May 2018 Running Challenge
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I had to get back home to make a doctor appointment for my sad, sick, strep-throat kiddo so I just did a "quick" one-mile jog this morning. I wasn't able to go quite the whole mile without a short break in the middle to catch my breath, but I guess I ran it about a minute-per-mile faster than I normally do. I'm not sure which is better to work on at this point, pace or distance. I did all this "preliminary" working out on a treadmill the last time I tried to get myself in running shape and I'm not a great judge of how fast I'm going, other than how my breathing feels. I was definitely breathing hard, lol...I sounded like an asthmatic freight train!
Anyway, this makes mile 5.5 out of 10 (14 miles walk/run) for the month
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5/1 6miles
5/2 9.92miles
5/3 6miles
5/4 12miles
5/5 6miles
5/6 rest
5/7 6.5miles
5/8 6miles
5/9 7miles
5/10 8miles
5/11 5miles
5/12 14.11miles!
Yesterday, I did 5 miles as fast as I could because I had to be back at my daughter's school for her poetry cafe. I had a small window between dropping her off in the morning and getting back in time, about 1hr and 10minutes. I did the 5 miles, showered, and made it back with 5 minutes to spare! Phew!
This morning I was dreading my long run of 14 miles because I knew it was going to be hot... I decided to head out first thing and made it out there a little after 8 am. It was over 70 and sunny already. Oh man it was HOT! I took 40oz of water and at 10 miles I stopped at a 7-11 and added ice to my camelbak. I finished, but I was SLOW. Just over 10 minute miles, but I was happy I didn't stop to walk at all. So glad I'm done with that! Time to enjoy the rest of the weekend!! (And catch up on the thread. I'm terribly behind!)
Happy mother's day to all the moms out there!
3/18/2018 Shamrock half marathon
3/24/2018 Don't Sit on Colon Cancer 5K
5/28/2018 Run to Remember 5K
10/7/2018 Crawlin Crab half marathon
10/13/2018 Joggin for Frogmen 5K
11/18/2018 Norfolk Harbor half marathon3 -
@sarahthes If Friday the 13th has taught me anything it is to stay away from abandoned camp grounds...1
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May Running Totals (miles)
5/1 – 5.69 warm up + speed work
5/2 – 6.21 group run
5/3 – 7.08 warm up + speed work
5/4 – rest day
5/5 – 15.02 group run + solo miles
5/6 – 5.01 trails & grass
5/7 – rest day
5/8 – 6.11 MP with hills
5/9 – 7.07 group run without group
5/10 – 6.38 warmup + speed work
5/11 – rest day
5/12 – 11.76 group run + solo miles
May running total to date – 70.33
Nominal May mileage goal: 180 miles
Real goals: Stay healthy. Build base. Maybe run some trails. Have fun.
Today's notes – Still in the interim between pacing sessions, so I ran with the group from a competing running store. There were 3 of us for an 8:00 pace; the pacer barely spoke, and the young guy didn't say a word. To be fair, I wasn't terribly talkative either.
Forecast was for temperatures in the mid to upper 40s, with showers or light rain. We got light rain to start, so I wore a jacket. The planned routes were 5 + 7 miles, for 12 total; after the first 5 (about 5.25) the other two people quit. So I set out to run the second loop on my own. It featured a road I hadn't run before, but I was thinking I could just run the familiar Riverway Trail and add some distance.
Well. About 7 miles in, I began to feel a bit of intestinal distress. By the time I got to the road I hadn't run, it was an easy decision to take the unfamiliar but shorter route back to the store. I missed some fine points of the planned route, since I didn't have a pacer to show me and I left the tic sheet in my pocket rather than have it out to become illegible in the rain. Ended up getting back to the store at 11 and three quarters of a mile. If the rest room had been another quarter mile further away, I would have got 12 miles; bu there was no way I was running around to get 12 miles before stopping when I was at the store!
