June 2018 Running Challenge
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No run today... at least not yet. It is 92 with a 71 dew point. Hoping the temperature will come down later - but thinking about getting up before the heat tomorrow and trying a longer run. If I do that than running late tonight will be detrimental. Decisions!0
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@girlinahat It helps keep the beer warm?? But like @LaDispute57 my beer doesn't usually last long enough to get warm - unless it's something really foul then there may be accidental spillagegirlinahat wrote: »Everyone knows us Brits drink warm Beer so we don’t need any of those things
@sarahthes Have fun at the Edmonton Canada Day race. Hope your family can stay there for the Fireworks.
That's the one unfortunate thing about our " Midnight Sun " it really does not allow fireworks to show in their full glory.
@Stoshew71 Yes take care of your precious Daughter and yourself.1 -
@PastorVincent Skip tonight... run long early tomorrow.
Also, I heard if you stop tee-totalling and start drinking, you can shave almost 7 seconds off your pace. Or at least not give a shlt if you don't.
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PastorVincent wrote: »@midwesterner - In skimming to catch up, am I reading right that you have no one checking on you? That is not cool man.
I do fine by myself. People will notice if I don't show up for work, though.
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LaDispute57 wrote: »@PastorVincent Skip tonight... run long early tomorrow.
Also, I heard if you stop tee-totalling and start drinking, you can shave almost 7 seconds off your pace. Or at least not give a shlt if you don't.
Im off to buy a six2 -
So much to read thru and comment on!
@Stoshew71 - was wondering where you had gotten off to and was hoping it was work related. Sorry you are going through such a rough time and I hope things smooth out soon! I have no personal experience other than going thru my parent's and it was rough on them and on us, but it did get better.
@midwesterner85 - the whole BG thing is really scary to me. Mostly because I have so very little experience with it. It amazes me that you are so at ease with it but I guess that comes from dealing with it for so long. I would definitely have a service dog just for the extra security and peace of mind.
I have been to many races with beer or wine at the end and I just couldn't... I like a good dark beer but not after racing. I am pretty sure I would just puke. I had wine once (Temecula Wine Country HM) - took a couple of sips and tossed it out. I did get a nice wine glass though In SF there are always people out in the neighborhoods with goodies from shots, cups of beer, to my favorite - ice cold watermelon chunks!
I do think Flying Pig may have to be on my list of destination races... because BACON (double BACON)! Maybe we will have a MFP team there.
The Oak Barrel HM and the Kentucky Derby HM will probably also make it to my wish list event though I don't drink whiskey or bourbon but my husband does!
@RespectTheKitty - glad the fog is lifting a little from your bout with depression and you are able to get back out for a run/walk.
@polskagirl01 - I wonder if that guy thought you were trying to run away from your family
Good Luck with the HM tomorrow!
@garygse - that on call business is why I was always so happy to have been moved from client delivery to technical sales support even if the move was because they moved my entire team offshore! I no longer had to be on call or take calls for anyone else who didn't answer!2 -
Had planned to get my long run in today as it is my husband's last day of work and we are hanging out with friends and celebrating tomorrow. I even set my alarm to get up super early for me and went to bed early too... 9.5 hours later I woke up; slept through the alarm and apparently turned it off. I was also incredibly sore when I woke up from a tough training session yesterday. I knew I would be sore, just didn't expect it to hit until later in the day. So I went out anyway figuring I would run as long as I could or until it got too hot... managed to get in a bit over half of my long run at a pretty decent pace for me. I did have an issue in mile 4 where my right fore foot and toes kept falling asleep and then felt like they were burning. I must have changed my gait in response because my ITB on that side also started complaining and I have never had ITB issues. At one point my toes actually hurt to the point that I had to stop, walked to a bench and take my shoe off to stretch my toes. Running the last 1+ miles home was much more comfortable but I am not at all sure what was different in my shoe/sock.
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
06/26......0.00.....94.76 - + Strength Training
06/27......5.18.....99.94 - OMG if I knew I was this close I would have gone a few more steps!
06/28......4.53...104.47 - GOAL + Strength Training
06/29......6.83...111.30
06/30......0.00...111.30
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 Marathon3 -
No more runs for me this month, was going to run today but decided to cut my hair instead and tomorrow I'll be playing horseshoes after work. See everyone in July!6
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midwesterner85 wrote: »
I assume he is a pet and not actually a trained alert dog?
