December 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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Great job getting all of those miles, @PastorVincent!1
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Finally went to see dr. Good news is that I do not have a stress fracture! So I guess the answer is a sprain? Seems like a lot, but maybe I am just a baby. I keep RICE for now.10
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Running Books, great question @polskagirl01! I have a few...
One of my favorites is 'Shut Up and Run' by Robyn Arzon. It is incredibly motivating, has sections that are like a journal, running plans and all kinds of tips and I really like her attitude and the way she writes. When I am feeling unmotivated or like I am not improving enough it is my go to re-read.
I have also read Several of Matt Fitzgerald's books '80/20 Running', 'Racing Weight', etc. and there is definitely good info in them as well but I found them a bit boring.
Recently I read Jeff Galloway's 'Running until You're 100' which was also good, has tons of tips but I didn't like his frequent references to his other books rather than just giving the information on whatever it was.
Right now I am reading 'The Cool Impossible' by Eric Orton and trying to incorporate some of the exercises he recommends. It is written rather strangely - he tries to make it like you are there with him running and being coached, but again good information.4 -
@Camaramandy648 Good advice from...
@mbaker566 Be aware of your surroundings and confident. I am barely 100 pounds and I run with no weapons. I used to consistently run a heavily wooded trail. One twilight, this girl stopped me and told me that I shouldn't go any further because some guy tried to stop her and he seemed drunk. But why is he even there (what purpose) and why is he trying to stop anyone? I thanked her and turned around. I don't go at night anymore or when it's dark. I don't live in fear and I'm not even nervous. There are so many options for running these days. We have a plethora of trails and sidewalks here. I do my research if I'm planning a new route and I refuse to let anyone ruin my run, to occupy my headspace when I'm running since that is my hit the refresh button time. Good luck! Pepper spray might be a good option?! And yes, self defense classes are confidence builders to bust someone's...
i do not want to give anyone anything they can use against me. spray included
being in the city that i live in. there is in fact stranger danger. but no one really bothers me. i've helped drunks out of the road. dissuaded someone from robbing me (i had no money anyways). i acknowledge the homeless folk. i make eye contact with everyone i pass. i make myself visible. not necessarily by color but by presence. "oh yeah, i know her. she always says good morning"
This ^^^
I do the same and I almost always have Hobbes the Vizsla with me. He is very social but has a build that some think is like a pit bull (big chest) and while he likes most everyone he will let me know when there is someone who makes him uncomfortable.
I have also stopped some women who walk or run with their heads down looking at their feet and not looking around themselves at all and pointed out how vulnerable it makes them. If nothing else they should be aware of the cyclists and runners on the trail that they could impede.
Or walkers on their phone 🤦♀️
I like to yell boo as i run past.
Speed demon is a bit of a tank when she's running at you
Anyone want to tell the 8lb foster he has to move so i can go run🤣😋
@mbaker566 - I should try that sometime 'BOO' - hahahaha!
That 8lb foster has a darned cute face and would be difficult to tell him he has to move! Maybe better to stick him in a backpack and take him with you (wrapped in a blanket of course) 😁2 -
@Camaramandy648 Good advice from...
@mbaker566 Be aware of your surroundings and confident. I am barely 100 pounds and I run with no weapons. I used to consistently run a heavily wooded trail. One twilight, this girl stopped me and told me that I shouldn't go any further because some guy tried to stop her and he seemed drunk. But why is he even there (what purpose) and why is he trying to stop anyone? I thanked her and turned around. I don't go at night anymore or when it's dark. I don't live in fear and I'm not even nervous. There are so many options for running these days. We have a plethora of trails and sidewalks here. I do my research if I'm planning a new route and I refuse to let anyone ruin my run, to occupy my headspace when I'm running since that is my hit the refresh button time. Good luck! Pepper spray might be a good option?! And yes, self defense classes are confidence builders to bust someone's...
i do not want to give anyone anything they can use against me. spray included
being in the city that i live in. there is in fact stranger danger. but no one really bothers me. i've helped drunks out of the road. dissuaded someone from robbing me (i had no money anyways). i acknowledge the homeless folk. i make eye contact with everyone i pass. i make myself visible. not necessarily by color but by presence. "oh yeah, i know her. she always says good morning"
This ^^^
I do the same and I almost always have Hobbes the Vizsla with me. He is very social but has a build that some think is like a pit bull (big chest) and while he likes most everyone he will let me know when there is someone who makes him uncomfortable.
