October 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • chris_in_cal
    chris_in_cal Posts: 2,520 Member
    Hello,

    Once again I am optimistically hoping MFP groups can work. Us MFP daily loggers, who run and use a Garmin, this is for us:
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/115856-garmin-connect-runners
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    I should confess @ContraryMaryMary that I do use people as windbreaks. At my weight you need all the help you can get though it also means I don't sprint.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    edited October 2019
    As to the discussion about running past then cutting off to walk, I've had that happen to me many times. A few of them are still vivid in my mind because it was so bad. It was like those moments when you go to pass a car and they realize it and start to speed up. It's almost as if they can't stand someone running past them. I don't think these are people following a run/walk plan. I can usually pick those out. They usually will look, move over and slow down, making sure they aren't in front of someone. When I've gotten into these passing matches with the rude people I just pick up my pace for a while to get myself far enough ahead of them.

    Kids doing it don't bother me. They haven't learned pacing yet. I'm pretty sure 90% of kids run races this way.

    At my trail race last weekend, I was probably a bit too close to one lady at the start. I didn't want to go out to fast and she had a good pace. I did eventually pass her but not until a point I was ready. Then later I had someone hang behind me. It didn't bother me because it seems to happen more on trails. People use others to pace plus sometimes it's a single track and even though you try to stay to right there isn't always room to pass.

    I've not had too much bother with run-walkers, the only time it's an obvious problem is at drinks stops where people run in, grab a drink, then stop dead. Just move out of the way people. Literally three more steps back out from the table.

    I have a bigger issue with being used as a pacer/windbreak. I don't mind it for a few kilometres, or even for the whole race as long as you don't do what a 'friend' of my used to do - sit on my shoulder for the entire 10k race and then kick off and pass me with less than 100m to go. She could sprint, I can't. She'd beat me by 2-3 seconds every single time. Used to piss me off no end. She would laugh. Didn't get that it bothered me. Would joke about drafting and sprinting and the fact she beat me.

    I got tired of it after the third or fourth time. By the 10th race I was livid. I tried all sorts of tricks to get her to stop it - starting at the back of the pack, at the front of the pack, trying to lose her in the pack, starting fast, starting slow, telling her it's not the done thing. Nothing worked, she'd find me and run half a pace behind me. I didn't mind being beaten by her, but it felt like she ran my race, not hers. She is younger and a naturally better runner than me. If she'd run her own race she probably would have beaten me by 2-3 minutes and I would have been perfectly happy with that.

    Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for her, she is injured and doesn't run anymore.

    *rant over*

    That is definitely not what I was doing. She just happened to be running the pace I wanted to. I try not to get to close but obviously, when she slowed down I kinda caught up to her. I passed her maybe at mile 1, if not before. And I never saw her again.

    What you were doing is perfectly ok. I often ‘chase a person’, especially if it’s near the end of the race and I feel I’m flagging. And I will pass them if I can at the end, absolutely. But I wouldn’t draft off someone for an entire race then sprint past them at the end and then expect them to give me a ride home.

    i do too for a good part of races. no drafting or shadowing but i do pick a person i think i can catch. then i pick a new person. sometimes i do have strangers pace me but i try not to be too close. i like my personal space and assume others do too
    i do think @MobyCarp was the one who suggested it.

    @shanaber the canicross season is starting. we have another one in dec
  • chris_in_cal
    chris_in_cal Posts: 2,520 Member
    edited October 2019
    For MFP daily loggers, who run and use a Garmin, this is for us:
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/115856-garmin-connect-runners

    Oh yeah, I forgot this challenge thread has a group already. Well the Garmin one is specifically to geek out on the functionality of the watch and using it to train for running.

  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    Oh yeah, I forgot this challenge thread has a group already. Well the Garmin one is specifically to geek out on the functionality of the watch and using it to train for running.

    That's a good reminder to remind folks here that we also have a group:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/21182-monthly-running-challenges

    This may be in the initial post of the month...I don't know, I never read that and if it is in there, it's probably hidden by the other good info.
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
    edited October 2019
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    We recently discussed running form, cadence and foot strike. Here's a thread with a lot of links to great info and videos on building good form.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10228828/good-running-form-overstriding

    Thanks for posting this. I'm gonna go through the videos and drills bit by bit and try to digest it all.

