September 2018 Running Challenge
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3.34 windy miles running to the Lake Hartwell Dam(GA side). Fairly flat and had a headwind the whole way out(bonus tailwind on the way back) and it looks like the hills and other runs have paid off as I hit a new PR for a 5k @ 32:48, a 2:44 improvement.🤯 32.08/60.5, per endomondo, at the halfway point for the month.
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »
You're just getting more for your race fee. At the awards ceremony for my last race, the RD stopped presenting, every time a runner would come in, and the whole crowd would turn around and cheer them in. Some of the 100 racers had been out there for 36 hours by the time they ceremony started. The RD liked to call them bargain shoppers, getting more race time for their money. It's a big part of why I'm going back for his other race next fall.@MNLittleFinn envy... I think I prefer trails to road by a huge margin myself (even though I'm always fighting against cutoffs on trails)..
Ha, I love this philosophy!2 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »@jele30 Nice running. You'll get pictures another time. Sometimes you just have to run.
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PastorVincent wrote: »quilteryoyo wrote: »@PastorVincent I can't ever see myself getting so lost in a run that I didn't even realize where I was going. But, then again, I don't use headsets. I prefer listening to nature when I run outdoor, or watching TV if I'm on the treadmill. Glad it ended well.
I have to. If I actually realize I am running and think about it, I would not make it 1/2 a mile. I do not mention it often, and perhaps that is a disservice to others, but every step I take is a struggle. I have to take my mind out of the activity to a place where there is no pain in order to keep going. I can run without headphones, I do it for most races, but my head is still not in my body for most of it.
We all face our own set of challenges, this is just how I defeat mine. It is not perfect, but it is me.
I continue to be amazed that you have kept it up. I genuinely don’t think I could if I didn’t love it.RunsOnEspresso wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »quilteryoyo wrote: »@PastorVincent I can't ever see myself getting so lost in a run that I didn't even realize where I was going. But, then again, I don't use headsets. I prefer listening to nature when I run outdoor, or watching TV if I'm on the treadmill. Glad it ended well.
I have to. If I actually realize I am running and think about it, I would not make it 1/2 a mile. I do not mention it often, and perhaps that is a disservice to others, but every step I take is a struggle. I have to take my mind out of the activity to a place where there is no pain in order to keep going. I can run without headphones, I do it for most races, but my head is still not in my body for most of it.
We all face our own set of challenges, this is just how I defeat mine. It is not perfect, but it is me.
Running is the only time my mind is silent. I've gotten lost in unfamiliar places before because my mind finally quiets and I kind of meditate. But I have to listen to a podcast or music because I can't stand listening to my breathing. It puts me back into the present and I don't get the brain shut off.
And my daily "nature" is cars. Not exactly what I want to listen to.
This is me, too. I’ve tried to have conversations right after running and I have to really focus to get my head back from that zone. It’s one of the top reasons I love running.2 -
@PastorVincent Thanks for being honest. It helps to know that not everyone finds running easy, mentally. Another reason I don't listen to music, or anything else, is that all of the races I have run in the past (not many) have banned headsets. If I do all of my practice runs with a distraction and then don't have that for the run, I don't think I could do it. Plus, when I tried (when I started running the first time about 10 years ago) the headsets never lasted very long - the cords would break or I'd get tangled in them. I'm sure there are much better things out there these days. I may find I need that once I start running longer distances. Who knows what the future holds?
Today, my training plan called for a 15 - 20 minute run. I wasn't feeling it at all, so only did 15 minutes at a slower pace - on the treadmill. Adding the warm up and cool down walk, I did a total of 1.6 miles in 24:15 minutes. (RE conversation above: I do have to watch TV or listen to music when I run on the treadmill!)
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@MedalsofHonor
In Honor and Memory of SSG James Patton
Army
4/182010
Valor Run - Half Marathon
2 Place FEMALE AGE GROUP AGE: 40 - 49
44 Overall Place
12 Gender Place
Chip Time 1:58:38
Pace 9:04
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Sept 15, West Cancer Fight On 5k
I hope everyone else had as great a run day as I did! One of my goals was to be competitive in my age group before December, not win or even place mind you, just be maybe in the top 20 with a plausible chance at being mistaken for someone who might make the podium. Today's race had six AG medals per group and I was 10 out of 66 in my AG! 69 out of 800 something total finishers. So that made me happy. And my husband was 8 out of 25, which is good for him, since he runs with me and men in his AG are faster than women in mine. No PR, but this is a long course - about 3.35 according to my GPS, which tallies with some guys who were running alongside us and said something when their watches hit 3.1 and the finish was still a ways off. So even though our official chip time was only 31:26 our pace was very good for me and I'm happy with my performance.
