava of Todays run and the other March 20 run I completed on the same Route.
    I initially though that I had a big improvement in pace, then realized I was comparing a 13.5km run to a 14km run.
    Yet Garmin Connect definitely shows a 4 minute difference in time between the March 20 run and Todays run, not sure why Strava shows nothing different. :|

    I Think I figured it out. Strava seems to use Elapsed Time and Garmin Connect is using Moving Time. Which means Strava does not delete the Stop/Rest Time.

    Now you've confused ME. Not sure what you're saying. My Strava is always different and shorter than Garmin because Strava only shows moving time, and Garmin shows total time.

    me too. so for example my Tomtom tells me I spent 4hours 23 minutes on my 13.7miles explore of the trails in Exmoor the other week, even though I paused it mostly when we stopped (and certainly when we sat at the pub for lunch) and it states 'active hours'. Strava takes that same run and tells me I ran for 3h28 minutes.

    For the geeks - here are the stplits given by both (disclaimer - technical trail and my average pace is always slow around 12 minute miles. And we walked most of mile 9 as we'd just eaten)

    Mile Strava TomTom
    1 12.44 14.04
    2 12.15 28.09
    3 15.39 24.57
    4 15.04 14.15
    5 15.34 31.49
    6 17.56 23.34
    7 14.51 18.42
    8 14.01 15.24
    9 15.29 53.21
    10 15.23 18.04
    11 15.32 30.19
    13 14.44 22.46
    0.7 14.43 14.08
    Total3.28 4.28


    So from this, I think Tomtom doesn't pause the data - I'm quite sure it didn't take 53 minutes to walk mile 9, it was an easy stroll, without many ups. Interestingly Tomtom tells me it was a 13.14mile run, whereas Strava gives me 13.7miles.
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    edited April 2017
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    7lenny7 wrote: »
    It's been a while since I've posted this and we've got a lot of new runners here so I'm posting it again.

    Strava Global Heatmap

    When I go somewhere new and need to find a running route, or even if I just want to find a new route near my home, I like to use the Strava heatmap tool. This tool collects all of the Strava input and puts it on a map. You can play with the settings but I find the most detail shows up when I select:

    Blue
    100%
    Run
    Toggle Labels

    Play around with it and see what you like best. You can only zoom in so far.

    Once I find a likely route, I'll then look at area with Google Maps. I use both the satellite view and street view to make sure it's a route I'd want to run. Not all routes on the heatmap turn out to be good routes to run.


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    Great idea to re-post this, @7lenny7 !

    You can also use the heatmap when you plan routes with Strava, which I find really useful.
    You can show the heatmap (and segments) as overlay on the regular map to see where other people run. And create a route by clicking at points and then dragging the route around, and in the end you can save it and then load it on your phone when you start tracking an activity with the Strava app. Then let it show both your planned routes as well as your actual track as you run/ride. I often do that when I run in a new area.

    Every now and then I decide to follow a very faint trace on the heat map to try out a new trail. And then I'm in the middle of a forest and ask myself: how you can have enough people fighting their way to the underbush in that spot that it shows up on the heat map - and realise I'm in the process of adding one more run to the data to reinforce that line, so the next person will be fooled into looking for a trail there as well >:)
    But 99% of the time, it works well. And I've found lots of trails I otherwise would have missed.


    @Orphia I think you can chose in the privacy settings if your runs should be used to add to the global heatmap or not.

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    @girlinahat I've got a Tomtom watch too; and mine for sure has no auto-stop feature. Strava on the other hand subtracts all the time it thinks you were stopped, so whenever there are some traffic lights or photo stops along the way, my final average pace on Strava will be faster than the one from the watch data directly.
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    edited April 2017
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    @WhatMeRunning I have some Vibram Furoshiki shoes; walking around in them feels pretty much like walking in socks to me; although they do offer maybe a little more protection and grip? I always feel weird walking through the city in them, but it's kind of fun too.
    I haven't tried running in them though. The Skinners look nice too. I think I need want a pair!

    @OSUbuckeye906 That's awesome that you are volunteering at the race!
    I'm always thinking maybe I should do that one day. But there are so few races around here, I can never bring myself to pass up running them. But I'm always really grateful to the volunteers - so great that so many people are willing to spend their time to give others the chance to enjoy a race.

