November 2017 Running Challenge

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  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @ddmom0811 she's looking very strong there! I love the hat idea, what a great idea it was. Thanks for posting a picture of her!
    @RunRachelleRun Skip's car is already 12 years old, if it was newer I'd get the dent fixed and maybe we will evidently. I've never driven a car with a dent, that would be unheard of in our family, but we can pay for that or she can go to Costa Rica ha ha

    Okay 5:02 and I can't see the parking lot out the window because it's so dark, I notice they haven't changed the timer on the parking lot lights either. Yuck. I hope Skip wore something reflective for practice today. Coach told her she doesn't need to run for 2 weeks, but her friend qualified for State so she told her she would come to practice to keep her company.
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    I think y'all might have broken me. I am sitting here seriously considering trying the Disney World Dopey in 2019 or 2020 (pends on getting money to cover it first!)

    You'll probably hurt yourself running that far on flat terrain. :D
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    Wimped out at 18 when my eyelashes froze together. Achilles is bugging me but expected since I'm transitioning from an 8mm drop to almost exclusively a 4mm drop.

    November 1- 18+8
    November 2- 22
    November 3- 20
    November 4- 42
    November 5- 20
    November 6- 18

    148/500km

    2018 Races
    *Gord's Frozen A** 50K, February 18
    *JAJA Trail Marathon, April 1
    *Red Deer Marathon, May 20
    *Cactus Coulee Crawl 30km, TBA June
    ??? Sinister 7 100 Mile, TBA July
    *Run in the Buff 120km TBA August
    *Lost Souls 100 Mile September 7

  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    lporter229 wrote: »
    @amymoreorless- I see you are doing the New Braunfels half marathon. We have stayed in New Braunfels several times when going to Austin for the Formula One races. It's such a cool little town. I have done a good bit of running while there. Since we needed to head out early to get to the track, I got up way before dawn to run. Most of the shops and restaurants down in that area by Gruene Hall left their outdoor lights on all night. It was super quiet and peaceful running around that area in the dark. Have fun running the half. I hope your glute feels better!

    @lporter229 Have you been to Gruene around Christmas time? They light up historic downtown and have an outdoor holiday market one weekend in December. I went last year with some friends and we had a blast visiting Gruene Hall and walking around downtown. I found the most unique and wonderful holiday presents for family and friends.
  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    edited November 2017
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    I think y'all might have broken me. I am sitting here seriously considering trying the Disney World Dopey in 2019 or 2020 (pends on getting money to cover it first!)

    @PastorVincent I have a friend in my running group doing the Dopey challenge with her sister in 2018. She is super excited. If you can afford it, go for it! It sounds fun. :)
  • katharmonic
    katharmonic Posts: 5,720 Member
    Congrats on your HM and happy birthday @WandaVaughn! Great job!

    I kind of lost track after the cats and rats and guinea pigs pics, so sorry if I missed anyone else and their races. I did like and awesome some things so great job everyone on their running and general life-having skills. :)


    Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
    11/01/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
    11/02/17 :::: 2.7 :::: 2.7
    11/03/17 :::: 4.3 :::: 7.0
    11/04/17 :::: 7.6 :::: 14.6
    11/05/17 :::: 3.2 :::: 17.7
    11/06/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 20.7

    Went to a run group workout tonight because I'm not totally sure I'll make my usual group tomorrow. Tonight's group was a ramp workout of 1-2-3 minute intervals with 2 minutes recovery between, then repeat with only 1 minute between. Then 4 sprints. I forgot to restart my Garmin a couple of times so shorted myself on the distance by a bit.

    Tomorrow night I see a long tempo run on the schedule but if I go, I'll probably run that at less than full effort due to the HM this Sunday. Even though I'm not really racing it, it's still a long run for me so I don't want to be too worn out.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    MobyCarp wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    I think y'all might have broken me. I am sitting here seriously considering trying the Disney World Dopey in 2019 or 2020 (pends on getting money to cover it first!)

    You'll probably hurt yourself running that far on flat terrain. :D

    Oh, crud, it is flat? I don't think I know how to run on that kind of terrain! :open_mouth:
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    amymoreorless wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    I think y'all might have broken me. I am sitting here seriously considering trying the Disney World Dopey in 2019 or 2020 (pends on getting money to cover it first!)

    @PastorVincent I have a friend in my running group doing the Dopey challenge with her sister in 2018. She is super excited. If you can afford it, go for it! It sounds fun. :)

    Wish I could do 2018. I could be in condition in time, but it is already sold out and I am way off from having anywhere near the cash to go.
  • RunRachelleRun
    RunRachelleRun Posts: 1,854 Member
    I had to look up Dopey’s Challenge. Wow! Sounds tough. A pretty neat thing to save up for and work towards @PastorVincent !
  • RunRachelleRun
    RunRachelleRun Posts: 1,854 Member
    Ouch @JessicaMcB . I was born and raised in Calgary. I remember that happening all the time. And ski masks were no good, they would just get glued to them.

