February 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    @Elise4270 are you familiar with the park where this new race is held?

    https://www.facebook.com/RobbersCaveOutlaw100/

    Distance options from 5K to 135 Miles!
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    katharmonic wrote: »
    Thank you @mbaker566, @MegaMooseEsq, @kgirlhart, @shanaber and @Elise4270 and all the hugs on my post. I did manage to get to urgent care and got some muscle relaxants and advice to ice instead of use heat. I'm having trouble finding a comfortable way to rest, but hoping everything will ease up soon.

    Glad you got help! Hope it is is sorted soon!
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,455 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Some of you already know, but figure I’d update the masses, that I have surgery scheduled March 6th (femoral derotation osteotomy, right), and it’ll be sometime before I can run. Luckily the orthopedic surgeon is a marathoner and is cool with trying to keep me running although suggested I embrace cycling. I gather this could potentially be the first of more surgeries (FDO left, PAO right- but he nor I can tell the future so... we’ll see), but if this does the trick then it’s onward! If you happen to know any stories of running post FDO, please share!

    Here’s a quick illustration of what FDO is for those curious.
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    I hope the surgery goes well and that you will be able to go back to running in no time.

  • Sparx_81
    Sparx_81 Posts: 403 Member
    MobyCarp wrote: »
    Sparx_81 wrote: »
    MobyCarp wrote: »
    quilteryoyo wrote: »

    @MobyCarp You amaze me with the paces and races you run. Have you been a runner all of your life?

    @quilteryoyo

    The smartass answer is, "Not yet."

    The honest answer is that I started running in August 2011 at the age of 55. I found a program similar to C25K. The first workout called for intervals of walk 1 minute, run 3 minutes. I walked 1 minute, ran 1 minute, and was compelled to slow to a walk. That's where I came from. After injuring myself on my way to my first half marathon, twice, I got some formal training and made it to my first half in April 2014. I kind of accidentally ran my first marathon at Buffalo on Memorial Day weekend, 2015; if I hadn't run Boston the year after that, my running buddies might have killed me for wasting a qualifying time.

    So that's 4 years and 8 months from not being able to run more than 1 minute, to completing my first Boston Marathon. Others may have developed faster, but that was good enough for me.

    Absolutely amazing! Just one question, how do you "accidentally" run a marathon?!

    @Sparx_81

    I've posted this before, but you might not have been around then.

    My plan in 2015 was to run 4 (later amended to 5) half marathons, and stay in shape to run a half as often as they showed up. This was experimental at the time; I had used a 14 week training program to get to my first half in 2014, and I got to my 2nd half by barely working up to the distance after recovering from a stress fracture. I wouldn't have signed up for that 2nd half, except I registered for the marathon before I got hurt and I was able to trade down to the half.

    So in 2015 I was thinking I'd just develop more slowly, and run my first marathon in September 2016 at Rochester. Meanwhile, I'd do marathon training long runs with the training group. No pressure, because I had no marathon at the end of the session. If I couldn't run the marathon distance, just run the half marathon training distance.

    In March 2015, the training program had us run 16 miles. A buddy was training for Pittsburgh and needed 20 miles. I said, sure, I'll run the last 4 miles with you. And I did. And my running buddies said, "You're ready! You have to run Buffalo!" Of course, all the hotels were booked, and the start time was too early to be comfortable driving 2 hours from home to get there, and I was totally unfamiliar with downtown Buffalo anyway. But I went online and looked, and thought about driving, and didn't like much of anything I saw . . . until I saw one hotel with one room left, a mile from the start/finish area. I booked the room, then I signed up for the marathon. On six weeks notice, without a proper marathon training plan, just the long runs.

    I was going to ignore the Boston times, but I was not given that luxury. My sister posted them at me online, and my buddy who was training for Pittsburgh pointed out that I wasn't qualifying based on running Buffalo at age 59, I was qualifying based on being 60 when Boston rolled around. Then he said, "The only way you won't qualify is if you don't finish."

    No pressure.

    I did a bunch of things wrong at Buffalo, but it turned out that I'd learned enough from 9 months of running long runs with marathon runners to avoid the worst of the common rookie mistakes. I finished, and got a BQ by a wide margin. Then I never went back to Buffalo, because it was always too soon after Boston.

    So anyway, that's how I accidentally ran a marathon and qualified for Boston. If there hadn't been a hotel room within walking distance of the start/finish, I wouldn't have done it.

    That is amazing! So you qualified for Boston on your first marathon?! Just wow! Fate really had a plan for you! (Sorry I hadn't seen the response before -this page moves so fast that I dip in and out, and I'm only here about a yearish... )
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    2-1 7k easy
    2-2 7k easy
    2-3 Rest
    2-4 7k easy
    2-5 Rest
    2-6 7k slow
    2-7 7k intervals
    2-8 Rest
    2-9 7k slow
    2-10 12k slow
    2-11 7k recovery
    2-12 Rest
    2-13 7.3 k slow
    2-14 7k intervals
    2-15 Rest
    2-16 7k easy
    2-17 11k slow
    2-18 7k recovery
    2-19 Rest

    February Total: 100.3k
    February Goal: 100k

    Next year when you pop in here claiming your December 2019 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?
    Run at least 4 5k races.
    Get under 30:00 and a PR for 5k.
    Average at least 135k per month, which would put me over 1,000 miles for the year.

    Run the Year Team: Five for Nineteen

    Scheduled rest day today. Blue sky and 12 degrees F.

    2019 Races:

    4-13 Shine the Light 5K
    6-1 Freedom 5K
    6-30 Strides for Starfish 5k
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    debrakgoogins wrote: »
    I think I am dealing with shin splints in my left leg. I have tried to be very careful about my build up. I took a full week off which helped but I can still feel it. I'm hoping it improves soon. My 1/2 marathon is in 9 weeks!

    @debrakgoogins - you might try rolling out your calves really well and doing some gentle calf stretches after your first bit of warm up running. Often time shin splints are a result of tight calves.
  • martaindale
    martaindale Posts: 2,311 Member
    @Tramboman Already at goal for the month! Crushing it!! Go Team!
  • debrakgoogins
    debrakgoogins Posts: 2,033 Member
    shanaber wrote: »
    @debrakgoogins - you might try rolling out your calves really well and doing some gentle calf stretches after your first bit of warm up running. Often time shin splints are a result of tight calves.

    Thank you for the tip. I haven't been doing that after my warm-ups because I have such a short workout window. I have been doing it after my runs and increasing my yoga classes but will try to make more time for rolling.

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