January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

Avidkeo

So most of you guys are in a cold snap, and here in NZ we have caught Australia's heatwave - thanks @orphia! It was 19 degrees this morning (around 66F) at 5:30am, and due to get up to around 90-95F this afternoon. So I'm really REALLY glad I went out early. but that's warm, and I really notice the difference running in that warmth. I definitely prefer running in the cooler around 10 degree (50F) temps.

But yay I went out. I've been torturing myself with dreadmill runs but I can get to about 3km before I get really bored. Though the treadmill has to be off cause my heart rate and just how I felt I was not going at that pace at all.

This morning I was hoping to do about 8k so that I could close out the month on 100k, but after about 6 I had had enough, and decided to cut it there. So unless I do 8.8k tomorrow (not likely) I'm going to be just short. And I'm not worried. Given that for the 6 weeks prior to the new year I was sporadic at best for running, getting up to over 90k in a month again is a pretty awesome achievement.

skippygirlsmom

@sarahthes I love it, I also love the name of the book Or is that the name of the chapter. Either way, awesome.

kristinegift

dreamer12151 wrote: »

Running shoes: I was noticing that I am close to the 300 mile mark on my current shoes, Brooks GTS 18. Therefore, coming up time for new ones.

Here is my question: Since the last time I went to the run shop to be fitted, I came out with the newer model of the ones I was already in. Should I just assume that they will be "The Ones" and go for the 19's & order them on-line (using the size I'm in now) ....or....since the 18's are still available, I'm fine in them, AND they are much cheaper, get a pair of the 18's (in another color), and consider myself thrifty? lol

@dreamer12151 I work at a running store, and for the Adrenaline 18 --> 19, I'd try them on before buying blindly online. It was a pretty significant update (added guide rails, made it lighter by using less foam reinforcement in the stability tech) and you may not like it as much as the 18s. Also if you can get an old Adrenaline 18 (still possible since update only happened a couple months ago!), you may want to do that as well.

sarahthes

skippygirlsmom wrote: »

@sarahthes I love it, I also love the name of the book Or is that the name of the chapter. Either way, awesome.

It is the name of the book!

The Holy *kitten* Moment: How Lasting Change Can Happen in an Instant https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1250186315/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_SxjuCbEFJ89D5

kgirlhart

January goal: 75 miles

1/1: 3.11 miles
1/4: 4.6 miles
1/5: 4.21 miles
1/6: 8.02 miles
1/8: 3.11 miles
1/9: 3.15 miles
1/10: 3.15 miles
1/13: 9.01 miles
1/15: 3.15 miles
1/16: 3.11 miles
1/17: 5.03 miles
1/20: 10.02 miles
1/22: 5.02 miles
1/23: 3.27 miles
1/24: 3.26 miles
1/27: 11.40 miles
1/29: 3.30 miles

85.92/75 miles completed

I ran 3.3 miles at lunch today. It felt cold to me. I know it was no where near the cold many of you are experiencing, but it was colder than I like. Sunday I ran in shorts and a t-shirt. It is supposed to be nice this weekend and I am really hoping it will be since I went ahead and signed up for the half marathon. I haven't been specifically training for a half, but I have been loosely following the Hal Higdon novice hm training plan. My run on Sunday was 11.4 miles so I figure I can run 13.1 this weekend. There won't be any finisher medals which is disappointing, but the entry fee is only $35. And they will be doing both chip and clock time so I can get an "official" time not just my garmin time. They will have AG awards, but they will only have 2 groups and they will decide on Thursday what the groups will be. It is likely to be 40 and up and under 40 so I doubt I will get an AG award. But mostly I am just trying to beat my own HM time from the last race.

I'm kind of wondering if it would be a bad idea to go to the running store after the race and see about getting new shoes. I could just order new shoes on Amazon, but I kind of want to see about switching and finding another shoe. But would it be a bad idea to get my gait analyzed after running a HM? The store is about 60 miles away and I don't get over there very often.








2019 Races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon

workaholic_nurse

@kgirlhart I got fitted for my new Brooks after running 14 miles. They are the same basic type, stability shoe, with a few minor changes as different brands. I didn't really notice a difference, but as you'll be running harder YMMV.

shanaber

@sarahthes - That is awesome! I am going to have to check out the book too!

So I walked today... 1.52 miles and I think I will add it to my monthly total. Not that it will make any difference in meeting my goal but hey - it is a start back to the land of running!
Total so far for the month - 25.97

amirahdaboss

Today marked the start of week 3 of half marathon training. Slow 3.5 miles on the treadmill in my university’s gym.

