April 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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I forgot to mention in my race report that the finish line tried to eat me as I crossed it... fortunately the official photographer caught the whole thing...
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rheddmobile wrote: »I've been too depressed to read the thread, but it really does make me feel more hopeful reading about everyone's races. Today was supposed to be a race day for me, but since it went from 70s all week to 33 degrees at race time, I'm not as disappointed as I might have been. Trying to get some upper body strength work in since I basically can't even walk, I feel like I have a shot glass full of synovial fluid in my upper calf and no doctor until next Friday. No point in going back to the ER unless something turns black and falls off, they'll just tell me to make a doctor's appointment.
@rheddmobile Good to hear from you. Well done on the strength training. You're not wasting any of your time off.0 -
Here's the link to our friend the Teacher Trail Runner's latest blog update.
http://teachertrailrunner.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/race-week-final-gear-prepcheck.html
Really love how the gear is all categorised and in columns!
Aww, so cute about your wife's labelling of the Tailwind lemon servings!
Can't wait to hear how you did with such great planning!
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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!!!
Hello and welcome! I'm only in this group 2 months myself but loving it! I'm only a beginner (again) runner. I used to do 5km 3 times a week when I was in college, so about 2 or 15 years ago! so I'm aiming to get back to that by starting with the c25k program. Like what's already been said running 3 times a week and swimming is a lot more than the average person does!
Btw this thread does become addictive, I'm already planning on marathon by next October!
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@sarahthes you seem remarkably calm considering a great big inflatable finish chute is about to eat you. Nicely done. And you look fantastic and so happy too.
When I'm not running, I'm out and about bird watching and I'm intrigued by the birds in your picture.
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@eponine1984 - lifting you up in prayer.
Back to school after spring break. Can't believe I got up early enough to get 5 miles in before first day back.
4/1 - 3.65 miles to Buckingham Palace, + strength training W9-B
4/2 -Tabatas in the hotel gym
4/3 - 5 miles Hyde Park
4/4 - strength training arms + 1 mile treadmill
4/5 - 5 miles Hyde Park - last day in London
4/6 - rest/travel day
4/7 - 4 miles on treadmill
4/8 - 25 miles cycling + strength training W9-C
4/9 - 5 miles
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Oof my legs are tired from that trail mud yesterday! Another Monday, another coffee crew run.
4/1: 7 miles
4/2: 4.1 miles
4/3: 6.7 miles
4/4: Rest day
4/5: Lazy day
4/6: 5.2 miles
4/7: 10 miles
4/8: 4.5 miles trail demo
4/9: 5 miles
April miles: 42.5
Goal miles: 100
Upcoming Races:
April 29: New Jersey Marathon 4-person relay
May 20: Watershed 10k trail race
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Here's the link to our friend the Teacher Trail Runner's latest blog update.
http://teachertrailrunner.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/race-week-final-gear-prepcheck.html
Really love how the gear is all categorised and in columns!
Aww, so cute about your wife's labelling of the Tailwind lemon servings!
Can't wait to hear how you did with such great planning!
The list was copied and pasted directly from a spreadsheet.... It's the only organized ant thought out part of my planning for the run. The rest is straight up Forrest Gump, I just felt like running.3 -
7.1 on treadmill this am. Could have paced it a little slower.
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Good morning everyone. Rest day today.... I hate tapering, so I'm glad my taper is over in just under 4 days.5
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pushed a little too hard on yesterdays run, knee was hurting pretty bad yesterday, hurt just to bend it, but feeling a lot better today
4/1-9 miles
4/2-chest/back/legs
4/3-2.5 miles
4/5-5.5 miles
4/6-2.5 miles
4/8-9 miles
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »@sarahthes you seem remarkably calm considering a great big inflatable finish chute is about to eat you. Nicely done. And you look fantastic and so happy too.
When I'm not running, I'm out and about bird watching and I'm intrigued by the birds in your picture.
Great Photo's, That was a good example of the winds. One of the support lines must have broken free of the weights. @sarahthes Amazing smile showing how happy you are.
@BruinsGal_91 Those are the dreaded Canada geese you see in the corner of the pictures2 -
@juliet3455 The smile was to hide the pain - my legs were quite cramped up although not from lack of electrolytes or anything I don't think. Just from the jump from 10 miles to 13 combined with the last few km being a heck of a hill!
