August 2017 Running Challenge

Options
1…8485878990…114

Replies

  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    Options
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    No run again schedualed for today, today I catch another plan and head west! To the land of the dust devil and the tumbleweed. Seriously going to need to run like 50-75 miles to run off all this eating out when we get back!

    @PastorVincent That's what vacation is for -eating everything delicious and relaxing. Have fun! :)
  • seanevan10
    seanevan10 Posts: 385 Member
    Options
    Wolfger wrote: »
    Took 3 days off after C25K W3D3. Two days of camping, drinking, and hauling heavy stuff around, then one day of recovery. Failed to complete W4D1. Well, I guess if it was always easy, it wouldn't feel so much like success at the end. :wink:

    @Wolfger Week 4 day 1 is always hard. I have started C25k 3 times before this and it is always where I either gave up or get injured. So, just do it again and make it through!! It will be worth it!
  • seanevan10
    seanevan10 Posts: 385 Member
    Options
    cburke8909 wrote: »
    Stir crazy, day 3 of rest. I get to see the doctor today and my thigh is feeling somewhat better. I want to run but I'll be good and let my legs heal.

    I am glad you are waiting. I wanted to run after PT yesterday so badly, but waited until this morning and it was worth it. I hope the dr has good news!!!
  • seanevan10
    seanevan10 Posts: 385 Member
    Options
    5512bf wrote: »

    another 4:30 am 79 degree morning with 100% humidity. i'm sleeping in tomorrow if it's this bad out again.
    I had that same kind of run this morning. At least there was a tiny breeze and the sun wasn't beating down.
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    Options
    8/1 - 5 miles
    8/2 - 4 miles
    8/3 - 6 miles
    8/4 - rest day
    8/5 - 8 miles
    8/6 - 3 miles
    8/7 - 0 miles - rest day
    8/8 - 5 miles
    8/9 - 5 miles
    8/10 - 5.6 miles happy birthday run - see what I did there 5.6 miles
    8/11 - rest day
    8/12 - 4 miles
    8/13 - 10 miles
    8/14 - 3 miles
    8/15 – rest day rest day my legs said they need a rest day
    8/16 - 5 miles
    8/17 - 2 miles
    8/18 - 5 miles wow it was like running a swamp out there today
    8/19 - 2 miles
    8/20 - 0 miles decided to take a rest day
    8/21 - 5 miles
    8/22 - 4 miles

    81 of 80 miles

    exercise.png

    Goal!!! Okay so let me set a stretch goal of 100 miles for the month. I'll update my ticker today because I like to see my little turtle at goal for now. ha ha
  • seanevan10
    seanevan10 Posts: 385 Member
    Options
    @WandaVaughn you go girl!!! I hope you have an even better time than you think!!!
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    Options
    LOL! @skippygirlsmom That Skip!
    I have a good headlight, I suppose I'll get over it if I just get out there and suck it up. Maybe carry a few dog treats.

    Lately out at the park I run up on mama and baby deer and they just stand there in my way. They seem to like to be admired, I even had one step towards me. I'm like "I HAVE NOTHING FOR YOU, GO AWAY".
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    edited August 2017
    Options
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    LOL! @skippygirlsmom That Skip!
    I have a good headlight, I suppose I'll get over it if I just get out there and suck it up. Maybe carry a few dog treats.

    Lately out at the park I run up on mama and baby deer and they just stand there in my way. They seem to like to be admired, I even had one step towards me. I'm like "I HAVE NOTHING FOR YOU, GO AWAY".

