May 2018 Running Challenge

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  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
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    Compared to this time year, how have you improved your fitness?

    This time last year, I had just run my PR 10K in April and another one 10 seconds slower in May. Ran the same two races this year, um, considerably slower. This time last year, I was about to go run a half marathon on the Saturday before Memorial Day, just because the plan called for 15 miles and a 2 mile warmup plus a HM fit it.

    Now, I'm dealing with nagging aches on my right side that might be the tensor fascia lata, or might even be the IT band. I'm trying not to turn something minor into something major, so today is an unplanned rest day. I'm not running as well, and my kettlebell work is sporadic as opposed to being regular a year ago.

    I may have peaked as a runner last year at age 61. Or I may just not be all the way back from injury yet. Time will tell.
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,394 Member
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    @orphia - hope the stargazing was amazing! There are way too many lights in So. California for any decent stargazing. I do miss it from when I lived in Idaho as a kid and the stars were absolutely brilliant!
    @ROBOTFOOD - Welcome back! Were was that race and incredible climb? Couldn't be Vegas I don't think ;)
    @Teresa502 - Great picture and a great way to enjoy your vacation!!
    @sarahthes - I am amazed that you have only been running a year! Fantastic progress!

    Compared to this time year, how have you improved your fitness?
    I am back to running more consistently and increasing my time and distance (than you retirement!) my nutrition is better and that is helping greatly with the running. I am also keeping to my HM plan and should hopefully be much better prepared for the SF race in July.

    I am loving all the answers to @elise4270's question! So much awesome progress!

    Can someone explain how you post pictures as a link rather than the big pictures? TIA

    I have only had one or two race photos that I have wanted to keep/purchase and that is with nearly 25 HMs! They are all pretty terrible. I also think we are much too critical of ourselves and what we think looks bad really doesn't as evidenced by the posts from @ctlaws44, @Elise4270 and @7lenny

    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
    05/14......6.09.....45.68 - + Agility
    05/15......0.00.....45.68 - + Strength Training
    05/16......4.17.....49.85
    05/17......3.74.....53.59 - + Strength Training
    05/18......0.00.....53.59 - Off to DC
    05/19......5.24.....58.83
    05/20......0.00.....58.83
    05/21......4.44.....63.27 - Heading home
    05/22......3.87.....70.14 - + Strength Training
    05/23......0.00.....70.14 - To Portland
    05/24......6.45.....76.59 - GOAL

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    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
    05/11/19 - Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
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    shanaber wrote: »
    Can someone explain how you post pictures as a link rather than the big pictures? TIA

    Big picture: I drag the picture from the Windows Explorer window to the edit post box:

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    (Clicking the attach image icon and opening the file also works.)

    Picture as a link: I click the attach files icon (not the attach image icon) above the edit post box and open the file from the dialog box:



  • greyparks206
    greyparks206 Posts: 165 Member
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    3.5 miles on the treadmill this morning, including warm up and cool down, in about 52 minutes. I did some gentle intervals - 3/4 mile at an easy pace, 1/4 at a “quick” (for me) pace, then repeat. I felt like I could have done a little more; hopefully that bodes well for my “long” run on Saturday.

    May goal: 40.0 miles
    Today: 3.5 miles
    Total so far: 24.75 miles
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
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    Compared to this time last year, how have you improved your fitness?

    May of last year I hadn’t quite hit my stride with weight-loss yet, but was just about to break through a three month plateau after losing 10 pounds during the first couple of months of the year. I was really taking things one at a time and at that point, weight-loss was the main goal rather than any other kind of fitness. I’m down another 40 pounds since then, so I think it was the right approach.

    If anything I might have been focusing on upping my step count with my fitbit, trying to get my heart rate up enough that it would register 20-30 minutes of exercise a day. It’s possible I wasn’t even quite there yet - I didn’t hit an average 10k steps a day until September. It was really the end of July/beginning of August when I started focusing on fitness, but once I got into it, it was a pretty slippery slope from walking in the AM to running to fitness blender to lifting weights to the crazy combo I’ve got going now.

