October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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W3D2 done. Same pace and time as Monday, though it felt faster.7
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I thought this was cool and quickly took a photo.
This guy passed me at the 10 km mark of the marathon.
I've got something in my eyes.
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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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.3
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I thought this was cool and quickly took a photo.
This guy passed me at the 10 km mark of the marathon.
That reminds me of this article in Runner's World reprinted online earlier this year. Long fascinating story short, a doctor and HS cross-country coach decides in his mid 40s to have his leg amputated after surviving a near-amputation in a motorcycle accident in his 20s so he can keep running after the degeneration resulting from the accident becomes too severe.7 -
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
There was a break in the rain at 9 am so I set out to squeeze in 8-10 miles before I had to go to work. Thwarted again....
Tomorrow is not looking any better. 80% chance of storms in the morning. 😑
October goal miles = 120 / 88 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)8 -
Did 7k of interval training today - warmup, followed by three sets of 10 minutes hard and 3 minutes easy. For whatever reason, legs felt like concrete. Up to 90k for October.
Sunday's race weather forecast is rain mixed with snow and temps in the mid 30s. Guess the fast and light or slow and warm decision has been made for me by Mother Nature.
Rest day tomorrow...5 -
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.
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 5K4 -
10/1 11.84miles
10/2 8miles
10/3 5miles
10/4 rest
10/5 5miles
10/6 rest
10/7 13.1race! Crawlin Crab Half Marathon
10/8 4miles
10/9 9miles
10/10 16miles
10/11 4miles
10/12 9miles
10/13 5k race! Joggin’ for Frogmen
10/14 rest
10/15 10.41miles
10/16 5miles
10/17 14miles
Miss a day posting and I’m 133 posts behind!!
Did 5 easy miles yesterday and had to shuffle my long run of the week to today due to a crazy busy weekend. I knew I wouldn’t be able to get it in if I didn’t do it today. It actually felt pretty good. The weather is amazing. Low humidity just feels so wonderful after how hot and muggy the entire summer was!
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 8K6 -
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!5
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No run... but tomorrow is another day!1
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MegaMooseEsq wrote: »I thought this was cool and quickly took a photo.
This guy passed me at the 10 km mark of the marathon.
That reminds me of this article in Runner's World reprinted online earlier this year. Long fascinating story short, a doctor and HS cross-country coach decides in his mid 40s to have his leg amputated after surviving a near-amputation in a motorcycle accident in his 20s so he can keep running after the degeneration resulting from the accident becomes too severe.
I showed the pic I took to my husband, and he said he saw the guy interviewed on TV!
He said the guy finished the marathon, his first one, and said his stump was hurting in it.
They used his heel to make his stump!
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@workaholic_nurse Yeah, I noticed that and was going to comment on it with this post, but saw you corrected yourself.
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.
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
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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.
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.
Wow. 4 -
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.
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. Wow.
I did too! And I'm in line at the grocery store!
Garmin tells me that I range from 44 to 50. I don't have faith that's accurate.5 -
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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@7lenny7 Runalyze has me at 49, and Garmin has me at 54-56, which goes to show that algorithms can only really be used to determine a trend at best.
Interestingly, in between my initial post and now, the results arrived in an email...looks like my LT is 170 bpm. I've also got a nice breakdown of the calories per hour for each HR (from 135-190 in increments of 5), along with fat per hour and carbs per hour. It feels like information overload, but in terms of recovery it will tell me how many carbs I need to be taking in to replenish the glycogen that was used during a given run.
There's also another sheet that gives me better HR zones to plug in to Garmin so that I can train a little more effectively. Overall, while the test wasn't exactly cheap (it was an early birthday present to myself) I think it's money relatively well spent. 7 -
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
10/01/18 :::: 5.0 :::: 5.0
10/02/18 :::: 4.2 :::: 9.2
10/03/18 :::: 7.1 :::: 16.3
10/04/18 :::: 3.7 :::: 20.0
10/05/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 20.0
10/06/18 :::: 20.0 :::: 40.0
10/07/18 :::: 5.0 :::: 45.0
10/08/18 :::: 4.5 :::: 49.6
10/09/18 :::: 5.1 :::: 54.7
10/10/18 :::: 5.9 :::: 60.6
10/11/18 :::: 4.0 :::: 64.6
10/12/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 64.6
10/13/18 :::: 15.0 :::: 79.6
10/14/18 :::: 2.8 :::: 82.4
10/15/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 85.4
10/16/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 88.4
10/17/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 91.5
Went to group speedwork tonight for just a base run. It was spitting cold rain, so not the most pleasant but it's always good to get it done with the group. My friend (who is running Marine Corps as well) and I talked happily about how much we are enjoying cutting down our mileage this week. We may even sleep in on Saturday and not start our run until 8 am! Such a treat.
@garygse - so interesting about the testing. That is an impressive VO2 max for sure. I was just browsing around to see what the range is and learned that the world record is something like 95! Some very elite runners have 70s to high 80s. I had no idea they went that high. I'm curious if you have a Garmin or other device that gives a V02 max estimate and how that compares.
I'm sorry I haven't been doing a good job of keeping up on conversations here. Will try to catch up soon!
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