June 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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6-1 7.5k slow
6-2 11k easy
6-3 rest
6-4 7k moderate
6-5 7k easy
6-6 rest
6-7 7k slow
6-8 9k slow
6-9 7k easy
6-10 rest
6-11 7k intervals
6-12 7k moderate
6-13 rest
6-14 7k easy
6-15 7k moderate
6-16 9k slow
6-17 rest
6-18 7k intervals
6-19 7k easy
6-20 rest
June Total: 106.5k
June Goal: 150k
January Total: 131k
February Total: 159.5k
March Total: 183k
April Total: 126k
May Total: 128k
Monthly average: 145.5k
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. Golfed and fished instead.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K - 31:12 chip time; First Place male 65 and older
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K
7-27 Solon Home Days 5K4 -
6/12 - 5.0 miles, cool and humid. Slower than usual pace.
6/13 - under then overslept. Sleep issues kill me. No run this morning.
6/14 - 5.0 miles, more difficult than expected, slow.
6/15 - 4.0 'mill miles, then upper body weights
6/16 - Long day of baseball tournament with family
6/17 - 4.6 miles. Way humid!
6/18 - 4.05 miles, track workout with group. Longer intervals, with some walking between.
6/19 - Planned rest day
6/20 - 4.5 miles, with some hills. Foggy. Lots of deer.
Currently at 56 / 110 miles for June.6 -
eleanorhawkins wrote: Β»@zeesparrow Hal says on his website 'there's nothing magical about his choice to stick the 5 and 10km races in the plan but they bring some valuable race experience' or something to that effect. He says you don't have to run them and also that they can be at other times. If I remember correctly, I found myself a couple of 'virtual races' to run on my own on those days and just ran a little hard than I would usually during training. But.... you do you ;-)PastorVincent wrote: Β»Yeah, if you were to follow the spirit of the plan, run a 5k at race pace. Personally, I just run that day as any other training run, and I suspect most people do.
A virtual race! Yes! That is a great idea! That's what I did when I finished the C25K plan last fall/winter. I just went back to the same site and signed up for another.
Thank you so much for the suggestion.3 -
Channeled my inner @eleanorhawkins today and just ran and enjoyed the cool air, people and scenery. Such a great run and my gait felt almost back to normal! Yay!
Date........Miles.......Total
06/01......4.31........4.31
06/02......0.00........4.31
06/03......4.36........8.67 - + Agility class
06/04......3.53......12.20
06/05......3.45......15.65 - Global Running Day pledge
06/06......0.00......15.65
06/07......5.42......21.07
06/08......0.00......21.07
06/09......6.57......27.64
06/10......4.63......32.27 - + Agility class
06/11......0.00......32.27
06/12......2.22......34.49
06/13......5.31......39.80
06/14......3.45......43.25
06/15......8.00......51.25
06/16......0.00......51.25
06/17......3.67......54.92 - + Agility class
06/18......0.00......54.92
06/19......0.00......54.92
06/20......4.48......59.40 - + Strength Training
2019 Planned and Completed Races
02/03/19 - Surf City Half Marathon Deferred to 2020
05/11/19 - Santa Barbara Wine Country HM
09/15/19 - Jack and Jill Downhill HM - Boise
11/23/19 - USA Women's HM
02/02/20 - Surf City Half Marathon8 -
zeesparrow wrote: Β»
A virtual race! Yes! That is a great idea! That's what I did when I finished the C25K plan last fall/winter. I just went back to the same site and signed up for another.
Thank you so much for the suggestion.
Way back story, and a thought:
When I first did a 5K training program, I didn't know how to look for races. I didn't see one on graduation weekend, so I ran what you might consider a virtual 5K to prove I could. I mapped out a local 5K distance, ran it hard, slowed down when I needed to. I imagined other runners passing me when I slowed down, and I imagined passing other runners when I was running well. I finished in 22 minutes even.
Three weeks later, I ran my first organized 5K race. It was a fast, flat course; I was oblivious to that fact at the time. It was October. I would now consider what I wore overdressed. On advice from a runner I knew, I lined up far forward. I made every rookie mistake there is. I didn't know how fast I could sustain, tried to go out with the leaders, faded, got passed by many other runners, barely managed to meet my goal of running the entire distance, and finished in 21 minutes even.
