January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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Monthly quiz?
Are you left brain or right brain dominant? Or perhaps you are balanced?
I scored 42. My favorite even number and it also happens to be the answer to life, the universe and everything and my birthday and my dads birthday backwards, 24. Haha! So I’m balanced, although slightly more left.
How about you?
I scored 33. The last time I took a left/right brain test like this, I scored a perfectly balanced 50. Like most left-brained people, I found myself wanting to argue about the lame way the answers to questions were presented when the correct answer wasn't particularly close to any of the options given.4 -
I’m in, I’m going for 31km this month one for each day of Jan. I have a chronic illness which means I’m ill for a good two thirds of each month but I also know I can get in a good 5km on a good day so I think it’s pretty feasible.9
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Monthly quiz?
Are you left brain or right brain dominant? Or perhaps you are balanced?
I scored 42. My favorite even number and it also happens to be the answer to life, the universe and everything and my birthday and my dads birthday backwards, 24. Haha! So I’m balanced, although slightly more left.
How about you?
71. Definitely right brained.2 -
Monthly quiz?
Are you left brain or right brain dominant? Or perhaps you are balanced?
I scored 42. My favorite even number and it also happens to be the answer to life, the universe and everything and my birthday and my dads birthday backwards, 24. Haha! So I’m balanced, although slightly more left.
How about you?
50 here. I can believe it lol3 -
Monthly quiz?
Are you left brain or right brain dominant? Or perhaps you are balanced?
I scored 42. My favorite even number and it also happens to be the answer to life, the universe and everything and my birthday and my dads birthday backwards, 24. Haha! So I’m balanced, although slightly more left.
How about you?
I scored 33. The last time I took a left/right brain test like this, I scored a perfectly balanced 50. Like most left-brained people, I found myself wanting to argue about the lame way the answers to questions were presented when the correct answer wasn't particularly close to any of the options given.
Lol! Well. Least we learned something about you. I think I'm way more left brained than right. But this particular fun quiz didn't show that.
I had even asked dh for his view when i felt one way, but knew a different. Then i chose to argue with his perspective. I think i must be typical female, moody, always right, and fridged. Hmm. What if i am?
All just a little fun. And more benign than playing some version of "horrible bosses".1 -
Monthly quiz?
Are you left brain or right brain dominant? Or perhaps you are balanced?
I scored 42. My favorite even number and it also happens to be the answer to life, the universe and everything and my birthday and my dads birthday backwards, 24. Haha! So I’m balanced, although slightly more left.
How about you?
I got 42 as well, which sounds about right to me! How I decide/choose/plan things depends on what the situation is.3 -
Monthly quiz?
Are you left brain or right brain dominant? Or perhaps you are balanced?
I scored 42. My favorite even number and it also happens to be the answer to life, the universe and everything and my birthday and my dads birthday backwards, 24. Haha! So I’m balanced, although slightly more left.
How about you?
Exactly 50. Not sure I'm that well balanced honestly! 🤔2 -
REMINDER - Come January the gyms will often be PACKED. Plan on it. Plan on it taking longer to get to your machine/weights/shower/etc. You can go at odd hours to avoid some of it, but it will be busy.
Just stick it out a few weeks or so and it will quickly return to normal.
Just have extra grace and patience on hand 8 -
I ran my first 5K on July 4, 2018 and went on to run another half-dozen races in 2018, from 5K up to two half marathons, and am planning on at least as many in 2019. I’m not a social runner - I’ve only run with another person once outside of races - but as others have said, racing provides a nice structure.
The fact that I can’t control the weather on race-day is actually a big selling point for me, since I do not currently have any way to run inside and don’t know that I could motivate myself to run inside even if I did. Running is an outdoor activity for me, for sure. If I have to workout inside there are a lot of things I’d much rather do.
@rheddmobile: I think we’re pretty sympatico on the “why race” answers. I have to suppress my competitive side, though, as I am simply in too competitive an age group (mid-30s) and too large a market (Minneapolis is one of the fittest cities in the country) to make placing anything more than a pipe dream - for now! Maybe next year I'll consistently make it to the top half of my AG!
Monthly group question number 1:
What motivates you to race? What are your payoffs?
Or why do you not race?
I love races. It helps keep my training focused and goal oriented. It also keeps me from slacking.
And in case I'm not as prepared as I would like to be, it turns into a supported long run with cheering crowds and bling!
Hah, that perfectly describes my attitude going into both of my half marathons so far! Although only the first was because of not being prepared - I definitely think I could have run my second half harder than I did, but I didn’t really feel like pushing it for that long.4 -
150 posts and it is not even 2019 yet...
