November 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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11-1 7k slow
11-2 7k slow
11-3 8k for @MobyCarp
11-4 7k easy
11-5 yoga
11-6 7k slow
11-7 7k easy/yoga
11-8 rest
11-9 7k easy
11-10 7k slow/yoga
11-11 7k easy/resistance bands
11-12 rest/yoga
November Total: 64k
November Goal: 135k
January Total: 131k
February Total: 159.5k
March Total: 183k
April Total: 126k
May Total: 128k
June Total: 161.5k
July Total: 151k
August Total: 133k
September Total: 135k
October Total: 115k
2019 Total through October: 1,423k / 882.26m
Monthly average: 142.3k
Next year when you pop in here claiming your December 2019 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?
Run at least 4 5k races. Completed 8-31
Get under 30:00 and a PR for 5k. Nope...
Average at least 135k per month, which would put me over 1,000 miles for the year.
Run the Year Team: Five for Nineteen - Completed 9-28
Day of rest and yoga today. Had about 4 inches of snow overnight, with more still falling. Even after just two weeks, have noticed improved flexibility due to yoga.
2020 goals:
Continue a 5k regimen.
Train better.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K - 31:12 chip time; First Place male 65 and older
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K - 31:34 chip time; 31/77 overall; second male 65 and older (no official category)
7-27 Solon Home Days 5K - 31:11 chip time; 95/141 overall; 4/6 age group (male)
8-31 Race for Freedom 5k - 31:39 chip time; 32:00 Garmin time; Third Place male 60 and older
10-13 Haunted Hustle 5k - 31:22 chip time; 47/74 overall; First Place male 60 and older10 -
November Goal – 100 miles
Nov 2 – 5 miles
Nov 3 – 10 miles for @MobyCarp
Nov 4 – 5 miles
Nov 6 – 5.16 miles
Nov 7 – 5.18 miles
Nov 8 – 3.30 miles
Nov 9 – 10.42 miles
Nov 11 – 5.26 miles – Hug a Runner 5K challenge – Day 1
Nov 12 – 3.30 miles – Hug a Runner 5K challenge – Day 2
Monthly Total – 52.62 miles
YTD – 1,009.31 miles
The artic blast arrived in full force this morning in SW Virginia so I took to the treadmill today.
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LOL @PastorVincent That was a very "interesting" run. Glad you made it back safely and with all of your gear.PastorVincent wrote: »THEN I am like a mile, maybe 1.5 miles from the end and some strange looking guy rides up from the other direction on a bicycle asking if he can trade me some beads for my Nox Gear lights.
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PastorVincent wrote: »TheMrWobbly wrote: »I need to speak to my daughter about doing this marathon in April. My fear is that she won't train and I will end up walking lots of it or she will train and I won't keep up. Everything so far has been at my body's pace and I didn't have to worry about anyone else. When you run with others can you change pace easily?
If their pace is a doable pace for you, then yes most people can run at someone else's pace. Most larger races have "pacers" that are there just for that reason so that you can run with them and keep the pace they set.
But, I would encourage you to work it out with your daughter so that you both start the race together, and then see each other at the finish if you are not both running about the same speed. A marathon is a major accomplishment, and each of you should try to run the best race each of you can run.
@TheMrWobbly - I don't necessarily agree with this... I think you should definitely talk and work out with your daughter the expectations for the race ahead of time but whether you decided to run it together or split up and each run your own race greatly depends on what you want your experience to be. Is it a shared experience where you are there to encourage and support each other and get through it together or just something to do on your own but nice to have someone there with you in general.
An example... not a marathon but a half and it was the 1st HM of the SF marathon that at that time went out over the Golden Gate bridge. It was a bucket list race for me and unbeknownst to me my daughter in Seattle signed up and trained to run the race with me. We could have both been there, split at the start and met up at the finish but I wouldn't have traded our slow pace (she was much slower than me then) and our experience of running it together and those memories for anything. We did go back a couple of years later and ran the 2nd HM of the same race and did as @PastorVincent suggested and started out together and then she blasted off and I met her at the finish. Was it a good race, absolutely, but not the memory making fun of the first one where we ran together.11 -
Cranked out a couple more miles this morning in my gym class doing treadmill intervals between weights sessions. Really enjoyed it - short bursts of either sprints, hills or both! Ok so the sprints on hills were not fun, but otherwise good!
