May 2017 Running Challenge

WhatMeRunning

Congrats on the race @snowyne!

@_nikkiwolf_ - Good to hear the knee is better and you seem well prepared to handle things on race day. The jacket sounds like a necessity, hope you like it. Nice diary summary!

Congrats on the amazing race @kgirlhart! A 1st AG award!! You are killing it already!!

@nFoooo - 4k is better than zero. Way to go!

@garygse - I love The Oatmeal and particularly that one about running! I actually bought the book too. It is identical to the strip but wanted to be able to leave it lying around to see if anyone else started reading it. I eagerly await the day I run across a vending machine with that magical purple drink!

Run4life375

MNLittleFinn

5/1- 8.1
5/2- 4.6
5/3-9
5/4- REST
5/5- 5.7
5/6-20.1
5/7- 5

Total: 52.5

May Goal: Get through most of the last 5 weeks before taper healthy
Nominal mileage goal: 220 Miles.

Today's notes: 5 miles easy pace of 9:31. Average HR of 151. Good run to help recover from yesterday's 20 mile run.

Have a Runderful day all!

2017 Races
6/16- William A Irvin 5k
6/17- Grandma's Marathon (Full!)
8/19- Rampage at the Ridge 5k OCR
9/23- Ely Marathon (full)
10/21 Wild Duluth 50k<- yeah, I'm crazy enough to go for it
11/23- TBD 5k Turkey Trot

WhatMeRunning

Another beautiful, warm day! Pretty uneventful 4 miles at easy effort today. Pace was OK. Felt pretty decent. Good nondescript run, I guess.

5/1 - 8 miles
5/2 - 4 miles
5/3 - 8 miles
5/4 - 4 miles
5/5 - rest
5/6 - 9 miles
5/7 - 4 miles

37 of 180 miles completed

skippygirlsmom

Awesome work @MNlittlefinn

wishiwasarunner

@snowyne and @kgirlhart - Great races
@_nikkiwolf_ - Good luck on your upcoming race.
@kristinegift - Hope that back is better soon. Sounds miserable.

Fabulous day for a run - love the scent of honeysuckle in the air right now. So I went 6 instead of 5 miles - but left plenty in the tank since it is supposed to be recovery.

5/4- 3.2
5/6-13.2
5/7-6

May total 22.4/80

MissMaggieMuffin

Only got out a couple of times this week; actually was out cycling more than running this week. Sigh - so much to do, so little time.............

_nikkiwolf_

I've got a new marathon PR!! Finished in 4:28:00 , 2 min faster than my 4:30:00 goal time and more than 11min faster than my last marathon.

I'm too tired now to write too much about the race - maybe later tonight or tomorrow... Just a comment on my left knee, since I told you all how worried I was about it: it gave me a good scare 1.75km into the race - it felt like something locked up on the inside of the knee. I've never had that happen before, and it HURT. I was nearly crying, also because I didn't want to have to quit the race so early. But it was a different pain that what I had last week, so I felt justified in trying to "run it off". That stubbornness payed off - after 400m of limping along with gritted teeth, if suddenly got better.
After that weird pain I still had some faint twinges on and off for the next 10km (or maybe 15? can't remember exactly), then it went away. 20km were perfectly fine, then it hurt a bit on the longest & steepest downhill (around 33 to 35km), but back on flatter ground the pain disappeared again. From then on the knee stayed pain-free except for the last one or two kilometres. But that was when the top of my right foot and the bottom of my left foot and my right calf and right hamstring also all started screaming at me, so I'll write it off as general end-of-the-marathon aches. The same happened in my first marathon last year, so I was actually already expecting the final minutes to hurt. Right now, (after a hot shower and food and three hours rest and a hot bath and more food) the only thing that still hurts are my feet, my legs are fine, including the knee.

Still, I should probably take a rest day tomorrow

katharmonic

Congratulations @_nikkiwolf_ ! Way to go on the PR time! Glad your knee pain went away, and hope all is well there. More hot showers, rest and food sounds like the way to go. Awesome job.

KeepRunningFatboy

Ran my 3rd Flying Pig Marathon today. 43 miles for the week. I pace the 4:55 group in Cleveland in 2 weeks.

AmyOutOfControl

5/1= 3 mile run + 1 hour kettlebell workout
5/2 = rest day
5/3 = 6 mile run
5/4 = 6 mile run
5/5 = forced rest day due to work schedule
5/6 = 7.5 miles
5/7 = 11 miles

Ran with a running group again this morning They always do a run/walk combo training thing on long run Sundays. It is slower than I am used to but its nice having a group of ladies to chat with.

I know I am just being silly -- for some reason it always feels like I am cheating when I do the run/walk thing vs. run the whole thing at an easy pace.

May Goal 33.5/125 miles

WhatMeRunning

Congrats @_nikkiwolf_ on the PR!! Hope that knee pain is gone.

