June 2018 Running Challenge
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6 of 50 miles. Pretty morning.7 -
My goodness this is an active thread - LOVE IT!!!MegaMooseEsq wrote: »
ETA: Something I've been thinking about - outside of the big bucket list races, how do people choose what to participate in? Right now I'm just doing the bucket list thing because I don't know if racing is a thing I'm going to enjoy or not, but in the event I do, there seem to be an awful lot of options out there, and I'm kind of uncomfortable with some of the messaging associated with some of the races. The two I'm registered for are both established events put on by the same organization with exists just to put on these races. But I'm a little overwhelmed by all the other options out there and am not sure about some of the "causes" either or entirely clear on what my registration fees are going towards. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
I've run 18 1/2 marathons and this is my criteria: (1) Bling - I'm a sucker for a great medal, (2) beautiful scenery, (3) sense of humor, and (4) an excuse to go visit someplace.
Also: I'm pretty sure I started C25K exactly a year ago and now I'm the kind of person who can just go out and run 6 miles whenever I feel like it. I think that's pretty cool.
That is VERY cool.
Yesterday I was wondering why my quads hurt - today I had a "duh" moment - last time I ran was March. Pretty slow going - but right now I'm just going to concentrate on building back up my miles and next month I'll worry about speed.
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6/1 = 4 miles
6/2 = 5.5 miles
6/3 = 10 miles
6/4 = 3 miles
150 goal miles / 22.5 miles complete
Upcoming Races (so far):
6/23/2018 -Fit Foodie 5k
10/10/2018 -Tough Mudder Half
10/27/2018 -Hill Country Halloween Half Marathon
1/26/2019 -Fitbit Topical 5k
1/27/2019 -Miami Marathon5 -
This morning's "plan" was 20 mins, was supposed to be a "Run 1 min, walk 90 seconds". Well, I was still debating about doing that, or just running even as I was heading out this morning @ 0440. So I start running. Then I was trying to get the light back on the watch to see what time I'm at, not having my glasses on, and next thing I know, I'm lapping & lapping, hitting screens I couldn't see...So I stop, discard whatever the farkle I had poked around to, reset the watch, and just start running. Decide to take a different route, thinking "might have made a mistake, might be too long?" but just kept going. Only ended up 4 mins longer than my original plan time, a few walks and all in all, not too bad.
And I've been living dreamily through everyone's pictures here. Here in Flori-duh its hot. And flat. Oh, and hot. Humid, too. Did I mention flat and hot?
6/4 - 1.64 miles10 -
@MegaMooseEsq - I have run a lot of races, around 25 HMs and a hand full of 5 and 10Ks in the last 6 years. I tend to find races I like and rerun them, especially the bigger races. Most of the races have 'legacy clubs' you are automatically part of once you have run them a few times with extra perks and gifts. I received a really nice legacy jacket from a holiday race I like to run in San Diego. We have made family events out of going to SF for the race there to visit friends and just enjoy the city. I also love the atmosphere of that race so much. It has 'companion' races local to me here in So Cal and I have run one of those, Surf City, almost as many times as SF. You get an extra medal if you do both consecutively. The other companion race is also local to me but in the summer and while along the coast it is just too hot here then.
For smaller races I look to see who the RD is and if the charity is legit and then at the course and when it is run. Again if it is in late June- August here and doesn't start at 6am I probably won't run it. The cost is also a factor but I find if I enter early I can usually get a pretty steep discount and for the smaller races it just depends on what I am willing to pay at the time.
Great race reports @polskagirl01, and @katharmonic!
@polskagirl01 - I love that you enjoyed your race so much. Great job too on keeping that even pace.
@katharmonic - Running a Women's race can be so fun sometimes just for the sense of community!
@_nikkiwolf_ and @polskagirl01 - you both picked tough places to run this weekend! Wow!!2 -
@dreamer12151 Grew up in Florida until I was about eleven. Even today I get excited about hills and mountains and snow.4
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Ok so I'm not an outside runner but I do run on my elliptical (is that still running?) However, my daughter plans to do Girls on the Run this fall. She has done it in the past but her dad ran the 5k with her because I simply didn't feel like I could do it. My goal is to run (ok let's be honest...jog/walk maybe run a bit) it with her this fall.
