November 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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Welcome brave newbies! How impressivly brave you few are that decide to dig a little deeper approaching holiday feasts and never ending office snacks offered with guilt, glares, and gluttony!
There's strength in numbers! Don't bend to the will of others, trust yourself.
With that... I wanted to run today but dh said i had to go to church. 🍎🐍💀🥀🍷🍞
I figured if get diner out of it. Just didnt think it'd be $4.99 for both of us to eat. Taco casa. Ahwell...
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@Elise4270 What could be better than dinner with significant other?0
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PastorVincent wrote: »Probably will be starting November on a big fat 0. Sitting around now waiting on a contractor to arrive, then have parent-teacher conferences. Yay.
As expected. Ah well.
Welcome new people! Welcome back old people!
let's show November whose in charge and knock back some miles! 
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@Elise4270 What could be better than dinner with significant other?
Baited question if i ever saw one.
Not over eating is definitely a win. Not having the ibs flare is another win. The 4.99 dinner? Unheard of epic win.4 -
I am currently whining about how it is cold outside. Remember a few months ago I was whining that it was too hot?6
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I am currently whining about how it is cold outside. Remember a few months ago I was whining that it was too hot?
Yup. It nice-ish here. 46f (7.8C) at 920pm. Highs been low 60's (15-16c). And I'm missing out. I hate the shorter days mostly. But you get really cold. We don't for too long.2 -
November Running Totals (miles)
11/1 – 7.58 warmup, speed work, cool down
November running total to date – 7.58
Nominal November mileage goal: 160 miles
Real Goals: Avoid injury. Run well in the Pete Glavin XC series. Have fun at the Syracuse Half and Race with Grace 10K. Build base toward the start of Boston training.
Today's notes – Today it rained. All. Day. Long. WIth temperature steady in the low 40s. Just like the start of Boston, only without the wind and without the spectator support.
I had been thinking I didn't need a second day of speed work this week. I've been running quite a few races lately, and I have a race each of the next 3 weekends plus one on Thanksgiving Day. But looking out my window at the rain makes it really hard to start. So I went to club practice, even knowing that Coach would not be there tonight. Even knowing that Thursdays are more lightly attended than Tuesdays. I went to see if there would be anyone there for peer pressure and moral support, and to be guilted into running even if I was there alone, because I drove across town to get there.
There were a few people there. I ran into Bill, who had just run the Dublin Marathon this weekend. Aside from a disappointing time of 4:24, he had a great experience. Bill tells me the roads in Ireland are paved with pebbles glued together by asphalt, and this is a harder surface than he was used to running on. So he was compelled to walk/jog the last 5 miles in order to avoid injury. Other than that, his recovery seems to be going great.
So I went out and did the 2 mile warmup with Bill, in the rain. The first 50 meters in the rain is hard, and then it's just running. Particularly when running with a friend and chatting, the time can go pretty fast. I did back off the pace a bit because I listened to how Bill was breathing; but he is close enough to my speed that this was no big deal.
Take a pit stop, and I was totally unmotivated to do speed work. Bill said he'd try to hit a 7:20 pace on the track; was I interested in running with him? Okay, I might run a couple laps. So I let Bill set the pace, and just ran alongside him in Lane 2.
We ran the first lap in 1:36. Hit 3 laps in 5:10. Bill was running almost as fast as my T pace, probably about his I pace. And he called the 10 minutes right on time.
The workout assignment of the day was 10 minutes at T pace, then one set of 15 second cutbacks starting at 90 seconds. Having run 10 minutes at a reasonable approximation of my T pace, it made a lot of sense to just take a lap for recovery, then run the cutbacks. So that's what I did. Then Bill and I went out for a cool down run. Took the short run around campus so BIll could have 1.5 miles, and I tacked a couple of track laps on the end for my 2 mile cool down.
And by the time we got done, I felt great. Okay, not great enough to hang around and stretch in the rain; but glad I got out and got this done. Drove home to my warm, dry house and did my stretching in the living room. And now I'm sitting at the computer with a lapful of purr, thinking how glad I am that I don't have to shovel rain.
