March 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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March Goal: Shut up and move
3/1 Went to my first ever St. David's Day Party
3/2 3.13
3/3 stuff
3/4 4.00
3/5 rest
3/6 3.00
3/7 snorkel 3.5 hours
3/8 3.35
3/9 3.00
3/10 rest
3/11 3.00
Total: 19.48
? Podcast: The Moth Radio Hour (and I nominate @PastorVincent to volunteer a story for it.....)
? Epic fall- I was running over a wooden bridge with my two dogs on a tandem leash. A truck started to cross the bridge behind me, and the noise of the truck on the wooden slats, combined with the vibration freaked out Akamai the wonder dog, who ran straight out, then circled behind me, wrapping me in the leash. I fell, losing hold of the leash. The driver got out to help me, but Akamai, now in full shepherd/protection mode, wouldn't let him anywhere near me. I waved the guy off, got hold of the leash and crawled (literally) to my car parked at the park on the other side. It took months (again, literally) for me realize that the ongoing shoulder pain might be something serious (um, I'm a doctor.....) and I ordered my own xray, where I saw the healing fracture. No more wooden bridges with dogs.
Ticker is my goal for 2019 and progress to date:
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Gray and dreary day today and such a contrast to the last couple of days. It was high 50's but felt cool and incredibly humid. I had to go a bit further than the planned 4miles due to an emergency bathroom break but all in all a pretty good run. My foot is feeling fine but my calf keeps complaining. I think it is from the PT exercises as much as the run.
Date........Miles.......Total
03/01......0.00.......0.00 - Agility Trial
03/02......0.00.......0.00 - Agility Trial
03/03......0.00.......0.00 - Agility Trial
03/04......4.55.......4.55 + Agility Class
03/05......0.00.......4.55 + Strength Training
03/06......4.25.......8.80 + Sport Dog Class
03/07......0.00.......8.80 + Strength Training
03/08......5.12.....13.92
03/09......6.16.....20.08
03/10......0.00.....20.08
03/11......4.81.....24.89 + Agility Class
02/03/19 - Surf City Half Marathon Deferred to 2020
05/11/19 - Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon
09/15/19 - Jack and Jill Downhill HM - Boise7 -
1st - v.easy 5km (43 mins)
4th - v.easy 5km (42 mins)
8th - v.easy 5km
11th - easy 5km (37 mins)
Total 20 km7 -
Another 3.2km easy this morning. These short runs are starting to get frustrating, really glad the long runs start to very gradually increase again now.
March goal: 40km Done: 16.8km.
On target for the month, I am keeping up with 3 runs per week and 2 total body and 1 upper body strength sessions per week. Cross training is still only taking the form of walking, which isn't ideal, but I have yet to convince the husband to let me get a stationary bike or rollers for my outdoor bike, or to find the motivation to actually dig the outdoor bike out of the garage and get out on it. I'm slipping with stretching sessions though, I do them faithfully after my runs but I'm failing to find time to keep to my promise to get 25-30 minutes in daily on top of that.5 -
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That was one of the toughest runs I've pushed myself on…. I have a cold, it was freezing out and it was windy and rainy…. But I did i And Runkeeper Even tells me it was my second fastest 5k…. Strange considering it told me I did 4.94km! Lol!
01/03 - rest
02/03 - rest
03/03 - rest
04/03 - rest
05/03 - 3.87km/96.13km
06/03 - 4.23km/91.90km
07/03 - 3.87km/88.03km
08/03 - 4.50km/83.53km
09/03 - Rest
10/03 - Spinning
11/03 - 4.23km/79.30km
12/03 - 4.94km/74.36km
So myself and a friend have decided to join a 1000km in 2019 challenge now! So I guess given there's 10 months left I'll have to average 100km a month for the rest of the year!
Have decided that I will start training towards a marathon in October! They release more spots in July so I'm thinking I'll just start working towards it and see where I'm at by the end of June. If all is going well I'll sign up!