January miles:
1/1-1/15: traveling and exploring Europe!
1/16: 3.1 miles
1/17: 1 mile
1/18: 3.1 miles
1/19: 4 miles
1/22: 3.1 miles
1/24: 3.3 miles
1/26: 4 miles
1/29: 3.5 miles
Cumulative total: 25.1/30 miles

katharmonic

@sarahthes - cool! The book sounds really interesting. Hope your foot gets better fast.

Re: treadmill workouts, I don't really like running intervals of any kind on the treadmill. I start to feel a little out of control at faster paces I guess. I do some progressive runs where I'll keep punching it up gradually every few minutes but I rarely do more than that. Other than the Spartan workout I did last week and my trainer seems to have planned again for Friday that is. And those are short intervals of only .25 miles with strength training between. I don't really like doing that switching back and forth.

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
01/01/19 :::: 4.0 :::: 4.0
01/02/19 :::: 5.3 :::: 9.3
01/03/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 9.3
01/04/19 :::: 3.6 :::: 12.9
01/05/19 :::: 10.4 :::: 23.3
01/06/19 :::: 4.3 :::: 27.6
01/07/19 :::: 3.4 :::: 31.0
01/08/19 :::: 3.2 :::: 34.1
01/09/19 :::: 3.8 :::: 37.9
01/10/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 37.9
01/11/19 :::: 7.7 :::: 45.6
01/12/19 :::: 2.0 :::: 47.6
01/13/19 :::: 3.2 :::: 50.8
01/14/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 53.8
01/15/19 :::: 3.8 :::: 57.7
01/16/19 :::: 4.0 :::: 61.7
01/17/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 61.7
01/18/19 :::: 3.5 :::: 65.2
01/19/19 :::: 9.0 :::: 74.2
01/20/19 :::: 5.2 :::: 79.4
01/21/19 :::: 4.3 :::: 83.7
01/22/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 83.7
01/23/19 :::: 4.2 :::: 87.9
01/24/19 :::: 2.2 :::: 90.1
01/25/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 93.1
01/26/19 :::: 7.8 :::: 100.9
01/27/19 :::: 5.2 :::: 106.0
01/28/19 :::: 4.1 :::: 110.2
01/29/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 113.2/ 120 miles goal

This morning I got to the gym late so only had a few minutes to warm up on the treadmill before 7 am circuit training. I got about .8 miles done. Which I couldn't just leave it there, so after my workout I finished it out to get to 3 at least.

I'm close enough to my mileage goal that it's certainly possible to get there in the next two days, but it's not probable. We'll see how it goes but I'm swamped at work with a Jan 31 deadline so I will probably have to take a rest day either tomorrow or Thursday and end of up a little short. I thought I was going to come up way short so it's really all good. Last year I didn't get this many miles per month until June.

Pull-up challenge: I veered off the printed 30-day plan but my trainer had a lot of applicable stuff planned so I definitely got more than enough direct practice done for today. We did barbell shrugs, inverted rows, a HIIT workout on the rower, and tried the monkey bars! I made it through 7 rungs before I dropped so I felt good about that. Form and style were not great but it was a start. Need to work on a swing rather and getting some momentum going. My hands are so sore now! Grip strength is the hardest part of all of this.

quilteryoyo

I was scheduled for a 25 - 30 minute run today. This morning, I took Tippy, my dog, out for a nice walk in the snowy fields (1.5 miles), fully intending to do a wog on the treadmill later in the day, after it got colder outside. But, at about 2pm, I suddenly got so tired I had to lay down and take a nap. I got a good 8 hours sleep last night, which is about 2 hours more than I've gotten in over a week, so I should have been well rested. After I got up, I still didn't have much energy and not feeling like wogging. I was trying to decide if I should just go ahead and give it a go, thinking it was just a mental barrier I needed to overcome. However, given how tired I am and the fact that I work in a daycare where some of the children have been sick, I decided to listen to my body and give it a rest. Hopefully I can wog tomorrow instead.

_nikkiwolf_

@Azercord thanks! I'll add the renegade rows to my training. I only have round dumbbells (not hexagonal like I saw in the tutorials I found), let's see if that makes it more interesting ^^

T1DCarnivoreRunner

5.8M Treadmill today. Intervals are getting easier, so that is a good sign. Need to adjust speed already.

rheddmobile

_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »

@Azercord thanks! I'll add the renegade rows to my training. I only have round dumbbells (not hexagonal like I saw in the tutorials I found), let's see if that makes it more interesting ^^

It definitely does! Mine are round and stabilizing them is a challenge.

