January 2018 Running Challenge
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01/01/2018 - 3.0 miles @ 9:15
01/02/2018 - 6.5 MPH and 4% Grade for 1 hour
01/03/2018 - 6.5 MPH For 8 Miles at 4% grade
01/03/2018 - 6.7 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):
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)
So did it. Prety close to my goal MP pace, uphill, for 8 miles. I think I might start mixing dreadmill runs in with my training plan as a way to train my self to run at a consistent pace. 6.7MPH is right about 9 min/mile pace so I still need to get a tiny bit faster. 8:50 pace would be good but might train for 7.0mph and hope that gives me enough leeway to deal with the crowds in the marathon.5 -
1/1 4 miles/4 miles
1/2 0 back at work
1/3 6 miles/10 cumulative
1/4 0 miles/10 cumulative (snow day)
Goal: 100 mile in Jan
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@PastorVincent you know the theory on negative splits? I couldn't do it but its logic is unquestionable. Most record marathons are run with negative splits. My father ran his best marathon with a much better pace on the last 10 km then the previous 20 miles.5
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1/1 5.9miles
1/2 5miles
1/3 13.1miles!
1/4 5miles
So Virginia Beach is buried under 10-12 inches of snow!! It’s technically a blizzard because of the high winds and low visibility. Apparently, by definition, amount of accumulation does not a blizzard make.
Needless to say, I ran on the treadmill. Then I vacuumed the house, ate lunch, then bundled 3 kids up as best I could with what we have (not much) and sent them out. I bundled up and decided to shovel the driveway. I really only had to shovel half the driveway because there are 2 trucks parked in it, but holy cow! I feel like I ran a marathon... only on my arms! I know im going to be hurting tomorrow. I even proceeded to help my neighbor shovel her driveway, but had to go back inside when my hands/fingers started cramping painfully.
Everything is closed again tomorrow, so I will try to run on the treadmill again, but I’ll probably cut back the miles.
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PastorVincent wrote: »seanevan10 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »
ALL, I made a 2018 goal tab for the other goals we have for the year. Like eat better, do PT, take a class... ect. This thread helps staying focused on mileage, figured perhaps the spreadsheet would help on our non-running goals. I can look through there and come here to ask how their progress is going, and so can you.
Heh - my primary goal is to make it another year without getting a pacemaker!
Mine is to go another year without a diabetes diagnosis... I have a 1 in 2 chance of developing it at some point in my life.
Me too! Trying to get the weight off too because I was a little too close on this last test.
A good goal for both of you!
Dropping 50 pounds took me from "requires medication" to "food and diet controlled" - I can still blow out my numbers if I am not good, and one day my pancreas will likely just give up, but until then... I keep running and tracking food.
Yep, I had insulin-controlled gestational diabetes when pregnant with my second (who is almost 3). They said that gave me a 1 in 2 chance of diabetes within 5 years (and my mother is a type 2 diabetic who had gestational diabetes for both her pregnancies - untreated when she was pregnant with me). Since then I've had 2 good glucose tests and 1 borderline but I was LCHF at the time and that can screw with the test results (the following year my numbers were perfectly normal).
Anyway, running helps with insulin sensitivity and glucose control AND I enjoy it so that's why I'm doing this.8 -
1/1 - 5.0 km
1/2 - 5.1 km
1/3 - strength + walk
1/4 - 5.7 km
15.8/80 km
Hormone-driven chocolate binge today and that's all I'm going to say about that. Run felt good, though. I'm going to miss daytime runs once I go back to work next week!
Upcoming Races:
1/1/18 Resolution Run 5K ~38:00 (no official times)
3/4/18 MEC Road Race #1 10K
4/7/18 Jasper Half Marathon
4/22/18 MEC Trail Race #1 5K
5/20/18 MEC Trail Race #2 10K
6/24/18 MEC Trail Race #3 15K
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon 10K
9/2/18 MEC Trail Race #4 10K
10/7/18 MEC Trail Race #5 15K
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cburke8909 wrote: »@PastorVincent you know the theory on negative splits? I couldn't do it but its logic is unquestionable. Most record marathons are run with negative splits. My father ran his best marathon with a much better pace on the last 10 km then the previous 20 miles.
