June 2017 Running Challenge

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  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    @JessicaMcB how important is a BQ RIGHT NOW ??? If you really want a BQ for 2018, then do the marathon. If it's just more of a want to at some point, go for the 50 mile. However, since there's a lot more plannimg/gear/logistics involved in the 50 mile.. the marathon might be better this time around, so you can really have thr planning done for the 50 mile adventure....

    ....hiws that for a nonanswer??
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    katharmonic wrote: »
    [Edited to add this from the moderators description of the woo reaction: "Woo can mean two things. You can click it both to mean woo as in woo-hoo or to express that you think an idea or approach is too good to be true." OK then.]

    Ummm.. what? Is that English?

    They need a TFU button. As in, that's *kitten*ed up.
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    Date Miles today - Miles for June

    6/1 10.5 miles - 10.5
    6/2 7.5 miles - 18
    6/3 14 miles - 32
    6/4 REST DAY
    6/5 8 miles - 40
    6/6 10 miles - 50
    6/7 5.4 miles - 55.4
    6/8 10 miles - 65.4
    6/9 4.15 miles - 69.55
    6/10 14 miles - 83.55
    6/11 REST DAY
    6/12 10.5 miles - 94.05
    6/13 10 miles - 104.05
    6/14 5 miles - 109.05
    6/15 10 miles - One hundred nineteen point oh five
    6/16 4 miles 123.05
    6/17 14 miles 137.05
    6/18 REST DAY
    6/19 10.5 miles - 147.55 << 1510 ft. elev gain
    6/20 8 miles - 155.55
    6/21 5 miles - 160.55
    6/22 REST DAY
    6/23 5 miles - 165.55
    6/24 10 miles - 175.55
    6/25 REST DAY
    6/26 10.5 miles 186.05
    6/27 10 miles - 196.05

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    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 << 4:09:59

    Upcoming races:
    None so far


  • zdyb23456
    zdyb23456 Posts: 1,706 Member
    6/1 5miles 46:33min
    6/2 3miles 27:09min
    6/3 7miles 65:53min
    6/4 rest
    6/5 3miles 27:52min
    6/6 4miles 36:43min
    6/7 3miles 27:55min
    6/8 13.1miles!!! 2:06:49min
    6/9 rest
    6/10 3.55miles 35:30min
    6/11 rest
    6/12 4mi intervals 38:32min
    6/13 5miles 50:34min
    6/14 rest
    6/15 5miles 48:52min
    6/16 4miles 37:39min
    6/17 8miles 1:21:57min
    6/18 rest
    6/19 6miles 58:35min
    6/20 3miles 28:48min
    6/21 2miles 18:40min
    6/22 4miles 38:16min
    6/23 9miles 1:29:14min
    6/24 4miles 37:22min
    6/25 rest
    6/26 5miles 47:40min
    6/27 2.29miles 21:15min

    Spent 9 hours driving to NY on Sunday. Made it! Only logged 5k steps for the day. I've broken my 10k step a day streak. Oh well.

    Buffalo weather right now is amazing for running. Yesterday I did 5 miles and hardly sweated. It was upper 60ies and low humidity.

    This morning I got caught in a storm and cut my run short. Didn't like the sound of thunder. I'm heading out for another short run to get in my 3 miles for the day cause I'll feel like I'm cheating if I don't!
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    6/27 - 3 miles

    80 of 70 miles

    Hot, humid, sunny when I got Skip moving, the upswing was rain clouds rolled in. It didn't rain but at least it gave a breeze and cloud cover the whole run. Yeah!
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    katharmonic wrote: »
    [Edited to add this from the moderators description of the woo reaction: "Woo can mean two things. You can click it both to mean woo as in woo-hoo or to express that you think an idea or approach is too good to be true." OK then.]

    Ummm.. what? Is that English?

    They need a TFU button. As in, that's *kitten*ed up.