    @elise4270 maybe you can carry some corn on the cob for the deer ha ha

    @wandavaughn awesome mile! You are going to kill that 35:30
  • hedkell
    hedkell Posts: 121 Member
    edited August 2017
    Options
    New to this group and just joined the Strava group too. Struggling through a long hot UAE summer and need all the inspiration I can get!
  • ADLampshade
    ADLampshade Posts: 9 Member
    Options
    Thank you for the advise. I think I may scale it back a bit, but I also love the current momentum I'm riding.
    skippygirlsmom wrote: »
    @PastorVincent yep we block the stupidest things here
    @MobyCarp I’m sorry the ankle isn’t feeling better 
    @shanaber I can just hear you breathing hard while talking on your telecom ha ha You are just busy busy. I can’t answer your question on the hungry and intervals since I don’t run them. However, I notice Skip is especially hungry when she’s had an interval practice.
    @RespectTheKitty great job getting back to strength training and finding a new route
    @ADLampshade great job on goal, give yourself a stretch goal for the rest of the month. Though I have to say that 70 miles is a big amount of mileage for just coming back this month to running. Perhaps a cut back week so less than 23 miles a week for the last 9 days of the month.
    @Runningmischka great run in the heat
    @kristinegift One of the things that makes you such a great runner is your ability to know your body so well. Makes you a very smart runner. Had to go and look up Dunkirk because I live with my head in the sand, actually sounds like a movie I’d like, was it good?
    Welcome @clairebeneymfp
    @BruinsGal_91 you are 100% right
    Cool on the shooting star @ddmom0811
    @elise4270 I’m a chicken too honestly I am just like you I hate to take the dog out in the dark or even walk down the dark hall. Running with Mace makes me feel better, running in familiar territory helps. To run in the morning in the dark I just force myself to do it. There are so many great lights out there you can use so you won’t feel like you are running in the dark.

    I have to do a sort brag sort of she’s a mess on my girl. Coach called me around 5:00 last night “I had to send Skip home from practice” me “oh?” Coach “we were doing 200m speed work and after about 8 of them she was throwing up over the fence at the track” me “oh!” Coach “she insisted on doing 4 more” me “oh?!” Coach “after every one of them she would go over and throw up and get back on the track” me “ha ha okay then” Coach “I love her”. After talking to her it was a combo of things, she drank a whole bottle of water walking over to the track before practice, it was like 95 degrees out and she had an early lunch and didn’t have any protein bars with her so her stomach was empty except for the guzzled water.

  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    Options
    skippygirlsmom wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    LOL! @skippygirlsmom That Skip!
    I have a good headlight, I suppose I'll get over it if I just get out there and suck it up. Maybe carry a few dog treats.

    Lately out at the park I run up on mama and baby deer and they just stand there in my way. They seem to like to be admired, I even had one step towards me. I'm like "I HAVE NOTHING FOR YOU, GO AWAY".

    @elise4270 maybe you can carry some corn on the cob for the deer ha ha

    @ wandavaughn awesome mile! You are going to kill that 35:30

    Aww Shucks. I just gave the last of it to the crows.
  • zdyb23456
    zdyb23456 Posts: 1,706 Member
    Options
    8/1 8miles 1hr:16m:25s
    8/2 6miles 60m:39s
    8/3 5miles 46m:32s
    8/4 rest
    8/5 12miles 1hr:57m:36s
    8/6 rest
    8/7 6miles 57m:25s
    8/8 5miles 49m:20s
    8/9 rest
    8/10 13.1miles!!!! 2hr:04m:17s
    8/11 6mi 56m:44s
    8/12 5mi 48m:30s
    8/13 rest
    8/14 6miles 57m:56s
    8/15 9miles 1h:29m:30s
    8/16 rest
    8/17 12miles 2h:02m:55s
    8/18 6miles 58m:49s
    8/19 5miles 49m:16s
    8/20 rest
    8/21 5miles 47m:34s
    8/22 5miles 46m:54s

    5 miles a little faster than yesterday.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    Options
    @skippygirlsmom I hate to admit it, but your story about Skip reflects a lot of what my big TOF runs look like.....
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    edited August 2017
    Options
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    @skippygirlsmom I hate to admit it, but your story about Skip reflects a lot of what my big TOF runs look like.....

    @MNlittlefinn ha ha

    @ADLlampshade I know what you mean about the momentum of the miles, but always better to have a cutback week then to get injured
    @elise4270 I see what you did there.
    @hedkell welcome to group, feeling bad for you running in the beautiful UAE :smiley: Just kidding, the heat is a killer no matter how pretty the landscape.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    Options
    skippygirlsmom wrote: »
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    @skippygirlsmom I hate to admit it, but your story about Skip reflects a lot of what my big TOF runs look like.....