    As for right now, I’ve been on a short break from weight lifting while I work on what I thought was going to be a medium-size gardening project and turned out to be a medium-sized landscaping project instead. I figure three days of turning over dirt is more than enough and took today as a rest day instead of lifting. I've got a bunch of transplants ready to go tonight or tomorrow night, then I can take a break from the heavy stuff until this heat wave breaks, which looks to be... June, at which point it'll be time to lay some bricks! /happysadcrazyface

    I did get a short mile run in last night, but it was more about blowing off steam than anything else. Running: it’s not just good cardio, it’s good for your marriage (my husband was putting together a gazebo in the back yard and things got a little hairy, leading to me not being able to plant as planned). I should get four running days in this week, which I think will be a record but I’d have to check. Certainly it’s a step up for this year.

    5/1 Tu - 0:27:21 - 2.41
    5/2 We
    5/3 Th
    5/4 Fr
    5/5 Sa - 0:22:19 - 1.95
    5/6 Su - 0:34:51 - 3.01
    5/7 Mo
    5/8 Tu - 0:24:56 - 2.2
    5/9 We
    5/10 Th - 0:28:25 - 2.48
    5/11 Fr
    5/12 Sa - 0:55:58 - 4.8
    5/13 Su
    5/14 Mo
    5/15 Tu - 0:28:17 - 2.46
    5/16 We
    5/17 Th - 0:26:54 - 2.45
    5/18 Fr
    5/19 Sa - 0:42:53 - 3.84
    5/20 Su
    5/21 Mo
    5/22 Tu - 0:22:21 - 1.97
    5/23 We - 0:11:24 - 1
    5/24 Th

    May total: 28.57 miles

    Plan for the next couple of days is to get up around dawn and run before the heat kicks in too badly - right now it's 89 and that's looking like the low for the next four days. Of course, we've got a 50% chance of thunderstorms tomorrow morning, and while running in the rain is fun, I'm thinking maybe not with the lightening.
  • TattooedDolphinGirl78
    TattooedDolphinGirl78 Posts: 5,214 Member
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    1/5: 3.92 kms (2 slow walks: recovering from run yesterday and neck/back are hurting something fierce)
    2/5: 3.74 kms (easy walk): neck/back still in pain
    3/5: 2 walks of 21 mins and 30 mins (devices didn't log my walk kms properly)
    4/5: Very busy day, no time for actual walks
    5/5: 9.13 kms (long walk with a friend)
    6/5: 5.39 kms (C25K Wk2 D1) + 30 mins yoga stretches
    7/5: 2.77 kms (walk at lunch) + assembling new lawnmower & cutting grass
    8/5: 4.57 kms (walk at lunch & after work, back and left hip very twingy)
    9/5: 2.79 kms (walk before bed, today was way too busy)
    10/5: 2.66 kms (walk at lunch)
    11/5: 30 mins of mowing lawn
    12/5: REST
    13/5: Mowing lawn, laundry, household chores
    14/5: 2.89 kms (walk at lunch)+ 5.37 kms (C25K Wk2 D2) + bodyweight training + 30 mins of yoga stretches
    15/5: 2.93 kms (walk at lunch) + 2.29 kms (walk after work)
    16/5: 4.12 kms (walk after work)
    17/5: 2.81 kms (walk at lunch)
    18/5: 3.22 kms (walk at lunch)
    19/5: 50 mins mowing lawn
    20/5: 3.5 hours of moving my cousin into her apartment
    21/5: REST
    22/5: 2.94 kms (walk at lunch)
    23/5: 2.22 kms (walk at lunch)
    24/5: 2.54 kms (walk at lunch) + 45 mins of mowing lawn

    TOTAL : 66.31 / 90 kms goal

    Races:

