October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,846 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    OK, I'm honing the details of the 24 Hour Run for Dennis.

    I want to write a blog post, a post for Success Stories and/or send something to MFP HQ, because I think this is a significant MFP thing we did. I'd like to have a good summary to send to Dennis' family (I sent his son a link to this thread when it was starting but something more succinct and shareable would be nice).

    Here's what I've got so far (pardon my inability to convert some runs below to the time you ran in the list):

    Hour - Runner
    0 (2001-2100 GMT) - @Orphia
    1 - Orphia
    1.5 - Orphia
    2 - Orphia
    2.5 - Orphia
    3 - Orphia
    3.5 - Orphia
    4 - Orphia
    4.5 - Orphia
    5 – Orphia, @garygse
    5.5 - garygse
    6 - @bubblegum2fitness 2.5 miles
    6.5 - @HonuNui
    7 - HonuNui
    7.5 - HonuNui
    8 - HonuNui
    8.5 - HonuNui?
    9 - @juliet3455
    9.5 - juliet3455
    10 - juliet3455
    10.5 - juliet3455
    11 - juliet3455
    11.5 - juliet3455
    12 - @_nikkiwolf_
    12.5 - _nikkiwolf_
    13 - _nikkiwolf_
    13.5 - _nikkiwolf
    14 - @workaholic_nurse, @Teresa502
    14.5 – workaholic_nurse, Teresa502
    15 - @girlinahat
    15.5 - girlinahat
    16 - girlinahat, @Scott6255
    16.5 - girlinahat, Scott6255
    17 – Scott6255
    17.5 – @Elise4270 , @kgirlhart , Scott6255
    18 – Elise4270, kgirlhart, @shanaber
    18.5 – Elise4270, shanaber
    19 – @OSUbuckeye906
    19.5 – OSUbuckeye906
    20 - @kevaasen
    20.5 - @Marissaxzxzxz 5.05 miles (4-5 pm GMT), kevaasen
    21 - Marissaxzxzxz
    21.5 - @Avidkeo 3KM
    22 - Avidkeo, @rusgolden
    22.5 - rusgolden
    23 - @bubblegum2fitness 3 miles, @Butterchop
    23.5 - bubblegum2fitness, Butterchop
    24 - @biketheworld
    24.5 - biketheworld
    25 - @MegaMooseEsq 10.4 miles
    25.5 - MegaMooseEsq
    26 - MegaMooseEsq
    26.5 - MegaMooseEsq

    ? @Tramboman 10.5 km
    ? @marisap2010 2.14 miles 11am
    ? Juliet3455 21.1 km
    ? @MobyCarp 8 miles 18:46 to 19:51 GMT
    ? @katharmonic 2.8 miles

    Let me know if your slot is right, and/or where it should be.

    Orphia - I ended up running from 7:17 am - 8:23 am ET (I think that is 11:17 am - 12:23 pm GMT) for 5.55 miles. Anyway it was an hour later than what I signed up for but thankfully @workaholic_nurse ran at that time. Not a good excuse but it was dark, I didn't have anyone to run with and I was afraid to run alone!
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
    Let's try this on Strava:

    Miles for Dennis
    https://strava.com/athletes/milesfor_dennis If the link doesn't work, just search for him. "Miles for" is the first name, "Dennis" is the last name ;)

    Once you're connected as followers, tag him on the run you dedicated to him (under "edit activity". That's the "add a friend who didn't log" option.) Once we get the notification, one of the administrators can save it as a Dennis run. When we have everyone's runs logged, someone who is good at the fun mapping tools can come up with some visualizations for us :) This will work for the marathons people are doing in the future as well.

    Administrators: How about @Orphia , @Elise4270 , @_nikkiwolf_ , others??? Basically we're accepting friend requests, then when we get notification that someone sent us a run, add it as Dennis' own with the name of the person in the title. I had to save the picture and manually add it to my own run.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    @garygse I've tried keeping in mind the hip, nip, head alignment/headlamp throughout the day and on yesterday's run. I can already tell my glutes work harder than they have been. Thanks for sharing that.

    I see people hunched over running and hanging their heads. Its easy to slip into that lazy posture and cater to a weak core.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,145 Member
    @polskagirl01 I followed Miles for Dennis on Strava but I can't add him to my run since he is not following me.
  • eleanorhawkins
    eleanorhawkins Posts: 1,659 Member
    garygse wrote: »
    @Elise4270 I guess it should be brought up again seeing as there are new runners here who may not have heard the original advice, so here goes:

    Basically, this came from @Stoshew71 but he's not been available lately so I'll try my best to repeat it. In order to help your running form imagine the following:
    • A piece of string attached to the very top of your head that is pulled taut by some invisible hand. This helps keep your head up and your back straight to prevent the slouching that Elise mentioned.
    • Headlamps on your hips and nipples. Basically they should all be pointing in the same direction at all times, meaning you shouldn't be twisting your body or letting one side lift up more than the other. Keeping these headlights in alignment is an excellent way of ensuring this
    He also mentioned about imagining a small coin wedged between your butt-cheeks...the idea being to keep your glutes activated, but it just felt like I was running while trying to hold in farts and it didn't really work well for me. YMMV.

