August 2017 Running Challenge

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  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    KatieJane83 wrote: »
    Myself and a few friends from the Saturday morning zumba class I take agreed to sign up for a workout challenge that one of the gym's personal trainers had set up, where, if you completed it in under 15 minutes you'd get a free personal training session (obviously trying to drum up business, but whatever, and he's the husband of one of the girls in my running group, so I wanted to be supportive). The challenge ended up being something like this: 100 jumping jacks, 90 high knees, 80 mountain climbers, 70 burpees (the devil's workout!), 60 switching jumps w/overhead presses w/dumbbells, 50 box jumps, 40 ball slams, 30 jumping lunges, 20 jumping squats, and 10 more burpees. I did it in 14:24, so yay for winning a free training session!

    IMPRESSIVE!!!
  • wishiwasarunner
    wishiwasarunner Posts: 202 Member
    edited August 2017
    @Orphia - Congrats to the newest MARATHONER on this site! Great job finishing so well - no walking and even speeding up at the end!
    @KatieJane83- yeah - the burpees and box jumps sound exhausting when mixed with everything else, especially.

    ETA - and @Orphia - I really laughed at the part where you kept running because your watch was not going to give you credit for a marathon otherwise. My watch didn't give me credit for one of my PR's - but I didn't realize it when I stopped it and honestly, not sure I would have kept going to get it to show up.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    8/01/2017 - 0 miles
    8/02/2017 - 9 miles Z3/Z4
    8/03/2017 - 7 miles Z2
    8/04/2017 - 5 Easy miles
    8/05/2017 - Cranberry Cup 5k - 23:18
    8/05/2017 - Howl at the Moon 5k - 25:11
    8/06/2017 - Rest
    8/07/2017 - 7.75 miles
    8/08/2017 - 6.5 miles Z2
    8/09/2017 - 7 miles Z2
    8/10/2017 - 7 miles Z2
    8/11/2017 - REST DAY BAH
    8/12/2017 - 15 miles (includes 15km "race" )
    8/13/2017 - Rest Day
    8/14/2017 - 7 miles Z2/Z3
    8/15/2017 - 9 miles Z2/Z3
    8/16/2017 - 6 miles Z3/Z4
    8/17/2017 - Cross Train - Strength
    8/18/2017 - 10 miles
    8/19/2017 - 8/26/2017 - Traveling no runs
    8/27/2017 - 8.5 miles - Z2
    8/28/2017 - 7 miles Z2

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

    Next Races (more as I find them):

    10/14/2017 - Stop, Drop, and Run - Fireman style obstacle course - 5km

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

    Think I have acquired a cold so taking running a bit easy this week.
  • amtyrell
    amtyrell Posts: 1,447 Member
    Aug 22- 4.2 miles total 4.2
    Aug 24-4.7 miles total 8.9
    Aug 27-4.1 miles total 13.0
    Aug 28- 2.2 miles total 15.2

    Goal event November 18 Annapolis Running Fest 10k.
  • Runningmischka
    Runningmischka Posts: 386 Member
    @Orphia Congratulations!!! What a great accomplishment :) You look like are having a fantastic time in your pics, so awesome!
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    @KatieJane83 Does a person who can do that really even need personal training?
  • KatieJane83
    KatieJane83 Posts: 2,002 Member
    midwesterner85 wrote: »
    @KatieJane83 Does a person who can do that really even need personal training?

    That's what I said! I was like, shouldn't you win the session if you CAN'T hit the target time? :D Didn't really make sense to me, lol.
  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
    August goal: 4 x 4

    8/1: 4.72 1hr
    8/2 4.58 1:01
    8/3 rest
    8/4 5.26 1:03
    8/5 4.10 0:53
    8/6 rest
    8/7 6.37 1:11
    8/8 4.10 1:00
    8/9 4.11 0:51
    8/10 rest
    8/11 4.09 0:48
    8/12 4.00 0:50
    8/13 rest
    8/14 5.88 1:15
    8/15 4.26 :56
    8/16 snorkel 4hrs
    8/17 4.10 1.00
    8/18 rest
    8/19 6.25 1.13
    8/20 4.35 1.00
    8/21 rest
    8/22 4.25 0:55
    8/23 3.90 0:43
    8/24 rest
    8/25 5.00 1:05
    8/26 4.20 0:58
    8/27 rest
    8/28 4.12 0:52

    Total 87.84

    @orphia: woohoo WonderWoman!
    @RespectTheKitty hugs and good wishes for whatever activity you decide to do

    Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:
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    upcoming races:
    Volcano Rainforest Runs 10k 8/19
    Hilo Bay 5 and 10k 9/10
    BlockThe Sun Run 5k Oct 14 (https://walk.aimatmelanoma.org/Hilo2017) (physical and virtual options available)
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    PinkamenaD8 wrote: »
    KatieJane83 wrote: »
    midwesterner85 wrote: »
    @KatieJane83 Does a person who can do that really even need personal training?

