September 2017 Running Challenge

Options
1…3233353738…83

Replies

  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    Options
    2---6.21
    4---6.21
    5---3.47
    7---3.21 5k PR (post op)
    7---2.30
    9-10 Best to rest days. Probably will not push to make goal this month. If it happens, it happens. I just want to stay uninjured and make the races.
    11---2.56 walk.


    23.96/89 miles.
    38.67/144 kilometers

    Upcoming races:
    Oct 1 Spirit of Survival, Lawton OK. Quarter Marathon
    Oct 14 AIM for the Cure- 5K, virual run 1230 central time.
    Dec 2- POOP trail run, Hoping for a half! Norman OK.
    Jan 27 Running the Rose. Tyler Tx. 11mi or 7k

    Pre-op PR's
    1 mile 8:27  5k 24:42. 10k 1:00.52.  HM 2:17.28
    Post-op Training PR's
    1 mile 9.25  5k 34.12 10k 1:12.35
  • allyphoe
    allyphoe Posts: 618 Member
    Options
    9/2: 2.6
    9/3: 2.2
    9/5: 4.0
    9/9: 4.3
    9/11: 3.5

    Total 16.6 / 50.0

    Too fast, couldn't slow down, oops. :) There were a bunch of walkers on the path tonight, and I didn't want to snail past them, and then I just settled into that speed. If it had been 10 degrees cooler, or a little breezier, or if my throat hadn't dried out so much, I could have gone farther, but the last uphill in direct sunlight was more than I cared for.

    I slept 12 hours on Sunday, and had my first day off after 24 consecutive days in which I went to work for at least a couple of hours. I'm feeling much better physically and mentally today, and that made for an easy, happy run. Also, I did all the uphills with my glutes, which was both much easier and much harder all at once, but left my joints much happier in the end.
  • 1TheQueenB
    1TheQueenB Posts: 377 Member
    Options
    Update-
    9/1 - 4.62 miles
    9/2 - 30 min cardio
    9/3 - 30 min walk
    9/4 - 4.16 miles
    9/5 - 5.03 miles (treadmill)
    9/6 - 30 min walk
    9/7 - 5.08 miles (treadmill)
    9/8 - 30 min cardio
    9/9 - 4.81 miles = total 23.7
    9/10 - 20 min cardio
    9/11 - 30min cardio
    9/12 -
    9/13 -
    9/14 -
    9/15 -
    9/16 -
    9/17 -
    9/18 -
    9/19 -
    9/20 -
    9/21 -
    9/22 -
    9/23 -
    9/24 -
    9/25 -
    9/26 -
    9/27 -
    9/28 -
    9/29 -
    9/30 -
  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
    Options

    September goal....I'll know it when I see it.

    9/1 rest
    9/2 4mile hike through Kilauea Iki, then 3.2 run on treadmill
    9/3 4.35
    9/4 4.00
    9/5 rest
    9/6 5.62
    9/7 4.10
    9/8 4.30
    9/9 rest
    9/10 3.12
    9/11 4.10

    Total: 36.79

    Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:

    exercise.png


    And to belabor the point: Last sign-up day to be guaranteed the t-shirt and medal is 9/14:
    https://walk.aimatmelanoma.org/Hilo2017/

    Steve says: "Wear your sunblock and join our virtual run!"
    10398872_63300419538_4623008_n.jpg
  • juliet3455
    juliet3455 Posts: 3,015 Member
    edited September 2017
    Options
    5512bf wrote: »
    I circled a marathon date on the calendar finally and plan on sending off my registration this week sometime. Looking at April 7th, 2018, which puts my 18 week training planned to start the first week in December./// I've never run that much in the dead of winter and will have a couple of 70 mile weeks in the coldest part of Jan & Feb. Probably going to need to invest in some more cold gear.

