May 2017 Running Challenge

Elise4270

wishiwasarunner wrote: »

So I am fairly new to this site and a much more low mileage and lots of days off runner than most. I didn't think I would ever find my last post - it was 9 pages back, lol. You people are crazy runners - and I am saying that with a huge smile on my face and lots of admiration in my voice. (Emoji-less at the moment) I thought I was a little crazy for doing a marathon. You all make me feel not only sane, but like a slacker, lol.

Ah em... Well....*shuffles feet* *glances at @MNLittleFinn et al* I think you have found your people.

Nanoo Nanoo.

9voice9

42.47% of goal
01-May: 6.51 miles
02-May: 6.70 miles
03-May: 3.30 miles
04-May: 6.70 miles
05-May: 6.65 miles
06-May: 10.91 miles - inc All About Animals 10.2K 6.33 miles
07-May: <Life Day>
08-May: 9.46 miles
09-May: 5.81 miles
10-May:
11-May: 9.25 miles (Double Day w/Sun Screen)
12-May: 6.09 miles
13-May: - Race Day
14-May: <Life Day>
15-May:
16-May:
17-May:
18-May:
19-May:
20-May: - Race Day
21-May: <Life Day>
22-May:
23-May:
24-May:
25-May:
26-May:
27-May: - Race Day
28-May: <Life Day>
29-May:
30-May:
31-May:



Upcoming Races:
13-May: Back the Blue 10K, Warner Robins
20-May: Georgia Jugfest 5K, Knoxville (*) OR
The River HM
27-May: Edge Fitness 5K, Bonaire (*)
04-Jul: Peachtree Road Race 10K, Atlanta

kgirlhart

May goal: 50 miles

5/1/17: 4 miles
5/3/17: 3.5 miles
5/4/17: 3.1miles
5/6/17: 3.1 miles
5/7/17: 3.5 miles
5/9/17: 4.1 miles
5/10/17: 3.5 miles
5/12/17: 2.5 miles

27.3/50 miles

Kind of a meh run today. Wasn't really feeling it. Hopefully the next run will be better.

hanlonsk

Elise4270 wrote: »

I think you have found your people.

Nanoo Nanoo.

I have officially found my people... crazy runner AND like the 3rd person (maybe not even that many) I have ran across that would understand nanoo nanoo I am actually speechless and in awe. (Perhaps a bit of a dork, and easily impressed as well.)

No running to report. 5k tomorrow curtesy of crazy friend. Not looking forward to it. Runs lately have been slow and sucky. Gotta figure out how to fix that before half next month or else this month won't be much fun.

HonuNui

May goal: wear sunblock

5/1: sat on my okole. All. Day. Long.
5/2: 3.13
5/3: 6.06
5/4: 4.08
5/5 rest
5/6: 4.15
5/7 3.56
5/8 snorkel 3.5 hours
5/9 4.58
5/10 3.38
5/11 rest
5/12 3.25


Total: 32.19


Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:


upcoming races:
Volcano Rainforest Runs 10k 8/19
BlockThe Sun Run 5k Oct 14 (https://walk.aimatmelanoma.org/Hilo2017) (physical and virtual options available)

Orphia

I understand "nanoo nanoo" because I'm old.

02 May – 8 km
03 May – 8.1 km
04 May – 7 km
06 May - Go the Extra Mile Melbourne 50 km walk
10 May – 8.7 km
11 May – 2.8 km
12 May – 10.2 km
13 May - 8.3 km including parkrun

Total: 52.1 km run; One 50 km epic walk

shanaber

Busy week at work and I have been so tired. Took midday naps Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday I fell asleep in the couch at 4pm and slept for 2 hours. Probably could have slept there all night but my husband woke me up for dinner Last night I forgot to set my alarm, fell into bed and slept until 8am - over 9 hours! Missed my early run window but no meetings thank goodness. I did discover later that some folks from work were calling my cell and texting me though that I missed. I ran late today and was thinking at first how good it felt, then how terrible it felt and started singing 'High Hopes' in my head because each day I run I have high hopes it will be a good run! Around mile 2 I actually started feeling pretty good an managed to run most all of the rest of my planned route. I will go out thinking I can get 8 tomorrow but will be ok if I can get in only 6. The way I have been feeling, that will be good enough! I am hoping this goes away in time for me to be ready for the HM in July...
Date........Miles.......Total
05/01......0.00........0.00 - Agility trial
05/02......0.00........0.00 - Rally/Obedience trial
05/03......4.78........4.78 - Del Mar run
05/04......4.14........8.92
05/05......0.00........8.92 - Spin class
05/06......0.00........8.92 - Spin class followed by Barre class
05/07......0.00........8.92 - Much needed rest!
05/08......5.68......14.60 - + Agility Class
05/09......6.22......20.82 - + Strength Training
05/10......0.00......20.82
05/11......0.00......20.82 - + Strength Training
05/12......5.63......26.45



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 Marathon
12/16/17 - San Diego Holiday Half Marathon

Orphia

I think I got an "Air PB" at parkrun today.

girlinahat

Great pic @Orphia !!!