I'm thinking I'm a wuss. Not even 12 miles, and I'm pretty wiped out. Take care of the gut issue, stretch, feel better; but don't feel up to running another segment. Later, it hit me: In March, my doctor had told me to go get a Shingles vaccination, but wait till after Boston. "After Boston" turned out to happen yesterday on my rest day. Got a sore arm, like someone punched me real hard, but that's expected. And maybe, just maybe, my energy level wasn't everything it could be a day after the vaccination.
I'll go with that. I have a half marathon to run on June 3, and it wouldn't do for me to think of 13 miles as a challenging distance.
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) finished in 3:28:43
April 29, 2018 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble, Dedham, MA) finished in 41:33
May 20, 2018 Lilac 10K (Rochester, NY)
May 26, 2018 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY)
June 3, 2018 USATF Masters Half Marathon (Ann Arbor, MI)
June 9, 2018 Ontario Summit Trail Half Marathon (Naples, NY)
June 17, 2018 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY)
June 30, 2018 Charlie's Old Goat Trail Run 5 mile (Victor, NY)
July 28, 2018 Battle at Bristol 10K (Naples, NY)
September 30, 2018 Wineglass Marathon (Bath, NY)
November 11, 2018 Syracuse Half Marathon (Syracuse, NY)
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MAY GOALS, REHAB SMART, 10 hours of activity for the month. Work up to 3 minutes of running and 10mpw.
4---30 minutes stationary bike.
4---68 minutes, 3.46 miles walk
5---30 minutes bike, 7.25 miles
5---22 minutes, 1.70 miles PT run 15(1,1)
7---20 minutes, 1.44 miles (2,2)
8---30 minutes, 2.14 miles 7(2,2)
11---30 min mtn bike, 4.29
12---30 min 2.35 miles PT run (2,2 ish)
12---30 min bike, 6.61 miles
12---80 min walk, 4.5 miles
370 minutes/15.59 miles
Upcoming Races
October 14th Spirit of Survival Lawton OK. Quarter Marathon
March 31, 2019 A2A Undecided distance
April 28, 2019OKC Memorial Marathon (half)5 -
@weat0043 There were too many birds singing for it to feel creepy. Now had they all stopped...4
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Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
05/01/18 :::: 3.5 :::: 3.5
05/02/18 :::: 2.6 :::: 6.1
05/03/18 :::: 2.5 :::: 8.7
05/04/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 8.7
05/05/18 :::: 7.5 :::: 16.2
05/06/18 :::: 2.6 :::: 18.8
05/07/18 :::: 3.8 :::: 22.5
05/08/18 :::: 3.3 :::: 25.9
05/09/18 :::: 3.2 :::: 29.1
05/10/18 :::: 2.0 :::: 31.1
05/11/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 31.1
05/12/18 :::: 12.0 :::: 43.0
Right to Run 19K today in Seneca Falls, NY - the home of the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848 and the beginning of the women's suffrage movement. It is a 19k for the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in 1920 (heard someone talking about the big event they will have in 2020 to celebrate 100 years - that should be cool).
The day started out better than I expected as it was not pouring rain when we left and I got hopeful. It did start raining though as we got close to Seneca Falls and was a bit of a downpour when we parked. We waited in the car and it let up quite a bit. I wore a fabulous red plastic rain poncho to start. It was mostly just light rain at that point. We had the opportunity to meet and take a picture with Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston marathon with a numbered entry. So cool!
Things settled into a light mist, so it was not too bad. Only around 45 degrees though so I kept my gloves on the whole race. I ditched my poncho about mile 2. The course was nice, mostly flat with a few rolling hills. One gravel road which was not so nice to run on and one cross-country part where we had to run on grass. There was an uphill on a trail through a park that was probably the toughest. A quiet, country scenery for much of it - and for a while a goat ran with us! Her name was Maia (according to the people yelling for her to come back) and she was quite a good pace goat. She went about a half mile before deciding she was bored of it. We ran along the lake a bit and through the campus of New York Chiropractic College. We ended up by the river and downtown Seneca Falls. Very picturesque little place with such great history.
