July 2018 Running Challenge

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  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,846 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    No run today - dinner out and then walk with my wife instead. Pretty sure walking easy 4 miles on flat terrain completely cancels out the trip to Red Robin...right? :D

    Maybe not, but "happy wife = happy life!"
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Teresa502 wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    No run today - dinner out and then walk with my wife instead. Pretty sure walking easy 4 miles on flat terrain completely cancels out the trip to Red Robin...right? :D

    Maybe not, but "happy wife = happy life!"

    hehe...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFD-kgQxnI

    :lol::lol::lol:
  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,846 Member
    Thanks for all your kind words and support of my friend’s injury. I didn’t do anything that any of you wouldn’t do for a friend. We runners have to take care of each other!

    Wishing I had gotten my butt out of bed and ran this morning. It was a nice 61F when I headed to work at 6:30 am. Great running weather especially for this summer!

    @polskagirl01 – I completely forgot to wear my watch to Tuesday’s trail race but I did it and I know it counts whether or not it shows up in my Garmin feed! Still....

    @AprilRN10 – Sorry about the boyfriend not being supportive of your smaller size. He’s probably just feeling intimidated with the image of the new you.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member

    7/1- 2.7 Miles
    7/2- lifted weights
    7/3- nothing
    7/4- 1.62
    7/5- lifted
    7/6-7/9- out of town. Went to a water park and a couple hikes
    7/10- 1.59
    7/11- lifted
    7/12- 1.82
    7/13- lifted
    7/14- nothing
    7/15- nothing, busy weekend
    7/16- lifted
    7/17- nothing
    7/18- 1.89 miles


    LOL This thread is crazy. I have to go back through a million pages to find my last reply since I don't run very often lol

  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    Teresa502 wrote: »
    It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Race recap. Yesterday’s 7 mile trail race at Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium was scheduled to begin at 6:30 pm. It starts and ends at the part of the park where the wolves are housed (hence the name the Wolf Run). I carpooled with two of my friends and we arrived in plenty of time to find a good parking space, pick up our bib numbers and talk with other runners. About 6:15, a thunderstorm rolled through. Lots rain. Lots of thunder and lightning. The start was delayed about 10 minutes. Lots of mud puddles on the trail most of which I went through the middle. I actually made it past a few runners who were tip-toeing gingerly around them. With about 7-tenths of a mile to go, I came upon one of my friends sitting on a bench beside the trail. She had landed her foot between a couple of roots, heard a pop in her ankle and that was it. She insisted that I go on and finish the race. A few yards past her, I met a volunteer heading her way and I made sure she was going to check on her. Turns out the popping noise was her tendon/ligament which pulled the calcaneus bone from the ankle bone. It took the EMTs a while to get her out. The side-by-side couldn’t get to that area so finally a couple of the guys carried her through the woods and up a hill to a location the side-by-side could reach. We loaded her in her car and off to the ER we went. She was in so much pain. I finally got her home around 1:30 am this morning. We didn’t get to stay for the post-race meal (obviously) so we were starving. Luckily there was a Dunkin’ Donuts still open at 12:30 so we had a donut while waiting on her prescription for pain meds. She will be in a boot for the next 5 weeks and then slowly start some activity. I ended up spending the night at her house and taking her to work this morning. She is single and has two grown daughters one of which lives in the area; however, she is out of town for a work conference. You never can have too many friends! Oh, the good part of my race was that I finished in 1:24:51. I was worried since my previous practice runs out there had me finishing in 1:35 and the cut off was 1:45. Placed first in my AG and an overall 110 out of 144 runners that finished.

    Oh, your poor friend...ouch! She is lucky she has you around :)

    Congrats on the great race and AG placement!
  • AprilRN10
    AprilRN10 Posts: 548 Member
    Thank you all for the kind words.

