January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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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
January running total to date – 199.69
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 – January isn't even over, and winter has got me beat down mentally. More snow this morning. I drove over it to get to church, didn't get the driveway shoveled till about 2 PM. Totally wimped out on running in the afternoon with temperature at 23° F (-5° C) and 24 mph wind. Then I didn't want to run in the dark when the wind was a more reasonable 12-13 mph and the temperature down in the upper teens, because what driver is looking for an idiot out running in the dark in January when it's cold and windy even for January?
So I went to run on the indoor track. The nice fieldhouse track was occupied by a bunch of intramural soccer games, so it was of to the hard upper track. The sign says 8 laps to the mile. Coach says that track is just a little longer than 200m, go one pole on the inner rail short to run 200m. That works out to a little over a mile for 8 laps. *shrug* I don't know, I counted 8 laps as a mile for purposes of deciding how far to run.
The plan assignment today was 8 to 14 miles. I was thinking 8 to 12, ended up running 10 Garmin laps of 8 track laps each. Garmin estimated that as 10.46 miles by cadence, with the later laps being estimated as longer than the earlier laps. Close enough for tracking training mileage.
If I'd realized I was sitting at 189.xx miles for the month, I might have run 11 miles. Then again, 10 miles was physiologically a good place for me to stop today. I'll break 200 on Tuesday anyway.
In other news, the email confirming I've been accepted into the TCS New York City marathon came today. I was going to get in even if I had to pay Marathon Tours for a guaranteed entry, but I like the bragging rights of being able to say I got into New York as a time qualifier.
Rest day tomorrow. I may be adding races to my 2019 calendar, since the list of 2019 RROY races was released last night at the banquet. Just have to figure out which ones I definitely want to run, and which ones I want to decide about later.
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)
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)10 -
1.1.19: 10.5 @ 9:31/M (10.5) Long Run
1.2.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.3.19: 4.5 @ 8:39/M (15) Pace Run
1.4.19: 5.0 @ 9:18/M (20) Easy Run
1.5.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.6.19: 5.0 @ 9:38/M (25) Easy Run
1.7.19: 4.5 @ 8:29/M (29.5) Fartlek Run
1.8.19: 10.3 @ 9:40/M (39.8) Long Run
1.9.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.10.19: SKIPPED Pace Run (tummy ache)
1.11.19: 5.0 @ 8:57/M (44.8) Medium Run
1.12.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.13.19: 4.0 @ 9:15/M (48.8) Easy Run
1.14.19: SKIPPED Speedwork
1.15.19: 4.0 @ 9:06/M (52.8) Easy Run
1.16.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.17.19: 4.0 @ 8:30/M (56.8) Pace Run
1.18.19: 3.5 @ 8:45/M (60.3) Long Run cut short due to snow.
1.19:18: Scheduled Rest Day
1.20.19: SKIPPED Easy Run
1.21.19: SKIPPED Speedwork
1.22.19: 5.0 @ 9:14/M (65.3) Easy Run
1.23.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.24.19: 3.0 @ 8:48/M (68.3) Pace Run
1.25.19: 6.3 @ 9:31/M (74.6) Long Run- was supposed to be 1:40:00 but I was away for work, on a treadmill and just didn’t have time
1.26.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.27.19 5.5 @ 8:45/M (80.1) Fartlek Run
Finally hit 80 miles for the month. Been trying to work on speed. 3 weeks until my first race of the season- 15K.9 -
@HonuNui I like them socks, they remind me of spy eyes! I love socks. I just don’t like wearing them. I’m always barefoot.
And @katharmonic @louubelle @martaindale @orphia, I wash my hair 1-2 times a day. But if I get two showers in a day, I’m likely just conditioning it the second time. I can do the hot water rinse thing, but eh... I started using gel and hair spray with this shorter cut. So I feel like I have to wash it out. Now if I don’t use it, I can do the rinse. But if I just skip a was or rinse, my head gets itchy and it drive me nuts. My hair is a bit bipolar, it’s straight on top and curly in the back so not washing the natural oils out makes it more manageable. But the top straight hair gets limp and annoying. My hair hates this hard water that we have. I could talk dh into a softener just for my hair... ok and the appliances.3 -
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
82.62/75 miles completed
I had a great run today and hit my goal for January. I ran 11.4 miles. I went almost to the lake. I did get to a point where I could see the lake in the distance which was my goal for today. I'm planning to run all the way there soon, but I was only trying for 11 miles today. The weather was really nice today. It was a little chilly starting out in shorts and a t-shirt, but I warmed up after about 2 miles. It was around 49F when I started out, but it was around 55F when I was done and it was sunny. The run out to the lake was really nice. I took this picture when I got to about halfway through my run. I was actually standing next to the driveway of a friend of mine. That is pretty much the view from her back porch.
