April 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

Tramboman

lporter229 wrote: »

BTW, I finished 13600 out of 26632 overall.
4594 out of 11970 Females
488 out of 1832 F 45-49

Starting bib was 20895, which means I "passed" roughly 7300 people.

That's awesome! Congratulations again on a great race.

zeesparrow

rheddmobile wrote: »

@lporter229 thank you for giving me someone to cheer for! I was watching your splits as they came in, when I saw your pace at 35k drop to 9:30 I was “Noooooo keep it together! This is the hard part!” That must have included that bit where you walked. But you picked it back up and I notice your last mile split was your fastest mile at 8:18, you romped on in! So glad you did well, great race report!

This! So much! This! Loved following your race and your race report!

kgirlhart

Great race report @lporter229! I love the photos!

shanaber

@lporter229 - Great race report on a fantastic race! Congratulations! Hope you are recovering well!
@Elise4270 - pretty sure the way you (and I) pronounce caramel is the right way! Carmel is definitely a place along the California coast and very pretty

No run for me as today was museum day. We took Hobbes to a local doggy daycare to hang out while we went to Albuquerque for the day. We stopped at the Sandia Peak Tramway 1st to have lunch at the top but the restaurant was closed so we didn't spend the $$ to go up. We spent most of the day in one museum with a short break for lunch. I would have like to get to the Natural History Museum (dinosaurs!) but DH was very interested in the National Museum of Nuclear History. It was interesting but overwhelming. Tomorrow I will get out for a short walk/run on the trail again before we head to Flagstaff on our way home.

7lenny7

@lporter229 congrats on a great race and thank you for the wonderful report! When I read a race recap like that it makes me want to run another marathon.

7lenny7

Two weeks since my last run. I wonder if I'll remember how.

I was going to run after work today but plans changed. Our older son called me at work this morning asking if he and his little brother could go to the gun range. Well sure, but only if I could join them! I left work just after noon, gathered up the guns and ammo and we went out to the range for trap shooting. Both boys are, or were, top shooters on their high school trap shooting team so I fully expected to get beat, and I did, but I didn't mind at all. My older boy had one season when was second in the state in the high school league and the younger boy is a pretty great shot himself. There are now over 13,000 kids in the high school trap shooting league in Minnesota so it's pretty hard to get into the top 10. After we were done shooting my younger son went to work and my older boy and I went to the brewery.

Tomorrow I'm heading to the lake to get our sailboat ready to put in the water. I plan on running along the lake shore beforehand before it gets too warm (all of 73 F!). I haven't decided how far I'll go. I'm kind of thinking somewhere around 5 miles. I'm still anxious about the run, worried I'll still have achilles pain.

Tomorrow night I need to start packing for Oregon.

mbaker566

Weighing in
Food: car mull
Place: car mel

Avidkeo

Cara-mel here

Awesome race report @lporter229!

Well we just had someone come look at the house, and it all sounds very promising, but until we have an offer... At least they loved the place.

I did 6k this morning. Felt great after 2 longer runs. Going out again tomorrow, not sure yet what distance, I think I'll just see how I feel tomorrow.

garygse

@lporter229 Your race report was great, I loved reading every bit of it, and many congrats on an incredible Boston marathon...you're an absolute inspiration!

PastorVincent

Avidkeo wrote: »

Cara-mel here

Awesome race report @lporter229!

Well we just had someone come look at the house, and it all sounds very promising, but until we have an offer... At least they loved the place.

I did 6k this morning. Felt great after 2 longer runs. Going out again tomorrow, not sure yet what distance, I think I'll just see how I feel tomorrow.

I missed... did you get a job offer yet? Find a place to move to?

Scott6255

@lporter229 congrats on a great race and for the wonderful report!

lporter229

Thanks everyone for the comments and for your interest. Knowing that I had people following my race at home, some who never have even met me, definitely helped motivate me through the rough patches. If I haven't said it already, I really appreciate this group!

juliet3455

Just in case anyone needed an extra reason to plan a Trail Running Vacation up to Canada. I think these would be a good fit for @MNLittleFinn , @JessicaMcB , @7lenny7 , @ContraryMaryMary or anyone else who enjoy's trails.

Off to meet the local club members for a 15k.

Scott6255

I always enjoy running in Houston for some reason. Usually because it is for an official race and it is pancake flat. Today was neither. Ran the Hershey Park trail following the river the whole time. It was beautiful, and very hilly. Ended up with 13.1 miles in 2 hours exactly. And fittingly, saw lots of rabbits on this Saturday before Easter 😀🐇🐰

Tramboman

4-1 rest
4-2 7k easy
4-3 7k easy
4-4 rest
4-5 7k easy/threshold
4-6 11k easy
4-7 7k recovery
4-8 rest
4-9 7k easy/threshold
4-10 4k slow
4-11 rest
4-12 4k easy
4-13 5k (Shine the Light)
4-14 7k recovery
4-15 rest
4-16 7k slow
4-17 7k easy/threshold
4-18 rest
4-19 7k easy
4-20 11k slow


April Total: 98k
April Goal: 150k

January Total: 131k
February Total: 159.5k
March Total: 183k

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

Winter gear cold and rainy today. Set out to do 11k and managed to do it.

2019 Races:

4-13 Shine the Light 5K -- 31:12 chip time; First Place male 65 and older
6-1 Freedom 5K (Will be off the schedule due to another commitment)
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K

katharmonic

@lporter229 loved your race report. Fantastic race, I'm so happy for you.


Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
04/01/19 :::: 3.8 :::: 3.8
04/02/19 :::: 2.7 :::: 6.5
04/03/19 :::: 1.6 :::: 8.1
04/04/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 8.1
04/05/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 8.1
04/06/19 :::: 5.7 :::: 13.8
04/07/19 :::: 5.0 :::: 18.8
04/08/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 18.8
04/09/19 :::: 3.4 :::: 22.2
04/10/19 :::: 3.3 :::: 25.5
04/11/19 :::: 4.1 :::: 29.6
04/12/19 :::: 3.6 :::: 33.2
04/13/19 :::: 5.5 :::: 38.6
04/14/19 :::: 5.3 :::: 44.0
04/15/19 :::: 4.4 :::: 48.3
04/16/19 :::: 2.0 :::: 50.3
04/17/19 :::: 4.5 :::: 54.9
04/18/19 :::: 1.8 :::: 56.7
04/19/19 :::: 2.7 :::: 59.4
04/20/19 :::: 8.1 :::: 67.5/ 100 mile goal

After steady rain all night long, miraculously no rain this morning! It was cloudy and cool - great running weather. The training run today was about 8 miles, which is only 2 miles short of the full Mountain Goat course. Part of the beginning section of the course was cut short, and I ran that part the first week so I have now run the full course. And I'm glad I did because while I know the area pretty well, actually running all of those hills in one shot was a challenge. It was not as bad as I feared, but one of the hills is a really long climb, and then what seemed like a flat section right after it is really a gradual uphill as well. And then one more shorter steep hill right after that. My friend that I was running with told me that right after that last hill you'll want to curse because you think the race should be over but you still have a bit over a mile left. It's true! I stopped my watch at a water stop at 6 miles in (right before the last hill) and forgot to restart, so annoying. My friend's Garmin said 8.11 miles at the end so we'll go with that.

And with that, I guess I am sort of tapering for next week's Spartan and then the Mountain Goat actual race the following weekend. I'm at 67 miles and the month is 67% over so I'm on track to make my goal, but I'm not sure it will happen with a bit of a cutback.

hanlonsk

Ok, I am so incredibly far behind. You guys are doing lots of awesome things, and I hope you know I am watching and supporting you! But, between dodging snowpocalypses to get to Portland, my week in Portland, and the insane work week I came back to, I am very far behind. And then I left my iPad with my friend for the rest of her conference in Portland, and so catching up on my phone isn’t helping things. In fact I tried typing all this and my race report once already and i messes something up and it vanished. And it’s taken another couple of days before I was up to trying again. It’s way long for an 8k report, but Asides from the actual running there were some cool things about this for me.

So, Bridge to Brews 8k:
My friend talked me into going to Portland with her (knowing I have family around and could help show her things.) once I locked myself in and had tickets bought, she found a race. They had a 10k and an 8k, I knew based on my mileage that I would be less likely to die if I did the 8k, she did the 10.
We lucked out and had decent weather, like no rain, which is good since two square state girls don’t get enough practice to have decent wet weather gear.
It is the last year the race was going over the Fremont bridge due to costs of getting permits. They literally shut down a lane of INTERSTATE on this bridge to run the race. So, I have pictures no one else will get, unless they have car troubles in a really unfortunate place.
All I can say is thank God for sea level. I ran way more of this race than I ever thought I could based on training. I had my interval timer going, but I ran the first mile without walking (haven’t done that in a while) and other than significant uphills I really ran most of it, and proved to myself I can get under 12 minute miles still on occasion. I already knew I was not in shape to run up the big bridge, but I wasn’t planning on everyone stopping and taking pictures and selfies. So, I could at least tell myself I was just walking up the bridge because I was being a tourist and not that I “couldn’t” run up it. Our choice of race distances actually worked really well, as friend’s better preparation meant she finished 10k within about 2 minutes of me finishing 8k. And thanks to sea level, my time was actually decent, for me, and I didn’t struggle near like I was expecting to.

We lucked out that my mom was able to get us both to the race and my friend back to her conference. We had figured we could do public transit, until we were running and realized we ran right thru the max line we needed. My brother ran down to the race (same problem with transit) from his house. And met up with us to help utilize our beer tickets. (Friend doesn’t drink. And I had to be sober enough to be let on a plane later.) But I had never had family waiting for me at a finish line before, so it was actually pretty neat to have that.

Only lesson learned- race + airplane+ car ride =legs much more sore than expected. In case anyone else cares to learn that lesson from someone else instead of personal experience.

Me and brother with obligatory sibling selfie.



Selfie on the bridge, they have had lots of rain so all the rivers are way high and muddy. Makes our race day sun even more surprising.

The race plus 2.3 miles this week puts me at 19.1/40. So, not exactly on pace, but not as far from it as I could be. I will see if I can fix that this weekend.

Edited to fix photo explanations- inserted in opposite order than I thought.

quilteryoyo

@hanlonsk Sounds like a great race. Congratulations on doing better than you expected. That's always nice.

quilteryoyo

My sinuses are still bothering me and I'm supposed to sing in an Easter Cantata in the morning, so I opted for another walk instead of running today. I hope to be able to get a run in tomorrow afternoon. Today, I did 2.75 miles of walking on the treadmill at 3.8 mph. Some exercise is better than none at all.

katharmonic

Great job @hanlonsk! Sounds like quite a day with the race and travel. Fun that your family was there for you at the finish. I've never had that either and I bet it was a nice bonus. Nice of your bro to take on the brews for you guys