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AshDouglas210 wrote: »I’m new to running so I would like to just be able to walk a mile and not get out of breath where my husband has to help me up the porch stairs which there are only 4. I have really bad asthma because of my weight so I’m trying to lose it so I can overcome that but also be there for my daughter
Keep at it and even though at times it’s not easy. But it’s just an amazing feeling when it gets a little bit easier, and you go just a little bit farther. If you settle in here you’re more likely to enjoy the misery struggles success of running or just staying active and doing regular walks as you build up to running. There are others here that struggle manage life with asthma and some that have undergone an amazing transformation. Some might have made national stories. No shortage of inspiration in this thread.
When I first started running, I had a goal to run a mile a day. I quickly learned that I needed to start with walking 20 minutes a day. Be patient. Come share your experience and don’t hesitate to ask for help or advice or an ear. We’d love nothing more than to see another success story in you.6 -
IPastorVincent wrote: »150 posts and it is not even 2019 yet...
I bet since we are all over achievers, we can hit 200 before it’s Jan one here in the states.3 -
I’m in. I want to start running again and need support and motivation. I used to run everyday and have even completed a half marathon. Fast forward a few years and two back surgeries later, I miss running and being in shape!11
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Scored 33 on the left vs right brained test. Yep. Think so.1
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scored a 42 on the left vs right brained test1
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Just saying, I'm going to go swimming tomorrow. And for a wee (and I mean wee) run - maybe 5km with a total of 1km running, the rest walking. This is me being super good and starting the new year in healing mode. Also, I'm at home with the children while hubby is out at a NYE party so I'll be leaving him to look after the children while I go to the pool (also, it's the middle of summer here so there may be a wee bit of sunbathing and playing about while I'm at the pool).9
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I'd like to do 5km a week so i'll go for 20km for the month and see how I get on, I have been out of the habit for the past few weeks and I wasn't very good then anyway haha.9
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It’s interesting to read how many people are pledging mileage but are more concerned about making running a habit, as this has been bugging me too. I’ve been running constantly 4/5 times a week for at least 3 years, or rather I had been until Berlin Marathon in September. I spent years running as a habit, yet it took me about a week to get out of the habit once I took a self-enforced break in October, and it’s been a battle to get back into the swing of things for marathon training again.
It’s the habit that’s definitely the hardest for me right now, not the mileage, so maybe that ought to be my goal instead - sod the session work/paces etc, just to stick to my training plan for January. The miles will run themselves, and should make that 137 goal anyway. Hopefully the self-competitive side of me will make me run some of the paces on plan anyway, but the pressure is off.
There we go, a habit-making goal for when I go back to work next week (the sessions will all be in a different order this week as I’m away with family)
Monday: recovery run commute + yoga
Tuesday: easy run commute + Orangetheory
Wednesday: club run + foam roll
Thursday: rest (maybe easy yoga)
Friday: Orangetheory + at home strength training (I still do the rehab plan I was given two years ago at least once a week)
Saturday: long run + easy yoga/foam roll
Sunday: rest + foam roll
Now I’m accountable!7 -
It is all about the Pentiums stats, baby!
So last month someone asked, "why use Strava?" - and I thought I take a moment here in this pre-2019 window (well at least in my TZ) and answer the more generic question "why us an app at all?"
So yesterday I ran 10 miles on a hilly path (well really it is mostly 2 hills that have very long inclines...) and my pace was slower than I expected. I recently started some new medication and because of the kind of med it is, there is a chance it could hinder my speed. Well, I was all ready to go back to the doctor and be like "get me off this **<kittens are cute, even if they grew up to be evil>** medicine!"
BUT I figured I would have to build the case, so I open Strava and it said that my runs on that route were... TRENDING FASTER.
Umm. OK that will not help my case. So I looked at the raw data for my last several months running on that path.
(in reverse chronological order)
Pace:
9:56
10:14
---started new med here.---
10:40
10:14
9:36 (must be doping this day)
10:08
etc...
So umm, the numbers show the med is not impacting my performance at all. Tracking the data in an app like Strava prevented me from making a bad call medically.
There are lots of cases like this where having all your historical data in an easy to report on, easy to search place is helpful. So much so that when I moved to Strava (a while back now) I imported a couple years worth of data, which was annoying, but helpful.
I have a lot more data in Runkeeper:
(weekly miles in Runkeeper, for as long as I have been tracking)
You just never know when that historical data will be important for something. I still have my Garmin pumping data into RunKeeper so that I have one app that has most of my history in it, but pretty much use Strava right now to stay in touch with the MFP group there.
Also the apps pretty much all now keep heart rate data if you have an HR monitor. This can be really good for spotting issues too. The new Apple Watch 4 has EKG on it, but I suspect it will take a generation or two of tech before that becomes as solid as the HR meters. Still, it is yet another data point for historical medical tracking.
So an app is not really REQUIRED to do this running thing of course, but I would submit it is a REALLY good idea.
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i definitely want to spend this month making running a habit again. i totally fell off these past couple of months. i wish we had a little snow or something rather than brown and grey urban bleek scenery5
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