The guy I saw in the video using round ones was holding them at about a 45 degree angle so they were more stable, but my wrists don't like that angle, so I get an extra chest workout from keeping them rolling sideways.

hoshaugh73

01 - 4
02 - 1.25
03 - 4.25
04 - 2
05 - 4.5
06 - 1.75
07 - 2.25
08 - 3.75
09 - 2
10 - 3
11 - 2
12 - 1.5
13 - 9.25
14 thru 21- Vacation, didn't track milage.
22 - 0
23 - 1.75
24 - 4.5
25 - .75
26 - 0
27 - 2.5
28 - 2.75
29 - 5 miles in my neighborhood. I feel super lucky the weather in the Pacific Northwest has been so mild this winter. Tonight I ran in 45 degree weather with a slight breeze. Just reading about the freezing weather in some of the posts make me cold! Not sure I could do it.
30 -
31 -


January Total: 58.75 miles
January Goal: 60 miles

Rhody Run 12k (5/19)
Scramble XXIV - 6-Mile Scramble (6/30)

rheddmobile

10k easy on trails. It's cold today (for here) so we wanted someplace sheltered from the wind, so we ran in the woods at WC Johnson, which is where we had a race last Sunday. What a difference a week makes! The trails are mostly dry instead of soupy mud, the "canyon" is a well behaved little creek instead of a raging torrent, and someone has been out trying to repair the damage done by the race, filling in the torn up places with new dirt and grooming the trails.

Despite the cold (just at 27 F when we left the house, a little above freezing when we finished) it was lovely running weather, bright sunlight and not all that cold feeling. Lots of deer, squirrels, and birds were out. My body still hates running in the cold though, it took me a good two miles to stop breathing too heavy for the pace we were running, and feeling like everything was extra hard. I wonder if it has something to do with stress hormones and my diabetes, since stress hormones block insulin. After about two miles it's like someone flips a switch and I start feeling normal again. It's worse than the usual "first mile is a lie" feeling, but similar.

My husband still has a little bit of the sniffles and also somehow broke his third toenail, right down the middle side to side. Never seen anything like it. He's not sure when it happened but he did whack his foot on a root pretty good two days ago, so maybe it was a combination of things.

It's supposed to be about ten degrees colder tomorrow, which is officially too cold for my taste. Our waitress at the catfish place where we stopped after running said the cold was "just disrespectful!" And yet it's so much warmer here in Memphis, comparatively, than where some of you all are running! All those in the path of the polar vortex please be careful and stay warm.

Edit: I was trying to figure out why the innocent non-curse word above was kittened, and realized it's because it's also the name of a file-sharing service, which I guess it's against the rules to mention here?

MobyCarp

lporter229 wrote: »

Question for the group: What is your favorite treadmill interval workout?

Buy treadmill. Let it gather dust until I get tired of having it take up space. Give it to whoever will haul it away. Wait until I've forgotten how much I despise the treadmill. Repeat cycle until I'm smart enough not to waste the money in the first place.

MobyCarp

January Running Totals (miles)
1/1 – 10.09 warmup + 7.5 mile race
1/2 – 6.28 easy w/fast finish
1/3 – 6.76 warmup, intervals, cool down
1/4 – rest day
1/5 – 16.65 warmup, Winter Warrior Half
1/6 – 8.09 easy
1/7 – rest day
1/8 – 8.64 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/9 – 11.08 easy
1/10 – 8.25 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/11 – rest day
1/12 – 15.94 warmup, 5 mile race, post-race easy run
1/13 – 12.46 easy with hills
1/14 – rest day
1/15 – 8.19 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/16 – 10.01 easy to MP
1/17 – 9.82 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/18 – rest day
1/19 – 15.12 with snow and wind
1/20 – 8.10 indoor track
1/21 – rest day
1/22 – 8.19 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/23 – 13.16 easy with hills
1/24 – 3.81 warmup, aborted speed work
1/25 – rest day
1/26 – 8.59 warmup + 4.9 mile race
1/27 – 10.46 easy on indoor track
1/28 – rest day
1/29 – 8.74 warmup, speed work, cool down

January running total to date – 208.43

Nominal January mileage goal: 200 miles

Real Goals: Train well toward Boston. Work the January races into the training plan smoothly. Remain uninjured, even if it means cutting back on planned mileage or races.

Today's notes – Speed work on the indoor track today. Looked at the assignment for the marathon training plan, got intimidated by how hard it was. Remembered that I turned in a PR marathon at Wineglass after doing no speed work for the first half of the training cycle, and cross country speed work the second half. Made the executive decision to do the speed work assigned for people running cross country in Tallahassee on Saturday: 800 at 10K goal race pace, 3 x (1200 at goal race pace with 400m surge in the middle and 2 minutes recovery), 6 x (100m strides with 100m jog between).

Goal race pace is problematic when the race is cross country and the speed workout is on a track. I ended up running the first 800 at I pace, then running the 1200s as 400 at T, 400 at I, 400 at T. The T was kind of variable, but I brought the 400s in the middle in at a consistent 90 seconds each time, and I was happy with that. Throw in a warmup and a cool down, and I felt like I did enough work for one day.