    It is cold here too. Below zero. o:) Seriously though, I feel colder here indoors than I ever did in Alberta. Our insulation must suck and electric heat is the dumbest.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    RunRachelleRun wrote: »
    I had to look up Dopey’s Challenge. Wow! Sounds tough. A pretty neat thing to save up for and work towards @PastorVincent !

    I suspect if I were to try it this week I could handle the first three days fine, but day four would likely be a challenge. I think I could do it though. Biggest barrier right now is the cost.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    11/1 - REST
    11/2 - REST
    11/3 - 1.95
    11/4 - 8
    11/5 - REST
    11/6 - 4.7

    GPS was a little wonky so I had to guess. Was aiming for 5, and came up with 4.7, so not too bad. The best part about the run? It felt AWESOME. No calf pain. No hip pain. A little pre-run G2 and a post-run Quest bar seems to be what keeps my body feeling good, plus I'm committed to strength work every day to keep things getting stronger.

    Until this AM, I was super worried about being able to keep to my HM plan and was thinking about bumping it the spring. Today I'm refreshingly committed to completing the HM in December.

    BONUS: My new shoes will be here by the end of the week AND I racked up enough gift cards for my birthday that I was able to order the Garmin Vivoactive 3 this morning to replace my dead Samsung Gear Fit 2. I gave Samsung every opportunity to be good stewards of their products, and they failed on every account. Not only will I not purchase any more Samsung products, I get the pleasure of telling my wide circle of running and technology friends to stay far away.

    New shoes. New watch. New attitude.

    @fitoverfortymom I love all of this!!!
  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    Hey @HonuNui can you get the BBC tv series Blue Planet II? It’s just started here, and all of us are in awe. First episode had AMAZING footage of giant Trevally’s catching......birds. Even one that had learnt to leap out of the water to catch them.

    I’d be a bit more cautious around them! ;)
  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
    girlinahat wrote: »
    Hey @HonuNui can you get the BBC tv series Blue Planet II? It’s just started here, and all of us are in awe. First episode had AMAZING footage of giant Trevally’s catching......birds. Even one that had learnt to leap out of the water to catch them.

    I’d be a bit more cautious around them! ;)

    I'll admit I was a bit taken aback when this one circled me twice.....

  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    So I’m reducing my running this month to try and focus on strength training, but am still keen to do short runs – nothing over about an hour/10k.

    Sundays run was about five miles, easy and really nice. I did a CrossFit taster class on the Friday night and was keen to see if I was still able to add in running. Wasn’t too bad, although my quads started feeling it towards the end.

    I did another CrossFit class last night – I have to do 6 Fundamentals sessions to teach the core moves. Last night was squats and variations of squats. We did bodyweight squats, a Tabata session of bodyweight squats, squats and throwing a weighted ball up a wall, squats with a barbell, and finally a timed set of rounds of squats with the weighted ball interspersed by the Devil’s Torture itself, burpees. I hate burpees. If I’d known there’d be burpees I’d probably not have signed up. Last nights burpees towards the end made me look like I’d been on one of those Japanese gameshows where you spin round with your head on a pole and then try and walk in a straight line. It wasn’t pretty. And I am PAYING for this? I had jogged to the gym (as an unnecessary warm-up) and I jogged home again to try and stop my legs from seizing up. Wow. I never realised I could jog SO VERY SLOWLY…..

    All I can say is it had better make me a better stronger runner at the end of it.

    No morning run, I figured I’d let the quads rest a bit and run tomorrow morning when the DOMS has properly set in…..
  • anitamistry1
    anitamistry1 Posts: 44 Member
    girlinahat wrote: »
    @eponine1984 plenty of people walk hills. A tip I learnt recently is to mix a run/Walk up a hill. Walk counting to 25, counting on each foot, then run counting to 25, counting only on the right foot. Keep your running steps very small, engage the glutes and relax the feet.

    You’ll be fine though.

    Oh I like that tip. I'm a hill walker but I will give this a go.

  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    October goal: Start training for Zumbro and figure out real mileage
    Nominal Mileage goal: 100 miles???

    11/1- REST
    11/2- 3.1+ 20 minutes shoveling
    11/3- REST
    11/4- 7.8
    11/5- 4
    11/6- REST
    11/7- 5.8

    Total: 13.9

    Today's notes- Today's assignment was another one of those ones that sneaks up on me. I was assigned 10x1 minute hill repeats, with recovery being whatever it took to get back to the bottom plus 20 minute warm up and 20 minute cool down. I misread the assignment and only did a 10 minute cool.... stupid me.

    In other notes, it was 15F (-9.4C) this morning with a nice wind in my face, luckily on the downhills. Not @JessicaMcB temps, but decent for early November here. All I really needed was my running pants, UnderArmour turtleneck and Asics Thermopolis pull over, plus hat/gloves.wool socks. Nice morning for a run.