I also finally beat my arch-nemesis, Stroller Lady! The very first 5k I was ever in (in fact it was this same race, a year ago) before I was even able to run a full 5k, I saw a lady ahead of me running with a stroller and said, I may not be fast, but surely at least I can catch that stroller. Nope. The stroller lady pulled away and rapidly disappeared into the distance. After the third race in which she soundly defeated me, I looked up her race number to find out who she was, and learned she's a running coach who offers classes in running with a stroller. Totally out of my league. That made me feel a little better about eating her dust, but I still felt miffed at being beaten every time by somebody who was too young to walk! Well, today I finally passed the stroller. Yay! And the most hilarious thing happened when I passed her. Her baby, who must be a little more than a year old now, piped up in the tiniest baby voice, "Left - passing on the left..." She runs with this baby so often that the baby has picked up race lingo the same way other babies learn to say "Mama," or "No!"
This is a large charity race with a lot of casual people and walkers, and as usual the announcer asked walkers to start at the back, and as usual they didn't. But what was not usual was that he said something about it, as we moved off, "Oh, thank you so much walkers for lining up at the front, great job there. Oh, brilliant, your dog just tripped a runner. See, that's why the rules state dogs are not allowed on the course." I wanted to run back and give him a big hug! My hero! We started well towards the front, and were easily half a mile down the road before we successfully passed most of the walkers, and then we started to pass the inexperienced people who had gone out too fast and had to slow to a walk. And then on the final turn, our course merged with the one mile Survivor's Walk. So we spent most of the race dodging people. We ended up alongside a young man who seemed a regular runner of that course, since he kept using the same course strategy we had figured on from running it twice before. He was just slightly slower than we were, and I think it annoyed him to be passed by older people, because every time we started to pull away he would redouble his effort and you could see him starting to wheeze and turn purple. Finally he ran himself to a frazzle and dropped behind. It was pretty warm - about 80 with a dewpoint about 70 at 8:30 am race start - not too bad compared to what we've been used to, which probably gave us an advantage since I doubt most of the other people out there have been loony enough to train in the afternoon heat.
Last year when my husband and I ran this, we were about halfway though c25k and thought we were doing great because we ran a whole 8 minute stretch. Our time was 44 something. Also, we were both fat. This is me then versus me after a year of running:
After the race there was a full breakfast, live music from a bluegrass band, and lots of vendors with swag. The most unusual swag was a foam rubber prostate given out by the prostate cancer center. I guess it's good for raising awareness of the need for prostate screening, but then what are you supposed to DO with it? We gave ours to the cat, and he's chasing it around the floor. My favorite thing about the band was that they played "Man of Constant Sorrow" and a little boy in the audience started doing the hillbilly dance from "O Brother Where Art Thou?" We ate breakfast with a couple about our own age, who as it turns out are basically us from last year. She has recently had cancer surgery (last year we were two weeks out from my husband's surgery) and they walked most of the way, because they only just started running. We assured them that if they kept it up, they would get better and better. Last year the family we sat next to inspired us with the same sort of talk and it felt good to pass it forward.
They handed out bells to all the cancer survivors, and following the music they called up the survivors for a group picture and mass bell ringing. That's my husband in the blue shirt kneeling in front.
And this is us at the photo booth
The other thing that's changed a lot since last year is that 5k isn't really enough distance for us now, so after the ceremonies we took a long walk around the park. We noticed that the couple walking in front of us were the AG winner for my husband's group and the 2nd place from mine. It feels GREAT to need to walk more after 5k, whereas last year we were worried our tired legs would make it back to the parking lot!24 -
Also, that puts me at goal for the month! I picked a modest 31 miles because my foot was bothering me. It seems fine now, so on to stretch goal of 50 miles!
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@rheddmobile Great race report and well done to both you & your husband!
