June 2018 Running Challenge
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6.5km tonight trying to make up for 4 days off this week.
MTD 21.6km/60km4 -
I was out of town all until late Thursday night, so I didn't run at all this week until today. I thought I'd do my usual "long" (for me) run, but...I felt REALLY good about 1.5 miles in and then completely wilted at just over 2 miles. I don't know if it was the heat or the time off. I ended up doing 2.3 miles in about half an hour. I haven't struggled like that in months.
Ugh. Let's hope I can get back on track next week.
June goal: 40.0 miles
Today: 2.3 miles
Total so far: 2.3 miles3 -
RunsOnEspresso wrote: »Does anyone use a cooling towel on their long runs? My work supplies them for our employees that have to deliver paperwork (they go about 3 miles outside).
I wore one a cooling tie/towel thing the other day for the first time. I had received it in a bag at a race but had never used it. It do think it helped some to remain cool.
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Classic winter's day here - cold (well, this is relative - cold for us, about 14 degrees C), overcast, still and devoid of people. Perfect for a long run.
Running challenge
1 June: 9.77
2 June: yoga
3 June: 15.11
4 June: 5.47
5 June: 6.34
6 June: yoga
7 June: 10.24
8 June: rest
9 June: yoga
10 June: 13.67
Total, 60.60 of an ambitious 150km for the month
Upcoming events
17 June, Xterra Trail Run, 11km +/- 200m
8 July, Xterra Trail Run, 12.1km
29 July, Xterra Trail Run, 12.5km
19 August, Xterra Trail Run, 11km
25 August Mt Maunganui Half
9 September, Xterra Trail Run, 13.2km
29 October, either Auckland Half or Queenstown Half, can't decide!!!
17 November, Kerikeri Half or Xterra Trail Challenge Waihi 20.5km (undecided here too)
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I did it! I ran 50.12 km today!! (31miles).
In December I said I would do it sometime this year, I made a plan, and today I did it!
My big goal for 2018 complete!
Recap tomorrow. Thanks for all the good luck wishes. xxoo
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So impressed @Orphia That’s a mammoth effort. You look suitably and justifiably pleased with yourself. Congratulations.1
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@Orphia well done!!! W00T!!!1
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I am a total beginner, but I always wanted to start running.
I am planning to start running with the couch to 5 km program which combines intervals of walking and jogging.
The original plan is 3x a week, but I am thinking of doing it every day (except weekend), i.e. 5x a week since in my case it would be mostly walking in the beginning.
The main idea is to form a habit of everyday morning activity.
Would that be too much?4 -
I am a total beginner, but I always wanted to start running.
I am planning to start running with the couch to 5 km program which combines intervals of walking and jogging.
The original plan is 3x a week, but I am thinking of doing it every day (except weekend), i.e. 5x a week since in my case it would be mostly walking in the beginning.
The main idea is to form a habit of everyday morning activity.
Would that be too much?
It might be too much. You need rest days. Overdoing it so early in your exercise program highly increases the odds of getting hurt. I suggest you follow the couch to 5k program as written, at least for now. See how your body reacts. You can always add more later.5 -
amymoreorless wrote: »Okay guys, I need some help with my running playlist. I am sick of all of them and I am out ideas. Favorite running songs?
Some great taste in music here!! I have several different play lists on Spotify that I've made up with different songs, depending on my mood that day, each different feels:
Big Beat: Overseer (Skylight (one of my faves!), Basstrap, Supermoves, Doomsday...) Chemical Brothers (Galvanize, Block Rockin' Beats, Do It Again...) Crystral Method (Busy Child, Born Too Slow, Cherry Twist...) and others (this is 1 of my top used play lists, I must admit)
Rock: Godsmack (Whatever, Bad Religion, Cryin' Like a (B)itch...), Kiss (Made for Loving You, Domino,,,) Muse, Judas Priest (Pain Killer...) Rammstein (Feuer Frei!, Engel, Links 2 3 4...), Motorhead, Electric Mary, Clutch...
