July 2017 Running Challenge
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angmarie28 wrote: »Thank you everyone for all your advise with all my marathon questions, today was the day.
Due to the high heat, they shortened the race from 7.5 to 6.5 hours, most the slow runners eother switched to the half or deferred to next year, but i was determined to do it. And my longest run to date was only 9 miles
That is flippen impressive! Own that medal, you earned it!
You really lived out this quote:
(which appears to be a modified version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quote)
YOU are an inspiration!
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Thank you everyone, I wish I finished in time, but I still finished, I have another marathon in september, that one I will be more trained for, not sure I'll do it again after that, but I'm happy that I can say that even though I finished after the dead line, and that was slightly devastating (almost started crying when I had a mile left and only 8 minutes to finish) but my volunteer buddy Tim was a great help to push me through to the finish. I REALLY don't care I'm not on the finishers list, because I finished regardless and gave it all I had.10
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angmarie28 wrote: »Thank you everyone, I wish I finished in time, but I still finished, I have another marathon in september, that one I will be more trained for, not sure I'll do it again after that, but I'm happy that I can say that even though I finished after the dead line, and that was slightly devastating (almost started crying when I had a mile left and only 8 minutes to finish) but my volunteer buddy Tim was a great help to push me through to the finish. I REALLY don't care I'm not on the finishers list, because I finished regardless and gave it all I had.
It was only after the deadline because they changed the deadline. You should be really proud. You are definitely one tough lady.5 -
Well, while I don't want to take away from @angmarie28's achievement, I definitely had an achievement of my own today. Today I completed my first ever half marathon. It wasn't a "real" race, just a race against myself.
I didn't set out to do 13.1 miles. I initially set out with my boyfriend just to go for a walk. I asked him if he was okay with five miles, and he said yes, so that was my original plan.
Somewhere around 2.5 miles I felt like I wanted to make this a longer walk than five miles. So my boyfriend turned around and headed back home and I set off to see what I could do.
I walked for the first four miles, but I began to get frustrated and depressed that I wasn't able to run. So many people were out running and I wanted to be one of them. I think it was right about the time I started crying that I first considered going for 13.1 My hip actually felt fine. Walking always makes it feel better for some reason. So since I was feeling okay, I tried running a little bit. I made it a mile and the hip still felt okay. I was NOT wearing the right bra for running, but I didn't care. Let em bounce. I wanted to run.
The next five miles was walk/run. A half mile here, a half mile there. At mile 9 I went back to just walking. Then I thought to myself... I only need four more miles to make 13.1, so let's try.
I was back to the area where my boyfriend lived when I hit 11 miles. How to get 2 more miles? I turned around and headed back out for a mile and then turned back around. At 12 miles I wanted to run that last mile. So I did. It felt good.
All in all, I only ran a total of four of the 13.1 miles, but I don't care. This was my first ever half marathon walking or running. My legs feel tired and my feet are very sore, but surprisingly my hip is okay. I'll roll it one last time before I go to bed.
I didn't bring along any fuel since I wasn't originally planning going so long. All I had was water at the fountains along the way. Needless to say, I was famished afterwards and enjoyed a lovely dinner of honey chicken from PF Chang.
So that goal is met. Next goal: get the hip better so I can run the entire 13.1.
Oh, and I got over 30,000 steps today, according to Garmin.
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@angmarie28 and @RespectTheKitty : I bow to both of your achievements!
me....today is my 41st (yes fortyone) anniversary, and I am drinking wine, not running. So there.
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Ive been on holiday for a week so lots to catch up on. DId some running but limited and it really showed when I went out for a run last night as was my slowest time in months. Hoping to pick back up pace this week as have first ever race on sunday (5k)
1/7-4.7 Miles
2/7-6.8
3/7-REST
4/7-2.8
5/7-3
6/7-REST
7/7-3.1
8/7-REST
9/7-4.8
Total - 25.2/100
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@angmarie28 Congrats on your marathon, that is great!!!
