January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

greyparks206

2.5 miles on the treadmill today, including 20 minutes of sort-of intervals (1 minute at 11 min/mile, 2 minutes at 12 min/mile). It's amazing how all of a sudden 2.5 miles is a "short" run, when a year ago I couldn't imagine running that far continuously! Supposed to do 3 easy miles tomorrow. I'd like to do them outside, but I'm not sure I'll have enough time before dark to get that done.

27.0/45.0 miles for January so far

greyparks206

@girlinahat, wow! I'm absolutely in awe of your trip.

msarobix

@PastorVincent - Loved your "nice things list" about the treadmill (dreadmill as you call it). ALL reason why I prefer to run there verses outside, especially when the temperatures drop in Michigan. It is really my preferred method for running, even when outdoor conditions are idea, for all the same reason you mentioned.

hanlonsk

I was at a gym place today. Did some treadmill intervals, mostly to prove to myself that in some dimension I can still hit 12 minute miles. I forgot to even look at how far I had gone. So, let’s call it 1 mile. So, 8.6 for the month?

amirahdaboss

Y’all this is too much 😂 I usually obsessively follow this thread and include it in my daily(or hourly) social media checks, but I hadn’t looked at it in 2 weeks while out of the country. 4 hours reading through the thread and I’m still 20 pages behind 😂😭

Scott6255

Last (probably) run before Houston marathon. Tapering must be working because I just went out for an easy 3 miles, just trying to keep a slow, steady pace throughout the run. Turned out to be about :30 faster for each mile. Hoping in carries through on Sunday. If I am able to finish, @KeepRunningFatboy can cross Texas off the list of states

Butterchop

3 miles today. Great run could have went further but it was too dark and I don't have any lights. Question does anyone have issues with dogs? They are friendly but they follow me. I can't get them to stay home and I'm afraid they will get lost or hit by a car. I spoke to the owners of 2 that follow me and their solution was for me to not run down the road, join a gym. The other owners do not care. One of the dogs, Max, super friendly and quite large rolled me in the ditch twice and then once I started walking just followed me home. I called the number on his tag and his owner thought the story was hilarious and just told me to send him home. So my routes are getting really messed up and I don't know what to do about it really.

7lenny7

@Scott6255 I'm looking forward to hearing about your race! You're going do great, I'm sure!

taxgirl1

W1D2 of c25k done. The last sunny day before the rain comes back for the next few days. While I love running with my dog, she loses focus really easy and loves to sniff. Luckily the longer walk sessions allows her to get most of her sniffing out of the way before the run sessions start up.

1/14--W1D1
1/16--W1D2

Mercer Island 5k--March 24
Fall City Day 10K--June 8
Chuckanut Foot Race (7 miles)--July 6
Yukon Do it! 1/2 marathon--December

katharmonic

@Scott6255 so excited for your marathon and can't wait to hear how it goes for you. Enjoy your rest these next few days and try to enjoy the whole experience! My coach always advises a short 15-minute easy shake-out run the day before. I think it helps get some nerves out.

@Butterchop sorry about the dog problem. If the owners are going to be so uncaring about it I would probably call animal control or whoever deals with loose dogs in your town. Friendly or not, rolling you in a ditch is a problem and you shouldn't have to deal with this.


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/ 120 mile goal

Another treadmill run today. Just barely left myself enough time and had to kick it up a notch a few times in the second half to get to 4 miles before my circuit training started. Not that it really mattered, just got my mind set on that and had to get it done.

Butterchop

I know my husband keeps telling me to call animal control. It's just I used to foster for our local shelter and so so many animals were never reclaimed and were euthanized I just struggle with doing it. I guess I will stick to my weird repeating paths until i come up with something. The 3 that followed me today were fine , they didn't jump on me or anything.I just worry about them. Honestly if my dog wasn't aggressive to other dogs I would probably just let them all live here lol.

AmyOutOfControl

1/1 = 10 miles & FB Strong Day 1
1/2 = FB Strong Day 2
1/3 = 3 miles and FB Strong Day 3
1/4 = 18 miles
1/5 = FB Strong day 4
1/6 = 8 miles & FB Strong day 5
1/7 = FB Strong day 6 (easy recovery yoga day)
1/8 = 3 miles & FBS day 8
1/9 = 10 miles & FBS day 9
1/10 = 3 miles & FBS day 10
1/11 = 6 miles and FBS day 11
1/12 = rest day
1/13 = 8 miles with running group
1/14 = FBS Day 12 (lower body) & 13 (yoga recovery)
1/15 = 3 miles & FBS day 15
1/16 = 8 miles (with emergency pit-stop intervals) & a last defeated mile walk home

My stomach was iffy at best. I should have know better than to go out running. I knew I was in big trouble at mile 4.7.... It was a journey (and not in a good way).

I’ve thrown out a quarter of the food in my fridge. I don’t know what I ate, but I want to never eat it again.