Pop: (P)ussy Cat Dolls (Don't Cha, When I Grow Up) P!nk (So What, Walk This Way...) Black Eyed Peas (Boom Boom Pow, Pump It...) Rihanna (Pon De Replay, Man Down (One of my fave running tracks!)), Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake...
Then a "Running Mix" where it is a mix up of everything, rock, country, pop, big beat...anything that catches my ear. There are a few songs on each playlist that have become some of my "faves" that I'm going to be putting into a new playlist, songs like "Skylight" Overseer, "Man Down" Rihanna, "Made For Loving You" Kiss, "What Was I Thinking" Dierks Bentley and "Run To The Hills" Iron Maiden.
You are more than welcome to look for me & my play lists on Spotify & look/listen if you want. Same handle as here, but one less "1" at the end!
(Sorry - I really, really like music!)
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@Orphia WAY TO GO!!!!! I cannot imagine!
Almost feel pathetic even to post mine now....
Didn't get my run in in the morning before work, so I packed up everything to run after. So after 12 hours work, I changed, put my stuff in the car & headed out in the 89*F heat. Planned for 20 mins, did 23 mins with a run 4 mins, walk 1. Got home to look over my data, thinking I did well...then saw, in fact, I was slower than I was on Wed! Faster then Mon, true, but I started getting down on myself. Had to stop myself, and remember that there were other factors in play, time of day, I had eaten, head & humidity, et al. I reminded myself that I had run, accomplished my goal, backed myself up, and had, in all honesty enjoyed it, so "KNOCK IT OFF, WENCH!"
6/4 - 1.64 miles
6/6 - 1.55 miles
6/9 - 1.67 miles (4.86 total)6 -
Welcome @zebedeeclare ! And good luck on your 10k! Just enjoy it. Walk if you need to. What distance did you run in London?
Thanks - it was nice to get out and get the legs working again :-)
I did the marathon there in April2 -
I am a total beginner, but I always wanted to start running.
I am planning to start running with the couch to 5 km program which combines intervals of walking and jogging.
The original plan is 3x a week, but I am thinking of doing it every day (except weekend), i.e. 5x a week since in my case it would be mostly walking in the beginning.
The main idea is to form a habit of everyday morning activity.
Would that be too much?
I just started the couch to 5k on Friday. I am also not much of a runner but I needed something different to push me through the summer. I downloaded an app and just started with day 1. I did add some intervals to the first day (12 instead of 8) but only because I have been doing the elliptical and figured I could handle it. Yesterday I did day 2 and since my legs were a bit sore I only did the 8. I started to look in my app and realized each week only includes 3 days. I guess it's set up for rest days in between. Oops! I'm going to take today as a rest day and then plan on running every other day. On the off days I will walk instead of run to get myself in the habit of going out and use those days for my strength training at the gym.
It's nice to see there is someone at the same place I am in this running journey.3 -
I am a total beginner, but I always wanted to start running.
I am planning to start running with the couch to 5 km program which combines intervals of walking and jogging.
The original plan is 3x a week, but I am thinking of doing it every day (except weekend), i.e. 5x a week since in my case it would be mostly walking in the beginning.
The main idea is to form a habit of everyday morning activity.
Would that be too much?
C25k is set up to include rest days. It is the rest days where your body gets stronger.
Do the plan as is. If it’s consistency and habit you are trying to build, there’s nothing wrong with doing say a 20 minute walk on the rest day. But trust in the programme.
Many of us started with c25k or similar. I did, and it certainly helped me. Just remember to take the running bits slowly, you may even find you feel you are running slower than you can walk, but it’s really important to build up your aerobic fitness, which means running slowly. If you can sing or hold a proper conversation whilst ‘running’ that’s about the speed you want. What you DON’T want to do, is get out of breath so you have to stop. If you feel you are getting out of breath, SLOW DOWN.
You’ll be fine. Welcome to the group!!5 -
@Orphia WOOHOO! Congrats on your 50k! That is awesome and I love the photo!
