December 2017 Running Challenge
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heh, I Guess Strava does some year-end thingy:
https://2017.strava.com/en-us/videos/997e6757b97aa5c04c9335f444e4ea37646cf9e4/
I have no idea whose Strava names matches what names in this thread, but thanks all you that got mentioned in it!
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end-of-month question?
What are your goals for this next year?
Where do you want to be a year from now?
How do you see your training evolving?
Goals:
I want to increase my running volume as I prep for Jasper in April.
I also want to be more diligent about cross training and strength training.
Finally, I need to get calories under control. I've gained ~9 lbs since the start of August and I'm not happy about it. It would be higher if I wasn't running, so that's something...5 -
December 2017 Runs
02 Dec – 5 km parkrun Course Best 29:07
03 Dec – 15 km
05 Dec – 9 km
08 Dec – 30 km
10 Dec – 7.1 km
11 Dec – 4.1 km
12 Dec – 9 km
14 Dec – 6 km
16 Dec – 5 km parkrun 27:31
17 Dec – 16 km
19 Dec – 10 km
21 Dec – 8.6 km
23 Dec – 5 km parkrun 27:24
Goal: Run a 30 km run in December – DONE!
Loving reading everyone's goals!!! Mine:
What are your goals for this next year?- Run a 50 km run. Anything else will be cherries on top.
Where do you want to be a year from now?- Feeling as blissfully happy as I am now.
How do you see your training evolving?- Hopefully getting better at combining sufficient rest with 20% adequate intense runs while maintaining long slow distance.
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Happy 65th, @HonuNui
@Orphia - loved the candy cane! did it take a lot of planning?
Hi @shanaber I spent about 20-40 minutes mapping out a route on milermeter.com the day before and then went back to it before my run the next day to get it straight in my head.
I'm sure there are ways of getting a route onto one of my apps or maybe my Garmin, but I didn't want to take that long to work it out.
@dreamer12151 Great work on your consistency! I'm sure it's a good feeling.
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Ran 3.5 very cold Canadian miles today. We’re in New Brunswick for the holidays.
Goals for 2018:
Run sub 2 hour half marathon
Run first full marathon in November.2 -
I missed @HonuNui 's birthday? Happy birthday!!!
Love everyone's goals!!!! Y'all don't forget this time next year that you can look back at what your aim for 2018 was! Or journal it.
I did better today. I did forget my 30 minutes of activity a day... Oops. Yesterday was 75, today was 35. Bleh.. bike trainer
I had a salad, fresh veggie juice, pomegranate juice, tuna, mayo, and a grilled cheese today. I can live with that.2 -
It's fun reading other people's goals!
I'm probably different from most people on this thread in that I have no desire to run long distances. My knees are wonky as it is, and my insurance (self employed in a state which didn't expand Medicaid) doesn't make repetitive motion related sports injuries something I can afford to risk. My goal is to run for health, not try to stay healthy enough to run!
However, just a modest amount of medium to high intensity running has been great for me so far - my blood glucose stays low for twenty four hours after running, and I'm clearly burning loads of calories, based on my rate of weight loss. Also, I may not be any good at running yet, but I'm ridiculously competitive. So my goal is to get better at running modest distances. I've already shaved five minutes off my initial 5k speed by doing just a little more distance and some weekly fartleking, and hope to continue doing exactly what I've been doing - only faster and easier as I get accustomed to it and find new ways of pushing myself.
I intend to run 10K eventually just to have done it. My "long runs" right now are trail runs, 5 miles, just over an hour. As I get faster, hopefully more running will fit in that same hour. But I don't plan to run much longer than an hour at a time.
I hope to run a sub 30 minute 5k by my birthday in June, and to be competitive in my age group locally at that distance by next December (sub 30 minutes would put me in the top ten of most local races for my gender and age). I want to run at least one race each quarter.
I'm looking forward to being able to hold conversations while running, and wake up the day after an "easy run" without feeling like I need to skip my strength workout. These things are already starting to happen - I can feel them happening - just need to keep heading in the same direction I'm already going!7 -
Today, I actually went for a run to test out how my shin is healing - hurrah! The run went ok, but I don't know whether I could feel a slight ache, or whether it was just my brain going into hypochondriac mode and obsessing over every minute sensation that you normally don't even feel. I can't feel anything there now, which is a good sign, and seeing as I'm only about half-way through the normal stress fracture healing time, it's probably a good thing to be hyper-sensitive to every little niggle (and back off as needed). I'll see whether there's any aches or pains there tomorrow, and then plan another small run for either Christmas Day, or Boxing Day.
The best news is that I've absolutely smashed my monthly goal of zero miles.
22 - 2.48
Total: 2.48 / 0 miles
My goal for 2018 is to heal up properly, natch, and to take steps to avoid repeating what I managed to do to myself. But aside from that, I want to increase the distance that I run, until I get to the point of having a long run that goes through the night. Oh, and to try and complete 3000 miles for the year.What are your goals for this next year?
