April 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • weat0043
    weat0043 Posts: 172 Member
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    I hate anxiety and pre-race nerves
    You got this!

  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
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    04/01/18 - 8 Miles - 9:59 Pace
    04/02/18 - Rest
    04/03/18 - 10 miles - 9:27 Pace



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

    Official Marathon PR: 4:11:28

    Next Races (more as I find them):

    04/07/18 - Achilles 9.3 Challenge (10k and 5k back to back)
    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)

    It was raining, lightly, but in the 50s so I got to run in shorts and tshirt for the first time in a while. Of course, it looks like 20s for my race on Saturday... sheesh.
  • cburke8909
    cburke8909 Posts: 990 Member
    7.4 on treadmill this am. The rain wasn't really too heavy for me to run outside but I worry about visibility and the dangers of cars on the road that can't see me. Such a worry wart, I must be getting old. should have ran slower but I wanted at least 7 and there was only so much time.

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  • cameronheel
    cameronheel Posts: 191 Member
    Will set a goal for April of 130 miles. This month will be the first time since September of last year I am not under some type of training plan for either a half or full marathon, so I am just kind of pulling this number out of thin air. I still plan on sort of structuring my weekly running the same as a training plan with a long run every weekend with shorter runs during the week, but just don’t know how consistent I will be without an actual plan. We will see. I have a 5K this Saturday, first shorter race since Dec. Weather should be cool and conditions excellent to try for a PR. Hoping to get my time under 22 min.

    I am also running C25K with my daughter who has restarted the program after having to stop in week 4 due to school work. Her schedule has freed up and she has time to start again. We are very proud of her as she was accepted to UNC Chapel Hill and will be attending this fall. She wants to run a 5K with me before she leaves for college so wish us luck.

    April goal 130 miles

    April 1 .......2 m.......MTD 2 C25K w Ash
    April 2 .......0 m.......MTD 2
    April 3 .......10 m.....MTD 12
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited April 2018
    shanaber wrote: »
    @Stoshew71 and @Elise4270 - what do you think about creating an April Running Challenge under the Challenge
    section with the link back to this location since people seem to be having issues finding it this month?

    That's up to Stan (and the group). Won't bother me a bit if it needs to be moved.
    ETA
    I see @PastorVincent mentioned there is one already. Idk. Y'all make the call. Make the move. Post the link and run with it :wink:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10655908/april-2018-running-challenge/

    I may be able to close this thread, once I get on a computer.

    Head 'em up, mooove 'em out.
  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,856 Member
    AlphaHowls wrote: »

    I went to my chiropractor today. Appears to be shin splints. He is doubtful that I will make it to the marathon. Depressed, but still want to keep up here. No mileage for me at this time.

    That's such a shame. Can you defer your entry to next year?
  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    Found something new to check out. I'll be traveling in the area of this race this summer so I've poked my Uncle to see how familiar he is with the area and trails. Many many moons ago I hiked part of the Ultra course (I think I've summited Idaho Peak at least twice?) and it's spectacular but I'm more looking at the 10K.

    http://kootenaysufferfest.com/idaho-peak-summit-race/
  • juliet3455
    juliet3455 Posts: 3,015 Member
    edited April 2018
    @girlinahat Larch Valley beside Lake Louise might be prime fall colors.
    Google: Passport to the Peaks and Wilmore Wilderness Park - they are near Grande Cache which might be a bit to far. Anything in the Kananaskis/K-country that was mentioned before would be great. I am sure your sister is already researching. Bring a pair of runners, nothing like a mountain run.

    @Teresa502 I never carry my phone when I run so they will have to be shots from friends and other runners I copy and paste. It's such a big event that I hope to meet @sarahthes on the Parks Canada plaza before/after the run.

    @zerlinna87 You aced it with 2.1 miles in the big hills when your not used to them.
    The secret is that as you spend more time in the hills/mountains they get less intimidating. After a while they seem smaller and easier. It's like when you first started running a km/half mile was such a big distance, now its your warmup.
    I live in the bottom of a deep River Valley 250m climb to get out from deepest point. Early season it seems so hard, at the end of the season we have a seven peaks challenge ( open event no official timing ) to complete all 7 peaks and connecting trails. We tend to group up in pace matched support packs 5-6 hrs - About 36km and 1700m of elevation gain - 1525m loss.