6/1/2018 rest
6/2/2018 2.65 miles
6/3/2018 9.05 miles
6/4/2018 rest
6/5/2018 3 miles
6/6/2018 2.1 miles
6/7/2018 2.5 miles
6/8/2018 2 miles
6/9/2018 2.15 miles
6/10/2018 2 miles
Total 25.45 miles /80-85
Today was supposed to be 7 miles but it just wasn't meant to be. Yesterday and today I woke up with ears popping and pressure in my head. It wasn't as bad yesterday so I completed my run. My heart rate was a bit high yesterday but I thought it might have been dehydration. I didn't drink as much water Friday as I usually do. I chugged water all day yesterday. LOL
This morning, I was barely moving, practically walking and my heart rate was over 150. I went slow and was watching my hr. I got to an intersection, pressed the button and waited for the light. I got the walk sign and started to proceed across. When I was almost all the way across the semi in the right turn lane decided that was when he was going to go. Not when I first started crossing, not when I was done but when I was right next to him. Needless to say, my heart rate jumped to well over 170. I tried to run but my heart was still thumping hard. I tried to walk to bring it down but I knew today wasn't my day. I turned around and slowly ran home.
This is what I get for trying a new route. I wanted to head east first so I was running into the sun in the first half instead of the second. I thought running into the sun earlier would help with the heat. I guess I will try again next Sunday. I'm scheduled for 10. Hopefully, it will be better!4 -
0610-1.6k, total-23.1k, goal-80k
So this is what happened to me today.
Got home early.
Told SO I want to run tonight.
Realize my cat needs her shots.
Try unsuccessfully for an hour to catch cat.
Catch cat, getting scratched up pretty badly in the process.
Take her to the vet.
Vet: Would you like to separate the rabies shot and the other shots by a week? (They've had several cases of allergies lately.)
Me: Noooooooooo. I'll never be able to catch her next week.
Cat gets shots, vet wants us to wait 30 minutes before going.
Me lamenting no run today.
SO: Why don't you go run now?
I take off around the block, sweat all over the scratches. OW.
1.6km done. I'll take it.
Upcoming races:
20181027 Mogan Ultra 30k
20181111 Shanghai Marathon (maybe)7 -
girlinahat wrote: »polskagirl01 wrote: »
I think you meant me - Yes, they're poppies! There are also yellow fields that are pretty too (it's the flowers they make canola oil from, I can't remember the name at the moment), and purple fields that didn't quite look like lavender, so I'm not sure what those are, either. I'll have to slow down and take more picturesbiketheworld wrote: »@ContraryMaryMary - are those poppies? So beautiful.
That'd be rapeseed flowers. Not sure what the purple ones would be. We'd love more pictures!
The poopies are absolutely lovely!
Yellow tends to be oilseed rape/rapeseed. Canola is the name given to a crossbred version.
Purple not sure - if it looks like a crop, and is more blue than purple, then it’s probably flax - from which linen and linseed oil comes from.
Love seeing fields of poppies. They are just so delicate, and poignant. Don’t think it’s worldwide but the poppy is the flower of remembrance of war dead in the U.K.
You're right about the rapeseed flowers (I guess it's related to, but not exactly the same as Canola then - Canola is the Canadian version, I think?).
Flax would definitely make sense for the purple.
Haha, I didn't even notice @Elise4270 's autocorrect, poopies would be less desirable to see while running.
Here poppies do have a similar connotation to the U.K... one famous legend is that during the battle of Monte Cassino, the blood of Polish soldiers turned the poppies red.1 -
11.08 miles today. I'm becoming more familiar with the Garmin HRM Run data. Apparently, I have too much vertical movement and am wasting energy. I'm not sure how to fix that, though.
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Congrats on your 50k @orphia!