    @lporter229 I LOVED reading your race report. What a brilliant marathon, congratulations again!
  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
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    _nikkiwolf_ wrote: »

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    @girlinahat I've got a Tomtom watch too; and mine for sure has no auto-stop feature. Strava on the other hand subtracts all the time it thinks you were stopped, so whenever there are some traffic lights or photo stops along the way, my final average pace on Strava will be faster than the one from the watch data directly.

    yeah - but this was even when I physically PAUSED the watch
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
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    @juliet3455 - I think you can change a setting in Strava to have it cut out time standing still from your run. Like the others I have the opposite problem, Strava always says I was faster than Garmin. While my Garmin shows both an Elapsed Time and a Moving Time, the time Garmin shows as the official time is always Elapsed Time. On Strava it always shows the shorter Moving Time. I haven't found a way in Garmin yet to make my Moving Time my official time, but to be honest I like having it this way. At an event my time would be Elapsed Time so my Garmin keeps me honest, while Strava lets me see what was possible.
  • garygse
    garygse Posts: 896 Member
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    @lporter229 Fantastic race report! Thanks for taking the time to write it up, and I hope your hamstring feels a lot better soon.


    Today's run felt just as tough as yesterday's, and many in the group also said that things were tough going this week...possibly the higher humidity and temperatures could be affecting everyone? No idea, but tomorrow's usual long run ain't gonna happen and will be much smaller, probably around 5 miles or so at a slightly quicker pace. We'll see.

    03 - 13.37
    04 - 9.59
    05 - 13.39
    06 - 10.75
    07 - 13.36
    10 - 10.73
    11 - 9.27
    12 - 8.16
    13 - 8.89
    14 - 2.33
    15 - 13.14
    18 - 11.37
    19 - 13.51
    20 - 8.89

    Total: 146.75 / 175 miles
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
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    Date Miles today - Miles for April
    4/1 20 miles - 20
    4/2 10 miles - 30
    4/3 REST DAY
    4/4 10 miles - 40
    4/4 4 miles - 44 << Daily Double
    4/5 6.2 miles - 50.2
    4/6 6.2 miles - 56.4
    4/6 4 miles - 60.4 << Daily Double
    4/7 REST DAY
    4/8 16 miles - 76.4
    4/9 REST DAY
    4/10 7 miles - 83.4
    4/11 7.5 miles - 90.9
    4/12 REST DAY
    4/13 8 miles - 98.9
    4/14 5 miles - 103.9
    4/15 14.5 miles - 118.4
    4/16 REST DAY
    4/17 6.2 miles - 124.6
    4/18 5.5 miles - 130.1
    4/19 5 miles - 135.1
    4/20 5.5 miles - 140.6


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    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 Festival Marathon - 4/29


  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
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    4/1 - 7.7 miles in sunny San Diego
    4/2 - Travel day
    4/3 - Rest day
    4/4 - 5 comfortable miles.
    4/5 - 4.4 miles.
    4/6 - 5.05 miles.
    4/7 - Unplanned rest day.
    4/8 - 6.31 super hilly miles.
    4/9 - Too many hills :-(
    4/10 - 5 miles.
    4/11 - 4.93 miles of track/speed work. Then upper body weights.
    4/12 - 4.5 miles.
    4/13 - 4.9 miles. Some hip soreness that I am going to have to keep an eye on.
    4/14 - Unplanned rest day / life day / holiday prep.
    4/15 - 9 mile group run. Hip not perfect, but improved.
    4/16 - 5 miles. Ugh...too much buffet.
    4/17 - Planned rest day.
    4/18 - 4 miles of track/speed work. Then upper body weights.
    4/19 - 5 miles.
    4/20 - 5.1 treadmill miles. Trek class. Humid at the Y today!!

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  • WhatMeRunning
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    @garygse - The struggle is real! While it's only been in the 60's for the most part on morning runs this week, the humidity has been so high my glasses fog up. I've definitely noticed more struggling than expected.
  • angmarie28
    angmarie28 Posts: 2,793 Member
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    4/2-3.3 miles
    4/3-3 miles
    4/5-3.5 miles
    4/6-2.5 miles
    4/8-4.2 miles
    4/9-5 miles
    4/14-5 miles
    4/17-6 miles
    4/18-3 miles
    4/20-2 miles
    total-37.5 miles

    Did 30 minutes on the elliptical last night. Got up at 430 am to run, and could just not get into it, it took me 27 minutes to go 2 miles. Hopefully morning runs get easier, because summers coming up and who wants to run in the heat, and there is no A/C in my workout room.

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    Training for:
    5/14-womens run-5mile
    7/9- Missoula Marathon-Full Marathon
    9/17- Montana Marathon-Full marathon

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