11/2: 3m
11:6: 6.3m
11/9: 2m
11/12: 2.4m
November total: 13.7m
November goal: 20m
October total: 64.1m
September total: 82.2m
August total: 85m
July total: 90.1m
June total: 86.1m
May total: 67.6m
April total: 71.5m
March total: 42.9m
February total: 30.2m
January total: 31.7m
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November Miles - 27.05/70, walk 6.14
11/03 - 6.25; walk 1.44
11/04 - walk 1.35
11/05 - 3.56
11/06 - 3.63
11/07 - 3.1
11/08 - walk 1.12
11/10 - 6.71; walk 2.23
11/12 - 3.8
I almost didn't run this morning, but I really had no good excuse not to. Sure, I was awake at 2am. I still got 6 hours of sleep. I always feel better after a run and we don't have any snow on the ground. It wasn't even freezing temps! Feels like freezing temps, but not actual freezing temps. My plan was to run at least 3.5 miles. Two miles with Jackson and then almost another two with Kira, both of whom did great. And I feel good that I didn't skip it.
Now I need to start doing yoga again. The problem with that is, it means missing out on social hour with coworkers that I enjoy... or doing it in the evening. That's what I'll do. Starting tonight! Bonus of that means I hopefully will stop eating/drinking so much... ...11 -
Camaramandy648 wrote: »Morning all, well done to everyone! Some awesome achievements over the last few days.
So getting back on the wagon has been harder than I thought it would be. I have now realised why I crashed so spectacularly, I was trying to do to much. I had basically signed myself up for 1hr+ of exercise every day, as well as looking aster my kids, working full time etc. I definitely stick to things better when it's only about 30 mins a day with a weekly long run.
So to that end I've worked out my own strength training plan, where I do a basic total body workout tues, Thurs and Sunday. I will run Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat. I'll see how this goes and adjust as I go.
Also I realised I'm binging in the evening, so I'm doing If properly. I'll still track as well.
I'm going to do this for 2 weeks and reassess. And hopefully find a balance.
Hi! Single mom of two, here. I work usually fifty hours a week and one of my kids has autism and Tourette's. The other is ADHD as all get out (you're welcome, small human). We have three different therapies per week + tutoring + church + whatever fun we can fit in.... Needless to say, I can empathize with your plight. What works for me is doing what is IMPORTANT before what just seems URGENT. And also refusing - ABSOLUTELY REFUSING - to accept any guilt or shame for not being able to do EVERYTHING, ALL AT ONCE, 100% of the time. On my best days, I'm superhuman. On my worst days, my kids are fed and know they are loved and we do what is most important.
Go easy on yourself, but not too easy. And if you have a day where you don't feel like you cut it, assess the areas you think you can reasonably improve. If there aren't any, then try your best again the next day.
You can do this!
I'm still catching up after a weekend away (only three pages to go!) but wanted to respond to this because I've found that the same strategies apply to living with mental/chronic illness as well. When I'm having a bad day, I figure out what absolutely positively MUST get done, and if I have to skip every single thing on the SHOULD get done list to do it, then that's what I've got to do. Guilt and shame are hard ones to shake, but they certainly don't make getting anything else done any easier! *hugs*11 -
Mileage question for the more experienced members of the group....
As most of you know, I ran my 2nd HM just over a week ago. My first one back in December left me injured and having to start from scratch, so I was pretty scared of what my legs would have to say this time round.
In an ideal world I would like to maintain this fitness/mileage level and remain more or less HM ready over the winter, because A.) I would like to eat over Christmas and not be the one chewing on a lettuce leaf so as not to gain weight while everyone else indulges, and B.) because I'm signed up for a road HM at the end of March, and there's a trail HM I would like to run at the end of February too.
I saw the physio for a massage last week, she sorted out a couple of knots. Legs felt tight for a few days but no pain. Did a couple of gentle 2 mile runs last week, the ran a 5.5k race (but didn't race it) on Saturday afternoon, and ran an easy 3ish miles yesterday. My legs don't feel 100% recovered, but they don't feel any worse than after the longest training runs over the last few weeks before the HM.
So, to get to what I want to know. Weekly mileage (more or less) for the last 6 weeks has been: 21, 22, 23, 15, 20 (race week), 7.
My vague plan for December/January is to stick to the weekday runs I've been doing (3,5,3 miles) and then on Saturdays do 10, 11, 12, 6 miles (so a cutback every 4th week).
So.... how far do I run this week? If I stick to 6 miles for this week's long run so as not to overdo it, will I not be losing condition considering I only ran 7 miles altogether last week? If I consider last week to have been the cutback week and do 10 miles will I be overdoing it? Am I totally overthinking all of this and should just go run and see what happens?
Post-race runger seems to be lasting forever. I want to eat all the food, and I need to run all the miles to do that but I'm scared of injuring myself.
Times like this I really miss @MobyCarp. He would have answered this with something so sensible and logical and seemingly obvious but that I had totally overlooked.
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eleanorhawkins wrote: »Mileage question for the more experienced members of the group....
As most of you know, I ran my 2nd HM just over a week ago. My first one back in December left me injured and having to start from scratch, so I was pretty scared of what my legs would have to say this time round.
In an ideal world I would like to maintain this fitness/mileage level and remain more or less HM ready over the winter, because A.) I would like to eat over Christmas and not be the one chewing on a lettuce leaf so as not to gain weight while everyone else indulges, and B.) because I'm signed up for a road HM at the end of March, and there's a trail HM I would like to run at the end of February too.
