January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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PastorVincent wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »I actually read all the posts and have for about a year now, although sometimes that’s the only leisure reading I do all day (I also I read the way most Americans watch TV, ie a lot). I’ve certainly given up on commenting as frequently as I would if this site used nested comments/threading.
Ever since high school I’ve been a part of high-volume online communities, usual related to my dominant interest or hobby and often for years at a time - it’s interesting to look back and see how those changes reflect my personal growth. In high school I was part of a mental health support email list, in college Livejournal then Facebook were my main communities, then Blizzard’s World of Warcraft forums, then Jezebel, then I bounced around a few writing communities, then a job search advice site called Ask a Manager, finally the general forums here and now this thread. Whew!
Hahaha, nerd fight!!! Forums (critical thinking & logic communities in forums and on Facebook) have been my internet pastime for 25 years, and I HATE nested comments/threading on forums. I avoid Reddit precisely for that reason.
25 years... *sigh* kids these days. In 1983 I was already online in international forums, MUDs and so on. Joined the "new" Internet somewhere in 1990 when it first opened to the public with a text-based broswer... I have seen things...so many things!
It's not that sort of fight. I wasn't claiming to be the oldest or the best online.
Just voicing forum tastes.
This one's pretty good as far as forums go. A lot of them really make you think they're a dying format.
Either that or a lot of admins have got too old and crusty to attempt to upgrade to the latest software version.
I owned/ran a PHPBB forum community for about 5 years, and learnt a lot. Now I'm admin of a few Facebook groups, and find it a good format for sharing interests.
Running internet forums is a thankless job. I did it for years too. I think either the MFP mods are super stars or we are just a pretty reasonable crowd. Probably both.0 -
PastorVincent wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »I actually read all the posts and have for about a year now, although sometimes that’s the only leisure reading I do all day (I also I read the way most Americans watch TV, ie a lot). I’ve certainly given up on commenting as frequently as I would if this site used nested comments/threading.
Ever since high school I’ve been a part of high-volume online communities, usual related to my dominant interest or hobby and often for years at a time - it’s interesting to look back and see how those changes reflect my personal growth. In high school I was part of a mental health support email list, in college Livejournal then Facebook were my main communities, then Blizzard’s World of Warcraft forums, then Jezebel, then I bounced around a few writing communities, then a job search advice site called Ask a Manager, finally the general forums here and now this thread. Whew!
Hahaha, nerd fight!!! Forums (critical thinking & logic communities in forums and on Facebook) have been my internet pastime for 25 years, and I HATE nested comments/threading on forums. I avoid Reddit precisely for that reason.
25 years... *sigh* kids these days. In 1983 I was already online in international forums, MUDs and so on. Joined the "new" Internet somewhere in 1990 when it first opened to the public with a text-based broswer... I have seen things...so many things!
Can I get in on the nerd fight? I wasn't really active online until about 1993, but I was a professional paid moderator at one of the first large gaming forums. Also, I was in the beta test for Ultima Online, the first mmorpg. Imagine a time before people had any idea how awful an idea it was to put a bunch of folks in an online sandbox and expect them to play nice!
UO was the best!! I lost so many hours in that game on my 56k modem! Heh. WOW and the others would nit exist save for UO. It was not the first MMORPG but it did blast wide open the genre.
I can't think of anything before UO that would count as "massively multiplayer," although I can think of some building games and forum based games. What are you thinking of that predates it?
I don't think anyone had any idea how easy it would be to spend hours playing. At one point I'm pretty sure I threatened to throw my wedding ring out the window if my husband didn't start limiting his time in UO. Ah, good times!3 -
January goal: 75 miles
1/1: 3.11 miles
1/4: 4.6 miles
1/5: 4.21 miles
11.92/75 miles completed
I got a 4.21 mile run in today. It was so pretty. The sun was shining and it was just gorgeous. It was almost warm at 73F, but perfect in shorts and a tank top. Tomorrow should be nice for my long run. I'll probably be able to get out early before it is too warm.