I ran the whole thing with my friend/former coach and our goal was to just keep a decent pace but not really race it all out. I finished in 2:07:55, which was a 10:50 pace. Not bad, especially as we did make one pit stop. After we were done, my friend went out to get another hour in (she's got a marathon coming up) and I got some food and then got a free treatment from the Chiropractic College students. That felt awesome. It was mostly a massage and working some knots in my shoulders and upper back. After I was done with that I had cooled down so much and was freezing so I changed into dry clothes the best I could from my drop bag. My fingers were white from Raynaud's and my gloves were damp so it was kind of miserable. Finally my friend was finished (she's such a good person, she went back on the course to find someone who could use a buddy to run them in, and ran back with one of the last runners). We grabbed some more snacks, cruised the vendors who were packing up, hopped our shuttle bus and headed home. I'm still trying to fully warm up, but overall it was a good race and good day.
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10 km Run/Walk with a friend from our little local running club- Moira - Cadillac Ranch Trails giving me 40km for the month. A few very wet spots and one that was not passible. Still a nice bit of Trail work to prep for Montain Madness and Emperor's Challenge. Fell way behind this week due to the simple fact that by Wednesday I had 48 hrs in the books at work and finished with 64 hrs total on Friday night. So I missed every semi-organized event/run all week and fell behind on this group. I am sure there are some well deserved likes and awesome workouts that occurred.
Mothers day tomorrow and my great niece's and nephew's are dancing in the local Ukrainian Dance club year end finale - somehow I became the un-official photographer for the family and associated friends.
05/02 21.23 km -21.23km - 118.77 km
05/05 9.00 km -30.23km - 109.77 km
05/12 10.00 km -40.23km - 099.77 km - YTD 350.42km Cadillac Ranch Trail- lower bench = Berry patch trail6 -
I'm not dead! I'm surely alive!
Race report in a bit, right now all I can say is I'M NOT DEAD
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Congratulations! I don't know how you are not dead, but that must mean God still has plans for youPastorVincent wrote: »Race report in a bit, right now all I can say is I'M NOT DEAD3 -
I had a new followers request on Strava and my phone lost service in the midst of accepting. So, follow me again? I wasn't ignoring a request.
@sarahthes What luck to find a nice place close by to explore and run!!!! I have a 30 minute drive to my favorite place.
@MobyCarp I hope you get over this "wuss-ness" soon.
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So, six days ago I ran the Pittsburgh Marathon and blew away my best time by twenty minutes. I decided that running my first ultra only six days later was a very wise and sensible thing to do and on paper it is! Well, it is if you ignore muscle fatigue and all that stuff. Please do not mimic me in this. I do not regret that choice, but it was not the wisest thing I ever planned.
As always, I was stalking the weather like a bank robber planning a heist. It was all over the place from cold to thunderstorms, to temperatures in the 80sF, and everything in between. The only constant was the pollen forecast which was bright red (very bad in case that is not obvious).
Race morning comes, and the weather reports are still fighting, so I pack a variety of clothes and we head out. I was a long way off from being decided on what to carry with me, but in the end, I think I choose pretty well.
The 50K was starting an hour before the 30K, so my wife, who was running the 30K, got to sit around the fire for a bit while I was running. It was cloudy and cold at the start. Standing in the queue to start I was shivering and considering stopping by my truck on the way out for a warmer top. I decided against it.
The race starts and quickly breaks up into two large groups. I think there was like a hundred people running the 50k. I was in the second pack and noticed our pace was around fifteen minutes. I felt this was a problem because we were on level asphalt. I passed them and caught up to the lead pack. They were doing more like 9:30 per mile, so I felt this was where I belonged. I knew the pace would drop a lot once we got to the trail, so I wanted to make sure I was at a good pace to fall from.
About a mile in we hit the trail. It was single track, and by that, I mean my shoulders were brushing plants on both sides of the trail. Pace fell predictably, but not as much as I was expecting. I was expecting based on talking with runners a three to four-minute loss in pace and we fell maybe only a minute or so.
