April 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Had a 5k race today. Just a few seconds shy of my personal best, but still good enough for 4th over all and 2nd place female. To say I'm gobsmacked is an understatement.
I'm used to being firmly in the middle of the pack, so it was really weird to find myself in the leading group. The race winner is a 12 year old boy and there was no way on earth I was going to catch up with him. He had youth and enthusiasm on his side. As we approached the finish line, I was still in 4th over all, but I could hear someone catching me up. "Not today, sunshine", I thought as I put my foot down for that final push. I beat him by one second.
Great job! Thats just awesome.0 -
4/1: 2.5 miles
4/2: 3.1 miles
4/3: ST, walk 1 mile
4/6: ST, 3 miles
4/7: 3.5 miles
4/8: 6 miles
Total Running for April: 18.1/60
6 miles at one of my favorite parks today. I usually only run on the paved paths, but today I ventured onto some of the dirt trails that go through the woods and overlook the river.
Upcoming Races:
Phoenix Rising 5k 4/21
Wineglass Marathon 9/306 -
Rest day today.
My brother-in-law ran the Ragnar 200 with a group of 12. I guess he's not up for doing the run in a team of 6.2 -
Took me a while to find the thread!!!
I went AWOL at the end of march but let's try this again! My target for April is 50km. Aiming to run 3-4 km 4-5 times a week. I am very stretched for time so can't do longer runs at the moment but a short run is better than none right?! 
4/1 - 4km - 4/50
4/2 - rest day - 4/50
4/3 - 5.4km - 9.4/50 - awful run... legs are still feeling the effects of spinning and running on the weekend....
4/4 - rest
4/5 - rest
4/6 - rest not intended rests, just flat out with house stuff...
4/7 - 4km (dreadmill!) - 13.4/50
4/8 - 6km back out in the open air! - 19.4/50
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Had a 5k race today. Just a few seconds shy of my personal best, but still good enough for 4th over all and 2nd place female. To say I'm gobsmacked is an understatement.
I'm used to being firmly in the middle of the pack, so it was really weird to find myself in the leading group. The race winner is a 12 year old boy and there was no way on earth I was going to catch up with him. He had youth and enthusiasm on his side. As we approached the finish line, I was still in 4th over all, but I could hear someone catching me up. "Not today, sunshine", I thought as I put my foot down for that final push. I beat him by one second.
Well done! Congrats!2 -
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4/8 4 miles outside- this is the farthest ive run so far since i started 4 months ago. It was a good one.9
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@PastorVincent - LOL at speeding up for the "last 200m" early. FWIW, 200m is about 0.125 miles. It's halfway around a standard outdoor track, a full circuit of a standard indoor track. The idea is that this is about as far as you can run anaerobically at the end of a race without running out of gas.
Still, it's not a bad strategy to speed up just a little where you did, with 1K or so left, assuming you feel that you have the energy to finish the race faster than you have been running. Just don't go for your mile race pace till the last furlong.
Yeah, see... I am pretty good at mental math and know that 1600m is about a mile so 200/1600 = 1/8th a mile... but for some reason, while I am running my math skills are not up to 5th-grade level.
I have no idea what I did to come up with 2.57 miles means 200 meters left, but it sure made sense at the time 2 -
Congrats to everyone that raced this weekend! I love reading the race reports
April 3 - 2 mile Treadmill run
April 4 - 3 mile Treadmill run
April 5 - 3 mile Treadmill run
April 7 - 4 mile run
April 8 - 8 mile run
20 miles so far/Goal 70 miles
Upcoming Races:
4/28/18 Brown Deer 10k
6/10/18 Manitowoc Half Marathon
8/18/18 Madison Mini Half Marathon
9/16/18 North Face Endurance 10k4 -
April 2018
04.01.18 - 10 m. / 60 minutes on bike trainer.
04.02.18 - 3.5 m EZ. / Swim
04.05.18 - 10 m.
04.07.18 - 26.2 m.
04.07.18 - 1 m. EZ
Upcoming Events:
05.06.18 - Flying Pig Marathon.
05.20.18 - IronMan 70.3 Chattanooga
07.14.18 - IronMan 70.3 Muncie
07.29.18 - IronMan 70.3 Ohio
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April running update
Week 1: 35.4
Took a few days off from April 1-4 to let left foot with PF rest a bit and also use as a midweek taper for HM this sat.