Way to go @Elise4270 and @HonuNui I'm really looking forward to the race report and pictures!
There were lots of good runs and great races! It is just so hard to respond personally to each one, but lots of likes and hugs!
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rheddmobile wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »I actually read all the posts and have for about a year now, although sometimes that’s the only leisure reading I do all day (I also I read the way most Americans watch TV, ie a lot). I’ve certainly given up on commenting as frequently as I would if this site used nested comments/threading.
Ever since high school I’ve been a part of high-volume online communities, usual related to my dominant interest or hobby and often for years at a time - it’s interesting to look back and see how those changes reflect my personal growth. In high school I was part of a mental health support email list, in college Livejournal then Facebook were my main communities, then Blizzard’s World of Warcraft forums, then Jezebel, then I bounced around a few writing communities, then a job search advice site called Ask a Manager, finally the general forums here and now this thread. Whew!
Hahaha, nerd fight!!! Forums (critical thinking & logic communities in forums and on Facebook) have been my internet pastime for 25 years, and I HATE nested comments/threading on forums. I avoid Reddit precisely for that reason.
25 years... *sigh* kids these days. In 1983 I was already online in international forums, MUDs and so on. Joined the "new" Internet somewhere in 1990 when it first opened to the public with a text-based broswer... I have seen things...so many things!
Can I get in on the nerd fight? I wasn't really active online until about 1993, but I was a professional paid moderator at one of the first large gaming forums. Also, I was in the beta test for Ultima Online, the first mmorpg. Imagine a time before people had any idea how awful an idea it was to put a bunch of folks in an online sandbox and expect them to play nice!
UO was the best!! I lost so many hours in that game on my 56k modem! Heh. WOW and the others would nit exist save for UO. It was not the first MMORPG but it did blast wide open the genre.
I can't think of anything before UO that would count as "massively multiplayer," although I can think of some building games and forum based games. What are you thinking of that predates it?
I don't think anyone had any idea how easy it would be to spend hours playing. At one point I'm pretty sure I threatened to throw my wedding ring out the window if my husband didn't start limiting his time in UO. Ah, good times!
My wife and I played side by side 🥰 we were poor so it was pretty much the only entertainment we could afford. Probably put 10 hours a day in it for a while. Ah simpler times!4 -
January Goal: Do more than last month
1/1 1.25
1/2 2.20
1/3 rest
1/4 carb loading dinner
1/5 7.75
Total: 11.25
Upcoming races:
January 4, 2019 Hilo to Volcano Ultra 50k Relay. In memory of @keeprunningfatboy
Ticker is my goal for 2019 and progress to date:
Race Report:
We started at 6am at Reeds Island Park in Hilo. Our team members were Sookyung (my neighbor), Evita (who is the niece of another neighbor, and who is visiting from Manilla, Phillipines), @elise4270, Eric and me.
Sookyung took the first leg of 2.7 miles (in the dark...), handed off to Eric, then Elise, me and Evita.
Repeat x 3...EXCEPT, when we got to the summit, the route turned off the main highway to Wright road. The race was to end at Cooper Center, and on my last leg (remember, I'm fourth), I turned where I was supposed to....and Cooper Center was .25 miles away. Which means, somehow we were short a leg. I asked a passerby who told me the route continued on PAST Cooper Center, and the turnaround for last leg was much further up the road.
So, I called our driver (DH) .....who didn't answer. I texted him. While running. He called me. The call dropped. He texted me, "we are waiting at Cooper Center". Finally was able to connect and told him to keep driving up Wright road. He said "they are all walking to meet you so you can all finish together. "
NO!!!Keep driving.....but they didn't. I finally reached the handoff site for the last leg....and figured if they were walking to meet me, it would be awhile (since I had now run a mile past my scheduled leg).....so I kept going, made the turnaround, and finally ran into them all about .75 miles later....tagged Evita and she took off. Eric ran again, as he liked the terrain. The others kindly kept me company cause I was....done. DH finally came with the car, picked us up and drove us back to near Cooper Center, where we waited for Evita, and all ran together to finish...at 12:03.