    @5512bf You may not need as much Extra - new gear as you think - Of course being a True Northern I am acclimatized to the cold temps so run in pretty minimal gear. Smart Wool socks, Tights, Light Weight Long sleeve tech shirt, Light vest and a Multi-vented running Coat - more of a wind breaker than a coat. If it is really cold ( < -25C = -13F ) I will add a 2nd Long sleeve tech shirt & wind breaker pants.
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    @juliet3455 people that can pace baffle me. I doubt I could hold a consistent for more than a single stride. :smile:
    @PastorVincent I don't really understand - appreciate how I manage to hold such a consistent pace - especially when you consider the terrain challenges. It was an uphill start which when combined with the Starting crowd meant a slow 1st km then I stabilized - except for the downhill finish. My GPS data was well short of 10k - most people had 9.7 to 9.9 km. 7sziiqsppsd1.png

    @kristinegift I so agree that this is also my favorite time of year for running, we have the benefit of a full spring and summer of training and temps are lower reducing the Heat Stress of running. With the finishing Dash to the Coffee shop we do a " Draw Straws / Roll of the dice to see who gets the privilege of covering the first round of Coffee.
    @JessicaMcB Yes there has been a few do the Lost Souls from Peace Country, a Staff Sergeant from the RCMP in Grande Prairie, 2 ladies from our little club. Ironically the Ultra soloists are all ladies and they are Tiny Petite gals. One will be at the Golden Ultra, the other lady is in recovery from August. Fat Dog 70 Miler followed by The Black Spur Ultra.
    I think Lost Souls was designed by a Camel, extreme heat, coulees along the river, nasty ascent/descents with cactus's hiding in the grass.

    I will have to jiggle plans for 2018 ( Northern AB Trail Series, Emperor's Mtn, Iceland, Greenland and Norway were my planned/hoped for A events )/2019 - See if we have a crowd of Guest's at CDR ??. My niece wanted me to do support for her Relay Team on the CDR, but not sure which year as they don't have a full team. @PastorVincent The Elevation around here kicks a lot of great athlete's Kitten and they have a hard time comprehending how big the effect can be. As one of the ladies in Grande Prairie said go out and just do one leg at a time, use it as a learning opportunity for a 2nd year. Most important quit before you get hurt/injured. I enjoy going into Jasper National Park or Mount Robson Park and running on the Hiking Trails.
    @ROBOTFOOD On one of my early spring training/hill climbing sequence's my Garmin kept going into Auto-Pause because it thought I was no longer moving, but honestly I was making big Horizontal Movement but very Small Vertical Movement, just not fast enough for Garmin to recognize, so I understand the 25 min/miles.
  • juliet3455
    juliet3455 Posts: 3,015 Member
    Options
    One of our local speedsters ( F20-29 AG BQ ) has us working on a Sprint Training program for a sub 20 min 5 km based on her most Loved/Despised workouts. Realistically for me the best I could hope for is sub 24 min 5 km.
    Repeats at the Track. My math puts this at 5.6 km, I had my Garmin in the wrong repeat mode and it showed 4.7km. One person showed 3 km, another showed 4.7km.

    800m Warm-up.
    400m Sprint, 200m Easy, 200m Sprint, 400m Easy.
    400m Sprint, 200m Easy, 200m Sprint, 400m Easy.
    200m Easy, 400m Sprint, 400 Easy, 200m Sprint.
    200m Easy, 400m Sprint, 400 Easy, 200m Sprint.
    800m Cool down walk and BS Session. I did not count this.

    exercise.png
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,399 Member
    Options
    Hot and humid interval run today... Busy at work, company arriving tomorrow and less than 3 weeks until my daughter's wedding. Is it wrong that I am really looking forward to being on vacation the week before the wedding so I can get in some running in the cool Seattle weather without the stress of needing to be back for work??? All the wedding stuff will get done probably more efficiently if I run first, I am sure!

    Date........Miles.......Total
    09/01......5.27........5.27
    09/02......0.00........5.27 - + Agility trial
    09/03......3.77........9.04 - Treadmill + Agility trial
    09/04....10.28......19.32
    09/05......0.00......19.32 - + Strength Training
    09/06......0.00......19.32
    09/07......3.78......23.10 - Intervals + Strength Training
    09/08......5.30......28.40
    09/09......0.00......28.40
    09/10......8.75......37.15
    09/11......4.21......41.36 - Intervals + Agility

    exercise.png

    My completed and upcoming races. Let me know if you will be running them too.
    02/05/17 - Surf City Half Marathon
    07/23/17 - San Francisco 1st Half Marathon
    10/14/17 - AIM for the Cure Melanoma 5K Walk/Run
    12/16/17 - San Diego Holiday Half Marathon
    02/04/18 - Surf City Half Marathon
    07/22/18 - San Francisco 2nd Half Marathon
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,399 Member
    Options
    HonuNui wrote: »
    And to belabor the point: Last sign-up day to be guaranteed the t-shirt and medal is 9/14:
    https://walk.aimatmelanoma.org/Hilo2017/