Re the race. Was the Chitown HM running the lakeshore of Lake Michigan. Sunny day, however was a cold 22 with up to 10mph winds making it feel like 14 or so. Arrived early to get close parking, bib, gear check and a little warmup run around the park to get in coral 5-10 min prior to start. Saw someone I follow on Strava and chatted and then they announced race was going to be delayed 10 min as the bag check line was lengthy since it was both poorly staffed and people arrived late. I was only slightly annoyed but I didn’t feel cold so I patiently waited. Race plan was to stay within sight of pace group running 1:45 goal race which would be a 1 min PR. Garmin And/or mileage markers seemed to both be off and first 5 miles seemed to be clipping along at -7:50 each or 10 seconds fast but I was feeling good so as we made a loop I decided to move forward picking up the pace slightly to gain time. At mile 9 I hit the lap button on my garmin which added 1 min to the 9 miles earlier. From there Miles/garmin was close enough and I was maintaining around 7:45 avg for the last 4 Miles with mile 13 becoming a challenge. Aid stations had frozen water/icy gatorades but I was neither too cold or hot and I took a couple gu’s at mile 4 and 8. Felt elated as I saw the finish chute and 1:42:xx was on the clock. My official time was 1:42:29 which was a new PR by over 3:30. Had some water and a free beer and a fewChicago Portillo’s hot dogs to celebrate!17 -
Was supposed to be 9 miles today.
Also, I was going to do my first experiment with UCAN to see if it would prevent low BG. I started with an elevated BG (about 180 mg/dl) as well, and did not do a temp. basal (i.e. lower background insulin) as I normally would. Unfortunately, I was not feeling very energetic, it was windy, and a bit cold. Plus, my earbuds were running out of battery already after 30 min. despite a full charge (they are several years old).
Anyway, I cut it short and ended up with 6.1 miles and not even close to the pace I wanted. Tested BG upon return and it was mid-300's!! I tried to correct and had an infusion set issue, so I don't know now how much of that can be blamed on UCAN vs. the infusion site. Even worse, my CGM was way off and I can't reliably say when and how much my BG rose during that time. But this high BG explains why I felt sluggish.
Anyway, 6.1 miles and I'm going to just re-do this week on my training plan. And the UCAN experiment failed, so will have to do that again.
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4miles today at run 4min walk 2min intervals. - this may have overdone it by a bit, but I was packing for a trip, and lamenting over not fitting into my warm weather clothes before I went for the run.... so, may have contributed to my over zealous goal. But, it makes me very happy that I could still run this distance, and since I’m back to being terribly slow, 4 miles was a very significant amount of time as well...which makes me happy from a cardiovascular endourance stand point. Time will tell how much I regret this later.6
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Congrats to all of you who raced this weekend! I enjoyed reading all your posts. Great work on surviving both cold and warm weather (can't imagine right now), getting PRs and having fun. The hot dogs sound good too.
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
04/01/18 :::: 5.3 :::: 5.3
04/02/18 :::: 3.6 :::: 8.9
04/03/18 :::: 4.8 :::: 13.7
04/04/18 :::: 1.5 :::: 15.2
04/05/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 18.3
04/06/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 18.3
04/07/18 :::: 10.2 :::: 28.5
04/08/18 :::: 3.5 :::: 32.0
I am so sick of being cold, I couldn't face an outdoor run today after a fairly long walk with the dog this morning. I hit the treadmill at the gym this afternoon. Although it dragged a bit, I'm not sorry. If it doesn't shape up out there I'm never going out again. Except for right now to take the dog out again
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Well done @kevaasen !!!0
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No run today, too much paperwork had piled up. Maybe tomorrow.0
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PastorVincent wrote: »@PastorVincent - LOL at speeding up for the "last 200m" early. FWIW, 200m is about 0.125 miles. It's halfway around a standard outdoor track, a full circuit of a standard indoor track. The idea is that this is about as far as you can run anaerobically at the end of a race without running out of gas.
Still, it's not a bad strategy to speed up just a little where you did, with 1K or so left, assuming you feel that you have the energy to finish the race faster than you have been running. Just don't go for your mile race pace till the last furlong.