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
06/01/18 :::: 1.4 :::: 1.4
06/02/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 1.4
06/03/18 :::: 13.1 :::: 14.5
06/04/18 :::: 0.8 :::: 15.3
06/05/18 :::: 3.6 :::: 18.9
06/06/18 :::: 3.5 :::: 22.4
06/07/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 22.4
06/08/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 22.4
06/09/18 :::: 9.0 :::: 31.4
06/10/18 :::: 6.9 :::: 38.2
Friend texted me to run this morning so I threw on my clothes and headed out the door. She wanted to run an hour and 15 minutes as she is trying to ramp up to running a 15k next month after a while of not running too much. I'm happy to support and have a running buddy, even though my legs were pleading for mercy most of the run. The DOMS are serious this week. I have two days of circuit training and a marathon training group workout to get through before I leave for vacation on Wednesday morning. Looking forward to that break! Hopefully I'll get some easy running in while I'm away - but the forecast is looking hot.3 -
@girlinahat it is the same in Canada, they are especially significant (people wear poppies on their coats/shirts) leading up to November 11th--Remembrance Day. There is also the poem In Flanders Fields by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae that mentions poppies on the battle fields in Belgium, I'm pretty sure the poppy is a pretty universal symbol for remembrance of soldiers that have died during wartime.3
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@Orphia You are the BOMB! Congratulations!
I went out for my 5k this morning (which right about now feels pretty piddly, lol) with my sister. It was her first race ever, and my first since late 2016. The weather was muggy but comfortable, and it was a little hazy so we weren't in full sun. I think the course was hillier than my sister was ready for, so that slowed us down some. We finished up at 44:40, which I think was pretty close to my time on my first 5k. Get this, though...even though I had to wait for her to catch up several times, and even though I crossed the finish line in front of her? She placed ahead of me! I no longer have any faith at all in race timing!
(I actually wonder if they had her break the tie because she's in a younger AG than me?)
Anyway, it was a fun race and fun to have my sister run with me. I hope for the next one we'll be able to improve our speed. I'd like to sign up for one by myself, too, just to see what I can do at this point in the game.
They took pictures, but they're not up yet...I'm sure when they are I shall have something truly, spectacularly awful to present you all with!
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Did 4 miles today. Slowed down a little and was able to run a bit further before needing to walk. 45.9 miles to go.4
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@Orphia that is amazing!!! Definitely makes my numbers look pretty lame lol.
June 1 4 miles
June 2 4 miles
June 3 6 miles
June 4 Rest
June 5 Rest
June 6 4.3 miles
June 7 4.3 miles
June 8 3.5 miles
June 9 3.1 Race day
June 10 7.5 miles3 -
I am a total beginner, but I always wanted to start running.
I am planning to start running with the couch to 5 km program which combines intervals of walking and jogging.
The original plan is 3x a week, but I am thinking of doing it every day (except weekend), i.e. 5x a week since in my case it would be mostly walking in the beginning.
The main idea is to form a habit of everyday morning activity.
Would that be too much?
If you already have a decent cardio program, those first three weeks are nice...that forth one, yeah - take a rest day (at least from running). I'm doing C25K as well. My "rest days" I walk instead of trying to run and it helps so much. That way I still get my morning exercise and miles in, I just don't overdo it and burnout.3 -
My First 50 Km Run – Sunday 10 June 2018 - Recap
I’d been planning it for 6 months. I have a spreadsheet I’d made with a Strava Premium McMillan marathon training plan in it, and the 50 km Ultramarathon training plan from the book, “Relentless Forward Progress”, and I basically managed to follow the distance of the long runs each week, while running 4-5 times a week as directed by what my body could cope with. Every day I would enter what I’d done, and tweak what I would plan to do.
I’d first thought I’d do the Canberra Marathon Festival 50 km event in April, but travel and accommodation were going to be too expensive, plus, events are stressful, so I decided I’d keep it simple: If I want to do 50 km, do 50 km. I don’t need to pay to run – just do it around home.
I chose this weekend, the long weekend in June, since I’d have more days to choose from if the weather was bad, plus I could have time for recovery. Sunday was perfect. 5-15 Celsius (41-59F).
1-10 km (1-6 miles)
My usual morning run in the dark route. I saw W and N who both knew what I was up to, and wished me luck. DK tooted her horn at me.