    It could have a little kitten face :)

    I think you guys are on to something there.
  • RespectTheKitty
    RespectTheKitty Posts: 1,667 Member
    Yesterday's run - 6.6 miles
    June total - 91.75/100

    8.25 to go. I plan to get in a short run between work and bowling tonight to help make Thursday's run a little less daunting.
  • mustb60
    mustb60 Posts: 1,090 Member
    June Running Challenge

    Goal: 100 km
    Ran: 73/100 km

    27/6/17 Run 10 km walk 6km
    25/6/17 walk 4 km
    24/6/17 walk 4 km
    22/6/17 walk 3 km
    21/6/17 Run 10km + Walk6km (63)
    20/6/17 Walk 12 km + SL
    19/6/17 Run 7.5 km (53)
    18/6/17 walk 7 km
    17/6/17 Yoga+walk 3 km
    16/6/17 Run 7.2km+Walk9km+SL
    15/6/17 Walk 7 km
    14/6/17 Run7.3km+Walk8km(38.3)
    13/6/17 Run 3.7 km+Walk 5 km(31)
    12/6/17 Walk 4 km
    9/6/17 Run 5.3km+walk 2km (27.3)
    8/6/17 SL+walk 7km
    7/6/17 Run 4.4 km + Walk 6km (22)
    6/6/17 Run 3 km + Walk 7 km+SL
    5/6/17 Run 7 km+ walk 2 km
    4/6/17 Run 1 km+walk 5 km+SL
    3/6/17 Walk 5 km
    2/6/17 Walk 7 km
    1/6/17 Run 6.6 km + SL+walk 5 km

    SL : Strong lift
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
    Life's been insane, I am soooo far behind here.

    6/1 - 4 miles
    6/2 - Pre-race rest day. Ate some donuts for national donut day / carb load :wink:
    6/3 - 13.2 miles. Damn HOT Dam to Dam half marathon! Race report forthcoming.
    6/4 - Ow.
    6/5 - Still ow. Had hoped for a recovery run, but decided against it when I got up.
    6/6 - 4.3 miles.
    6/7 - Unplanned rest day due to son's strep throat :-(
    6/8 - 5 miles.
    6/9 - 5 miles.
    6/10 - 6.2 miles.
    6/11 - Rest day.
    6/12 - 5 miles. 78° and humid at 4:45 a.m.!
    6/13 - 4.1 miles of track/speed work with a group. Then quick upper body weights. Again, 78° and humid.
    6/14 - Rest day. Semi-planned.
    6/15 - 5 miles.
    6/16 - 5 miles.
    6/17 - 6.8 miles.
    6/18 - Father's Day with my Dad and brother.
    6/19 - 5 miles.
    6/20 - 3.4 miles.
    6/21 - 4 treadmill miles, then upper body weights.
    6/22 - 5 hot and humid miles.
    6/23 - 5 miles.
    6/24 - Baseball tournament all day.
    6/25 - 3.4 on the hotel 'mill.
    6/26 - Rest day.
    6/27 - 5.2 miles. Gorgeously cool morning!

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  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    edited June 2017
    Heart rate monitor musings:

    Called Garmin this morning. The rep had me do one diagnostic test I hadn't known to do, take the battery out and let the HRM sit empty for 3 to 5 minutes before putting the battery back in. He went over 2 or 3 other things that I was already routinely doing. The verdict is, the sensor died and I need to replace the HRM.

    The replacement is $99.99 from Garmin. The rep helpfully told me it was $92.47 on Amazon. I could have spent $92.47 and got it in 2 days with Amazon Prime, but I chose to get it for $69.99 at the cost of waiting 2 to 3 weeks for delivery. For the $22.48 difference, I can run 3 weeks using the old HRM than came with my 620.

    I had thought that the HRM that came with the 630 was better than the one that came with the 620. Now, I suspect that the accuracy difference was that I didn't know to use soap on the contacts often enough when I was regularly using the older HRM. The newer one chafes less, but the older one may well be more durable. *shrug* Oh, well. I spent the money for a replacement that will fit comfortably without chafing. If I need to spend that much once a year because they wear out, that's life. It pales in comparison to the cost of running Boston.

    This does have me thinking again about the watches with wrist-based HRM. My current thinking is that when it's time to replace my 630 (hopefully quite a ways into the future), I'd like a watch with wrist-based HRM that can be overridden to use a chest strap. That way, I can have my chest strap for the winter, have a backup on the wrist for when the chest strap fails (hopefully during nice weather), and even look at my HR once in a while when I'm not running.