I just found out about a half marathon on Saturday in a town about an hour away. I am thinking about running it, but I'm still undecided. I don't think there are finisher medals and only the first 50 people even get t-shirts. I sent a message to the race director to get more info. I'm not only in it for the bling, but if I'm going to run a half marathon I kind of want a medal. Or at least a t-shirt. I can run 13.1 miles by myself for free and I don't have to get up at 4 in the morning and drive an hour to do it. I guess I'll see what kind of response I get. It would be kind of fun to run another HM. I'm still thinking about running the HM in May that I ran last year. But my son is going to be moving to Japan sometime this spring and I am not going to sign up for any races until I know when he will be leaving.
@amymoreorless Congrats on your 2nd marathon! Great job!
@RunsOnEspresso Great job on hitting 100 miles this month!
@Orphia Congrats on the HM and the 30km!
There was lots of good running this weekend!
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6 miles tonight, on flat trail. I was hoping to run in a snow storm but it came later than initially forecast and I didn't want to wait any longer, so I head out and started around a quarter past 5. The temp was the same as yesterday, so I dressed the same, but failed to take into account stronger wind. I was a bit cold on the first half but that head wind turned into a tail wind and the last half was fine.
We finally did start getting snow for the last mile but by then it was dark and I didn't have a headlamp so I didn't enjoy it as much as I would have otherwise.
I felt like I was running fast relatively to my other runs since starting back up but it turns out it was actually my slowest run. No big deal...I loved the run, I loved the trail, and I had a great time.
This run put me over 100 for the first time since March and I'll pass my goal on my next run.
2019 Races
02/23/2019 - Psycho Wyco 20M w/ Kody - Kansas City, KS
04/13/2019 - Zumbro Endurance Run - Theilman, MN - Volunteer/Pace
04/27/2019 - Tillamook Burn 50M - Tillamook Forest, OR
05/18/2019 - Superior Spring 50K - Lutsen, MN
06/22/2019 - Dan Patch 5K Pace - Savage, MN
<or>
06/22/2019 - Circle of Life 10K - Lake City, MN
07/04/2019 - Red Wing 5K - Red Wing, MN (tentative)
07/13/2019 - Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon - Carlton, MN
07/27/2019 - Wabasha River Run 10K - Wabasha, MN
09/14/2019 - Outrun Homelessness 5K - Savage, MN
09/21/2019 - Surly Loppet Trail HM
10/12/2019 - Big Woods Run Trail HM - Nerstrand, MN
10/20/2019 - Surf the Murph (50k or 50M)
<or>
10/26/2019 - Kansas Rails to Trails 100K
12/07/2019 - Alternate Chili 10M - KCK
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Really been AOL-Slacker this month. Did get in 2 runs this weekend.
Saturday 10.2km - a beautiful +5C day with a SW wind - just about Shorts and T-shirt weather for us.
Sunday 5.2km -5C Yes a 10C ( 50F ) swing overnight so all the roads and trails had a beautiful coating of ice which made for lots of interesting traction hunting.
A quick look at my monthly runs and you see that I have had way to many long periods between runs all caused by work and being out of town for unplanned extended trips. On the positive side I now have 3 new shaving kits and some new clothes all courtesy of work - travel expenses. Hard to expense Running shoes and wicking gear
Way behind on reading posts, supporting the crew with Likes, Thumbs up and smiley faces.
01/01 0.00 km – 0.0km –140.0 km – YTD 0 km
01/05 12.04 km –12.04km –128.0 km
01/06 5.57 km -17.61km -122.39km
01/12 11.08 km -28.69km -111.31km
01/20 10.17 km -38.86km -101.14km
01/26 10.23 km -49.09km - 90.91km
01/27 5.19 km -54.28km - 85.72km - YTD 54.28km
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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 miles
25 - .75
26 - 0
27 - 2.5 miles, plus a 15 mile bike ride.
January Total: 51 miles
January Goal: 60 miles
Scramble XXIV - 6-Mile Scramble (6/30)
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8 miles on trails - that makes my 60 mile stretch goal for January.
It was so pretty today! Over 50 F, bright sun, little wind. Everyone was out at the park, which wasn't too nice since half of them were vaping and you could smell it all over the park. My husband who is still coughing a little (slight cold) was having a terrible time breathing all the stinky air. Eeewww! It's amazing how far that stuff carries, we were way back in the woods on trails and you could still smell it from the picnic areas and playground.
