October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    @MegaMooseEsq - could you wear another top underneath of your Captain Marvel shirt to prevent the chafing and provide some extra warmth if needed?
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    This is not my photo, but from someone I know. This is the mud on the course during my race last weekend, where folks were going around it as I splashed through it. Now doesn't that looks like a whole lotta fun!?!
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    If people were in my way, I think I'd go down the middle, too. But otherwise I'd probably stay on the side to avoid slipping and falling ;) Looks like fun!
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,213 Member
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    Question regarding nutrition. I've been doing a calorie deficit for the last (forever) few months to get back on track, and I'm within a kg of my lowest weight (almost 23kg/48lb lost since Jan 2017). But I'm thinking with the amount of ks I'm now doing, and my focus for the next 4 weeks is HM prep, I've been doing a bit of reading. The idea around deficit seems to be mixed, some saying a small deficit is ok, some saying eat maintenance. What are ya'alls thoughts (is that the right usage lol). My ultimate aim for my weight is to lose another 4kg (around 8lb) but my not stressed about it, I'd rather run a good HM

    @Avidkeo it depends on which goal is more important. For me, I want to go into a big race feeling my best and that means eating at maintenance for 2 or 3 week prior to the race. If it's a race that's not a big deal to me I'll stay at a deficit until a few days before the race.

    After the race, either way, stay at maintenance for several days while you recover. Then go back to a deficit.

    Great job getting nearly back to your lowest! After a summer of gluttony I'm trying to get back on track myself and unfortunately have 13 pounds to go to reach my lowest, and 16 to go for my goal, but I'm rededicating myself to the effort as of yesterday.

    Yeah, as always the answer "it depends" is always the right one. :lol:

    There are those that say being lighter on race day means you will run faster. There is this whole concept of "ideal race weight" which, if you are dieting, I am going to guess you are over. Given that some would tell you to eat at a loss so that you can have a good weight at the start. *shrugs*, in this case, do whatever feels right to you. :)

    Lol I very much doubt the 1kg (2lb) I would lose in the next month will make that much of a difference to my race day pace. That said, i was reading about carb loading and the writer kept referring to an average runner of 150lb. I had to google what my current weight is in pounds, and its 149lb!!!!! whooo hooo lol. Does that make me an average runner then, even though I'm short (5'3")?

    Yeah this race means a lot to me, I've been building toward it for a whole year, it is my year goal and the culmination of slow and steady build up, following an actual training plan and goofing off with you guys, so race beats weight loss. Besides, I'm so close to ideal weight I almost don't care, happy to lose it if/when it comes off. This weight feels pretty good. So Race first!

    extending the topic, who carb loads before a half? worth it or not really? I'm thinking of doing it 2 days before the 20k run in 2 weeks, see how that goes, and then tweak for the half. or waste of time?

    Since I just did my first 13 mile run, I'm not exactly an expert but I do get to see under the hood as it were through blood glucose testing, so I thought you might be interested in my observations. I usually eat a big carby oatmeal breakfast the day of, an orange shortly before, and skip any glycogen-depleting activity such as heavy lifting the day before, when I'm planning to run hard. For this run I did all of that and also brought along some gummies which are 24 carbs per serving of three. I ended up eating three gummies, two at the six mile mark, and one at the ten mile mark when I started to feel bonky, and felt just fine, like I had fueled exactly right for me.

    Then I ate 3300 calories between then and bed, no lie, and my blood glucose never went above 100. Kept waking up all night feeling starving. And I ate a whole lotta carbs the next day and my blood glucose levels dropped as fast as I could eat. This lasted three days before it wore off. So my observation as a diabetic would be, no real need to carb load per se, as long as you don't actually deplete your carbs ahead of time so you have a normal full supply in your muscles and liver, and bring a little fuel for hours two and three (if you run more than two hours.) My body, at least, was happy to wait to strip carbs until after the run was over!

    Wow that's really fascinating! I love numbers and "experiments" and that's a neat one. Interesting what happened over the next few days! And kind of a relief. I remember not being hungry for several hrs after my 14k run, but being ravenous when it kicked in!

    It soulike I'm probably on the right track then, and I don't need to do much different, yay!
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,213 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    I thought this was cool and quickly took a photo.

    This guy passed me at the 10 km mark of the marathon.

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    Those legs are neat
    Amazing feet of engineering
  • Mari33a
    Mari33a Posts: 1,329 Member
    06/10 3.17 miles
    10/10 3.19 miles
    11/10 3.19 miles
    14/10 5.05 miles
    17/10 3.18 miles


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  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    I thought this was cool and quickly took a photo.

    This guy passed me at the 10 km mark of the marathon.

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    God forbid anything happens where I lose a leg (come close more than once) I hope I can have his stubbornness and determination to carry on.
  • ddmom0811
    ddmom0811 Posts: 1,881 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    I thought this was cool and quickly took a photo.

    This guy passed me at the 10 km mark of the marathon.

