March 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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Was away on spring break last week, visiting mom in Northern VA area. Got lots of great runs in. Was a busy week and never got a chance to check in.
I have a 63 mile ride on Sunday for Tour de Cure and dreading how I will do when I've only ridden once this month!
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
3/13 - transform app - new program week 1 Legs
3/14 - 3 miles + transform app - Biceps
3/15 - 3 miles treadmill
3/16 - transfrom app - arms and legs
3/17 - 4.5 miles VA run
3/18 - 5.2 miles VA run
3/19 - 5 miles VA
3/20 - 5 miles VA
3/21 - strength training
3/22 - 5 miles VA
3/23 - travel/rest
3/24 - rest
3/25 - 5 miles
3/26 - 5 miles
Tot: 68.5/7011 -
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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
3-13 7k slow
3-14 7k easy
3-15 Rest
3-16 7k easy
3-17 11k slow
3-18 7k recovery
3-19 Rest
3-20 7k easy
3-21 7k slow
3-22 Rest day
3-23 7k easy
3-24 8k slow
3-25 7k recovery
3-26 Rest
March Total: 151k
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 (Registered)
6-1 Freedom 5K (Will be off the schedule due to another commitment)
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K5 -
0326-5k total-46.6k, goal-100k
Goal ain't happening this month. More than a whole week of no running due to work / business trip / bad air quality. Finally got in a 5k this morning.
It was like the week of not running had never happened. Felt a tad puffy coming out the door, which passed quickly and I was running like it was nobody's business. Even got the final 2k down to MP. Felt awesome.
No time today to comment on everyone's posts, but congrats to all who raced, PR'ed and are doing well. Hugs to all who look like they need it.11 -
3/1 27.34 miles, 305 days on the run
3/2 37.59 miles
3/3 18.19 miles, crazy laps
3/4 19.57 miles
3/5 19.34 miles
3/6 19.23 miles, 310 days on the run
3/7 19.56 miles
3/8 19.49 miles
3/9 37.49 miles
3/10 14.58 miles
3/11 20.46 miles, 315 days on the run
3/12 15.35 miles
3/13 14.29 miles
3/14 3.57 miles, crazy laps
3/15 27.2 miles
3/16 27.8 miles, 320 days on the run
3/17 27.15 miles
3/18 15.11 miles
3/19 19.39 miles
3/20 15.52 miles
3/21 16.17 miles, 325 days on the run
3/22 28.23 miles
3/23 28.51 miles
3/24 15.33 miles
3/25 15.16 miles
3/26 16.27 miles, 330 days on the run 537.89 miles for March12 -
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
3/13: 3.11 miles
3/14: 5.11 miles
3/17: 10.06 miles
3/19: 5.06 miles
3/20: 5.04 miles
3/21: 3.27 miles
3/24: 9.31 miles
3/26: 5.03 miles
80.58/80 miles completed
I had a nice enough run this morning. I ran 5 miles which got me to my goal of 80 miles for March. I hoped my run today would be better. It wasn't bad at all, but Sunday's run was so good that today's run was kind of a let down. I think part of it is that my feet hurt. I know I need new shoes. It is just such a hassle that the closest running store is an an hour away so it is a 2 hour round trip. Plus it is expensive. I have ordered the last couple of pair online, but I can't find the shoes I've been wearing in my size anywhere. Then my mind starts running away with me and worrying that the achyness in my feet is something wrong. I really do think it is the shoes. The anxiety of worrying that there is something wrong is worse than the actual "pain" in my feet. And my shoes have 490 miles on them. I have tried wearing an older pair that doesn't have quite as many miles on them (only about 460). It might help a little, but not enough. And my feet don't hurt while I'm running. They just feel achy afterward. I guess I'm just feeling out of sorts. Sorry for the complaining, but I feel like y'all understand.
2019 races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:17
5/18/19: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon12 -
@kgirlhart - you need to get new shoes before you hurt yourself for real. I hate trying to find new brands/models but once you do maybe get one pair at the store and a 2nd pair online at a discount if you can find them. That way you can rotate between them and they may go a little further before they start to wear out.4
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I had a well deserved rest day yesterday. 41 miles in 3 days put some stress on both Achilles but the mild pain is gone today.