    19/4-30/4: Zombies Run! App 2018 Spring Virtual Run
    22/9: “Coureurs des Bois” Obstacle Course Challenge (not signed up yet)
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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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
    15---64 min, 4.62 5(2,1-3,2-2,1) PT run
    17---65 minute walk, 3.45 miles
    18---28 min swim
    18---60 min walk, 2.92 mi
    18---46 minutes, 6.25 miles mtn bike
    20---65 minutes, 4.72 miles 5(2,1-3,2-2,1) PT
    23--- 57 min, 2.76 min walk
    24---43 min mtn bike ride, 5.93 miles.

    760 minutes/34.06 miles

    Upcoming Races
    June 1 GOTR 5K
    October 14th Spirit of Survival Lawton OK. Quarter Marathon
    March 31, 2019 A2A Undecided distance
    April 28, 2019OKC Memorial Marathon (half)
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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    @MobyCarp I hope you caught the pain early enough that it won't turn into a long rehab. TFL/ITB is a real pain to deal with. If I remember, you've dealt with TFL pain before?

    I'm tempted to seek PT for some sweet ultrasound therapy in mine.
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,394 Member
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    Thanks @mobycarp for the photo posting advice! I knew it had to be something simple.
    @garygse - I don't think that picture is terrible. Like I said before, we are much too critical of ourselves and what we think looks bad really doesn't!
    @MegaMooseEsq - Want to come work on my garden (we could also use a gazebo :)) it is nice and cool in So. California right now!
  • jele30
    jele30 Posts: 136 Member
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    Head wasn’t quite into it as was a bit hot and muggy and my knee hurt. I made it to two miles and decided to walk it in. Normally, I can talk myself into going further but excited to run by the lake that tonight’s run/walk was good.

    5/23 - 5 miles
    5/24 - 2 miles/2 walk
    Total 40.5 miles run/70.5 goal
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
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    One looks like I am just stepping across the finish line and the other is me unzipping my jacket. I have worse. LOL

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  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited May 2018
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    @7lenny7 Love the flyin' knuckles! I have a 5k coming up and plan to try that out :wink:

    @garygse I noticed you went AWOL. But luckily I had Strava to stalk er uh, check to see if you'd been abducted by an early morning UFO, and to check the "what today is" thing you got going on. I did think of you yesterday. I was in your neck of the woods-ish. I hit the Run On! On Preston where I picked up some OC road shoes and wondered where you found your shoes. (I need a pair of trail/road shoes). So, in a not stalkerish way... Where ya do your shoppin'? :smiley:

    Thanks @shanaber for not saying I looked... Uh awful and old and oh soooo weird. Oh wait. Weirds my thing. :smiley:

    @garygse @rheddmobile @RunsOnEspresso Love the race photos! Gary's looks kind of presidential, doesn't it?
  • garygse
    garygse Posts: 896 Member
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    @shanaber You're right, but I definitely look like I just saw something hairy and scary in the bushes.

    @Elise4270 Ha, I got my last pair from that very same Run On store! I also order directly from Nike because the price is the same everywhere, and they have a no-nonsense return policy. Previously I used to use Luke's Locker in Plano, but that location closed down last year.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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    garygse wrote: »
    @shanaber You're right, but I definitely look like I just saw something hairy and scary in the bushes.

    @Elise4270 Ha, I got my last pair from that very same Run On store! I also order directly from Nike because the price is the same everywhere, and they have a no-nonsense return policy. Previously I used to use Luke's Locker in Plano, but that location closed down last year.

    The kid that helped me was the most knowledgeable shoe salesman I've ever encountered. I'll pop back next month for some trail shoes. Ta!
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
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    @ROBOTFOOD I've done PF Changs several times. Every distance but 26.2 (although I registered for it twice HAHAHA)
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
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    Speaking of race photos...

    http://uglyracepics.tumblr.com

    heh

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