August 2018 Running Challenge
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OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »And. So many of us arent marathon material. Many races have relays. Itd be amazing if we can get some with a team effort. I'm down for just about anywhere. Even if he's done the state.
Currently i am unable to take vacation October through mid November, and I'm still on the mend. But spring would be doable. We all should just go to Hawaii for a relay, then Alaska. Ooo I wanna do one at night when its light.
I love this idea. I had a thought that we could do some type of 24-hour virtual relay across the globe, so that for 24 hours someone is always running. We could sign up for 30 or 60 minute time slots and take and post an after pic. One of our local running stores does something like this to celebrate global running day and it’s pretty cool. Since we have quite a few time zones represented here, I think it could work. I also know of at least one or two MRC members who like to run in the middle of the night 😉 I love the idea of a traditional team relay race as well too!
Not a bad idea!0 -
5 miles on trails. Legs day yesterday and today my legs felt like two whiny toddlers whose mom was dragging them through the grocery store. For the first two miles, anyway, after that they sort of lightened up. Still, pretty slow.
The weather report has been saying it was going to rain and then cool off for two weeks now. No rain and no cool.
And that's goal for me, which means I am headed for my stretch goal of fifty miles.7 -
They dropped the smoke alert! Hooray! It's supposed to come back in a day or two but the race should be relatively clear with an air quality rating of 4.
Gonna be going for a PR this time.16 -
Ok. I think we have something we can work with...
And most importantly, i believe it to be accurate.
Options are:
1. Pick your poison, er full race. @MobyCarp i added Boston since its a prestigious race. And assigned it to you.
2. There's a column to express interest in a group relay race.
3. The sheets by state are not complete. But i expect these to be maybe for those that want to run 2357.2 miles. A distance equal his marathon distance. 🤔 😪🤯 Or a group goal or cumulative race distances. Or not at all... Hey its a work in progress.
4. I also added a column so if you'd like to run 26.2 miles in his shoes (run the same race he ran). Its easily identified. Although, some states he ran multiple venues. So be sure to check athlinks.
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Ran my 5k road race this morning and came second in my age-group. That one is for you, Dennis.
Yay! Well done!1 -
@MegaMooseEsq Congrats on 200!!!0
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@Elise4270 - spreadsheet is missing the state of NJ.
I will be running Pittsburgh but seems he already has that I will have to poke around for another one and see what I can pull off.1 -
Awesome work @Elise4270 I'm definitely keen for a 24hr relay if anyone else is keen!
I took my new shoes for a run this morning. I wasn't sure what distance I was going for given my sporadic training the last 2 weeks. I did 4.5 km then saw an old friend out walking who had a stroke a few years ago so my 5th km was a bit slow as I walked with her a bit. Consequently I only did the 5 and a bit km. But good news, no niggles, the shoes fit like socks, good thing too given their design. Google them, they are... Unique (under armour hovr phantom).
When I massaged my legs after the run I actually had less pain than I've had in a week... So fingers crossed!
This week I'll be keeping it light, maybe do a couple of 7s, a 5 and then an 8 on the weekend. I'm at conference from Thursday till Sunday, then Monday is officially the start of HM training!9 -
PastorVincent wrote: »@Elise4270 - spreadsheet is missing the state of NJ.
I will be running Pittsburgh but seems he already has that I will have to poke around for another one and see what I can pull off.
Aww maaaan... 😔 Youse guys don' matta.
Now its not missing.1 -
I'm running the Phoenix Marathon on Feb 9th.RunsOnEspresso wrote: »If I finish my marathon in Vegas we can cross Nevada off the list. Someone else may have to pick up AZ as I am not sure I am meant to do marathons.6 -
RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
I have something started. I got the first and last page. Group effort ya know. I'm alright delagating and asking for direction and help since it is a collective effort.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnOSKyGFudwmqd6LeJJTHSxSTewBcaWKaJYWNJnPftQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
I think its unlocked and ready. Any problems, ill try to catch it tomorrow. My butt hurts from sitting on this cardboard scratching block tethered to the modem because my weefee wont connect on this dern laptop.