I had a paved run planned for tonight but I think I'm going to hit the trail and see how slushy/muddy it is.10 -
@kgirlhart I agree with @shanaber . Get yourself some new shoes before you do some damage. If your favorite model is no longer available, perhaps try the more recent version? In your case, with a 2 hour drive, I think it'd be worth ordering the more recent version online from a place with a good return policy to see how they feel. I know you can order shoes from many shoe manufacturer's directly and some have fantastic return policies. Brooks, for instance, has a 90 day trial. Use the heck out of them and return them if they don't work out. You'll pay full price for current models but you'll save gas money, time, and hopefully foot pain.2
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@kgirlhart I agree with @shanaber . Get yourself some new shoes before you do some damage. If your favorite model is no longer available, perhaps try the more recent version? In your case, with a 2 hour drive, I think it'd be worth ordering the more recent version online from a place with a good return policy to see how they feel. I know you can order shoes from many shoe manufacturer's directly and some have fantastic return policies. Brooks, for instance, has a 90 day trial. Use the heck out of them and return them if they don't work out. You'll pay full price for current models but you'll save gas money, time, and hopefully foot pain.
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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
3/13: 3.11 miles
3/14: 5.11 miles
3/17: 10.06 miles
3/19: 5.06 miles
3/20: 5.04 miles
3/21: 3.27 miles
3/24: 9.31 miles
3/26: 5.03 miles
80.58/80 miles completed
I had a nice enough run this morning. I ran 5 miles which got me to my goal of 80 miles for March. I hoped my run today would be better. It wasn't bad at all, but Sunday's run was so good that today's run was kind of a let down. I think part of it is that my feet hurt. I know I need new shoes. It is just such a hassle that the closest running store is an an hour away so it is a 2 hour round trip. Plus it is expensive. I have ordered the last couple of pair online, but I can't find the shoes I've been wearing in my size anywhere. Then my mind starts running away with me and worrying that the achyness in my feet is something wrong. I really do think it is the shoes. The anxiety of worrying that there is something wrong is worse than the actual "pain" in my feet. And my shoes have 490 miles on them. I have tried wearing an older pair that doesn't have quite as many miles on them (only about 460). It might help a little, but not enough. And my feet don't hurt while I'm running. They just feel achy afterward. I guess I'm just feeling out of sorts. Sorry for the complaining, but I feel like y'all understand.
2019 races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:17
5/18/19: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon
Hugs I get it (see my complaints last month). And I'm 2hrs away from the shoe shop, it's a royal pain in the butt. That said it's worth going because your feet are worth it!
I second the others, go get fitted, spend the money (ouch I get it) and you won't regret it1 -
I did a fast 2.5k this morning. More to stretch the legs than anything.
Tomorrow I'll have achieved my monthly goal (woo hoo) and am injury free! Yay. I'm starting to ramp up a bit now. Tomorrow I'll be adding quite a bit to my goal because I've signed up for a challenge - 150km in April. I feel confident with doing it. Also 8ll be starting HM training soo. Really should sign up for it but early bird closes a month before the event so no rush.
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@kgirlhart
I'm late to the party, but I endorse the recommendations to suck it up and get new shoes. New shoes are much cheaper than a new round of sports doc or physical therapy visits.
In the trying to do what I recommend department, this week I retired a pair of shoes that went over 500 miles. No obvious problems, just that I could feel they have less cushion that the other shoes I have in rotation, and I'm tired of looking at the hole above my left big toe. That, and the uppers might split on any run. Or might last another 100 miles.
So I got my next pair out of the box, went on a short run, noticed how much cushion I could feel, then came home and moved the oldest pair to the recycle pile. It might take me a month or two to schelp them in to a running store for recycling, but I'm done running in them.6 -
The month of highs and lows continues. After a weekend of two solid races then a solo 20 miler with sub race pace finish, I was feeling pretty good about where things were standing as I crested the training peak for Boston. Then this past weekend, bam, I had to go and have a really crappy run to fill my head back up with doubt. Saturday was a warm day compared to the weather we have been having, so I decided to wait until mid afternoon to head out for my run to take advantage of potential race day conditions since I have a 10:50 start time. The sun was hot and my legs were tired and I struggled through the whole back half of what should have been an easy 16 miles. I am the first person to throw out the "Trust your Training" mantra when people ask me for advice heading into the taper phase of their training. But, man, this training cycle has been so full of highs and lows, I'm not sure which part of it I should trust!12
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@lporter229
It's just the time in the training cycle for it to be that way. At the end of my 20 miles Saturday, I felt almost like I'd run a marathon. Then my easy 6 on Sunday felt like really tired legs.