It is implausible that I actually improved by 1 minute over a 5K distance in 3 weeks, running on my own without any formal plan and never having heard of speed work. The difference was the race environment made me run differently.
Thought: If a training plan mentions something like "valuable race experience," I expect the plan intends to teach you how running in a race feels different than running in training. Several years later, I have run races as part of a training plan. Some were run as races, others were run to practice pace control in a race environment. The most recent one I did was March in Virginia Beach, running a half marathon at close to marathon pace in order to practice not going too fast in a race environment.
So . . . the virtual race will do something for you. It will be a speed workout with a physiological benefit. But you will be missing any of the psychological learning that might have happened in a real race environment. If the virtual race is the best you can do, do it. But if you can run a real organized race about when the training plan calls for it, run the organized race.9 -
June Running Totals (miles)
6/1 β 5.08 group run
6/2 β 6.30 easy
6/3 β rest day
6/4 β 6.13 easy
6/5 β extra rest day
6/6 β extra rest day
6/7 β scheduled rest day/precautionary DNS
6/8 β 6.30 easy
6/9 β 5.03 warm and humid
6/10 β rest day
6/11 β 5.40 warmup, speed work
6/12 β 4.43 group run
6/13 β extra rest day
6/14 β scheduled rest day
6/15 β 2.17 aborted group run
6/16 β 6.10 warmup + 5K race
6/17 β rest day
6/18 β 7.44 warmup, easy speed work, cool down
6/19 β 4.15 easy
6/20 β 5.16 easy in the rain
June running total to date β 63.69
Nominal June mileage goal: 100
Real Goals: Get back to running regularly without injuring myself.
Today's notes β Yesterday evening was an informational (read: marketing) session for the training group I pace for. I wanted to be there to show support and to see if anyone showed up who might need an 8:00 per mile pacer. Traffic was a cluster*kitten*, and I didn't get there as soon as I would have liked. As a result, about 4 miles of a run was all I had time for before the meeting. This was not a bad thing; I got to circumnavigate Cobb's Hill Park and run up Cobb's Hill once, do part of my normal stretching, and make it to the meeting. I was drenched in sweat because it was warm and humid, but that's acceptable at a running store.
There was one guy there who says he's targeting a 3:15 marathon. Assuming that's a realistic goal for him, I expect to see him in my pace group.
Then I got home late, and didn't have the energy to post here yesterday evening.
Today the forecast called for rain, all day long. This morning it looked like the Back Bay area in April 2018. Bleah. Got my breakfast, worked through my normal morning exercises, and got out to run about 11 when it had faded to more like what I saw in Hopkinton in April 2018, only less wind and 20Β° warmer. Went out for a 5 mile run on a familiar route. It felt good. My cardio conditioning is improving. Much of the run, my HR was about what I'd expect for the route and weather. Where my HR was high, it was more like 5 bpm higher than I'd expect instead of the 10 bpm I had seen earlier.
Worked through household administrative stuff, and made it to the pacer's meeting this evening. No big surprises there, though it appears that there won't be race pacers for Shoreline Half Marathon. Sigh. I'd hoped to run that one for free by pacing, but now I suppose I'll have to register. Shoreline will probably appear on my 2018 race list the next time I post a status.
Rest day tomorrow. Planned rest day. That makes this the first time in 3 weeks that I haven't had to take an extra rest day (or two) during the week. I'll call that progress.
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) DNS - injury
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA) DNS - injury
April 28, 2019 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble) (Dedham, MA) canceled registration - injury
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 5K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
May 25, 2019 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
June 7, 2019 Charlie McMullen Mile (Pittsford, NY) DNS - precautionary
June 16, 2019 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY) finished in 20:19
June 29, 2019 A Country Mile at Ganondagan (5-ish mile trail) (Victor, NY)
September 1, 2019 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY)
November 3, 2019 TCS New York City Marathon (New York, NY)
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midwesterner85 wrote: Β»
@Avidkeo Excellent!