I have also stopped some women who walk or run with their heads down looking at their feet and not looking around themselves at all and pointed out how vulnerable it makes them. If nothing else they should be aware of the cyclists and runners on the trail that they could impede.
Or walkers on their phone 🤦♀️
I like to yell boo as i run past.
Speed demon is a bit of a tank when she's running at you
Anyone want to tell the 8lb foster he has to move so i can go run🤣😋
@mbaker566 - I should try that sometime 'BOO' - hahahaha!
That 8lb foster has a darned cute face and would be difficult to tell him he has to move! Maybe better to stick him in a backpack and take him with you (wrapped in a blanket of course) 😁
I've been tempted...1 -
12/1 - 12.4 m
12/2 - 3.5 m
12/3 - 3.2 m
12/4 - 3.2 m
12/5 - 3.2 m
12/6 - 3.2 m
12/7 - 0
12/8 - 5.2 m
12/9 - 3.7 m
12/10- 0
12/11 - 4.2 m
12/12 - 0
12/13- 3.2 m
12/14 - 3.2 m
12/15- 6.9 m
12/16- 3.2 m ...
For a grand total of 55.1 miles for December so far!
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T1DCarnivoreRunner wrote: »Finally went to see dr. Good news is that I do not have a stress fracture! So I guess the answer is a sprain? Seems like a lot, but maybe I am just a baby. I keep RICE for now.
I have to wonder how long you’ve been in pain and IF a stress fracture could be seen yet. My understanding is it not visible on X-ray until it begins to knit. (Assuming X-ray.). I think it’d be wise to treat it like a stress response and possibly sprained if you did something to sprain it. Sorry I’m not up on the deets 😉 I gotta go back and read up. Another guess would be tendonosis as it is incredibly painful and I think “fracture” every time I have it in my feet. Or, subluxed cuboid? That can really hurt and radiate like bone pain. There’s a maneuver that you can do free it.0 -
Just finished Building Your Running Body. It's more of a how to guide, but the science parts were pretty illuminating.polskagirl01 wrote: »What running books do you recommend?
Currently reading Running is My Therapy. I feel like most of it is about stuff I/we already know, but some of the anecdotes were hilarious.
My favorite running book is probably Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". I go back to it once every year or two and always find new stuff to like about it.
I'll need to try that sometime!@Camaramandy648 Good advice from...
@mbaker566 Be aware of your surroundings and confident. I am barely 100 pounds and I run with no weapons. I used to consistently run a heavily wooded trail. One twilight, this girl stopped me and told me that I shouldn't go any further because some guy tried to stop her and he seemed drunk. But why is he even there (what purpose) and why is he trying to stop anyone? I thanked her and turned around. I don't go at night anymore or when it's dark. I don't live in fear and I'm not even nervous. There are so many options for running these days. We have a plethora of trails and sidewalks here. I do my research if I'm planning a new route and I refuse to let anyone ruin my run, to occupy my headspace when I'm running since that is my hit the refresh button time. Good luck! Pepper spray might be a good option?! And yes, self defense classes are confidence builders to bust someone's...
i do not want to give anyone anything they can use against me. spray included
being in the city that i live in. there is in fact stranger danger. but no one really bothers me. i've helped drunks out of the road. dissuaded someone from robbing me (i had no money anyways). i acknowledge the homeless folk. i make eye contact with everyone i pass. i make myself visible. not necessarily by color but by presence. "oh yeah, i know her. she always says good morning"
This ^^^
I do the same and I almost always have Hobbes the Vizsla with me. He is very social but has a build that some think is like a pit bull (big chest) and while he likes most everyone he will let me know when there is someone who makes him uncomfortable.
I have also stopped some women who walk or run with their heads down looking at their feet and not looking around themselves at all and pointed out how vulnerable it makes them. If nothing else they should be aware of the cyclists and runners on the trail that they could impede.
Or walkers on their phone 🤦♀️
I like to yell boo as i run past.