I did a tentative run last night. I was walking to meet friends, it's about an hour up some steep hills and thought I'd give it a go. Felt good. It may have only been 500 yards or so but it's good to know that it can be fun.

Just to show it's not the shoes that make you a runner - I had on jeans, a long flowing silk trench coat, and leopard print flat shoes (must have looked a sight running!)

cburke8909

15 miles today. Took ii very paced but still was under 10 minutes per mile. I need to respect my test says better. Will do tomorrow.

WhatMeRunning

Finally getting a chance to catch up! Good luck to everyone racing this weekend, and hope everyone else has either a great training run or an enjoyable rest!

SweetSassyJen

May goal: 50 miles
May 13: 3.59 miles
May total: 25.14 miles

JessicaMcB

@hanlonsk other people don't get Mork and Mindy references? You need new people

@Orphia your air PB, holy cow!

So I've been up since 5 for an especially long trail run with my trail group. I kind of figured that they would cancel because it's pouring rain, but now that they have and I'm sitting here geared up I'm pretty sure I'm going anyway

MissMaggieMuffin

Short run - 5.7k - this morning but adds to the monthly goal total.

JessicaMcB

Pouring rain turned to blowing snow and general grossness. No regrets

May 1- Rest
May 2- 14.2
May 3- Rest
May 4- 14.5
May 5- 18.8
May 6- 8
May 7- 23.3
May 8-Rest
May 9- 15.7
May 10- Rest
May 11- 15.7
May 12- Rest
May 13- 15.7

125.9/300km

cburke8909

It is done registered for my first half marathon on June 24th.

MNLittleFinn

Elise4270 wrote: »

wishiwasarunner wrote: »

So I am fairly new to this site and a much more low mileage and lots of days off runner than most. I didn't think I would ever find my last post - it was 9 pages back, lol. You people are crazy runners - and I am saying that with a huge smile on my face and lots of admiration in my voice. (Emoji-less at the moment) I thought I was a little crazy for doing a marathon. You all make me feel not only sane, but like a slacker, lol.

Ah em... Well....*shuffles feet* *glances at @MNLittleFinn et al* I think you have found your people.

Nanoo Nanoo.

How did I get singled out as crazy????? LOL

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
5/8- 8.2
5/9- 4.7
5/10- 10
5/11- REST
5/12- 5.7

Total: 81.1

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

Today's notes: Today's assignment was 20 miles, my first "official" 20 mile run, as last week was supposed to be only 19. I ended up running all 20 with a 9:38 average pace, but it was a pretty good suffer fest by the end. You can see on my Strava splits that I slowed down in the second half. I ate 3 Honey Stingers on the run, and skipped the 4th, because I just wanted to keep trucking along.

Fitst half was great, as the weather was perfect, mid 50's overcast, and a very light breeze. The only annoying part of those miles was the very loose, chunky gavel stretch for a mile and a half between miles 4 and 6 that probably sapped some energy on what would have been nice downhill stretches.

The sun came out when I was about 10 miles into the run, and there was almost NO shade, so the rest of the run was a lesson in running hot and annoyed. Still I felt OK, despite slowing down, in deference to the heat.

Miles 19 and 20 are where things kind of fell apart. The blister I have under one of my calluses started really bugging me, and I got a weird twitch right above my knee on my left quad. With those in mind, I started taking some walking breaks, because at this point, avoiding injury is WAY more important that trying to clock in fast times.

Still, despite that, I feel pretty good about the run, I only lost 10sec/mile compared to my last 20 miler, with almost double the elevation, so a decent trade off, I'd say.

Now to enjoy a wonderful Saturday with my family, and do some damage control on my poor fried bald head.... good thing I had sun block on, otherwise it could have been a LOT worse.


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

HRKinchen

MORE OF THAT, PLEASE!

Full race report to come later. Gotta shower and get ready for a crawfish boil with the family now. But suffice to say, my first trail race was a blast and I will definitely be doing more!

For now, I'll leave this...

JessicaMcB

MNLittleFinn wrote: »

Elise4270 wrote: »

wishiwasarunner wrote: »

So I am fairly new to this site and a much more low mileage and lots of days off runner than most. I didn't think I would ever find my last post - it was 9 pages back, lol. You people are crazy runners - and I am saying that with a huge smile on my face and lots of admiration in my voice. (Emoji-less at the moment) I thought I was a little crazy for doing a marathon. You all make me feel not only sane, but like a slacker, lol.

Ah em... Well....*shuffles feet* *glances at @MNLittleFinn et al* I think you have found your people.

Nanoo Nanoo.

How did I get singled out as crazy????? LOL

You represent our crazy tribe the best it seems, haha!