At the first handoff, a local reporter was there and asked us a few questions. She stopped again at the second handoff, we told our story of Dennis, she took pics and names. We'll see if we make the papers!
Handoff, Hill from He!! and happy finishers!
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PastorVincent wrote: »Were any of you around long enough ago to remember the Shareware craze? In 1996 I made into PC/Computing's best downloads on the internet.
Those were fun times... heh, the magazine still has an unopened AOL 3.5" disk!
I remember that magazine. Those *kitten* disks were scattered all over our house.
My husband's first university graduation gown had about 300 of the AOL installation CDs sewn into it. A few years later than the floppy disks!2 -
Saturday Club-group run. 2 groups the speeders and the middle of the packers, which is my pace.
5 km today with 4 ladies then they turned back to get 10 km.
I kept going out another km to get 12 and pay homage to Dennis (@keeprunningfatboy)......
2 of the ladies just started to come out with us before Christmas so us old timers take turns Sheep Dogging them ( stay with them for 1-2 km ) and switch at the walk breaks we have added in to help them adjust to longer distances. Was a little tough for the newbies today as we had a mini warm spell which created a lot of smush snow ( like running in damp sand ) and ice and then had a 2cm snowfall - just enough to hide the ice but not enough to cover it and give new-solid footing. It was a good day for them to get the little pointers about hunting for the best traction conditions and shorten your stride on the ice to help keep your feet under your hips more.
It was one of those days where I felt good, the Hills that were beating me up before Christmas I powered up without ant difficulty.
As a guy running with a group of ladies you get used to All Topics
being discussed - quite often I just slow down and drop back or cruise ahead as I have nothing to add.
I didn't realize how much I was holding back my pace on the outbound until I looked at my raw data - a small increase in pace once I was out by myself. Which helps explain why the hills felt easy today. Usually it's the other way - when you are running with a group you seem to slowly build pace until everyone is on the ragged edge of max HR.
@martaindale I don't plan routes through Strava, but if it's anything like Garmin, then you may find the issue is with routing. Sometimes when I click on the map to create the next waypoint, the route will double back on itself as it backtracks a trail to get to a road for instance, and if I don't catch it, I end up with added distance that I'm not actually going to run. One way to check this is to switch on the mile markers, and eyeball the route to make sure that the mile markers look somewhat evenly placed. If one or more looks short, the route has probably doubled back over itself.
My experience mirrors @garygse above. I believe it is because Strava uses the base Garmin Data sets ( they probably cross-feed/share ) and if it doesn't see an existing Road or Trail in the Database that is when it doubles back. I found that if I added in extra waypoints sometimes it would re-calculate and give me the correct-true planned route & distance.
It's like the GPS in a vehicle telling you to turn when you know the best route is straight ahead.
Do you ever notice that the Garmin Voice can start to sound Pissy after a while when it says Re-Calculating?
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@orphia you are no longer outnumbered by us (2) kiwis! Let the trans tasman battle commence!
Hold on @Avidkeo Let me get some Popcorn, water and settle into my easy chair so I can be comfortable while enjoying the battle. Actually 3 kiwi's as @emmab0902 is in and out of this group depending on her swim/life schedule.
@louubelle16 Well done, and I think you have one of the best profile pictures ( if that is you? ) Powering through a water/mud challenge on a run/race?5 -
January
1—5.45
5—7.5 for @KeepRunningFatboy. All up “hill”. Sea to 4000ft. Excellent company and fish and chips.
13.0 / 71 miles
Upcoming races
🤙January 5 BIRR Ultra relay. 50k. Hawaii. For @KeepRunningFatboy ✔️
March 31, 2019 A2A 5k. Ardmore OK
April 28, 2019 OKC Memorial Marathon. half
November 24, 2019 Route 66 half. Tulsa OK.
