January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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January Totals:
1/1/19: 4.55 Miles
1/3/19: 3.99 Miles
1/5/19: 2.14 Miles
1/6/19: 3.46 Miles
1/8/19: 3.16 Miles
Total Miles Month to Day: 17.3 miles
Goal 35 Miles
I think I have underestimated my mileage for January. I am already at about 50% of my goal for the month and we are just one week in.
The next week or so is going to be a busy one for me. I manage the accounting department and we are trying to get our 2018 books closed by the end of the week. We need to have everything completed because we have our year-end audit starting on Monday. Which means if we don’t get everything finished by Friday that will me we have to work over the weekend. I would rather work a few late nights this week so we don’t have to work on the weekend. That is my plan anyway.9 -
_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »Totaly belated: Happy new year everyone!
Good thing I didn't make "keep up with the challenge" one of my resolutions, because I would have failed already...
About time to set a goal for January! I finished December with 155km, I'll try for 170km in January.
I'm at 44km so far, so it should be doable. Unless we finally get snow on the mountains and I spend my weekends skiing ;-)
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@ddmom0811 A duathlon sounds awesome!!
At some point last year I was toying with the idea of a triathlon, but I can't figure out the swimming. I couldn't find a class to learn the proper technique. I tried a few times on my own, but the combination of having to drive to the pool, with the added difficulty of making it there within their opening hours, and not really making any progress were rather demotivating. Too bad there aren't any duathlons around me...
From what I read lots of hobby-triathletes use road bikes, so I'm sure you'll be fine with your bike too.
@Avidkeo Which fitnessblender strength programme are you doing, "Strong" or "Mass"? I have both, but somehow I like "Strong" a little better - I've only done "Mass" once, but I'm halfway through my 3rd iteration of "Strong".
I'm doing strong. Have started. It a. Couple of times but never actually completed it. I have 4 weeks left on my gym membership starting next week so it will be a good test to see if I will actually use the gym.8 -
ContraryMaryMary wrote: »I ran 8km today!!!
Slow as a slug, but ran the whole way. Totally stoked. I'm almost beginning to think this calf injury is on its way out.
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Nothing again for me today. I slept in, then unpacked and did 2 loads of laundry, then tidied up my craft space. One ofy resolutions this year is to complete my unfinished projects and get rid of the ones I can't for what ever reason. So far, so good.6
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Nothing again for me today. I slept in, then unpacked and did 2 loads of laundry, then tidied up my craft space. One ofy resolutions this year is to complete my unfinished projects and get rid of the ones I can't for what ever reason. So far, so good.
This is my New Years resolution as well! Well, it’s been my NY resolution for several years. One day I will organize my yarn stash and finish all my unfinished crochet projects.... [maybe]7 -
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
Today started out with some snow and freezing rain, enough that they delayed schools, so I packed my bag for treadmill running. Of course by the time I headed to the gym it was in the 40s and fairly nice. Oh well, I did my run and it felt not quite as much of a slog today so I was happy with that. Then strength training class kicked my butt again with a 30-minute non-stop circuit. My biceps are going to be complaining about that one. We also did box jumps and that is such a mental challenge for me. I have to get over that voice that says "what if you don't make it" every time.9 -
Apparently, I am moved and settled in enough, that I got tired of the rotting in my house that is happening with furlough. Like seriously, I could go be a tourist, but that takes money, and after double rent for January, I don't have much of that left. Grrr.. but anyways - enough snow was finally moved after our multiple snow storms - or I just got antsy in my house enough that it was worth the risk. Even in the cold and the wind and the ice.
So, I ran - 4.1 miles. Longest run I have done in months. Everything was covered in snow or ice - some places knee deep and others glare ice - so it was quite the cross training adventure, too. I definitely was running further in the middle of the road in my sidewalkless town than I even normally am. I am definitely still representing the turtle running squad, like I wouldn't even pass a pack test right now. But I also know that will come if I actually get more consistent again. But with moving, plus run, plus 2 weight type workouts. I might be on my most consistently active week in a while. Let's hope I can keep my poo together even after the government pretends to get theirs together.15 -
Nice job, @hanlonsk ! It's good to see you getting miles.
I was reviewing the course for my April race and one number popped out at me. 8700. That the vertical gain and loss, in feet. I think the most I've done in a race is 4800 feet.
So, time to get serious about hitting the stairwell at work. I'll need to figure out a monthly goal. And decide if I want to track floors or feet.