I have pet cats and once woke up with one of the cats chewing through the tubing on my pump and looking up at me as if to see whether I was ok. It turns out I had gone low while sleeping and this was before I had a pump that would automatically suspend insulin delivery. By chewing through the tubing, he helped my BG stop dropping as much and as quickly. He might have known what he was doing, but there have been similar circumstances where he didn't help me out the same way; so I can't be sure. The other cat has woken me up when I was low and would not have woken without some 'help.'
I live alone, so if I go low while sleeping (I won't feel it while asleep), I just don't wake up. There was once in 2009 where I had a seizure while sleeping and it was a big problem. I was unemployed at the time (just like a lot of people in 2009), so nobody expected me to be anywhere and nobody knew I was missing or that anything was wrong. I clearly woke up at some point and took care of stuff - eating, getting water, I even applied to jobs and stuff at some point during the 2-3 days afterwards. But I had some serious brain interruption. I was very confused at the time and lost most of my memories. Since then, I've recovered a lot of old memories from before but some of my childhood is still pretty blurry. What ultimately happened is that I guess I called my parents (I don't remember doing this even today) and sounded off. My brother was going through my area soon so they asked him to stop in and check on me. He was driving home from vacation with his then-girlfriend (none of us live real close to each other, but they would be going past my city on their way home). This was a long-term relationship and I had met her several times before. When he showed up, I recognized him and introduced myself to her as I thought it was the first time meeting her. Since I was obviously acting like I didn't know things that I should have known, he took me to a couple of doctors. In the end, no doctor could find anything wrong that explained the memory loss (aside from it was obvious I had a seizure based on tongue being chewed up and it was probably from low BG).
Yes, my dog is just a pet, and a neurotic mess of one, too.
Your description of that terrible night is horrifying and has me in tears. My cousin's wife died in her sleep from a hypo. It is my biggest fear with my son. We've had some tech difficulties with his CGM (we're getting a new one soon) and I much prefer it when my phone alerts when he goes low, not just his own receiver.
I really hate diabetes.
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Hugs to everyone in this thread having a difficult month. Hope that things turn upwards soon.
0629-5.8k, total-44.2k, goal-80k
Didn't get to sweep the whole race, there were things to be done at the aid station and I had to stay there until the race ended. Did to run a big 2k downhill.
Upcoming races:
20181027 Mogan Ultra 30k
20181111 Shanghai Marathon (maybe)2 -
Skip brought me a present at Fleet Feet. They have lobsters on them lol. They are Brooks Launch 5. I’m wearing 3s and 4s now, I hope I like the 5.
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midwesterner85 wrote: »
I really hate diabetes.
There is so much promising work being done in this field!
Dr Jason Fung from Toronto has some absolutely fantastic results in reversing this disease.
He also endeavors to reduce the quantity of medication people need.
He is a geriatric doctor per se but his practice and practical real world research is good information for the average bear, so to speak. Lol
He is not a research doctor but has found excellent results in using common sense and logically appling knowledge instead of being shackled by ‘big medicine’.
Many excellent doctors are finding the same success.
Also, there are some of the new food shows on Netflix and Prime that are showing reversals in chronic medical conditions.
Unlike Supersize Me which was just a guy eating stupidly for a month, these newer shows are informative AND interesting.
Juicing, Juice fasting, fasting, all plant, vegan, not vegan, a huge China study on cancer that factors in everything you could think of including diet (the results are massive in encyclopedic form) plus mucho information that has been accumulated over the last 50 years.
There was even one bonafide researcher that mentioned seeing success in reversing both type 1 and 2 diabetes.
Sorry I don’t remember exactly which one.
I have basically been watching and researching the ‘new’ information.
Not really new but when taken as part of the larger picture plus the way our food sources and processing have changed in just our lifetime, it is vital to re-educate ourselves.
Biology 101 doesn’t cover it anymore.
Of course, you need to sort out reality vs agenda in some but still there are so many excellent shows that give you power over your diet, the way that understanding tobacco addiction saved some from ever getting hooked and helped others kick it to the curb.
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June Goals:
200 running miles.
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.
06.26.18 - 7.1 m.
06.27.18 - 9.4 m.
06.28.18 - 7.3 m. Low on energy today.
06.29.18 - 8.3 m. Included a local community 5k run.
Upcoming Events:
06.30.18 Sat - Red, White, Bike - 32 miler
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LaDispute57 wrote: »Also, I heard if you stop tee-totalling and start drinking, you can shave almost 7 seconds off your pace. Or at least not give a shlt if you don't.