I am moving right now too. Got everything loaded up last night in the truck with help from people I work with (at old location) and their kids. Old house is cleaned up and the cat is waiting in the last room.l to be emptied. I noticed I forgot to pull out some clean undergarments and socks to wear today and tomorrow. Oh well... I will treat it like when I am backpacking and don't change clothes every day.
There was a snag picking up the truck yesterday afternoon. One of the lights on the tow dolly (to pull my car) doesn't work. I ended up taking the truck to get it loaded and leaving my car/dolly there. I will grab that this morning on the way out of town.
Right now, I just need to get the cat in the truck. He has been given a pill to help calm him. Realtor is scheduled to come in just over 1.5 hrs. so and we can do paperwork to list it and then I leave for good. Between now and then, I will get the cat loaded and try to catch up on social media.
Plan is to drive all day / stop frequently for kitty and I to eat, use bathroom, etc. I will arrive and unload tomorrow. I should have plenty of time to stop and sleep for an hour or 2 here and there along the way.
Hope it goes well! We decided to fly our kitty. So he was in a kitty motel for a few days, and today they put him on a plane this morning. I go and collect him in a few hours. Decided it was way easier than trying to drive with him over two days.
How much does moving suck!
Just picked up my uniform, and I'm a small pant, and size 10 (us size 8) in the top! Woop woop5 -
In other news, Bitcoin is spiking up, so I finally cashed out the tiny amount I have had from way way back when it was free to generate buy running a screen saver! And I bought me a new camera! A fancy-pants Canon DSLR with all the buttons! All the buttons I tell you! I will need to go away to school to learn out to use it.
In further news, I am now ever broker than ever.
These events are probably related, but no way to be sure so I am going to assume they are not.
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Hope it goes well! We decided to fly our kitty. So he was in a kitty motel for a few days, and today they put him on a plane this morning. I go and collect him in a few hours. Decided it was way easier than trying to drive with him over two days.
How much does moving suck!
Just picked up my uniform, and I'm a small pant, and size 10 (us size 8) in the top! Woop woop
Aw, my kitty is not used to other people and having others care for him would be very stressful for everyone. This way is the same level of stressful for him, less stress for me, and nobody elwe gets hurt. I do worry about him, though, because he has been scared and won't use the litter box or drink water. I offer every time I stop, which is often. So now I am leaving a water bowl in his carrier while I take a nap at a rest stop. Hopefully he drinks now.8 -
Ran 4 miles, noticed halfway through post run walk that we were going to make it back too late to eat at our preferred restaurant and ran another half mile. Not a bad run but so, so, hot. Bright sunlight, and where we were running at Shelby Farms there are long stretches without shade. Dewpoint 75 again, temp somewhere in the 90s. Even the bicyclists were dripping with sweat. You know those days when a cycle passes you, and youβre like, βCan I just kinda hop on behind you like kids used to ride double in 5th grade and you carry me back to someplace with air conditioning?β We were passed by a guy who said, βThe faster I run the sooner I can stop!β
We saw another bunny. That makes three runs in a row of seeing bunnies. I think this one was a hare, he had very long ears and different fur.
Running another half mile in the heat was worth it when we got to our sandwich shop and the waitress said, βOh, I think weβre out of shawarma,β and the owner said, βFor you we have shawarma, I put it back especially for you!β Much shawarma, iced ginger sage tea, and baklava, in the blessed air conditioning.
@Avidkeo and @midwesterner85 hope the moves go smoothly and the kitties settle in well!3 -
So . . . the virtual race will do something for you. It will be a speed workout with a physiological benefit. But you will be missing any of the psychological learning that might have happened in a real race environment. If the virtual race is the best you can do, do it. But if you can run a real organized race about when the training plan calls for it, run the organized race.
So true! My first (and only) 10k several years back I played leap frog with another runner which upped my pace majorly.0 -
Went for a short, fast run this morning. Fastest run yet!