    Steve says: "Wear your sunblock and join our virtual run!"
    10398872_63300419538_4623008_n.jpg

    ^^^ This! Get signed up today! We are at $1150 donated for our team so far. I would love to see it get to $1500! Let's go!!!
  • ROBOTFOOD
    ROBOTFOOD Posts: 5,527 Member
    edited September 2017
    Options
    @juliet3455 Haha sometimes when I'm legit climbing the top section, my garmin says like 1:00:50/mi pace. I should change the settings so it says "Move your *kitten*"! :D
  • cburke8909
    cburke8909 Posts: 990 Member
    Options
    1 hour elliptical.

    exercise.png

  • abungay
    abungay Posts: 85 Member
    Options
    haven't logged into this for a while. Last week I was out of town for work, but the hotel we stayed in did have a fitness room with a treadmill.
    09/5-25 minutes of treadmill
    09/6-18 minutes of treadmill, I am unsure of the distance equivalence, but I would estimate it at 4.5Km.
    I haven't ran since but really need to get back into a good rhythm.

    https://www.TickerFactory.com/exercise/wQBmRW4/]
    exercise.png
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Options
    juliet3455 wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    @juliet3455 people that can pace baffle me. I doubt I could hold a consistent for more than a single stride. :smile:
    @PastorVincent I don't really understand - appreciate how I manage to hold such a consistent pace - especially when you consider the terrain challenges. It was an uphill start which when combined with the Starting crowd meant a slow 1st km then I stabilized - except for the downhill finish. My GPS data was well short of 10k - most people had 9.7 to 9.9 km.

    See to me that is totally amazing. When I am trying to keep a pace this is more what I look like:

    ggqo3nhubdcy.png

    Only way I can keep pace is if I follow a pacer. It is just beyond me to pull that off I think. People that can keep pace are very impressive!



  • carolineb81
    carolineb81 Posts: 459 Member
    Options
    1/9-9.1
    2/9-ill
    3/9-ill
    4/9-ill
    5/9-5.0
    6/9-3.1
    7/9-4.1
    8/9-REST
    9/9-8.1
    10/9-4.9
    11/9-REST
    12/9-5.1

    Total - 39.4/110 Miles
  • kristinegift
    kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
    Options
    9/1: Rest day
    9/2: 16 miles
    9/3: Rest day (11.5 hours of sleep!)
    9/4: 6 miles
    9/5: Rest day
    9/6: Rest day again
    9/7: 11 miles of Tempo Thursday
    9/7: 6.4 miles
    9/8: Rest day
    9/9: 16 miles
    9/10: 6 miles
    9/11: 6 miles
    9/12: 10.1 miles of Track Tuesday

    78.5 of 250 220 goal miles

    Excellent Track Tuesday this week! It was nice and cool to start (though dark... sunrise just keeps getting later and later) and my buddy and I changed out Hanson workout from 3x2 mile to 6x1 mile so we were doing the same workout as the rest of the group. The last time we did this workout ~4 weeks ago, it was almost 20F warmer and the slog back to my house afterward felt so much harder. Today I was running about the same paces but instead of feeling like I was pushing, I was surprised to be running the paces I was (except the last mile when we dropped the hammer in the last 600m and came in 20 seconds faster than any other mile... THAT felt hard!). It was fun to repeat the workout and see how much progress I've made. Plus the improvement with the weather doesn't hurt one bit!


    Upcoming Races:
    Sept 16: Baker's Revenge 10 mile trail race
    Oct 8: Steamtown Marathon
    Oct 22: Perfect 10 miler
    Nov 5: Princeton Half Marathon (pacer)

  • NikolaosKey
    NikolaosKey Posts: 410 Member
    Options
    Hi all!

    9/3: 6.1k -Very easy-
    9/5: 15.4k -Long run-
    9/6: 12.2k -Easy-
    9/7: 14.4k -w/u, 3x1.6k T, 6x200m R, c/d-
    9/9: 9.2k -Easy-
    9/10: 12.7k -w/u, 4x200m R, 4x400m R, 4x200m R, c/d-
    9/11: 12k -w/u, Tempo, c/d-

    Goal: 82.1k/170k

    I felt tired in this tempo run. Overall it didn't process well cause I struggled to keep the desired pace (although I achieved it). Runalyze page shows me that my training strain is in red scale and I arranged a 10k easy run for today. Don't know what to do. race is coming this Saturday.

    Stay hydrated!

    Upcoming races:
    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