Since October 2017 I have lost 48 lbs and I am on my way to my overall goal of 90 lbs lost.
This will be my goal to keep me motivated over the summer. I'm going to start with the elliptical twice a week for a total of 10 miles. I also plan to get outside for a walk/jog at least once a week. By the end of June my plan is to increase my outside "runs" to twice a week. I'm setting a monthly goal of 50 miles.14 -
June 2018 Running
06/01: XT
06/02: 3.02 mile easy run, 8:51 pace + XT
06/03: 14.01 mile long run, 9:09 pace
06/04: 3.01 mile easy run, 9:19 pace + XT + strength
Total: 20.04 miles
Yesterday was my first long run of marathon training, 14 miles. I seemed to have forgotten how far 14 miles really is haha because it felt way longer than I remembered! Monday's (day after LR) are usually rest days, but I have a 5K this thursday so I switched wednesday's workouts to today so that I can take the day before the race off. So I got up early this morning to get in another 3 mile easy run (with very sore calves from yesterday's LR!). This evening I'll do 30-45 minutes on the spin bike and strength training (for real this time!).
Upcoming Races
06/07: Strides for Peace 5K
06/24: Chicago 10K
07/22: Rock 'n' Roll Chicago 10K
10/07: Chicago Marathon
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6/1 13.88 miles
6/2 16.47 miles
6/3 10.3 miles
6/4 14.41 miles
Changing over to my new shoes.....so love new shoes! These will hopefully last a couple of months. I put a LOT of miles on this pair I am retiring today.6 -
@AlphaHowls you are amazing! You are like the Energizer bunny
@conatser9 you are one tough cookie to complete 3.5 miles after being stung (bee?, wasp?). But I guess that was the fastest way to get home
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Wohoo!!! 3 miles today. 64.75 miles to go.4
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@polskagirl01 -Fantastic race report! Congrats on the PR on a tough course.
@katharmonic _ Another great race for you! I love that you and Katherine Switzer are BFFs! That's so cool. And kudos for consistency. My first three half marathons were all 2:05 and change. I may have not been the fastest, but I was consistent!
I pulled the trigger on my first trail race on June 23rd. It will be 10 miles, 2 loops of a 5 mile course. I have talked my husband into doing the 5 mile race, so I am pretty excited for us both.9 -
June Running Totals (miles)
6/1 – rest day
6/2 – travel day
6/3 – 14.50 warmup + half marathon
6/4 – rest day
June running total to date – 14.50
Nominal June mileage goal: 160 miles
Real goals: Stay healthy. Survive 4 races scheduled in June, 2 of them outside my comfort zone. Start training toward Wineglass.
Today's notes – Or really, month to date notes. Started the month with a rest day, then traveled to scenic Ann Arbor, Michigan to run the USATF Masters Half Marathon Championship, held in conjunction with the Dexter Ann Arbor Road Race half marathon ("DXA2").
As has been a pattern with USATF Masters events, it was a fun race sandwiched into the middle of some not very fun logistics. I got up at 4:25 Saturday morning to drive out and hit the goal of being at the hotel by 2 PM for time to do packet pick up and have a team meeting. Going out, I was fairly efficient. Google maps said it was 418 miles, I rolled out of my driveway at 5:30 AM, and got there about 1:30 PM. Hit packet pick up, had a relaxed afternoon, then dinner with the team and a team meeting. Got to bed reasonably early, in order to get up at 4 AM on Sunday so we could drive to downtown Ann Arbor, catch a bus to Dexter, and make it to the start line by 8:30 gun time. This schedule meant no free hot breakfast at the hotel, since that didn't start till after we had to roll.
The forecast was for temperatures rising from the upper 50s to lower 70s during the morning, with increasing chance of rain as the day went on. Okay, I know how to dress to run in the rain. Wore a light jacket and warm up pants over what I'd run in, and checked them in a drop bag at Dexter after my warmup.
Started out for a 2 mile warmup in near-perfect running weather. Didn't get out a full mile, and it started to rain. Turned around to head back. The rain became a downpour. Good thing I put stuff in my plastic drop bag before the warm up! The rain backed off to livable showers by gun time, and we were off. The Masters were started 2 minutes before the open runners, so we knew there would be open runners passing us for most of the course. That was an interesting race experience.
