January 2018 Running Challenge

7lenny7

@LaurenFOB2301 I think i do best at losing weight when I'm running a lesser amount, say 15 to 20 miles per week. Beyond that the hunger machine kicks in and I lose my self discipline in the kitchen.

Another factor... There are thousands of years of evolutionary coding in our genes which do amazing things to maximize our chances of survival and one of those things is our body's ability to adapt to new stresses. In the case of running our bodies get more efficient at it. It takes me less calories to run a mile today than it did two and a half years ago when I started. MFP doesn't take that into account. How much that is, I don't know.

I have 10 to 15 more pounds to lose and I've had that much to lose for over two years.

@rusgolden I'm glad those glove mitts are working out for you!

7lenny7

I posted this in the winter running thread in our group forum but thought there might be some interest here as well, what with all the talk about winter running.

Wind makes a HUGE difference in the winter. 0°F can be quite pleasant or miserable during a run depending on the wind, and the wind also complicates your choice of clothing.

Let's say it's 0°F with no wind. With no wind, Wind chill = Air Temp = 0°F . But guess what, your running is effectively causing wind. Let's say that you're running a 10 minute mile, or 6 miles per hour. That 6mph now makes it feel like -12°F. The key point though, is that the effective wind chill is going to be the same no matter which direction you run, so once you figure out your layers for that temp, your set.

What if the wind is blowing 10mph? 0°F and 10mph wind results in a wind chill of -16°F

If I'm running with the wind then the effective wind speed is 10mph - 6 mph = 4 mph, which is a wind chill of -9°F. Not only that, but that wind is at my back and it's easy to fully cover up your back.

Ok, we've reached the end of our route and need to run back INTO the wind. What does that do to wind chill? 10mph + 6mph = 16mph, which gives us an effective wind chill of -20°F! Not only that but the wind is now blowing in our face, which is hard (but not impossible) to completely cover. We have zippers on the front which are a source of heat loss. We have our hands in front of our bodies so they get affected by the wind more. We also get that wind hitting the front of our shoes which is where the mesh is, and the mesh is designed to provide ventilation.

Running 10 minute miles varies the effect of the wind by 11F° and put the harshest wind right in our faces.

Heat regulation, therefore, is key in the winter. Zippers can be opened when running with the wind and closed when running against the wind. I'll even taken an outer wind layer off when going with the wind and put it back on when I need to.

Bring a heavier hat to wear against the wind. The golf mitts I talked about on the challenge thread are fantastic for regulating hand temperature. Buffs can be easily taken on and off (and rotated when the front freezes up in front of your mouth).

One final point is that when you can't easily regulate temperature and you dress for running against the wind, you may be generating a lot of sweat going with the wind. Now on the turn around you could be in a world of hurt with sweaty gloves or a sweaty hat. Because of that I'll carry extra gloves and a hat if it's going to windy. More than a few times I've been very glad to be able to switch into a dry hat while winter running.

Here's the wind chill calculator I used:
https://www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_windchill

MNLittleFinn

Great post @7lenny7

Teresa502

I had to take my mom for cataract surgery this morning so I had the perfect excuse not to meet my running group for an arctic blast run! Instead, I got 5 miles in on the dreadmill.

Thanks for the reminder about duct tape on shoes. I have heard of that before but forgotten about it. I bought some at the store today. The roll of gray that looks like tire tread won out over the boring plain gray or black. It was 45 cents more, but hey - life's short!

cburke8909

had to try this

Here are my routes. A little boring, I would say.

greedygob

I’m so sorry I hve tried food being a post but could someone comment how to make the run & ride compilation pics ? They’re awesome !!

55gecko

January goal: 31 days, 31 runs (1 mile minimum).

PaytraB

crazychlobug09 wrote: »

I am so proud of myself you guys! This morning I did 2.4 miles on the treadmill in 35 minutes, that's with a 4 min warm up and 5 min cool down...so 26 minutes of 1.5min walk/run intervals! Usually after a total of 15 minutes I start feeling tired and then just walk the rest, but today I felt awesome! Planning on going a little easy tomorrow just so I don't do too much too fast.

