March 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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@elise4270 - have you watched the new season of Grace and Frankie?
@PastorVincent - for CA this may be the last time we have to change. Voters here overwhelmingly approved ending it but it does still have to be approved by Congress so we'll see.
@HonuNui - the Ti Leaf lei is gorgeous!
Epic falls - my most embarrassing was coming through the gate at the parking lot end of the (paved) trail near me. I have no idea what happened, what I tripped on (apparently nothing or my own feet). Next thing I know I was flying ending on the ground with torn capris (my favorite), bloodied knees, hands and elbows and Hobbes licking my face with concern. Oh and I forgot to mention, the parking lot was full of cyclists all staring at me. Notably not a single one came to ask if I was ok. I hobbled to the bathroom to rinse my hands and elbows and then walked the mile home bleeding... no paper towels in the facilities, just air blowers and the toilet paper was useless.2 -
I'm at a high! I couldn't run a mile without stopping in high school. Now at 37 years old, I ran 3.55! I might be overweight (a work in progress) but I'm in the best shape of my life.
March challenge: 3.55
Total so far: 8.5221 -
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@PastorVincent - for CA this may be the last time we have to change. Voters here overwhelmingly approved ending it but it does still have to be approved by Congress so we'll see.
If I am ever elected president, I will put an end to it in the USA.5 -
PastorVincent wrote: »@PastorVincent - for CA this may be the last time we have to change. Voters here overwhelmingly approved ending it but it does still have to be approved by Congress so we'll see.
If I am ever elected president, I will put an end to it in the USA.
You've got my vote.2 -
Wed., I did 6 miles on the treadmill.
Had not yet posted or updated ticker because I wasn't feeling well and ended up in the ER a few hours later. I got out of the hospital today minus a gall bladder, so am updating my ticker. Unfortunately, I am not supposed to run for now. This puts some real dent in my training for races next month (4/6 - Hogeye Marathon / Springdale, AR; 4/13 - Flint Hills Trail Marathon / Manhattan, KS; 4/20 - Double Chubb 50K / Eureka, MO). They were going to suck before as training wasn't going well (maybe I blame a continuously worsening gall bladder?), but will really suck with this decrease in training. I still hope to at least be able to finish them.
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@Elise4270 Umbrella Academy? Also if you haven't seen it Santa Clarita Diet is definitely stupid, funny, dark and twisted.2
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midwesterner85 wrote: »Wed., I did 6 miles on the treadmill.
Had not yet posted or updated ticker because I wasn't feeling well and ended up in the ER a few hours later. I got out of the hospital today minus a gall bladder, so am updating my ticker. Unfortunately, I am not supposed to run for now. This puts some real dent in my training for races next month (4/6 - Hogeye Marathon / Springdale, AR; 4/13 - Flint Hills Trail Marathon / Manhattan, KS; 4/20 - Double Chubb 50K / Eureka, MO). They were going to suck before as training wasn't going well (maybe I blame a continuously worsening gall bladder?), but will really suck with this decrease in training. I still hope to at least be able to finish them.
Yuck! Hope the recovery goes well and fast!2 -
March Running Totals (miles)
3/1 – rest day
3/2 – 20.05 paced run + solo miles
3/3 – 8.28 easy
3/4 – rest day
3/5 – 10.27 warmup, speed work, cool down
3/6 – 8.75 easy
3/7 – 8.41 warmup, MP run, cool down
3/8 – 15.59 Around the Bay (Irondequoit)
March running total to date – 71.35
Nominal March mileage goal: 200 miles
Real Goals: Train well toward Boston. Cut back before St. Patrick’s Day weekend, run the 8K hard, use the half as a training race. Remain uninjured, even if it means cutting back on planned mileage.
Today's notes – It wasn't a race.
Today several local running groups organized the annual Around the Bay run, where we start at 7 AM from the boat launch parking lot at the north end of Irondequoit Bay, the run south on the west side of the bay, across the southern end on Empire Blvd, and north on the east side of the bay, finishing running west along Lake Ave to cross the swing bridge and get back to where we started. The "official" route is about 15 miles; I opted for a 15.6 mile variant, because that's about the mileage I needed today.
Oh, yeah. This run is traditionally done on the last (or near the last) Saturday before the swing bridge is opened for boat traffic and you can't get all the way around on foot for the duration of boating season. For reference, here's a picture of Irondequoit Bay looking south from the boat launch parking lot after I completed today's run:
The view from the bridge looking north toward Lake Ontario seems better for boating:
One of the attractions of this particular route is that we start a few feet above water level, run to the top of the Niagara escarpment, and run back down to near water level, four times. Some of the downhills are fairly steep, as roads go, and I wanted to practice running downhill smoothly without braking to be sure it's natural when I get to the drop at Lower Newton Falls in April. For reference, here's the Garmin elevation chart from today's run:
This is all on roads, except for a few short distances where I was forced to use sidewalks.
Weather: The forecast was for 15° F (-9°C) at 7 AM, rising to near 20° F over the next 2 hours. Garmin says it was 9° F when I started. Based on how it felt, I believe Garmin. The wind was forecast to be mild, 3 to 5 mph. That felt about right away from the lake, but it was stronger on the lake shore. This is a common phenomenon, but even the stronger lake shore wind wasn't enough to be a problem.