I saw the physio for a massage last week, she sorted out a couple of knots. Legs felt tight for a few days but no pain. Did a couple of gentle 2 mile runs last week, the ran a 5.5k race (but didn't race it) on Saturday afternoon, and ran an easy 3ish miles yesterday. My legs don't feel 100% recovered, but they don't feel any worse than after the longest training runs over the last few weeks before the HM.
So, to get to what I want to know. Weekly mileage (more or less) for the last 6 weeks has been: 21, 22, 23, 15, 20 (race week), 7.
My vague plan for December/January is to stick to the weekday runs I've been doing (3,5,3 miles) and then on Saturdays do 10, 11, 12, 6 miles (so a cutback every 4th week).
So.... how far do I run this week? If I stick to 6 miles for this week's long run so as not to overdo it, will I not be losing condition considering I only ran 7 miles altogether last week? If I consider last week to have been the cutback week and do 10 miles will I be overdoing it? Am I totally overthinking all of this and should just go run and see what happens?
Post-race runger seems to be lasting forever. I want to eat all the food, and I need to run all the miles to do that but I'm scared of injuring myself.
Times like this I really miss @MobyCarp. He would have answered this with something so sensible and logical and seemingly obvious but that I had totally overlooked.
Listen to your body, if it needs a rest week, give it.
You may lose a little conditioning, but honestly, it will not matter. At all. By Feb it will not matter if you took this week off or not. One extra week's rest will not impact your performance that far out BUT it could prevent injury today.
As @MobyCarp would say, a week's rest now is faster than months of recovery later.
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MegaMooseEsq wrote: »Camaramandy648 wrote: »Morning all, well done to everyone! Some awesome achievements over the last few days.
So getting back on the wagon has been harder than I thought it would be. I have now realised why I crashed so spectacularly, I was trying to do to much. I had basically signed myself up for 1hr+ of exercise every day, as well as looking aster my kids, working full time etc. I definitely stick to things better when it's only about 30 mins a day with a weekly long run.
So to that end I've worked out my own strength training plan, where I do a basic total body workout tues, Thurs and Sunday. I will run Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat. I'll see how this goes and adjust as I go.
Also I realised I'm binging in the evening, so I'm doing If properly. I'll still track as well.
I'm going to do this for 2 weeks and reassess. And hopefully find a balance.
Hi! Single mom of two, here. I work usually fifty hours a week and one of my kids has autism and Tourette's. The other is ADHD as all get out (you're welcome, small human). We have three different therapies per week + tutoring + church + whatever fun we can fit in.... Needless to say, I can empathize with your plight. What works for me is doing what is IMPORTANT before what just seems URGENT. And also refusing - ABSOLUTELY REFUSING - to accept any guilt or shame for not being able to do EVERYTHING, ALL AT ONCE, 100% of the time. On my best days, I'm superhuman. On my worst days, my kids are fed and know they are loved and we do what is most important.
Go easy on yourself, but not too easy. And if you have a day where you don't feel like you cut it, assess the areas you think you can reasonably improve. If there aren't any, then try your best again the next day.
You can do this!
I'm still catching up after a weekend away (only three pages to go!) but wanted to respond to this because I've found that the same strategies apply to living with mental/chronic illness as well. When I'm having a bad day, I figure out what absolutely positively MUST get done, and if I have to skip every single thing on the SHOULD get done list to do it, then that's what I've got to do. Guilt and shame are hard ones to shake, but they certainly don't make getting anything else done any easier! *hugs*
Times like this are when I find it helpful to reshare this:
But You Don't Look Sick:
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
It applies to pretty much all chronic conditions, and IMO, for caregivers of those with chronic conditions. It is a solid read. I highly endorse it.
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PastorVincent wrote: »eleanorhawkins wrote: »Mileage question for the more experienced members of the group....
As most of you know, I ran my 2nd HM just over a week ago. My first one back in December left me injured and having to start from scratch, so I was pretty scared of what my legs would have to say this time round.
In an ideal world I would like to maintain this fitness/mileage level and remain more or less HM ready over the winter, because A.) I would like to eat over Christmas and not be the one chewing on a lettuce leaf so as not to gain weight while everyone else indulges, and B.) because I'm signed up for a road HM at the end of March, and there's a trail HM I would like to run at the end of February too.
I saw the physio for a massage last week, she sorted out a couple of knots. Legs felt tight for a few days but no pain. Did a couple of gentle 2 mile runs last week, the ran a 5.5k race (but didn't race it) on Saturday afternoon, and ran an easy 3ish miles yesterday. My legs don't feel 100% recovered, but they don't feel any worse than after the longest training runs over the last few weeks before the HM.