@juliet3455 Congrats on your 15 k rae as well!1 -
@angmarie28 Bravo, you marathoner, you!!!
@RespectTheKitty You rock! I hope you know that.xx
@HonuNui Happy anniversary!
My ankle is feeling a lot better. I've been resting it, and just went swimming this morning. Will swim again tomorrow to be safe.3 -
04/07 3.79miles
05/07 4.80 miles
06/07 3.45 miles
07/07 3.23 miles
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@angiemarie28 and @RespectTheKitty great new on your accomplishments you both should be very proud.
Today was supposed to be a 47 minute fast finish with the last 12 minutes in zone 3. I think I was close but probably a little too fast. Stretched it out to 56 minutes which should be ok.
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@angiemarie28 and @RespectTheKitty Very Awesome, WTG!!!
I'm behind schedule this month, but not giving up.
1-Jul Karate 2 lessons
2-Jul nada
3-Jul nada
4-Jul nada
5-Jul nada
6-Jul C25K week 6 day 3...............................2.25
7-Jul Karate & C25K week 7, Day 1................2.5
8-Jul Karate
9-Jul Rest
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Whoa, that's an awful lot of pages to catch up with! Waves to all my fellow sweaty Bettys.
As you can see, I did a 7 mile walk yesterday before going to the beach, but I'm not counting this because it was very leisurely with plenty of stops for bird-watching and taking photographs.
7/1/2017 - 4 mile speed walk (counting this)
7/2/2017 - rest day
7/3/2017 - 6.3 mile run
7/4/2017 - rest day
7/5/2017 - 6.5 mile run
7/6/2017 - rest day
7/7/2017 - 6.5 mile run
7/8/2017 - rest day
7/9/2017 - 7 mile walk (not counting this)
I'll probably get a couple more runs in this week and then I've got a 5k road race on Sunday. And after that, I will finally give my new Saucony's their first run.
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7/1 - travel day
7/2 - unpack truck day
7/3 - 4 miles
7/4 - more unpacking
7/5 - exhausted
7/6 - 3 miles
7/7 - 8K 5 miles the 2nd of the 3 race in the Grand Prix series
7/8 - 3 miles - very tired legs
7/9 - rest day, more unpacking day
7/10 - 6 miles
21 out of 80 miles
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7/2 4.0 Mi 4.0 Mi 36.0 Mi
7/4 3.4 Mi 7.4 Mi 32.6 Mi
7/6 3.7 Mi 11.1Mi 28.9 Mi
7/8 3.8 Mi 14.9Mi 25.1 Mi
Yesterday was a planned possible rest day due to a weekend hockey tournament that was an hour and a half away. weird thing is even though I planned the missing miles into my monthly goal, I felt guilty missing it. I even considered bringing gear with me and running in the park next to the arena. The only thing that changed my mind is the lack of place to clean up afterward and the thought of being around people I don't know yet and being gross all day. Overall I am on track for the month.
2017 Races :
4/29/2017 Pro Football Hall of Fame 5k - Done
6/10/17 Run and Ride Cedar Point 5K (maybe) - Done
9/9/17 Kick off 5k (race 2 of series)
11/19/17 Halftime 10K (race 3 of series)
2/4/18 Championship 5 miler (race 4 of series)
4/29/18 Akron Half Marathon (Can sign up for $26.50 by 8/1 without getting a shirt for full or half)
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@angiemarie28 Congrats on the marathon! Way to get it done despite the hip.
@RespectTheKitty Congrats on the half! Running or walking, you covered the distance.
@HonuNui Congrats on the anniversary! 41 years is amazing.0 -
July goal 100 miles
July 1.........4.1 miles..........MTD 4.1
July 2.........3.0 miles......... MTD 7.1
July 3.........5.0 miles..........MTD 12.1
July 4.........Rest Day..........MTD 12.1
July 5.........8.5 miles..........MTD 20.6
July 6.........3.1 miles..........MTD 23.7
July 7.........3.5 miles..........MTD 27.2
July 8.........Rest day..........MTD 27.2
July 9.........8.5 miles.........MTD 35.7
Happy Monday to all.