    Ironically I am off to the Jasper HM in the mountains this weekend and the elevation gain/loss is less than a run out of my river valley.
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    shanaber wrote: »
    @Stoshew71 and @Elise4270 - what do you think about creating an April Running Challenge under the Challenge
    section with the link back to this location since people seem to be having issues finding it this month?

    There is one.

    And hopefully next month we will go back to challenges were it makes the most sense to find this thread. :)

    Yup! There is already one.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10655908/april-2018-running-challenge


    We may have to bump it every so often so it doesn't get buried.
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    shanaber wrote: »
    @Stoshew71 and @Elise4270 - what do you think about creating an April Running Challenge under the Challenge
    section with the link back to this location since people seem to be having issues finding it this month?

    That's up to Stan (and the group). Won't bother me a bit if it needs to be moved.
    ETA
    I see @PastorVincent mentioned there is one already. Idk. Y'all make the call. Make the move. Post the link and run with it :wink:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10655908/april-2018-running-challenge/

    I may be able to close this thread, once I get on a computer.

    Head 'em up, mooove 'em out.


    No need to close this thread. My opinion is to keep it as it is for this month and avoid any more confusion.

    Thanks @Teresa502 First race in a year for me.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    shanaber wrote: »
    @Stoshew71 and @Elise4270 - what do you think about creating an April Running Challenge under the Challenge
    section with the link back to this location since people seem to be having issues finding it this month?

    That's up to Stan (and the group). Won't bother me a bit if it needs to be moved.
    ETA
    I see @PastorVincent mentioned there is one already. Idk. Y'all make the call. Make the move. Post the link and run with it :wink:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10655908/april-2018-running-challenge/

    I may be able to close this thread, once I get on a computer.

    Head 'em up, mooove 'em out.


    No need to close this thread. My opinion is to keep it as it is for this month and avoid any more confusion.

    I agree. Let this month roll, and do May in the correct forum.
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
    4/1 - Start month on rest day, plus it's Easter = no burn + a lot of calories / hot cross buns.
    4/2 - 4 treadmill miles + upper body weights/abs.
    4/3 - Unplanned rest day.
    4/4 - 4 treadmill miles, then weights and abs.

    8/110
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,159 Member
    April Goal: 110 miles

    4/1: 6.2 miles
    4/3: 4.6 miles

    10.8/110 miles completed

    I never did update last night. I got in a 4.6 mile run. The wind was terrible. It was over 22 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. I really hate running in the wind like that, but I figured I might as well practice. There is no guarantee that it won't be windy on the day of the HM. I was supposed to do intervals yesterday, but I figured that just running was going to be hard enough so I will do my interval run today instead.



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  • cburke8909
    cburke8909 Posts: 990 Member
    @pastorvince good luck, we are all rooting for another PR.
    @Teresa502 thanks my wife gives me grief both ways. She'll ask if I was crazy enough to run in the bad weather then tease me because I avoided it. All in good fun of course.
    @MNLittleFinn you got this. I'm never running an ultra but I got think the mental battle is a good part of the challenge. Find the inner strength and use it.
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
    carolineb81 wrote: »
    Aiming for 100 miles this month...and running my first ever marathon (London on 2nnd April). Not setting a time goal for marathon as just want to finish it (and any time will be a pb!!)

    1/4-3.0
    2/3-rest
    3/4-20.0
    4/4-rest

    23/100 Miles

    Congratulations, doing your first marathon in one of the Abbott World Major Marathon events! I wonder if we have all 6 covered by the MFP group? A couple of us are running Boston, you're running London, I think there are people who said they got into New York and Chicago; but I don't know about Berlin and Tokyo.

    Might be tough to get them all covered in the same year; nobody can run London and Boston in the same year, because they're only 6 days apart. But we could get them all covered over time, as a group.
  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    MobyCarp wrote: »
    carolineb81 wrote: »
    Aiming for 100 miles this month...and running my first ever marathon (London on 2nnd April). Not setting a time goal for marathon as just want to finish it (and any time will be a pb!!)

    1/4-3.0
    2/3-rest
    3/4-20.0
    4/4-rest

    23/100 Miles

    Congratulations, doing your first marathon in one of the Abbott World Major Marathon events! I wonder if we have all 6 covered by the MFP group? A couple of us are running Boston, you're running London, I think there are people who said they got into New York and Chicago; but I don't know about Berlin and Tokyo.