DXA2 has a course that follows the Huron River for maybe 9 miles, on a road with a lot of large curves. We were coached in advance to pay attention to the tangents, as the difference between running good tangents and hugging the side of the road (or running the center of the road, for that matter) can be pretty large on this course. As coached, I paid close attention to the tangents. This meant that early on, when open runners were passing me, I heard footsteps right behind me. No doubt they were annoyed to find me running in their tangents; as I looked forward, the majority of the Masters runners I could see ahead of me weren't running good tangents; but the open runners who passed me early were running near perfect tangents. Hmm, maybe they've been coached too? Or they're just very good racers.
5 miles in, I knew this wasn't going to be my day. I didn't have it to run a sub-7 average for a half marathon. So I spent from mile 5 to about mile 11 doing math in my head, trying to work out just how slow I was going to finish. For a while, it looked like I'd have trouble beating 1:36. But somehow, I hung on. With 2 miles left, I began to smell the finish line. And a funny thing happened.
For the bulk of the course, I was being passed by those open runners. I'd tell them, "Looking good! You're 2 minutes faster than I am so far!" WIth 2 miles left, they mostly stopped passing me. I began catching and passing a few of them, but mostly I just held my own. I knew the last half mile was uphill, but it had been reported as being about as steep as the finish at Lilac Run. I was not worried about a half mile uphill at that grade. So I actually has a small bit of a finish line kick. Ended up finishing in 1:34:42 official time, 48th of 102 masters and 15th of 20 in my age group. M 60-64 is a tough age group; the top 3 guys ran 1:19, 1:20, and 1:20.
I had forgotten to turn autosplit back on after Thursday's long interval workout, so Garmin doesn't have mile splits for me. However, Garmin put the distance at 13.17 miles. Seeing as how I usually see a have as about 13.2 miles, I think I ran pretty darn good tangents. Strava parses miles, and gave me mile splits of 6:40, 6:48, 7:05, 7:04, 7:12, 7:19, 7:11, 7:22, 7:25, 7:27, 7:22, 7:24, and a 7:09 pace for the last bit. Through 5 miles, that's about what I had planned to run. After mile 5, I couldn't pick up the pace to what I'd planned; but I ran faster than I thought I was running in real time.
There was a gosh-awful wait for the awards ceremony, which dragged on a gosh-awful long time as apparently many results had to be calculated manually. I really wanted a nap at that point, having been short on sleep 2 nights in a row; but I'd ridden downtown with teammates, and the car wasn't going back to the hotel till after the awards. i did get a late checkout (2 PM), so I was able to shower and put on clean clothes before driving home. I rolled out of the hotel parking lot at 1:30 PM, had a long awful drive with many stops to manage my driving condition, and ended up getting back to my driveway about 9:45 PM.
Then this morning, I was feeling more beat up than I ought to the day after a half marathon. Most of it will go away with a day of rest, but I'm worried about my left Achilles. Maybe it gets better tomorrow, maybe it's starting to be something serious. Oddly enough, none of the aches on my right side that had worried me seem to be problems.
Thoughts for the future: The club springs for the hotel at USATF national events, but only provided one night. And they selected a hotel 4 miles from the finish line to get a good price. If I had been paying my own money, I would have ponied up for the close hotel and showered before the awards ceremony. In the future, maybe I need to do fewer events like this, and pay for extra nights to make the logistics easier for the ones I do. Have to thing about that. Budget is a consideration, and 2 major marathons in 2019 are the big pieces of the budget puzzle going forward.
Then again, if the Achilles is turning into something serious, maybe I just need to give up USATF Championship events entirely. I like to run, and if championship events are going to put me on the couch maybe it's better not to do them at all. Gotta think about that; it's not like I'm a serious contender for top of my age group in the USATF Masters field.
Oh, yeah. Even though I won no individual awards and our M 60-64 team did not end up on the podium, they did give me a finisher's medal:
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) finished in 42:21
May 26, 2018 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY) finished in 20:12
June 3, 2018 USATF Masters Half Marathon (Ann Arbor, MI) finished in 1:34:42
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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@AlphaHowls - ^^^ this! You are amazing!@AlphaHowls you are amazing! You are like the Energizer bunny
@conatser9 you are one tough cookie to complete 3.5 miles after being stung (bee?, wasp?). But I guess that was the fastest way to get home
@conatser9 - I would have to have someone come get me if I got stung! I am definitely a wimp in that regard. Hope your leg is feeling better!