@AlphaHowls Congrats on an awesome race result!4 -
@rheddmobile Love your post! Laughed at the "stroller lady." My first race, when I was running 10 years ago, my goal was to beat the 80 year old lady who was ahead of me (I was 49ish at the time). I did by about 3 sec. It felt good, but I also felt a little guilty. LOL I talked to her over the course of a few races and she had been an avid runner all of her life - something I never was.7
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@elise4270 - I can't imagine losing a child to alcohol and mental illness any more than I can to losing one to death. So painful either way! {{hugs}} to you too!September, she'll remember (to run)So i realized we did the SPAM virtual run ladt October and went looking to sign up for it again and found this: https://www.aimatmelanoma.org/get-involved/aim-for-the-cure-walks/
@skippygirlsmom did you know? Love it!
I'm so glad they made the "cover!" I didn't organize a S.P.A.M. run this year....I'm in that ostrich stage of grief.....
No worries of course. I can imagine your grief.
Alex is lost to alcohol and mental illness (bipolar diagnosis), no idea if he'll ever come out of it. I know its not the same thing, but I've lost him. Ive lost count of how many times hes tired to kill himself, 5 maybe 6. Hes not who he once was in my life. I'm not good at relationships anyway, so the whole thing just pushes me further in to antisocial behavior/attachment disorder type crap. Further away from people i can get the better. I get cynical. (Sure doesnt help ive been running with his old mp3 player. When days of innocence prevailed). Ugh enough about my woes. ((Hugs))
We're doing the Virtual 26.2 hour relay for Dennis and i noticed it fell on the same day i did the spam for Steve. So I'll definitely have him and you in my thoughts too.
We could continue it and make October 14th or second weekend in October, our fallen runners/lost love ones rememberance runs days. A "Run Your Heart Out" run. What troubles your heart, let your legs take far away.
I love your idea above in bold!
@katharmonic - You are a rockstar! Like @Elise4270 I am way down the list 😳
@sarahthes - can't believe the weather you all are getting already!
@AlphaHowls - congratulations on a great race and AG place!
@rheddmobile - Congratulations to both you and your husband! That announcer would get my love too!4 -
I took an extra rest day yesterday after being so sore from my training workout Thursday evening. Too much legs again on top of all the leg work on Tuesday. Not sure what the trainer was thinking but my legs were pretty unhappy yesterday. They felt better today when I got up but when I started my run my glutes were not happy to the point that I thought I might not be able to get in a long run. Fortunately they loosened up after the 1st couple of miles and I ended up with a pretty great long run. I did stop and stretch out my calves a couple of times which helped too. It got really hot but the humidity was way down and I had to have my husband come and get Hobbes the Vizsla when he laid down in the dirt and just looked at me. My husband also brought me a cold bottle of water which was so was awesome! I went on to finish an additional 5 miles and then jumped in the pool for a cool down swim.
For all of you who have those lovely green, shady trails and places to run this is my view. The river is completely dry now so of course the birds have all relocated to where ever they go.
Date........Miles.......Total
09/01......0.00.......0.00
09/02......8.23.......8.23
09/03......3.82.....12.05
09/04......0.00.....12.05 - To Oregon
09/05......0.00.....12.05
09/06......3.88.....15.93 - Cool Hillsboro
09/07......2.57.....18.50
09/08......0.00.....18.50 - Santa Ynez
09/09......1.60.....20.10 - Run to the dog park
09/10......4.30.....24.40 - Treadmill intervals, Home + Agility
09/11......5.25.....29.65 - + Strength Training
09/12......6.41.....36.06
09/13......0.00.....36.06 - + Strength Training
09/14......0.00.....36.06 - Extra rest day
09/15....10.07.....46.13
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
10/14/18 - Surf City 10k
10/27/18 - SoCal Halloween Wigged Out 5k
12/16/18 - SoCal Santa Claus for a Cause 10k
12/30/18 - Run In The New Year's 10k
02/03/19 - Surf City Half Marathon
05/11/19 - Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon9 -
@rheddmobile HA! YOU KICKED BABY BUTT!! Err. I mean, well done, and cute kid and all that.
@AlphaHowls W00T! Congrats! Dew claws up!9 -
09/02 - 8.5 hot humid miles
09/03 - 10 miles
09/04 - Back to the car shop - yay
09/05 - 8.5 humid miles
09/06 - 8 humid miles
09/07 - 9 humid miles
09/08 - Storming
09/09 - Storming
09/10 - 13.1 miles
09/11 - 8 miles
09/12 - Date Night - No Run
09/13 - Forget what happened
09/14 - 16 miles
09/15 - 10 miles
Just an easy short 10 today. Not even much in the way of elevation (only 760 feet). Pretty lazy run.