2018 races:
February 17, 2018 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) finished in 54:48
February 24, 2018 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) finished in 28:46
March 17, 2018 USATF Masters 8K (Shamrock 8K, Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 31:55
March 24, 2018 Spring Forward 15K (Mendon, NY) ran at MP, finished in 1:10:47
April 16, 2018 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA) finished in 3:28:43
April 29, 2018 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble, Dedham, MA) finished in 41:33
May 20, 2018 Lilac 10K (Rochester, NY) finished in 42:21
May 26, 2018 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY) finished in 20:12
June 3, 2018 USATF Masters Half Marathon (Ann Arbor, MI) finished in 1:34:42
June 9, 2018 Ontario Summit Trail Half Marathon (Naples, NY) DNS - injury
June 17, 2018 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY) short course, 18:04 for ~2.9 miles
June 30, 2018 Charlie's Old Goat Trail Run 5 mile (Victor, NY) 4.89 miles by Garmin, 43:15
July 14, 2018 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hamlin, NY) finished in 1:45:54
July 28, 2018 Battle at Bristol 10K (Naples, NY) survived in 1:28:33
August 1, 2018 IEXC 5K #1 (Rochester, NY) finished in 22:17
August 8, 2018 IEXC 5K #2 (Rochester, NY) finished in 22:10
August 15, 2018 Pound the Ground 10K (Mendon, NY) finished in 43:11
August 22, 2018 IEXC 5K #3 (Rochester, NY) finished in 21:59
August 29, 2018 IEXC 5K #4 (Rochester NY) finished in 22:00
August 29, 2018 IEXC TDP 1 mile (Rochester, NY) finished in 6:07
August 29, 2018 IEXC TDP 400m (Rochester, NY) finished in 1:14
September 2, 2018 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY) finished in 1:36:41
September 9, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #1 5K (Newark, NY) 2.9 miles finished in 20:50.9
September 23, 2018 USATF Masters XC 5K (Buffalo, NY) finished in 20:03
September 30, 2018 Wineglass Marathon (Bath, NY to Corning, NY) finished in 3:18:02, PR with negative splits
October 7, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #2 6K (Akron Falls, NY) finished in 24:41
October 13, 2018 Finish Strong 15K (Hilton, NY) finished in 1:03:27
October 21, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #3 6K (Mendon, NY) finished in 24:17
November 4, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #4 6K (Trumansburg, NY)
November 11, 2018 Syracuse Half Marathon (Syracuse, NY)
November 18, 2018 Pete Glavin XC #5 8K (Syracuse, NY)
November 22, 2018 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
December 15, 2018 Freezeroo #1 (Don Curran Memorial 5K) (Gates, NY)
2019 Races:
January 1, 2019 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY)
January 5, 2019 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY)
January 12, 2019 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds 5 Mile) (Spencerport, NY)
January 26, 2019 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victory, NY)
February 9, 2019 Freezeroo #5 (Tom Brannon 8 mile) (Greece, NY)
February 23, 2019 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY)
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA)
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AlphaHowls wrote: »Someone asked me recently about my running (why) and I stated, "because I can."
I think every runner who has been asked why they run wrestles with finding an answer that can be stated briefly. The best I've come up with is, "Because it's too far to walk."
A local friend of mine recently wrote a blog on why he runs:
https://www.tonemansblog.com/why-do-i-run/
Excerpt:
What am I supposed to do with a question like that? It’s like asking why I like to spend time with my friends and family. Why I love my kids or why The Beatles were so good. Why a sandwich tastes better when someone else makes it.
You either get it or you don’t.
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I am currently whining about how it is cold outside. Remember a few months ago I was whining that it was too hot?
Yup. It nice-ish here. 46f (7.8C) at 920pm. Highs been low 60's (15-16c). And I'm missing out. I hate the shorter days mostly. But you get really cold. We don't for too long.
Was snowing here when we got the boys home from swimming lessons. And my ankle hurts. So I will go out and run for less than 20 minutes since coach has me doing 1-4 km today.
In a minute. It's warm in here.5 -
Today I got to run 3.76 miles. It was a beautiful run and I really, really needed it. Yesterday was a tough day - the brain weasels (what I call my good friends Anxiety and Depression) were out in force and I only managed to do the Absolutely Must Get Done stuff on my list. I ended up at 81.19 miles out of an 85 mile goal for October, but that’s pretty dang close and I feel good about it.
For November I’ve decided to roughly follow the Hal Higdon Intermediate 10K plan. I think my races will fall around weeks 5 and 7, but I’m looking for structure more than anything else. I still haven’t pulled the trigger on the December race - it’s going to be two (or three) laps around one of my home-base lakes and I honestly can’t decide if that sounds like fun or not. I am kind of tickled by the idea of running a 10K, having a cup of hot chocolate, and then running a 5K.
Anyhow, I’m going to go for 75 miles as my goal for November, but I’ve decided that my primary fitness goal is going to be a little different this month: I’m going to try and smile, wave, nod, or otherwise acknowledge other solo runners as often as practicable. I always feel super awkward just running past people without acknowledging them, but as a person with social anxiety, it’s hard for me to initiate even extremely casual social interactions (sometimes those are actually the hardest). I think this will be a good challenge for me, and who knows, I might start to recognize the other nutbag winter runners as the herds continue to thin for the year.