The first “aid station” was at mile five. It was water only, but I had not touched the water I was carrying at all yet and blew through after taking a picture and sending it back to my wife. I had covered those five miles in about 50 minutes, so she had not started yet.
At this point, I was comfortable with the temperature and glad I had not grabbed my warmer top. I would have had to carry it for the next twenty-five or so miles. The pack I was running with broke up more and more as we hit harder parts of the trail. Eventually, I caught up with a young woman, let’s call her “S.” S offered to let me pass, but at this point, I realized I was pushing too hard and needed to back off so I fell back a few strides instead.
I chatted with S and we ran the next several hours together. She was an experienced ultrarunner training for a 100-mile race. She cheered when I said this was my first ultra and my first trail race.
The first 10 miles flew by. We completed them in about 2 hours. That is a far cry from my marathon pace, but I discovered quickly this trail was hard. As in it made the marathon effort look easy. There were lots of up and downs, mud, moss-covered rocks and invisible roots to contend with. None of which I had any meaningful experience with before this.
S was fun to run with. When we hit a good steep downhill, she would stick her arms out like an airplane and sweep back and forth across the hill descending way faster than I could. When we hit the mud bogs she would call out “Weeeee” as she navigated through them. In general, you could just tell she was enjoying herself.
Other runners joined us for short stints before passing or falling behind. At one point we were leading a pack of about half-dozen other runners. Most of the track was only wide enough for one runner so passing was always a bit of a juggling act.
We finally made it to the turnaround and the aid station there. We took advantage of the real bathrooms they had, the food, and refilled our water. Probably lost ten to fifteen minutes there, but at this point I really needed it. I left with S and she was saying “It is at this point I need to remember that there is still half the 50K left to run.”
I stayed with her through the next aid station where I needed to refill again and eat more oranges. I was really feeling the run at this point. S was talking with someone so I decided to start walking. My hope was I could walk for a bit and get ahead of her, then when she caught up, start running again.
That failed.
She caught up with me in minutes but as she did she said, “I am going to take this next part easy, so go head if you want.” I of course declined. We had around ten miles left, but I was nearing my limit. I stayed with S most of the way to the next aid station, but she eventually pulled away.
Turns out she, get this after she left me she met my wife on the trail and ran with her for a short while and they somehow worked out that she had just been running with me.
Around mile twenty-five, I set my wife a text telling her that I was at least an hour form the finish line and she should just rest and eat when she gets there. I had hoped to catch her and finish with her, but there was no way.
I walked for several miles lacking the strength to run, but the terrain would not have allowed much speed. I probably went nearly as fast walking as I would have running. Little by little the miles rolled away and eventually, with about three or four miles left, I was able to start running again.
Eventually I crossed the finish line with a time of 7:23:23. About an hour slower than I had hoped, but the trail was much harder than I was lead to believe and the temp was nearly 80F by the time we finished.
Overall, I think I made pretty good choices. I had plenty of liquid, thanks to refilling three times at the aid stations. I had plenty of food on my person, even finished with some left over. Leaving the warm clothes in the truck was a majorly good choice.
One thing that did not work well was my Amphipod belt. It got way too loose way early in the race. I ended up tying it in a knot to stop it from falling off. The food bars I bought were a bit tough to eat. They were too dry, but they did work.
Oh, running a PR marathon six days before should probably be reconsidered. Though the “you’re a beast” kinds of comments I got on the trail were pretty nice.
After crossing the finish line, I found out my wife only crossed about ten minutes before me, and “S” was not all that much farther off. So, I pretty much kept with a much more experienced runner for almost the entire race. I guess that is pretty okay.
Several runners on the trail told me that this was much easier than the marathon and I would like it much more. Well, they are wrong. It was way harder. Strava reports 4,475 feet of elevation, but I do not think that really does it justice. The steepness of some of the hills made going up very tough and coming back down very dangerous. There were many places where I was mostly in a controlled fall as I ran down the hill, afraid to try and slow down or stop.
Still, overall I am glad I have done it. The course was beautiful, and all of the runners were nice and friendly.