Today was a good start, 72 floors, or 715 feet, over two sessions.9 -
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
January running total to date – 56.51
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 – Today it rained, pretty much all day, with the hardest rain right when I needed to run errands. Bleah. The bad news is, I hate going out in the rain. The good news is, I don't have to shovel rain. The best news is, today's assignment was speed work on the indoor track.
I had been feeling a bit beat up yesterday morning, but taking the scheduled rest day yesterday fixed that. Ran my warmup, and set out to run the assignment from the marathon training plan: 4 x 200 at rep pace w/one lap recovery, 2 x 1600 at threshold w/one lap recovery, 4 x 200 at rep pace w/one lap recovery. The theory is, to hold the second set of 200s at the same pace as the first, only after you are tired out from the 2 x 1600, you are forced into good form and good running economy.
Target for 200 at rep pace is 42-43 seconds. Target for 1600 at threshold is 6:32. The first set of 200s came in at 41.8, 42.2, 41.9, 41.9. The 1600s came in at 6:25.9 and 6:25.5. The second set of 200s came in at 41.8, 42.6, 42.7, 42.6. So I didn't hold pace in the second set of 200s quite as fast as the first, but the second set was more like an accurate rep pace for me.
Ran my cool down, stretched, showered, came home. This is a tough workout, but it was a lot easier today than it was the first time I saw it in 2016.
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)
January 26, 2019 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victory, NY)
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)
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA)5 -
/1 – 0
1/2 – 4
1/3 – 0
1/4 – 4
1/5 - 4
1/6 - 5 (trail run)
1/7 - 0
1/8 - 4
21 of 60 miles
Thanks @juliet3455 looks like quite a bit of climbs but I'll finish eventually ha ha6 -
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
23.05/75 miles completed
Today I ran 3.11 miles. It a was surprisingly good run. I wasn't really feeling it. I've been feeling kind of tired and stressed lately. I think part of it is the weather. Plus I think I need new shoes. My feet have been kind of achy. I'm wearing Saucony Ride 10's, but I'm wondering if maybe I should try something different. These are the shoes they put me in when I went to the running store, but I seem to only get 250-300 miles before my feet start getting achy. I feel like I should get a little more wear from them. I wish there was another shoe store close by, but the nearest one is about 60 miles away. So my feet have been tired and I haven't slept well the the last few nights and I have been busier than usual at work so my mood has not been good. But the weather has been nice so I decided that I was just going to do it. I actually felt better after the run. I only had time for 3 miles, but I was so glad that I did it. Hopefully tomorrows run will be even better.
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lisaloumn2 wrote: »@7lenny7 - yep another Minnesotan - live in Edina currently but moving this spring to a TBD burb
Hiya! I'm in south Minneapolis, probably on the same bus line!5 -
6 miles on trails today. We drove up to Stanley Creek, which is the site of the third race in our off-road series, to test out the course.
We hadn't run there before, but had been warned that the Stanky Creek 8k is the most technical of the four trail races in the series. The park is basically a bunch of dirt bike trails through dense woods in and around a creek bed (which was, at least in the middle of January, not particularly stanky.) We encountered our first obstacle before we even reached the park: no facilities! Since it's more than a half hour drive from my home, I needed to find a place to pee, preferably one that wouldn't get me arrested for public indecency. There's nothing but residential within several miles, but my mom had given me the name of a not-too-distant restaurant to stop at after running, so we stopped before running as well.
The course starts off on the road outside the park, about half a mile of road, then veers into the woods and twists around for a while before emerging at the parking area. (Which has room for about twenty cars - no idea where I'm supposed to park on race day.) Everything is pretty much unmarked, so we spent a lot of time standing around at crossroads comparing mapmyhike to the official race map on my phone. Thus we averaged about fourteen minute miles. It looks like when we were actually running, easy pace, we were doing about eleven in the woods. This race is listed as 8+ K, and the "+" appears to be substantial, since even accounting for getting confused and backtracking, I don't think we added more than about half a mile, and it was 6.1 by the time we got back to the parking area.