Today's run: 3km, 17:28
Distance so far: 35km
June distance goal: 50km8 -
6-1 7.5k slow
6-2 11k easy
6-3 rest
6-4 7k moderate
6-5 7k easy
6-6 rest
6-7 7k slow
6-8 9k slow
6-9 7k easy
6-10 rest
6-11 7k intervals
6-12 7k moderate
6-13 rest
6-14 7k easy
6-15 7k moderate
6-16 9k slow
6-17 rest
6-18 7k intervals
6-19 7k easy
6-20 rest
6-21 7k moderate
June Total: 113.5k
June Goal: 150k
January Total: 131k
February Total: 159.5k
March Total: 183k
April Total: 126k
May Total: 128k
Monthly average: 145.5k
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
Sunny, 60 degrees F, with a nice breeze from the northwest. Fun day to run.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K - 31:12 chip time; First Place male 65 and older
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K
7-27 Solon Home Days 5K9 -
6/1 - 8.0 miles
6/2 β 2.0 miles + lower body PIYO
6/3 β 5.0 miles + yoga
6/4 β 1.2 miles TM + upper body PIYO
6/5 β 5.0 miles + yoga
6/6 β 1.1 miles TM + PIYO Sweat (20 minutes)
6/7 β 5.0 miles
6/8 β 11.25 miles
6/9 β 1 mile
6/10 β 4.65 miles
6/11 β 1.20 miles
6/12 - 4.64 miles + yoga
6/13 β 1.61 miles
6/14 β 1.11 miles + 40 minutes strength training
6/15 β 3.1 miles + 11 miles hiking
6/16 - rest
6/17 β 5.01 miles + 90 minutes of weights, aerobics and yoga
6/18 β 30 minutes lower body workout
6/19 β 5 miles
6/20 β rest
6/21 β 10.43 miles
This week is United Wayβs Week of Caring. My company is a big supporter of United Way and encourages all employees to participate. Yesterday, we could take the day off work and participate in a company-organized project at a local agency. I signed up to build picnic tables, benches and a fire pit at the local Boys and Girls Club. It ended up raining most of the day so we didnβt get to install the finished products at the site which happened to be a very wet river bottom. It was still a fun day and beat the heck out of going to the office!
Iβm heading to the beach in the morning for a week of vacation. Hoping to get some running done in the early morning hours before it gets too hot. Recovery will be laying on the beach!
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midwesterner85 wrote: Β»
Aw, my kitty is not used to other people and having others care for him would be very stressful for everyone. This way is the same level of stressful for him, less stress for me, and nobody elwe gets hurt. I do worry about him, though, because he has been scared and won't use the litter box or drink water. I offer every time I stop, which is often. So now I am leaving a water bowl in his carrier while I take a nap at a rest stop. Hopefully he drinks now.
Cats don't travel well. You might find some CBD oil. We started using it with some success with an ADD-like cat and another that isn't keen on the kitten. Petco like places will prob have some calming chews , (that none of my cats will eat), and some spray you can put on your hand and wipe on him. We use one from Jackson Galaxy (online), and it works well.
Last resort, if his anxiety is high, you could stop in a vet and explain, they might be able to help.
When we moved, thankfully just 30 minutes away, the best thing was a familiar set up, familiar smells. One cat needed time on the bed with us, playing "pink 'nake". It just a pink pajama tie she's played with her whole life.iy was magic, you could see she just forgot everything was new for a moment.
Don't forget the power of road treats. My dog would get chicken nuggets. I had a cat that sat in the car waiting and would go with you to Sonic for chicken. Worst chicken eating cat ever. You couldn't say "chicken" in front of him. Some treats may help him forget his anxiety. And if they are a bit salty, he may want that water.
Your cat will be okay without water for a bit. We moved from Delaware to Georgia and back then to Oklahoma with 2 cats. They recover with a little TLC, oh cats... LOTS OF TLC on their terms.3 -
Heh. Just came in from my lunch walk and I saw this fellow running and every now and again he checked his bare wrist. I am thinking he forgot his GPS watch.
I wanted to call out "If it is not tracked it never happened!" but that might cause a social interaction, so I kept walking instead. 14 -
PastorVincent wrote: Β»Heh. Just came in from my lunch walk and I saw this fellow running and every now and again he checked his bare wrist. I am thinking he forgot his GPS watch. I wanted to call out "If it is not tracked it never happened!" but that might cause a social interaction, so I kept walking instead.