    @Elise4270 Congratulations!!!!
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,206 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    You silly runners. Running to and fro... 😄 (Just wanted to say "hi"). I'm still waiting to heal and "move forward".

    Not running related (obviously); I got into nursing school (BSN). I'm stoked- sort of. Not sure how I'm going to manage my life for the next 2.5 years and if my hips are going to be ongoing issues. I'm gonna be like @workaholic_nurse someday. Haha!

    Any other medical professionals/nurses? I know @HonuNui ... any words of wisdom?

    Persevere. The middle year sux but its a blast at the end! Well that was radiography anyway lol.

    Oh and study buddies are a must. Having others going through the same thing who can help makes it so much easier. I'm still friends with some of my study mates 7 years later.

    Enjoy it! And congratulations!!
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,556 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    That gal I paced last Saturday...it turns out she dropped out about 4 miles after we split up. So sad, but she was tough in doing what she had done. No shame there at all.

    And from the "WTF!?!?" department, one of the runners who did complete the 100 mile race in our humble woods, is on a quest to run a 100 miler every week. EVERY WEEK. He completed his race last Saturday which marked his FORTY SEVENTH week in a row completing a 100 miler. WTF?!?!

    You can follow his exploits here
    https://www.instagram.com/michael.henry.ortiz/

    Is he related to @AlphaHowls ?

    HA, I was just typing that same exact question!!!!!

    @elise4270 Congratulations on getting into nursing school!!!!! :)
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    That gal I paced last Saturday...it turns out she dropped out about 4 miles after we split up. So sad, but she was tough in doing what she had done. No shame there at all.

    And from the "WTF!?!?" department, one of the runners who did complete the 100 mile race in our humble woods, is on a quest to run a 100 miler every week. EVERY WEEK. He completed his race last Saturday which marked his FORTY SEVENTH week in a row completing a 100 miler. WTF?!?!

    You can follow his exploits here
    https://www.instagram.com/michael.henry.ortiz/

    Also, Billy Richards is doing a lot of hundred milers these days as he is trying to break a world record too.
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    edited October 2019
    Ummmm... how do you dress to run 2.3 miles in overcast, drizzly, 45F but feels like 7F because of a wind advisory? I can't remember the last time I saw a gap that big! I really want to run, but I also have the car (so I could drive to the gym instead of running) and maybe I should take a pass since the weather's going to be nicer pretty much every day this week...
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Ummmm... how do you dress to run 2.3 miles in overcast, drizzly, 45F but feels like 7F because of a wind advisory? I can't remember the last time I saw a gap that big! I really want to run, but I also have the car (so I could drive to the gym instead of running) and maybe I should take a pass since the weather's going to be nicer pretty much every day this week...

    A good wind breaker is a must. With good wind blockage, you will think you are running in something much closer to air temp.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    That gal I paced last Saturday...it turns out she dropped out about 4 miles after we split up. So sad, but she was tough in doing what she had done. No shame there at all.

    And from the "WTF!?!?" department, one of the runners who did complete the 100 mile race in our humble woods, is on a quest to run a 100 miler every week. EVERY WEEK. He completed his race last Saturday which marked his FORTY SEVENTH week in a row completing a 100 miler. WTF?!?!

    You can follow his exploits here
    https://www.instagram.com/michael.henry.ortiz/

    Is he related to @AlphaHowls ?

    hahha
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    7 miles *tick*

    Just wish I wasn't so sweaty at the end!
  • Lazy_Bones_85
    Lazy_Bones_85 Posts: 132 Member
    @Elise4270 Congratulations!!! 🍾🎈
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    edited October 2019
    5 miles today - my FIL is still not in, he apparently got lost in Birmingham and delayed by several hours. My husband wants to know how this is possible in the age of GPS. All I know is Memphis shuts down at 9 pm so if they aren’t here soon they aren’t going out to dinner as they planned.

    Beautiful running weather as expected, although with a very high wind. We kept thinking we were running faster than we were, because the wind in our faces made us feel like we were going 25 mph!

    I sort of got lost a couple of weeks ago even using GPS while trying to get out of the cornfields of south-central Minnesota and back to the Twin Cities - I was going in the right direction, but got sent down some random unpaved roads that ended up adding 20-25 minutes to our trip. And all that because I turned the wrong way out of the only gas station in the wee tiny town we'd been visiting. Whoops.