June 2018 Running Challenge
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@cburke8909 - Awesome job! I had to comment because that is the exact same PR as mine and I was also shooting for a sub-1:40! gotta love making it with seconds to spare!!
I have officially given up on trying to post and keep up with this thread. I have been super busy at work and simply don't have the time to read every post and I feel bad just commenting on my own stuff. But you all are like my running family, so I am still popping at lunch time to skim through and see what everyone has been up to. Mostly I am reading the race reports and looking at the photos. @shanaber Have I ever told you that I
Hobbes??? @skippygirlsmom -Love that photo of you and Skip. She looks so proud of her momma! 5 -
PastorVincent wrote: »LaDispute57 wrote: »@PastorVincent Here is the link... https://www.facebook.com/events/2025688057445859/
It offers a 50k, 25k and 12k distances.
Ah, over 3 hours from me. A bit far since I will need to be back for early Sunday morning.
Take a vacation day.
HA! YOU ARE FUNNY
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PastorVincent wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »LaDispute57 wrote: »@PastorVincent Here is the link... https://www.facebook.com/events/2025688057445859/
It offers a 50k, 25k and 12k distances.
Ah, over 3 hours from me. A bit far since I will need to be back for early Sunday morning.
Take a vacation day.
HA! YOU ARE FUNNY
Take two? Hahahaha!2 -
@mbaker566 and @Teresa502 - glad you had fun with the sports bra run! I wish there had been an organized one near me. I wasn't brave enough to run the dog beach in my sports bra although when I think about it that is probably the perfect place!
@LaDispute57 - welcome back!
@PastorVincent - I agree with @Elise4270, take a vacation day! I'm sure you could lead some prayers for all the runners on the trail instead of your congregation, that one day
I really should have taken an extra rest day today. It was beautiful out though and a late night tonight will likely mean that I won't get to run tomorrow. So out I went. Everything was still tired and cranky especially my calves. I also didn't eat before I went so about a mile from home I was basically done. Literally, may just need to sit down in the middle of the sidewalk, done.
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
06/05......4.64.....21.52 - + Strength Training
06/06......0.00.....21.52
06/07......0.00.....21.52 - + Strength Training
06/08......3.75.....25.27 - Walk (sick)
06/09......2.00.....27.27 - Walk (sick)
06/10......0.00.....27.27 - Still sick
06/11......6.65.....33.92 - + Agility
06/12......0.00.....33.92 - Still sick
06/13......0.00.....33.92 - Still sick
06/14......0.00.....33.92 - Still sick
06/15......7.49.....41.41 - Running YEA!
06/16....10.92.....52.33
06/17......0.00.....52.33
06/18......6.21.....58.54 - + Agility
06/19......4.87.....63.41 - + Strength Training
06/20......0.00.....63.41
06/21......5.56.....68.97 - + Strength Training
06/22......5.51.....74.48
06/23....11.76.....86.24
06/24......2.00.....88.24 - Dog Beach!
06/25......6.52.....94.76
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 Marathon8 -
6/1 = 4 miles
6/2 = 5.5 miles
6/3 = 10 miles
6/4 = 3 miles
6/5 = forced rest day (stupid work)
6/6 = 13 miles
6/7 = Vinyasa yoga class
6/8 = 12 miles
6/9 = rest day
6/10 = 8 miles
6/11 = 4 miles & 45 minutes strength training
6/12 = Vinyasa yoga class
6/13 = 10 miles
6/14 = 30 minutes strength training at home
6/15 = 14 miles
6/16 = rest day (literally sat on my butt doing nothing all day - it was fantastic)
6/17 = 8.5 miles (group run with walk/run intervals)
6/18 = 4 miles & 45 minutes weights at the gym
6/19 = Vinyasa yoga
6/20 = 10 miles
6/21 = rest day
6/22 = 10 miles
6/23 = out of town for a funeral
6/24 = 8.5 miles
6/25 = 3 miles (treadmill) & 30 minutes strength training
After traveling to Houston on Friday afternoon (after running 10 miles at 5am), doing intense funeral family stuff all weekend, driving back Saturday night, getting up early to meet the running group on Sunday morning (6 am), working on Sunday until 7 pm, and getting up early to train before going to work this morning.... I am crispy burnt toast. My chances of making it to my 6:30 AM Tuesday morning yoga class are dwindling as my working hours today skew longer (currently 8 pm off time). Ugh
I feel like I channeled superwoman willpower to get up this morning to dreadmill a 5k and do 30 minutes of strength training. I did what i call a "progressive run" on the treadmill this morning. I am sure there is a fancy running specific term for the type of run I did but my amateur running brain does not know the official terminology. I started at 10:30 pace a mile and upped my pace by 0:30 every half mile: 10:30 to mile 0.5; 10:00 to mile 1.00; 9:30 to mile 1.50; 9:00 to mile 2.... up to 3.2 miles/5k.
