October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    @7lenny7 great race report, and I nth the suggestion to get that foot looked at. Injury rehab sucks, but it sucks more if the injury gets aggravated!
  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    10/1 = 3 miles
    10/2 = vacation
    10/3 = 5 miles hiking on vacation
    10/4 = vacation
    10/5 = 3 miles
    10/6 = 10 miles
    10/7 = 11 miles
    10/8 = rest day
    10/9 = 12 miles
    10/10 = 6 miles
    10/11 = 4 miles
    10/12 = 17 miles
    10/13 = rest day
    10/14 = 8 miles
    10/15 = ⛈ :(
    10/16 = more thunderstorms AM / 4 neighborhood miles after work
    10/17 = 5 miles
    10/18 = rain, work, rain, work
    10/19 = 17 very soggy miles
    10/20 = a NINE HOUR Saturday work meeting (it was as terrible as it sounds)
    10/21 = 14 miles
    10/22 = 10 miles

    Sooooo.... two ladies in my running group are thinking about doing the Mittens Challenge in May. https://borgessrun.com/earn-your-mittens

    This is a double marathon challenge -- 2 Marathons in 2 Days. They invited me. I am thinking about it. Someone talk me out of it before I break myself and my bank account. LOL

    October goal miles = 120 / 129 miles-to-date

    Upcoming Races:
    10/27 = Hill Country Halloween Half Marathon
    11/22 = Georgetown Turkey Trot
    1/26/19 = Miami Tropical 5K
    1/27/19 = Miami Marathon
    3/10/19 = ZOOMA half (potentially)
  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Whew! My November 3rd half is postponed until December 1st due to flooding.

    Watch out Texans.

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    Yeah, the entire City of Austin has been on a boil water notice because the debris from flooding is impacting the water treatment facilities. They have not said when it will be fixed (not today and probably not tomorrow?). Its a great day to be a water seller. The grocery stores are completely wiped out of bottled water. :/
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    @amymoreorless oh thats rough. I hadn't thought about the water quality. We've been lucky its all headed your way and flooding has been short lived here.
    DH didnt get a hoverboard. *Sadness* said the box was empty and he never found anyone at Walmart to help him.. thats fine. Prob crap at Walmart anyway... Amazon can help me.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    10/1 5 miles
    10/6 3.2 miles
    10/10 3 miles
    10/12 3 miles
    10/13 10 miles
    10/14 3 miles
    10/17 3 miles
    10/18 5 miles
    10/22 3.1 miles Brew Ha Ha Virtual 5k (the real one sold out too fast!)


    Total 38.3 /80 miles

    I have no more words. My Instagram post from tonight took them all.
  • amirahdaboss
    amirahdaboss Posts: 921 Member
    I’ve been slacking on my 10K training because, midterms. Got in 3.25 miles on the treadmill after my Zumba class tonight.
    10/1:4 miles
    10/3: 4.4 miles
    10/5: 4 miles
    10/9: 4.8 miles
    10/11: 4 miles
    10/12: 2.2 miles
    10/13: 4.7 miles
    10/15: 1.25 miles
    10/17: 5 miles
    10/19: 2.8 miles-ish
    10/20: 3.5 miles
    10/22: 3.25 miles
    Cumulative for October: 43.75/60 miles
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Anyone hear how @LaDispute57 did? I feel like he should have finished his race by now, but I did not see any update...
  • joannedrummond5
    joannedrummond5 Posts: 229 Member
    October 1 - Holidays
    October 2 - Holidays
    October 3 - Holidays
    October 4 - Holidays
    October 5 - Holidays
    October 6 - Holidays
    October 7 - Holidays
    October 8 - 5 km run in Destin, Florida
    October 9 - Traveling home
    October 10 - Traveling home
    October 15 - 14 km run
    October 16 - 14 km run
    October 17 - 14 km run
    October 18 - 10 km run
    October 19 - 10 km run
    October 20 - 10 km run
    October 21 - 5 km club run
    October 22 - 8 km run


    Total distance run 90 km - goal 140 km.
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    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.

    @polskagirl01 Sorry I didn't reply right away (spent Fri-Mon at my parents 50th wedding anniversary, didn't get a single chance to check in at MFP). Thank you for creating the account! Letting people tag runs and adding them seems much better than giving everyone the password. If you need one more person to accept requests & add runs, sure, I'll be happy to help :smiley:
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,550 Member
    Nice cool 5 miles this morning. 55F with drizzle. Felt good not to race. Looking to get into the meat of marathon training. Sounds good now, but I know it will start to get really hard very soon. Just hoping I can keep up with the miles without getting hurt.

    Good call on getting to the doc @7lenny7. Hoping for good news.
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
    _nikkiwolf_ wrote: »
    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.

    @polskagirl01 Sorry I didn't reply right away (spent Fri-Mon at my parents 50th wedding anniversary, didn't get a single chance to check in at MFP). Thank you for creating the account! Letting people tag runs and adding them seems much better than giving everyone the password. If you need one more person to accept requests & add runs, sure, I'll be happy to help :smiley:

    I actually think it may be necessary to download and edit the times on the .gpx files and then put them back up in GMT time. You would think Strava would let you edit the time/date on a run, but it seems not. So if someone has experience with that and wants to try (with help from @Orphia 's list), that would be great. If no one volunteers, there are tutorials online I can use to figure it out. I may not be able to get to it this week, though.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,150 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
    10/18: 4.1 miles
    10/21: 11 miles
    10/23: 4.5 miles

    70.8/95 miles completed

    I ran 4.5 miles this morning. The weather was perfect at ~55F. I kind of had a hard time getting going this morning though. I don't really know why.

    @7lenny7 That was an awesome race report. I'm glad you are getting the toe looked at and hope they get you fixed up quickly.


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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
    amymoreorless wrote: »

    Sooooo.... two ladies in my running group are thinking about doing the Mittens Challenge in May. https://borgessrun.com/earn-your-mittens

    This is a double marathon challenge -- 2 Marathons in 2 Days. They invited me. I am thinking about it. Someone talk me out of it before I break myself and my bank account. LOL

    far from talking you out of it ma'am, that looks like sooooo much fun! I am more interested in the half and half option because I think with my current level of fitness I would DNF the second one if I went for the mittens challenge.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    @7lenny7 I'm sorry to hear that they think it's your tendon, but that pop followed by an inability to extend did sound familiar - I did my thumb in some years back with similar symptoms. Easy fix but did require surgery. I looked around on the internet to see if anyone else had a droopy toe. It seems to be a rare injury. The only other instance I found was, probably not coincidentally, another ultra guy. He had not gotten it repaired and was just attempting to live with it (and continuing to run on it, gotta love ultramarathoners) but was regretting his decision since it kept curving under his big toe and he had to tape it constantly. So, yeah, probably better to do whatever the MRI indicates. I'll be thinking good thoughts for you.

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