August 2017 Running Challenge
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RunRachelleRun wrote: »Omg @MNLittleFinn looks more like a rock climbing course!
well..... it would look flatter if it were to scale.... 700 feet top to bottom, and 60 miles long.......1 -
5.51 out of 120 miles done today. Spreadsheet for August not quite ready to go yet.
Tonight was group speed workout. Half the track was in the shade and it felt pretty good just standing there before we started. But definitely hot and sweaty once we got going. A certain section of the track where I was staring directly into the setting (not fast enough) sun became a repeated torture, and then the relief of hitting the shade each lap. We did 5-7-3 minute intervals and with 3 minutes recovery between and then those of us doing HM training had 1 minute recovery and 1 more 5 minute interval. The marathoners repeated the 7 and 3 intervals also for two full sets. I was happy to stop! Then 4 sprints - which we did on the turf of the football field because the marathoners were still on the track. I felt like a football star running the length of the field! Weird footing though.
Finished up with some frozen grapes as a treat. And then I had key lime pie ice cream at home. Yay for working out!6 -
Finally off work.... no run for me... guess I will just eat this Double Chocolate Klondike Bar instead. Seems like a good trade off...8
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8/1/17 - 3.01 miles treadmill before weight lifting.
Upcoming Races:
9/9/17 - Wabash Trace HM (Maybe)
10/21/17 - Oregon Trail Run HM2 -
Took some time off in July with a long vacation, but I am still on track for my year running total goal. I am aiming for 90 miles in August. My new running watch and heart rate monitor just arrived today (but I am not able to go for a run until Thursday due to work/call) so I will have to wait until then. Surely the new tech will help motivate me.
Love seeing all the posts - all 7 pages of them even though it is August 1st!2 -
I am a newbie to the challenge, but not to running. Have been a on and off runner for past 20+ years.
I'm one of those dummies that's doesn't train for a race just shows up and hopes for the best. Even did a 1/2 marathon like that, ran it in 2 hrs and 20 min. I wouldn't recommend it. I was beyond sore for a week.
My first goal is to run everyday, even if only 1 mile. The second is to run 90 miles this month. My third is to be #1 in my age group in the turkey trot in Buffalo NY this year. Watch out 35-40 year olds I'm coming for you. Lol. I believe all of this can be achieved if I just stick to it and not let life keep me from getting moving.10 -
My plans for a run were foiled due to car troubles. I may have to skip my run tomorrow so I can replace the alternator in my wife's truck.
0/100 miles1 -
August goal: 4 x 4 (at least 4m/run and at least 4hrs running/week
7/31: snorkel 3.5 hours
Zebra Eel: this guy was about 4ft long and beautiful
8/1: 4.72 1hr
Total 4.72
Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:
upcoming races:
Race to Cure Sarcoma Month of July 86miles/86$
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)
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Spent the day traveling for work. 4 hr drive - stop for fuel, 3 hr drive - ( This part hurts ) 30 minutes of work - yes that's right 7 hours driving and 30 minutes to solve the problem. 3 hr drive back to the previous community and my Hotel room. Went out and stumbled through a 7.5 km run in High Level, AB. With all that driving I just felt really sluggish. A Real Estate Run. Not a Fan of sidewalks especially in the summer, but when you can't find an online map showing Trails its better than nothing.
08/01 0 km – 150 km - 0 km – YTD 862.57 km
08/01 7.5 km – 142.5 km - 7.5 km – YTD 870.07 km
@skippygirlsmom So skip's not just a running mentor/friend/beloved daughter - now she's your food coach.
With your company blocking Strava - You can say you use it to track your Steps for the step Challenge that your company is having.
@Elise4270 I'm not sure about your " Dec 2- POOP trail run, Hoping for a half!" especially Half a POOP - that usually gets me in trouble latter.