Oh, I did not run the 5k with my daughter that I had scheduled on Saturday. We had to road trip to Houston instead. AND they wont refund my $$$
AND.. I am 200 posts behind on this thread
150 goal miles / 127.5 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 Marathon
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@amymoreorless I do something similar when I have to use the dreadmill because otherwise it's too boring, except I up my speed at time rather than distance intervals.1
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@amymoreorless sorry about the funeral and the lack of refund
Thanks @lporter229 she is my biggest cheerleader - they didn't have enough medals at the time of the race so that is hers, mine will be in sometime this week. She said Mom if they don't get them in you can have this one, I know you really wanted this medal.
For those not on the group's facebook page here is a picture of her AG award, she picked it up yesterday.
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Race Report – Giant’s Head Marathon 2018
TL:DR – 7 hours and 32 minutes of hot sweaty hurty hilly rough terrain.
Number of entrants 515, number on waiting list desperate to get in – 180+ Number of finishers 465
This event is the most popular in White Star Running’s calendar. Described as a ‘very very hilly challenging route’ it won Best Marathon in the UK award in its first outing. This year was the 100th Race put on by the WSR team.
WSR describe themselves as providers of ‘nutty races for nutty people’. Their races have the sense of a festival atmosphere about them, and distances tend to be approximate so you never quite know how much further you have to go. There are no mile markers on the course, but with aid stations every couple of miles you know roughly how far you’ve been. Hills are guaranteed.
Arrived on the Friday night and pitched my tent in the field next to the village taken over by the event. A quick collection of my number from registration, before lasagne dinner provided by the ladies of the Women’s Institute in the village, and a sneaky pint of ale. Sleep was surprisingly forthcoming.
Saturday woke at 6.30 – race starts at 8.30. Brewed a coffee and ate the largest bowl of fruit, yoghurt and granola before wandering down to the village green. And it’s hot. Like really hot, already.
Had a plan to start with a walk, but had to start running to keep in front of the Sweeper – a lady with a broomstick sticking out of her pack.
It wasn’t long before we hit our first hill, a chalky track leading up, and yes, I walked it. That was always going to be the case for the ups, but I thought I could run the flats and downs – how wrong I was to be!!!
As expected, everything was stiff for the first couple of miles, but by mile 5 my feet and ankles were hurting. I suspected I was getting blisters under the ball of my big toe on both feet. This didn’t bode well.
Mile 8 arrived, and we’d taken TWO HOURS to get this far. My hips were hurting now. At this rate, I’d need to maintain the pace or faster to get through cut-off. And I was seriously hot and getting heatstroke. But we passed the infamous Cerne Abbas Giant with his rather large appendage, and all stopped to take a photo.
Next water station I dipped my buff in water, and put it around my neck. Magic. Not being too hot allowed me to plod on in a bit less discomfort. I’d repositioned the way the feet landed and this helped with the possible blisters forming.
We’re all walking at the back. Spent the next couple of miles chatting with a guy called Graham, but at mile 11 decided I wanted to try and push on to keep away from the sweeper. This mentally may have been a mistake.
The terrain was tough. Walking through ploughed fields that had not seen rain for a while, with short stubby cropped grass meant that running was barely possible if you didn’t want to break your ankles. Soft terrain was few and far between, and the chalk tracks were rocky and slippy. Around mile 12, as I walked, alone, on a flat ridge, I decided I didn’t want to be there, didn’t see the point in doing this. I had no one to talk to, and no music to keep my mind off things.
Mile 13 came along, but halfway means nothing when you hurt.
Then something happened. My mind cleared. I got to mile 14, and though, well, let’s push on to mile 16, then if I can get to 16, maybe I can get to 18. The water-soaking of the buff became essential – there was a water station where I forgot to do this, but found a dirty puddle later.