So I set out to run easy, and somehow there are only 3 guys ahead of me. I know who two of them are, and they ought to be ahead of me. This doesn't last. Runners catch up to me, and at first I think I'll have company. No such luck. They're better runners than me who happen to be weaker on hills than I am, and/or start slower than I do. But chatting with a few of them sucks me into running a bit faster than easy. I'm pushing marathon pace, and slow myself down a few times.
Get to the first long steep downhill, and it's time to practice running downhill without banging myself up. That went well, but I think I saw a 6:35 pace on the watch at the bottom of the hill. Get to the first steep uphill, and I start passing people even though I've slowed down and made a deliberate effort not to challenge the hill. There are more hills to come.
Second long steep downhill went much like the first, as did the second steep uphill. Chatted with another runner on the uphill; we had traded places with him charging up the hill then me catching him where it was less steep. I lost him at the water stop around mile 7.
Long downhill on Empire Blvd to the south end of the bay. Took a gel about 7.8 miles in, right about at the south end of the bay. Went to chase it with water, and the valve of my water bottle was frozen. Oh, well. I saw that the first time at Winter Warrior Half in 2015. Take the lid off, get my water the hard way, put lid back on. (The other bottle, with Nuun, never froze even though it has the same style valve.)
Long grinding hill up Empire Blvd on the east side of the Bay. I'm catching runners. End up treating the last one as a pace leader. We're running up the less steep part of the hill at 7:30 per mile. I sure don't need to go any faster than that uphill! He loses me when it gets less steep, because he's faster.
After that, I'm pretty much running in space. I can see a group of good runners ahead of me for a while, but they disappear before I get to where I need to turn off Bay Rd. That's okay, I know where I'm going and the potential confusing parts are behind me. I can just treat this as a training run . . . except I'm having great difficulty getting myself to slow down. Take the detour to make it the long route, and find that has a ways of level ground before the downhill happens at a different place than the standard route I've run before.
Get to the bottom of the hill. It looks like I'm almost there. Look at the watch. 1.6 miles to go, all flat, mostly looking monotonous. For a few miles, I've been running on determination, a bit beat up from running the distance closer to MP than easy, plus the elevation change. Now I can't help myself. I pick up the pace for that last bit, just a little. Estimate the point in the parking lot where I started running, and stop there. 1:57:24 for 15.59 miles. If I'd thought about duration, I might have kept running another 3 minutes just to get to 2 hours.
Average pace was 7:32 per mile, about what I ran at Wineglass last September. Slowest split was mile 1, 8:21 mostly uphill. Fastest split was mile 6, 7:10 but a half mile of steep downhill. The next fastest was the dead flat tag end, 7:11 for mile 15 and a 7:13 pace for the 0.59 mile tag end.
This was not a race. I did not run it as intended; good runners sucked me into running faster than I should have. But I completed it, and I'm feeling pretty good about my conditioning 5 weeks out from Boston.
On the cold hands front: I used hand warmers, and @PastorVincent 's favorite gloves. Put the hand warmers inside the gloves, and used the pocket to keep my gel warm. At the end of the run, my fingers were warm enough to pull out my phone and take pictures; didn't want to do that before the run, when the bay was arguably prettier. Put the hand warmers into the dry gloves I'd brought along to wear on the drive home. I did get cold fingers at home, but not nearly as bad as they have been in the past. I'll call it progress for tactics to deal with the fingers. The fingers are nicely warm now, but after I sealed today's hand warmers in a baggie for later, I took out the older hand warmers that have been on two runs and have been carrying them around to use when my fingers feel cold. That works, and I wouldn't have trusted them for a third run anyway.
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) finished in 32:53
February 9, 2019 Freezeroo #5 (Tom Brannon 8 mile) (Greece, NY) finished in 55:55
February 23, 2019 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) finished in 28:34
March 16, 2019 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Shamrock 8K) (Virginia Beach, VA)
March 17, 2019 Shamrock Half Marathon (Virginia Beach, VA)
April 13, 2019 BAA 5K (Boston, MA)
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA)
April 28, 2019 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble) (Dedham, MA)
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 5K (Rochester, NY)
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY)
May 25, 2019 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY)
June 7, 2019 Charlie McMullen Mile (Pittsford, NY)
June 16, 2019 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY)
June 29, 2019 A Country Mile at Ganondagan (5-ish mile trail) (Victor, NY)
November 3, 2019 TCS New York City Marathon (New York, NY)11 -
Morning all!
Yesterday was a non running day. Instead hubby and I took our girls to some lakes about an hr drive away. We had a blast swimming, kayaking and playing.
I also had to bake a cake with my new mixer (of course!) so made a banana cake - similar to banana bread but mister and more cake like than bread.
It's Sunday today and I'm taking another rest day. All the stretching and massage seems to have helped and my shin splints appear to have started to resolve. 8m going to have another rest today then next week start slowly building again. I have a 19k in a month I'm going to do, plenty of time to get back up there before then.8 -
@Elise4270 I was also going to suggest Umbrella Academy. It was surprisingly good.