This is the exact benefit that I have received from joining our little club. Peer Pressure - Motivation - Guidance - Support.As I was walking around the track afterward to cool down, I remarked to a team mate that there was no way I would do this workout in this weather without the club. And that's true. It's why I joined the club, to have peer pressure that would get me to actually *do* the speed work. It's worked, even though right now I'm too much of a hypochondriac to do the workouts most of my team mates were doing.5 -
I can't believe it. August 1 and I am 7 pages behind.
Goal is 60 miles again. I was short 6 miles last month, but this month I will get it.
After returning from Grand Rapids, which is a beautiful city with a lot of genuinely friendly people, I had to work the next 3 nights, and was unable to complete my July goal.
Just finished working 3 night shifts in a row. 4 hours of sleep. Then meeting with my manager for my annual performance review. (She is the same manager who fired my friend. However, she is leaving the nursing profession to get married and move to Thailand.) Also had scheduled a mandatory in-service for the same day. I had planned to run in between these meetings but the first meeting was late due to poor time management on the part of the manager. Luckily the rain was supposed to be over later in the afternoon and it cooled the temperature enough to make the run pleasant.
I forgot my usual running toys, my stopwatch, my music. I am pretty sure that I was running in the zone. Originally wanted to run 4 miles, but I felt pretty good (after the first mile) and changed my mind to get the 6.
August 1....6 miles.
goal----60 miles.4 -
Definitely this!! #runningnerdsunite!Hey @shanaber is it just too odd that 89 miles is 144km and they are both Fibonacci numbers? It's like the universe left a "hi there" for nerdy runners!
ETA OMG! 144 miles is 233km. I've cracked the code to the universe! Lol!
Aww 233m is not quite 377km...
Not quite a coincidence. The Golden Ratio is an irrational number that the Fibonacci series approximates closer as the numbers get higher (i.e., 144/89 is closer to the Golden Ratio than 8/5), and [one mile] / [one kilometer] is approximately the Golden Ratio. But it's not exact, because the kilometer wasn't designed deliberately to be in that relationship with a mile.
I'll have to Google that. Thanks for the info!
Welcome @dudasd1973 !
@shanaber great minds think alike? Or we've some how synced through a complex telepathic Fibonacci sequence.
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Taking it easy in August as I have not been able to cross 100 km last month (Ran 80 km) and setting the goal of 75 km. Main focus would be weightlifting this month for me. Good luck to everyone with their goals!3
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lporter229 wrote: »I am back for August. Sorry to have bailed on July's challenge. With trying to ease back into running while still rehabbing my hamstring as well as trying to add proper cross training and strength training and everything into the mix, I just felt like I was spinning my wheels with no clear direction. I needed to take a step back and re-evaluate my long term goals and get a good handle on how to get there. July ended up being a good time to do this because it was so darn busy with things in my personal life. I did manage to run around 80 miles last month (plus quite a few more if you include the ones I did not track spent running with my doggie), but most of those were just head out and see where it takes me type miles, which, in my opinion, can be really good for the soul. I tried to keep up with the thread for a while, but you guys are just too prolific! It ended up being a useless effort and I gave up when we went on vacation in the second week.
So, as I mentioned, I have been looking ahead for some serious long term and short term direction. I have the Bourbon Chase relay coming up in October, which was never intended to be a serious "race" as agreed upon by my team, although I will probably be assigned one of the toughest two legs of the challenge, so maybe I am underestimating how trained I will need to be. I also started thinking slightly beyond that for a half marathon to gauge where I can be compared with last year if I introduce some proper speed work back into my regimen. I think I am ready for it.
My niece lives in Charlotte and is wanting to run the Charlotte Half-marathon as her first half marathon in November. I told her that I would join her. The results form last year indicate that I could have easily won my age group by several minutes and could have taken second female in the masters division, so I thought it sounded like a pretty good goal to strive for.