Also got to thinking. I am a runner, and I do not jog in the sense of being someone who moves up and down at stoplights or finds dead bodies. But it is standard for speed work instructions to say "easy jog" or "slow jog" for the recovery between strides, and sometimes for other recovery intervals. So maybe jogging isn't so bad all the time . . . but it shouldn't be the majority of what I do.

2019 Races:
January 1, 2019 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY) finished in 50:55
January 5, 2019 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) finished in 1:30:48
January 12, 2019 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds 5 Mile) (Spencerport, NY) finished in 33:10
January 26, 2019 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY) 4.9 miles, finished in 32:28
February 2, 2019 USATF XC Championship, Masters 8K (Tallahassee, FL)
February 9, 2019 Freezeroo #5 (Tom Brannon 8 mile) (Greece, NY)
February 23, 2019 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY)
March 16, 2019 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Shamrock 8K) (Virginia Beach, VA)
April 13, 2019 BAA 5K (Boston, MA)
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA)
November 3, 2019 TCS New York City Marathon (New York, NY)

HonuNui

January Goal: Do more than last month

1/1 1.25
1/2 2.20
1/3 rest
1/4 carb loading dinner pre relay to remember @keeprunningfatboy
1/5 7.75
1/6 1.35
1/7 2.13
1/8 snorkel 2.5 hours
1/9 2.55
1/10 5.00
1/11 3.15
1/12 rest
1/13 3.30
1/14 rest
1/15 life
1/16 4.43
1/17 2.00
1/18 2.90
1/19 stuff
1/20 2.65
1/21 4.10
1/22 rest
1/23 1.00
1/24 4.50
1/25 rest
1/26 stuff
1/27 4.10
1/28 rest
1/29 3.00

Total: 57.36

Ticker is my goal for 2019 and progress to date:

sarahthes

1/1 - 5.05km
1/2 - rest
1/3 - 3.00km
1/4 - rest
1/5 - 6.05km
1/6 - rest
1/7 - rest
1/8 - 3.56km
1/9 - rest
1/10 - 2.12km
1/11 - rest
1/12 - welched
1/13 - rest
1/14 - rest
1/15 - 3.24 km
1/16 - rest
1/17 - 3.33 km
1/18 - rest
1/19 - windy
1/20 - 6.24 km
1/21 - rest
1/22 - 4.22 km
1/23 - rest
1/24 - welched
1/25 - rest
1/26 - 3.61 km (for the 24th)
1/27 - rest
1/28 - 5.15 km
1/29 - 2.02 km

47.53 / 62 km

With today's run I am back on schedule. I have only missed one run all month which is the best I've done since probably May, even though some runs wound up shorter than planned.

2019 Races:
1/1/19 Resolution Run (51:54)
5/5/19 BMO Vancouver Marathon (Half)
8/17/19 Edmonton Marathon

ContraryMaryMary

Went bush today. Ran 14.5km up to the Upper Huia Dam (where the city's water supply is) and back with a couple of running buddies. Gravel access road for most of it. Very beautiful. Today has been one of the hottest days of summer here (as @avidkeo says, cheers Aus) It was at least 28 degrees celsius and very humid. So hot. Fortunately we had cloud and tree cover for most of it. Great run but I didn't realise that it was a long slow uphill (with a couple of seriously steep short hills) until we turned to come home and all of a sudden it was easy and didn't feel anywhere near as hot. Naturally, I was completely drenched in perspiration within a few kilometres and left a nice soggy spot on the bench outside the cafe where we demolished the most delicious post-run chocolate milkshake. Great day!

Running challenge
1 Jan: 8.21 run/walk + 960m swim
2 Jan: 8.25 run/walk
3 Jan: 5km walk
4 Jan: 5.51 run/walk + 1200m swim
5 Jan: rest
6 Jan: 1440m swim + massage
7 Jan: 1800m swim +yoga
8 Jan: 6.5km run/walk
9 Jan: 8km run (!) +yoga
10 Jan: 12m swim followed by 4km run
11 Jan: 8km run (6km run, then 400m walk uphill as calf was talking to me, then final 2km run home)
12 Jan: yoga
13 Jan: 6.5km
14 Jan: yoga
15 Jan: 6.6km
16 Jan: 10km
17 Jan: rest
18 Jan: rest
19 Jan: yoga
20 Jan: holiday
21 Jan: holiday
22 Jan: holiday
23 Jan: holiday
24 Jan: 3.9km (still on holiday)
25 Jan: 7.1km
26 Jan: yoga
27 Jan: 8.1km
28 Jan: 10.06km
29 Jan: rest
30 Jan: 14.52km

119.25 of 100km for January