This is such a great post! Congratulations on a really good training session.

jacqueline0821

Goal for January is 30 miles.
1/2 - 1
1/3 - 2.5
Total: 3.5

Elise4270

rusgolden wrote: »

@Elise4270 --- I like your spreadsheet... it opened fine for me, but was read only, so I think you would need to modify the permissions. I think having a tab per month like you have would be better than 1 per person or it might take forever to find it. We could use column A for the MFP username, column B for the monthly goal, column C for total and then column D for % of goal reached with subsequent columns for the days of the month and repeat the total column at the end. Just throwing ideas up on what I would want to see tracked, but if others have more info on what they usually track, please share.

Okay I'll look at it and see if I can find permissions. If anyone knows where it is, I'll take the help!

ETA I got it. You should be able to edit now.

7lenny7

greedygob wrote: »

I’m so sorry I hve tried food being a post but could someone comment how to make the run & ride compilation pics ? They’re awesome !!

@greedygob if you have an account on Strava, you can connect your Strava account to the website which creates these:

https://www.madewithsisu.com/designs

They try to sell you a poster or a digital download but you can select "Share your design" and get the jpg file to share.

_nikkiwolf_

Happy new year everyone! May 2018 be a great, injury-free and successful running year for all of us!!

My goal for this month will be 160km.
... and a secondary goal: trying to keep up with this thread! I can't believe I'm already nearly 20 pages behind on January 3rd
I skimmed everything, and now it's too late to reply to anything in particular. Funny how different everyone's running route posters look. Here are all my runs from 2017:



Not sure about special running goals for 2018...
My short-term goal is learning to ski right now I signed up for 5x2 hours of group lessons. Yesterday was the first one, and I surprised myself by *not* being the absolute worst student in the class! I went for a short run afterwards to burn off the the "Eeek, I'm sliding down a mountain, how do I stop again"-adrenaline. ^^

Today I wanted to run before the ski lesson. The weather outside didn't look very motivating (wind and rain), it turned out to be even worse in reality once I got outside. Freakishly warm (the temperature jumped up to 12°C/54°F, but not only wind, but really stormy - sometimes I felt like I was working hard and still not moving forward at all! When I got home, I checked the ski resort's webpage and found that they are closed due to the "violent storm". So no skiing lesson today. Guess that means I won't have an excuse for skipping my "strength for runners" workout tonight. Considering that "do 15min of strength training at least 3 days a week" was one of my resolutions for 2018, that's probably a good thing...

07KatieP13

zdyb23456

1/1 5.9miles
1/2 5miles
1/3 13.1miles!

So I decided to do my long run of the week this morning. Garmin said it was 34 degrees, but my car said 25. I bundled up and headed out. 1.4 miles it I knew I was too bundled, I shed my sweat shirt, hid it and kept going. It was an awful run. I don’t think my muscles ever really warmed up so I felt stiff and slow the entire run. I started run/walking about 10 miles in.

Then I misjudged where I would end at 13 miles... I ended up walking 3.4 miles home during which I turned into a popsicle. Thankfully I was able to retrieve my sweatshirt, but even with it and my new gloves my hands were freezing!

Oh well. I’m glad it’s over! Treadmill for the rest of the week. School is already closed tomorrow in anticipation of snow!!

_nikkiwolf_

In addition to the running map art, I also found this to create a look back at all 2017 Strava activities:
http://2017.strava.com/

It takes all (public) Strava activities and creates a ~1 minute video from it.
Here's mine: https://2017.strava.com/en-gb/videos/6de76b23917cdc5fc3abd3235b51b520b17cf417/

skippygirlsmom

1/1 - 4 miles
1/2 - 5 miles
1/3 - 5 miles

14 of 110 miles

Much warmer this morning a wonderful 19F.

This new job doesn't let me play on the net so I need to go catch up.

MNLittleFinn

skippygirlsmom wrote: »

1/1 - 4 miles
1/2 - 5 miles
1/3 - 5 miles

14 of 110 miles

Much warmer this morning a wonderful 19F.

This new job doesn't let me play on the net so I need to go catch up.

19F is a great temp

PastorVincent

01/01/20172018 - 3.0 miles @ 9:15
01/02/20172018 - 6.5 MPH and 4% Grade for 1 hour
01/03/20172018 - 6.5 MPH For 8 Miles at 4% grade

Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Sub 4 hours in Pittsburgh 2018!