Where do you want to be a year from now?
How do you see your training evolving?9 -
December goal: 95.71 miles
12/1 3.51
12/2 5.00
12/3 rest
12/4 4.25
12/5 5.87
12/6 4.30
12/7 3.25
12/8 rest
12/9 6.01
12/10 3.13
12/11 rest
12/12 5.20
12/13 4.94
12/14 ...more ornaments...
12/15 5.10
12/16 4.20
12/17 Christmassytheaterconcertstuff
12/18 helped dh "make" my birthday/Christmas gift: painted the kitchen/dining/library
12/19 6.5 for my 65th
12/20 4.25
12/21 4.18
12/22 3.18
Total 72.87
Thanks @Elise4270 , @shanaber , @Orphia
My goals for 2018....keep moving---"will run for wine." Try for a sub30 5k.
Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:
Upcoming races:
Phoenix Women's 10k 1/28/18
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Saw my sports doc today and picked up my new orthotics which are amazingly comfortable! Yay!! I also talked to him about my nagging hamstring/glute issue. I call it my upper upper/lower lower because I am never sure if it is my upper hamstring or lower glute. I was also convinced the issue was the chair I sit in for work because sitting in it makes it hurt SO much... but then so does sitting in my car and driving. Ends up I have a tear at the top of my hamstring where it attaches and the chair and seat in the car pull on it making the tear angry. He worked some more on my hip as well as on the hamstring and amazingly I had no pain driving home and it has been pain free all evening! I go back on Wednesday for a laser treatment and he wants me to continue running - of course as long as it doesn't hurt when I run.
@honunui - love the will run for wine! It has been my motto all along! Hmmm... maybe we should have a wine running club
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I tested my ankle on Wednesday and ran 2 miles outdoors on the trail. It did okay. My run wasn't that fast (for me)...13 minute miles. No pain but toward the end a lot of cartilage popping. My total for the month is 10.65 miles.
It is snowing today...so probably run a little on the treadmill and lift weights the rest of the time.
I iced my ankle for 10 minutes twice after my injury. Back in the day, RICE (rest, ice, compression and elevation) was the method for dealing with sprains. I doubt that minimal icing will stop or even slow down the inflammatory process that the body is going to do. It does help reduce the swelling and pain albeit temporarily. This week I am hoping to get my ankle x-rayed and then go from there. I will ask my doctor about the current research of the day. The bruising is almost gone, and wearing shoes that support the ankle seemed to help while at work.
I hope that everyone is going to have a wonderful Christmas!4 -
Freezing rain = no run
Goals for 2018 sub 45 10k, injury free, loose another 5 pounds
Next year at this time I hope to be healthy, running and doing better with strength training
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@shanaber To help strengthen your hamstring and reduce the chance of reinjury, try eccentric leg curls, where you lie face down on the bench, use both legs lift the weight and then use just one leg to lower the weight back down again in a slow controlled manner. Hamstrings don't like concentric loading, which is why you use both legs to lift the weight (that is, it should be really easy to lift the weight with both legs). Another exercise to consider is glute bridges, where you lie on your back on the floor with your feet on an exercise ball and knees bent, and then push your pelvis into the air to get your back straight in line with your thighs. Do that ten times and you'll help those hammies out no end. 3
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Well, no aches or pain to report on the shin this morning, which makes me a happy little chappie. I'd jig a jig, but I have to rest my leg.7
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Well I'm finished for the year. Felt bad the whole week and finally saw a doctor yesterday. Flu, pneumonia, and a lovely uti to go with it.
Congratulations to all y'all hitting your goals and to y'all who are putting one foot in front of the other. You all have been inspirational to me this fall/winter season. I'm hoping to get back to it in January!
Merry Christmas and happy running!
( I'll check back and see who the good little boys and girls were who got gadgets in their stockings. ) 7 -
Fun fact: 45k in -26 degree weather and blowing snow whilst three days into this stupid cold the girls tracked home from school is not as much fun as it sounds like. And then, because I wrapped a Saturday in less than 4 hours Ben asked me, "Why was your run so short?"
December 1- 18
December 2- 52
December 3- 20+8
December 4- 20
December 5- 16
December 6- 12
December 7- Off
December 8- 29
December 9- 28
December 10- 161 [16:28:02]
December 11- Off
December 12- 6
December 13- 10
December 14- Off
December 15- 29
December 16- 28
December 17- 18
December 18- 25
December 19- Off
December 20- 33
December 21- 16
December 22- 15
December 23- 45
589/626km
2018 Races
*Gord's Frozen A** 50K, February 19
*JAJA Trail Marathon, April 1
*Red Deer Marathon, May 20
*Lone Wolf Last Man Standing Race, June 17
*Eddie's Half Marathon, TBA June
*Run in the Buff 120km TBA August
*Lost Souls 100 Mile September 7
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end-of-month question?