Yep! I do! But since I have such poor pace control, it is not an option for me0 -
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
01/01/18 :::: 4.5 :::: 4.5
01/02/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 4.5
01/03/18 :::: 2.5 :::: 7.0
01/04/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 10.0
It's a mess out there today, the snow really started coming down this afternoon. I had appointments this morning and didn't want to do anything outdoors when I saw how bad it was getting, so another day on the treadmill. Slow pace according to my Garmin, which was a full minute per mile slower than what the treadmill said. Oh well, 3 miles done for sure (I always go with the Garmin numbers, which are often faster than the treadmill pace, but today not so much).
Tonight's walk with the dog was a very pretty winter wonderland. A little cold but nothing like where we're headed over the next two days as it continues to snow and plummets in temp. Trying to figure out how the long run is going to happen without being too miserable. Saturday morning's long run group may be moved to an indoor track (first time that has happened as far as I can remember) but there's still the matter of driving there if it's bad. I may be tapering more than I planned, which doesn't sound too awful to me. Maybe a nice long swim instead.
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PastorVincent wrote: »cburke8909 wrote: »@PastorVincent you know the theory on negative splits? I couldn't do it but its logic is unquestionable. Most record marathons are run with negative splits. My father ran his best marathon with a much better pace on the last 10 km then the previous 20 miles.
Yep! I do! But since I have such poor pace control, it is not an option for me
Try setting pace alarms on your watch? Something like 9:10 for too slow, and 8:45 for too fast...have it vibrate and it should help (theoretically).0 -
amymoreorless wrote: »katharmonic wrote: »
Decided to do a short run on the treadmill and then go to power vinyasa hot yoga. Not the greatest decision, I felt really light-headed and had to bag out on some parts of the yoga. Much tougher after the easy run than I expected. Probably not enough water or food on board either. Lesson learned for next time. I still have 6 sessions of this hot yoga studio left and I've kind of decided I don't really love it. I want my yoga to be more relaxing and less *kitten*-kicking. If I did it more maybe it wouldn't be, but I don't have time to commit to that and running.
@katharmonic I usually do yoga once a week but i refuse to do HOT yoga. Ugh. I just don't understand the appeal. Everything is harder and more uncomfortable when I am sweating my butt off. I get enough of that with running. I usually stick to a moderately paced Hatha or Vinyasa class - taught in a comfortable temp.
@amymoreorless I'm in agreement here. I thought it was pretty great the first time I did it, which is why I signed up for the multi-class package. But ugh, it's just too uncomfortable is right. They do have one night a week they do "restorative yoga" so maybe I'll check that out to use up the rest of my punches.
@skippygirlsmom - hush now on thinking about snow in Florida! Forecast for Key West looks like low to mid-70s for next weekend if that holds. Sounds okay to me (though a little humid for running maybe).3 -
Today's run was just a small one, as I plan to start increasing the frequency of my runs; that means lowering the mileage a little (for now) so as not to overdo things. The shin still feels good, although I think OD'ing on calcium has helped out; in all honesty, I've had so much calcium I wouldn't be surprised to wake up one morning and find I've grown another set of teeth.
01 - 4.98
04 - 4.11
Total: 9.09 / 40 miles
In other news, it's not often that things freeze here in Dallas, but when it does, people become buttholes with the furniture, lol.
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January goal: 75 miles
1/3 - 4.4 miles
1/4 - 4.1 miles
8.5/75 miles completed
It was about the same temperature today as it was yesterday, but no sun and it was cloudy so it seemed a lot colder. So today's run was not as fun as yesterday's, but I got it done. I sure feel for those of you on the east coast. Especially in the areas that aren't used to snow. Stay safe and warm.