Run the Year team A 400+ miles
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10710465/2019-run-the-year-group#latest
Woot! Great job! 3 -
Well @pastorvincent, I am a bit older than you...long before PC magazine or PC's, we were playing a mainframe precursor to Dungeons and Dragons when I first started working in IT in the very early 80s. I hated AOL and never had an account with them. I also worked with graphical teletype machines for the scientific arm of one of the oil companies before PC's were really a thing. We did have a 'remote online terminal' that ran at 300 baud for anyone who remembers that and yes the very large floppy disks that were actually floppy A few years later I worked for a bank that had one of the first widely networked and interconnected ATM systems 5
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rheddmobile wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »I actually read all the posts and have for about a year now, although sometimes that’s the only leisure reading I do all day (I also I read the way most Americans watch TV, ie a lot). I’ve certainly given up on commenting as frequently as I would if this site used nested comments/threading.
Ever since high school I’ve been a part of high-volume online communities, usual related to my dominant interest or hobby and often for years at a time - it’s interesting to look back and see how those changes reflect my personal growth. In high school I was part of a mental health support email list, in college Livejournal then Facebook were my main communities, then Blizzard’s World of Warcraft forums, then Jezebel, then I bounced around a few writing communities, then a job search advice site called Ask a Manager, finally the general forums here and now this thread. Whew!
Hahaha, nerd fight!!! Forums (critical thinking & logic communities in forums and on Facebook) have been my internet pastime for 25 years, and I HATE nested comments/threading on forums. I avoid Reddit precisely for that reason.
25 years... *sigh* kids these days. In 1983 I was already online in international forums, MUDs and so on. Joined the "new" Internet somewhere in 1990 when it first opened to the public with a text-based broswer... I have seen things...so many things!
Can I get in on the nerd fight? I
I work as a reference (academic & public) librarian. By default, I think that wins me a million OG nerd / geek points. 😂9 -
@HonuNui and @elise4270! The race sounds great other than the extra bit @HonuNui (Eric and Evita) had to run and it is so awesome that you were interviewed! I hope it makes the paper because it is such an awesome story and Dennis (@KeepRunningFatboy) deserves the recognition! Hope to see lots more pictures!8
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January Goal: Do more than last month
1/1 1.25
1/2 2.20
1/3 rest
1/4 carb loading dinner
1/5 7.75
Total: 11.25
Upcoming races:
January 4, 2019 Hilo to Volcano Ultra 50k Relay. In memory of @keeprunningfatboy
Ticker is my goal for 2019 and progress to date:
Race Report:
We started at 6am at Reeds Island Park in Hilo. Our team members were Sookyung (my neighbor), Evita (who is the niece of another neighbor, and who is visiting from Manilla, Phillipines), @elise4270, Eric and me.
Sookyung took the first leg of 2.7 miles (in the dark...), handed off to Eric, then Elise, me and Evita.
Repeat x 3...EXCEPT, when we got to the summit, the route turned off the main highway to Wright road. The race was to end at Cooper Center, and on my last leg (remember, I'm fourth), I turned where I was supposed to....and Cooper Center was .25 miles away. Which means, somehow we were short a leg. I asked a passerby who told me the route continued on PAST Cooper Center, and the turnaround for last leg was much further up the road.
So, I called our driver (DH) .....who didn't answer. I texted him. While running. He called me. The call dropped. He texted me, "we are waiting at Cooper Center". Finally was able to connect and told him to keep driving up Wright road. He said "they are all walking to meet you so you can all finish together. "
NO!!!Keep driving.....but they didn't. I finally reached the handoff site for the last leg....and figured if they were walking to meet me, it would be awhile (since I had now run a mile past my scheduled leg).....so I kept going, made the turnaround, and finally ran into them all about .75 miles later....tagged Evita and she took off. Eric ran again, as he liked the terrain. The others kindly kept me company cause I was....done. DH finally came with the car, picked us up and drove us back to near Cooper Center, where we waited for Evita, and all ran together to finish...at 12:03.
At the first handoff, a local reporter was there and asked us a few questions. She stopped again at the second handoff, we told our story of Dennis, she took pics and names. We'll see if we make the papers!