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    I've got something in my eyes. :cry:

    10/1 - Transform App- Upper body
    10/2 - 4 miles + TA W3 Legs
    10/3 - 4.5 miles + TA W4 Upper Body
    10/4 - TA W4 Legs
    10/5 - 4.5 miles + TA W4 Upper
    10/6 - 4 miles in Tampa
    10/7 - rest day
    10/8 - 4 miles + Transform - Arms/Back
    10/9 - Transform App - Legs/Glutes
    10/10 - 3 miles
    10/11 - Transform App - Back/Arms
    10/12 - tried to run but glute pain, walked 2 miles
    10/13 - 4 miles + transform upper body
    10/14 - 4 miles!
    10/15 - Transform App - chest, arms
    10/16 - 4.5 miles + transform app - legs - after a week of no leg workout, I took this one easy!
    10/17 - 4 miles + tbd


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  • workaholic_nurse
    workaholic_nurse Posts: 727 Member
    No run today for me, lifted heavy things for my lower body and core. Rest day tomorrow and long slow run on Saturday. Have a great day everyone.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,222 Member
    October goal: 95 miles

    10/2: 5.5 miles
    10/3: 5 miles
    10/4: 5 miles
    10/6: 3.1miles Old Rip 5K - PR and 2nd place AG
    10/8: 5.2 miles
    10/10: 5 miles
    10/11: 5.2 miles
    10/14: 9 miles
    10/15: 3.5 miles
    10/17: 5 miles

    51.2/95 miles completed

    I got to run 5 miles this morning! When I got up this morning there was a break in the rain so I took it. It may be my only chance to run until Saturday. I figured I would just start running and if it started raining I would head back. It was 50F with a feels like of 47F which really wasn't too bad. It was warmer than yesterday and Monday. I wore capris and a t-shirt with a jacket and gloves. I ended up taking the jacket off about 3.5 miles in. I need to look for some sleeves because I really think that might be just the thing I need for days like this. If it had been daylight and the sun had been shining it would have been perfect. I enjoyed the run quite a bit. It never did rain on me. I saw a few drops between 1.5 - 2 miles and I thought it was going to start raining, but it never did. It is raining now and supposed to rain all day long. This is my least favorite type of weather. I just hate when the skies are gray all day long. I need to see the sun. But I know we need rain and we are in an area that is usually in a drought so I try not to complain about it too much. And we are north of the serious flooding that has been happening in Texas so that is good. I know a lot here seem to love running in the rain. I haven't had many opportunities to run in it. I don't really mind summer rain, but cold rain is not my friend. I was really glad to get a chance to run today. The cloudy weather isn't good for my mood and not getting to run makes it doubly depressing.





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    2018 races:
    5/19/18: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon - 2:43:59.7. - 2nd place AG
    10/6/18: Old Rip 5K Run - PR 29:43.5, 2nd place AG
    11/10/18: Wags & Whiskers 5K
  • workaholic_nurse
    workaholic_nurse Posts: 727 Member
    Scott6255 wrote: »
    Nice 'easy' run with my bro. Easy in terms of pace, but forgot about these hills in Georgia. They are like mountains compared to running at home. But it's all good!

    just realized my mispost a couple of days ago, thought it was @garygse headed to GA, not you sir.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    No run... but tomorrow is another day!
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    garygse wrote: »
    Ran 15 miles at MP this morning...the temps were in the low 50s with a little rain at first, but the rain then stopped and held off for the rest of the run. Average pace for the entire run, including warm-up, was 7:30, so I pretty much hit the mark.

    Yesterday was a tough session getting tested (@Elise4270 it was at Platri in The Colony, so not the place where you went). After a warm-up run of 10 minutes, the first test was the VO2Max test. The face mask was weird at first, my breathing sounded like Darth Vader, and when I tried to talk, I sounded like Kenny from South Park. We started by getting my HR to 130...they wanted it within 1 bpm as much as possible, and then from there we slowly increased the workout so that my HR went up in increments of 5 bpm, up to either 185 or 190 (I forget which...by that point I know I was running a 5:00 pace). Trying to keep your HR within 1 bpm of target, especially at the higher end of the test, is actually quite a challenge in and of itself.

    Then after a cool down, the mask came off (ahh, I can breathe again) and it was time to do the Lactate Threshold test. She took a blood lactate reading, and had me maintain 145 bpm for 5 minutes before taking another blood lactate reading. This continued in increments of 5 (up to 175 bpm), with each target being held for 5 minutes before a blood lactate reading was taken. By the end, my finger felt like a pin cushion...but that's ok, at least I wasn't wearing that darned mask (the bridge of my nose is bruised because of that thing!).

    So now I have to wait for the analysis to be performed, which she said could take a couple of days, but she did have my VO2Max result: 64.

    She also asked me if I'd ever been coached at any time; when I said no, she was surprised and said my running form was actually excellent. I have to credit @Stoshew71 there for his pieces of advice (string from top of head, and headlamps on the hips and nipples) as that really helped me focus on establishing good form and technique when I initially started out running. :smile:

    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
    16 - 5.91
    17 - 15.60

    Total: 172.18 / 250 miles

    @garygse When I read your VO2 Max was 64 I said the F word out loud. :smiley: Wow.
  • garygse
    garygse Posts: 896 Member
    @Orphia Yeah, I had to ask her to repeat herself because obviously I had misheard her. :blush:
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    6 miles treadmill Tues. night.

    I'll be back home again on Sun. and will update the rest of the week then.

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