@noblsheep - I grew up in Idaho but have lived in So California all of my adult life. I miss the mountains, snow and change of seasons and get very excited for them too!
@ladysnickerdoo - Welcome! Your elliptical work should make you strong for running outside! Your plan sounds good and I am sure you will be able to do that run with your daughter in the fall!
I got in an earlier run with the pup before it got hot. It was really nice out and I think everyone decided it was a good time to take the dogs or kids out for a walk. My trail was packed and we had to keep slowing or stopping to get around people or their dogs. There are a few dogs that Hobbes the Vizsla is reactive to, mostly because we have been chased or threatened by them. I have found it best to have him sit with me blocking him from those dogs. He does great but I wish the other owners would learn how to control their dogs. Tomorrow my goal is to get out even earlier and run right along the river instead of on the trail itself since it is a tempo run day.
Date........Miles.......Total
06/01......9.45.......9.45
06/02......0.00.......9.45
06/03......2.00.....11.45 - Dog Beach!
06/04......5.43.....16.88 - + Agility
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 Marathon6 -
@MobyCarp You are still on the rebound right? I mean it was like less than 2 months ago you could not run at all right? The fact you finished a 1/2 in 1:34 after all that is awesome!0
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I ran 4 miles today! Rather, I sort of squelched through 4 miles today. I was so eager to get outside and run that I didn't really adequately prepare for the state of the trail around my local lake and wore my street shoes. Thankfully, they're old , ratty, street shoes!
Anyway, it was a great run, if slow and squelchy. I saw a deer on the trail. I also briefly thought I was going to be eaten by a bear, but it was just a very large, off-leash mastiff who was thankfully stupid and friendly and not interested in eating me.
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PastorVincent wrote: »@MobyCarp You are still on the rebound right? I mean it was like less than 2 months ago you could not run at all right? The fact you finished a 1/2 in 1:34 after all that is awesome!
It was a month and a half ago that I ran Boston in a nor'easter. Since then, I've wanted to recover and build a base; but just keeping things from getting worse has got in the way of base building. So it's not terribly surprising that I'm not running a half as fast as I remember. I am pleased that I managed the race pretty well after I realized a good finish time wasn't going to happen.
And there was the occasional ego-boost, like around mile 8 or 9 when a guy passed me. I told him he was looking good, and 2 minutes faster than me so far, and he said, "Yeah, and I'm 15 years younger than you!" (Probably 17, because the number on my back is the bottom of my age group and not my actual age.)
And amusing moment from the awards ceremony: One of the guys who got several awards was wearing a 2018 Boston celebration jacket. The organizer asked him how the weather for the half compared to Boston; after all, raining for both races, right? The guy answered, "There is no comparison. And we only had to run half as far." I agree, and appreciate his gift for understatement.2 -
Looking to pick some brains for experience and guidance if anyone has a few moments.
I'm starting up a 24/18 rotation (24 days there, 18 at home) for work and will go from at best a treadmill and limited time to free all day and running all over the hills. I would like to be able to train up for the 50km race I'm signed up for in early November as it looks like my schedule will have me here.
Does anyone have any recommendations on approaching this situation? I can run further/more often when at home during my 18 days off but I don't want to make too big of a swing and risk injury. I'm also not sure how much I can stand/fit in on the treadmill while at site as I will only have 3 days each week to run.
My current thoughts are training strength (lifting) and some running (at least one steady state run and one sprint set) with stretching while on site (I'll aim for 10-20 miles a week). When I get home I will look at running 4-5 times a week with slowly increasing mileage as time progresses loosely following a program of some sort.0 -
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June Goals:
200 running miles.
CrossTrain Bike & Swim.
Weekly TSS > 600
June Running:
06.01.18 - 8 miles.
06.02.18 - 11 miles.
06.03.18 - 6.5 miles. Weekly TSS 497 / Weekly Miles 41.5
06.04.18 - 9.5 miles. (CT - Swim 900 yds)
Fall Running Events:
10.14.18 - Lake Tahoe Marathon
10.21.18 - Atlantic City Marathon
11.03.18 - Indianapolis Monumental Marathon
12.08.18 - Tucson Marathon
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