What are your goals for this next year?
Where do you want to be a year from now?
How do you see your training evolving?
My goals for next year:
1. Run a sub 30 5k. I have gotten it down to 30:46, so I am very hopeful that the next one will finally be under 30.
2. Run a Half Marathon. I will be 50 this year and that seems like a cool thing to do. I doubt I will be able to do it on my birthday, but there is one nearby about a month after that I am thinking about (ok, planning on) running.
3. Maintain my weight. I reached my weight loss goal in July 2016, but I have not been able to maintain. I have a hard time eating to my activity level so I am definitely one who logs everything and weighs as much of what I eat as possible or else I will undereat. I have lowered my maintenance range several times, but I am now at the point where I don't think lowering it is a good idea. I have lost ~15 pounds since hitting my goal and ~6 this year. That doesn't seem like a lot when I have lost ~75 total, but i really don't want to lose 6 more.
A year from now I want to be about where I am now. I want to weight the same and be running at least as much. I have never wanted to run a marathon, so I will probably stick to 5ks and maybe a HM every now and then.
I'm not really sure about training. I will probably try to pick a HM training plan and after I run that I don't know where I will go as far as training. Part of me just wants to run.
I thought my run on Thursday would be my last before Christmas, but it sure is pretty outside. I think I am going to go to the grocery store and then I will most likely run tomorrow's run today. I told my husband this and he just laughed and said "of course you will. Was there ever any doubt?"8 -
What are your goals for this next year?
Where do you want to be a year from now?
How do you see your training evolving?
Goals:
Entering my first organised 10Krun in 2018,
Helping my husband to get back onto running (cheering him on)
Trail running
A year from now: I want to be able to run a relatively easy 15km without feeling that is a challenge
My training: I am working on 4 times a week at present - Want to run more consistently and get stronger with the weights training added.
I would like to get into trail running but living in this urban area where I do that may be a bit far, still it is worth a try4 -
[Yuck!] <<---- that's my self made button.
@WandaVaughn . I hope they gave you some good meds. Sounds awful. Have a great holiday!3 -
12/23 13.01 miles
As of today: 2065.12 miles for 2017
December Goal: 205.95/200
What are your goals for this next year?
Running, running and some more running...
I want to continue to maintain my weight and fitness level.
I do have two races, that I have been doing for two years. A charity run (10K and 5K) in June and Go Commando Half Marathon for October.
Where do you want to be a year from now?
I want to be maintaining my weight and and running.
How do you see your training evolving?
Not sure about what evolution I will see, my main interest is running distance. I do not want to be faster/slower, just want to run.2 -
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
11/01/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 3.0
11/02/17 :::: 9.1 :::: 12.1
11/03/17 :::: 4.3 :::: 16.3
11/04/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 19.4
11/05/17 :::: 4.0 :::: 23.4
11/06/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 23.4
11/07/17 :::: 4.5 :::: 27.9
11/08/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 27.9
11/09/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 30.9
11/10/17 :::: 8.8 :::: 39.7
11/11/17 :::: 5.1 :::: 44.8
11/12/17 :::: 3.4 :::: 48.2
11/13/17 :::: 2.0 :::: 50.2
11/14/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 50.2
11/15/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 50.2
11/16/17 :::: 7.2 :::: 57.4
11/17/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 60.5
11/18/17 :::: 2.5 :::: 62.9
11/19/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 66.0
11/20/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 66.0
11/21/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 66.0
11/22/17 :::: 4.0 :::: 70.0
11/23/17 :::: 10.0 :::: 79.9
Long run this morning! Woke up to 30 F temps and rain - so a lovely rain/freezing rain combo. But I dragged myself out anyway and went to the group run. There was a small but festive group who persevered through the rain and slush. It was not as bad as I feared, misery-wise, because it was a fairly light rain. But certainly got soaked and was so glad to finally be done. I had to make a final little shopping stop on the way home and by the time I was done with that I felt cold to my core and couldn't get home to a hot bath fast enough.
Hopefully settled in at home for the weekend now! Hope everyone has a great weekend and holiday if you celebrate one.
From today's run - one of my coaches and I dressed as Santa twins!