    One piece of advice that I heard from a different forum was to scrunch your shoulders up to your ears every now and again and then let them drop. This stops you from hunching your shoulders when you start to get tired, and I would do the scrunch-and-release whenever my watch alerted me at each mile of my runs.

    I still think of these pieces of advice, especially when tired late in a run, and when I first started running I kept them in mind constantly until the running form became second nature.

    Hopefully other new runners can adopt this advice and stave off injury caused by bad form. :smile:

    Superb advice, many thanks!
    Probably a bit too TMI but having suffered from a few of those 'ohemgee I need a bathroom and I need one NOW' moments in the early days before I worked out what I can/can't eat/drink before a run, I reckon I will have no trouble at all mastering that coin trick lol
  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    hesn92 wrote: »
    10/1 - lifted
    10/2 - 2.4 miles - W7D1 of C25k. Ran for 25 minutes straight :-o
    10/4 - lifted
    10/5- 2.5 miles - W7D2.
    10/6- lifted/went on "hike" (with 2 year old, we didn't get far), rode bikes - good day
    10/8-lifted
    10/9-torrential downpour, didn't get to run :( plus my basement flooded, woopee
    10/10-lifted
    10/11- 2.2 miles W7D3
    10/12- lifted
    10/13- 2.4 miles W8D1 ran for 28 minutes straight :-o again
    10/15- lifted
    10/16- 2.4 miles W8D2 another 28 minutes straight, woo hooo
    10/17-well I was supposed to lift
    10/18- 2.6 miles W8D3

    I finished the program! Yay! 30 minutes of running but as you can see I did NOT run 5K. I'm a half mile short! According to Strava my avg pace is like 11:30 min/mile. So I suppose that's my new goal. I'll add minutes on until I get there.

    Sometimes I stop and think about it, like I just ran 2.6 miles straight. I'm not sure if I've ever done that before in my life. Wow. Go me.

    Woot! Congrats @hesn92 ! You will be crushing that 5k distance in no time. Are you signing up for a 5k race? That’s the fun part. :)
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
    edited October 2018
    kgirlhart wrote: »
    @polskagirl01 I followed Miles for Dennis on Strava but I can't add him to my run since he is not following me.

    Got your run, thanks! I'm not sure if the times are automatically going to transfer in correctly, but that should be an easy fix if I go by the list.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,199 Member
    edited October 2018
    polskagirl01 wrote: »
    Let's try this on Strava:

    Miles for Dennis
    https://strava.com/athletes/milesfor_dennis If the link doesn't work, just search for him. "Miles for" is the first name, "Dennis" is the last name ;)

    Once you're connected as followers, tag him on the run you dedicated to him (under "edit activity". That's the "add a friend who didn't log" option.) Once we get the notification, one of the administrators can save it as a Dennis run. When we have everyone's runs logged, someone who is good at the fun mapping tools can come up with some visualizations for us :) This will work for the marathons people are doing in the future as well.

    Administrators: How about @Orphia , @Elise4270 , @_nikkiwolf_ , others??? Basically we're accepting friend requests, then when we get notification that someone sent us a run, add it as Dennis' own with the name of the person in the title. I had to save the picture and manually add it to my own run.

    Someone needs to tell strava they are charging a him for summit, unless he paid for a year... ETA oops. I mean his actual account, not this. I noticed when looking at my friends list he has the summit logo still.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,199 Member
    @RunRachelleRun that is such good news! So happy for you. I know you canceled hawaii, see if you can book anywhere else and have a holiday. It may end up. Costing you more in the long run, but you deserve the break.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,199 Member
    @ContraryMaryMary I've just heard from the uni, and they have changed my schedule all around. I'm not meeting them at 11am and having the photoshoot at 12-1. I'm scheduled to do 12k on Wed, still keen to join in? Timing might be a bit tight though lol
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    edited October 2018
    Yesterday I got to run 4.74 miles, probably my last run before the half marathon on Sunday. It was a beautiful fall day (mid 60s) so I was back in shorts, which only emphasized how none of my capris are nearly as comfortable. Thankfully it’s looking to be only a little cooler on Sunday so shorts it is! The first half of the run was amazing, almost effortless, but about halfway around the lake, I started feeling not-insignificant mittleschmertz, as the Germans so neatly call it (i.e. “cramps”), which made the second half of the run something of an endurance effort. I’m due to get my period today or tomorrow and do sometimes get cramps just before or early on, but I’ve never had it happen during a run before and then have the pain go away by the time I stopped running, so it was very odd. Not a big fan.