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@PastorVincent Great Race report.
"S" sounds like a typical Trail Hound, especially the "Airplane Arms and sweeping back and forth across the trail" on descending the hills. That is something I learned from a lady in our little club and now do on steep-wide descents - it's like a car doing switchbacks on a steep hill to climb/descend, you travel a little further for the same Vertical Elevation which makes for an easier/controlled descent - hidden added benefit is the extra balance you get from the Airplane Arms.
Especially liked the description of the single track with vegetation hitting your shoulders. I have been in events where I had to twist my torso sideways to fit between trees. Glad that it was a good experience.
Now picture yourself doing the same event next year without a PB marathon 1 week behind you.
Your legs/body will be fresh and it will be a completely differant experience. Trail is a love it or hate it experience usually. I have 3 fast Marathoners in our local club and they don't like Trail - where most of us Middle/Back of the pack seem to enjoy it more.1 -
@Pastorvincent Awesome race report!.
@ katharmonic That 19k race sounds so cool!
@sarahthes Cool pictures! That looms kike a great place to run. Although running at an abandoned campground does sound a bit creepy to me too!2 -
@Elise4270 @kgirlhart My only regret is that I tried the north side first. Dead end after 0.8km at private property with no trespassing signs. I think there might be another access point on the eastern bank to the north though. I will try again! I doubled back south and that's when I found all the fun. Just wish I had more time to explore. It will be a couple of weeks until I can get over there again as I've a trail race next weekend that is basically 20km further north along the same creek system.
Edit: the race location is 20km further downstream. The race is only 11km. I felt like I should clarify.2 -
1 May: 11.64
2 May: 6.0 + yoga
3 May: 7.22
4 May: Rest
5 May: 6.6 + yoga
6 May: 12.74
7 May: yoga
8 May: 6.72
9 May: yoga
10 May: 10.04
11 May: rest
12 May: yoga
13 May: 13.13
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Sometimes we cheat and use these for s'mores
If you're not at a camp fire, you can really cheat by using the microwave (not nearly as good, of course), though now that I say that, I wonder why I've never tried making them using the flame from our gas stove. Or the pencil torch I use for creme brulee.
I use my oven broiler. I can make a whole pan of s’mores in one go. The broiler even gets the marshmallows all toasty!
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@PastorVincent - wow I am so glad you are still alive and did such a great job on the 2nd race, umm 3rd race, in a week! I hope you are going to take some time not to let your body recover!
@5BeautifulDays - I have always believed you should focus on distance, increasing slowly and the additional speed will come as you are able to push yourself once having conquered the distance.
@sarahthes - So cool to find a fun new place to run and explore!
@zdyb23456 - that is a brilliant idea!
Took the pup out for a little recovery run for me and get the wiggles out run for him, this morning in the cold, windy drizzle! Amazing I know since it was just 90 here a few days ago and we never get weather like this so late in spring. I am not complaining though, it was great running weather. I just wished at the beginning and again at the end of the run that I had worn long sleeves. My legs did better than expected after the long run yesterday and while my knee was feeling a little cranky initially, it felt fine later and has continued to be fine all day. After the run we headed out in traffic for a fun day with family!
Date........Miles.......Total
05/01......0.00.......0.00 - + Strength Training
05/02......5.41.......5.41
05/03......0.00.......5.41
05/04......3.88.......9.29
05/05......6.38.....15.67 - 'Cinco de My Oh My Miles' 5k + Dog Beach run
05/06......0.00.....15.67
05/07......5.42.....21.09 - + Agility
05/08......0.00.....21.09 - + Strength Training
05/09......5.14.....26.23
05/10......0.00.....26.23 - + Strength Training
05/11......8.98.....35.21
05/12......4.38.....39.59
05/13......0.00.....39.59
My completed and upcoming races. Let me know if you will be running them too.