Throw out the "Trust the Training" mantra. Replace it with, "Less is More." Run less this week. Doesn't matter if your plan calls for taper to start next week, you need taper Right Now.12 -
@lporter229
It's just the time in the training cycle for it to be that way. At the end of my 20 miles Saturday, I felt almost like I'd run a marathon. Then my easy 6 on Sunday felt like really tired legs.
Throw out the "Trust the Training" mantra. Replace it with, "Less is More." Run less this week. Doesn't matter if your plan calls for taper to start next week, you need taper Right Now.
@lporter229 I agree with @Mobycarp. You just proved to yourself this weekend you are ready. So start resting, tapering, and getting your mind ready. Cmon, you qualified for Boston! Be proud! Be confident! You got this!8 -
@lporter229
It's just the time in the training cycle for it to be that way. At the end of my 20 miles Saturday, I felt almost like I'd run a marathon. Then my easy 6 on Sunday felt like really tired legs.
Throw out the "Trust the Training" mantra. Replace it with, "Less is More." Run less this week. Doesn't matter if your plan calls for taper to start next week, you need taper Right Now.
@lporter229 I agree with @Mobycarp. You just proved to yourself this weekend you are ready. So start resting, tapering, and getting your mind ready. Cmon, you qualified for Boston! Be proud! Be confident! You got this!
Ditto
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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
03/10........09M.......0.0M........00
03/11........00M.......3.5M........00
03/12........07M.......3.5M........00
03/13........11M.......3.5M........4x10
03/14........11M.......4.0M........0
03/15........00M.......3.5M........4x10
03/16........00M.......0.0M........00
03/17........11M.......0.0M........00
03/18........00M.......3.5M........00
03/19........06M.......3.5M........5x10
03/20........11M.......0.0M........0
03/21........00M.......3.5M........00
03/22........00M.......0.0M........3x15
03/23........26M.......0.0M........0
03/24........00M.......0.0M........0 Fire!
03/25........00M.......0.0M........3x15
03/25........07M.......0.0M........0
---MTD: 33 miles walking, 156 miles running, and 0KM resting
Upcoming Races
Steel Challange 5k - May 2019
Pittsburgh Marathon - May 2019
Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Race - May 2019
202? - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)
2019 GOAL: Knock a full hour off my 50k time at Glacier Ridge.2 -
Snuck out at lunchtime and knocked out 7 miles at (well below) race pace. My only real goals were to make it back in time for my meeting (doubly so since I was presenting) and to keep at a faster than 1 hour 10k pace. 7 miles in 1:01 I think completes that.
I might get another run in later, but Tuesdays are always very busy so I can not count on that.
The run was a bit annoying in that I had to wear a jacket to start, then got hot took it off, then go cold and put it back on, repeat for the entire run. Could not find a balance.7 -
Thanks for the encouragement @MobyCarp @Scott6255 and @PastorVincent! I know that you guys are right. This has been an unconventional approach to training for me and I am still wondering if I did enough! But I got this!8
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March Runing Goal: 16.96/20 miles
3/1 1.05 mile
3/2 1.55
3/4 1.52
3/14 2.07
3/18 1.21
3/19 1
3/20 2.61
3/21 2.28
3/22 1.01
3/25 1.03
3/26 1.55
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You really have got this @lporter229!
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
03/13/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 33.6
03/14/19 :::: 3.9 :::: 37.5
03/15/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 40.6
03/16/19 :::: 5.0 :::: 45.6
03/17/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 48.7
03/18/19 :::: 3.5 :::: 52.1
03/19/19 :::: 2.5 :::: 54.7
03/20/19 :::: 3.2 :::: 57.9
03/21/19 :::: 3.8 :::: 61.6
03/22/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 64.7
03/23/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 64.7
03/24/19 :::: 7.3 :::: 71.9
03/25/19 :::: 3.3 :::: 75.2
03/26/19 :::: 2.0 :::: 77.2
Treadmill warm-up before circuit training this morning. Per usual, did not arrive at the gym early enough despite my good intentions. I had to hustle at the end to make it to 2 miles, because I really didn't want to have to put just 1-something in my log sheet.