Official Marathon PR: 4:11:28

Next Races (more as I find them):

02/10/18 - Valentine's Day 15k
03/17/18 - Shamrock Shuffle Half Marathon
05/06/18 - Pittsburgh Marathon - aiming for sub four hours.
05/12/18 - Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Ultra (I must hate myself)

2020 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)

Another dreadmill run. Temps continue to FALL here. With highs in the single digits. So have decided that Jan will be uphill speed work. Will increase speed but keep incline at 4% and see if I can train my legs to run faster than 9mins with me having to focus on pace so much. 6.5mph is around 9:13, so will need to edge that up.

Hopefullly this will mean when I hit the roads and they are not 100% uphill I will FLY!

dancefit2015

01/02: 2.1 miles

AlphaHowls

1/1Run 2.07 miles
1/2 Run 2.01 miles
1/3 Run 6.51 miles

dancefit2015

I don't know why the ticker isn't showing the two miles... it is on the website.

rusgolden

@Elise4270 -- Okay, I made some adjustments to January if you want to take a look. I figure if we get Jan like you want, then it is easy to copy to additional tabs for the other months. You could also lock down/protect the calculated cells from being edited, but I didn't do that since it is your sheet.

Stoshew71

Date Miles today - Miles for January

1/1 REST DAY <<< traveling back from FL
1/2 6.2 miles - 6.2
1/3 REST DAY




Elkmont Hound Dog Half (unofficial) - 1/21 << 1:46:48 2 OA
Elkmont Hound Dog Half (rescheduled) - 2/18 << 1:41:04 1 in AG & 24 OA
Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon - 4/29 << 4:09:59

Upcoming races:
Oak Barrel Half Marathon - 4/7/18


I was going to run this afternoon (even had my gym bag sitting next to me the entire day) but my glutes are screaming at me. So another rest day I will take.

Elise4270

rusgolden wrote: »

@Elise4270 -- Okay, I made some adjustments to January if you want to take a look. I figure if we get Jan like you want, then it is easy to copy to additional tabs for the other months. You could also lock down/protect the calculated cells from being edited, but I didn't do that since it is your sheet.

It's everyone's sheet. Knock it out

Stoshew71

_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »

In addition to the running map art, I also found this to create a look back at all 2017 Strava activities:
http://2017.strava.com/

It takes all (public) Strava activities and creates a ~1 minute video from it.
Here's mine: https://2017.strava.com/en-gb/videos/6de76b23917cdc5fc3abd3235b51b520b17cf417/

Here's mine....

https://2017.strava.com/en-us/videos/86383afa38cb3f2026844ff022ef9076af580363/

MobyCarp

All those track workouts stand out!

2018 to date would be a blank display, sigh. Paid for my Boston hotel today; either I'm running Boston, or I'll have a nice hotel really close to the finish line as a base when I go watch other people run Boston.

Stoshew71

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=884101851799193&id=578656235677091

In case you needed an excuse not to run. LOL

eponine1984

My toddler is working on his 14th tooth and he's less than 15 months old. This is pretty early for him to have all these teeth - my husband and I joke he'll be the only two year old with wisdom teeth. So he didn't have a great nights sleep last night, which meant I didn't have a great nights sleep. (Huge shoutout to my mom for taking him in the middle of the night when I'd gotten 34 minutes of sleep. For some reason, she likes when we visit and sleep over, even if it means she gets a 4am visit from a tiny tyrant).

My half marathon training plan calls for 2 mile run or cross training. I don't really run outside, I'm too exhausted to drive to the gym to treadmill there, so cross training it is. Laying in bed watching Netflix is cross training, right?

MobyCarp

eponine1984 wrote: »

My toddler is working on his 14th tooth and he's less than 15 months old. This is pretty early for him to have all these teeth - my husband and I joke he'll be the only two year old with wisdom teeth. So he didn't have a great nights sleep last night, which meant I didn't have a great nights sleep. (Huge shoutout to my mom for taking him in the middle of the night when I'd gotten 34 minutes of sleep. For some reason, she likes when we visit and sleep over, even if it means she gets a 4am visit from a tiny tyrant).

My half marathon training plan calls for 2 mile run or cross training. I don't really run outside, I'm too exhausted to drive to the gym to treadmill there, so cross training it is. Laying in bed watching Netflix is cross training, right?

Having to deal with a fussy, teething toddler is CROSS training.

zdyb23456

@PastorVincent I just read on Facebook that if you put your used hand warmer in a ziplock and remove the air they will reactive the next time you use them for up to three uses! Not sure if it’s true.