So, long story short, I'm in for 100km
Planned races
11/05 - Kungsholmens runt, Stockholm
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Bit late on this one but my target for march is 87 miles. Part of my half marathon training plan.
27 completed so far.10 -
I just can't catch up! In any area of my life. Supposedly kitchen counters will be installed today and then we can hook up water. I haven't cooked in more than 3 weeks. Should have factored in the cost of eating out into the cost of the kitchen!
3/1 - 4 miles + strength training legs
3/2 - rest day/travel day
3/3 - rest day
3/4 - 4.5 miles + transform app - arms
3/5 - 5 miles
3/6 - transform app - legs
3/7 - 5 miles
3/8 - transform app - arms
3/9 - 54 miles cycling
3/10 - transform app - legs
3/11 - 5 miles
3/12 - 4 miles
Tot: 27/70
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@katharmonic Awesome race report! You did well, and you reinforced my opinion that I don't really want to do any Spartan events.
@MobyCarp I like ^^. We all have to recognize what type of event we enjoy doing.
I don't enjoy the long road distances (marathon+) the same thing on a bush trail I enjoy, i'm not good at them but I have a lot of fun being average. My first two events of the year are in May and they are both HM bush bashing trails, one through a Pine forest in sand hills the other one is 4 loops up/down a riverbank trail through a Spruce forest. The 2nd one is more physically and mentally challenging.
Gear I regret. A waist hydration belt with 4 8oz bottles, cumbersome getting bottles in/out and locked in so they don't bounce out.
Best fall. On a trail race running beside 2 other people and chatting, one of them stepped on a root across the trail and the other end popped up in the air just enough to catch my toe, at least the ground was soft and I missed the mud hole face plant landing by inch's.5 -
Soo... in the mail yesterday came a summons for Grand Jury duty. I am required to appear in person on April 15...the day of the Boston marathon. Seriously? Does anyone know if this would be a legitimate personal emergency to be excused? Somehow I am thinking that they will not buy it. I have been summoned for general jury duty before but I only had to call in and was excused. Any advice?8
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@lporter229 it may be different for your case but when my daughter was summoned for jury duty there was an option to defer for up to 6 months.1
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@lporter229 You may be able to take your Boston acceptance to the District Attorney and/or the Clerk of Courts and get excused. Nearly everybody is eligible to be called for jury duty, but only a very, very few can qualify for Boston.
3-1 Rest
3-2 10.5k easy
3-3 11k slow
3-4 10.5k recovery
3-5 Rest
3-6 7k slow
3-7 10.5k easy
3-8 Rest
3-9 11k easy
3-10 7k recovery
3-11 8.5k slow
3-12 Rest
March Total: 76k
March Goal: 175k
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.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K
6-1 Freedom 5K
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K4 -
rheddmobile wrote: »I have a monthly question if no one minds! For the benefit of the newbies especially. What gear have you bought that you regret spending too much money on, either because you hardly ever use it or because you found you could get something less expensive? And what gear has turned out to be a really great deal, either because it was expensive but worth every penny or because it was super cheap but works great?
I thought of another piece of gear that belongs in this category. It's my Black Diamond Spot headlamp. This thing is amazing. Very light, very robust (I've worn it through thunderstorms and blizzards), easily adjustable size, has a flood light, spot light, and red light, all of which are infinitely adjustable, has a battery level indicator and one thing I absolutely love...when you turn it on it automatically goes to the last setting you used so you don't have to cycle through different settings or flashing lights to get to what you want. It doesn't have a rechargeable battery but the battery life on this thing is amazing. The life is so long I think I'm going to enter it into Garmin as gear and see just how long it does last. The specs say batteries (3xAAA) last 50 to 200 hours depending on the brightness level. That's in line with my experience.
If I find it on sale again, I may buy a second one as a backup.
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@lporter229 it may be different for your case but when my daughter was summoned for jury duty there was an option to defer for up to 6 months.