So, to get to what I want to know. Weekly mileage (more or less) for the last 6 weeks has been: 21, 22, 23, 15, 20 (race week), 7.
My vague plan for December/January is to stick to the weekday runs I've been doing (3,5,3 miles) and then on Saturdays do 10, 11, 12, 6 miles (so a cutback every 4th week).
So.... how far do I run this week? If I stick to 6 miles for this week's long run so as not to overdo it, will I not be losing condition considering I only ran 7 miles altogether last week? If I consider last week to have been the cutback week and do 10 miles will I be overdoing it? Am I totally overthinking all of this and should just go run and see what happens?
Post-race runger seems to be lasting forever. I want to eat all the food, and I need to run all the miles to do that but I'm scared of injuring myself.
Times like this I really miss @MobyCarp. He would have answered this with something so sensible and logical and seemingly obvious but that I had totally overlooked.
Listen to your body, if it needs a rest week, give it.
You may lose a little conditioning, but honestly, it will not matter. At all. By Feb it will not matter if you took this week off or not. One extra week's rest will not impact your performance that far out BUT it could prevent injury today.
As @MobyCarp would say, a week's rest now is faster than months of recovery later.
Very true. The sensible option would probably be to drop back to say a 6 mile long run, and then re-add a mile a week with a cutback every 4th week, which in a nutshell is what my training plan did.6 -
PastorVincent wrote: »TheMrWobbly wrote: »I need to speak to my daughter about doing this marathon in April. My fear is that she won't train and I will end up walking lots of it or she will train and I won't keep up. Everything so far has been at my body's pace and I didn't have to worry about anyone else. When you run with others can you change pace easily?
If their pace is a doable pace for you, then yes most people can run at someone else's pace. Most larger races have "pacers" that are there just for that reason so that you can run with them and keep the pace they set.
But, I would encourage you to work it out with your daughter so that you both start the race together, and then see each other at the finish if you are not both running about the same speed. A marathon is a major accomplishment, and each of you should try to run the best race each of you can run.
@TheMrWobbly - I don't necessarily agree with this... I think you should definitely talk and work out with your daughter the expectations for the race ahead of time but whether you decided to run it together or split up and each run your own race greatly depends on what you want your experience to be. Is it a shared experience where you are there to encourage and support each other and get through it together or just something to do on your own but nice to have someone there with you in general.
An example... not a marathon but a half and it was the 1st HM of the SF marathon that at that time went out over the Golden Gate bridge. It was a bucket list race for me and unbeknownst to me my daughter in Seattle signed up and trained to run the race with me. We could have both been there, split at the start and met up at the finish but I wouldn't have traded our slow pace (she was much slower than me then) and our experience of running it together and those memories for anything. We did go back a couple of years later and ran the 2nd HM of the same race and did as @PastorVincent suggested and started out together and then she blasted off and I met her at the finish. Was it a good race, absolutely, but not the memory making fun of the first one where we ran together.
Yet another possibility - I run with my husband, but I also train with my husband. Our training together serves several different functions; I feel safe running in neighborhoods where I would never run alone as a female, we both stay fit, and we have a shared hobby.
We have nearly identical paces but I believe he could be much faster if he trained alone, since he’s a man, taller than I am, and shouldn’t be limiting himself to my stride length. (He tends to run in cadence with me, even when I remind him not to.) On the other hand he has asthma which tends to knock him over when he runs faster, so possibly I’m doing him a favor. When we race,we race together unless one of us can’t deal and tells the other to go on ahead near the finish - usually if he does have an asthma attack he sends me ahead. I enjoy running with him much more than running alone. He’s unlikely to place in the male AG at my pace, but it does happen once in a while!
Training with your daughter all the time may not be feasible but if you can run at least a few training runs with her it might tell you how suited you are to running a marathon together.8 -
eleanorhawkins wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »eleanorhawkins wrote: »Mileage question for the more experienced members of the group....
As most of you know, I ran my 2nd HM just over a week ago. My first one back in December left me injured and having to start from scratch, so I was pretty scared of what my legs would have to say this time round.
In an ideal world I would like to maintain this fitness/mileage level and remain more or less HM ready over the winter, because A.) I would like to eat over Christmas and not be the one chewing on a lettuce leaf so as not to gain weight while everyone else indulges, and B.) because I'm signed up for a road HM at the end of March, and there's a trail HM I would like to run at the end of February too.
I saw the physio for a massage last week, she sorted out a couple of knots. Legs felt tight for a few days but no pain. Did a couple of gentle 2 mile runs last week, the ran a 5.5k race (but didn't race it) on Saturday afternoon, and ran an easy 3ish miles yesterday. My legs don't feel 100% recovered, but they don't feel any worse than after the longest training runs over the last few weeks before the HM.
So, to get to what I want to know. Weekly mileage (more or less) for the last 6 weeks has been: 21, 22, 23, 15, 20 (race week), 7.