January goal miles = 75 / Miles to date = 77

Upcoming Races:
1/26/19 = Miami Tropical 5K
1/27/19 = Miami Marathon
3/10/19 = ZOOMA half
4/6/19 = Wanderlust half
5/4/19 = Wisconsin Marathon (mittens challenge part 1)
5/5/19 = Kalamazoo Marathon (mittens challenge part 2)
Run the Year 2019. GO Team B! 1,550 yearly miles pledged. Join us : https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10710465/2019-run-the-year-group#latest

AmyOutOfControl

Scott6255 wrote: »

Last (probably) run before Houston marathon. Tapering must be working because I just went out for an easy 3 miles, just trying to keep a slow, steady pace throughout the run. Turned out to be about :30 faster for each mile. Hoping in carries through on Sunday. If I am able to finish, @KeepRunningFatboy can cross Texas off the list of states

@Scott6255 Good luck and have fun!

PastorVincent

No run, to many errands to run...

jele30

A quick run after work as needed to go to the grocery store. Used the rolling hill setting and felt great. Would have liked to keep going, but knew I didn’t have time so was happy to get the run in.

1/1 - Zumba (XT)
1/2- rest
1/3- 3 miles
1/4- 3 miles
1/5- walk - 3 (XT)
1/6- walk - 1.5 (XT)
1/7 - 3 miles
1/8- 45 min spin bike (XT)
1/9- 3.5 miles
1/10-rest
1/11-3 miles
1/12 - walking in gym at swim meet
1/13 - walking in gym at swim meet
1/14 - 30 min elliptical (XT)
1/15 - 3 miles
1/16 - 2 miles

20.5 miles/40 goal

PastorVincent

amirahdaboss wrote: »

Y’all this is too much 😂 I usually obsessively follow this thread and include it in my daily(or hourly) social media checks, but I hadn’t looked at it in 2 weeks while out of the country. 4 hours reading through the thread and I’m still 20 pages behind 😂😭

Then why did you stop! Get back to it!

lesadances

1/2 1 mile on treadmill
1/4 1 mile on treadmill
1/5 2.13 miles on trail
1/7 1 mile
1/10 1 mile
1/12 2.56 miles on trail
1/13 1.51 miles to the store
1/16 1.5 miles on treadmill

11.7 of 30 miles

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

January running total to date – 122.44

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 – Felt beat up this morning after yesterday evening's speed work. Took it really slow, and by 11 AM I was feeling good enough to do this:



Then registration closed by noon. This one sells out fast.

Lovely weather this afternoon, sunny and near freezing. Nice day for an afternoon easy run. But I had a podiatrist appointment at 2:30, sigh. That put a huge hole in the afternoon, and I wasn't recovered enough from speed work to run in the morning. Nothing for it but to run in the evening. Set out at 6 PM, in full darkness, for 8 to 10 miles. Temperature was down to 20° F (-7°C), with 16 mph NW wind. Temperature was supposed to drop slowly, and wind was supposed to ease off gradually.

Turned out I was psyched out about the weather for nothing. Put on the appropriate layers, added my reflective harness and lights, and set out to run familiar roads. There was traffic; but it's mid-January, not mid-December. The traffic did normal, predictable stuff that wasn't scary. Ran a residential section in the reverse direction of my usual route. Explored some residential roads I don't usually run. Ran around RIT campus. Started taking stock of known distances to home, and adjusted the distance to get close to 10 miles. Had to run past my driveway, but not very far past.

Look at results. 7:29 average pace? Oops, this was supposed to be an easy run, not marathon pace. Look at the HR. Typical fake peak early, but average 136 even with the fake peak. Look at the HR on mile splits. Past the fake peak, max HR was 141. Mile splits were 7:51, 7:37, 7:27, 7:31, 7:26, 7:33, 7:21, 7:22, 7:22, 7:17. Call it close to my new, faster MP (7:20 target) for the last 4 miles.

If it doesn't get warm on Patriots' Day, I could have a pretty good race this year.

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)
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 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)

martaindale

Well, I did it. I upped my calories to maintenance. I have gotten to my goal weight and am getting hungry, which I never was before. It's a little scary because I've been at a deficit for almost a year and I really don't want to gain weight back. But, it's time. I am moving into recomposition. The extra calories should make the workouts much easier! I'm going to add in some more strength training to target some areas that the rock climbing doesn't hit as well.

Ran 3 miles this evening in the mist. Got rained on for a few minutes, but luckily it was towards the end of my run.

Jan miles: 28.2 miles
Jan goal: 45 miles

2019 Races:

Piney Woods Trailfest 5k - 2/2/2019 registered
Rodeo Run 10k - 2/23/2019 registered
Run Houston! Minute Maid Park 10k - 3/23/2019 registered
Brazos Bend 50 10k - 4/6/2019 registered
Galveston Island Wine Festival Champagne Fun Run 5k - 4/27/2019
Women's Quarter Marathon - 5/2019
El Chupacabra de Houston 10k (night trail run) - 8/2019
TWRC Run WIld Run Free 5k - 9/2019
10 for Texas 10 Miler - 10/2019 registration opens Jan 2019
Wine and Dine half marathon - 11/3/2019

Run the Year 2019 - Team Five for Nineteen

7lenny7

4.5 miles with Kody tonight, outside, on the streets, in the dark. Beautiful running weather at 18F and little wind. So far, so good. No pain but my right Achilles down to the inside of my heel was tight. I'll try a warm up next time.

I did get my first ice beard of the season but it wasn't worth a photo.