Of course I spent the evening unwinding in the hotel hot tub and wondering how soon I could be ready for a full marathon LOL. (I'm thinking Fall 2019.)9 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »Good morning everyone. Rest day today.... I hate tapering, so I'm glad my taper is over in just under 4 days.
I actually look forward to the taper. I like letting my body recover from the rigors of training, but even more, I like being able to spend more time with my family.
I made it out for 10 tough, snowy, slushy, trail miles Saturday night with Kody, just as the sun went down. There was no moon out but with the ambient suburban light and the stars to guide me, no headlamp was needed. I could barely even walk up the steeper hills so I gave up thoughts of running that night and practiced my Zumbro Stumble instead.
Sunday I skipped my run to spend more more time working on our bathroom. I may have to skip a run this week too. I'm finally to the point of installing the underlayment. I did get some glute work in though.
April Progress:
39 out of 150 miles
I've been pulled into the Zumbro forecast watch. The forecast has swung back and forth fairly drastically in the last few days. The last I looked this morning, Friday (when @MNLittleFinn will be running and I'll be volunteering at an aid station) will see a high of 50F, thunderstorms and 3/4" of rain while Saturday will see a high of 39F at midnight (when I start my race), steadily dropping throughout the day to 31F at the end of the race, with a cold wintery mix of rain, sleet & snow, totalling 3-5 inches. Both days winds of 20mph, with gusts to 40mph. Yay!!!!
I'm bringing everything I own and using my truck as a drop bag. Seriously.
They will posting loop by loop splits here during the race:
https://results.chronotrack.com/event/results/event/event-39133
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I along with 27,413 other people ran the Cooper River Bridge Run (10k) in Charleston, SC this weekend. Thankfully, the weather there was not a problem. We even made it to the beach on Friday afternoon. Too cold to swim but the temp was a nice 74F and it felt great sitting on the beach soaking up some sun. We went to the expo on Friday morning. It was decent-size. We ran a little over 3 miles on Friday morning just to shake things out.
At start time on race day, it was 64F, mostly cloudy with a 10MPH wind blowing and 84% humidity. The wind was slightly stronger at the top of the bridge. We left the hotel a bit too early and was on the first shuttle bus to the start line resulting in a lot of standing around time. I would rather be late than early though. The race has a costume contest so there were some interesting people to observe while waiting and a DJ was playing music. (I passed a nun running in full habit but she was legit – 67 years old and running to raise money for an orphanage.) We moved back a starting corral to be hang out with a friend. There were about 5,000 less people running this year so the corrals moved pretty fast once the race started. I didn’t carry my water bottle with me and didn’t stop at the first water station which was around mile 1.5. Unfortunately, the next water station wasn’t until the other side of the Ravenal Bridge around mile 5 and I was so thirsty by then. Other than a brief walk up one side of the bridge when I got trapped behind a bunch of walkers, this was the only time I walked.
The end of the race was my least favorite part. It was so crowded because they funnel everyone into a park that really isn’t big enough to accommodate this amount of people. There were only 4 or 5 people giving out medals so that caused a big human traffic jam with everyone trying to get one. I don’t know if some of the volunteers didn’t show up or if it was just poor planning. At one point I felt like a cow at the market being herded. They had watermelon, muffins, bananas, apples and oranges at the end but the lines were so long, it really wasn’t worth it.
A former Olympian and US Army vet from Colorado was the overall winner with a time of 28:25. The female winner was from Ethiopia with a time of 32:19. Me, I was just happy with my time of 1:04.
Congrats to everyone who raced this past weekend!
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »Good morning everyone. Rest day today.... I hate tapering, so I'm glad my taper is over in just under 4 days.
I actually look forward to the taper. I like letting my body recover from the rigors of training, but even more, I like being able to spend more time with my family.
I made it out for 10 tough, snowy, slushy, trail miles Saturday night with Kody, just as the sun went down. There was no moon out but with the ambient suburban light and the stars to guide me, no headlamp was needed. I could barely even walk up the steeper hills so I gave up thoughts of running that night and practiced my Zumbro Stumble instead.
Sunday I skipped my run to spend more more time working on our bathroom. I may have to skip a run this week too. I'm finally to the point of installing the underlayment. I did get some glute work in though.