Yeah, see... I am pretty good at mental math and know that 1600m is about a mile so 200/1600 = 1/8th a mile... but for some reason, while I am running my math skills are not up to 5th-grade level. I have no idea what I did to come up with 2.57 miles means 200 meters left, but it sure made sense at the time
Yeah, that's why we make race plans and practice parts of those plans. None of us thinks as well in the middle of a race as we do when planning beforehand or analyzing afterwards.3 -
wholey macaroni! You guys are serious!!!! (Total Newbie here).
I'm just trying to get my 3 mi, 3x a week in (I swim 2 days a week). For now, that's all I have time for. Gone are the days I could run for hours in the orange groves.
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April Running Totals (miles)
4/1 – 6.21 easy
4/2 – rest day
4/3 – 6.35 easy to MP
4/4 – unscheduled rest day – wind storm
4/5 – 8.39 easy with snow showers
4/6 – 4.01 easy
4/7 – 12.01 paced run
4/8 – 7.84 easy 60 minutes
April running total to date – 44.81
Nominal April mileage goal: 130 miles
Real goals: Arrive at Hopkinton healthy. Get to Boyleston Street under my own power. Recover well.
Today's notes – The marathon training plan I'm not following called for 60 minutes easy today. This followed yesterday's assignment of downhill 4 miles at MP-10 sec, rolling 6 miles at MP, uphill 3 miles at MP+15 sec. Yesterday I actually ran 12 miles close to MP, so the level of effort was around what the plan assigned.
So . . . I calculated about 7 miles today to hit my final taper weekly mileage target. 7 miles at 8 minutes per mile would be 56 minutes, and my runners' pride said, "Just run for an hour." So I did. Of course, I couldn't hold an 8 minute pace so I had to add distance make an hour; but it was still less than 8 miles, and I can work with that.
Tomorrow the plan says 30 minutes easy + 4 strides. I will take a rest day. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I'll jiggle distances to come out to about the right mileage for the week, the take a rest day Friday and fly out on Saturday. Just have to convince myself to really limit those miles this week. First goal is to arrive at Hopkinton healthy.
2018 races:
February 17, 2018 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) finished in 54:48
February 24, 2018 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) finished in 28:46
March 17, 2018 USATF Masters 8K (Shamrock 8K, Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 31:55
March 24, 2018 Spring Forward 15K (Mendon, NY) ran at MP, finished in 1:10:47
April 16, 2018 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)
April 29, 2018 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble, Dedham, MA)
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Mountainlove wrote: »wholey macaroni! You guys are serious!!!! (Total Newbie here).
I'm just trying to get my 3 mi, 3x a week in (I swim 2 days a week). For now, that's all I have time for. Gone are the days I could run for hours in the orange groves.
Hi Everyone!!!
Well . . . 3 miles, 3 times a week is about 9 miles more per week than most Americans run. I'd say you belong here.13 -
Mountainlove wrote: »wholey macaroni! You guys are serious!!!! (Total Newbie here).
I'm just trying to get my 3 mi, 3x a week in (I swim 2 days a week). For now, that's all I have time for. Gone are the days I could run for hours in the orange groves.
Hi Everyone!!!
9 miles a week plus swimming is plenty serious. Welcome to the group. The folks on here are amazing and have really given me a lot of good info.0 -
Jasper Half Marathon yesterday where I ran into @sarahthes ( see her Race report/pictures on pg 20 ) before the event - glad to read her race report, that she enjoyed it and wasn't discouraged by the conditions. There were a few people I met who this was there first HM and they were miserable and swore they would never do another one. But we all know how that works out
, as we see them signing up for new races.
Either I aced the Tangents, the course was short or I started my Garmin late 21.02km, I guess that is only 80m.
Official time 2:15:06. -- 2017 2:13:29 -- 2016 2:12:48 .
Darn that's actually pretty consistent. 2016 conditions were ideal, 2017 not bad.
In comparison to the previous two years that was a tough one this year. Part of the reason I struggled in the back half is I let myself get dragged out by the pack a little faster than I wanted so I paid the price later in the race.