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Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
06/01/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
06/02/19 :::: 13.2 :::: 13.2
06/03/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.2
06/04/19 :::: 1.3 :::: 14.5
06/05/19 :::: 5.0 :::: 19.5
06/06/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 19.5
06/07/19 :::: 3.6 :::: 23.2
06/08/19 :::: 5.7 :::: 28.9
06/09/19 :::: 4.9 :::: 33.7
06/10/19 :::: 3.2 :::: 36.9
06/11/19 :::: 2.0 :::: 38.9
06/12/19 :::: 4.5 :::: 43.4
06/13/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 43.4
06/14/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 46.6
06/15/19 :::: 3.7 :::: 50.3
06/16/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 50.3
06/17/19 :::: 3.5 :::: 53.8
06/18/19 :::: 2.2 :::: 56.0
06/19/19 :::: 5.0 :::: 61.0
06/20/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 61.0
06/21/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 64.1
I was wiped out and it rained most of the day, so I took yesterday as a rest day. This morning it was raining again. Although it stopped before I headed out, I didn't have a change of clothes for strength training after so I didn't want to chance running outside and getting poured on again. Or this was my excuse anyway. So a 5k on the treadmill and then a pretty tough strength/interval training session. Whenever he starts with "remember that circuit we did last week" I know I'm in for something to be ramped up.
I'm looking forward to a pretty low-key weekend. After having races the last 3 weekends, two of them involving travel, I'm really glad to have nothing scheduled. The forecast looks fantastic (finally), so a long run in the morning, some work around the house/yard, and relaxing with a gin and tonic are my only agenda items.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. Good luck to anyone racing! Best wishes to those moving or finishing up their moves. Happy summer solstice!
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This morning was 82F at 3AM, with the dew point at 76F. It was humid AF and with 15 mph winds coming in from the south, I bailed just shy of 12 miles.
I was also wearing some lime green shorts, and this morning I found out that when they're completely soaked through with sweat, they become rather see-through. Needless to say, it's a good thing it's still dark at that time in the morning.
03 - 15.56
04 - 13.82
05 - 15.62
10 - 14.32
11 - 13.44
12 - 13.51
13 - 13.87
18 - 14.45
19 - 11.44
20 - 14.09
21 - 11.92
Total: 152.04 / 200 miles12 -
Had a rare afternoon run today as I was super tired after a late night out last night but I didn't want to miss running in what will likely be our last cool, cloudy day for a while. My legs and foot (stress fracture) was sore from standing so long last night. Also found I had some DOMS from training yesterday in my glutes and abs (damn trainer π€£). Everything loosened up pretty well and it ended up being a pretty decent run.
Date........Miles.......Total
06/01......4.31........4.31
06/02......0.00........4.31
06/03......4.36........8.67 - + Agility class
06/04......3.53......12.20
06/05......3.45......15.65 - Global Running Day pledge
06/06......0.00......15.65
06/07......5.42......21.07
06/08......0.00......21.07
06/09......6.57......27.64
06/10......4.63......32.27 - + Agility class
06/11......0.00......32.27
06/12......2.22......34.49
06/13......5.31......39.80
06/14......3.45......43.25
06/15......8.00......51.25
06/16......0.00......51.25
06/17......3.67......54.92 - + Agility class
06/18......0.00......54.92
06/19......0.00......54.92
06/20......4.48......59.40 - + Strength Training
06/21......4.56......63.96
2019 Planned and Completed Races
02/03/19 - Surf City Half Marathon Deferred to 2020
05/11/19 - Santa Barbara Wine Country HM
09/15/19 - Jack and Jill Downhill HM - Boise
11/23/19 - USA Women's HM
02/02/20 - Surf City Half Marathon7 -
I haven't been running for more than a year. Starting over.