My vague plan for December/January is to stick to the weekday runs I've been doing (3,5,3 miles) and then on Saturdays do 10, 11, 12, 6 miles (so a cutback every 4th week).
So.... how far do I run this week? If I stick to 6 miles for this week's long run so as not to overdo it, will I not be losing condition considering I only ran 7 miles altogether last week? If I consider last week to have been the cutback week and do 10 miles will I be overdoing it? Am I totally overthinking all of this and should just go run and see what happens?
Post-race runger seems to be lasting forever. I want to eat all the food, and I need to run all the miles to do that but I'm scared of injuring myself.
Times like this I really miss @MobyCarp. He would have answered this with something so sensible and logical and seemingly obvious but that I had totally overlooked.
Listen to your body, if it needs a rest week, give it.
You may lose a little conditioning, but honestly, it will not matter. At all. By Feb it will not matter if you took this week off or not. One extra week's rest will not impact your performance that far out BUT it could prevent injury today.
As @MobyCarp would say, a week's rest now is faster than months of recovery later.
Very true. The sensible option would probably be to drop back to say a 6 mile long run, and then re-add a mile a week with a cutback every 4th week, which in a nutshell is what my training plan did.
@PastorVincent is wise. I've found when I've taken time off running it's taken about 2 weeks to get back to where I was before the break - but my breaks were 1 month or so. Taking a week off isn't going to impact much. The first run back may feel a bit weird but within a week you should be back to normal.
We do get afraid to take time off but it's worth it in the long run.
I'm on day 5 of my new plan. I'm following a garmin coaching plan since I have this feature on my watch. I've plugged in to improve my 10k time to 55 minutes. Definitely achievable as my current average time is around 59 minutes, and I'm sure I've done close to 55 mins this time last year. I'm purely using it as structure and I work better with a plan. The eating plan is going well so far haha. I'm not noticing much of a difference, except when I run late morning it feels like a slog, I think im not great running fasted. I know it really suits some people. But I'm going to stick with it for 2 weeks because like anything I need more than 1 try. Also generally most of my runs will be a few hrs earlier, the only reason they are late atm is because I'm working late. Gotta love a rotating roster!6 -
PastorVincent wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »Camaramandy648 wrote: »Morning all, well done to everyone! Some awesome achievements over the last few days.
So getting back on the wagon has been harder than I thought it would be. I have now realised why I crashed so spectacularly, I was trying to do to much. I had basically signed myself up for 1hr+ of exercise every day, as well as looking aster my kids, working full time etc. I definitely stick to things better when it's only about 30 mins a day with a weekly long run.
So to that end I've worked out my own strength training plan, where I do a basic total body workout tues, Thurs and Sunday. I will run Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat. I'll see how this goes and adjust as I go.
Also I realised I'm binging in the evening, so I'm doing If properly. I'll still track as well.
I'm going to do this for 2 weeks and reassess. And hopefully find a balance.
Hi! Single mom of two, here. I work usually fifty hours a week and one of my kids has autism and Tourette's. The other is ADHD as all get out (you're welcome, small human). We have three different therapies per week + tutoring + church + whatever fun we can fit in.... Needless to say, I can empathize with your plight. What works for me is doing what is IMPORTANT before what just seems URGENT. And also refusing - ABSOLUTELY REFUSING - to accept any guilt or shame for not being able to do EVERYTHING, ALL AT ONCE, 100% of the time. On my best days, I'm superhuman. On my worst days, my kids are fed and know they are loved and we do what is most important.
Go easy on yourself, but not too easy. And if you have a day where you don't feel like you cut it, assess the areas you think you can reasonably improve. If there aren't any, then try your best again the next day.
You can do this!
I'm still catching up after a weekend away (only three pages to go!) but wanted to respond to this because I've found that the same strategies apply to living with mental/chronic illness as well. When I'm having a bad day, I figure out what absolutely positively MUST get done, and if I have to skip every single thing on the SHOULD get done list to do it, then that's what I've got to do. Guilt and shame are hard ones to shake, but they certainly don't make getting anything else done any easier! *hugs*
Times like this are when I find it helpful to reshare this:
But You Don't Look Sick:
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
It applies to pretty much all chronic conditions, and IMO, for caregivers of those with chronic conditions. It is a solid read. I highly endorse it.
bugger spoons
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PastorVincent wrote: »
Times like this are when I find it helpful to reshare this:
But You Don't Look Sick:
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
It applies to pretty much all chronic conditions, and IMO, for caregivers of those with chronic conditions. It is a solid read. I highly endorse it.
This really is a great read. Make me realize how truly blessed I am that I have my health (for the most part), and need to try to remember not to take it for granted every day.
Thanks for sharing!!!6 -
eleanorhawkins wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »eleanorhawkins wrote: »Mileage question for the more experienced members of the group....