Ya'll know I'm not marathon material....but I'm happy to do a streak to cover marathon distance to fill in the Hawaii slot....
I plan to run a race in Hawaii, somewhere, at some point. But not sure I'll be up to a marathon.
I saw relay in Hawaii. I'm adding possibilities to sheet, easy to plan something. Dh is all over it. "Where we going?".....
Yall feel free to add info columns, tweak it... I'm trudging through the states so we can add our miles in his memory.
Sorry Australia and UK. I haven added sheets yet. But if anyone wants to pick up where im about to pass out and leave off, I'd love to wake up to finished work. 😲1 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »RACE RECAP for Chmielakowy Half Marathon (Krasnystaw, Poland)
One cool thing that happened was in the forest trail section. I was running along and looked over to see a dragonfly passing me. He was big and beautiful, really detailed coloration, and was going along the path just a little faster than me. So I said, "Ok, I'll race you," and sped up. So then we were going at the same speed, staying right with each other. It was so surreal, at one point I just reached my hand out towards him because he was right there. But I didn't want to touch him and interrupt his flight path, so kept my hand about an inch away. The whole thing probably lasted only about 20 seconds, and then he took off into the woods, but WOW that was cool.
That is so cool. I love dragonflies. Envious!!3 -
OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »I love this idea. I had a thought that we could do some type of 24-hour virtual relay across the globe, so that for 24 hours someone is always running. We could sign up for 30 or 60 minute time slots and take and post an after pic. One of our local running stores does something like this to celebrate global running day and it’s pretty cool. Since we have quite a few time zones represented here, I think it could work. I also know of at least one or two MRC members who like to run in the middle of the night 😉 I love the idea of a traditional team relay race as well too!
The night shifts will be easy as that will be the middle of the day for us 'down under'. There's a fair few Kiwis and Aussies on here who can run during the darkest US hours.6 -
Had a fab Xterra event this morning. After a week of cold, wet and wild weather, the sun came out and it was fresh and still this morning. I wasn't feeling particularly energetic but have learned that this is a good thing for me on race day as it means I won't start too fast. Given the extraordinary amount of rain we've had in the last few weeks, the trail was surprisingly dry, with just a few muddy patches that could largely be avoided. Where we weren't running on gravel roads or leaf covered paths alongside the river, we were on mountain bike tracks which had awesome cambers to make running around tight corners fast and fun. Not too many hills either, thankfully, although there was a particularly long and arduous set of stairs about 1.5km from the end which was challenging!! All in all, a perfect day out!
Running challenge
1 August: Yoga
2 August: 18.43 at 6:10 pace
3 August: Rest
4 August: Rest (fly to Fiji)
5 August: Rest
6 August: 5.2km
7 August: 5.2km
8 August: 5.2km
9 August: 5.2km
10 August: 5.2km
11 August: Rest (fly home)
12 August: Rest (plus about 4 hours of gardening and lawn mowing)
13 August: Yoga
14 August: 6km
15 August: Yoga
16 August: 6.48
17 August: 5k
18 August: Yoga
19 August: Xterra trail run, 10.73
72.64 of 120km for August13 -
August....run she must
8/1 zip
8/2 zip
8/3 2.57
8/4 zip
8/5 zip
8/6 3.15
8/7 zip
8/8 4.15
8/9 zip
8/10 3.10
8/11 zip
8/12 3.00
8/13 4.00
8/14 snorkel 3.5 hours
8/15 3.18
8/16 3.34 for Dennis
8/17 Hell at work
8/18 4.18
Total 30.67
Ticker is my goal for 2018 and progress to date:
"I plan to run a race in Hawaii, somewhere, at some point. But not sure I'll be up to a marathon.
I saw relay in Hawaii. I'm adding possibilities to sheet, easy to plan something. Dh is all over it. "Where we going?".....
Yall feel free to add info columns, tweak it... I'm trudging through the states so we can add our miles in his memory.
Sorry Australia and UK. I haven added sheets yet. But if anyone wants to pick up where im about to pass out and leave off, I'd love to wake up to finished work. 😲"
...as always, the big yard with ocean view is open for camping! Currently, there is no (lava)river running thru it.....