@PastorVincent for president!!
Feeling sluggish, both knees hurting, and 22mph sustained wind, I gave myself permission to ignore pace and stride length today. Ended up finally hitting 13 miles. Hadn't done that in over a month.
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Morning all!
Yesterday was a non running day. Instead hubby and I took our girls to some lakes about an hr drive away. We had a blast swimming, kayaking and playing.
I also had to bake a cake with my new mixer (of course!) so made a banana cake - similar to banana bread but mister and more cake like than bread.
It's Sunday today and I'm taking another rest day. All the stretching and massage seems to have helped and my shin splints appear to have started to resolve. 8m going to have another rest today then next week start slowly building again. I have a 19k in a month I'm going to do, plenty of time to get back up there before then.
Anything with chocolate sprinkles has to be good!4 -
W6D3 completed. Dog didn't go out with me on the last run because she wasn't feeling well, so the dog was very excited to go on this run. She was so excited that she took off pretty fast when we first started running and I let her set the pace; however, the dog's pace was faster than I usually run so after about the first 5 minutes of running my calves and shins were hurting. So, I slowed the dog down, made adjustments, and for the last 10 minutes of the run the run was much easier and my legs felt better.
3/1--W6D1
3/4--W6D2
3/8--W6D3
Races:
3/24--Mercer Island 5k
6/8--Fall City Day Run 10k
7/6--Bellingham Road Race
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rheddmobile wrote: »@Elise4270 Umbrella Academy? Also if you haven't seen it Santa Clarita Diet is definitely stupid, funny, dark and twisted.@elise4270 - have you watched the new season of Grace and Frankie?
@HonuNui - the Ti Leaf lei is gorgeous!
Epic falls - my most embarrassing was coming through the gate at the parking lot end of the (paved) trail near me. I have no idea what happened, what I tripped on (apparently nothing or my own feet). Next thing I know I was flying ending on the ground with torn capris (my favorite), bloodied knees, hands and elbows and Hobbes licking my face with concern. Oh and I forgot to mention, the parking lot was full of cyclists all staring at me. Notably not a single one came to ask if I was ok. I hobbled to the bathroom to rinse my hands and elbows and then walked the mile home bleeding... no paper towels in the facilities, just air blowers and the toilet paper was useless.@Elise4270 I was also going to suggest Umbrella Academy. It was surprisingly good.
Yup watched them. Russian Doll was also good.0 -
3/7- 2.15 mi (brisk walk)
3/8- N/A
3/9- 1.3 mi (brisk walk)
March Goal = 15 miles (& working up to running)2 -
zeesparrow wrote: »@Elise4270 have you seen the haunting of hill house?
No... 👻 will look for it! Ta!1 -
@MobyCarp what great pics and description! That looked freezing but beautiful...
@Avidkeo omg, your cake! Soooo tasty looking!
Gorgeous sunny run today, and I finally dressed appropriately, so that was much improved! I’m looking forward to this weekend and actually racing a 5K for the first time—I have run quite a few, but always with my kids, and have stuck this one. My daughter is also running this one with me but has given me the ok to race it (and let me know she’s happy if I do so she’ll feel freer to walk
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March goal: 60 miles
3/2 6 mi
3/3 cross (easy bike ~10 mi)
3/5 4 mi
3/7 4 mi TM
3/9 6 mi
March total: 20 mi
Races:
3/16 Kirkland Shamrock Run 5K
5/6 Vancouver BMO Half Marathon?4 -
@MobyCarp what great pics and description! That looked freezing but beautiful...
@Avidkeo omg, your cake! Soooo tasty looking!
Gorgeous sunny run today, and I finally dressed appropriately, so that was much improved! I’m looking forward to this weekend and actually racing a 5K for the first time—I have run quite a few, but always with my kids, and have stuck with them. My daughter is also running this one with me but has given me the ok to race it (and let me know she’s happy if I do so she’ll feel freer to walk )
Here’s our local park that I ran by today (my son always wants to jump in no matter the temperature)
March goal: 60 miles
3/2 6 mi
3/3 cross (easy bike ~10 mi)
3/5 4 mi
3/7 4 mi TM
3/9 6 mi
March total: 20 mi
Races:
3/16 Kirkland Shamrock Run 5K
5/6 Vancouver BMO Half Marathon?7 -
Date...........Run.......Walk.........Pushups
03/01........00M.......3.5M........30
03/02........20M.......0.0M........00
03/03........00M.......0.0M........00 *injury*
03/04........06M.......0.0M........00
03/05........04M.......1.0M........00
03/06........00M.......0.0M........25
03/07........11M.......0.0M........00
03/08........16M.......0.0M........00
03/09........09M.......0.0M........00
---MTD: 4.5 miles walking, 65 miles running, and 0KM resting
Real short run, behind in posts, company on its way for dinner! TTFN
Upcoming Races
Steel Challange 5k - May 2019
Pittsburgh Marathon - May 2019
Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Race - May 2019
2021 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)
2019 GOAL: Knock a full hour off my 50k time at Glacier Ridge.4
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