MONTHLY QUESTION: Over the last year-ish I have tried to live my life treating Future Me as a real person. I’ve tried to respect their time and energy, and not use them as a dumping ground for things Present Me doesn’t want to deal with. Something I’ve found helpful is to ask myself whether Future Me will be better equipped in some way to deal with a particular thing than Present Me, and if the answer is no, to just get it done now.
Interestingly, I just searched my email for an article on "Responsibility Debt" from Physiqonomics that I remember making a real impact on me on this subject, and it turns out that it was published almost exactly one year ago. Very appropriate! ETA: I just reread that article and yeah, it really did make an impact.
Anyhow, welcome to all of the newbies and welcome back to folks who’ve taken time off for whatever reason.
@zeesparrow: The only thing about your plan that I would be concerned about is “I'm in the middle of C25K yet again”. Assuming that your goal is to keep running longer than six months, I would suggest spending some time thinking about what you can do to make things turn out differently. “I’ll do better/try harder/be more dedicated” isn’t a plan, it’s an aspiration. It’s great to start with aspiration, but if you don't back that up with some real strategies, you’re setting yourself up for the same results as before.
To be clear, I don’t mean to say that C25K is necessarily the problem, but if you can identify some commonalities between the times you quit and make a plan for how to address those issues when/if they come up, you might just find yourself in a much stronger place than before. I try to remember that even if you try something new and it doesn't work out, it's still worth it if you can learn something from the experience. Good luck - you can totally do this!
NOVEMBER MILES:
11/1 Th - 0:40:01 - 3.76
November Total: 3.76/75 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 Chip time: 2:29:25
November 24: Mustache Run 10K
December 8: Reindeer Run 10K or 15K (leaning 15K)
2019 Races Under Consideration
January 5: Polar Dash 10K
January 26: Securian 10K
May 23 (est): ESTRS Lebanon 10K
June 13 (est): ESTRS French 5K
July 11 (est): ESTRS Lebanon 7MI
July 17: Torchlight 5K
August 1 (est): ESTRS Hyland 4MI
September 9 (est): Sioux Falls Half
October 6 (est): TCM 10K8 -
11/1/18 5 miles
Total 5 /60-90 miles
October 6 Estrella Cactus 5k
November 10 Rock n Roll Vegas 5k
November 11 Rock n Roll Vegas Half Marathon
November 17 Desert Marigold 6k
November 22 Strut Your Stuffing 5k
November 23 Run for Mr. Mike
December 1 Saguaro 7k
December 2 Hot Chocolate 15k
December 8 12Ks of Christmas 6k
December 16 Santa Hustle 5k
December 22 Caribbean Christmas 5k
2019
January 6 Resolution Run 5k
January 19 Rock n Roll AZ 5k
January 20 Rock n Roll AZ Half Marathon
February 2 WTF Quarter Marathon
February 16 Chinese New Year 5k
March 10 Lucky Clover 5k
March 15 Kilt Run 1k
March 16 Kiss Me I'm Irish 8k or Half Marathon
March 23 Phoenix Pride Half Marathon, 10k, and 5k
May 4 Grandad's Half Marathon (WI) In Memory of Mr. Mike
May 11 Hakuna Mimosa 5k
May 18 Hot as Hell Quarter Marathon
Italics means I haven't signed up yet.
So I signed up for another Christmas race today. I have a problem.
Then I went out and ran 5 miles. I kept telling myself the faster I go the sooner I'm done. LOL Whatever gets you through, right?9 -
11/1 - 2.30 km
2.30/???
Real goal: stop with the walk intervals, start rebuilding base without reinjuring me.
Not a good night when the ankle hurts before I even started so I kept it short & icing it down now. Had been slacking on physio exercises, but back at those too.
I'll probably use an anti-inflammatory cream as well before bed just to calm the tendon down.
2018 Races: (italics means not registered yet, only pondering)
1/1/18 Resolution Run 5K ~38:00 (no official times)
3/4/18 MEC Road Race #1 10K 1:30:57
3/17/28 St Patrick's Day race 10K 1:24:53
4/7/18 Jasper Half Marathon 3:05:55
4/22/18 MEC Trail Race #1 5Kish 1:00:00? (Or 48:45...)
5/20/18 MEC Trail Race #2 10Kish 1:56:15
6/24/18 MEC Trail Race #3 10Kish 2:03:15
7/1/18 Canada Day 15K 2:03:04
7/28/18 Idaho Peak 10K Trail Race 1:30:16
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon (Half Marathon) 3:12:something
8/25/18 MEC Trail Race #4 4Kish 39:49
10/7/18 MEC Trail Race #5 5Kish 1:02:11
12/1/18 Santa Shuffle
2019:
1/1/19 Resolution Run
5/5/19 BMO Vancouver Marathon (Half)
8/17/19 Edmonton Marathon3 -
1102-1.7k total-1.7k, goal-100k
Gah. Was just out the door and getting into the zone, and then something urgent came up at home and had to turn back. Seems like I have an appointment with a dreadmill tonight.