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December 1 - 10 km
December 2 - 16 km
December 3 - 5km club run / strength training
December 4 - 12 km treadmill
December 5 - 12 km treadmill
December 6 - 16 km run / strength training
December 7 - 16 km run
December 8 - 16 km run / strength training
December 9 - 16 km run / 11 km run
December 10 - 5 km club run / 16 km walk
December 11 - 16 km run / strength training
December 12 - 10 km run
December 13 - 12 km run
December 14 - 16 km run
December 15 - 18.5 km run / strength training
December 16 - 18.5 km run
December 17 - rest day
December 18 - 16 km run
December 19 - Stairmaster / Strength training
December 20 - 16 km run
December 21 - 16 km run
December 22 - 16 km run
December 23 - 12 km run
December 24 - 16 km run
318 km - goal 350 km3 -
12/1 – 0
12/2 – 5 miles
12/3 – 0
12/4 – 7 miles
12/5 – 5 miles
12/6 - 0 miles
12/7 – 6 miles
12/8 - 0 miles
12/9 - 3 miles
12/10 - 7 miles
12/11 – 0 miles
12/12 - 6 miles
12/13 – 0 miles chest cold
12/14 – 5 miles
12/15 - 0 miles
12/16 - 7 miles
12/17 - 0 miles
12/18 - 5 miles
12/19 - 20 - 0 miles - WTH is with me
12/21 - 4 miles
12/22 - 0 miles
12/23 - 5 miles
65 of 100 miles
Way behind on the thread need to go catch up. The PJ Run was a lot of fun. It was supposed to be 3 miles but my friend and I managed to follow someone who was doing a different course ha ha. Skip ran with me for about 1/5 of a mile and said you are too slow and left us. She ran with some girl who runs in college so they were back, had pizza and cooled down before I got back. It was like 60F and I had on a long sleeved t-shirt night gown and was hot as hell.
Today it was around 65F when I went out with 30 mph winds. There were times I swear my feet where moving and my body was standing still.
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@skippygirlsmom Sounds like you had a good time on the PJ run!
@AlphaHowls Is the expectation that runners go commando for the Go Commando Half Marathon? If so, did the organizers learn nothing from Jozef Urban?
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@shanaber To help strengthen your hamstring and reduce the chance of reinjury, try eccentric leg curls, where you lie face down on the bench, use both legs lift the weight and then use just one leg to lower the weight back down again in a slow controlled manner. Hamstrings don't like concentric loading, which is why you use both legs to lift the weight (that is, it should be really easy to lift the weight with both legs). Another exercise to consider is glute bridges, where you lie on your back on the floor with your feet on an exercise ball and knees bent, and then push your pelvis into the air to get your back straight in line with your thighs. Do that ten times and you'll help those hammies out no end.
Thanks @garygse! I have not done the eccentric leg curls but have been doing glute bridges pretty regularly. My trainer also told me to do single leg glute bridges but when I do I get hamstring cramps. I am sure that is significant and is my hammies way of complaining loudly! The sports doc also gave me a specific set of stretching and rolling to do in order (hip flexors, glutes, quads, calves) and finishing with the hamstrings last. He also doesn't want me rolling in the tear area at all and the surrounding areas only if it isn't painful...
@WandaVaughn - hope you feel better soon and can still enjoy the holidays!
@katharmonic - great picture but it sure looks cold!
@Elise4270 - thanks again for posting the goals questions! I love reading everyone's responses!
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Looking over my schedule for the coming days... I might be done running for the YEAR. Ugh.3
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Skipped my workout today and am powering through my baking. Will do my Christmas run tomorrow.
My pie dough is in the fridge. I need to do chocolate drizzle on the cookies and cut the peppermint cheesecake brownies. I'm giving stuff to friends and relatives so I don't eat it all
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Wow me too . Cheesecake is baking right now. Also made a bunch of cookies. This is why I need to keep running. Alright not going to eat them going to give them away I think LOL3
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@shanaber To help strengthen your hamstring and reduce the chance of reinjury, try eccentric leg curls, where you lie face down on the bench, use both legs lift the weight and then use just one leg to lower the weight back down again in a slow controlled manner. Hamstrings don't like concentric loading, which is why you use both legs to lift the weight (that is, it should be really easy to lift the weight with both legs). Another exercise to consider is glute bridges, where you lie on your back on the floor with your feet on an exercise ball and knees bent, and then push your pelvis into the air to get your back straight in line with your thighs. Do that ten times and you'll help those hammies out no end.
Thanks @garygse! I have not done the eccentric leg curls but have been doing glute bridges pretty regularly. My trainer also told me to do single leg glute bridges but when I do I get hamstring cramps. I am sure that is significant and is my hammies way of complaining loudly! The sports doc also gave me a specific set of stretching and rolling to do in order (hip flexors, glutes, quads, calves) and finishing with the hamstrings last. He also doesn't want me rolling in the tear area at all and the surrounding areas only if it isn't painful...
@Elise4270 - thanks again for posting the goals questions! I love reading everyone's responses!
Me too! And thanks @garygse for the hamstring exercise info!
True test of my abilities today. We're at Walmart, hungry and DH is in the bakery. I'm starving and already resisted pizza and ice cream. Now wahich pie do I want? C'mon DH. I can't say no...2 -
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