As most of you know, I ran my 2nd HM just over a week ago. My first one back in December left me injured and having to start from scratch, so I was pretty scared of what my legs would have to say this time round.
In an ideal world I would like to maintain this fitness/mileage level and remain more or less HM ready over the winter, because A.) I would like to eat over Christmas and not be the one chewing on a lettuce leaf so as not to gain weight while everyone else indulges, and B.) because I'm signed up for a road HM at the end of March, and there's a trail HM I would like to run at the end of February too.
I saw the physio for a massage last week, she sorted out a couple of knots. Legs felt tight for a few days but no pain. Did a couple of gentle 2 mile runs last week, the ran a 5.5k race (but didn't race it) on Saturday afternoon, and ran an easy 3ish miles yesterday. My legs don't feel 100% recovered, but they don't feel any worse than after the longest training runs over the last few weeks before the HM.
So, to get to what I want to know. Weekly mileage (more or less) for the last 6 weeks has been: 21, 22, 23, 15, 20 (race week), 7.
My vague plan for December/January is to stick to the weekday runs I've been doing (3,5,3 miles) and then on Saturdays do 10, 11, 12, 6 miles (so a cutback every 4th week).
So.... how far do I run this week? If I stick to 6 miles for this week's long run so as not to overdo it, will I not be losing condition considering I only ran 7 miles altogether last week? If I consider last week to have been the cutback week and do 10 miles will I be overdoing it? Am I totally overthinking all of this and should just go run and see what happens?
Post-race runger seems to be lasting forever. I want to eat all the food, and I need to run all the miles to do that but I'm scared of injuring myself.
Times like this I really miss @MobyCarp. He would have answered this with something so sensible and logical and seemingly obvious but that I had totally overlooked.
Listen to your body, if it needs a rest week, give it.
You may lose a little conditioning, but honestly, it will not matter. At all. By Feb it will not matter if you took this week off or not. One extra week's rest will not impact your performance that far out BUT it could prevent injury today.
As @MobyCarp would say, a week's rest now is faster than months of recovery later.
Very true. The sensible option would probably be to drop back to say a 6 mile long run, and then re-add a mile a week with a cutback every 4th week, which in a nutshell is what my training plan did.
@PastorVincent is wise. I've found when I've taken time off running it's taken about 2 weeks to get back to where I was before the break - but my breaks were 1 month or so. Taking a week off isn't going to impact much. The first run back may feel a bit weird but within a week you should be back to normal.
We do get afraid to take time off but it's worth it in the long run.
I'm on day 5 of my new plan. I'm following a garmin coaching plan since I have this feature on my watch. I've plugged in to improve my 10k time to 55 minutes. Definitely achievable as my current average time is around 59 minutes, and I'm sure I've done close to 55 mins this time last year. I'm purely using it as structure and I work better with a plan. The eating plan is going well so far haha. I'm not noticing much of a difference, except when I run late morning it feels like a slog, I think im not great running fasted. I know it really suits some people. But I'm going to stick with it for 2 weeks because like anything I need more than 1 try. Also generally most of my runs will be a few hrs earlier, the only reason they are late atm is because I'm working late. Gotta love a rotating roster!
Hah, I almost asked a very similar question - I've struggled a lot with consistency this year, so I might have a week of increased mileage followed by two or three low mileage weeks. I don't want to start at zero when my legs are feeling better, but I also don't want to treat two or three weeks the same way as I would treat a cutback week. I like the idea of spreading the "return" over a couple of weeks though. I occasionally get a little obsessive with my numbers and need to remember that even if I'm not where I'd like to be, I'm not starting from the beginning every time either.6 -
Today I got to run 1.69 miles to the gym. It was really, really cold, and kind of hard, but worth it.
I keep intending *THIS* week to be the one I start building mileage again, but weekend plans keep getting in the way. Or, I keep choosing to let them get in the way. In any case, two weeks ago was a wedding, then this past weekend we rented a cabin out of town with friends and spent two days playing games, talking, relaxing, eating, and drinking. I brought running clothes but Saturday was spitting an icy rain/slow/sleet kind of situation and it really didn’t look safe, especially since I hadn’t brought my trail shoes.
SO IT GOES! This week I’m hoping for four runs, although if I make three that will be the most in a month (since my last bout of shin stabbies). I’ve planned my long run this weekend for a 5 mile route with an option to cut to 3.2 miles after two miles if I’m not feeling up for the whole thing. We will see!
A little more than halfway through the month and I think my “best practices” experiment is working so far. There’s something about knowing I can check that box that helps push me past my reluctance to get up with my alarm, or do that yoga video, or work at my desk even if it’s kind of cold in the attic/office. So far it has not been enough to encourage me to take the dog for very many walks, but nobody’s perfect, and it’s really cold, y’all - teens and single digits cold, which is really just too cold for November. Low 40s this weekend will be a treat.