Upcoming Races:
Steel Challange 5k - May 2019
Pittsburgh Marathon - May 2019
Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Race - May 2019
--More as I find them - need to find a nice trail race
2021 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)6 -
Second Saturday in a row being grounded from running. Did my physio exercises last night and now I have more pain than yesterday! I am going to assume that means it's working.
Although given the weather I kind of don't want to run right now anyway. I don't mind warm rain. I don't mind snow and super cold. It's the in between sleet that I'm not a fan of!
I'm on the third Saturday of no run! Just over two weeks total.
I am back to walking my normal steps (over 15,000) and at a normal pace so progress. Did try yoga gain Friday and am not feeling any worse (woohoo). Doing my stretches.
Tomorrow i may to a very light test (as in 30-60 seconds run, 30-60 seconds walk for 1-3 reps. I am a little scared to try and fail. But I guess as long as I don't overdue it, it won't cause any/much delay.
I am deciding what to do about my race next weekend. OBVIOUSLY I won't be running, but debating if I go to walk the 5k. If I start feeling too "poor me" I will have the context of the families the race is supporting (soldiers) to put it all in a bigger perspective (hey, I'm done pretty good all things considered!) I could possibly walk the 10k. both would be a bad idea.
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@AlphaHowls Congrats on the AG placement! I can just about run two miles at 9 minutes, you can run 13 of them! Me and my beat up knees have no aspirations to run halfs, but I aspire to kick *kitten* like you!4
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@rheddmobile wrote: »@AlphaHowls Congrats on the AG placement! I can just about run two miles at 9 minutes, you can run 13 of them! Me and my beat up knees have no aspirations to run halfs, but I aspire to kick *kitten* like you!
Thank you! That made me smile!@PastorVincent wrote: »
@AlphaHowls W00T! Congrats! Dew claws up!
I thought of you around mile 11 or 12....right, left, repeat....
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@rheddmobile Great race report and well done!
@AlphaHowls Congrats. You are a super star.
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@HonuNui @Elise4270
I feel you. Not a child. But i lost my husband to mental illness. He was sober for 5 years. He fell off the wagon for a few months, got dirty drugs, and od'ed. He left behind a 14 year old daughter, and a younger brother and sister and his parents. I felt prepared because I'd gone to al anon for years.
I try and do something honorific on our wedding anniversary, his day of passing, and his birthday. I'd be honored to join you guys if you choose to do something11 -
I am deciding what to do about my race next weekend. OBVIOUSLY I won't be running, but debating if I go to walk the 5k. If I start feeling too "poor me" I will have the context of the families the race is supporting (soldiers) to put it all in a bigger perspective (hey, I'm done pretty good all things considered!) I could possibly walk the 10k. both would be a bad idea.
If it was me, I would go do what I could for the 5k. The mental game matters and finishing a race matters emotionally more than physically.
But I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. So YMMV and all that. 5 -
AlphaHowls wrote: »@PastorVincent wrote: »
@AlphaHowls W00T! Congrats! Dew claws up!
I thought of you around mile 11 or 12....right, left, repeat....
Glad my advice helped! I mean if you had done left, right, repeat instead it could have been an unmitigated disaster!6 -
quilteryoyo wrote: »@PastorVincent Thanks for being honest. It helps to know that not everyone finds running easy, mentally. Another reason I don't listen to music, or anything else, is that all of the races I have run in the past (not many) have banned headsets. If I do all of my practice runs with a distraction and then don't have that for the run, I don't think I could do it. Plus, when I tried (when I started running the first time about 10 years ago) the headsets never lasted very long - the cords would break or I'd get tangled in them. I'm sure there are much better things out there these days. I may find I need that once I start running longer distances. Who knows what the future holds?
Today, my training plan called for a 15 - 20 minute run. I wasn't feeling it at all, so only did 15 minutes at a slower pace - on the treadmill. Adding the warm up and cool down walk, I did a total of 1.6 miles in 24:15 minutes. (RE conversation above: I do have to watch TV or listen to music when I run on the treadmill!)
I did much of the training for my first marathon on the dreadmill. I think I managed to get to 2 hours... not sure, but let's just say I ran with Frodo in his quest to get the ring to the mount doom!