We got to the Lovestation at mile 20. The Lovestation is legendary, there’s a mix of sweets, cakes, mini sausages etc. What I REALLY wanted at this point was a cheese sandwich but it didn’t happen. Also at the Lovestation is vodka. Now there really is NOTHING like a quick shot of flavoured vodka at mile 20 to make you gird up your loins and get going. I ran the next half mile, then I started running with a girl named Susie, doing 12 marathons in 12 months. At mile 22 we found a stream. Oh, the moans of pleasure as we stood in the stream up to our ankles for five minutes, cooling down our aching feet.
I left Susie at about mile 24. I needed to push on and try and run a bit, just for my mental health and to get out of the punishing sun. At mile 25 my Tomtom watch decided it had had enough. All that way and my run was recorded short.
Mile 25 and a bit was the final aid station. There was a guy sat there saying ‘I think I’ve broken my wrist’ but at the suggestion he get carted off in an ambulance he swore and suggested he was going to finish. (I later found out he fell badly at mile 13, and broke BOTH wrists, a couple of ribs, and hurt his eye. He DID finish, and then went to hospital).
The final downhill (after the final up) was a breeze.
Sat down after the finish to watch the last runners come through. The Sweeper came in some 45 minutes after I finished, but she’d had to pull quite a few runners.
Saturday night was full of beer, and chilli provided again by the village WI (glad that wasn’t FRIDAY night’s food….) and some barn dancing. Well, mostly beer drinking.
Sunday morning my feet felt surprisingly ok, my quads less so. But because this was a nutty people event, what better to do than run up a hill again? So on to the ‘Bell Race’. I chose the shorter 3k event rather than the 8k for obvious reasons. Started with all our shoes being confiscated and left in a pile. Then warm ups (who makes runners do squats?) and a massive conga, before we all got to hunt for our shoes. Walked up the hill, did some star jumps as a forfeit, and ran (yes, ran) back down the hill proudly wearing a very loud cow bell. Then queued for an HOUR AND A HALF for a massive ice cream, which wasn’t worth the wait.
Mixed feelings about the weekend. Next time I spend seven and a half hours in the sunshine I want it to be by a pool with an ice cold drink in my hand. Not sure where to go next, although suddenly remembered I have two deferred half marathon places – one in November and one in Spring next year. Both are said to be ‘hard’ courses, but to be honest, nothing now is ‘hard’.
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@girlinahat Well done! Sounds like a punishing race, and you beat the course! W00T!0
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Wow @girlinahat, that elevation chart looks UGLY for a marathon! I am VERY impressed you got through it and finished. I KNOW I could not have done that. You are amazing. I remembered in your original post race post you said ''never again". But I have heard that from many runners, and inevitably every one of them has gone on to do another. So give it some time, and I'm sure you'll be back out there....or somewhere. Good job!!!0
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@girlinahat Serious respect for that terrain! Um, the medal with the guy with the club, ummm whats the red bicycle seat supposed to be. See, I'm childish and it looks like c0ck and balls. Im diggin' it though.
I haven't read the race report yet because I'm trying to figure this out. *Giggle*
ETA i tell ya. I sure needed that laugh. Today was kind of day i felt i needed an antidepressant. Nope just a cockand balls giggle.2 -
@Elise4270 this race is PERFECT for those with childish giggling sense of humours. The ‘bicycle seat’ is EXACTLY what you think it is. The man with the club is the Cerne Abbas Giant, a massive chalk figure carved into a hill. His massive c@ck is famous.
Every piece of merchandise associated with the race bears a willy, lots of willy talk and even bags saying ‘I love willies’. It’s all in good humour and pretty much sums up the race!
The ‘bicycle seat’ on the medal is supposed to spin. On mine, it’s a bit stiff so I’ll need to give it a good rub to get it into action.12 -
@girlinahat -Wow, that sounds like a pretty epic race in all regards, including that medal. Is that 3 dimensional? Does it move? It's very interesting. Congrats to you on outrunning that sweeper. It sounds like it wasn't an easy task for most involved. I ran my first trail race this weekend and I have a new respect for you guys. My course was only 10 miles, had far less elevation (although it was described as quite technical by some of the experienced runners I talked to) and it kicked my butt! I can only imagine how you were feeling afterwards. FWIW, I swore off marathons after my first as well (and pretty much every one thereafter). Give it a few weeks and all of that pain will be a distance memory replaced by unicorns and rainbows. You will be back to seek revenge on that TomTom before you know it. Congrats on a job well done!!1
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Awesome race report @girlinahat !0
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Omg! @girlinahat you're my hero! I have to run this race with you. Next year?1
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@girlinahat - loved the race report. Groaned when I saw the elevation map and love the picture of you almost smiling!