April Progress:
39 out of 150 miles
I've been pulled into the Zumbro forecast watch. The forecast has swung back and forth fairly drastically in the last few days. The last I looked this morning, Friday (when @MNLittleFinn will be running and I'll be volunteering at an aid station) will see a high of 50F, thunderstorms and 3/4" of rain while Saturday will see a high of 39F at midnight (when I start my race), steadily dropping throughout the day to 31F at the end of the race, with a cold wintery mix of rain, sleet & snow, totalling 3-5 inches. Both days winds of 20mph, with gusts to 40mph. Yay!!!!
I'm bringing everything I own and using my truck as a drop bag. Seriously.
They will posting loop by loop splits here during the race:
https://results.chronotrack.com/event/results/event/event-39133
I always run early morning, so My running only interrupts family time at the very peak of a cycle, and then only for an hour or 2 per week at most. I'm just glad that my taper was short, like 10 days in this case. My body has reacted VERY well to training, so Taper hasn't been as much of a need.
The weather looks fine to me. NWS only puts it at a 50% chance of rain, and I'll take those odds...LOL... overnight low is listed as 32, so that's not bad, as long as I keep relatively dry.... it's still 60F warmer than the temps I hit this winter! Also, I like the NWS wind forecast better too.... only gusts of 25-28... that's manageable......LOL..... Truthfully though, with the wild swings they've had in predictions, It's still a toss up I'm thinking. Thanks for posting the tracking link.0 -
So many great races over the weekend! @juliet3455 @sarahthes @PastorVincent (nailed it x2!!), @kevaasen @amymoreorless @zerlinna87 @BruinsGal_91 @polskagirl01 @Teresa502 (and anyone I forgot...please forgive me!) you all did great today! @sarahthes I love your photos, particularly the one of you and @juliet3455 and the one of you with your medal. Sound like it could have been a miserable time but love the way you kept it positive. @juliet3455 racing on ice does not sound appealing. You could really hurt something when you break traction, not to mention all effort your support muscles go through.
@dreamer12151 congrats on the new Garmin!
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4/1-14.5 miles
4/2 Rest Day
4/3 5.7 miles (4 on dreadmill, 1.7 with Stella)
4/4-30 minute elliptical and 30 minute strength
4/5-8 miles
4/6-Yoga and rest
4/7-11.6 miles (10+1.6 with Stella)
4/8-16 miles
55.8/180 miles
Happy Monday everyone! I am just catching up with the thread from the weekend. It looks like you all were a busy bunch of racing machines! Tis the season! I am not going to risk missing anyone by offering individual congrats, so I will offer a big collective Congratulations to all of you who raced, especially those with distance and time PRS. Way to go!3 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »I always run early morning, so My running only interrupts family time at the very peak of a cycle, and then only for an hour or 2 per week at most. I'm just glad that my taper was short, like 10 days in this case. My body has reacted VERY well to training, so Taper hasn't been as much of a need.
The weather looks fine to me. NWS only puts it at a 50% chance of rain, and I'll take those odds...LOL... overnight low is listed as 32, so that's not bad, as long as I keep relatively dry.... it's still 60F warmer than the temps I hit this winter! Also, I like the NWS wind forecast better too.... only gusts of 25-28... that's manageable......LOL..... Truthfully though, with the wild swings they've had in predictions, It's still a toss up I'm thinking. Thanks for posting the tracking link.
It certainly helps if you're a morning person. I stay up too late for that. What I need are 26 hour days. I'm going to try harder to run before work this summer so I can run more often without it affecting other things, and so I can get Kody out before it gets to warm.
Keeping dry will be key this weekend. Being wet when it's mid 30's and blowing hard is a recipe for a DNF. Not only will this be about managing nutrition, it will be about managing layers.
For getting in and out of that campground, I'm glad I have 4-wheel drive. I wonder how soupy that will get.
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4.34km Run/walk today was much needed after a stressful couple of weeks. Bathroom reno will be done today! We had a huge shock at work with someone being let go which has put more stress and expectations on us to cover the loss- just feeling like I'm being pulled in multiple directions.