    @PastorVincent He has been fit and healthy for the last ten years. It is me that is the straggler! He runs quite a bit and lifts heavy, a lot! Not sure what his deal is but isn't that. Alas, I will do what is best for my health. But it's no big deal in the grand scheme of things, relationship wise as you hit that nail on th head. After 14 years this is a pebble in my shoe.
  • AprilRN10
    AprilRN10 Posts: 548 Member
    @Gary_Z I have to wear them. I tried shorts, but they caused circulation issue (I have clotting disorder) so had to go bag to leggings. A lot of people like body glide. You will get good suggestions here!
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,547 Member
    @Gary_Z probably just get some Body Glide (or I like Arm & Hammer Friction Defense) to prevent the chafing.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    @AprilRN10 I read or heard that people think others are too skinny because the average in the US is overweight and we have become use to that being "the norm". He could be just used to you being bigger and now look the size as or smaller than most women?
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Funny thing for all the ladies in the thread... when I was loosing too much weight (I did, and gained some back to be at a more healthy place- different story for different day)... very few people said anything to ME about it, but they DID get on my wife's case and make comments about "feeding him better" and the like. :neutral:
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    @MegaMooseEsq A few of us will go on long streaks of running, but really, even for the best of us, rest days are important. Rest days are when your body builds muscle and repairs damage. Common wisdom is 1-2 rest days a week. So keep that in the mind in the future. :)
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Gary_Z wrote: »
    2 more miles on the treadmill after playing doubles in tennis. After a mile and a half, started to get chafing between my thighs, do I have to invest in those compression tights thingies?

    That is what I do. I use Under Armour's cause they are not as tight as some. Also as others mentioned Body Glide is great too.
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
    @AprilRN10 Haha, usually when I hear people complaining about the adult charts it's because they want to justify being considered overweight. In some cases I do see their point, so I don't think the charts should be used in isolation, but generally they're a decent guide for where we should be. I'm glad you've got them "on your side" in this case.

    I did have a close friend at one point carefully ask if I was wanting to lose more weight, and she was pleased to hear that I was at my goal and not planning to go lower. My husband (when I asked him) also said around that point that I looked great, but that I probably shouldn't lose any more. I agreed. So that's my goal weight, and it corresponds with the mid/low end of healthy on the chart. I gained weight doing 2 marathons this year, though... fortunately it's slowly coming off now that I've backed off on the training.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    I am wondering if I need new shoes? How do you know when your shoes are no good anymore? I looked at them and twisted them and they seem ok. I have had them for a long time (few years) but never started running after I bought them (lol) until just recently. Not that they've never been worn over the last few years, I have worn them now and gain to go walking or hiking in or whatever.

    I was running last night and by the end of my short run my ankles were kind of hurting a little bit.
  • workaholic_nurse
    workaholic_nurse Posts: 727 Member
    hesn92 wrote: »
    I am wondering if I need new shoes? How do you know when your shoes are no good anymore? I looked at them and twisted them and they seem ok. I have had them for a long time (few years) but never started running after I bought them (lol) until just recently. Not that they've never been worn over the last few years, I have worn them now and gain to go walking or hiking in or whatever.

    I was running last night and by the end of my short run my ankles were kind of hurting a little bit.

    I usually use my knees as a guide. The more they make noise when I walk I know it's time to switch out shoes. I have a 3 pair rotation and my new pair is always for running, running shoes become work shoes, and work shoes become yard/kicking around shoes. Yard shoes get tossed in the trash in this rota.

  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    LaDispute57 wrote: »
    The BMI charts tell me that I am obese and that I should lose 14 pounds. I am 5'7" and weigh 158 pounds and have a 31" waist. I tell the BMI charts to go eff themselves. But if I am a fatty, so be it, because if I lost 14 pounds to placate the BMIs, I would be such a skinny little bltch third grade girls could beat my *kitten*.

    The first year my employer did Biometrics for us they told a co-worker he was obese based on numbers alone. Clearly, he was not obese, but his muscle mass threw off the chart. All the test administrator had to do was actually look and realize the BMI did not apply to them. BMI works across a population, it's intention was not necessarily for individuals.

    They also measured me with my heels on so I got an extra 2-2.5" inches in height. I asked if I should take them off, they looked at them, and said no. Then wrote down the wrong height. Fun times!
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    kcs76 wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    Funny thing for all the ladies in the thread... when I was loosing too much weight (I did, and gained some back to be at a more healthy place- different story for different day)... very few people said anything to ME about it, but they DID get on my wife's case and make comments about "feeding him better" and the like. :neutral:

    Ooohhh my mouth would get me in trouble there. >:)

    My face would get me in trouble - I have trouble filtering my expression unless I'm making an effort to control it. I'm pretty sure that sort of comment would get a head tilt, eyebrow raise, and lip tighten. And probably a "hmm", which in Minnesotan-ese is pretty cutting!

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