    That's what I said! I was like, shouldn't you win the session if you CAN'T hit the target time? :D Didn't really make sense to me, lol.

    The message he is giving is that if you can't do those things, you'll be able to do them with his training.
    @KatieJane83 if you did them it was because you're in very good shape.

    That and they likely only want people to claim the prize if they will take it seriously. "Free session" with a trainer is probably almost always a waste of every ones' time.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    8/1- 6.1
    8/1- 4.2
    8/2- 6.1
    8/3- 4.5
    8/3- 6
    8/4- 8.1
    8/5- 15.2
    8/6- 5.1
    8/7- REST
    8/8- 6.6
    8/8- 4
    8/9- 6.2
    8/10- REST
    8/11- 4 icky not so fun miles
    8/12- 18.3
    8/13- REST/Recovery
    8/14- REST/Recovery
    8/15- 6.2
    8/16- 5.1
    8/17- 6.5
    8/18- REST
    8/19- 25.5- Including OCR race
    8/20-REST
    8/21- REST
    8/22- 8.2
    8/23- 6
    8/24- 8
    8/25- REST
    8/26- 24.1
    8/27- 5.1
    8/28- REST
    8/29- 9.5

    Total: 198.8

    August Goal: Not die while ramping up running mileage and technicality during 100K training
    Nominal mileage goal: 250 miles HAHAHAHA not gonna happen

    Today's notes: Was talking with my running buddy last night and he mentioned being able to hit the trailks with me on Thursday, so today became my "track" day. Workout was 8x1000 with 500 recovery, plus 1 mile warm up and cool down, for a total of 9.5 miles. My goal was to keep my splits between 4:20 and 4:30. First split was a bit slow, but the rest were pretty good.

    100k splits were:
    4:35
    4:28
    4:28
    4:29
    4:29
    4:29
    4:29
    4:26

    Feel pretty good after this workout. I really had to push the last couple repeats, but it paid off. I feel great, and I know that I can do `00k repeats at 5k pace. Great feeling.


    Have a Runderful day everyone!


    2017 Races Scheduled
    6/16- William A Irvin 5k
    6/17- Grandma's Marathon 4:24:06
    7/15- Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon 7:22:23
    8/12- UMTR FatAss "Not Quite" 50k
    8/19- Rampage at the Ridge 5k OCR
    9/23- Ely Marathon (full)
    10/21 Wild Duluth 100k
    11/23- TBD 5k Turkey
  • JimCrackinDandy
    JimCrackinDandy Posts: 146 Member
    Congrats @Orphia ! So exciting!!!

    4miles today. Still having some knee issues. Aug total 76/90
  • KatieJane83
    KatieJane83 Posts: 2,002 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    PinkamenaD8 wrote: »
    KatieJane83 wrote: »
    midwesterner85 wrote: »
    @KatieJane83 Does a person who can do that really even need personal training?

    That's what I said! I was like, shouldn't you win the session if you CAN'T hit the target time? :D Didn't really make sense to me, lol.

    The message he is giving is that if you can't do those things, you'll be able to do them with his training.
    @KatieJane83 if you did them it was because you're in very good shape.

    That and they likely only want people to claim the prize if they will take it seriously. "Free session" with a trainer is probably almost always a waste of every ones' time.

    Oh absolutely. Obviously, the end goal is they're looking to get people to sign up for paid sessions, so they're looking for the people that are going to take it seriously. I'm sure they're also hoping that the people who can't complete the challenge will then go hey, I want to be able to do that too! And sign up for sessions.

    At this point I have neither the time nor the extra funds to be spending on personal training, lol. But I already told the trainer that I wanted to use our free session to learn more exercises that are good for supporting my running habit and preventing injury, lol.
  • 5512bf
    5512bf Posts: 389 Member
    August Goal - 120 Miles

    8/1/17 - 4.02 Easy
    8/2/17 - 4.15 Easy
    8/3/17 - 4.0 Easy
    8/4/17 - 4.5 Easy
    8/5/17 - 6.0 Easy
    8/6/17 - 3.0 Easy - 28.71 Week
    8/8/17 - 5.01 Easy
    8/9/17 - 5.01 Easy
    8/10/17 - 5.01 Easy
    8/11/17 - 5.0 Easy
    8/12/17 - 7.5 Easy
    8/13/17 - 2.51 Easy - 30.04 Week
    8/15/17 - 5.01 Easy
    8/16/17 - 5.01 Easy
    8/17/17 - 5.01 Easy
    8/18/17 - 5.02 Easy
    8/20/17 - 7.0 Easy - 27.06 Week
    8/21/17 - 4.71 Easy
    8/22/17 - 6.01 Easy
    8/23/17 - 6.04 Easy
    8/24/17 - 6.04 Easy
    8/25/17 - 4.02 Easy
    8/26/17 - 9.56 Easy - 36.38 Week
    8/28/17 - 6.2 Easy
    8/29/17 - 6.85 Easy w/ strides

    Total 132.2 of 120 Miles

    Had a beautiful 57 degree morning today at 4:30 am. Added in a some speed/cadence work and did 10x125m strides. Did them fairly easy and didn't push the pace, just worked on foot turnover and maintaining form. Made sure to keep the effort in the lower portion of z3.