Upcoming races:
20181118 Shanghai Marathon (maybe)9 -
The HM I'm doing on Sunday has (water and) "Hammer Heed" at the aid stations.
Has anyone ever used that?
I'm using the event as a training run, so I'm game to try something new.0 -
Hi all, 10k this morning and it felt great after the tightness and pain the last couple of days. So far my back is feeling a lot better - I got a yoga session in last night and it definitely seemed to help. I'm a little tight still in my hip flexors but nothing serious whew. So lesson is it will probably take a week to recover from the HM, so go easy on your self.
With 2 weeks to go, im wondering what do I do after it. I want to keep up my ability to run as I have a run mapped out every 3 months. What do you all do? Just run what you feel like with a long run on the weekend? I assume long runs of around 15-16ks are good to keep HM conditioning? I could jump into an intermediate plan, cause I like having a plan to follow, and I feel like im moving up now (though that will depend how the HM actually goes).
@Avidkeo
"Just run what you feel like with a long run on the weekend?"
Pretty much!!
The runs during the week are to keep up aerobic & anaerobic fitness, while keeping niggles at bay, so I can go the necessary distance on the weekend.
Races with personal PB/achievement goals are spaced cautiously, only a few per year.
(Been running 3 years, done 3 marathons including a 50 km run this June. I've done at least one HM distance or more per month for the last 16 months.)5 -
Monthly question...
What in the world have you done for your tomorrow self this year? Done done. Not gonna do. Not gonna get done honey. DONE.
I think the biggest thing I have done for both my tomorrow and today self is the same - I RETIRED! My DH was supposed to retire first and decided to keep working (he is past retirement age) and I decided I couldn't keep my sanity if I continued working until my retirement age, so I retired early and he finally did a few months later. Now we are going on fun trips and working on our house and I have much less stress! Now if I can just get my foot feeling better and get running again!
Good for you! So jealous!4 -
I am upping my goal to 60 miles.
My half marathon is this Saturday....the Monumental! I looked at the times for the various age groups and if I keep running after 80 years old, I might have a shot at the age group record. That's how slow I am.
For my tomorrow self, I going to keep running, watching my diet, and reading, reading, reading. So important to de-stress in a healthy way. I think one of the hardest detriment to a human body is carrying around stress.
Did anyone read the Cnn article about a study that was done that determined that people who incorporate exercise in their lifestyle have better outcomes in their life despite being smokers, or having hypertension or diabetes. I, in my gut, have always believed that to be true.8 -
I am in the 100 mile club again for November. I ran 120 miles in October and would have run more if not for temporary sidelining.
What have I done for my future self?
I became a healthy weight from morbidly obese.
I started running and lifting weights.
I am furthering my education.
@hanlonsk Thank you for the recommendation and for tagging me here as I had not seen this thread yet.
@Avidkeo I hear you. I used to wear a 44F. I lost 115 pounds (found 15 of them again) and now wear a 38C.
Oh I wish I was a C! 32f is frustrating cause apparently you aren't supposed to have big boobs if you are a size 10/12. Grrr. I started as a G at my heaviest so I guess I shouldn't complain too much. If I had a spare 15k, I'd get a reduction. Fortunately I don't get any medical problems from them - or unfortunately cause if I did then I'd be covered.
I imagine it is a ridiculous frustration for you. I have other issues that may be too graphic for the men here. I hate how certain things are and are not covered by insurance. But that's a whole other thing.1 -
I am in the 100 mile club again for November. I ran 120 miles in October and would have run more if not for temporary sidelining.
What have I done for my future self?
I became a healthy weight from morbidly obese.
I started running and lifting weights.
I am furthering my education.
@hanlonsk Thank you for the recommendation and for tagging me here as I had not seen this thread yet.
@Avidkeo I hear you. I used to wear a 44F. I lost 115 pounds (found 15 of them again) and now wear a 38C.
Oh I wish I was a C! 32f is frustrating cause apparently you aren't supposed to have big boobs if you are a size 10/12. Grrr. I started as a G at my heaviest so I guess I shouldn't complain too much. If I had a spare 15k, I'd get a reduction. Fortunately I don't get any medical problems from them - or unfortunately cause if I did then I'd be covered.
I imagine it is a ridiculous frustration for you. I have other issues that may be too graphic for the men here. I hate how certain things are and are not covered by insurance. But that's a whole other thing.
Maybe this is 22 years of marriage talking, or 15 years as a father, but, I mean, they are just body parts. It can not be more "graphic" than the other body parts we talking about, ozzing wounds, and all that. In the end, we are all just fleshy bags of mostly water.
I guess once you have witnessed birth first hand, your perspective shifts 10
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