It turns out the info we heard was correct, it is more technical than the other three areas. A lot of gullies and washouts, one or two creeks to wade across, and a lot of tree roots. A LOT of tree roots. Like, five miles of unrelenting tree roots to hop over, on a twisting single track. Apart from one or two downhills nothing about this course is that difficult taken individually, but taken as a whole it's quite a workout compared to what we're used to, and if you make a mistake you faceplant into a tree. By the last mile I was tired and making mistakes more often, having to really concentrate on picking up my feet. My husband claims he started counting times he rolled an ankle and got up to nine. I never actually wiped out, but came close twice, once almost pitching into a creekbed and only saving myself by hugging a nearby tree, and once cutting up my leg by catching a pine branch under my other foot. Note for race day: wear long socks.
Speaking of long socks, I wasn't wearing them today because it was HOT! mid-seventies. It's supposed to return to more normal temperatures tonight. This time last year we had ice.
Altogether a very rewarding and useful day, even if it wasn't necessarily encouraging. We know now what to expect and what to work on.
Re: the race series. Being the obsessively-competitive person I am, I googled the four women ahead of me in my AG in the series. All four instantly popped up with online running blogs when I googled their names. The leader is someone I know - she's the coach of a track team which runs at WC Johnson and we have spoken to her at some length. Had no idea she was in my AG, she looks about thirty. Second place is a pro trainer for Fleet Feet. Third and fourth are trail ultra runners. So.... I may not win this one, guys! BUT am hugely honored even to be allowed to hang with these cool women.
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Jan2 (3.1mi run) (4.1mi walk)
Jan 6 (3.8mi run) (1.2mi walk)
Jan 7 (1mi run) (.5mi walk)
Jan 8 (3.1mi run) (.5mi walk)
(11mi/30mi) (6.3mi walk)
I ran extremely slow today. Didn’t dress quite right for the weather either. I expected it to feel colder and ended up having to strip a layer and carry it along.
I've been struggling with overdressing this winter, too. I think I'm so nervous about being cold that I go too far in the other direction. Have you tried sleeves? Sometimes they can be a little tricky to remove on the run, but they're easier to carry than a shirt, and easier to remove than most mid layers.4 -
01 - 4
02 - 1.25
03 - 4.25, slow, but it was one of those runs that just felt good.
04 - 2
05 - 4.5, plus a five minute plank today & two hours of roller skating
06 - 1.75, five and a half minute plank, day three on squat challenge
07 - 2.25, six minute plank & day 4 of a 25 day squat challenge (25 squats)
08 - 3.75, almost didn't run because it's so cold and windy, thankfully my dog guilted me into running with her sweet puppy dog eyes. I had a great run, felt strong and healthy.
January Total: 23.75 miles
January Goal: 60 miles
Upcoming Races:
Rhody Run 12k (5/19)
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0109-5.3k total-26.2k, goal-100k
Was supposed to be 8km but got up late and ran out of time. Slow run but somehow slogged it out.
Air quality is supposed to take a downward turn this afternoon. I guess that means dreadmill for the rest of the week.
Upcoming races:
04.15 Beijing International Running Festival (HM) (registration not open yet)
05.13 Beijing Tongzhou Half Marathon (registration not open yet)9 -
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
17.66 / 62 km
The plan for today was 2-4 km easy, but I'm only sort of good at following directions so I decided to see if I could minimize my walking breaks, with the thought that as long as I made it to 2 km I was good.
So it went like this:
0.2 km walk
0.8 km run because math wasn't happening
0.05 km walk
1.2 km run (to fix my math)
0.1 km walk
0.6 km run (I think)
Walk the rest, around 0.55 km.
Anyway, I'm pleased I was able to run without stopping that long. I might have been able to go longer if I wasn't on a treadmill. Did I mention that I was at the gym? I was at the gym because we are in a cold snap. The gym was crowded but not too bad because the pool at that location is closed for renovations.
2019 Races:
1/1/19 Resolution Run (51:54)
5/5/19 BMO Vancouver Marathon (Half)
8/17/19 Edmonton Marathon
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Day January
1 2.3
2 0
3 2.6
4 2.85
5 3.1
6 3.1
7 11
8 2.5
Total: 27.45
Goal: 115
I did not want to run today. I did not want to strength train but I put in the miles and hit the weights. I did just completely collapse on 11 of 12 on my 3rd set of bench dips. Tomorrow is another day.18 -
MegaMooseEsq wrote: »I've been struggling with overdressing this winter, too. I think I'm so nervous about being cold that I go too far in the other direction. Have you tried sleeves? Sometimes they can be a little tricky to remove on the run, but they're easier to carry than a shirt, and easier to remove than most mid layers.