Congrats @KeepRunningFatboy on making pigs fly!

claireariela

Hi there, I'm a total beginner. ☺️ Haven't been running for ages and just started again. Longest run I've done was a 10k (maybe 5 years ago?) and I hope to do a 21k at the end of the year. Been looking out for encouragement buddies and training programmes for beginners. Sorry for the noob-ness.

ddmom0811

@skippygirlsmom - such a cute picture of you and Skip! Congratulations!

@shanaber I started cycling after I had been running about a year and I had so many IT issues when I first started. Now I can do both but it took a while.

@_nikkiwolf_ -congratulations!!!

@WhatMeRunning - I hadn't logged in here for several days and so I started reading the posts where you mentioned the SF hm and I was thinking YES he needs to sign up! Then was happy to see you did! Hope your better half took it well! I ran in SF in 2015 and I loved it! The temps! There were hills though!

Two days of cycling and rested Friday. So back to running tomorrow!

wishiwasarunner

@_nikkiwolf_ - Fabulous job on the Marathon PR!!
@claireariela - Welcome- there are others that will have more expert advice on getting started, but I usually recommend getting fitted at a running store for the right pair of running shoes for you and then starting with somethink like Couch to 5k app if it has been 5 years since you ran.

skippygirlsmom

@_nikkiwolf_ congrats on the PR. Glad the knee didn't end your day and you were able to work through it.
@ddmom0811 thank you

MobyCarp

@_nikkiwolf_ - Congratulations on a well run marathon and a PR! And congratulations on the understatement of the day: "Still, I should probably take a rest day tomorrow" LOL

girlinahat

@MNLittleFinn -can you post a link to your training thread? I had seen it but not bookmarked it and would be nice to read through.


My first Half Marathon today. I'll do a race report (was mentally writing it in the car on the way home) soon, but for now I'm going to leave you with this picture. It explains why I'm so tired. (I WAS originally planning on signing up for a flattish half.....)

MobyCarp

May Running Totals (miles)
5/1 – 5.16 easy
5/2 – 6.67 easy
5/3 – rest day
5/4 – 8.08 easy
5/5 – rest day
5/6 – 11.23 loosely paced run
5/7 – 11.08 easy with fast finish

May total to date – 42.22

Nominal Challenge Goal – 200 miles
Real Goals: Stay healthy. Build base. 5/28, start training plan toward MVP Rochester Marathon.

Today's notes – Showers this morning, and still threatening a bit at 2 PM. I got spooked by the porch thermometer saying 43º F (6º C) and 12 mph wind, and wore light tights and a jacket over a long sleeve tech shirt. I got away with the tights, though I would also have been okay in shorts; in hindsight, I should have just worn two layers of long sleeve tech shirts. Oh, well. It only felt really too warm when I was eastbound in sheltered areas.

Ran a familiar 10 mile route with hills, with some modifications to add distance. A bit past mile 4, I normally turn right on Erie Station Rd and miss the last part of the hill going up Middle Rd. Today I knew I wanted to add a bit of distance, so what the heck. Ran to the crest of the hill, a stretch of road I've seen many times but never run. Then came back down. That added maybe a third of a mile, and another segment of good practice for the drop at Lower Newton Falls. About half of it was steeper than the rest of the hill that I've run many times. Got through all the significant hills in about 9 miles. At mile 10, I noticed my pace had crept to MP. Hmm. Must be getting tired, and I know it's close to home. Let myself keep running MP till the next to last fire hydrant before my driveway, then ran a stride (~200 m) to finish. Look at the stats, and it looks like 9 easy miles, 2 miles of MP, and finish with a stride. Garmin says the pace on that tag end 0.08 mile was 5:53. Yeah, I was trying to run fast; but I find it hard to believe I had a sub-6 pace left after running 11 miles. More likely it was somewhere in the 6:15 to 6:30 range and there's a GPS inaccuracy.

Even though I was a little bit overdressed, it felt good to just go out and run 11 miles. No complaints from any part of the running chain. I think I can say that I managed to recover from Boston in about 3 weeks. I will not be afraid to do whatever speed workout Coach assigns on Tuesday.

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) finished in 3:49:42
April 30, 2017 USATF Masters 10K Championship (James Joyce Ramble, Dedham, MA) finished in 39:54, PR for 10K
May 21, 2017 Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY)
June 9, 2017 Charlie McMullen Mile (Rochester, NY)
June 18, 2017 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY)
July 28, 2017 Karknocker 5K (East Rochester, NY)
September 17, 2017 MVP Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY)
November 23, 2017 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)

MNLittleFinn

@girlinahat http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10497893/training-for-my-first-marathon/p1 I update at least once a week, on Sunday (last day of the training week) and have been writing updates on my long runs on Saturdays too.