    @Orphia Pretty much everything I'm doing now is to get in shape to start training. Still have a long way to go to get back to last year but I'm confident by Mid October - Early November I'll be ready to circle a spring marathon and get to work. I've pretty much decided to go with Pfitzinger 18/70 training plan again so I've got some work to get back to 55-60mpw to get that started.
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
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    8/1 - Rest/sick day - feeling better, but not sure running would have been good. Hoping for tomorrow.
    8/2 - 4.5 miles of hill repeats. Glad I did it, more glad I'm done.
    8/3 - 3.5 short miles before getting in the car with the family.
    8/4 - Road trip / vacation
    8/5 - Road trip / vacation / anniversary
    8/6 - 5 miles. Gorgeous morning for a run!
    8/7 - 5 miles. Again, beautiful morning!
    8/8 - 5 miles. Another nice morning!
    8/9 - 4.6 miles of hill repeats with group. I am soooo tired and sleepy today.
    8/10 - 4.4 treadmill miles / trek class. Then upper body weights/abs.
    8/11 - Rest day because I have to.
    8/12 - 6.6 mile group run. Perfect weather.
    8/13 - 2.3 treadmill miles. Then quick upper body weights.
    8/14 - 5.3 miles track / intervals.
    8/15 - 5 miles. Another relatively cool, delightful morning to run.
    8/16 - 4.85 miles of group hill run. Rough, but good.
    8/17 - Rest day. If I run more than 5 days in a row, bad things tend to happen.
    8/18 - 5 miles. Gorgeous morning to run.
    8/19 - 7.75 mile group run.
    8/20 - Unplanned rest day.
    8/21 - 5 miles of treadmill "intervals"...ugh
    8/22 - 5 miles.
    8/23 - 4.9 miles of group hill run.
    8/24 - 3.5 slowish miles. Had to cut it short since I overslept a bit.
    8/25 - Rest day.
    8/26 - 8 mile group run.
    8/27 - Hip / knee pain...decided to pass.
    8/28 - 5 gentle/ginger miles...hips still sore, knees OK
    8/29 - 5 comfortable miles.

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  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    @Orphia congrats on your first marathon!!!


    August 1- 13.4
    August 2- 17.3
    August 3- 16.5
    August 4- 17.3
    August 5- 40
    August 6- 20
    August 7- Off
    August 8- 24.5
    August 9- 34.
    August 10- 15.3
    August 11- 20
    August 12- 21
    August 13- 14.8
    August 14- Off
    August 15- 16.3
    August 16- 8.2
    August 17- 11.2
    August 18- Off
    August 19- Off
    August 20- 42.2 [Edmonton Marathon, 4:01:18]
    August 21- Off
    August 22- 12.1
    August 23- 30
    August 24- 19
    August 25- 20.3
    August 26- 52.1
    August 27- 15
    August 28- Off
    August 29- 18.2

    499.3/420km
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    KatieJane83 wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    PinkamenaD8 wrote: »
    KatieJane83 wrote: »
    midwesterner85 wrote: »
    @KatieJane83 Does a person who can do that really even need personal training?

    That's what I said! I was like, shouldn't you win the session if you CAN'T hit the target time? :D Didn't really make sense to me, lol.

    The message he is giving is that if you can't do those things, you'll be able to do them with his training.
    @KatieJane83 if you did them it was because you're in very good shape.

    That and they likely only want people to claim the prize if they will take it seriously. "Free session" with a trainer is probably almost always a waste of every ones' time.

    Oh absolutely. Obviously, the end goal is they're looking to get people to sign up for paid sessions, so they're looking for the people that are going to take it seriously. I'm sure they're also hoping that the people who can't complete the challenge will then go hey, I want to be able to do that too! And sign up for sessions.

    At this point I have neither the time nor the extra funds to be spending on personal training, lol. But I already told the trainer that I wanted to use our free session to learn more exercises that are good for supporting my running habit and preventing injury, lol.

    Yeah, I hear you. Cost can be insane for a personal trainer. One lady I was talking to online told me she was "cheaper than I thought" and that she was only "about the price of a Starbucks every day" and I am like "but I can not afford Starbucks every day" :smiley:

    I meet for a free session and they wrote me up a list of things to do. Now, I have to try and make myself do them. Alone with no accountability. Traditionally I suck at that so we will see. Wednesday is day one.

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