    Hello. My name is Kevin, and I'm addicted to running.
  • Azercord
    Azercord Posts: 573 Member
    @MobyCarp After a few days for learning each other the Fenix 5 has done really well for a wrist based HRM (including some HIIT based workouts) and it can be over ridden with the chest strap very easily. Just pair it up and it is ready to roll, watch gps and strap HR.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    @MobyCarp at least tour addiction presents itself in not crazy ways..... as I crawl back in my hole
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    I had a crazy busy weekend and am doing offsite training this week so I have not been able to check in since last Friday. Over 12 new pages and over 300 posts! Yikes! Sorry, but I'm not going to be able to catch up, and things might continue like that through Friday. :flushed:

    I have been working on my 5k pace endurance most recently. My Sunday run was just to run easy for at least 5k of a 4 mile route. I made it through that 5k running the whole way in 37:31. Today I did a faster pace over the same route, running the first 1.5 miles straight through, then doing fartlek intervals over the remaining distance to finish the 4 miles. I reached 5k on today's run in 37:12, so faster overall than last time for that stretch. I pushed for the last quarter mile of that 5k distance though, so that helped.

    That is still well below my estimated 5k time based on my mile time, so I'm still not really finding my target pace of 10:35 for a 5k all that realistic in just the next couple weeks. I'll still try on that upcoming 5k on 7/4, there's no stopping that attempt (I hope). I am seeing my ability to do a mile in my predicted time now, something I wasn't able to do before. So hopefully I can close this 5k gap without too long of a wait.

    6/1 - rest
    6/2 - 3.1 miles
    6/3 - 13.1 miles
    6/4 - 4.5 miles
    6/5 - 9 miles
    6/6 - 4.5 miles
    6/7 - 6 miles
    6/8 - rest
    6/9 - 8.5 miles
    6/10 - rest
    6/11 - 4.5 miles
    6/12 - 7.6 miles
    6/13 - rest
    6/14 - more rest
    6/15 - 2.5 miles
    6/16 - rest
    6/17 - 2.5 miles
    6/18 - 4.5 miles
    6/19 - rest
    6/20 - 4.2 miles
    6/21 - rest
    6/22 - 4 miles
    6/25 - 4 miles
    6/27 - 4 miles

    86.5 of 170 miles completed


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  • ctlaws44
    ctlaws44 Posts: 182 Member
    Hey everyone! I've been out with a pulled hamstring from last week. I think it's from overuse. I've upped my miles too quickly, too many times from week to week, and now I think I'm paying for it. Super frustrating. It only hurts when I run of course so I've been biking a lot. It's really hard biking and having to watch people run and know I can't. I had to start taking bike routes where I thought I wouldn't see people running. Then I would see someone running. I tried a couple times where I'd stash my bike in the woods and try to run but no go. After 4 days rest, I ran hills last night. I know that wasn't the best way to test a hamstring but I felt alright. Went at a REAL easy pace. No pain just tightness. This brings up a question for the guru's. Should I wait till I don't feel anything at all in my hamstring? I'm thinking of going out on my regular group run Wednesday night, but taking it really easy. Definitely not going to reach my goal this month but I'm fine with that. First time I've failed to since I started in Feb. Hope everyone else is fairing better. I'm too far behind to catch up on what everyone's got going on. I might try on this long weekend coming up.
  • ctlaws44
    ctlaws44 Posts: 182 Member
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  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    @ctlaws44 - Easy running is good for getting better, assuming you aren't hurt so bad that you can't run at all. From your description, I'd advise 1) run fewer miles than what got you injured, and 2) run all the miles easy until you're confident the hamstring is back. Oh yeah, and 3) stop running if it starts hurting.

    Taking it easy might mean solo running where you can control the pace. Or it might mean group running where you know the group will hold a pace that is easy for you. It might mean avoiding a group run if you think there's a chance the group will suck you into running faster than you should. And unless you have a lot better self control than I do, it means absolutely no races.