    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 DNF, too darn hot out
    8/19- Rampage at the Ridge 5k OCR
    9/23- Ely Marathon 6:24:36
    10/21 Wild Duluth 100k 18:15:51
    11/23- TBD 5k Turkey Trot???

    2018 races
    4/13- Zumbro Endurance Race 100 Mile
    5/19- Superior Trail 25k (Lottery)
    7/8- Afton 50k???
    9/8- Superior Trail 50 mile (Lottery)
    10/xx Wild Duluth 50k? 100k?

    http://teachertrailrunner.blogspot.com/
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    girlinahat wrote: »
    So I’m reducing my running this month to try and focus on strength training, but am still keen to do short runs – nothing over about an hour/10k.

    Sundays run was about five miles, easy and really nice. I did a CrossFit taster class on the Friday night and was keen to see if I was still able to add in running. Wasn’t too bad, although my quads started feeling it towards the end.

    I did another CrossFit class last night – I have to do 6 Fundamentals sessions to teach the core moves. Last night was squats and variations of squats. We did bodyweight squats, a Tabata session of bodyweight squats, squats and throwing a weighted ball up a wall, squats with a barbell, and finally a timed set of rounds of squats with the weighted ball interspersed by the Devil’s Torture itself, burpees. I hate burpees. If I’d known there’d be burpees I’d probably not have signed up. Last nights burpees towards the end made me look like I’d been on one of those Japanese gameshows where you spin round with your head on a pole and then try and walk in a straight line. It wasn’t pretty. And I am PAYING for this? I had jogged to the gym (as an unnecessary warm-up) and I jogged home again to try and stop my legs from seizing up. Wow. I never realised I could jog SO VERY SLOWLY…..

    All I can say is it had better make me a better stronger runner at the end of it.

    No morning run, I figured I’d let the quads rest a bit and run tomorrow morning when the DOMS has properly set in…..

    I have a love/hate relationship with burpees. But I really, really, really hate burpee box jumps. The program I'm following now has them as the last exercise for plyo day. I've missed the 12" box plenty of times (and can do 14" just fine on normal box jumps). And it hurts when your shin hits the box.
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
    11/1 - Started month with unplanned rest day. Damn I hate colds!
    11/2 - 5 miles on a perfect morning to run (43° F and little wind)
    11/3 - Unplanned rest day...can't shake this stupid virus!
    11/4 - 5.1 miles.
    11/5 - Planned rest day / church, etc.
    11/6 - 5.1 miles. A bit chilly for November...wind chill was 19° F.
    11/7 - 5 miles. A little warmer today.

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  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
    girlinahat wrote: »
    So I’m reducing my running this month to try and focus on strength training, but am still keen to do short runs – nothing over about an hour/10k.

    Sundays run was about five miles, easy and really nice. I did a CrossFit taster class on the Friday night and was keen to see if I was still able to add in running. Wasn’t too bad, although my quads started feeling it towards the end.

    I did another CrossFit class last night – I have to do 6 Fundamentals sessions to teach the core moves. Last night was squats and variations of squats. We did bodyweight squats, a Tabata session of bodyweight squats, squats and throwing a weighted ball up a wall, squats with a barbell, and finally a timed set of rounds of squats with the weighted ball interspersed by the Devil’s Torture itself, burpees. I hate burpees. If I’d known there’d be burpees I’d probably not have signed up. Last nights burpees towards the end made me look like I’d been on one of those Japanese gameshows where you spin round with your head on a pole and then try and walk in a straight line. It wasn’t pretty. And I am PAYING for this? I had jogged to the gym (as an unnecessary warm-up) and I jogged home again to try and stop my legs from seizing up. Wow. I never realised I could jog SO VERY SLOWLY…..

    All I can say is it had better make me a better stronger runner at the end of it.

    No morning run, I figured I’d let the quads rest a bit and run tomorrow morning when the DOMS has properly set in…..

    I have a love/hate relationship with burpees. But I really, really, really hate burpee box jumps. The program I'm following now has them as the last exercise for plyo day. I've missed the 12" box plenty of times (and can do 14" just fine on normal box jumps). And it hurts when your shin hits the box.

    Ouch! I have not done them... but I have had to do one legged burpees (one leg NEVER touches the ground) - and let me tell you I am NOT a very good ballerina.
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
    @PastorVincent - I suspect Day 4 is the rub for everyone in the Dopey Challenge. :smiley:
    @girlinahat - "When the DOMS has properly set in..." That made me snort.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    karllundy wrote: »
    @PastorVincent - I suspect Day 4 is the rub for everyone in the Dopey Challenge. :smiley:

    :smiley: I am guessing that instead of hitting a wall at mile 20 or where ever... it comes at mile 10 or something. :lol:

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