October 2017 Running Challenge
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10/1 through 10/8: Nothing, injured, 0 miles
10/9: 45 mins stationary bike, 15 mins rowing machine
10/10: 10 miles on the bike and 1.4 miles walking
The calf continues to improve, but not as fast as it did the first week. The second week has been sort of a plateau. But I can go upstairs almost totally normally (on my toes rather than flat footed) and I can do toe raises without pain/discomfort. I just can't do any of the single leg tests without discomfort (but there has been zero pain which is good news!). Hopefully some more active release at the doc tomorrow will help improve things and I can get cleared to run in another week or two.
Meanwhile, the lack of endorphins means I am cranky and that I threw my can opener across the room today (twice) because it has ceased to function, so for the sake of humanity: PLEASE LET ME RUN AGAIN SOON! I am a grumpy monster without it!
October Goal: Heal my calf tear and run any miles at all!
Upcoming Races:
10/08/17: Steamtown Marathon - DNS, injured
10/22/17: Perfect 10 Miler
11/05/17: Princeton HM (Pacer)
12/03/17: Schuykill River Loop 8.3 miler (if healed)
2018: A marathon, somewhere, sometime!
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tomaattikastike wrote: »Those of you running quite high mileages, if you aren't preparing for a particular race, do you still follow some kind of training plan, or how do you decide how far / how fast to run each day?
Depends on how close to a training cycle I am. If it's just after, I'm just slowly building, like 30-40mpw. If I'm getting close to a race, depending on the race, I'll add back in speed work or trail or hill repeats to prep. Thrn, once training starts, I'll end up cutting back a little so training starts easier than build up.0 -
So my husband decided at lunch that because of the timing of my PT tune up tomorrow morning that we are now leaving for Whistler, get this....tomorrow
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Upon texting my mom and telling her this she asked me, "How do you feel about that though?". My response is a brilliant example of calm and poise
At least my mom is amused lol13 -
@JessicaMcB ROFL.... That's hilarious1
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eponine1984 wrote: »W8D1 complete! 28 minutes of running. I dropped my pace back down to a 15-minute mile (I had been trying to push to 14) and it was still tough but felt better than my last few runs. I loosened up the laces (haven't relaced them yet) and I think that helped because the numbness didn't set in until much later.
Did anyone else start out like me - super slow, can barely hang on - and improve? Jumping into this challenge (trying not to compare) but it just seems like everyone is much further in their running careers than me. My sister is a runner, but she's always naturally been faster than me. So I guess I'm just hoping to hear from some other slow pokes.
8.4/40 miles
I am sure you have already gotten many replies, but yes, I definitely started out slow and without endurance. I would have done the c25k but my neighborhood has a lot of hills (most not that steep) and there was no way I could "run" up the hills, so I did a similar self guided plan, where I ran at the flat ends of the cul de sacs and then slowly added a mailbox at a time to what I could run before starting to walk again. When I could finally finish my entire 2.5 mile neighborhood, including one fairly steep hill, I was really happy - even though I figured I looked like a grandma in slow motion "running" up that hill. But I signed up for a 5K one month, a 7k the next and then a 10 k the month after that. The next month the only race available was a 10 mile race and I thought going from 6.2 to 10 miles would be way too big of a jump, but by that time it really wasn't hard to do that. Half marathon a few months later and then a marathon the next year. My per mile racing time for my Marathon was probably 3 minutes per mile faster than my first 5K, lol. Just keep going.
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10/1: 13.3
10/2: Rest
10/3: 4.2
10/4: 4.4
10/5: 6
10/6: 1.8
10/7: 2.7
10/8: 11
10/9: rest
10/10: 6
Total 49.4
Goal 120 miles
Upcoming races:
11/25 Schaumburg HM1 -
tomaattikastike wrote: »Those of you running quite high mileages, if you aren't preparing for a particular race, do you still follow some kind of training plan, or how do you decide how far / how fast to run each day?
I just keep repeating a half marathon training plan. When I first downloaded it there were three levels. I did the level 2 plan twice and now I’m doing level 3. I don’t think I would push myself as hard if I didn’t follow a specific plan.1 -
eponine1984 wrote: »Did anyone else start out like me - super slow, can barely hang on - and improve? Jumping into this challenge (trying not to compare) but it just seems like everyone is much further in their running careers than me.
I finished C25K in July, so am not that much ahead of you. I am also slow; my easy pace is about 13 or 13:30 per mile. My "fast" pace and my maximum distance have increased enormously, though.
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10/1: 3.3
10/2: 4.2
10/5: 3.2
10/7: 4.2
10/8: 4.2
10/10: 6.3
Total: 25.4 / ???
Cold front today meant that it was 54 degrees (12C) and overcast, and I had an unusually large chunk of time. Perfect conditions for poor life choices! I really should have called it a day at 5. Or even my usual 4.2. But no, and now I am a little bit stiffer than usual. Ah, well.
Concussed teenager is slowly improving; thank you for all the well wishes. Medical evaluation Monday morning caused her to realize she had more deficits than she was aware of. No school Monday, and half-days the rest of the week. She slept pretty much all day Monday, but was doing better this morning. She came home after a morning of school with a headache from the noise, but lying down in the quiet dark for a while took care of it. She's much more lively and less tired today. Tomorrow morning is the PSAT, but she's just a sophomore, so will skip it, go in for the afternoon, and not miss any class time.5 -
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
10/01/17 :::: 13.1 :::: 13.1
10/02/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.1
10/03/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.1
10/04/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.1
10/05/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.1
10/06/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.1
10/07/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.1
10/08/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.1
10/09/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.1
10/10/17 :::: 1.7 :::: 14.8
Well, I ran a little bit. Just 20 minutes at a slow pace. My legs felt awesome and ready to go. My ribs said, eh, maybe not quite ready. Breathing is way easier than it was, but the bouncing motion seems to irritate. I was starting to hold my back and shoulders really tightly so as not to aggravate my ribs, so I decided that was a sign I should just stop. I'll have to ease back into this I guess.