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PastorVincent wrote: »9/1 16.7 miles
9/2 rest
9/3 5 miles treadmill
9/4 9.21 miles
9/5 rest
9/6 10 miles
9/7 14 miles
9/8 4miles
9/9 rest
9/10 9.41 miles
9/11 8miles
9/12 5miles
9/13 4miles
9/14 20MILES!!!!!! <- I did it all on the TREADMILL!!!
So what do you do when you have a long run scheduled and you are stuck inside due to a tropical storm warning? Well, you lament that you are stuck inside and resign yourself to skipping it cause who in their right mind would ever run 20 miles on a dreadmill??!!
Well, I figured I had nothing else to do. I also knew I wouldn't be able to run the entire thing straight so I decided to break it up into segments. I did 8 miles, then 6 miles, then 4, then 2. It took me 4 hours and 50 minutes total with breaks between where I would drink water and change into dry running clothes and also feed my kids lunch I had a pouch of Honey Stingers after 14 miles and they didn't bother my stomach so that's good to know for future long runs.
Here it is! I went by the treadmill mileage since my Garmin in "indoor" mode doesn't seem as accurate. It wasn't too far off though!
3/18/2018 Shamrock half marathon
3/24/2018 Don't Sit on Colon Cancer 5K
5/28/2018 Run to Remember 5K
10/7/2018 Crawlin Crab half marathon
10/13/2018 Joggin for Frogmen 5K
11/18/2018 Norfolk Harbor half marathon
12/2/2018 Busch Gardens Christmas Town Dash 8K
To complete 20 miles is hard enough physically and mentally. 20 miles on a dreadmill.....even more of a mental challenge to overcome. Just incredible! Very well done!
I could not run 20 miles on the dreadmill. We don't get tropical storms where I live, but we do get winter storms. There was a Saturday in 2016 when the weather was so severe that all the group runs were canceled and GRTC even had to call off the Freezeroo race that day because it was so cold. I was scheduled to run 22 miles, and didn't think I could handle more than 10 to 13 outside.
So I ran my 22 miles as 177 laps of a 200m indoor track. Later, someone suggested I could have run it on a treadmill. I just stared at him; that never occurred to me.
So 177 laps would make me dizzy! Plus doesn't that mean one leg got more work out than the other? I am not sure I could pull off 20 miles on a dreadmill but I think that would be more likely for me than 177 laps! How in the world did you keep track?
Track strategy: Start Garmin. Set to my interval screen, which shows lap time and lap distance. Count 8 physical laps, press lap button. Let Garmin count 22 timed laps of 8 track laps. Think of it as 22 x 1600m easy, with no recovery. Then add 1 track lap to make the full 22 miles.
There were times I lost count of track laps, but the lap time was such that I could figure out where I was in the progression from 1 to 8 track laps, but I could figure it out from lap time. There were times I didn't remember which mile I was on, but Garmin displayed how many 1600m laps I was doing. If I hadn't broken it up into chunks of 8 track laps and had Garmin to count 1600m laps I would have lost count of track laps for sure.3 -
juliet3455 wrote: »@MobyCarp My friend from the local running club has a BQ Time. Julie Boles Gummesen. As long as they don't shift the time due to an abundance of competitors.
Can you provide any suggestions on accommodation since it will be at a premium - where do you book to give the best travel options. If I remember it's bus service to the start area and then fend for yourself after the finish.
Book early. It's a tradeoff between cost and distance from finish line. The bus service runs from close to the finish line back to Hopkinton, but it's right by Arlington Station; so a hotel on the T would be next best thing to a hotel close to the finish line.
I reserved my hotel last May when they opened up, and got a better price for a good location than I got the last 3 years reserving my hotel in September.
Learn to use the T. If you're going to be there 3 or 4 days, buy a 7 day pass. It's worth it, even though on Marathon Monday people wearing race bibs can ride the T for free. But having a 7 day unlimited pass means I don't worry about hopping on the T for a mile to get an ice cream cone at McDonalds, or riding the T out 2 miles so I can do my 2 mile shakedown on the last 2 miles of the course instead of out and back on the last mile of the course.