    Also, it was my first time running in toe socks! I picked up a pair of Injinji’s at the TCM expo out of curiosity (and because they were on sale) and generally I’d say I liked them. I didn’t love the feel between my big toe and second toe, but the rest of my toes felt much more comfortable than usual. I don’t usually have toe issues running but the small toes on my right foot in particular are a little cramped so I can feel them during my runs at times, but not in these goofy babies! I might have to look into getting some more once my cash flow loosens up again (i.e. next June at the way things are going). ETA: My main toe issue is my lackadaisical approach to nail hygiene, which the socks also helped with but I should probably address on its own. I am not especially fond of pedicures - I could take or leave them and generally don't consider them worth the money - but there's a place across the street from my hopefully-soon-to-be new house that offers a "men's sport pedicure" for half the price of a normal one, so I'm hoping they'll let me give that a try. And yes, I did trim my toenails myself this morning - I got a bloody toe on a long run a few weeks ago and learned that lesson at least!

    I guess I should start planning for Sunday. I was a bag of nerves before my last half, but honestly I have been so busy with house-buying stuff that I've barely had time to think about it. Of course, it helps that I've run the distance already plus a few 10-13 milers. I'm a little tempted to try starting with the 2:20 pace group instead of the 2:30 group, but that would put me sub-11 minute miles if they go for even splits which is probably too ambitious for the first ten miles or so. So far my best pace over 10 miles is the 11'08" I managed at the last half, but the pacers there did a faster first half and those last few miles were tougher than I'd like. Even so, I did enjoy running with the group, so I think that I'll stick to the same goal as last time - first 9-10 miles with the 2:30 group, then pick up the pace for the last 5K if I feel up for it. The route is going to be a lot straighter and largely downhill, plus I'm going to try and be less of an idiot about tangents, so fingers crossed for a PR! And that I remember to turn off my HRM and my watch doesn't die. Yeesh. Time for a list!

    Ten+ mile pace:
    9/9 - 13.5-ish @ 11’08”
    9/23 - 10.63 @ 11’23”
    9/30 - 12.66 @ 11’49”
    10/14 - 10.04 miles @ 11’33”

    @MobyCarp: I guess I am an outlier here because I genuinely do not care if my runs end on random numbers. I've looped around a little if I'm short of a particular goal, but not to hit a round number.

    @Orphia: I do not have either garmin or strava (I keep meaning to set up the latter, but that’s a #novemberproblem. I do have gps data from Apple workouts if thst’s at all compatible.

    @biketheworld: I was catching up on the Another Mother Runner blog a couple of nights ago and came across a link to a New York Times article talking about how winners are people who know when to quit when things aren't working out. It fit pretty perfectly into my “don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good” mindset that’s been keeping this self-improvement project going far longer than I might have expected. I know I’ve posted about this general subject before, but I think that the key to meeting your goals is to constantly be evaluating your goals, and being ready to change your goals as needed - basically, when to quit.

    Unrelated to running but because I know there are plenty of nerds here, I just finished Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars (at 4 am yesterday morning after staying up to work on my budget - I think I’m almost there!) and would highly recommend it to fans of alternative history, and/or space exploration/the space race. If you liked the movie (or related book) Hidden Figures, you will almost certainly like this book.

    OCTOBER MILES:
    10/1 Mo - rest
    10/2 Tu - 1:11:20 - 6.54 meandering and cold
    10/3 We - 0:20:06 - 1.94 zippy after lifting
    10/4 Th - 0:45:37 - 4.33 medium effort
    10/5 Fr - rest
    10/6 Sa - Twin Cities Marathon Weekend 10K - Chip time: 1:05:14
    10/7 Su - “rest” volunteering at TCM gear check
    10/8 Mo - rest
    10/9 Tu - 1:09:53 - 6.54 improving my cold weather game
    10/10 We - 0:40:00 - 3.60 numbers approximate (workout accidentally turned off)
    10/11 Th - rest
    10/12 Fr - 0:56:36 - 5.20 medium effort sort of painful
    10/13 Sa - rest
    10/14 Su - 1:56:06 - 10.04
    10/15 Mo - rest
    10/16 Tu - 1:06:06 - 6.32
    10/17 We - prehab, finally (if I’m going to neglect lifting I need to not neglect this!)
    10/18 Th - 0:52:09 - 4.74
    10/19 Fr - rest

    October Total: 55.59/85 miles

    Races! (italics under consideration)
    July 4: Red, White and Boom! 5K Chip time: 0:32:20
    August 25: Glo Run Night Race 5K Chip time: 0:30:40
    September 8: Helen Gold 10K DNS - trip postponed
    September 9: City of Lakes Half Marathon Net time: 2:28:25
    October 6: Twin Cities Marathon Weekend 10K Chip time: 1:05:14
    October 21: Mankato Half Marathon
    November 24: Mustache Run 10K
    December 8: Reindeer Run 10K or 15K (leaning 15K)
    January 5: Polar Dash 10K
    January 26: Securian 10K
    May - August: Endless Summer Trail Running Series
    July 17: Torchlight 5K

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