Due to snow/ice conditions on the trail on race morning they changed the course so we did not run the complete loop around Edith Lake but did an out and back on the "good" part of the trail. Would hate to see what the bad part looked like. The first 5km were fine ( some brand new pavement ) then hit a few small ice patch's around the Jasper Park Lodge. I always seem to hit ice just as I catch up to a group and have to slow down or brave passing on the ice. Then it was fine until about km 8.3 where we turned off the main road onto a service road and started to run into ice. The hill at 8.48 (14.3 on return ) km was covered in ice so it involved very careful foot placement on the descent and climb. I had 2 near falls on the descent and climbing back out my toe would break traction and I would kick out. That beat me up pretty badly. The last 3 km were uphill and I struggled this year. The last 0.5 km was brutal - Flat ground but straight into a cold headwind but. When we started there was a slight wind but it picked up as the day went on. About 2 mins slower than last year but I had to take some walk breaks which I did not do last year. Some people were faster than previous years, some slower, situation normal. There are 2 big Stone Pillars at about km 8.3 and this is where I would traditionally meet the elites on the inbound loop. They were a good km off the pace this year when compared to the previous 2 years.
Didn't have my phone so no race pictures to share.
A few of the people who were behind me caught up to me after the finish and said I was a real social butterfly, as I seemed to know so many of the athlete's and would call out to cheer them on. That's what happens when you run similar event rotations you get a Drinking Social club with a Running problem.
Because of the cold wind I was quickly getting chilled after the event so I didn't stay around to cheer in other athlete's or awards, but bailed for the warmth of my hotel. All together our local group took home 5 AG prizes ( Flagon of beer ), not bad for a group of twenty.
04/01 0.0 km – 0.0km – 140.0 km – YTD 233.07km
04/07 21.02km -21.02km -118.8 km - YTD 254.09km
edited multiple times as my brain cells came back to life.13 -
@juliet3455 Nice RR. Sounds like it was definitely "not ideal" conditions for the race. Great job getting it done!0
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@midwesterner85 Sounds like a rough one. I do hope the UCAN works for you eventually, and that BG becomes predictable.0
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@BruinsGal_91 Way to go!!2
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Rest day here. Also I guess it's taper week with the 25k being Saturday. I will still aim for 5 tomorrow on trail while my son is at soccer. His Wednesday practice I will keep shorter and easier.
What do others do at about that distance two days before race? Do y'all just get twitchy or do you work out in another way?2 -
0408-5k Total-17.7k Goal-80k
Was super occupied during the weekend so only got in a last minute 5k interval late last night. Was supposed to be cooking and cleaning but SO noticed I was looking grumpy and suggested a quick stroll around the block, while she took over the chores.
Noticed that a month into lifting, running fast (or less slow) has become much less painful. Nothing sore. Now all I've gotta do is get my cardio into shape.
@fitoverfortymom Two or three days before the race I run short and easy, with a 1k or so burst of speed (MP, HMP, whatever) toward the end just so I remember what it's like to run at pace.4 -
April Goal: 110 miles
4/1: 6.2 miles
4/3: 4.6 miles
4/4: 4.0 miles (intervals)
4/5: 4.2 miles
4/8: 11.5 miles
30.5/110 miles completed
After Thursday's disappointing run, I was proud of making it 11.5 miles today. We attended a wedding last night so we were up later than usual plus I drank more than I usually do so I was feeling a little dehydrated this morning. It was still cold this morning so I did not run until after church. I don't think I could have gotten up early enough after going to bed so late anyway. I was slower than usual, but I did not give up like I did on Thursday. Two things I have definitely learned for my HM. 1. Get a good night's sleep. 2. Don't drink a lot of vodka the night before.
Great running this weekend everyone! I really enjoy the race reports!
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3 easy today. Plus coach made me do weights.
4/1-rest day (unscheduled)
4/2-rest day
4/3-5
4/4-3
4/5-4
4/6-rest day
4/7-9
4/8-3 (plus weights)
24 miles MTD
7/8 days according to plan.4 -
Aaapril....run she will
4/1 11 hrs work/dinner with friends
4/2 4.29
4/3 moped
4/4 4.07
4/5 3.12
4/6 3.03
4/7 4.17
Total 18.68
Ticker is my goal for 2018 and progress to date:
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