October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    @MobyCarp - congratulations on a well-run race!!!!
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    @elise4270 I have a Confession to make. I got talking with a friend who is also a running, and we're talking about watches. He was thinking of getting something with all the extra metrics as he is coming from a forerunner 15. I love the 645 but after a couple of uses I decided I wanted something crossed with a fitbit for all day tracking - I spend a lot of time sitting at a desk so a reminder to move is a good thing for me. I was using my phone for ages as the reminder and it was a PITA. Also our local sports store had garmin on sale so I bought a vivoactive 3 music (I thought it would be a gimic but love not having to carry my phone on me!) I hope you don't mind. I gave your watch to my friend because he would get way more use out of it than I would. I'm really grateful for it, I would probably never have got a garmin if you hadn't sent it to me, I'm a complete convert now!

    Haha! Awesome! It was yours to give!
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    @Shanaber That location looks amazing
  • garygse
    garygse Posts: 896 Member
    noblsheep wrote: »
    juliet3455 wrote: »
    MegaMooseEsq wrote: »
    Scott6255 wrote: »
    This is what I see in the spreadsheet:
    1 2100 Carol
    1.5 2130 Carol
    2 2200 Carol
    3 2300 Carol noblsheep
    3.5 2330 Carol noblsheep
    4 2400 Carol noblsheep
    5 100 gap
    6 200 gap
    6.5 230 HonuNui
    7 300 HonuNui
    8 400 HonuNui
    9 500 gap [ juliet3455 ]
    9.5 530 gap [ juliet3455 ]
    10 600 gap [ juliet3455 ]
    11 700 gap [ juliet3455 ]
    12 800 Nika _nikkiwolf
    13 900 Nika _nikkiwolf
    14 1000 Jeremiah-workaholic nurse Teresa
    15 1100 girlinahat
    16 1200 girlinahat Scott
    17 1300 Scott
    17.5 1330 Elise Kathryn Scott
    18 1400 Elise Kathryn Shana
    18.5 1430 Elise Shana
    19 1500 Shana
    19.5 1530 Hilary
    20 1600 Hilary
    20.5 1630 Marissaxzxzxz
    21 1700 Marissaxzxzxz
    21.5 1730 Kim - avidkeo
    22 1800 Kim - avidkeo rusgolden
    22.5 1830 rusgolden
    23 1900 gap
    24 2000 gap
    25 2100 Meg(amoose)
    25.5 2130 Meg(amoose)
    26 2200 Meg(amoose)
    26.5 2230 everyone

    Am I looking at the wrong one?

    ETA: This is the link

    This is what I’d been looking at too (clearly, since I’m on this one and not the other). I can’t do the first two slots I signed up for but can still do the last three.

    @noblsheep , @Scott6255 , @garygse , @LaDispute57 Miles for Dennis - Would one of you be able to pick-up that 2 hour block hours 5 & 6 between Carol and @HonuNui . I have put myself in for the 3 hour gap after @HonuNui which has me starting at 2300 local time - running in the dark like an Ultra Runner. It's a good thing I know all the RCMP ( Police Officers ) in town so I can give them a warning. Planning to run until I have 26.2 km. Water stash at each end of the park trails.

    @7lenny7 like @Elise4270 mentioned using the spoiler helps the page load faster as the pictures can load in the background after the main text/images are loaded. Sounds like you had a great summer and that was a great video clip of the water hazard.

    I might need to pull out of this project. Woke up this morning with a mammoth headache and am currently coughing my lungs out. I'll see how I feel tomorrow and try to take the first hour of the gap if I can muster it. If not, I'll dedicate my next marathon to Dennis.
    No worries, I now know I should be able to run slot 5. Now to hope this rain will hold off...there's been a storm for most of the day but it's all quiet right now.