There is not an option to defer, but there is a form that I need to complete that has a section to request to be excused for personal emergency that may be granted by the judge. I just hope that the judge gets it. If not, I guess I will need to show up at the clerk of courts and throw a fit.5 -
March goal: 80 miles
3/3: 7.43 miles
3/5: 4.65 miles
3/6: 5.33 miles
3/7: 3.12 miles
3/10: 9.01 miles
3/12: 5.05 miles
34.59/80 miles completed
5.05 miles done this morning. The forecast called for storms overnight and I expected it to be raining when I got up, but it was not so I ran. Supposedly the storms will be coming through this morning sometime before lunch, but who knows if we'll actually get them. It was kind of foggy this morning and it had rained some overnight so it was really humid, but it wasn't a bad run. It was 55F so not too hot or too cold.
2019 races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:17
5/18/19: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon5 -
lporter229 wrote: »@lporter229 it may be different for your case but when my daughter was summoned for jury duty there was an option to defer for up to 6 months.
There is not an option to defer, but there is a form that I need to complete that has a section to request to be excused for personal emergency that may be granted by the judge. I just hope that the judge gets it. If not, I guess I will need to show up at the clerk of courts and throw a fit.
If I was the judge I would let you go... maybe you will get someone that has been trying for Boston themselves!6 -
@lporter229 I don't have any advice, but I sure do hope that you can get excused from that.1
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@7lenny7 I am confused every single time I hear that advice. Usually for me a cold involves a sore throat. Is that above or below the neck?
Sometimes I like running despite a cold, if it clears my nose. Other times I already need to sit down on the stairs leading from my sixth-floor-apartment outside to take a break before I even start running. In those cases once I reach the ground floor I usually decide I'm better off getting in the elevator to ride back up instead of going outside and starting to run.
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@katharmonic Thanks for the reply to my Spartan questions! That is good to know - I somehow pictured myself failing at least four obstacles and then collapsing in the penalty pen halfway through the burpees. And staying there until the race closes ^^ I saw some youtube videos online, where the burpees were strictly counted and people were stopped from continuing until they did 30 proper ones, but I guess the videos were of elite competitors.
@MegaMooseEsq Sounds like you had a great run last Friday!
@workaholic_nurse That's pretty cool that the receptionist checks in with you when you miss showing up for a run! Good accountability
@lporter229 I really hope you can find a way to be excused! Surely a Boston marathon participation is important enough that they let it count as "personal emergency"! *fingers crossed*
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Most spectacular fall: not that spectacular actually. And not really funny, just memorable. Tripped over a root on a small mountain trail and fell. Landed with my right knee right on top of a sharp rock edge. I was wearing long tights, and you only saw a small hole in them with a bit of blood seeping out, so no big deal, right? I was with a group, and we still had an hour to go until we reached the cable car to go down. It hurt a bit, but since there was no real alternative to get home, I continued. Once we reached the cable car station I decided to sit down, peel off the tights and look at it, and everyone freaked out about how deep the whole in my knee looked
I was stubborn and insisted that as soon as I cleaned it up a bit and stuck a bandaid on top, I was good to go, and finally everyone believed me and we went rock climbing as planned in the afternoon. Only my knee didn't appreciate it too much, because by the next morning I had a giant bruise and couldn't bend the leg any more. No more running for three weeks! And I still have a scar on that knee.
Not sure if there's anything I would do differently in the future
At least the "have to get down from the mountain" bit was inevitable. Maybe RICE instead of rock climbing in the afternoon would have kept the bruising from being quite so spectacular...
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Yesterday I brought my running gear to work and was planning to drive to the mountains for a first serious "hill training" of the year - lack of snow has to be good for something at least, right? And I would have finished early enough to have enough daylight left for once. But in the afternoon the weather changed and turned into a freaking hale storm! ((no, I'm not scared of getting wet during a run, but I don't mess with weather in the mountains...)) So I drove home and did some fitness blender lower body/cardio mix instead. Guess I'll have to do lots of reps on the little neighbourhood hill tonight instead.