I made sure throughout the run to only run at a pace that let me breathe easy. Early on, I had to keep slowing down, because I knew I’d need that energy later.
10-25 km (6-15.5 miles)
Uphill to the next town, then back down again. Saw G, which was nice. The fog was beautiful in the dawn sunlight.
25-40 km (15.5 – 25 miles)
More hills. C pulled up next to me at 30 km, and I was happy to report I was feeling alright. I did start getting slower gradually from there. Around 38 km my left lower back was starting to hurt and I could tell I was tensing up. It helped if I stretched my arms up and out.
Fuel: I ate yoghurt and a big muesli bar before I set out, and on the run I had 2 other bars, a donut, and 2 energy gels with caffeine.
Loo stops were at 9, 18, 25, and 39 km. Didn’t “need” them all, but I’d planned the route to go near the loos in case I did need them, and then I used them so I was comfortable the whole time.
40-50 km (25-31 miles)
Mostly flat. My body was running alright, if slowly, but it was starting to complain in places. Had arranged for F to run with me for the last section. We chatted, and it helped distract me from the sore back. It was nice to have someone with me when I passed the 42.2 km marathon mark, and enter into the “uncharted waters of Ultra territory”, as F put it. Then it was a painfully slow countdown jog to the finish. I’d called my husband to meet me, and little did I know, my dear friend DB had arranged to be there too, with BB, AB, and G, and bunches of balloons. My own personal finish line and cheer squad!
Too long; didn’t read?: Ran 50 km! Achieved my 2018 goal! Ran all the way, which was the cherry on top! Did it in 6 hours as I’d hoped! I have awesome friends.
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ladysnickerdoo wrote: »I am a total beginner, but I always wanted to start running.
I am planning to start running with the couch to 5 km program which combines intervals of walking and jogging.
The original plan is 3x a week, but I am thinking of doing it every day (except weekend), i.e. 5x a week since in my case it would be mostly walking in the beginning.
The main idea is to form a habit of everyday morning activity.
Would that be too much?
I just started the couch to 5k on Friday. I am also not much of a runner but I needed something different to push me through the summer. I downloaded an app and just started with day 1. I did add some intervals to the first day (12 instead of 8) but only because I have been doing the elliptical and figured I could handle it. Yesterday I did day 2 and since my legs were a bit sore I only did the 8. I started to look in my app and realized each week only includes 3 days. I guess it's set up for rest days in between. Oops! I'm going to take today as a rest day and then plan on running every other day. On the off days I will walk instead of run to get myself in the habit of going out and use those days for my strength training at the gym.
It's nice to see there is someone at the same place I am in this running journey.
@girlinahat, @ladysnickerdoo, @VUA21 Thanks for the advice! Sounds like a good idea to walk in those rest days.
I work from home, so my main intention is to create a habit of daily getting out of the house and getting some movement. 3x/week doesn't feel frequent enough to form a habit, but with those walk days between, I think it will be great.
There is a beautiful park 15 mins biking from my house where I plan to do my training, which means I will include some daily biking too.
I just need to get up early enough to start before heat hits. That is going to be the real challenge
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There is no way I can catch up with the 400+ posts I've missed while being away in the UK for the past week. But I did see @orphia posting about her amazing feat (and amazing feet too, no doubt). I am in awe.
I didn't do any running while I was away, and I definitely missed it. But it was a good opportunity to get my legs fully rested from those little niggly aches and pains that I normally ignore. Looking forward to getting back in my routine though.
And I went to the seaside and saw some puffins.
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@girlinahat it is the same in Canada, they are especially significant (people wear poppies on their coats/shirts) leading up to November 11th--Remembrance Day. There is also the poem In Flanders Fields by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae that mentions poppies on the battle fields in Belgium, I'm pretty sure the poppy is a pretty universal symbol for remembrance of soldiers that have died during wartime.
I know that the cornflower is the French equivalent to the poppy, but wasn’t sure how widespread the poppy was in other countries. And I don’t think all countries (even those who fought in the First World War) have 11th November as a commemorative date.
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