    Still, a diet of all easy running till you get better beats being confined to the couch or cycling and seeing other people running.
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    WhatMeRunning wrote: »
    I had a crazy busy weekend and am doing offsite training this week so I have not been able to check in since last Friday. Over 12 new pages and over 300 posts! Yikes! Sorry, but I'm not going to be able to catch up, and things might continue like that through Friday. :flushed:

    I have been working on my 5k pace endurance most recently. My Sunday run was just to run easy for at least 5k of a 4 mile route. I made it through that 5k running the whole way in 37:31. Today I did a faster pace over the same route, running the first 1.5 miles straight through, then doing fartlek intervals over the remaining distance to finish the 4 miles. I reached 5k on today's run in 37:12, so faster overall than last time for that stretch. I pushed for the last quarter mile of that 5k distance though, so that helped.

    That is still well below my estimated 5k time based on my mile time, so I'm still not really finding my target pace of 10:35 for a 5k all that realistic in just the next couple weeks. I'll still try on that upcoming 5k on 7/4, there's no stopping that attempt (I hope). I am seeing my ability to do a mile in my predicted time now, something I wasn't able to do before. So hopefully I can close this 5k gap without too long of a wait.

    @WhatMeRunning - Have you tried shorter intervals at your desired 5K pace? In my experience, people training for 5K performance don't just go out and run a bunch of 3.1 mile segments at 5K pace, which is about I (interval) pace in the Jack Daniels system. They'll do workouts like 4x800 at I with 200 recovery, or 4x1000 at I with 200 recovery, or something like the I pyramid I won't be running on July 4: 800 at I, 1000 at I, 1-2 x 1200 at I, 1000 at I, 800 at I, all with same time recovery. "Same time recovery" means that if it takes you 5:17 to run 800m, you take 5:17 recovery as a slow jog or standing around, whatever your body needs. Then you run the 1000, trying to hold the target pace, then take however much time it took you to run the 1000 as your next recovery interval.

    The idea is that you build your endurance without beating yourself up as much as replicating a race every time you run fast. You pull out all the stops on race day, and just run the 5K as hard as you can; but the interval training should (among other things) accustom you to what the target pace feels like.

    Yeah, I know. I've said several times that 5K is like a simple interval workout, 1 x 5K at I pace. But that's coming from the perspective of training for a marathon, where running 2 mile, 3 mile, and 4 mile intervals isn't all that uncommon. Most of those long intervals are at T pace (slower than I); but they still build mental toughness for treating a 5K as just another interval. I think the longest training interval at I pace I've seen is 1600m, and that doesn't roll around very often.

  • ctlaws44
    ctlaws44 Posts: 182 Member
    @MobyCarp I was hoping you were on here. Thank you for the wisdom! I bumped up from averaging 37ish per over 4 weeks to 53 completely violating the 10% rule. As you can see from above they were all easy paced miles but miles are still miles. I got caught up in this run challenge at work. I'm going to go for a bike ride this evening then try to run with the group Wednesday. There's enough people at different paces where I won't feel like I have to keep up with the pack. My ego's taken enough of a hit with this injury that I'm just happy to be out and running no matter how slow. Thanks again!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,155 Member
    June goal: 50 miles

    6/1/17: 3.5 miles
    6/2/17: 1 mile
    6/4/17: 4.3 miles
    6/5/17: 2 miles
    6/6/17: 3.4 miles
    6/7/17: 2.4 miles
    6/8/17: 2.7 miles
    6/11/17: 4.4 miles
    6/12/17: 2.8 miles
    6/13/17: 2.5 miles
    6/14/17: 2.7 miles
    6/18/17: 4.2 miles
    6/19/17: 2.6 miles
    6/20/17: 2.6 miles
    6/21/17: 2.6 miles
    6/24/17: 5 miles
    6/25/17: 2.8 miles
    6/26/17: 2.4 miles
    6/27/17: 2.5 miles

    58.4/50 miles

    Today's run was really nice. It was pretty warm, but not as humid as yesterday so it was better. And I felt better today. Yesterday I just wasn't feeling it but I got a good night sleep last night and that seemed to help how I felt both physically and mentally.