The hotel may say the best way to get there from the airport is a cab. If the hotel is anywhere close to a T station, the best way to get between the airport and the hotel is the T. You can board the silver line for free at the airport, and then transfer however many times you need to in order to get where you're going. If you're buying a 7 day pass, that matters only because it means you don't have to get that pass immediately at the airport, it can wait till the next time you need the T. (Disclosure: This year I bought the 7 day pass at the airport and got on the blue line, since I needed fewer transfers by that route.)2 -
September Running Totals (miles)
9/1 – rest day
9/2 – 15.80 warmup + Oak Tree Half
9/3 – rest day
9/4 – 7.23 warmup + XC workout
9/5 – 6.02 group run
9/6 – 6.05 warmup + XC workout
9/7 – rest day
9/8 – 14.23 paced run + solo run
9/9 – 6.29 warmup + PG XC #1
9/10 – rest day
9/11 – 9.24 warmup + XC workout + cool down
9/12 – 6.55 group run
9/13 – 5.18 warmup + XC workout
9/14 – rest day
9/15 – 13.25 partly paced run
September running total to date – 89.84
Nominal September mileage goal: 165 miles
Real Goals: Run Oak Tree well, winning my age group and finishing healthy. Build base/train toward Wineglass, running PG XC #1 so as not to be injured, and running the USATF Masters XC Championship so as not to be injured. Run Wineglass easy, finishing healthy for a good recovery in October.
Today's notes – Another day of sucktastic humidity; at run time, temperature was 68º F and dew point was 66º F. Had a guy show up to be paced. He's run two marathons, and has never had a GPS watch!. Ran the prescribed 9 miles with him, gave him the best advice I could about tapering for Rochester (a week from tomorrow) and running Rochester easy to defer his BQ attempt to Philadelphia.
Then I set out solo, intending to have a 15 to 20 mile day depending on how I felt. About 11 miles, my legs said they were ready for taper. Turned toward base, with an option to change my mind. At 12 miles my guts said they really wanted the civilized rest room back at the store. Back to the store came out to 13.25 miles. Much needed rest room stop, then went back out. Now it is noticeably warmer in addition to being humid. Decided I was done for the day. This brings the week in at 40.51 miles, two weeks out from Wineglass.
Went home and penciled in rough mileage estimates for an ad hoc 2 week taper. Middle of taper is a 5K XC race that will feel like a speed workout. Now I need to back off, rest up, and be in good shape 2 weeks from tomorrow.
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 14, 2018 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hamlin, NY) finished in 1:45:54
July 28, 2018 Battle at Bristol 10K (Naples, NY) survived in 1:28:33
August 1, 2018 IEXC 5K #1 (Rochester, NY) finished in 22:17
August 8, 2018 IEXC 5K #2 (Rochester, NY) finished in 22:10
August 15, 2018 Pound the Ground 10K (Mendon, NY) finished in 43:11
August 22, 2018 IEXC 5K #3 (Rochester, NY) finished in 21:59
August 29, 2018 IEXC 5K #4 (Rochester NY) finished in 22:00
August 29, 2018 IEXC TDP 1 mile (Rochester, NY) finished in 6:07
August 29, 2018 IEXC TDP 400m (Rochester, NY) finished in 1:14
September 2, 2018 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY) finished in 1:36:41
September 9, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #1 5K (Newark, NY) 2.9 miles finished in 20:50.9
September 23, 2018 USATF Masters XC 5K (Buffalo, NY)
September 30, 2018 Wineglass Marathon (Bath, NY to Corning, NY)
October 7, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #2 6K (Akron Falls, NY, probable DNS)
October 21, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #3 6K (Mendon, NY)
November 4, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #4 6K (Trumansburg, NY)
November 11, 2018 Syracuse Half Marathon (Syracuse, NY)
November 18, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #5 6K (Syracuse, NY)
2019 Races:
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA)
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@elise4270 - I can't imagine losing a child to alcohol and mental illness any more than I can to losing one to death. So painful either way! {{hugs}} to you too!September, she'll remember (to run)So i realized we did the SPAM virtual run ladt October and went looking to sign up for it again and found this: https://www.aimatmelanoma.org/get-involved/aim-for-the-cure-walks/
@skippygirlsmom did you know? Love it!
I'm so glad they made the "cover!" I didn't organize a S.P.A.M. run this year....I'm in that ostrich stage of grief.....
No worries of course. I can imagine your grief.
Alex is lost to alcohol and mental illness (bipolar diagnosis), no idea if he'll ever come out of it. I know its not the same thing, but I've lost him. Ive lost count of how many times hes tired to kill himself, 5 maybe 6. Hes not who he once was in my life. I'm not good at relationships anyway, so the whole thing just pushes me further in to antisocial behavior/attachment disorder type crap. Further away from people i can get the better. I get cynical. (Sure doesnt help ive been running with his old mp3 player. When days of innocence prevailed). Ugh enough about my woes. ((Hugs))
We're doing the Virtual 26.2 hour relay for Dennis and i noticed it fell on the same day i did the spam for Steve. So I'll definitely have him and you in my thoughts too.