Going for 30 this month to start.14 -
It stopped raining. We went for a motorcycle ride. Tomorrow I'll try to write about running 5
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6-1 7.5k slow
6-2 11k easy
6-3 rest
6-4 7k moderate
6-5 7k easy
6-6 rest
6-7 7k slow
6-8 9k slow
6-9 7k easy
6-10 rest
6-11 7k intervals
6-12 7k moderate
6-13 rest
6-14 7k easy
6-15 7k moderate
6-16 9k slow
6-17 rest
6-18 7k intervals
6-19 7k easy
6-20 rest
6-21 7k moderate
6-22 11k slow
June Total: 124.5k
June Goal: 150k
January Total: 131k
February Total: 159.5k
March Total: 183k
April Total: 126k
May Total: 128k
Monthly average: 145.5k
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
A repeat of yesterday. Sunny, 60 degrees F, with a nice breeze from the northwest. Another fun day to run.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K - 31:12 chip time; First Place male 65 and older
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K
7-27 Solon Home Days 5K5 -
June Running Totals (miles)
6/1 β 5.08 group run
6/2 β 6.30 easy
6/3 β rest day
6/4 β 6.13 easy
6/5 β extra rest day
6/6 β extra rest day
6/7 β scheduled rest day/precautionary DNS
6/8 β 6.30 easy
6/9 β 5.03 warm and humid
6/10 β rest day
6/11 β 5.40 warmup, speed work
6/12 β 4.43 group run
6/13 β extra rest day
6/14 β scheduled rest day
6/15 β 2.17 aborted group run
6/16 β 6.10 warmup + 5K race
6/17 β rest day
6/18 β 7.44 warmup, easy speed work, cool down
6/19 β 4.15 easy
6/20 β 5.16 easy in the rain
6/21 β rest day
6/22 β 10.26 paced run
June running total to date β 73.95
Nominal June mileage goal: 100
Real Goals: Get back to running regularly without injuring myself.
Today's notes β It was a beautiful 61Β° F (16Β° C) with a light breeze and sunshine this morning when I went to the group run. Set out with the 8:30 pace group, changed to the 8:00 group when we caught up at the first stoplight. Today, the route was two 5 mile loops. I felt pretty good after the first 5 miles. Absent my recent history, I might have just kept running for a continual 10 mile run. But given my recent history of banging things up and having to take extra rest days, I decided it was better to take a recovery interval while other runners to a rest room break.
I didn't know whether I would be good for 10 miles today, but it turned out I had no problems. Nice weather, good conversation, a congenial pace; it was great. I did have to let a couple people go late when they wanted to finish fast. I could have kept up, but running a 7:15 pace for the last half mile just didn't seem wise.
This is the farthest I've run in a day, capping the farthest I've run in a week, since coming back from the stress fracture. Now I'm beginning to believe I'll be in marathon shape for New York. More immediately, I should have no trouble completing the Shoreline Half next month.
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) DNS - injury
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA) DNS - injury
April 28, 2019 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble) (Dedham, MA) canceled registration - injury
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 5K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
May 25, 2019 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
June 7, 2019 Charlie McMullen Mile (Pittsford, NY) DNS - precautionary
June 16, 2019 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY) finished in 20:19
June 29, 2019 A Country Mile at Ganondagan (5-ish mile trail) (Victor, NY)
July 13, 2019 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hamlin, NY)
September 1, 2019 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY)
November 3, 2019 TCS New York City Marathon (New York, NY)13 -
runnermom419 wrote: Β»
June 19 - 6 track miles (I hate the indoor track sometimes, but gotta do what you gotta do).
90.02 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 19.98 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 29.98 miles
June 20 - 3.14 miles
June 21 - Rest Day
June 22 - 4.12 miles
97.28 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 12.72 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 22.72 miles5 -
A short 9.2 miles this morning. Traveling to Arkansas this weekend. Humidity through the roof! Thought Texas was bad! And the hills around here are mountains compared to the cotton fields at home π
Found a decent loop, so did that a few times. At least I got a run in.