But another thing I did last night instead of running was online shopping: a https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adjustable-Station-Workout-Roman-Chair/dp/B077Q6VQQT/https://amazon.co.uk/Adjustable-Station-Workout-Roman-Chair/dp/B077Q6VQQT/. I didn't know such things exist! I cannot drill holes in my walls and my doors have no trim, so none of the pull-up bars I found until now worked with my apartment. I thought I really need to train upper body strength before doing a Spartan race. So I had some crazy DIY plans and was looking for additional inspiration online when I realised that free-standing pull-up stations are a thing you can buy. It's gonna look lovely between couch and dining table 11 -
@lporter229 it would be very easy for the courts to get a replacement juror for you....but it would be impossible to get a replacement for you to run Boston. Tell THAT to the judge!7
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W7D1 completed. I did not let the dog set the pace this time and I set a slower pace then last time that made the whole run very manageable.
3/1--W6D1
3/4--W6D2
3/8--W6D3
3/11--W7D1
Races:
3/24--Mercer Island 5k
6/8--Fall City Day Run 10k
7/6--Bellingham Road Race
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lporter229 wrote: »Soo... in the mail yesterday came a summons for Grand Jury duty. I am required to appear in person on April 15...the day of the Boston marathon. Seriously? Does anyone know if this would be a legitimate personal emergency to be excused? Somehow I am thinking that they will not buy it. I have been summoned for general jury duty before but I only had to call in and was excused. Any advice?
Over here, it’s traditionally said that if you turn up in a suit and bowler hat, with a copy of the Telegraph newspaper (insert suitable conservative newspaper) under your arm, you’ll immediately get dismissed from a jury.
I can’t give advice. We don’t have the whole Grand Jury thing here (the selection of whether something goes to trial is done by the Crown Prosecution Service). And when I got called for jury service, you could defer once for a holiday, but only once.
In theory they were supposed to ask us if serving longer than the two weeks would be a problem. They didn’t, even though it was blindingly obvious (they’d had all kinds of legal issues even before getting to court) that it would last longer. A really interesting experience. Like watching a TV soap opera and all the lawyers were trying to do the performance of their lives.
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lporter229 wrote: »@lporter229 it may be different for your case but when my daughter was summoned for jury duty there was an option to defer for up to 6 months.
There is not an option to defer, but there is a form that I need to complete that has a section to request to be excused for personal emergency that may be granted by the judge. I just hope that the judge gets it. If not, I guess I will need to show up at the clerk of courts and throw a fit.
Can you call down there? That was what I did when jury duty overlapped with a trip I had planned. They were okay with rescheduling me. Of course I was living in a very small county at the time.1 -
_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »
@7lenny7 I am confused every single time I hear that advice. Usually for me a cold involves a sore throat. Is that above or below the neck?
Sometimes I like running despite a cold, if it clears my nose. Other times I already need to sit down on the stairs leading from my sixth-floor-apartment outside to take a break before I even start running. In those cases once I reach the ground floor I usually decide I'm better off getting in the elevator to ride back up instead of going outside and starting to run.
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I am simple minded I guess. If I can run and not feel worse, I do. Often I feel better.
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So this just happened.
I’m a little overwhelmed. Can I just say that if there is such a thing as a Fairy Godmother, then @Elise4270 is it. Or Mary Poppins. Maybe that’s it. She’s Mary Poppins pulling just the right thing out of that carpet bag.
So earlier this week I had a stupid argument with someone who told me I had humiliated her. All I did was ask that she spell my name right, but because she is dyslexic this was humiliating and I apparently am judgemental and lacking in understanding. I’m somewhat lost for words, as I hadn’t a clue about the dyslexia (if I had I wouldn’t have asked), but also this person is the organiser of an expedition I’m doing in May (let’s clarify - I’m a customer and her email to me where I picked up on the name was to thank me for paying the rest of the cost).
So I’ve spent the beginning of the week feeling glum over a stupid spat, where I am made out to be a terrible person for simply asking that my name be spelt right (believe me, it frequently isn’t, and worse, people often seem to correct me on the pronunciation of it). And I’ll be honest, I’ve been wondering over all this if maybe I’m just a bad person. Which of course makes me pick at all the little things in life and how people treat me.
