January 2018 Running Challenge

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  • 07KatieP13
    07KatieP13 Posts: 220 Member
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  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @bride001 great job on the race. Nice medal.
    @sarahthes great post by the police department.
  • JulieS3103
    JulieS3103 Posts: 86 Member
    @sarahthes I love the police dept post! :D
  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,859 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    @PastorVincent @AlphaHowls That road looks like my daily commute the last week or so. Do people really have a hard time navigating winter roads?

    I learned to drive in NJ, back when blizzards where not a rare thing, so the 5 inches we got here today in Pittsburgh was nothing to me. I mean, I knew to repsect it and alter my driving to match conditions, but was nothing to fear. Especially since I drive a Jeep. :sunglasses:

    That image is from TN, near Nashville I think. On the I40. Some of those people have lived their whole lives and never seen snow.

    But that is NO EXCUSE FOR THE DOLTS THAT LIVE HERE IN STORMING PITTSBURGH. Sheesh. Seriously. I watched people with local plates spin out, and slide, and tail gate and etc. Keep your sports car at home, and call a Uber or something. For real.

    4WD or AWD is insuffecent to overcome stupidity.

    If you look at the vehicles in the picture, most of them are semi-trucks so the drivers are probably not from the Nashville area. I think the ice took them by surprise and those big trucks are hard to stop on dry pavement.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    juliet3455 wrote: »
    @JessicaMcB @MNLittleFinn @7lenny7 and TrailHounds anywhere.
    I will never get a FKT but it looks and sounds like a Trail you would all love.

    That looks awesome
  • Oberon21
    Oberon21 Posts: 13,235 Member
    RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    @zdyb23456 It's the same here if there's even a chance of snow or ice, buses won't run. Main road could be fine, but secondary roads could be too dangerous.

    @skippygirlsmom My daughter has been driving for 6-7 years and has yet to drive in nasty weather. Thank goodness. She has a little Honda Civic. I'm sure it'd handle like newly born Bambi out there.

    It gets treacherous here. I just dread freezing temps and any precipitation. When we lived in Delaware, I don't remember the roads being too bad as they has lots of snow. We we're lucky to get a blizzard one year. Still went out for a pizza run and found out that ice sets up in the tires and causes noisy wobbling.

    Until we bought her RAV4, my wife drove a Civic, for her first 10 years of driving. They actually handle weather well. FWD cars actually handle just fine in pretty much all weather, as long as people aren't driving them like idiots... RWD is more of a problem.

    I had a mustang in Wisconsin. That was fun! We weighed the trunk down, which helped a bit. It would still fishtail sometimes despite me being careful.

    I once drove home on sheer ice. A normal 10-15 drive took me like an hour. I was barely rolling along and saw a few cars in ditches. Another time I hit a patch of black ice on a freeway overpass, spun out. Police told me there was nothing I could have done because you can't see it and overpasses are usually the worse because the wind goes under the bridge and freezes the rain/sleet where it isn't freezing anywhere else. That was another day with multiple accidents. My mom came across 3 before she got to mine. After those, I decided it was time to move.

    Or get a new car! I grew up in WI and learned to drive there. I had a huge Chrysler Cordoba (in green) that had been my Dad's. I never had trouble in snow. I now drive a Mazda Miata and have for like the last 20 years (in NJ). It's a death trap in the snow. Not my driving, I just drive super slow and know how to drive in snow. But it's bad because all the folks in SUVs and light weight trucks get frustrated with me and pass me. At speed. And that is more dangerous than my slow plodding progress. I try now never to drive when it snows. Safer for me and the other drivers. Luckily that is usually just a handful of days in NJ.
  • Oberon21
    Oberon21 Posts: 13,235 Member
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    @zdyb23456 It's the same here if there's even a chance of snow or ice, buses won't run. Main road could be fine, but secondary roads could be too dangerous.

    @skippygirlsmom My daughter has been driving for 6-7 years and has yet to drive in nasty weather. Thank goodness. She has a little Honda Civic. I'm sure it'd handle like newly born Bambi out there.

    It gets treacherous here. I just dread freezing temps and any precipitation. When we lived in Delaware, I don't remember the roads being too bad as they has lots of snow. We we're lucky to get a blizzard one year. Still went out for a pizza run and found out that ice sets up in the tires and causes noisy wobbling.

    Until we bought her RAV4, my wife drove a Civic, for her first 10 years of driving. They actually handle weather well. FWD cars actually handle just fine in pretty much all weather, as long as people aren't driving them like idiots... RWD is more of a problem.

    My Miata is rear wheel drive and super light. Both a major problems in snow.
  • HRKinchen
    HRKinchen Posts: 202 Member
    @bride001 - Great race and great medal! I hated to miss out on that one. Maybe next year.
    juliet3455 wrote: »
    HRKinchen wrote: »
    Because, *woo!* am I glad I'm not running anywhere near that! :lol:

    @HRKinchen If you remove the vehicles that's exactly what my Running trails looked like today. Everything we do is based on our version of what " Normal " is. For me it was decent run except for a few Trail/Road crossings with Driver polished corners ( to much accelerator ), the rest was all good.