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@katharmonic ha ha I'm sure you'll be snowfree ha ha
@MobyCarp next time our local Fleet Feet asks about what we would like to see as swag for a winter race I'm going to show them the picture of your hats. I love them.
I took a rest day today.
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Total rest day today. I felt like absolute junk after work. We are now getting hit with another cold spell, supposed to be -32°C tomorrow.2
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01.01.18 - 10 m. TM @ 8:30.
01.02.18 - 9 m. TM @ 9:15.
01.04.18 - 8 m. TM @ 9:22 / Bike Trainer for 60 minutes.
January Goal - 220 total running miles. 4 Bike Rides of 15 - 20 miles.
Tentative Race Calendar:
1.27 or 1.28 - Scheduling.
3.4.18 - Little Rock Marathon
4.7.18 - Yakima River Canyon Marathon
5.6.18 - Flying Pig Marathon
5.20.18 - IronMan 70.3 Chattanooga
7.14.18 - IronMan 70.3 Muncie
MM - 7877
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Only 35 min on indoor bike today. It said that I got just about 8 miles. I had interviews for an open position I have at work and didn't get my swim in. Doing that tomorrow and getting back on the strict tri schedule on Saturday.1
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Ended up being a rest day today... kind off I usually (starting last month...hahaha) have been running 1 mile on the treadmill prior to lifting but this morning all the treadmills were broken?!?! So I did my mile on the elliptical but when I started this I said I wouldn't count elliptical miles so 0.0 it is1 -
Goal is about 80-miles:
Mon: 6-miles fartlek (short hard efforts)
Wed: 6-miles with Long Hills
Fri: 4-miles with some long intervals and full recovery in-between
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PastorVincent wrote: »cburke8909 wrote: »@PastorVincent you know the theory on negative splits? I couldn't do it but its logic is unquestionable. Most record marathons are run with negative splits. My father ran his best marathon with a much better pace on the last 10 km then the previous 20 miles.
Yep! I do! But since I have such poor pace control, it is not an option for me
Try setting pace alarms on your watch? Something like 9:10 for too slow, and 8:45 for too fast...have it vibrate and it should help (theoretically).
I have successfully done that for a 5k, but not sure about an entire marathon. I know some of y'all are like human metronomes - but for me keeping a steady beat (or pace) is very hard to nigh impossible. Hoping muscle memory can take that job1 -
@zdyb23456 & @garygse Sorry you are getting hit with Canadian Like weather. At least you know that it will melt away in a few days.
So now to BRAG about one of the local Ladies who has a little bit of Triathlon skill She is all of 4ft 10 but just a dynamo. Pretty much a perma smile on her face. Yes that is an AG Podium Finish in Geneva. Needless to say when she comes out for a club run I only get to see her at the start and coffee shop after.
11 km along the Riverbank Trails. -6C so a heat wave for us. I actually prefer it at -15C as the trails stay dry/solid. At this temp the snow starts to melt in places giving super slippery places. My legs feel like I just completed a HM, very heavy-tired Quads. The price I pay for getting side tracked in November/December.
01/01 0.0 km – 0.0km –140.0 km – YTD 0 km
01/02 9.37 km –9.37km –130.63 km – YTD 9.37 km
01/04 11.0 km –20.37km –119.63 km – YTD 20.37 km - River Bank Evening Trail Run
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I am so excited about my run today. I have to say it is the first time in a while I have really been excited about a run. I ran intervals even though starting out my legs just felt like crap and tired crap at that. I was going to go home and not run and talked myself out of that option and I am so glad I did! I didn't time the intervals but gave myself points to run all out to. I drove my HR to 139 (high for me) and was able to pull off 9 intervals with 8 of them at 7:30 or under. Wow - I honestly thought my watch was measuring my pace wrong. The last (cool down) mile home was tough as my legs were really tired. But all in all a great run. My trainer took pity on my tired legs tonight at strength training and had me focusing on lifting heavy. Still an indirect 'leg' workout but I know I will be sore elsewhere tomorrow so my legs won't feel so bad
Date........Miles.......Total
01/01......6.64........6.64
01/02......4.23......10.87
01/03......0.00......10.87
01/04......4.50......15.37
My completed and upcoming races. Let me know if you will be running them too.