Fast forward to today, and I get a package (well two, but the other one I ordered for myself and just had some massage balls in. Fun, but no cigar).
This was in the package
All I saw through my smiling eyes was just the one word on the cover. So thank you Fairy Godmother Mary Poppins for believing in me to believe in myself. You really are the kindest person in the world. 24 -
lporter229 wrote: »Soo... in the mail yesterday came a summons for Grand Jury duty. I am required to appear in person on April 15...the day of the Boston marathon. Seriously? Does anyone know if this would be a legitimate personal emergency to be excused? Somehow I am thinking that they will not buy it. I have been summoned for general jury duty before but I only had to call in and was excused. Any advice?
Ummm... What jury summons? I don't think I received that... Must have been lost in the mail...5 -
Haha! Oh @girlinahat I’m glad the package found you! Honestly, the woman should understand that she is dyslexic. Right? Bless her. Silly thing, how can you be dyslexic and not make those mistakes? I’m a bit “autistic”, everything is so literal to me, I don’t understand people. So, that’s just gonna happen. I know to ask more questions now. I like your name. It’s very British to me. And the spelling makes since in my mind, just like it sounds. Everyone calles me Elsie... it was the Borden milk cow when I was growing up... tell her thanks for trying, but... it’s spelled....
I hope you find inspiration in the journal. I have 3 of them. I thought of starting one just for rehab... I love Lauren Fleshman and Ro Mcgettinin. For me its like having sisters to run with.9 -
I have another journal @Elise4270 but I’ve mostly been recording my health issues, how I’m doing mentally and roughly what I’ve eaten/drunk. As there’s not a lot of room for anything else, having a dedicated journal for fitness and running is just perfect.3
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girlinahat wrote: »I have another journal @Elise4270 but I’ve mostly been recording my health issues, how I’m doing mentally and roughly what I’ve eaten/drunk. As there’s not a lot of room for anything else, having a dedicated journal for fitness and running is just perfect.
That’s great. I couldn’t decide, everything i wanted to get, there was a barrier in getting it to you. Then in my email I found the journal advert. Yup, what runner doesn’t need a training journal?
It is sent with all the love from US runners to you.7 -
@_nikkiwolf_ so are you going to sign for a Spartan? Or have you already? I was totally with you in picturing death by burpees.
I was at the gym this morning and people are still on a high from the race - and already planning the next one. They want to do the trifecta, which is a sprint (3+ miles), super (8+ miles) and a beast (12+ miles) all in the same calendar year. We're already 1/3 done, how hard can that be?
I got some official race photos today (nice that the pro photos are free downloads) - I wish there were some on the walls, I was looking forward to seeing how ridiculous(ly agile) I looked.
Here's a couple of them
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
03/01/19 :::: 2.9 :::: 2.9
03/02/19 :::: 5.5 :::: 8.4
03/03/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 8.4
03/04/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 11.4
03/05/19 :::: 2.0 :::: 13.5
03/06/19 :::: 3.3 :::: 16.8
03/07/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 16.8
03/08/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 19.9
03/09/19 :::: 4.1 :::: 24.0
03/10/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 24.0
03/11/19 :::: 4.3 :::: 28.3
03/12/19 :::: 2.3 :::: 30.6
Today's run was a treadmill warm-up before strength training. We did pretty much all core work today, but a few things tapped into some really sore muscles including push-ups and overhead dumbbell presses. Yikes, the pecs are sore. Then because I'm on spring break I was able to go to the yoga class right after that and we did some nice stretches focused on the spine. Some great hip stretches as well. After work I had my last PT session. She was pleased I had survived the Spartan without aggravating my back. I was glad to be declared good to go, but I will miss regular application of heat and the muscle massage in my schedule. Finally, got home and walked the dog and am pretty much ready to head to bed!13 -
3/3: 2.32
3/5: 1.68
3/7: 3.05
3/9: 2.22
3/10: 1.71
Total: 10.986
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