  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,206 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    @elise4270 I have a Confession to make. I got talking with a friend who is also a running, and we're talking about watches. He was thinking of getting something with all the extra metrics as he is coming from a forerunner 15. I love the 645 but after a couple of uses I decided I wanted something crossed with a fitbit for all day tracking - I spend a lot of time sitting at a desk so a reminder to move is a good thing for me. I was using my phone for ages as the reminder and it was a PITA. Also our local sports store had garmin on sale so I bought a vivoactive 3 music (I thought it would be a gimic but love not having to carry my phone on me!) I hope you don't mind. I gave your watch to my friend because he would get way more use out of it than I would. I'm really grateful for it, I would probably never have got a garmin if you hadn't sent it to me, I'm a complete convert now!

    Haha! Awesome! It was yours to give!

    Thank you Elise. I was a bit iffy about it, because you were so generous and it seemed a little, odd maybe. But in the end he really will get so much more out of the metrics than I would have, he is over the moon, it pushed me to get one when I probably wouldn't have and I LOVE my vivoactive so much. You really are amazing
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,206 Member
    @MobyCarp well done! You have to post a pic of your complete mug collection!
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,206 Member
    Another rest day for me cause hubby is in a tournament. My legs are really grateful for the extra rest. I decided to do a real workout challenge, a 1000 calorie workout from fitness blender, made up of 30 min HIIT, total body strength and abs. I've done them from time to time, I used fitness blender last year to lose 20kg, and often use them for lifting videos. I thought it would be relatively easy with all the running I've been doing it would be a good idea.

    OMG the HIIT section kicked my butt. Last time I did it, a few months ago, it was great. But I've lost the ability to do a lot of the explosive actions. I may have to find a way to bring some of it back. Once the half is over maybe. I estimate about 500 calories burned total.

    Chilling for the rest of the day I think.
  • bubblegum2fitness
    bubblegum2fitness Posts: 143 Member
    So I'm a total spreadsheet novice. Do I Just log my miles under my location? Or do I log them somewhere else?
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited October 2018
    bubblegum2fitness wrote: »
    So I'm a total spreadsheet novice. Do I Just log my miles under my location? Or do I log them somewhere else?

    The sheets dedicated to states are for those that, at any point run a marathon for Dennis. He passed without having achieved his goal of running one in each state.

    ETA I figure everyone will update here with the runs.
  • bubblegum2fitness
    bubblegum2fitness Posts: 143 Member
    @Elise4270 Oh, okay. I got a little confused. I will post my mileage here.
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    edited October 2018
    @shanaber I am so happy that you got positive news about Hobbes! I had been thinking about you and him.

    @MobyCarp still killing it! Gongrats on the award!

    @PastorVincent that sounds like a very special wedding!

    @Elise4270 enjoy your race!

    @MegaMooseEsq I don't think the info for the 2019 ESTRS series will be up in December yet. I'll try to remember to let you know when it's published. They all sell out so you'd need to sign up by a month before hand to be safe.

    Congrats everyone who raced this weekend! Kudos to you who ran in crappy weather!

    Dang I've missed you guys!
  • jele30
    jele30 Posts: 136 Member
    @shanaber so glad that you heard back about Hobbes, so happy that it is positive news!
  • garygse
    garygse Posts: 896 Member
    Today's run was a one-hour run as part of the 26.2-hour Relay Run For Dennis, run easy as my legs are still recovering from yesterday's long run.

    01 - 15.63
    02 - 14.43
    03 - 10.21
    04 - 12.19
    05 - 22.04
    08 - 15.63
    09 - 12.64
    10 - 12.19
    11 - 13.53
    12 - 26.40
    13 - 6.97

    Total: 149.67 / 250 miles
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    @7lenny7 Well done!!
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,206 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    Today I had my best race in 18 months!

    This was The Big Woods Run, a trail half marathon which goes through a beautiful state park at the peak of fall color. A rural church puts this race on (along with a 5k and 10K) to raise money for their mission work. Along with a great trail race they serve you homemade soup, bread and cookies after, and there's a bake sale with all kinds of tempting delights!

    This is my second year running the half. I felt I ran fairly well last year finishing in 2:08. My goal this year was 2:05 but I wasn't going to run it hard because I have a 12 hour trail race next weekend. I looked through the data from several HMs and decided I would try to keep my HR around 155. In a paved HM I can go 162 but I wanted some buffer for hills and mud.