02/05/17 - Surf City Half Marathon
07/23/17 - San Francisco 1st Half Marathon
10/14/17 - AIM for the Cure Melanoma 5K Walk/Run
12/16/17 - San Diego Holiday Half Marathon
02/04/18 - Surf City Half Marathon
07/22/18 - San Francisco 2nd Half Marathon11 -
Another TM run before work. Just glad to have it done after taking an unplanned "rest" day yesterday. Hoping to get in a couple of longer runs this weekend.
MTD: 5.55/45
1/2 - 3.0
1/3 - 1.25
1/5 - 1.3
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Goals for 2018:
- Run 500 miles
- Run a nonstop (no walking) 5K
- Run/walk my first 10K
- Run 3+ trail races
- Run in 3+ states
Races to Consider:
1/27 - Mississippi Blues Marathon 5K (Registered)
2/18 - Q50 Trails Extravaganza 5M (Registered)
3/17 - Hammond Shamrock Run 5K (First race I ever ran, in 2017)
3/18 - Shamrockin Run 8K in NOLA
4/20 - Star Wars Dark Side 5K in WDW (Registered)
5/12 - Q50 Cinco de Mayo Trail Race 5K (First trail race I ever ran, in 2017)
6/21 - Summer Solstice 6.21M
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4/01 - 5km TM Walk
5.19/60km2 -
Finally knocked the last bit of this cold out and got in a short run this morning. Improved my 3K by 1:12, mostly due to the fact the end of the route was downhill but I’ll take it.
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PastorVincent wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »cburke8909 wrote: »@PastorVincent you know the theory on negative splits? I couldn't do it but its logic is unquestionable. Most record marathons are run with negative splits. My father ran his best marathon with a much better pace on the last 10 km then the previous 20 miles.
Yep! I do! But since I have such poor pace control, it is not an option for me
Try setting pace alarms on your watch? Something like 9:10 for too slow, and 8:45 for too fast...have it vibrate and it should help (theoretically).
I have successfully done that for a 5k, but not sure about an entire marathon. I know some of y'all are like human metronomes - but for me keeping a steady beat (or pace) is very hard to nigh impossible. Hoping muscle memory can take that job
I never set out to do negative splits but I just naturally start off really slow and build speed. And by speed, I mean just less slow. HAH10 -
Ultimately I would love to be able to set <pace> during first mile and hold it the whole race, but be too tired to run 2 more steps beyond the finish line. But that is not going to happen0
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1/1-4 miles New Years run
1/2-4.1 miles dreadmill intervals+ "Functional Training with Stella"
1/3-4.4 miles+ stretching/PT
1/4-3.7 miles trail running
I have a pretty busy day at work, so I am going to have to catch up with this lightening fast thread over lunch. Just wanted to update my tracking and tell you all about my AWESOME trail run yesterday. I had an orthodontist appointment in the afternoon, so I was off early and able to get my run in while it was still daylight. It was still brutally cold, but it was sunny so it felt great to be out there. I wanted to get going on my promise to myself to do more trail running this year, as I think it will help me to let go of that competitive need to keep running faster than my aging body really wants to. So I hit a local park that has some bike and hiking trail through the woods. It's only a short network of trails, but really that was all I needed yesterday. My hats off to those of you that run this terrain frequently. The snow on the ground made it a pretty tough (but really fun!) run and my legs were sore after only about 20 minutes. Hello muscles I am not used to using for running! After about 30 minutes, I started to feel a bit miserable because I had grabbed the wrong base layer shirt wen I packed my bag yesterday morning, and the cotton/poly blend shirt I was wearing was wet and cold, again confirming the importance of a quality base layer! So I called it a day after 37 minutes, but I still felt like I had a fantastic run and a great workout. Oh, and I definitely made a mental note to myself for future trail runs in the snow...I really need to focus on slowing down!10
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