Beyond that, I would also like to do a spring marathon. First I will have to wait and see if my time from Boston this year is good enough to get me back there. If, by some chance it is, I told my husband that I plan on applying for Big Sur through the Boston to Big Sur entry. This will be a difficult challenge since they are only two weeks apart, but Big Sur has always been a bucket list of mine and is a pretty hard lottery to win. However, chances of getting in go up dramatically if you run Boston and commit to running both of those marathons. If, by some chance, that actually became a reality, I would be walking a good deal of that marathon and soaking up all of the beautiful scenery! If my BQ time does not hold up, I think I will do the Flying Pig for the third time. It is the 20th anniversary and they are planning to give commemorative jackets to all of the finishers of the full marathon. Given that it is my hometown race and first full marathon, I think that would be a pretty cool thing to have.
Sorry so long winded, but I just wanted to get that all down in writing since it has been churning over in my mind. Glad to be getting (really) back into the swing of things. I missed you guys! Also happy to see some old friends back this month: @7lenny7 , @kristinegift and @5512bf. Can't wait to get back on track with you!
Oh, going to set a goal of 100 miles for this month. Planning on 4 days running per week in August and hopefully ramping up to 5 in September. Also planning on sticking with the P90X3 and strength training on my running days (except my long run) and swimming on 2 of my non-running days. That's my plan and I'm (hopefully) sticking to it!
@lporter229 So good to see you again!!
I love your goals!! Awesome as ever. Best wishes for July and the rest of the year.
I'm planning my first marathon at the end of August. I had a glute/hamstring problem for 6 months, and it was fixed early last month by two sessions of deep tissue massage a week apart. Amazing!
Will look forward to hearing more from you.1 -
Look what my son designed, and has sold a few already
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August Running Challenge
Goal: 75 km
Ran: 3/75
2/8/17 Run 3 km + SL A
1/8/17 walk 4km
SL~Strong Lift1 -
I'm in! Sheesh! Only Aug 2 and 7 pages of posts. I will try to review them all, but I can't promise.
So, I didn't make my goal for July - I was a teeny tiny bit lazy a couple of times so I probably over estimated since I try to do my karate lessons 4 days a week and I'm pretty busy other than running. My hopeful spreadsheet shows I want to do 39 miles in August, but I am going to make my target 30 miles. I'm still a pretty new runner so this seems appropriate and it is still more than I actually ran in July.
Ran 2.5 miles Aug 1outside - I'm trying to get outside more, but temperature is an issue. It's much more interesting outside, but I also am finding it is a little more difficult due to terrain and I don't have a machine setting pace for me. Map my fitness says I did the 2.5 miles at a 9:37 pace which is a little fast for me and probably why I just ran out of steam at 2.5 miles. I'd planned to go 3 but oh well, that's all I had
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8/1: 7 miles of Track Tuesday
8/2: 7 miles easy
14 miles of 250 goal miles
I tried to keep my heart rate in the "moderate"/recovery zone but oh boy it was hard. I started off fine staying in the low-mid 150s but the more fatigued I got (thanks, Monday lifting + Tuesday track workout!) the harder it was to keep my HR under 160. I even had to take a couple walk breaks to get my HR back down! Trying really hard to keep my easy days very easy. Tempo run tomorrow!
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8/1- 6.1
8/1- 4.2
8/2- 6.1
Total: 16.4
August Goal: Not die while ramping up running mileage and technicality during 100K training
Nominal mileage goal: 250 miles
Today's notes: 6.1 miles at 9:26 pace, average HR 151. In z1 and z2 90% of the run. Run felt good. Today was an easy day, tomorrow is another double, with 3-4 on the ski hills in the AM.
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 Turkey2 -
August was off to a flying start with a rest day yesterday because I was at Fenway Park shovelling Italian sausage and plenty of beer into my face. There would have been a photo, but I was too hungry to wait.
