November 2017 Running Challenge

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  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    16 degrees! We are standing around for race, not warm!
  • fithealthygirl
    fithealthygirl Posts: 290 Member
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    So close! Hoping to add another 10kms to my goal before the end of the month.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited November 2017
    Orphia wrote: »
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    And
    https://www.runnersworld.com/run-matters/menopause-and-running-what-you-need-to-know

    I am SO not clicking on that. Googleitis is a bad thing.



    I feel like I need a support group. It's all a bit overwhelming in the midst of this injured hip business. And it seems that men continue to get faster in thier master's years, not women. So poo to that. I love Google. My 10 year old self can ask 1000 questions a day. :wink:
    @Elise4270

    I love Google too. I just never believe 90% of the health information out there.

    Googlitis is Google-induced hypochondria. It's a real thing. Not saying you have it though. xx I'm sure you need to hunt high and low to find anything relevant to your situation.

    Speaking of master's years, I'm reading a great book by Joe Friel (of Training Peaks fame) called "Fast After 50".

    The general drift is that your VO2 Max (main indicator of health & fitness) and general fitness stay at optimal levels if you continue to do high intensity workouts in your chosen sport.

    I'm impressed by the book's scientific references.

    Ya I understand the Google-itis. We definitely need to scrutinize the source. Everybody out there has an opinion.

    I may have to check out that book. I'm terrible at reading anything though... Think I'll try to revive my Kindle and look for the book there.
    Broaching the subject of menopause and running, anyone have anything to share? Idk what I'm looking for. Just seems I'm suddenly so old. Menopause? Hip issues? Oh gawd, "help I've fallen and can't get up", "where are my teeth deary"..... But it also feels like I'm officially an adult.. so odd.

    You and I are like two peas in a pod.

    1. I can't remember the last book I finished, though I used to live for reading, and worked in and managed bookshops. Years of being online and a declining attention span made me unable to concentrate on books a few years ago. :disappointed: Web pages, however, I'm reading all sorts of things online all day.

    "Fast After 50" is the first book I've tried to read in 3 (?) years. It's THAT interesting to me.


    2. Also, yeah WTF is with my cycle? (Apologies for TMI.)


    3. And woo yay hooplah on the Fenix 5S!! Which colour? I love my Fenix 5 slate grey with black band.

    I really wanted the grey bezel. I overanalyze everything. I was detoured by the black bands masculine look... My 620 is white, and would have done white but it shows dirt easily and now has a red/orange band... So I should have just got the grey black and bought new bands. I wanted the grey turquoise one, but it wasn't sapphire. ... DH text me to get the watch after I thought he forgot about our conversation months ago, I mean, he can't remember what I tell him 10 minutes past? I was like a kid trying to hurriedly pick something before I couldn't have it. I hadn't done all my research on the Fenix and remembered @ddmom0811 loving hers, so I wanted to give it a fair shake.

    Tl:Dr I got the champagne/suede. Suede (water resistant) seems like an odd choice for an activity watch, but I'll assume Garmin knows what they are doing with that. It does come with another band and is compatible with the quick change ones. So see? I could have just got grey if I'd planned on changing bands! Nut job, I am! I do like the champagne. :lol: hell, I'd taken any of them when someone else is paying!

    Whew! N.e.u.r.o.t.i.c.

    I had problems with speach in the early years, rhotactism. I still revert when I get a migraine or now and then especially in certain language patterns, if an r is followed by an l in the the pwevious word. Anyhow, I think I never developed the love of reading and it gives me a headache. Aldults all be up in my reading buznis and stressin' lil kids out.. haha! I can read web/phone stuff too. But like you said that's all short, and less taxing.

    ETA for a laugh. When I was a kids my dad had a squirrel he raised named Mortimer. I thought the squirrels name was Warminer until I was in my late 20's and my mother thought to clarify. Idk. Make since to 7year old me, the squirrel was "warm". DH calls me Warminer when I get goofy.
  • cburke8909
    cburke8909 Posts: 990 Member
    @PastorVincent love the pumpkin pie.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    Good luck to all the Turkey Trotters and Happy Thanksgiving! We just got a last minute call that our hostess is too sick (she is dying of cancer but wanted to host it one last time) and Thanksgiving is cancelled, so everyone in the family is scrambling to put together a last minute meal. Whew!
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    Happy Thanksgiving to all you American contributors! Love the turkey trots! Thanksgiving is kind of a non-holiday in Canada imo- you eat a turkey, the end.