02/04/18 - Surf City Half Marathon
05/05/18 - Cinco de Miles 5k
07/22/18 - San Francisco 2nd Half Marathon
12/15/18 - San Diego Holiday Half Marathon
02/03/19 - Surf City Half Marathon
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katharmonic wrote: »Right to Run 19K today in Seneca Falls, NY - the home of the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848 and the beginning of the women's suffrage movement. It is a 19k for the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in 1920 (heard someone talking about the big event they will have in 2020 to celebrate 100 years - that should be cool).
The day started out better than I expected as it was not pouring rain when we left and I got hopeful. It did start raining though as we got close to Seneca Falls and was a bit of a downpour when we parked. We waited in the car and it let up quite a bit. I wore a fabulous red plastic rain poncho to start. It was mostly just light rain at that point. We had the opportunity to meet and take a picture with Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston marathon with a numbered entry. So cool!
Things settled into a light mist, so it was not too bad. Only around 45 degrees though so I kept my gloves on the whole race. I ditched my poncho about mile 2. The course was nice, mostly flat with a few rolling hills. One gravel road which was not so nice to run on and one cross-country part where we had to run on grass. There was an uphill on a trail through a park that was probably the toughest. A quiet, country scenery for much of it - and for a while a goat ran with us! Her name was Maia (according to the people yelling for her to come back) and she was quite a good pace goat. She went about a half mile before deciding she was bored of it. We ran along the lake a bit and through the campus of New York Chiropractic College. We ended up by the river and downtown Seneca Falls. Very picturesque little place with such great history.
I ran the whole thing with my friend/former coach and our goal was to just keep a decent pace but not really race it all out. I finished in 2:07:55, which was a 10:50 pace. Not bad, especially as we did make one pit stop. After we were done, my friend went out to get another hour in (she's got a marathon coming up) and I got some food and then got a free treatment from the Chiropractic College students. That felt awesome. It was mostly a massage and working some knots in my shoulders and upper back. After I was done with that I had cooled down so much and was freezing so I changed into dry clothes the best I could from my drop bag. My fingers were white from Raynaud's and my gloves were damp so it was kind of miserable. Finally my friend was finished (she's such a good person, she went back on the course to find someone who could use a buddy to run them in, and ran back with one of the last runners). We grabbed some more snacks, cruised the vendors who were packing up, hopped our shuttle bus and headed home. I'm still trying to fully warm up, but overall it was a good race and good day.
@katharmonic Wow, you got to meet Kathrine Switzer!! AND you did a race commemorating a very important event.
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Yay, PV is not dead!!!
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5/1- rest
5/2- 2.1 mile walk with my dad
5/3- 3.2 mile run, race the landing 5k
5/4- strength training
5/5- rest
5/6- 1 mile run with my new Garmin!
5/7- strength training
5/8- 1.8 mile run and 45 minutes of spinning (whew, that was tough)
5/9- 2.2 mile walk
5/10- rest
5/11- 1.25 mile walk plus strength training
5/12- 2.7 mile walk (was supposed to be a 5k, but I took my 5 year old with me, and we took a short cut half way through the course. We were having a hard time keeping up and at the very back. It was a SLOW walk.)3 -
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@PastorVincent I have done that so many times, I can't count. I've done it at home, outside, at my Mum's house, outside her house, at work, outside work, from when I bought the watch over a month ago to the other day right before I ran. Every time I get the screen with the Garmin and Nike symbols with the green checkmark in the middle to show they are linked. Yet next run....nothing. I've been able to synch it with MFP and also with Strava, so I know it's linking, just not with Nike. Guess they keep having domestic spats?
Meanwhile:
Played mind games with myself last night. Didn't run before work, so brought my stuff to run after work. (30 min planned) Was exhausted, so told myself "ok, just do 20 mins". So I did 20 mins, felt ok, so then I said to myself, "so close, might as well go for 2 miles." At 2 miles, said "well, at this close, might as well just finish it up!" Accomplished original plan of 30 mins!
May Goal: 20 Miles
5/2: 2.03 miles
5/5: 2.50 miles
5/9: 1.65 miles (all run)
5/12: 2.13 miles - 8.31 miles run, 11.69 to go
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Yearly goal: 200 miles: Jan - April: 61.68 miles run - 8.31= 130.01 to go!