Handoff, Hill from He!! and happy finishers!
This is just the best thing in ages!!!
@HonuNui @Elise4270 Eric (sorry I forget your username), Sookyung and Evita, that's a really beautiful and wonderful thing you've done.
50K in Hawaii for Dennis!!9 -
rheddmobile wrote: »abowersgirl wrote: »newbie here
Jan 1 : 1.5 =1.5/30 miles, walking 5.6 miles (after run) note: run took 19.13 min
Jan 2: 3.02= 4.52/30 miles, walking 11.13 miles (after run): run took 37.02 min 👍improvment
Jan 3: rest day= 4.52/30 miles, walking 4.11 (after run) I think I pushed myself too hard too fast for a non seasoned new runner the day before. My legs were sore up until last night.
January 4: 1.91= 6.43/30 miles, walking 4.22 (after run): no time improvement
3.02 is almost 5k, which is 3.1, so yes, a lot for a new runner! When you first start out adding mileage, don't worry about going fast. It's okay to be very slow, even slower than your walking pace for some people, as long as you are doing the gait of running. Speed will come naturally later!
Thanks for the insight. I will definitley keep that in mind. I am happy you commented because I was, earlier on, feeling a bit discouraged by my numbers and unsure if it was a normal speed for a newbie.
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newbie here
Jan 1 : 1.5 =1.5/30 miles, walking 5.6 miles (after run) note: run took 19.13 min
Jan 2: 3.02= 4.52/30 miles, walking 11.13 miles (after run): run took 37.02 min 👍improvment
Jan 3: rest day= 4.52/30 miles, walking 4.11 (after run) I think I pushed myself too hard too fast for a non seasoned new runner the day before. My legs were sore up until last night.
January 4: 1.91= 6.43/30 miles, walking 4.22 (after run): no time improvement
January 5: 1.5= 7.93 miles, walking 7.47 (after run)7 -
1.1 4 miles 4/40
1.5 6 miles 10/40
1.6 6 miles 16/40
Wed - Fri was a bust but made the weekend work. Now I need to get better at fitting in running during the week.7 -
I was feeling a bit down about my injury and slow recovery, but thought I should log my exercise anyway only to be very pleasantly surprised with the results:
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
26.97 of 100km for January15 -
Kimtrooper wrote: »Wait, what, do we actually have another Australian in here after all these years?
(I'm 25 pages behind!!!)
Jan 01 – 10.8 km inc parkrun 29:23
Jan 05 – 05.0 km parkrun 29:08
Upcoming:
Jan 06 – Surf to Surf 10 km
Jan Goal:
Ease out of my downtime and run a HM, or a 30 km would be nice (Last HM was Dec 2, last 30ish was 11 Nov).
@Orphia you sure do 😀. One older female introverted slow turtle runner from the Barossa Valley at your service!
@Kimtrooper Lovely to meet you! I'm somewhere as the crow flies between you and Melbourne.@orphia you are no longer outnumbered by us (2) kiwis! Let the trans tasman battle commence!
Hahaha, @Avidkeo
Yay!!! It's on!!!runner_girl83 wrote: »Hi all, I used to post here a few years ago, not sure why I stopped but hope you'll have me back!
2018 was a really crappy year for me as I lost my Dad to bowel cancer. I stopped runni g for a few months after as I used to run to help deal with his treatments and stress. Once he passed I felt like I didn't know how to run anymore.
Fast forward 7 months and I am back to running 5-10 km each run.. I now use running as a way to remember my Dad.. Think about the funny things he used to do or say.
I've just signed up to run a 30km ultra trail in July (on his birthday which is freaky) so I've got something to work towards now.
Yesterday was my longest run to date at 26km (virtual run) using Parkrun as part of the run too.
Currently I'm sitting at 42km for January.
Kare.
@runner_girl83 Welcome back!! Hang on a sec, am I getting a bit enthusiastic or are you in Australia too?
Guess that means the Aussie run gang is winning if it’s 3vs 2 kiwis 😜7 -
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