Tonight however, I will be making up for that indulgence and have got a leisurely 6.2 miles planned. I'll probably take a couple of days away from running on Thursday and Friday and do something else. And then Saturday is race day. Rain is forecast so that should make the 80+ deg temperatures a little easier to bear.6 -
If anyone here likes to take surveys, McMillan Running has one out:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGynitD3z6lUXhW_aPMbfYM_IM5h5xJCUQ5wfq_PwCPs1Ahw/viewform
Email from them: "We are excited to be working on something new that McMillan runners have been asking from us. In a couple of weeks I will be revealing our new program. I'm very excited about it and I know you are going to love it.
As we work on the finishing pieces, I want to make sure it has everything you, as a runner, need because ultimately my goal is to help you reach your running goals. So, I need your help!
I have a few quick questions that will help us gauge where you are with your running and where you want to go. This will allow me to make a few final decisions and tweaks to the program before the big reveal.
Please take a minute (literally) and fill out this quick survey. It's painless, I promise, and will be very helpful for me."3 -
I'm in for 115 this month.
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.
@MNLittleFinn - When you show that course that way, it looks like a cool art project. 60 mile out and back?
@Orphia - can I get one without ketchup?
@HonuNui - your photos always make me so jealous!
@kristinegift - 250?!? Back with a vengeance!6 -
Welcome to all new challenge members!
@Sliedur You'll eventually get a feel for pace, just make sure you keep things nice and slow (especially in the summer heat) while you become accustomed to what you can comfortably do. Running outdoors is sooo much better than the treadmill, in my opinion.
Yesterday morning was spent at the court house due to a jury summons, and because I had no idea how long my day was going to be, I opted not to get up early to do my regular run. The good news is that my name wasn't one of the 105 names that were called out, so I'm free to do my runs as usual now...and the bonus is that that summons still counts as me having performed my civic duty of jury service, so no more summons from the county for at least three years now.
This morning was a steady slow 13.5 miles. The temperature was a lot cooler than it's been recently (73F), but the dew point was still uncomfortable at 72F...it had rained during the night but it was already starting to feel very muggy again by the time I got out. Pace-wise things were real slow, averaging at 10:43 min/mi, but that translated into a very low heart rate: 134 bpm on average, which is the upper side of Zone 1 (warm-up).
I did get to see a baby skunk running around, which looked super cute, but I didn't want to hang around to take a picture because that probably meant that momma was lurking around somewhere, and I didn't want to piss momma off.
PS
Dear spiders: don't build webs across paths that I run along, and in return, I promise not to destroy your home with my face and steal all of the food that you've caught. Thank you.
02 - 13.54
Total: 13.54 / 200 miles
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@MNLittleFinn - When you show that course that way, it looks like a cool art project. 60 mile out and back?
Roughly 60 miles, it's a 100k, but closer to 60 than the 62 for full 100k... trail races are a little harder to get certified distance... yeah, out and back on the south end of the Superior Hiking Trail2 -
@KatieJane83 you get the emails too? I got that one this morning and sent it in.
@garygse nice start to the month!
@BruinsGal_91 what's your race? Sorry if I missed you posting it!
@kristinegift nice way to start the month!2 -
I got in an 8 miler this am. Trying to get my regular run up to 9-10. Felt good stayed in zone 2 for all but the steep part of the largest hill.
@KatieJane83 survey is just a few questions and it will take almost no time to complete
@BruinsGal_91 Wow! you saw a great game. Did you stay till the end? Bet there were a few empty seats for the ninth. I was there to see the walk-off BB against the Yankee's last month. That might have been the best game until last night.
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@MNLittleFinn - it's a small local 5k. Probably no more than 200 runners, so depending on who turns up, I might place in my age group.1
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@cburke8909 nice run this morning!0
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@cburke8909 - one of the best games I've been to. I thought they'd blown it, but what a comeback! And that catch by Austin Jackson was phenomenal.0
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@kristinegift - 250?!? Back with a vengeance!
@karllundy Well most months so far this year have been in the 100-120 zone. Last month was just over 150. And now I'm finally getting off my butt and actually training
We'll see how my body feels getting back to last fall's training volume! 1 -
@cburke8909 is it sad that I was disappointed the survey wasn't longer? #nerdrunner3
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