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Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
06/01/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
06/02/19 :::: 13.2 :::: 13.2
06/03/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.2
06/04/19 :::: 1.3 :::: 14.5
06/05/19 :::: 5.0 :::: 19.5
06/06/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 19.5
06/07/19 :::: 3.6 :::: 23.2
06/08/19 :::: 5.7 :::: 28.9
06/09/19 :::: 4.9 :::: 33.7
06/10/19 :::: 3.2 :::: 36.9
06/11/19 :::: 2.0 :::: 38.9
06/12/19 :::: 4.5 :::: 43.4
06/13/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 43.4
06/14/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 46.6
06/15/19 :::: 3.7 :::: 50.3
06/16/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 50.3
06/17/19 :::: 3.5 :::: 53.8
06/18/19 :::: 2.2 :::: 56.0
06/19/19 :::: 5.0 :::: 61.0
06/20/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 61.0
06/21/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 64.1
06/22/19 :::: 8.0 :::: 72.1/ 100 mile goal
It was an absolutely beautiful morning for a long run - 61 degrees, low humidity, blue sky, and sun. Along with some lovely friends to run with, you can't get much better!
In my rough prediction of miles for the month, I had written down 10 miles for long run today and next week, but I realized that this exceeded my coach's half marathon training plan by quite a bit. I scaled back to the recommended default minimum long run of 90 minutes, which at conversational pace got me 8 miles. This is still more than the training plan for this early in the season, but the plan includes building up to the 90 minutes if you aren't there yet. I have a bit of a hard time not trying to "compete" with myself and where I was last year in training and cumulative miles, but I need to remember I have different goals this year (i.e. not a marathon). It's a work in progress.
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@girlinahat - not at all running related but saw this on FB and thought of you and your little buddies!
https://www.facebook.com/OddCouplesDodo/videos/435052977061101/2 -
June goal 100 miles
Got a new PR today at the half marathon! Strava says PRs at 20k, 10 mile & 15k as well, and the second half supposedly included my 3rd best 10k! So needless to say, the rail-trail proved to be an excellent course. It was such a small race though, I was running alone for most of it. After the turnaround, I realized I wasn't going to podium or change positions with anyone, either, so focused on my pacing plan, and it went really well. At one point I got caught running between a mother deer in front of me, and baby deer behind me. My yelling, clapping & moving over didn't help reunite them, so we all ran together like that for a while until mama deer went off the trail (baby of course went off the other way, but at least I wasn't between them anymore).
The other runners were standing around afterwards kinda snotty-like in a circle, and I overheard them talking about an upcoming 50k and "oh that one will be easy"... So I laughed to myself, talked to one guy who wasn't in their little group, then loaded up on the cookies and left
This was before the race, but empty trail like this was pretty much my view for the morning.Spoiler
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This week is a post-race recovery and cut back week on my training schedule, so this weekend's 'long run' was a short one (supposed to be 4 miles/6.5km). I decided to fit it in whenever and switched the alarm clock off last night, but was awake by 7.30 this morning so decided I might as well get it out of the way today then I can sleep in tomorrow (if the neighbours decide to let me). Consumed sufficient amounts of coffee to think in sentences and munched on a banana, then finally headed out the door around 8.45. It only took me my 10 minute warm-up walk to realise I'm going to have to forget about running as late as that for a few months. It was already 22ΒΊC (around 72f I think?) by 9am. Ugh. I had been thinking about trying out a new hilly route I've sketched out playing about on Strava, but decided I'd be safer sticking to the river trail which is at least dirt so kinder to the legs and with a few shady areas under trees. But it was hot. There were more other runners out because it was later than I tend to run, and they were all hot, sweaty, semi-naked runners. The bare-chested men made me jealous LOL.
And that brings me to today's rant. Cyclists. Usually when I come back from my runs the weekend cyclist groups are just beginning to gather. Today the *kitten* were out in force. Why do they believe they own the trail and can fly down it side by side, literally pushing runners into the bushes as they pass them? I swear I should have knocked a few of them off their bikes. Wondering what would happen if they met a group coming down in the same direction as me took my mind off the heat for a while at least.
Not much to report about the actual run. My legs felt very heavy for the first couple of minutes but then they warmed up and it was just a nice slow easy (short) long run. Just as I reached the 6.5km I had intended to do, the Happy song popped up on my music. @Shanaber nobody can resist a joyful jog to Happy, right? So I ended up doing 7km instead. Then on my cool down walk home I got 'I'm on top of the world' . Music and running, sorting out minds since the beginning of time (or running, or music)
June goal: 75km. Run so far: 62.26km10
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