On January 5 the BIRR sponsors their sea to mountain relay....31 (mostly uphill) miles from Hilo Bay to Volcano...
https://www.bigislandroadrunners.org/BIRR_h2v.html
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RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
I have something started. I got the first and last page. Group effort ya know. I'm alright delagating and asking for direction and help since it is a collective effort.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnOSKyGFudwmqd6LeJJTHSxSTewBcaWKaJYWNJnPftQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
I think its unlocked and ready. Any problems, ill try to catch it tomorrow. My butt hurts from sitting on this cardboard scratching block tethered to the modem because my weefee wont connect on this dern laptop.
Ya'll know I'm not marathon material....but I'm happy to do a streak to cover marathon distance to fill in the Hawaii slot....
I plan to run a race in Hawaii, somewhere, at some point. But not sure I'll be up to a marathon.
I saw relay in Hawaii. I'm adding possibilities to sheet, easy to plan something. Dh is all over it. "Where we going?".....
Yall feel free to add info columns, tweak it... I'm trudging through the states so we can add our miles in his memory.
Sorry Australia and UK. I haven added sheets yet. But if anyone wants to pick up where im about to pass out and leave off, I'd love to wake up to finished work. 😲
Can't edit! So I sent you an edit request via Google Sheets.
I'm doing Melbourne Marathon, Australia, on Sunday October 14 2018.3 -
ContraryMaryMary wrote: »OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »I love this idea. I had a thought that we could do some type of 24-hour virtual relay across the globe, so that for 24 hours someone is always running. We could sign up for 30 or 60 minute time slots and take and post an after pic. One of our local running stores does something like this to celebrate global running day and it’s pretty cool. Since we have quite a few time zones represented here, I think it could work. I also know of at least one or two MRC members who like to run in the middle of the night 😉 I love the idea of a traditional team relay race as well too!
The night shifts will be easy as that will be the middle of the day for us 'down under'. There's a fair few Kiwis and Aussies on here who can run during the darkest US hours.
Yes!!! Depending on marathon training / recovery, I may be able to run for a couple of hours.
I really, really love the idea of us all running 24 hours around the world for Dennis!5 -
August 1 - 20 km run
August 2 - 9 km run
August 3 - rest day
August 4 - 16 km Harriers trail run/13 km water girl for football
August 5 - 15 km Harriers trail run
August 6 - 15 km run
August 7 - 14 km run
August 8 - 10 km run
August 9 - 23 km run
August 10 - rest day
August 11 - rest day
August 12 - 10 km club run
August 13 - 23 km run
August 14 - rest day
August 15 - 10 km Hill Repeats
August 16 - 20 km run
August 17- rest day
August 18 - 4 km water girl
- 23 km Howling Dog Night Run
Total distance 224 km - goal 350 km.3 -
Nice short easy run this morning to meet my week's goal and warm the legs up a little after yesterday's strength training session. My shins appear to be behaving still, don't know whether it has anything to do with the fact that I'm making a point of sitting with some of those gel cold compresses you can cool in the fridge drapped down the front of my legs for a while every day or just pot luck. Adding another half a kilometre to my long run (yes I know to most of you my long runs are just a warm up or easy day, I'm working on it gradually lol) on Tuesday, we shall see what they say then.
Re the marathons for Dennis, I am nowhere near able to run a marathon but I'm doing a half in December and if I survive and like it another in March.... that would cover at least half of Spain?
2/8: 5km
3/8: 5km
5/8: 4.5km
7/8: 6.5km
9/8: 5km
10/8: 4.5km
12/8: 5km
14/8: 7km
16/8: 5km
17/8: 5.5km
19/8: 4km
August goal: 97km, completed: 57km7 -
ContraryMaryMary wrote: »OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »I love this idea. I had a thought that we could do some type of 24-hour virtual relay across the globe, so that for 24 hours someone is always running. We could sign up for 30 or 60 minute time slots and take and post an after pic. One of our local running stores does something like this to celebrate global running day and it’s pretty cool. Since we have quite a few time zones represented here, I think it could work. I also know of at least one or two MRC members who like to run in the middle of the night 😉 I love the idea of a traditional team relay race as well too!
