July 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

Squish815

Last update for July a day late!

01 July - 1.6 miles (treadmill)
07 July - 4.1 miles (outside)
08 July - 1.4 miles (treadmill)
11 July - 1.6 miles (treadmill)
12 July - 3.2 miles (outside - and beat my 5K PB by 19 seconds)
14 July - 6.8 miles (outside - and beat my 10K PB by 1:42!)
15 July - 1.2 (treadmill on incline as we don't have many hills where I am in London!)
17 July - 4 miles (outside)
18 July - 1.7 miles (treadmill)
19 July - 1.8 miles (treadmill)
20 July - 4 miles (outside)
22 July - 1.2 (treadmill on incline)
24 July - 3.4 (outside)
25 July - 1.7 miles (treadmill)
26 July - 1.7 miles (treadmill)
28 July - 9.4 miles (outside)
29 July - 1.4 miles (treadmill)
31 July - 3.3 miles (outside)

Total to date: 53.5 miles/40 miles

I'm happy with that!

mbaker566

got a run in last night after aerial yoga. it was late and i just wanted to get it done so i didn't take a dog. i had stomach cramps the first mile but tried to keep at what i imagine my tempo run would be. the cramps passed and mile 2 i did fartleks taking one block easy and one block sprinted. it was a decent run.
ended up with 20.4 miles for the month.

ereck44

PastorVincent wrote: »

ereck44 wrote: »

I still need to read about 40 pages of posts. I just learned that @PastorVincent lost his job. I hope that you have a lot of nibbles at a new job by page 78. That truly sucks! Did you have any inkling that the company was going to close its doors?

Went down like this...

Several weeks ago: "We have this and that new plan, and that and this new client we are pursuing and we have secured funding for the project through next year - all is good and the board is happy with our progress."

9:30 that morning was our planning session. We planned out the next 3 months work.
10:00 "The company is closing its doors, Wednesday the 31st we done."

So, yeah, not much warning. I was a little suspicious for reasons, but not enough to have started looking.

Right now I am applying/interviewing like mad. It is exhausting! But something will work out. I am confident of that much. Just gotta do the interview hussel for a bit. I have 4 face-to-face interviews this week to go to still. Which, you know, is EXACTLY what my introverted nature wants to do.

One guy was like "we just want to see how you solve problems, you know to make sure you do not flip tables over or something" so I was like, "But what if that is the correct solution to the problem at hand?" He stumbled around with that proving once again, I am horrible at this interview game.

Thanks for the Cliff's notes version of the events. It sucks that you did all that planning, and I am sure that upper management knew all of the time that they would be shutting the doors.

I actually love your answer to the interviewer. You are so quick on your feet with your responses.

Good luck with your interviews. Remember, this is a two-way street, kind of like dating. Lining up 4 interviews right away is a really good sign that you can find something that you like.

ereck44

My goal is 60 miles this month. I think that I ran 57 miles last month... so not an unreachable goal.

July 1....4.26 miles (Monon trail)

July 2....4.66 miles (Monon trail)

July 5...4.17 miles (Monon trail).

July 6....2.03 miles (treadmill).

July 8...5.22 miles (Monon trail)

July 10...2.4 miles (treadmill).

July 11...5.26 miles (Monon trail)

July 14...4.01 miles (Monon trail)

July 15...5.29 miles (Monon trail)

July 16...6.47 miles (Monon trail)

July 17...2.38 miles (treadmill)

July 21....4.06 miles (Monon trail)

July 22...3.11 miles ( Monon trail)

July 24....4.14 miles (Monon trail).

July 26....4.08 miles (Monon trail).

July 31....4.24 miles ( Monon trail).

Total: 60.52 miles.
Goal: 60 miles.

Yay! I did it! I was thinking that if I can achieve monthly goals here, maybe I should start working harder at achieving life goals.