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@angmarie28 Congrats on an awesome marathon run! Considering your longest run was only 9 miles, completing a marathon under those heat conditions really proves your grit and mettle. Incredible effort!
@RespectTheKitty Congrats on a fantastic achievement, very well done!
@HonuNui Happy anniversary!
So it's Monday, which means a high-intensity run to eat up the majority of the 20 in 80/20. As usual, while the temp was nice and cool at 73F, the humidity turned things into a real suck-fest at 89%. That translated into a feeling of being drained of energy, but according to Garmin I managed to keep my heart rate up in Z4 (just) for 86% of the run.
It also didn't help that this past weekend I've eaten garbage, thanks to my daughter's birthday party. Lots and lots of sugary garbage. It was awesome.
05 - 13.56
06 - 9.72
07 - 22.03
10 - 13.55
Total: 58.86 / 250 miles6 -
7/1 - 7 miles. Beautiful morning to run!
7/2 - Rest day.
7/3 - 5 miles. Kinda sloggish.
7/4 - 5 miles. Humid.
7/5 - Nothing so far, we'll see. Fireworks hangover, slept in.
7/6 - 5 miles. Crazy humidity level...so sticky.
7/7 - 4 miles.
7/8 - 7.2 miles.
7/9 - Rest day.
7/10 - 5 very sweaty miles.
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angmarie28 wrote: »Thank you everyone for all your advise with all my marathon questions, today was the day.
Due to the high heat, they shortened the race from 7.5 to 6.5 hours, most the slow runners eother switched to the half or deferred to next year, but i was determined to do it. And my longest run to date was only 9 miles
I was up at 3am, lost my bananas I brought and had the only motel room with no coffee pot, so had a rice krispie treat and a store bought bottled frappe drink (didn't think that through since dairy doesn't like me) then I realized I forgot my compression shorts at home, 5 hours away, so I didn't have the pockets I needed, luckily I packed my compression capris, so I put my belt on and tucked my chews in there, seemed great, got to the bus pick up and realized i left my cooling towel in the motel, well *kitten*, oh well. Got to the start, they had bananas, yayyy. Joined in the back of the pack, definetly not many slow runners, oh well, took off, all 4 packs of my chews fell out before i passed the start, ugh, guess I'll deal with the cliff shot gels they provide, never used them but had no choice.
Felt great, was doing 12 min miles until mile 7, and my hip started hirting really bad, ugh, it's been an off and on issue for 2 months, but Bern fine the past month, still managed 12.5 to 13 min miles until mile 13, then there was 2 miles of a steep hill, my hip was not liking that, and I got passed by everyone on that hill. Ran with a lady up the hill, but she was so slow I had to move on or I wouldn't finish on time. Got to the top and passed one lady and left the lady I was with behind. They both ended up dropping out. Mile 19 I almost broke down, I was so sore and 8 miles left, At mile 20, their was a volunteer that asked if I was ok, I said ya, my hips killing me, but it's ok, he asked if he could ride hos bike beside me, I was really struggling so figured company was a good idea. At this point I had to do 15 Min miles to finish on time, mile 22 my hop finally loosened up, but my feet hurt so bad, felt like my shoes were shrinking, and it was as sooo hot, another volunteer kept bringing my frozen rags, and the other vopunter stuck with me (after all, I was last) mile 25 I realized I wasn't going to finish in 6:30:00, then I just wanted to cry, then I started having trouble breathing, I couldn't get breath on so I sat a minute, and vented to Tim (my volunteer buddy) that I wasn't going to finish on time, he told me if they weren't there to give me a medal, than he's find them and get me one, I got up and finished the damn race in dead last at 6:39:50, and got my medal, my husband was waiting at the end with me kids, 2 of them joined me the last 10 feet across the finish line. My final tome isn't "official"since I was 10 minutes past the cut off, but for not being a runner, and everything working against me, I really don't care, I finished it, and I'm pretty proud of that
Amazing job @angmarie28 !1
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