This though made me laugh out loud!girlinahat wrote: »@Elise4270 this race is PERFECT for those with childish giggling sense of humours. The ‘bicycle seat’ is EXACTLY what you think it is. The man with the club is the Cerne Abbas Giant, a massive chalk figure carved into a hill. His massive c@ck is famous.
Every piece of merchandise associated with the race bears a willy, lots of willy talk and even bags saying ‘I love willies’. It’s all in good humour and pretty much sums up the race!
The ‘bicycle seat’ on the medal is supposed to spin. On mine, it’s a bit stiff so I’ll need to give it a good rub to get it into action.
Also I think I need some of the merch from that race - it sounds like so much fun! No, I don't want to run it with you and @Elise4270 next year. I just want the 'I love willies' bag! 1 -
Wow that sounds brutal @girlinahat! Great race report! And I definitely love the medal hahaha...0
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6/4- 3.25
6/5- 3.25
6/6- 4.26
6/7- 2.0
6/8- 4.25
6/18- 3.25
6/19- 2.16
6/21- 2.0
6/22- 3.12
6/25- 2
Total: 29.56/50
Days: 10/20
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4 recovery miles
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June Goals:
200 running miles.
IM 70.3 Training
June Running:
05.28.18 - 06.03.18: Running Miles 41.5 / Weekly TSS 497 / Fitness: 71 CTL
06.04.18 - 06.10.19: Running Miles 46.2 / Weekly TSS 601 / Fitness: 73 CTL
06.11.18 - 06.17.18: Running Miles 49.3 / Weekly TSS 725 / Fitness: 77 CTL
06.18.18 - 06.24.18: Running Miles 38.6 / Weekly TSS 412 / Fitness: 75 CTL
Goals 6/25/18 - 7/1/18:
Run: 6 Days, plus a LR of 15 on Sunday. Bike 32 on Saturday
Base 1 : Week 4 of 4
06.25.18 - 6 m. Hoping that my determination is returning.
Upcoming Events:
06.30.18 Sat - Red, White, Bike - 32 miler
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Well, that was quite a race, @girlinahat! Epic indeed - epically brutal and you are one tough cookie. Congrats on conquering that beast. LOL on the medal and it's...stiffness. Maybe some lubrication would get that appendage spinning. Anyway...truly impressed by your strength and willpower to get this done. (And the guy with the broken wrists - good grief, it really was a run for nutcases)
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
06/11/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 41.3
06/12/18 :::: 5.2 :::: 46.5
06/13/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 46.5
06/14/18 :::: 10.0 :::: 56.5
06/15/18 :::: 3.2 :::: 59.7
06/16/18 :::: 4.9 :::: 64.6
06/17/18 :::: 3.3 :::: 67.9
06/18/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 71.0
06/19/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 74.2
06/20/18 :::: 6.6 :::: 80.8
06/21/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 80.8
06/22/18 :::: 2.7 :::: 83.5
06/23/18 :::: 10.3 :::: 93.8
06/24/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 96.9
06/25/18 :::: 2.7 :::: 99.7/ 110 miles goal
Another short run before circuit training this morning. Very cool morning so I wished I would have left earlier to get in a longer run. I know in a few days when it's 90 degrees I'll be very sorry about that.
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06/01/18 - 0
06/02/18 - 1 mile race & 5k race
06/03/18 - 10 miles @ 9:52
06/04/18 - 13.1 miles @ 9:04
06/05/18 - 0
06/06/18 - 13.1 miles @ 9:30 including hill repeats
06/07/18 -
06/08/18 - 0
06/09/18 - 12 miles @ 9:29
06/10/18 - 13.1 miles @ 9:22
06/11/18 - 9 miles @ 9:12
06/12/18 - 0
06/13/18 - 10 miles @ 9:26
06/14/18 - 9 miles @ 9:12
...0...
06/19/18 - 7.2 miles @ 9:50
06/20/18 - 0
06/21/18- 10 miles @ 9:10
06/22/18 - 0
06/23/18 - 11 miles @ 9:33
06/24/18 - 0
06/25/18 - 11 miles @ 9:29
Upcoming Races:
07/20/18 - Liberty Get Well Mile
08/11/18 - Howl At The Moon 5k
--More as I find them - need find a nice trail race
2021 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)
Just another hot, humid, saturated clothing run...6 -
@girlinahat That race sounds awesome...and who wouldn't want a medal with a spinning willy that glows in the dark?