I’ve started tracking meals again, in my paper journal rather than here on MFP so it doesn’t feel like such a huge THING. We’ll see how that goes.
November Total: 6.49 miles
November Goals: Run 50 miles, lift 2-3x/week, 15 minutes/day of moderate cardio, 15 minutes/day of mobility.
2019 Races! (bold registered)
January 26: Securian 10K, St. Paul, MN Chip time: 1:05:07
February 16: Half Fast 10K DNS - weather
March 23: Hot Dash 5K, Mpls, MN Chip time: 0:28:39 (*PR!)
May 19: Women Run the Cities 5K, Mpls, MN Chip time: 0:33:02
June 8: PHRC Pensieve 10K (virtual)
June 12: ESTRS French 5K, Plymouth, MN DNS - injury
June 29 Lift Bridge 5K, Bayport MN Chip time: 0:32:51
August 3: Beat the Blerch 10K, Carnation, WA
September 2: MDRA Victory Labor Day 5K, Mpls, MN Chip time: 0:33:04
September 8: Sioux Falls Half Marathon, Sioux Falls, SD Chip time: 2:47:13 (in memory of @MobyCarp)
October 5: TCM 10K, St. Paul, MN Canceled - weather
October 6: TCM 10Mi, Minneapolis to St. Paul, MN Chip time: 2:03:31
October 26: Minneapolis Halloween 10K, Mpls, MN DNS - injury
November 28: Turkey Trot St. Paul 10K, St. Paul, MN
December 14: Reindeer Run 10K, Mpls, MN8 -
November Goal: 80 Miles
11/3: 11.02 miles
11/5: 6.55 miles
11/6: 6.51 miles
11/9: 1.54 miles warm up
11/9: 3.24 miles Wags and Whiskers 5K
11/11: 6.52 miles
11/12: 3.20 miles
38.58/80 miles completed
When I got up this morning it was 23°F feels like 9°F so I decided to wait until later in the day to try to run. I may be a wuss, but that is just too cold for me. Today at lunchtime it was still 30°F feels like 22°F, but the wind was only 7 mph and I decided to go ahead and run. I only have about 30 minutes to run during my lunch hour so I just ran 3.2 miles. But it was nice and I was really glad to get out there. It was cold, but the sun was shining and the sky was a beautiful blue so it wasn't unpleasant at all.
2019 races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:17
5/18/19: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon - Cancelled due to weather
10/5/19: Old Rip 5K - PR 27:27, 1st AG
11/9/19: Wags and Whiskers 5K -2nd AG, 4th Woman, 5K PR - 26:36
2020 races:
5/16/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon9 -
PastorVincent wrote: »
Times like this are when I find it helpful to reshare this:
But You Don't Look Sick:
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
It applies to pretty much all chronic conditions, and IMO, for caregivers of those with chronic conditions. It is a solid read. I highly endorse it.
This really is a great read. Make me realize how truly blessed I am that I have my health (for the most part), and need to try to remember not to take it for granted every day.
Thanks for sharing!!!
I have shared this even with professional counselors and they were like "WOAH that makes so much more sense now" - unless you live it, it is hard to understand from a textbook. I have never found better than The Spoon Theory to explain it.6 -
Run 10 miles // Continue Walks // Strength training
11/11 - walked 2.14 miles in 18F, fresh snow on the ground
11/12 - RAN 1.04 miles in 12F (dew point -1F!), mild headache, manageable so far, but when your running app nags you, sends a message "It's been 20 days since your last run, are we running today?" thought I better at least get a mile in!11 -
Thanks @shanaber @rheddmobile and @PastorVincent
Thinking about it the best thing for me to do is make sure I get the training in to complete the marathon as without it the point is mute. Ideally we run it together though if my daughter is quick I will tell her to go for it. If I am quicker we will do it together and I can look to do another run in the future. Unfortunately we can't train together as she lives two hours away from us.5 -
TheMrWobbly wrote: »Thanks @shanaber @rheddmobile and @PastorVincent
Thinking about it the best thing for me to do is make sure I get the training in to complete the marathon as without it the point is mute. Ideally we run it together though if my daughter is quick I will tell her to go for it. If I am quicker we will do it together and I can look to do another run in the future. Unfortunately we can't train together as she lives two hours away from us.
Ah, with the "we can not train together" part being added in, then I suggest train for your best marathon, and then you have the choice on the day of the race to do whichever makes you happiest. By being as ready as you can be you leave all options on the table.11 -
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
11/01/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/02/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/03/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 3.1
11/04/19 :::: 3.3 :::: 6.5
11/05/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 6.5
11/06/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 6.5
11/07/19 :::: 2.5 :::: 9.0
11/08/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 12.0
11/09/19 :::: 4.5 :::: 16.5
11/10/19 :::: 13.3 :::: 29.8
11/11/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 32.8
11/12/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 35.8
Treadmill time again, avoiding the snow and wind. Three minutes faster than the same mileage yesterday, and it felt easier.