We ran out at Shelby Farms where we have a 10k coming up, did the 1.5 mile grassy run at the beginning as a warmup, walked a shortcut back to the start, then ran the whole course. Gradually this course is kicking our *kitten* less and less, but it's still hard. Sort of hoping that running 8 miles will make 10k feel a little easier. Hardly anyone runs back in the unpaved trails, but we did encounter one guy we recognized from our race series who was doing the exact same thing we were, practicing the course. He was way faster (and younger) and passed us going in and then coming out. I also ran into my AG leader in the restroom! And saw another woman I recognized from our series running trails with her husband. I guess everyone had the same idea today.
Re: Sally challenge - I can't even begin to do the push-up one but I did the squats one a while ago. It's fun! For some reason I decided last strength day that regular push-ups weren't hard enough and tried doing push-ups to rows, holding dumbbells. My dumbbells are not square, which adds a whole other dimension to the push-ups since they try to roll sideways. I can do about three before I wobble and fall over laughing. It's definitely something I am going to keep working at. Being able to do real honest toe push-ups is still a fairly new concept for me.9 -
Ok I'll play along. I'm actually just stalling at getting out the door to run in the cold. These socks were part of a race packet... except there was a problem with the supplier and everyone got a size smaller than they ordered. They're a little tight, but okay. I've been wearing them a lot in the cold.
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@amymoreorless Congratulations on your marathon finish!!
Re: push-ups / pull-ups challenge. I should probably do both. Because I fail at both! Every now and then I decide I want to learn how to do proper push-ups (I can do 5-10 knee or incline ones) or pull-ups (I can do 0), but I always get discouraged rather quickly, after two weeks or so of no progress
Re: hair. There's no way I would be washing my hair with shampoo twice per day! More like three times per week. The rest of the time I just rinse it with water. I'm pretty relaxed about hair styling too. I never use a hair drier, I simply do not have the patience to spend 10 minutes each day on that since my hair will just as well dry on its own. So just go to work with wet hair
Re: running. Didn't run nearly as much last week as I had planned. I was trying to hold a cold at bay. I think I managed, no stuffy nose or headaches at all, just sore throat and cough for ~5 days, but even that is over now, I think. But it means I only went outside for two runs and one day of skiing, and did indoor sports the rest of the time.
So until now I'm just at 113km for January. I think my goal was 170km...8 -
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My check-in for last week.
Monday: Rest day, yoga
Tuesday: Cross training - Lifting, yoga
Wednesday - Speed training on treadmill, yoga
Thursday - Cross training - Lifting
Friday - 7k run, yoga
Saturday - rest day (I missed parkrun after eating something that didn't agree with me on Friday night)
Sunday - Lifting & Fartlek run on treadmill, yoga
I am finding it a bit tricky to get runs in alongside my lifting program and getting enough rest. I probably shouldn't have done speed training and lifting in the same session yesterday. I feel a bit wiped today. Also gutted to have missed parkrun. The most annoying thing was my *issues* went away pretty quickly and probably I would have been fine to run if it was scheduled just half an hour later.
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1/1-6 Totals: Run 47.6 km
1/7-13 Totals: Run 39.4 km, Other Cardio 115 min
1/14-20 Totals: Run 39.2 km, Other Cardio 60 min
1/21-27 Totals: Run 26.2 km (+9.3 km nordic run-walk), Other cardio 116 min
1/28 - 11.5k run +weights&core
1/29 -
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1/31 -
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2/2 - planned night 10k race!!!
THE SUN IS SHINING!!! I didn't have time for my long run this a.m. due to other appointments, so I'll either run again later (not highly likely) or do it tomorrow. Looks like my January goals have been met
OTHER CARDIO:
RUNNING:
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Also I tried these on the ice. They worked great, and it was nice to be able to take them off and put them in my pocket once I reached clear sidewalks.
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Not checked this for a few days so I am VERY behind. Will try and catch up later today.