This run brings my total to 7.6km for the month, I had expected to be farther along but life. Hopefully I'll get more km in this week.4 -
I've done the wet weather thing enough in the BWCA and other places, at similar temps to know that as long as I keep moving I'll be good to go. Wet/cold don't bother me nearly as much as hot/dry, so it will be good, overthinking the layering causes me more trouble than just layering decently and going with it. I've found, for me, even when it's colder/wet, I have to dress for 10-15 degrees warmer a lot of the time. Have to see this time around though. I'm getting dropped off/picked up, so at least I won't have to worry about parking, even though it means no truck for me. It's going to be fun no matter whatIt certainly helps if you're a morning person. I stay up too late for that. What I need are 26 hour days. I'm going to try harder to run before work this summer so I can run more often without it affecting other things, and so I can get Kody out before it gets to warm.
Keeping dry will be key this weekend. Being wet when it's mid 30's and blowing hard is a recipe for a DNF. Not only will this be about managing nutrition, it will be about managing layers.
For getting in and out of that campground, I'm glad I have 4-wheel drive. I wonder how soupy that will get
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5.8 km this evening, bringing me to 39 so far for the month! Still have nice weather to thank for the motivation, although tomorrow it will rain so I will probably be in the gym for some strength training.
61 km left to go!4 -
@7lenny7 @MNLittleFinn Morning runs are my preference even though I'm a night owl. I'm just waiting until it's light out at 6:30. I don't mind starting in the dark but would like to finish in daylight (I actually love being out there just as the sun comes up!).
Also, to anyone I missed congratulating on weekend races, congrats! I loved reading all your race reports!1 -
@Teresa502 - Great job! That is a tough run. Those wining times are quite impressive. I have run the Ravenal bridge and it is no joke. I will be in Charleston the weekend of the 20th and definitely plan to run the bridge.1
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juliet3455 wrote: »BruinsGal_91 wrote: »@sarahthes you seem remarkably calm considering a great big inflatable finish chute is about to eat you. Nicely done. And you look fantastic and so happy too.
When I'm not running, I'm out and about bird watching and I'm intrigued by the birds in your picture.
Great Photo's, That was a good example of the winds. One of the support lines must have broken free of the weights. @sarahthes Amazing smile showing how happy you are.
@BruinsGal_91 Those are the dreaded Canada geese you see in the corner of the pictures
@juliet3455 you're right. Of course they are. I was thinking they were flying from left to right and was wondering about the unusual wing shape. Now I realise they're flying right to left and it's bloomin' obvious that's what they are. D'oh!0 -
Ok.
I'm 10.57 weeks post op. It says on my PT orders that at 12 weeks I can start a return to sports/work/running.
Last visit at 6 weeks, I was doing better than expected...
So I'm thinking today is a good day to try to run a bit. Cuz it's practically 12 weeks.
Distance suggestions? 1mile? I think I can pr that mile... Like, 5 min/mile. Haha!
If I can do the 1 mile, can I try for 3?
Maybe I should wait until I'm cleared officially?
What would a runner do?2 -
@Elise4270 Suggestion would be an elliptical machine that would reduce stress on body. If your going to run how about the treadmill with no incline and a very modest pace. Limit to 1 mile even if it feels ok. Let how you feel tomorrow be the important data.2
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cburke8909 wrote: »@Elise4270 Suggestion would be an elliptical machine that would reduce stress on body. If your going to run how about the treadmill with no incline and a very modest pace. Limit to 1 mile even if it feels ok. Let how you feel tomorrow be the important data.
Hate elliptical. Too hard. I'll fall on the TM. Or get dizzy cuz it's in a corner. (Ya, I could move it).
*Grits teeth* I want to run free *grrrrrr*. LOL!
Noted.... *Sigh* I have 2 hours at work before I decide.. good point on the incline... Trails might not be the best idea. Yet.
I feel caged today.0 -
Ok.
I'm 10.57 weeks post op. It says on my PT orders that at 12 weeks I can start a return to sports/work/running.
Last visit at 6 weeks, I was doing better than expected...
So I'm thinking today is a good day to try to run a bit. Cuz it's practically 12 weeks.
Distance suggestions? 1mile? I think I can pr that mile... Like, 5 min/mile. Haha!
If I can do the 1 mile, can I try for 3?
Maybe I should wait until I'm cleared officially?
What would a runner do?
We are the WRONG group to ask.
I would say most of us would already be running by now
My official advice is "Listen to your medical professional" Possibly call them and ask about running today? 1
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