I'm still struggling with improving my pull-ups and pulling strength. My trainer has been bugging me to do a "microdose" at home every day, just 5 reps. And every day I walk past my pull-up bar and ignore it, thinking I'm too sore or tired or whatever. So I decided I better apply the same logging accountability that I use for running and made a goal in Garmin Connect to track it. Two days down so far!
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martaindale wrote: »Finally sat down and worked out my plan for the month. Goal is 55-60 miles. I'm meshing together a marathon recovery plan and another HH HM plan to get back into it after my race over the weekend and resulting soreness. Not to mention the 10 or so miles of walking everyday we we're at Disney. Then I wanted to do something different leading up to my next HM in January. Just mix it up a bit.
11/3: 13.1 miles
How's your neck? Did you see anyone about it?
Thanks for asking! I got a massage after I got back in town and it helped a lot. It still hurts some in certain positions but I have gotten the range of motion back. I may have strained it a bit climbing a particularly hard route.5 -
On the "spoon" idea (I read the article a while ago), my husband has Crohn's so that's why it's a huge deal to me right now that I walk with him if he wants to go even if I miss a run. He hasn't been healthy enough to walk for most of the 16 years we've been together (or if he was sorta healthy-ish that wasn't something he was willing to give up a spoon for!)
We went from 68 Sunday to "feels like 0" this morning. I was blessed to "work from home" and did 40 min on the treadmill which included four 7 min runs with 1 min walk breaks between. 2.5 miles total. I guess I ran 2? I run slow on the treadmill or so it tells me.
In the afternoon we were up to 26 with no wind so I walked the dogs a mile. It was a beautiful sunny day after yesterday's crazy wind and sleet.
I had a terrible night's sleep and an awful sore neck today too so I made the best of it and also watched 2 Christmas movies with the heating pad on my neck.13 -
katharmonic wrote: »Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
11/01/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/02/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/03/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 3.1
11/04/19 :::: 3.3 :::: 6.5
11/05/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 6.5
11/06/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 6.5
11/07/19 :::: 2.5 :::: 9.0
11/08/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 12.0
11/09/19 :::: 4.5 :::: 16.5
11/10/19 :::: 13.3 :::: 29.8
11/11/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 32.8
11/12/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 35.8
Treadmill time again, avoiding the snow and wind. Three minutes faster than the same mileage yesterday, and it felt easier.
I'm still struggling with improving my pull-ups and pulling strength. My trainer has been bugging me to do a "microdose" at home every day, just 5 reps. And every day I walk past my pull-up bar and ignore it, thinking I'm too sore or tired or whatever. So I decided I better apply the same logging accountability that I use for running and made a goal in Garmin Connect to track it. Two days down so far!
I do negatives every morning before I shower, if I don’t make them a routine I don’t do them. I’m not exactly improving but at least it keeps me from going backwards!5 -
Been following along but not posting much. So many great races and personal achievements! This group is so supportive!!
Slowly working back into it and bringing my daughter along. She recently decided to stop swimming; it was just 1 day a week and mostly for some cardio. I think she was wanting some more time off during the week, which I totally understand. So, we agreed that she would trade it off for doing the Sunday run with her dad and me. The mileage stays low for that one and it's a recovery run for us, so perfect to add her into. She can realistically do a 5k or so already. So, she did the 2 miles with us and we'll get out again this weekend and add another half mile to it.
11/3: 13.1 miles
11/8: 2 miles
11/10: 2 miles
11/11: 4 miles
Nov total: 21.1 miles
Nov goal: 55 miles
2019 Races:
Piney Woods Trailfest 5k - 2/2/2019 29.23
Rodeo Run 10k - 2/23/2019 1:03.12
Run Houston! Minute Maid Park 10k - 3/23/2019 1:01.28
Brazos Bend 50 10k - 4/6/2019 1:15:33
Run for Life 5k - 9/7/2019 27.10
10 for Texas 10 Miler - 10/2019 1:46:35
Wine and Dine half marathon - 11/3/2019 2:34:17
Run the Year 2019 - Team Five for Nineteen - FINISHED!!12 -
tonight: easy 3 mile run.8
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rheddmobile wrote: »katharmonic wrote: »
I'm still struggling with improving my pull-ups and pulling strength. My trainer has been bugging me to do a "microdose" at home every day, just 5 reps. And every day I walk past my pull-up bar and ignore it, thinking I'm too sore or tired or whatever.
I do negatives every morning before I shower, if I don’t make them a routine I don’t do them. I’m not exactly improving but at least it keeps me from going backwards!
I have been looking at another challenge on MFP for pullups. I really need to work on this but I do not know where to start... that is, I do not understand what a "negative" is. Do any of you know of a video online somewhere that clearly illustrates how to do a negative? I need to see someone do this. Thanks!
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