    Might be tough to get them all covered in the same year; nobody can run London and Boston in the same year, because they're only 6 days apart. But we could get them all covered over time, as a group.

    no one?????

    therunnerbeans

    I follow her on instagram - she did Tokyo this year too.
  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    so completely off-topic

    @Elise4270 you were learning the violin a while back. How's that going?

    I made the 'mistake' of verbalising that I fancied learning trumpet. I now have a rental instrument in my possession and my first trumpet lesson tomorrow. I must hate my neighbours.
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    4/1-14.5 miles
    4/2 Rest Day
    4/3 5.7 miles (4 on dreadmill, 1.7 with Stella)

    20.2/180 miles

    Yesterday was an, er, interesting running day. We had severe thunderstorms and torrential rain all day long. I had an easy 8 mile run on the schedule. It was pouring when I woke up and I knew from the weather forecast that it was going to be difficult to get this one in. I kept waiting all afternoon for a break in the weather to sneak out to do at least half of it because 8 miles on the dreadmill is like a prison sentence to me. Every time I thought I saw a window of opportunity, another storm would roll in. By 8PM, I finally gave up and decided to see how much of an easy run I could eek out in the basement.

    Even though I was only able to complete 4 miles on satan's sidewalk, I did actually realize a lot of things from this run. My goal was to keep my HR under 130, which I was able to do by keeping the treadmill at 6.5mph. My Garmin was reading a much slower pace though. Since I know that my Garmin is estimating my pace based on my known average cadence, I figured that my cadence must be much lower on the treadmill, which meant I was probably altering my stride quite a bit. I tried to consciously change my stride as if I was running outdoors. When I did this, my Garmin pace increased and fell into line with what the treadmill said I was running. However, although my HR did not change much, it felt a lot more labored and my legs really started to ache. I noticed that it was very hard to keep trying to run this way. I kept wanting to increase the speed, which I think would have put more more in line with my natural gait. When I finally hit 4 miles, because I felt that this may be doing me more harm than good, I decided that was sufficient.

    When I was done, the rain had slowed to a drizzle and the lightening appeared to be off in the distance so Stella and I went for a run. She had fun sloshing in the puddles. I only ended up with 5.7 out of my planned 8 miles, but it was intended to be a slow and easy day, so I don't think it will matter in the grand scheme of things. I feel very refreshed and ready for my cross training today.

    TL,DR- Running on the treadmill definitely changes my gait and probably not in a good way. Oh, and sometimes you need to listen to your body rather than your stubborn inner voice.
  • cburke8909
    cburke8909 Posts: 990 Member
    @lporter229 Satan's side walk that's a keeper.
  • mustb60
    mustb60 Posts: 1,090 Member
    April Running Challenge
    Goal: 80 km
    Done: 5.5/80 km

    4/4/18 Run 3.5 km walk 7 km
    3/4/18 Run 2 km SL B
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    cburke8909 wrote: »
    @lporter229 Satan's side walk that's a keeper.

    I can't take credit. I stole it from a woman in my run group, but it definitely is appropriate sometimes.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    girlinahat wrote: »
    so completely off-topic

    @Elise4270 you were learning the violin a while back. How's that going?

    I made the 'mistake' of verbalising that I fancied learning trumpet. I now have a rental instrument in my possession and my first trumpet lesson tomorrow. I must hate my neighbours.

    Wow! Glad you have lessons lined up.

    I still plan to learn to play. I can teach myself, but I'd love lessons, which I haven't found any here... I just need the time to do it. And I set it down long enough that I have to go back and relearn the music reading bit. If I'd just practice reading sheet music, I'd probably not fall behind so easily.

    I did some online lessons. That was okay.

    DD is working late afternoon to 12am, and I try to keep it quiet so she can sleep, DH studies with his men's stuff some evenings too. I've gotten complacent.

    I thought (forgot and just remembered) I'd buy an inexpensive electric violin and try to practice more.... Why did I forget that? It plugs in ear phones so I wouldn't bother anyone or feel overly self conscious practicing. Dang. I could have learnt an Irish Diddy already, if I hadn't forgotten.

    My youngest son played the trumpet for a while, he took to it like a duck to water (until other interests developed-bipolar with an alcohol addictionl). You can do a thingy... A uh. Oh... Silencer.. haha! Violin has a mute, I can't remember what the thing is for the horns. Or just B.B. King that baby! Let 'em all enjoy it!

    Now I must shop for an electric violin.

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