Speed demon is a bit of a tank when she's running at you
Anyone want to tell the 8lb foster he has to move so i can go run🤣😋2 -
Re: solo women running and safety. I feel very fortunate that my husband runs with me. When he was injured recently he walked the short loop of the Germantown Greenway while I ran the lake loop and came back. This loop is mostly wooded but also emerges to parallel the road two times. I have never been catcalled while running before, and got it twice, once for each time I came in sight of cars. It doesn’t scare me but it’s ridiculous.
When we went to the symphony recently there was a screw up with the driver of the shuttle bus and we ended up carpooling with the symphony board VP, who turned out to be a runner herself. She runs at Shelby Farms, which is where my husband and I often run, and she does loops around the lake there. I said that the lake gets really chilly and windy in the winter and she agreed, but said she wasn’t able to run anywhere else because she doesn’t feel safe on the Greenline or the Greenway or certainly not the roads, and none of the local running groups fit her schedule. This is obviously a very wealthy woman and I can make a pretty good guess at the neighborhood she lives in, with multiple million dollar houses, and she would never consider running even in her own neighborhood because of safety issues. If her neighborhood isn’t safe, then no place is safe - which is pretty much true. My friend and teacher who was murdered some years ago was carjacked in broad daylight at a Sonic. Three teens came up to her and asked if her dog was a biter, and she invited them to pet him, and they pulled a gun. So, making eye contact and smiling will not necessarily save you, and having a dog (fairly large standard schnauzer) will not necessarily save you, and being in a public place will not necessarily save you. You can do everything right, and if someone out there has bad intentions, there’s not much you can do to stop them, short of having a weapon of your own, which as someone mentioned above can be taken away used against you, particularly if you are not willing to use it yourself when push comes to shove. Even in my case, I run with my husband, but a young couple were both abducted and murdered a few years ago on the very street which runs next to our house. We walk there sometimes.
There are no good answers except that you have to try to balance risk with living a good life. Everything is a risk. I just ate romaine lettuce from Chipotle, I could find out a week from now that eating there has doomed me. But you gotta eat somewhere.8 -
T1DCarnivoreRunner wrote: »Finally went to see dr. Good news is that I do not have a stress fracture! So I guess the answer is a sprain? Seems like a lot, but maybe I am just a baby. I keep RICE for now.
I have to wonder how long you’ve been in pain and IF a stress fracture could be seen yet. My understanding is it not visible on X-ray until it begins to knit. (Assuming X-ray.). I think it’d be wise to treat it like a stress response and possibly sprained if you did something to sprain it. Sorry I’m not up on the deets 😉 I gotta go back and read up. Another guess would be tendonosis as it is incredibly painful and I think “fracture” every time I have it in my feet. Or, subluxed cuboid? That can really hurt and radiate like bone pain. There’s a maneuver that you can do free it.
Achilles tendonitis started after 11/10 and snkle swelling /pain started around 11/30.0 -
Saw this on the local-ish news yesterday morning. Towards the end, I had tears in my eyes...
https://fox6now.com/2019/02/13/long-may-they-run-ed-and-sandy-are-fixtures-at-races-fun-runs-across-se-wisconsin/
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Long run day. But wait, did I post yesterday? I had designed this killer hill workout where there's this long hill, but it has about 10 streets coming off of it all the way down. If you start at the bottom, they aren't too steep, but as you work your way up the hill, these side-street hills get worse and worse. Yesterday I did 5 of the harder ones, and it was really tough! I plan to gradually add a street at a time until someday I'll do all 10. Someday. Maybe.The goal route. I only did 5 of those yesterday.Today was my long run, so nice and slow, walking up big hills instead of trying to hit 5k pace on them, and I had some snacks and drink to keep me company too. The weather is beautiful, especially for December, and I noticed lots of chickens out looking for bugs
Pictures from the bottom of the last hill
I mostly enjoyed it.
December goal 100 miles
Upcoming races:
Dec 24/25 virtual Botanical 5k
Jan. 11 - CityTrail 5k (#4 of 6)6 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »Long run day. But wait, did I post yesterday? I had designed this killer hill workout where there's this long hill, but it has about 10 streets coming off of it all the way down. If you start at the bottom, they aren't too steep, but as you work your way up the hill, these side-street hills get worse and worse. Yesterday I did 5 of the harder ones, and it was really tough! I plan to gradually add a street at a time until someday I'll do all 10. Someday. Maybe.The goal route. I only did 5 of those yesterday.Today was my long run, so nice and slow, walking up big hills instead of trying to hit 5k pace on them, and I had some snacks and drink to keep me company too. The weather is beautiful, especially for December, and I noticed lots of chickens out looking for bugs
Pictures from the bottom of the last hill I mostly enjoyed it.