@ariceroni congratulations on your awesome marathon finish! So happy for you. Quite an impressive blister.
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Date Miles MTD ------- ----- ------- Oct 1 4.5 4.5 Oct 2 3.6T 8.1 Oct 7 5.0 13.1 Oct 10 3.6T 16.7
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10/1: 5.16km
10/2: 5.17km
10/3: 4.03km
10/4: Rest
10/5: 4.52km
10/6: 1.54km
10/7: 5.10km
10/8: 4.27km
10/9: Rest
10/10: 4.09km
Tried a before work run, which has never worked for me in the past but I really enjoyed it this morning, could be ideal for me in future!
October goal - 33.88/60 kms3 -
No running today as I take another rest day. My recovery plan calls for a very easy two-miler tomorrow, so I just need to decide whether to do it in the morning or later in the evening.
@ariceroni Congrats on a great marathon race! That blister though...ouch!
And now that I've had a chance to go through all the many posts on here, Strava, and Facebook, I want to say thanks to @Elise4270, @OSUbuckeye906, @_nikkiwolf_, @ctlaws44, @skippygirlsmom, @MNLittleFinn, @amymoreorless, @cburke8909, @wishiwasarunner, @lporter229, @Ohhim, @Orphia, @Runningmischka, @PastorVincent, @JessicaMcB, @NikolaosKey, @katharmonic, @Eaglesfanintn, @kevaasen, @kgirlhart, @fitoverfortymom, @Stoshew71, @shanaber, @cameronheel, @ROBOTFOOD, @girlinahat, @sarahthes, @seanevan10, @BeeerRunner, @7lenny7, and @RunRachelleRun.
If I missed anyone, it was unintentional, and thank you too.12 -
@garygse - Great race report - smashing that goal time! And some impressive Running challenge thread culling to get that list!
@ariceroni - Thank goodness the guy behind you looks to be in pain - otherwise, it might be hard to believe you just finished a marathon! All smiles and no sweat after such an amazing performance. That is awesome!3 -
Thank you to everyone who replied to me re: my snails pace. I'm never going to win Boston and I'm okay with that. I was just afraid that I've missed some peak by not running in my teens or twenties and now I'm locked into a 15-minute mile forever. True story: when we did the mile test in gym class, I ran 3 laps out of 4 and the teacher gave me my time...because everyone else was finished already...and she thought I'd finished too.8
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Another run on my treadmill this evening. Pouring down rain outside... the Cubs/Nationals playoff game got postponed, phooey! So no game to listen to during my run. So I cued up Rock My Run again and huffed it for 6.5 miles. At that point my knees started to ache a bit, so I decided to end it. I think my legs just need to get used to the new surface (at least I hope). Don't want to push it too hard the first week, no?
Hoping to get the spare TV set up in the back room with the treadmill soon so I can watch stuff while I run instead of staring at the wall.
October total so far = 40.6 miles5 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »Run outside all winter
HA! I plan to run as long as I can take it. I think last year I got to single digits air temp, not counting wind.
If there isn't a - in front of the temp, keep running outside... or even if it is single digits.... below 0f....
It gets that low and lower here...0 -
tomaattikastike wrote: »Those of you running quite high mileages, if you aren't preparing for a particular race, do you still follow some kind of training plan, or how do you decide how far / how fast to run each day?
I have a generic training plan outline...
Run 1 long run at conversational pace per week. This will help you build distance
Run 1 "fast" run (tempo, intervals, fartleks, whatever) per week
Take 1-2 rest days per week
Do conversational runs a middle distance for rest of the days.
It is essentially a distilling of all the plans I have read about over the years.
Mostly though, the reality of life is that I run based on how much time I have not how far I want to go.
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RespectTheKitty wrote: »Another run on my treadmill this evening. Pouring down rain outside... the Cubs/Nationals playoff game got postponed, phooey! So no game to listen to during my run. So I cued up Rock My Run again and huffed it for 6.5 miles. At that point my knees started to ache a bit, so I decided to end it. I think my legs just need to get used to the new surface (at least I hope). Don't want to push it too hard the first week, no?
Hoping to get the spare TV set up in the back room with the treadmill soon so I can watch stuff while I run instead of staring at the wall.
October total so far = 40.6 miles
My wife likes to watch scenic tours on YouTube while she runs. So she gets to see lands and places we probably will never get too. For part of a winter, I watch LOTR while on the treadmill. Mostly though, I avoid it.0 -
October goal: 70 miles
10/1: 7.7 miles
10/3: 3 miles (intervals)
10/4: 3.1 miles
10/5: 2.3 miles
10/7: 3.1 miles (race)
10/8: 5.7 miles
10/10: 3.3 miles (intervals)
28.2/70 miles
A cold front came in last night so it was much cooler today. I did my intervals and it went pretty good. The first half mile was kind of tough running into 13 mph north winds, but once I turned it was a lot better.
Honestly I don't know how you northerners do it. It was 66°F and I thought it was really chilly. I can't imagine running in below freezing temps. I'm a wimp in cold weather.
Upcoming Races:
10/7/17: Old Rip 5K ✔ PR: 30:46; 1st in AG
10/14/17: Aim at Melanoma 5K (virtual)
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