The night shifts will be easy as that will be the middle of the day for us 'down under'. There's a fair few Kiwis and Aussies on here who can run during the darkest US hours.
Yes!!! Depending on marathon training / recovery, I may be able to run for a couple of hours.
I really, really love the idea of us all running 24 hours around the world for Dennis!
The hardest hours for the US time zones to fill are probably not the overnights as much as common working hours - like 8am-5pm0 -
I'd love to help with the 24-hr relay - what a great idea. I'm on central time, with Sat, Sun & Mon off.
Signed up for another race - a Viking Dash in Toledo. Bling is Thor's Hammer - I'm a sucker. My husband and I started thinking of Viking costumes to wear - and although we had a good laugh, I can't imagine running 13 miles wearing all that!
June goal - 44/44
July goal - 52/52
August goal - 33/57 miles
Sept. 30 - Wineglass Half Marathon; Corning, NY
October 7 - Viking Dash Half Marathon; Toledo, OH5 -
I am self employed and can run a relay leg as long as necessary (up to eight hours) between 8am and 5pm EST...6
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LaDispute57 wrote: »I am self employed and can run a relay leg as long as necessary (up to eight hours) between 8am and 5pm EST...
That brings up another point. If we do this, we should do all times in UTC/GMT to prevent timezone mix-ups.
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LaDispute57 wrote: »I am self employed and can run a relay leg as long as necessary (up to eight hours) between 8am and 5pm EST...
I work from home on contract so can also run during the work day. Not for eight hours straight, though!4 -
PastorVincent wrote: »I have no way to know for sure, but let's just say some of the posts are suspicious and leave it at that.
That's why I don't get involved in many challenges. When you see someone posting multiple 100km/64 mile runs 5/7hr during a week you get rather suspicions. The math does not work ( 100km/7hr = 14km/hr ; 100/5= 20km/hr) for multiple days at the mega distances - without injury. To me the speed indicates a bicycle, motorbike or car ride being logged as a run. Probably the same people who loose their ankle fobs/bibs at events (triathlon, running etc) can't be spotted in any mid race photo's at race's but still get BQ times. It's one thing to have an entry mistake ( I have a bike ride logged in Strava as a run giving me a 1km PB of 4:38 and 1 mile 7:34) . To correct it I need to go to the premium version or delete the days activities and I would rather spend that money on running shoes. Since I have publicly stated that the time is wrong on multiple occasions my conscious is clear. My 5k, 10k and HM times are correct Chip time verified or picture of my watch face.
A little 6km walk run on the local Misery Mtn Ski Hill with 232m of Elevation previewing the course for the Sept 15 Miserable Miles obstacle race. Someone was out with a mower and knocked the grass down to a manageable ankle/knee high rather than the normal waist high at this time of year. Took me just over 58 minutes with all the up/down roller coaster trails.
Got in some awesome speed work on the last km - just the perfect slope and could see the ground so the footing confidence was very high. Did all the obstacle loops so I would get the same distance as the actual event. Managed to get across the balance beams with only one fall. Hot and smoky but still a nice day on the hill. Really hope BC gets some rain to help knock down the forest fires. The downhill portion gets a little steep on the Black Diamond Ski Trail.
08/05 12.00 km-12.00km - 128.00 km - YTD 634.61km 12 km Judah Hill Climb Taper Begins
08/11 20.00 km-32.00km - 108.00 km - YTD 654.61km 20 km Emperor's Challenge Mountain Trail Race
08/15 9.22 km-41.22km - 98.80 km - YTD 663.83km Pats Creek Climb
08/18 5.94 km-47.12km - 92.90 km - YTD 669.77km Miserable Miles Course preview11 -
My iT support.RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
I have something started. I got the first and last page. Group effort ya know. I'm alright delagating and asking for direction and help since it is a collective effort.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnOSKyGFudwmqd6LeJJTHSxSTewBcaWKaJYWNJnPftQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
I think its unlocked and ready. Any problems, ill try to catch it tomorrow. My butt hurts from sitting on this cardboard scratching block tethered to the modem because my weefee wont connect on this dern laptop.