06Jan - 2.8 miles (outdoor)
07Jan - 1.4 miles (treadmill)
10Jan - 1.5 miles (treadmill)
11Jan - 2 miles (treadmill)
13Jan - 4 miles (outdoor)
14Jan - 1.9 miles (treadmill)
17Jan - 1.9 miles (treadmill)
18Jan - 1.5 miles (treadmill)
20Jan - 4.6 miles (outdoor)
21Jan - 1.75 miles (treadmill)
25Jan - 3.1 miles (treadmill)
27Jan - 4.2 miles (Outdoors - a lot faster than I thought I would be considering I was tired and it was quite windy)
28Jan - 1.8 miles (treadmill)
Total so far: 32.45 miles of 20
Also, I am wondering if anyone can give me some advice - the friends I normally run 10k races with have floated the idea that we do a half marathon instead of the races we had planned. I am in 2 minds about this - it's one thing to jump from 5k to 10k, but a half seems a bit daunting. It also depends on when it is as work gets in the way of running/life.
BUT if I was to agree, is it as scary as it seems? How long would it take to increase my distance (I can do a 10k pretty comfortably in just over an hour)? And realistically, how much of my time would training take up?5 -
Great socks @polskagirl01 ! I wonder if @garygse wears socks?2
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@squish815 how much are you currently running per week on average and what's your typical long run each week? I'm seeing about 4-5 miles as your longest from what you just posted here for January. I think you would need some time to build up mileage and by increasing both your weekly total and your long run gradually. You may also want to add one day of speedwork if you aren't already doing that. But the most important thing is to increase miles and be consistent.
I would look at beginner half marathon plans, many/most of which are 12 weeks. You probably could get there sooner than that but I wouldn't want to try to rush that or it could lead to injury, and feeling miserable.
You can totally do it though! When I first signed up for a half I had been running for less than a year and had only done a few 5k races, nothing longer. I joined a training group and had about 20 weeks to train. I think my long run was about an hour/5 miles when I started and the plan worked it up by 15 minutes every 3rd week to get to 10 miles.7 -
Shin is much more tender today than yesterday, so I got a whole 1/10 mile in before I called it quits. It's cooler today, so I had to wear some warmer layers and these layers were more aggravating on the scrapes and bruise (different pair of leggings + taller socks). Bummed to miss today's run since it's the last decent day we'll have temperature-wise until next Sunday, but that's just how it goes I suppose!
January runs:
(12/31: NYE 4 mile race
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1/1: 8.2 trail miles
1/2: Rest day
1/3: 5 miles
1/4: 6.8 miles
1/5: 6 miles
1/6: 12 miles
1/7: 4 miles
1/8: 9 trail miles
1/9: 5 miles
1/10: Rest day
1/11: 16 miles
1/12: 8 miles
1/13: 6.5 miles
1/14: 5 miles
1/15: 5 miles
1/16: 7.5 miles
1/17: Rest day
1/18: 9 miles
1/19: 6 miles
1/20: 18 miles
1/21: Rest day
1/22: 5.4 miles
1/23 7 miles
1/24: Rest day
1/25: 5.2 miles
1/26: 5.7 miles
1/27: 12 miles
1/28: 0.1 mile
January total miles: 172.4
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2019 Races
March 24: Caesar Rodney Half Marathon (Goal: PR)
April 7: Cherry Blossom 10 Miler (Goal: Sub-75)
April 28: New Jersey Marathon (Goal: BQ)
July 6: Finger Lake Fifties 50k (Goal: Finish)
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So i was hoping for a run yesterday but it was ridiculously icy and today i get to do more "cross training." We are looking at over a foot of snow and it's just me and my shovel. Already had to force my back door open to let out the dogs
I did get in a short run saturday which made me happy. I wanted more but the footing was so poor on the sidewalks.
I don't bring a dog when it's sub zero. I think speed demon is fine with that
And socks
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katharmonic wrote: »@squish815 how much are you currently running per week on average and what's your typical long run each week? I'm seeing about 4-5 miles as your longest from what you just posted here for January. I think you would need some time to build up mileage and by increasing both your weekly total and your long run gradually. You may also want to add one day of speedwork if you aren't already doing that. But the most important thing is to increase miles and be consistent.
I would look at beginner half marathon plans, many/most of which are 12 weeks. You probably could get there sooner than that but I wouldn't want to try to rush that or it could lead to injury, and feeling miserable.
You can totally do it though! When I first signed up for a half I had been running for less than a year and had only done a few 5k races, nothing longer. I joined a training group and had about 20 weeks to train. I think my long run was about an hour/5 miles when I started and the plan worked it up by 15 minutes every 3rd week to get to 10 miles.
Hi katharmonic! Thank you for this, it's all very helpful.
You're correct, at the moment I'm only doing around 4-5 miles so will increase this gradually. I do want to make sure that if I decide to do this, I don't injure myself or make myself hate running! I'll also add in some speedwork during the week.
Ultimately though it all depends on when my friend plans on doing a half!4
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