    The wrecks are what made me say "Woo am I glad...." As a Southerner, I have a love/hate relationship with cold. I love the beauty and novelty of it when it snows (and likewise like to visit places where it snows), but I hate freezing temps without the payoff of snow. Most of our winters, when they're even cold, are just cold and wet. And really, what's the point of that?! :lol:
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    skippygirlsmom wrote: »
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    @PastorVincent @AlphaHowls That road looks like my daily commute the last week or so. Do people really have a hard time navigating winter roads?

    @MNLittleFinn some people never drive on winter/snowy roads in their lifetime. Skip has been driving for over 2 years and has never had the need to drive on snow or ice because we haven't had any. Cars/trucks sold in this area don't automatically come with all wheel or four wheel drive, heck they don't come with a place to put a front license plate. We have little to no ability to remove snow, most places have no ability to salt or put sand down. I took Skip's SUV to work yesterday in case we did get snow because it has 4 wheel drive, but that's because I brought it in New Jersey. So to answer your question, yes people who don't drive in these conditions with any regularity have a hard time navigating such conditions. In my opinion they just need to stay home, but some don't have a choice.

    Yep, I agree with @skippygirlsmom - most people in So California have never had to drive in snow and ice. Heck they rarely get to drive in rain or on wet roads... When we were first married and going to see my family in Idaho we needed to put chains on and my husband was clueless. I did it because I had lived where they were needed more frequently so you learned what to do in case you were out in the middle of no where and needed them.
  • HRKinchen
    HRKinchen Posts: 202 Member
    @shanaber - Log off, shut down, go run. You know you'll feel better after, not before. (That's what I tell myself, too. And it's true.)
  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,859 Member
    katharmonic wrote: »
    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
    01/05/18 :::: 7.2 :::: 17.2
    01/06/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 17.2
    01/07/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 17.2
    01/08/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 20.2
    01/09/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 20.2
    01/10/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 23.4
    01/11/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 26.4
    01/12/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 26.4
    01/13/18 :::: 2.1 :::: 28.6
    01/14/18 :::: 13.1 :::: 41.7

    Key West Half Marathon finished! It was a pretty great day and fun race. Started out at about 55 degrees, but it was windy. I didn't want to give up my long sleeves when I checked my bag but knew I would not want them. The Florida people were dressed for winter with gloves, ear warmers, long pants and sleeves - while the northerners were in tanks and shorts. It's all what you are used to.

    I enjoyed this race, it's a nice course with lots of ocean views. The wind was tough but there was a good energy to the runners and several musicians along the way to keep it fun. I started with the goal of just having fun and stopped for a couple of pictures, but it was feeling good and I realized I would be close to a PR so I started to pay more attention to pace (which was good and bad, because I looked at my watch way too much). In the end I was 5 seconds slower than my PR! So close!

    The after-race stuff was better than I expected because I had heard from people I met that previous years were not good. So I was happy to have a decent amount of food - fruit and pastries, bagels, and some good cornbread. There was also some beer, which I normally would pass up as I'm not a huge beer drinker but I tried this tea infused beer from Shipyard Brewery - Maui Mango flavor. It was good! I also got to try out a little TENS machine a vendor was demonstrating and that was kind of heavenly. It was pretty chilly though with the wind and being sweaty, so I didn't stay too long. Headed back to the hotel for a lovely sit in the whirlpool spa.

    I'm exhausted and happy to have a few more days to enjoy Key West (which hopefully will warm up a bit more).

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    The medal is huge and the lighthouse light flashes!
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    Congratulations! I love that medal!
  • HRKinchen
    HRKinchen Posts: 202 Member
    @katharmonic - Congrats on a great race! And wow, what a medal!
  • BruinsGal_91
    BruinsGal_91 Posts: 1,400 Member
    @katharmonic Sounds like a great race, and I now have a severe case of medal envy.
  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    @katharmonic Awesome race!
  • JulieS3103
    JulieS3103 Posts: 86 Member
    @katharmonic That medal is awesome! Sounds like a great race too :)
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    Starflight00 wrote: »
    Hi all, a newbie here!

    I'm Olga, 34 y/o, from Belgium. Discovered running 3 years ago, followed a sort of Couch to 5K, then got into a love/hate relationship with running. I used to run for 4-5km with 170+ HR for 80% of the run telling myself "well, that's just how my heart works". Then I went for a fitness test when they measured the lactic acid and they told me that I've been running on fumes every time and I need to work on basics first.

    So now I run in the 140-157 range, with 8'30"/km, which MPF categorizes as "very, very brisk walk" :-D But I really want to do it right this time!

    I'll join the challenge with 30km goal (25 miles), seems realistic.

    Welcome! You'll find most of us start out running too fast and don't progress like we anticipate.

    That's rule number 1. Run slow. Run slower...
    2. Would be ; respect the rest day.

    I was amazed when I figured this out, that I could run 2 miles (~3k) non stop rather than the almost 1k I'd been fighting to get.

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