July 2018 Running Challenge
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polskagirl01 wrote: »girlinahat wrote: »A couple of weeks ago I signed up to do the hilliest and hardest MARATHON I could find, which took me 7 and a half hours, and I won't say I loved it, but I love the feeling I have now. I am invincible. I may have wobbly extra bits of flesh, but I don't care, I have run a MARATHON and not that many people can say that. I can do ANYTHING. I am the champion of the world.
I'm so glad you are feeling better about it now! I was thinking about you at one point when I was running on Saturday, wondering if you'd've felt better if you'd only done a half, and also trying to imagine how I would've felt if I had to do the whole marathon distance on trails like that. I would have finished, but it would not have been pretty.
Oh I’m glad I did the marathon. I was even glad I was doing a marathon at the time, even if I didn’t ‘enjoy’ every moment. It was just a day out with new friends. That happened to include some hills, a lot of heat, some difficult terrain, for 26 plus miles.
Oddly I recovered better than last years half, or other runs I’ve done which have affected my quads more.
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@HeatherRivet - Welcome!0
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Not yet run in July. Went to see my folks at the weekend and had a swim in the sea. All these years of being by the coast or even visiting and I’d never done that. I’ve missed out. A lot. It was fabulous. Not as cold as you might think. Very snotty though - certainly not a @HonuNui snorkel experience!!! (Although I’ve dived a lot of the U.K. - it’s pretty amazing and full of life, but not quite Hawaii...)
Today has been an odd day. Went to work to open up for a new worker, then went to a beautiful natural burial ground for the funeral of one of our long-standing self-employed stonemasons. Then back home to go to a lecture on cannibalism of all things.
Getting back into my morning routine means tomorrow is a run day - AND a crossfit barbell club day. Wednesday will be an ow-eee day.
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Ack
Miss one day, have to catch up on ten pages.
I didn't run all weekend due to just utter laziness. But my vacation week starts today so I did run today. It's been crazy hot lately so hello treadmill.
3.6 miles today. My goal for this week is to run at least a little bit every day M-Sat.
As far as a July goal... I will make it my goal to be able to run 10k again by the end of the month.5 -
I DID it! I went to the gym and ran 3 horrible dreadmill miles (and walked another). I really miss the ones at my old gym--they had a little personal fan on them that made it more bearable.
7/1 Kayaking
7/2 3 miles run, 1 mile walk
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Beautiful winter's day here today. Perfect for running - cool, clear and crisp. Warm enough to shed my merino after a few kilometres and just run in a t-shirt and soak up the sun, but cold enough to keep the gloves on! I'm glad I went out early though as it seems the wind is starting to pick up.
Running challenge
1 July: 5.30 at 5:09 pace (race pace)
2 July: yoga
3 July: 7.01 at 5:45 pace
12.31 of 150km for July6 -
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5BeautifulDays wrote: »I DID it! I went to the gym and ran 3 horrible dreadmill miles (and walked another). I really miss the ones at my old gym--they had a little personal fan on them that made it more bearable.
7/1 Kayaking
7/2 3 miles run, 1 mile walk
Maybe you could get one of those battery powered clip on fans and bring it with you next time?0 -
Bah. Starting July with a big fat 0. I planned to run when I got home after the heat of the day dropped a bit... but right now it is all thunder and lighting... last bolt the thunder was almost at the same time as the light, so storm is too close for comfort (before anyone asks, I have a battery powered laptop on a wireless network that is connected to a bank of UPSs
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Ah well, maybe this will break the heat wave...4 -
Can we do a Where in the World are you? I keep seeing others posting about it being winter and I wanna know my fellow winter runners are! I assume this gets done every month or so, but I'm new so please!
I'm in the Far North of New Zealand - called the winterless north, but it didn't feel that way last Saturday when it was 4 degrees Celsius outside. But to be fair to anyone further south, we are averaging about 10 degrees atm so I feel a bit bad about complaining...1 -
Can we do a Where in the World are you? I keep seeing others posting about it being winter and I wanna know my fellow winter runners are! I assume this gets done every month or so, but I'm new so please!
I'm in the Far North of New Zealand...
I'm just north of Dallas, Texas. Currently 104F degrees at 6pm!2 -
Phoenix, AZ 108F (not sure I need the F, if it was 108C I *might* be dead) degrees at 4:21 pm3
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Currently melting in Austin, Texas
@Scott6255 @RunsOnEspresso It is 104 at 6pm here to. We need to have a southern summer runners PTSD group. I am sure the northern people here feel the same way about the winter months.4 -
PastorVincent wrote: »
Maybe you could get one of those battery powered clip on fans and bring it with you next time?
That is on my list of things to look for on Amazon tonight, lol!Can we do a Where in the World are you?
It's definitely not winter here! I live in northern Virginia, about 15-20 miles from the swirling vortex of awful that is Washington, DC.
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I got 3.5/30 in today. Had to talk myself into getting out there since it's hot but it was worth it.
Also, I'm from Northwestern ohio2 -
Western MA closer to Hartford CT than Boston.0
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Sunny Southern California - not far from the original mouse house!