We did a pulling and pushing workout this morning. Much improvement on the monkey bars, which was exciting.
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@Scott6255 - I love this "Be proud! Be confident! You got this!" I think that should be all of our mantra and especially @lporter2298
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I still feel like I'm a long ways from where I was last year, but I am trying to remain positive about my 3 races next month.
Today's 11.33 miles was a pretty good pace for now, but still much slower than I would like.
Upcoming races:
4/6/19 - Hogeye Marathon - Springdale, AR
4/13/19 - Flint Hills Trail Marathon - Manhattan, KS
4/20/19 - Double Chubb 50K - Eureka, MO
10/13/19 - Chicago Marathon - Chicago, IL9 -
Yet another short run! I feel the strength training working, so that’s pretty cool! Did 10 minutes on the stair treadmill thing and thought I was gonna die though, so how fit can I really be 🤔
March running
3/6: 3.1 miles
3/8: 3.1 miles
3/10: 3.8 miles
3/11: 1 mile
3/12: 1 mile
3/13: 1 mile
3/14: 2.4 miles
3/15: 1.2 miles
3/17: 3.6 miles
3/19: 1.3 miles
3/20: 1.5 miles
3/22: 2 miles
3/23: 2 miles
3/26: 2 miles
Cumulative miles: 29 miles/I have no idea miles
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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 – rest day
3/9 – 15.59 Around the Bay (Irondequoit)
3/10 – 12.47 easy shading to MP
3/11 – rest day
3/12 – 15.01 long intervals
3/13 – 7.31 easy
3/14 – 5.05 before dusk
3/15 – rest day
3/16 – 7.53 commute, warmup, 8K race
3/17 – 15.40 commute/warmup, half marathon, commute/cool down
3/18 – rest day
3/19 – 8.18 easy with a few strides
3/20 – 8.08 easy and MP
3/21 – 9.34 warmup, MP, cool down
3/22 – rest day
3/23 – 20.08 group run + solo miles
3/24 – 6.31 easy
3/25 – 10.01 tempo intervals
March running total to date – 196.12
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 – I spent some time thinking about what I wanted to do for speed work today. There were various workouts on different versions of the marathon training plan; the one on canned version I've been loosely following called for 3 x 2 miles at T with 2 minutes recovery. I didn't think I was up to that.
I settled on a workout from last week on a posted Boston plan: 10 continual miles consisting of 2 easy, 2 at T, 2 easy, 2 at T, 2 easy. Instead of going to the talk at club practice, I used the first 2 miles of the workout as my warmup and went right into continual running.
I ran the paces mostly by feel, without strict control from the watch. Strict control would have had T pace at a 6:35 to 6:45 per mile on the roads, easy at 7:40 to 8:00. Actual achieved mile splits were:
Easy 7:47, 7:33
T 6:40, 6:36
Easy 7:31, 7:31
T 6:31, 6:27 (?!)
Easy 7:33, 8:11
The last mile included a 1000m XC practice loop, and part of the trail had been damaged by cyclists. So that was slower than running on the grass would have been. It seems that my body wants to fall into something closer to marathon pace than a true easy pace; that's not all that bad a thing, with the most important marathon of the year 20 days away.
Got back to base, had a chat with Coach and a new guy. Saw that the board had a workout for Boston: 2 x 3 miles at T with 3 minutes recovery, then 4 x 50m strides. I was not up to running 6 miles of T today. 4 miles was enough. Less is more.
Looking ahead, it's fairly easy to plan out the miles I'll run between now and when I travel to Boston. The interesting part of the puzzle is the speed work. I actually could do next week's challenging workout; but it's a step up from what I did today, while being a step down from what the plan called for today. I probably should tone it down to be modestly easier than what I ran today. I have a week to figure it out.
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) finished in 32:02
March 17, 2019 Shamrock Half Marathon (Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 1:34:21
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)9 -
Three miles on the treadmill (more than that per Garmin), followed by myrtl, bridges, stretching and a bit of foam rolling. Eccentric heel drops daily, though less sets today than in previous days.
I'm not going to make my goal of 30 miles for this month, but I won't be too far off.9
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