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It's been a long week with family in town but a good one too! I've been fussing over my running plan for the last few weeks so of course it only took a couple of weeks for it to go by the wayside. That's okay - I find having a plan makes improvising more comfortable. And going off plan just means I get to revise the plan again going forward!
So yeah, the plan has been to stick to the 10% per week increase, running about a half hour twice a week and then a long run on Saturdays that gradually increases my milage until I don't feel like increasing it anymore. My main route has been down to a lake by my house, part way up the shore, then turning back home at different points depending on how far I'm planning going. This week I'd planned 3.4 miles for my long run, which would be the last time I'd planned to turn off instead of going all the way around the lake. It was a bit cooler than it has been and I was feeling really good as I got to my planned turnoff, so I started thinking I'd just go for it. Then I saw how steep the turn-off was and decided I'd much rather run another half a mile on the flat than deal with that hill.
Of course, it didn't occur to me right away that because of how I'd started the run, I ended up doing more like a mile and a half longer than planned, but that was okay - I felt great the whole time, kept a steady pace, and genuinely felt like I could have kept going when I got back to the house. I felt *far* worse after the overly fast run last weekend and that was less than half the distance and I didn't even run the whole time. And my legs feel fine today even after walking another 5-6 miles in the afternoon with my dad.
So now I've officially circumnavigated my first lake (woo!), run more than 5k straight (WOO!), beat my personal distance record by 1.8 miles (WOOOO!!), and am wondering how far I'll go before this stops being fun. I'm kind of nervous about ending up as a distance runner because it seems like such a big time commitment, but I'll willing to ride this train for now and see where it goes.
5/1 Tu - 0:27:21 - 2.41 miles
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5/5 Sa - 0:22:19 - 1.9 miles
5/6 Su - 0:34:51 - 3.01 miles
5/7 Mo -
5/8 Tu - 0:24:56 - 2.2 miles
5/9 We -
5/10 Th - 0:28:25 - 2.48 miles
5/11 Fr -
5/12 Sa - 0:55:58 - 4.8 miles
Total: 16.8 miles
5/13 Su -
5/14 Mo -
5/15 Tu - 2.5 miles
5/16 We -
5/17 Th - 2.5 miles
5/18 Fr -
5/19 Sa - 5.4 miles8 -
5.5km this morning. Sun was out, wind was light, perfect temp. It was a good run. Nice steady pace.
MTD : ~ 24km3 -
May 1 - 4 mile run
May 3 - 5 mile Treadmill run
May 5 - Starfish 5k race
May 6 - 11 mile run
May 8 - 4 mile Treadmill run
May 10 - 6.9 mile run
May 12 - 10 mile run
May 13 - Run Like A Mother 5k race
47.1 miles so far/Goal 95 miles
Upcoming Races:
6/10/18 Manitowoc Half Marathon
6/23/18 Five Fifty Fifty Run for Mental Health
7/4/18 Antioch Run for Freedom 5K
8/18/18 Madison Mini Half Marathon
9/16/18 North Face Endurance 10k6 -
May Goal: 85 miles
5/1: 6 miles
5/2: 5.75 miles
5/4: 5.6 miles
5/6: 12.5 miles
5/8: 4.1 miles
5/9: 4.1 miles
5/10: 3.2 miles
5/13: 8 miles
49.3/85 miles completed
Today was my last long run before the HM next weekend. It was only 8 miles. I felt slow, but I got out later than I should have and it was already pretty hot and it was also humid and windy. But overall it was a nice run. And even if I run at this pace I should be able to have a decent time for my first HM. I'm hoping for 2:45. I know most people strive for a sub 2 hour HM. But I am not ready for that yet and I will be happy as long as it is under 3 hrs. And since my longest run so far has been 12.5 miles it will be a PR for me as long as I finish.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's on here!
Upcoming races:
5/19/18: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon
11/10/18: Wags & Whiskers 5K6
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