HA! I do not actually like beer. Never have. Used to walk around parties with a mostly full beer so that people would not bug me about "just have a drink, maaan." 2 -
PastorVincent wrote: »LaDispute57 wrote: »Also, I heard if you stop tee-totalling and start drinking, you can shave almost 7 seconds off your pace. Or at least not give a shlt if you don't.
HA! I do not actually like beer. Never have. Used to walk around parties with a mostly full beer so that people would not bug me about "just have a drink, maaan."
I like beer.
Wait? Why were you at a party if you no drinkie? Never been to a party and not par-took2 -
June...I'll change my tune...
6/1 rest
6/2 1.87
6/3 rest
6/4 2.00
6/5 rest (damned toe...)
6/6 2.28
6/7 rest (")
6/8 2.25
6/9 rest (" but better....)
6/10 2.75
6/11 rest
6/12 snorkel 3 hours
6/13 toe pain: note to self: walking on sand with a broken toe is a BAD idea.
6/14 decided to
6/15 give my fractured toe a
6/16 4 day "break" (snort....)
6/17 2.81
6/18 2.04
6/19 rest
6/20 3.12
6/21 party
6/22 4.04
6/23 rest
6/24 3.93
6/25 rest
6/26 4.07
6/27 3.15
6/28 snorkel 2.5 hours
Don't know what it "was" but since the remains were a foot long, don't think I wanted to run into before it was a "was....."
6/29 3.03
Total 37.34
@Stoshew71 hugs and warm thoughts.....
I don't usually foray into the temperature discussions, but I think we here on Big Island have you all beat on the the heat this year!
Ticker is my goal for 2018 and progress to date:
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6/1 - scheduled rest
6/2 - 10.10 km
6/3 - 1.62 km
6/4 - 5.10 km
6/5 - feh
6/6 - 5.44 km
6/7 to 6/11 - Nada
6/12 - 1.89 + 2.01 km
6/14 - 9.60 km
6/15 - 6/19 - sick
6/20 - 4.61 hm
6/21 - walk
6/22 - 4.05 km
6/23 - 2.01 km
6/24 - 11.23 km forgot to stop my Garmin so it includes the spray park beside the finish line!
6/25 - rest, hot, stormish
6/26 - 5.01 km
6/27 - 3.71 km
6/28 - rest
6/29 - 4.41 km
70.79/120 km not gonna make goal this month!
Lowest mileage in a long time thanks to 2 bad weeks. Oh well... onward and upward to July!
2018 Races: (italics means not registered yet, only pondering)
1/1/18 Resolution Run 5K ~38:00 (no official times)
3/4/18 MEC Road Race #1 10K 1:30:57
3/17/28 St Patrick's Day race 10K 1:24:53
4/7/18 Jasper Half Marathon 3:05:55
4/22/18 MEC Trail Race #1 5Kish 1:00:00? (Or 48:45...)
5/20/18 MEC Trail Race #2 10Kish 1:56:15
6/24/18 MEC Trail Race #3 10Kish 2:03:15
7/1/18 Canada Day 15K
7/28/18 Idaho Peak 10K Trail Race
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon (Half Marathon)
8/25/18 MEC Trail Race #4 10Kish
9/22/18 Heartbeat Run 10K
10/7/18 MEC Trail Race #5 15Kish
12/1/18 Santa Shuffle[/quote]
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LaDispute57 wrote: »@PastorVincent Skip tonight... run long early tomorrow.
Also, I heard if you stop tee-totalling and start drinking, you can shave almost 7 seconds off your pace. Or at least not give a shlt if you don't.
But the tangents!!!!!!
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@teerai - you are so right! There has been so much advancement of alternative medicine in the areas of cancer treatments, heart disease and others... from nutritionists to acupuncturists and the allopathic doctors are starting to see that it is effective and people don't want to just pop a pill any longer. You are starting to see, finally, a combined effort to treat, that looks at all aspects from stress and nutrition to fixing the physical damage. Just the studies and treatments now that show the affect of sugar/carbs on some cancers and of estrogens on others is pretty amazing. Starve them of those and the cancers recede or die out... says a lot about our fast food, big gulp diets.
I really hope they can take on the whole diabetes issue too as it is such a big problem but really requires such an individualized approach! There are so many alternatives these days that you really have to do your research.
@skippygirlsmom - awesome gift! She knows you so well!
@HonuNui - whatever that is it looks dangerous! The pictures from the eruption are amazing and frightening all at the same time!4
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