    @MNLittleFinn I would probably let him know in case he wants to adjust the rest of your programming for the week around it. Love that you are trying to make a trail junkie out of your mom!

    Absolutely spectacular weather this morning, only -6 ! Everything was a skating rink from the frozen rain <3

    November 1- 18+8
    November 2- 22
    November 3- 20
    November 4- 42
    November 5- 20
    November 6- 18
    November 7- 18
    November 8- 19
    November 9- 18
    November 10- 28+6
    November 11- 38
    November 12- 20
    November 13- Off
    November 14- 19
    November 15- 19
    November 16- 24
    November 17- 25
    November 18- 52
    November 19- 23
    November 20- 22+10
    November 21- 14+8
    November 22- 20
    November 23- 15

    546/500km

    2018 Races
    *Gord's Frozen A** 50K, February 19
    *JAJA Trail Marathon, April 1
    *Red Deer Marathon, May 20
    *Cactus Coulee Crawl 30km, TBA June
    *Eddie's Half Marathon, TBA June
    *Run in the Buff 120km TBA August
    *Lost Souls 100 Mile September 7
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    @hjeppley WELL DONE!!! Congrats!
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    JessicaMcB wrote: »
    Happy Thanksgiving to all you American contributors! Love the turkey trots! Thanksgiving is kind of a non-holiday in Canada imo- you eat a turkey, the end.

    @MNLittleFinn I would probably let him know in case he wants to adjust the rest of your programming for the week around it. Love that you are trying to make a trail junkie out of your mom!
    Good call on that. Emailed him. Also, there may be a pair of Altra Superiors on their way to my mom now.... there will be no turning back.

  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    edited November 2017
    @skippygirlsmom Good luck on the job lead and congrats to you daughter on getting accepted to her college of choice! My husband went through a layoff a few years ago. In hindsight, it was a good thing. Scary for both of us at first. However, he loves his new job a million times more than the old one.

    @eponine1984 Sounds like a great Turkey Trot. I saw several people pushing strollers at the one I went to this morning. It looks like so much work pushing a baby up a hill while running! I say you earned at least one extra piece of pie. ;)

    @RespectTheKitty I am so glad your doctor listened to you and switched your medication back. I am keeping my fingers crossed that you feel back to normal soon.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    @PastorVincent awesome running!
  • bjderhak
    bjderhak Posts: 51 Member
    @PastorVincent awesome job at your races! very inspiring
    @BruinsGal_91 you know youll never hear the end of that!! lol
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    Thanks for the encouragement @amymoreorless
    @PastorVincent woohoo super job two PRs awesome. Loved the pictures. Check box on the Christmas tree ha ha
    @BruinsGal_91 I have a feeling I would have loved to see the finish of that race :smiley:
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    1---3.23
    2--PT
    3---4.34
    7---PT
    9---PT
    10---3.33
    13---3.47
    17---3.40
    19---6.29
    23---3.49

    27.55/65 miles

    Upcoming races:
    Dec 2- POOP trail run, 5.5 miles 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 PB's
    1 mile 9.25  5k 33:46 10k 1:09:46
    Congratulations on all the trots today!
    @skippygirlsmom way to go on the AG!
    @BruinsGal_91 4 seconds! I feel you. Mine says he'll quit racing me when I beat him. So I can't give up!
  • weat0043
    weat0043 Posts: 172 Member
    Happy Thanksgiving everyone in the US and congrats/good luck Turkey Trotters! Sounds like some amazing running has been going on today.
  • hjeppley
    hjeppley Posts: 230 Member
    @PastorVincent Awesome PRs! Congratulations!
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Something I guess that I should have expected, but is odd. Today ran 2 back to back PRs. So was definitely, for me, going pretty hard. Well, oddly enough I did not need water at all for either race and only grabbed couple ounces (1/2 dixie cup) between the races.

    I realize a winter race needs less water, but man it used to be I had to stop at every table in a 5k race for water, no matter the weather and today I ran 8 at race pace with essentially no water.

    I guess our bodies can get better at water management too?
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    edited November 2017
    @PastorVincent just slaying the race day! The guy in the Pumpkin Pi costume had me cry laughing! Please tell me he was like 1st overall, everyone needed to see that on the podium :D

    @skippygirlsmom Me and Skip apparently have the same tendency to talk the race away, haha ;) Congrats to her on her AG placement!

    @MNLittleFinn Altras, damn you must love your mom I can't even justify getting me Altras yet lolll
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