    @MNlittlefinn ha ha

    @ADLlampshade I know what you mean about the momentum of the miles, but always better to have a cutback week then to get injured
    @elise4270 I see what you did there.

    testing fueling while running is a hit and miss proposition... you hope the puke hits the ground and misses you
  • rusgolden
    rusgolden Posts: 1,337 Member
    Options
    August Goal - 80 Miles

    8/01 - 2.9 - Short Hill Intervals w/ WU/CD
    8/02 - 3.0 - 8.51M/M, 147 AHR
    8/03 - 4.0 - 9.35 M/M, 143 AHR
    8/05 - 3.1 - 7:45 M/M, 148 AHR - 5K PR 24:02
    8/06 - 7.8 - 9:57 M/M, 145 AHR (supposed to be 7mi but route left me a mile+ away from home)
    8/08 - 4.0 - 9:43 M/M, 145 AHR (oops, thought today was long hill intervals, but was supposed to be regular intervals... so I did regular intervals uphill...smh...)
    8/09 - 4.0 - 9:07 M/M, 145 AHR
    8/10 - 5.0 - 9:45 M/M, 146 AHR
    8/12 - 4.0 - 9:10 M/M, 146 AHR
    8/13 - 6.0 - 9:32 M/M, 146 AHR
    8/15 - 2.7 - 9:20 M/M, 143 AHR - Intervals 5x 0.25 mi + WU/CD
    8/16 - 4.0 - 9:28 M/M, 145 AHR
    8/17 - 5.0 - 9:24 M/M, 146 AHR
    8/19 - 3.0 - 8:53 M/M, 148 AHR
    8/20 - 7.0 - 9:32 M/M, 146 AHR
    8/22 - 5.0 - 9:28 M/M, 145 AHR

    Total of 70.5 of 80

    I just started week 7 of a 10K event plan and have a 10K race in 4 weeks and HM in 13 weeks. At some point I want to switch from the 10K plan to the HM 12 week plan. In comparing the two, I am thinking about jumping into week 2 of the HM plan next week since it appears to be close to the same in weekly mileage as the week 8 of the 10K. My last 10K was in mid-June then took 4 weeks off for a calf injury and I did a HM in April using the same HM plan, so I know what to expect. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Wasn't sure if I should switch now or wait until after the 10K and jump in to the HM plan at week 4 or so.

    The plans I am using are from rundouble... http://www.rundouble.com/plans
  • EHollander89
    EHollander89 Posts: 169 Member
    Options
    Got in 2 great runs on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. I tried out a different path that connects to my usual path at the park. Always good to change things up, and this new path has more shade! Yesterday was cross training. So far I'm at 58.33 miles for the month. 4 miles scheduled for tonight after work.
  • NikolaosKey
    NikolaosKey Posts: 410 Member
    Options
    Hi all!

    8/4: 15.2k -Slow LR-
    8/6: 12k -w/u, 8k negative splits, c/d-
    8/7: 9.4k -Steady+strides, c/d-
    8/10: 10.6k -w/u+intervals-
    8/12: 10.2k -Trail run easy-
    8/13: 10.4k -urban run-
    8/14: 17.1k -Long run-
    8/17: 12.8k -w/u, Tempo run, c/d-
    8/19: 12.3k -Easy-
    8/21: 11.2k -Easy-
    8/22: 15.2k -w/u, Repetitions-

    Goal: 136.4k/150k

    First repetition training today. Oh boy, oh boy...

    Take care everyone.

    Upcoming races:
    7/29: 4th Nea Peramos Aquathlon
    9/16: 4th Kavala Night City Run 10k
    9/24: Xiropotamos Trail 2017 11k
    10/1: Voreia Sirris Challenge 23k
    10/15: Nestos Trail VFTU 10k
    11/26: 4th Democritus Half Marathon

Categories