I vote we all take a 2 month running vacation to visit @ContraryMaryMary and @Avidkeo!!! 6 -
PastorVincent wrote: »Sadly been there done that... not fun, but at least it passes quickly...
Oh... yeah it does.... real quickly
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July goals 60 miles. Work up to 5 minutes of running. Bike often. Rehab smart.
1---5.52 mtn bike
2---2.09 run 3(4,4)
MILES
Running 2.1
Cycling/MTN bike 5.52
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)3 -
To answer Where In The World... about an hour north of Pittsburgh, PA2
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Can we do a Where in the World are you? I keep seeing others posting about it being winter and I wanna know my fellow winter runners are! I assume this gets done every month or so, but I'm new so please!
I'm in the Far North of New Zealand - ...
I'm in Oklahoma USA. I'm sure @Orphia is in Australia.1 -
Can we do a Where in the World are you? I keep seeing others posting about it being winter and I wanna know my fellow winter runners are! I assume this gets done every month or so, but I'm new so please!
I'm in Auckland (New Zealand). @avidkeo I was up in the winterless north last weekend and can confirm that it does get winter - ok, a stunningly sunny and beautiful winter, but it was rather nippy in the morning. That being said, it was a balmy 20 degrees by midday so you really have no excuses at all!!2 -
I’m in the Kansas City, MO area where it’s hovering around 100F. It did drop down to like 86 yesterday though perfect for a run 2
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I’m in the middle of Georgia, the home of heat and humidity!3
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July Running Totals (miles)
7/1 – rest day
7/2 – 5.11 not easy enough
July running total to date – 5.11
Nominal July mileage goal: 100 miles
Real goals: Get healthy. Build base. Work toward being able to run Wineglass in September.
Today's notes – Yesterday I felt healthy enough to run, but I stuck to the decision made on Saturday to treat it as a rest day. It was really hard not to go out for an easy 3 to 5 miles yesterday afternoon; but a temperature of 95º F (35º C) made it less hard.
This afternoon I had a PT appointment. Did the ultrasound thing on the Achilles, did the wobble board on both ankles, they felt symmetrical. Got told to go out, run, and don't let Denial outweigh Hypochondria.
So I got out to run about 5:15 PM. It had become overcast (yay!) and the temperature had fallen to 90º F (32º C). This is prime commute time, so I ran a windy route around residential streets in my neighborhod because I didn't feel like dealing with traffic. Got back to my driveway at not quite 4.5 miles, still felt good, and ran an out and back to get over 5 miles.
The idea was just to run easy, but I was a bit worked up over something that shouldn't really bother me, and I ran harder than I should. Average pace came in at 7:24 per mile, which would be marathon pace for me in near-perfect running weather. Oops. But it was only 5 miles, I don't really have to work hard tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure I got away with it.
The left Achilles felt totally normal. Before, during, and after running. Still need to be gradual building the mileage back up, but I'm optimistic this can be done. Probably still won't run a 4th of July race, but I could go take in the town's fireworks display and then run home when it's fairly cool.
Where in the World Response: I'm in the Rochester, NY metropolitan area. It's a great running community, and it's close enough to Boston to get a direct flight. A bit warm right now, but that's normal for July and August here. We'll make up for it in January and February.
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) DNS - injury
June 17, 2018 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY) short course, 18:04 for ~2.9 miles
June 30, 2018 Charlie's Old Goat Trail Run 5 mile (Victor, NY) 4.89 miles by Garmin, 43:15
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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July Goals: 200 running miles.
July Running:
07.02.18 - 07.08.18: Running Miles / Weekly TSS / Fitness: CTL
07.09.18 - 07.15.19: Running Miles / Weekly TSS / Fitness: CTL
07.16.18 - 07.22.18: Running Miles / Weekly TSS / Fitness: CTL
07.23.18 - 07.29.18: Running Miles / Weekly TSS / Fitness: CTL
Goals 07.02.18 - 07.08.18:
Run: 6 Days, plus a LR of 15 on Wknd.
Base 1 : Week 1 of 4
07.02.18 - 9.3 m.
Upcoming Events:
08.25.18 - Tour de Donut Bike Ride
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LaDispute57 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Sadly been there done that... not fun, but at least it passes quickly...
Oh... yeah it does.... real quickly
Gald someone got that really horrible pun.3 -
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Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
07/01/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 3.1
07/02/18 :::: 5.5 :::: 8.6/130 miles goal
Super hot day and I was dreading run group tonight, but then we had some thunderstorms roll through. The timing worked out almost perfectly. Got into the gym, started to pour, circuit training done, rain had stopped. Change and eat at home, started to pour, stopped before I headed out to the track and had cooled down quite a bit. Workout was a 30-minute tempo, and although it felt cooler I soon learned the humidity was still there in force. Toward the end there a was a bit of rain and at least a decent breeze, but we made it through without another soaking.
Wasn't my best tempo run due to legs being tired but I'll take it.
I'm in Syracuse NY.
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