Ya'll know I'm not marathon material....but I'm happy to do a streak to cover marathon distance to fill in the Hawaii slot....
I plan to run a race in Hawaii, somewhere, at some point. But not sure I'll be up to a marathon.
I saw relay in Hawaii. I'm adding possibilities to sheet, easy to plan something. Dh is all over it. "Where we going?".....
Yall feel free to add info columns, tweak it... I'm trudging through the states so we can add our miles in his memory.
Sorry Australia and UK. I haven added sheets yet. But if anyone wants to pick up where im about to pass out and leave off, I'd love to wake up to finished work. 😲
Can't edit! So I sent you an edit request via Google Sheets.
I'm doing Melbourne Marathon, Australia, on Sunday October 14 2018.
done.
a minor complication of pc to mobile and not remembering my passwords
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8/1: 1.19
8/3: 4.07
8/4: 5
8/5: 6.04
8/9: 2.9
8/11: 17
8/12: 3
8/13: 4.5
8/14: 1.1
8/16: 2
8/18: 5
8/19: 6.5
Total: 58.7/100
8/25 Pint Pacer 5K
9/30 Wineglass Marathon
6.5 miles this morning. I’m ready for some cooler weather. My splits were awful today. However, two girls were selling lemonade near my house to raise money for childhood cancer research, so that was refreshing at the end.6 -
August....run she must
...as always, the big yard with ocean view is open for camping! Currently, there is no (lava)river running thru it.....
On January 5 the BIRR sponsors their sea to mountain relay....31 (mostly uphill) miles from Hilo Bay to Volcano...
https://www.bigislandroadrunners.org/BIRR_h2v.html
Well.... 3 man team. be super nice if we can get two teams. I'll take 2 seconds for DH to pull that trigger. So, if you are up for it? You, me, Eric can be one team. Now if someone else can come, Eric would't mind running his own race. So we have him if we need him.
Is it possible for anyone else to join us for Hawaii in January? I know that trip can be financially challenging, but heck we have lodging. And I bet when Michelle's asleep we can sneak in for a snack, or crash a few of those pig roasting parties.
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the 24 hour running.
we could put together a spreadsheet. (ugh) Haha! with time slots. everyone can figure GMT right? maybe we can embed some time/date corrections? or we can create a new thread dedicated to the 24 hour running vigil. be easier than sorting through here? someone run with it. (i can do the spreadsheet, if ya want. just have to be patient with my mistakes and oversights).
Australia is ahead of us, so??? friday/saturday?
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My iT support.RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
I have something started. I got the first and last page. Group effort ya know. I'm alright delagating and asking for direction and help since it is a collective effort.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnOSKyGFudwmqd6LeJJTHSxSTewBcaWKaJYWNJnPftQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
I think its unlocked and ready. Any problems, ill try to catch it tomorrow. My butt hurts from sitting on this cardboard scratching block tethered to the modem because my weefee wont connect on this dern laptop.
Ya'll know I'm not marathon material....but I'm happy to do a streak to cover marathon distance to fill in the Hawaii slot....
I plan to run a race in Hawaii, somewhere, at some point. But not sure I'll be up to a marathon.
I saw relay in Hawaii. I'm adding possibilities to sheet, easy to plan something. Dh is all over it. "Where we going?".....
Yall feel free to add info columns, tweak it... I'm trudging through the states so we can add our miles in his memory.
Sorry Australia and UK. I haven added sheets yet. But if anyone wants to pick up where im about to pass out and leave off, I'd love to wake up to finished work. 😲
Can't edit! So I sent you an edit request via Google Sheets.
I'm doing Melbourne Marathon, Australia, on Sunday October 14 2018.
done.
a minor complication of pc to mobile and not remembering my passwords
Link
Looks like our IT departments both went to the Feline University of Fixing Things by Putting Your Butt on Them. Good old FTPBT U!2
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