We could continue it and make October 14th or second weekend in October, our fallen runners/lost love ones rememberance runs days. A "Run Your Heart Out" run. What troubles your heart, let your legs take far away.
I love your idea above in bold!
@katharmonic - You are a rockstar! Like @Elise4270 I am way down the list 😳
@sarahthes - can't believe the weather you all are getting already!
@AlphaHowls - congratulations on a great race and AG place!
@rheddmobile - Congratulations to both you and your husband! That announcer would get my love too!
All of this ^^ @shanaber said it so well
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September, she'll remember (to run)
9/1 2.85
9/2 4.15
9/3 2.00
9/4 3.5
9/5 rest
9/6 rest
9/7 4.00
9/8 3.10
9/9 rest
9/10 snorkel 2 hours
9/11 3.20
9/12 3.52
9/13 rest
9/14 3.68
9/15 2.20
Total 31.20
@elise4270 I like that idea (virtual memorial race for....whoever...)
Upcoming races:
Nov. 11, 2018 Las Vegas Rock 'n Roll 10k
January 4, 2019 Hilo to Volcano Ultra 50k Relay. In memory of @keeprunningfatboy
Ticker is my goal for 2018 and progress to date:
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I was planning to go camping/hiking/hunting this weekend with my brother. Went in late last night and camped, hiked/hunted today and gave up late afternoon because we were seeing so little of the rabbits and squirrels we wanted. We saw lots of turkey, quite a few deer, and even a snapping turtle (I could have taken with my fishing license... really thought about it).
That game me an opportunity to do the 1st 5K perimeter run (after-dark glow run) at a prison in my community. There were only 50-60 runners and I got 1st male. It was only 2.97 miles according to my Garmin, though.
Added 6.0 miles from yesterday on the treadmill and the 2.97 miles run today.
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Sunday long run today. Had 18km scheduled. Mapped out 17.75 and couldn't be bothered rerouting for an extra 250 metres. As it turned out the battery on my Garmin died at around 12km, which had an interesting effect - I had been running at an easy 6:15 for over an hour, but the combination of no watch, wanting to get it over with, and finally being on my usual route meant I sped up quite a bit and ran the remaining 5.75km at a sub 6 minute pace.
Running challenge
1 Sept: yoga
2 Sept: 9.22
3 Sept: yoga
4 Sept: 7.02km
5 Sept: yoga, then 4.76km with Fartleks *snigger*
6 Sept: 11.73km
7 Sept: rest
8 Sept: yoga
9 Sept: Xterra Trail Run, 13.58km
10 Sept: yoga
11 Sept: 6.34
12 Sept: yoga, then 4.91km with 9x100m sprints
13 Sept: cake
14 Sept: 10.77
15 Sept: yoga
16 Sept: 11.53 + 5.75
85.61 of 160km for September.
Upcoming events
29 October, Auckland Half
17 November, Xterra Trail Challenge Waihi 20.5km8 -
@rheddmobile and @AlphaHowls very well done!
I just ran 10 kilometres. I just ran 10 kilometres. Oh my God I just ran 10 kilometres!!! Longest run ever, plus one km walk to warm up and another one to cool down. My legs are already yelling at me, they are going to be screaming later I'm sure. But wow! Slow as heck (took me 1hr19min40secs) but still within my extremely modest first half marathon target pace. I settled for run 9 minutes walk 1 minute, seemed to work well for me so I'm going to stick to that for all my longer runs for now.
I tried combining my new shoes, which are tighter round the foot than the old ones and bothered me a little on Friday, with the thicker old socks I used to run in before I bought my compression socks. Felt much better, but my calves missed the compression. Guess this means I'm going to have to go out and buy compression sleeves. Who said this was a cheap sport? Or I guess I could try the new shoes and thick sorts for short runs, and the new spare pair of identical shoes to my old ones sitting in the wardrobe (which went well for a couple of months then seemed to break down) and compression socks for long runs. Thoughts?
2/9: 3.88km
4/9: 9km
6/9: 5km
7/9: 5km
9/9: 4.16km
11/9: 5km
14/9: 5km
16/9: 10km
September goal: 75km. Completed so far: 47km.19
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