June 2018 Running Challenge
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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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6/1 14miles
6/2 6miles (walk)
6/3 rest
6/4 6.71miles
Intervals in wonderful weather this morning. Overcast and 66 degrees... it felt amazing after all the heat and humidity I’ve been running in.
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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
I guess I'll call this a little recovery run and warm-up before my strength/circuit training. Got to the gym a little later than planned so that's all I had time for. It felt pretty good. Then we did lots of arm work and my arms now feel like noodles. Way to take my mind off of any lingering post-race leg soreness!
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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.
I am no expert, but most training plans have cut back weeks in them. So I think you can train harder on your weeks at home, and easier on your weeks at work, and be okay.
Wait for a smarter person to reply though...1 -
6/1: 1.6 miles
6/2: 4.1 miles
6/3: 11.5 miles
6/4: 1.4 miles
Total: 18.6/75 miles
Upcoming Races:
Wineglass Marathon 9/30
Tonight, I took it easy after yesterday’s run and did just under a mile and a half on a trail running by a creek near my house.2 -
KeepRunningFatboy wrote: ».
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
Look at you. All neat and tidy over here.
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JUNE GOALS, REHAB SMART, 20 hours of activity for the month. Work up to 4 minutes of running and 15mpw. (64mpm/103kpm)
2---4.05mi, 61min (PT run)
3---2.58mi, 55 min walk
4---3.71mi, 54 min (PT run)
170 min/ 10.34
Upcoming Races
October 14th Spirit of Survival Lawton OK. Quarter Marathon
March 31, 2019 A2A Undecided distance
April 28, 2019OKC Memorial Marathon (half)
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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
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
2020 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)
The weather was much better - still not great, but at least workable.
So far on track for a better running week, but I am only 1 day in. LOL 2 -
Running challenge
1 June: 9.77
2 June: yoga
3 June: 15.11
4 June: 5.47
5 June: 6.34
Total, 36.69 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)3 -
0605-5k, total-14k, goal-80k
Easy 5k. Was planning on tagging some striders on the end but gave up after the second. The weather is ridiculously hot, supposed to be 41C (106F) by this afternoon.
Upcoming races:
20181027 Mogan Ultra 30k
20181111 Shanghai Marathon (maybe)2 -
6/1 - scheduled rest
6/2 - 10.10 km
6/3 - 1.62 km
6/4 - 5.10 km
16.82/120 km
Living so far north proves to be an advantage this time of year when I can go for a run at 9:15 pm and know it will still be light out when I get back.
This time of year there are only 6 hours of darkness a day.
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
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
10/7/18 MEC Trail Race #5 15Kish
10/22/18 Heartbeat Run 10K
12/1/18 Santa Shuffle4 -
June...I'll change my tune...
6/1 rest
6/2 1.87
6/3 rest
6/4 2.00
Total 3.87
Thanks for all the hugs (yes, @Teresa502, you can't have too many! (unless you're @Elise4270 who doesn't like hugs!). Please think good thought for Puna district of Hawaii...this is Kapoho bay, where we love(d) to snorkel.
@shanaber here is the short and sweet of my website fubar: http://the-hroost.com/public/2018/05/im-back/
Ticker is my goal for 2018 and progress to date:
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My goal is 3 runs per week minimum with a total monthly goal of 70 miles.
And to keep up with this thread (sort-of)
Not starting off very well this month. My first run was June 4th....I might get 2 more runs in before the end of the week. (fingers crossed).
There has been a break in the heat and humidity. It was 78 degrees and very little humidity. I ran 7.07 miles today after my husband talked me into mowing the grass. The good news was "no hip pain."
I might try trail running next month. I was playing with my nieces' sons at my mother's house. She has a really steep drop-off behind the house. I was running down the hill chasing the boys and got a really good ankle stretch. I never knew it had that much range of motion.
My mother had a really good birthday and is doing well for 90 years old. Probably needs a cane but is too stubborn and won't wear her support shoes. However her mind is still good.
6/4....7.07 miles
Goal is 70 miles.
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6/1: 1.6 miles
6/2: 4.1 miles
6/3: 11.5 miles
6/4: 1.4 miles
6/5: 2.2 miles speed work
Total: 20.8/75 miles
Upcoming Races:
Wineglass Marathon 9/30
Got up early and did 2.2 miles with some speed work. It was a cool 60 degrees, and I know I need to become more disciplined with getting up early.3 -
Living so far north proves to be an advantage this time of year when I can go for a run at 9:15 pm and know it will still be light out when I get back.
This time of year there are only 6 hours of darkness a day.
I remind myself of things like this ALL WINTER! Summer is glorious here as well, and I love it!2 -
6/1 - 0
6/2 - 2
6/3 - 2
6/4 - 2
6/5 - 2
8 of 50 miles
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Speed workout this am was suppose to be 6-8 1min at 5-10k pace with 1 min recovery. I overdid and got in 10 reps. and the pace was faster than my 5k pace. Oh well, guess I earned yesterday's rest. 6 miles total.
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8 easy miles the morning. Phone weather app actually said 100% humidity as I was walking out the door to run! Set out with the mindset to ignore my Half Marathon brain and just take it slow. Mission mostly accomplished. Averaged about 0:20/mi slower than HM pace, but about 0:15 faster than marathon pace. Still, it felt quite comfortable (other than the 100% humidity). HR averaged 119, so it truly was an easy run I suppose.2
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Haha! @HonuNui !
https://goo.gl/images/Epw14
I really hate that I can't figure out how to do that... Blame MFP/Android
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Day 2/20
Distance: 3.25
Total: 6.5/50 (yesterday was 3.25 instead of 3)2
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