I just added those to my list of “running/walking/biking gear I want to buy”, which is getting ridiculously long at this point. I think I’m still trying to dress like a walker and minimizing in my head how much extra heat running creates. That and the humidity throws me off as to how I’ll feel in a quarter hour.6 -
Got my run (aka run/walk in my world) in today! 4.5mi
My ticker will not update for some reason, but I'm up to 9mi for Jan so far.
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So on rest days, you use kilometers, and on run days it's miles?PastorVincent wrote: »1/1/2019 - 10.5 miles
1/2/2019 - 10.5 miles
1/3/2019 - 5 miles @ 7mph w/ 5% incline
1/4/2019 - Planned Rest day
1/5/2019 - 15 miles
1/6/2019 - 0KM
1/7/2019 - 0KM
1/8/2019 - 8 miles
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1/1-6 Totals: Run 47.6 km
1/7 - recovery
1/8 - run 23.2 km +45 min easy swim/core
1/9 - run 9.2 km +weights
Had to retrace my steps after losing a glove during school drop-off. Didn't find it (might be mixed in with the kid's scarf etc) so grabbed another one at the house and tried again on the run. It was hard to get traction with the snow, should've worn screw shoes. What are screw shoes? See here: http://skyrunner.com/screwshoe.htm
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Jan 2: bike 30 km (18 miles)
Jan 4: run 7.8km (4.8 miles)
Jan 7: bike 20 km (12 miles)
Jan 8: bike 20 km (12 miles)
Waving at y'all
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Today is my last day of being on call (thank goodness), and I am soooo ready to be able to get out and run. There have been a lot of emergencies over the last week, and during the one time when things got quiet and I attempted to run, I got a call 1.5 miles in. The weather has been beautiful, but I’ve been stuck inside with paperwork and trying to coordinate crisis beds.
However, I did sign up a couple of nights ago for the Publix Savannah Women’s Half in April. My best friend and I are going to run together. We ran our first few halfs together before she moved, but now she’s back, so we can race together again!
Congratulations to everyone who has raced recently. I’ve peeled at the board here and there over the last few days but didn’t have time to comment.
Alrighty, off to work!8 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »
So on rest days, you use kilometers, and on run days it's miles?PastorVincent wrote: »1/1/2019 - 10.5 miles
1/2/2019 - 10.5 miles
1/3/2019 - 5 miles @ 7mph w/ 5% incline
1/4/2019 - Planned Rest day
1/5/2019 - 15 miles
1/6/2019 - 0KM
1/7/2019 - 0KM
1/8/2019 - 8 miles
I have been doing that for months now and you are the first to call it out.
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rheddmobile wrote: »
Re: the race series. Being the obsessively-competitive person I am, I googled the four women ahead of me in my AG in the series. All four instantly popped up with online running blogs when I googled their names. The leader is someone I know - she's the coach of a track team which runs at WC Johnson and we have spoken to her at some length. Had no idea she was in my AG, she looks about thirty. Second place is a pro trainer for Fleet Feet. Third and fourth are trail ultra runners. So.... I may not win this one, guys! BUT am hugely honored even to be allowed to hang with these cool women.
Now you know who to trip at least... 5 -
@sarahthes - OMG - -26C! It’s not safe to even walk to your car in that! But -12C wouldn’t be safe for this Florida girl either! I am going to Minneapolis in Feb for a conference and I fear I won't be able to leave the hotel! I don't own clothes for that type of weather.
@Honunui @Elise4270 and your team! I wish that time of year would work for me and a trip but first week back to school I can’t take off, darn it.
@_nikkiwolf_ - I never knew there were any duathlons around here, so maybe you can find one. Going to sign up!
1/1 - 1.5 miles - #RwRunStreak Day 41 - Last day of Holiday Streak!
1/2 - Transform - Arms Deload week!
1/3 - 5 miles
1/4 - rest day
1/5 - 44 miles cycling + Transform App - Arms
1/6 - 5 miles
1/7 - 4.5 miles + transform app - legs
1/8 - 4.5 miles
1/9 - 3 miles + transform app - Back
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katharmonic wrote: »We also did box jumps and that is such a mental challenge for me. I have to get over that voice that says "what if you don't make it" every time.
Box jumps scare me so much!! Especially those wooden boxes with the completely sharp edges. I just can't. Huge mental block there. The padded ones at least don't conjure up images of all the skin on my shins getting scraped off. Instead I think about face planting. Man, I hate box jumps...3
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