Managed to get a run in without being called for on-call support, so just 45 more miles now to get in before Sunday to make goal.
Not sure why my heart rate was through the roof during the run though. Could've been the temperature. Or the humidity. Or the snake we almost trod on. Dunno.
01 - 15.23
04 - 15.35
05 - 14.71
06 - 12.92
08 - 15.39
09 - 10.11
11 - 15.36
12 - 13.77
13 - 15.22
14 - 13.28
15 - 15.22
16 - 6.31
18 - 15.24
19 - 14.79
20 - 15.23
21 - 13.35
22 - 15.27
23 - 5.03
25 - 14.08
Total: 255.86 / 300 miles12 -
Ugh, it has been a hectic last few days, so no runs since middle of last week. I was planning to run tonight after work, but a nasty storm has been moving through, so my plan is to get on track tomorrow and hopefully run the remainder of the week to meet my goal for the month.
The recent race reports are crazy! I’ve been looking for something fun and local as I prep for my marathon, but I haven’t seen anything good lately.2 -
2 terribly slow (even for me) miles.
I did a bench press workout when I was at home yesterday, for the first time in the months I’ve been traveling. And my chesticles were terribly sore, and I wasn’t real spunky even if I could have swung my arms... and then allergies got me too... uggh, gotta remember to dose those BEFORE I run, and not after. Oops
27 for the month.9 -
Tried another outdoor run this evening and feel like I failed miserably. It was nice enough out, in the 70s and low humidity, but apparently that's too hot for the likes of me.
The first two miles were okay, and I even made the second mile in 11:55. But maybe I was going too fast, because by the end of mile 3 I felt overheated and gasping for air. It was as if my whole body was just going NOPE, not gonna do it any more.
Came in and looked at myself and I was bright red, and not from sunburn. Looked at my Garmin and noticed that towards the end there my HR was getting crazy high. So... I don't know. Too hot, too fast, too out of shape, who knows. Next time I'll try to pace myself better.
One thing I did notice... I did go without my running belt this time and my foot didn't go numb. So... that looks like the culprit.6 -
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Goal is 30 miles by the 30th.
June 18- Easy 3 miles 35:10
June 19- 3.2 miles 38:20 Took it easy- HIIT class tonight.
June 20- Another easy 3 miles in 36:00 as I am sore from my knees to my neck from last nights HIIT class
June 21- 4.65 Miles 47:12 Hill intervals
June 22- Upper body strength. No run
June 23- 3.95 miles 45:00 Intervals at race pace 400m;800m;1200m;1600m;800m; 3 min recoveries
June 24- “long run” 5.5 miles 60:00
June 25- Easy 3.25 miles 37:45
Total: 26.553 -
NEW JUNE GOALS, REHAB SMART, 20 hours of activity Work up to 4 minutes of running (50 mpm). Bike all that I can bike.
2---4.05mi, 61min (PT run)
3---2.58mi, 55 min walk
4---3.71mi, 54 min (PT run)
7---3.42 mi, 47 min 5(2-1,2-2)
8---9.35 mi, 43 min road bike
10---55 min brick. 6.04 mi bike, 1.67 mi run 6(2,2)
11---5.55 mi mtn bike, 38 min
12---2.24 mi, 33 min 5(3,3)
13--- 2.71 mi, 36 min 5(2,1) 3(3,3)
13---5.55 mi mtn bike, 36 min
14---4.85 bike
16---6.22 mi, 84 min run 13(3,3)
17---brick. 3.11 run, 5.16 bike
18---2.21 run 7(2,2)
19---7.33 mtn bike
20---12.51 road bike
20---1.74 run
21---2.36 5(3,3) run
23---6.32 5(4-2,3-2,2-2) run
24---4.70 rain run 5(4-2, 3-2) no brick-rain
25---9.58 mtn bike
MILES
Running 47.0
Cycling/MTN bike 65.9
Upcoming Races
July 22 Draper Lake Duathlon (3k,22.5k,3k). Norman OK
October 14th Spirit of Survival Lawton OK. Quarter Marathon
March 31, 2019 A2A Undecided distance. Ardmore OK
April 28, 2019 OKC Memorial Marathon (half)
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@girlinahat LOVED the race report!0
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