December goal 100 miles
Upcoming races:
Dec 24/25 virtual Botanical 5k
Jan. 11 - CityTrail 5k (#4 of 6)
I love this! I want to run somewhere like that! Those hills, though! I really enjoy creating little challenges for myself, too. It looks like you had fun! 1 -
dreamer12151 wrote: »Saw this on the local-ish news yesterday morning. Towards the end, I had tears in my eyes...
https://fox6now.com/2019/02/13/long-may-they-run-ed-and-sandy-are-fixtures-at-races-fun-runs-across-se-wisconsin/
Awwwwwwwwwwwww I LOVE THIS! I WANT TO BE SANDY!!!!1 -
i found a lululemon bra for 29 dollars! High impact and all the right stuff SO I BOUGHT IT! I'm pretty excited about that.
Also! Run tonight! I found a good training schedule that seems to be right about where I am except I'll have to tweak some of the days - it's a four day per week schedule, which is fine, but it has the long run on Sunday instead of Saturday - I think I can swap them out to fit my schedule with kids and work. Hopefully having a schedule posted will keep me on track. Maybe I can do my goofing off on the shorter runs - I don't know?
Finally - Today is Tuesday - I had my brutal long run and lifting on Saturday, so I've had two full days of rest. I feel basically normal except a tiny bit of soreness in my quads. The point is, last week I didn't feel normal until Thursday/ Friday! I'm getting stronger! I paid really close attention to what I ate after I ran Saturday and what I drank and I am sure that has a lot to do with it. I'm pretty content with this quicker recovery thing! This is great!5 -
@polskagirl01 Killer hills. I'm sure you will be ecstatic when you can do all 10 of those hills on a run.2
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It's a long-term goal for sure!quilteryoyo wrote: »@polskagirl01 Killer hills. I'm sure you will be ecstatic when you can do all 10 of those hills on a run.1 -
12-1 7k easy
12-2 7k slow + resistance bands
12-3 rest
12-4 7k slow + resistance bands
12-5 rest + yoga
12-6 7k slow + resistance bands
12-7 7k easy + yoga
12-8 rest
12-9 4k easy + resistance bands
12-10 rest + yoga
12-11 7k easy + resistance bands
12-12 7k easy + yoga
12-13 rest + resistance bands
12-14 7k easy + yoga
12-15 8k slow
12-16 7k slow + resistance bands
12-17 rest + yoga
December Total: 75k
December 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
November Total: 155k
2019 Total through November: 1,578k / 978.36m
Monthly average: 143.45k
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 - Completed 12-7.
Run the Year Team: Five for Nineteen - Completed 9-28
Scheduled rest day today. Just as well; got a little snow overnight so footing is probably not good. Yoga is helping my flexibility.
2020 goals:
Continue a 5k regimen.
Train better.
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 older4 -
dreamer12151 wrote: »Saw this on the local-ish news yesterday morning. Towards the end, I had tears in my eyes...
https://fox6now.com/2019/02/13/long-may-they-run-ed-and-sandy-are-fixtures-at-races-fun-runs-across-se-wisconsin/
I see these two at races. i love Perry's People. warm and fuzzies4 -
ended up to still be a bit of a busy night.
but i figured i could do a quick indoor run. I had load of laundry drying and waiting for important parts of future christmas crafts to get delivered. got about a half mile in and felt motivated to go outside. Speed Demon did well. she's getting more comfortable with traffic again. for whatever reason, there was no ice despite the snow melting when the temps were warmer. i like running when there are christmas lights. at some point in the next week or so, i will be running thru candy cane lane
if i were to have a little dog, i think i'd totally get a backpack. Napoleon would love to be part of things. When meeting his new family he wanted to be held to be part of the conversation.
my peroneal tendons are irritated. i should tape them. i know they are sensitive be i always react instead of being proactive. i might be a little stubborn
time for more tub salt soaks.
dog/run related images
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