    The weather was perfect for my taste. 32F at the start! I wore shorts and a short sleeve shirt, but I also wore arm sleeves, gloves and a buff around my ears. The sleeves, gloves and buff came off after 2 or 3 miles.

    I had late start leaving my house (with Kody pouting like crazy when he figured out that he wasn't going with me) but made it with enough time to go through my race prep in the truck. I made it to the start area about 5 minutes prior to race. I had to pee and there were long lines, but hey... this is a rural race and there were no lines at the shelterbelt west of the church.

    After the countdown we were off. A bugle player got us going with the William Tell Overture, followed by a bit of the theme from Rocky and finally, after everyone was past the start line and on the road, he finished with Happy Trails to You. That was awesome!

    So now we're off. The first 1+ mile is on paved road, surrounded by cropland, with a strong back wind. I'm know my heart rate goes crazy for the first mile of any run so I run by feel and enjoy it. I did an excellent job not getting caught up in the adrenaline and kept to my plan. My first mile is 8:52, which surprises me.

    A turn at the corner, down another road a bit then north into the woods. Oh my such beauty! Yellows, reds and oranges. Thankfully this is not a technical course or I'd be tripping all over. This is why fall is my favorite season!

    We get 2 miles of totally flat, but gorgeous trail. About a mile in we come to the first stretch of significant watery mud. There's a conga line of folks daintily trying to skirt around the mud on the edge of the trail. WTH?! This is a *trail* race! While they're all trying to keep clean and dry, I came through and barreled right down the center of the trail. Most of the runners cheered me on and a couple even fell in behind me and enjoyed the mud like it's meant to be enjoyed. I did hear some snide comments from a few because I was splashing water and mud on them. I can't say I felt bad about it, I was having too much fun. I average about 9:10 on the flat trails.

    We get out of the southern part of the woods onto a gravel road. Half a mile later we turn north and are now in even more impressive woods and we start to see hills. I bomb the downhills and power hike the uphills.

    We get about halfway through the race and I'm doing great. My HR gets a little high on the uphills and a few times when I want to fly by others but overall I'm sticking with my plan. My HR ranges from 152 to 160,but mostly a few beats either side of my 155 target.

    We finish our miles on the north end of the park, where I average 10:20 per mile, and get back to the flat south end.

    Until now I've been playing leap frog with a guy I know. We're about the same age and about the same ability. With three miles to go he tells me he's hurting and he'll see me at the finish. I'm kind of bummed because it's been fun going back and forth and chatting when we're close. On the other hand I feel like I need to crush him when I can because he's done the same to me. So I smile and put on a burst of speed to drop him for good.

    Up until now u had my Garmin set to show HR. I'd get my lap pace every mile and I had a sense that I was doing well I really didn't know if I was on target for my goal or even if I was ahead of last years pace. With three miles to go I finally looked at the time.

    If I were to run 10 minute miles I'd beat my goal! Well I ran faster Than that for the next two miles,about 9:33. I thought I could do the same for the last mile on the paved road but it was slightly uphill the entire way and the wind holy hell the wind! It was all I could do to run a 10 minute mile but I finished strong and passed two runners just before the chute.

    My final time was 2:02:58! About 5 minutes faster than last year. I placed 65 out of 238,beating 71 percent of the field. Last year I only beat 40 percent of the field. I'm pretty stoked about the improvement!

    My friend finished 3 minutes behind me. He looked like hell when he got in.

    After the church lunch and buying too many goodies at the bake sale, I headed to my truck. While scanning Strava I saw the post of another friend who ran the race and she had included great pictures of the woods and a nearby waterfall. Ah shoot I forgot to take pictures! So I drove up to the park, got out of and ran a couple more miles so I could get some pictures!

    I'll post some of those when I get back to a computer. This app doesn't let me post photos.

    Awesome report, I can't believe you went back and ran more to get pics, and then didn't upload them here! That's a criminal offence, I'm sure of it. Well done on the race

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