    Today was most likely my last run for June. I have to drive my parents to Dallas for a doctor's appointment for my mom so the next couple of days will be a lot of sitting. I'm glad I already made my goal for the month.


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  • BettyM1017
    BettyM1017 Posts: 616 Member
    June 27 – XT Water Zumba and 45 minutes of laps

    Total: 87.35 miles/100 miles

    What a day! A 12-mile bike ride, an hour of water Zumba (it’s harder than it sounds), and 45 minutes of swimming laps all added up to a whopping 3,400 steps on my Fitbit, lol! How depressing! Maybe I can make it up at work tonight.

    Upcoming Race:

    July 21 - St. Pete Beach Series, Race #2, 5K
  • garygse
    garygse Posts: 896 Member
    @ctlaws44 You may want to also try some exercises to help your hamstring. Eccentric leg curls on a bench were good for me when I hurt my hamstring...basically while on your stomach, use both legs to lift an easy weight (easy when using both legs, that is) and then use just one leg to lower the weight back down again. I would do three sets of ten reps on each leg. I read somewhere that the hamstring doesn't like resistance work while contracting simultaneously, and so using both legs to lift the weight first allows each leg to be loaded up without strain. Another exercise I found useful was simple glute bridges. Doing both of these exercises allowed for a sore hamstring to be strengthened and now my hamstring is fine, unless I push particularly hard, in which case it usually give me a small ache as a reminder to give it the respect it deserves!
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    6/01 - 7.02 miles @ 9:53
    6/03 - 10k Race - 50:56 - 8:14
    6/03 - 5k Race - 27:06 - 8: 35 (back to back with 10k, 7 mins rest between)
    6/05 - 6.51 miles @ 10:31
    6/06 - 6.02 miles @ 9:39
    6/07 - 6.02 miles @ 9:30
    6/08 - 7.01 miles @ 9:37
    6/10 - 15 miles @ 10:46
    6/11 - 9.01 miles @ 10:36 - 90+ degree weather, ran slow to compensate
    6/12 - 8.01 miles @ 10:38 - 90+ degree weather, ran slow to compensate
    6/13 - Thinderstorms forced rest day
    6/14 - 10 miles @10:50 w/ 894' evevation - very humid could not maintain pace
    6/14 - 5 miles @11:06 - second run later in day when not as hot
    6/15 - 9 miles @ 10:58
    6/16 - 12 miles @ 10:46
    6/17 - Rest day
    6/18 - forced rest day due to thunderstorms :frowning:
    6/19 - 13 miles - "long run with fast finish"
    6/20 - 8 miles - moderate run - Low zone 2
    6/21 - 6.55 miles @ 9:43 pace
    6/22 - 2.5 miles @ Zone high zone 2, then 4 miles zone 3 and 4
    6/23 - Planned rest
    6/24 - unplaned rest
    6/25 - 19 miles easy pace
    6/26 - 6.11 miles recovery pace
    6/27 - 6.55 miles @ Avg 9:24 pace

    Summer Goal: Get my marathon pace below 9 minutes.
    Official Marathon PR: 4:11:28

    Next Races (more as I find them):

    07/28/17 - Liberty Mile - 1 mile race just to see what a short run really is :)
    10/14/17 - Stop, Drop, and Run - Fireman style obstacle course - 5km

    05/06/18 - Pittsburgh Marathon - aiming for sub four hours.


    Today was intended to be a fast run before company came over. I had hoped to run it at tempo level but was too tired or something. My pace was all over the place from 8 min/mile to over 12... some how I averaged 9:24 so I guess that is not too horrible. Will try another tempo run later this week I think. Nothing exciting happened on this run.

    But my new BT headphones came. Hopefully these last.
  • ctlaws44
    ctlaws44 Posts: 182 Member
    Thank you @garygse! That's a good point too. I still do vinyasa yoga three times a week but I've been sporadic with any lifting. I'm going to do the two exercises you suggested.
  • KeepRunningFatboy
    KeepRunningFatboy Posts: 3,055 Member
    WK 6.26.17 - 7.2.17

    M - 15 mile LR.
    T - 4.5 m.
    W -
    T -
    F -
    S -
    S -
    Total - running Miles * Goal is a 60 mile running week. :)

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