April 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • brittanystebbins95
    brittanystebbins95 Posts: 567 Member
    edited April 2020
    dreamer12151 wrote: »
    Yesterday's walk I had planned to recharge my spirit by talking a walking in "the woods", aka the state park down the road. However, due to people being...ya know, people, all the state parks here in Wisconsin are now closed. Completely. They were coming in in groups, crowding others, littering, etc. Even the little opening where the locals here could get in to walk the dogs, take a run on the paths, just spend time in nature has been barricaded off. Frustrating.

    @dreamer12151
    Hello, fellow Wisconsinite! The DNR has a link up somewhere on their website of county parks that are still open. I will have to see if I can find it when I get home.
    Otherwise, its only 40 state park locations that are closed. Which seems like a lot, but really its only the ones closest to the Milwaukee/Madison area, which are our state's hot spots.
    If you're okay with paying at the pump and sanitizing before getting back into your car, etc, you're at no more of a risk if you travel to one and then properly socially distance once there. Especially if you pack a lunch. The one I went to last week, though, did have all bathrooms closed. Roche-a-cri, and it's still open. Just prior warning to be prepared to pee in the woods, lol.
  • Aine8046
    Aine8046 Posts: 2,122 Member
    April goal: 80 km

    April 1st - 2.5 km
    April 3 - 5.5. km
    April 5 - 8.2 km
    April 7 - 7 km
    April 9 - 5 km
    April 11 - 10 km

    Total: 38.2 km

  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    I am totally with you there @dreamer12151 - hope you are all doing well, stay safe :smiley:
  • bearly63
    bearly63 Posts: 734 Member
    @ContraryMaryMary That is impressive - 45 minutes of skipping rope! I would do the same for pizza, just saying B)

    @eleanorhawkins I just spit my water across the table....ROTFLMAO!

    @brittanystebbins95 Aww....love that pic! Cute pink tongue!

    @skippygirlsmom Cute pic! Looks like a nice area!

    @Avidkeo A Frozen cake sounds great! Maybe when things are back to normal, make a fancy cake just because! As for tempering chocolate, that is work but so interesting, for the chemical nerdy girl that I am. I learned how to do it when I made truffles at a class back in the days before Covid 19. Haven't tried it since but I just may.!
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,446 Member
    Looks like a great place to run @skippysmom .

    @Avidkeo Hope the plan works and you can get out of isolation soon. Sorry about the other deaths. Glad no new cases in your province.

    QUESTION: Does it still count as running if you can walk at a faster pace? Asking for a friend. :wink: Run report later, after a shower and dinner.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,204 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Looks like a great place to run @skippysmom .

    @Avidkeo Hope the plan works and you can get out of isolation soon. Sorry about the other deaths. Glad no new cases in your province.

    QUESTION: Does it still count as running if you can walk at a faster pace? Asking for a friend. :wink: Run report later, after a shower and dinner.

    As long as at some point you have no foot contact with the ground, it's running. At least that's what I believe lol, given walking is judged as "always having at least one foot on the ground"
  • hamsterwheel6
    hamsterwheel6 Posts: 544 Member
    @ContraryMaryMary Whoa that’s some skipping there. I don’t think I could do even a couple minutes lol
    @eleanorhawkins Bahahahahaa. Love it.
    @skippysmom nice pic
    @Avidkeo frozen sounds good actually
    @scott6255 I was the same.. weather was nice and was feeling ok. Plan was 10, but decided to go ahead and do HM to see if I could redo my time from the last disaster try. Definitely much better today and did manage a PR! Got in at 2:19, so not too bad considering the first 4 miles were nothing but uphill with some very steep grades.
    I’m sorry your PF started acting up, hopefully gets better.

    Hi everyone!
  • hamsterwheel6
    hamsterwheel6 Posts: 544 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Looks like a great place to run @skippysmom .

    @Avidkeo Hope the plan works and you can get out of isolation soon. Sorry about the other deaths. Glad no new cases in your province.

    QUESTION: Does it still count as running if you can walk at a faster pace? Asking for a friend. :wink: Run report later, after a shower and dinner.

    But of course!
  • ContraryMaryMary
    ContraryMaryMary Posts: 1,777 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    Sunday here. Got up Earlish, went for a 4k walk, came to work. Chaffe is still red and sore, so have vasellined it, and hope that it's much better tomorrow. I'll happily skip though as I have a 19k run booked for Saturday.

    Covid update in the spoiler
    we had 2 more deaths yesterday. Ok 4 for the whole country isn't a lot, but I think as a nation we were hopeful to get out of their fairly unscathed given the early and extreme measures taken. Our daily numbers have dropped but not as much as I had hoped given we've been in Lockdown for 2 weeks. But these things take time. Still no new cases in my province now in over a week, so will be chatting with hubby about coming out of isolation. I'm working shift next week though so I suspect he will suggest continuing until after that. Will see.

    Anyone want to send me a cake decorating care package? It's Jessicas 6th birthday in 10 days and I can't get any cake decorating supplies at all in NZ! They are not essential so sellers cannot sell them, even on line!

    I think I'll be doing her a simple blue cake and calling it a frozen cake. Nothing fancy. She will still love it, even though she wants something fancy haha. Hmmm how hard can it be to pipe snowflakes? Give me something to do next week. I may even get perfect at tempering chocolate (eep). Now that's given me an idea!

    Try cakestuff.co.nz
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    When I went to the bathroom this morning, I got really dizzy. I thought I might have a touch of inner ear, which I rarely get. But, I just didn't feel the greatest all morning. It was such a nice day, 60°F,sunny, and no wind, that I decided to try to do my run outside. In case I needed to bale on the run, I chose to run laps on my driveway. I was trying to follow the 80/20 guidelines for an easy run. If I did the trial correctly the other day, that would have meant keeping my HR below 142 BPM. I tried. I really did. But my driveway is hilly, as I have said before. I managed to keep it mostly below 160 BPM, which felt really easy. I could tell a difference in perceived effort when it was approaching that mark. My pace was atrocious. I expected it to be slow, but it was 14:29/mile. I can walk faster than that! Seriously! I do think that I had both feet off of the ground at some point, so I'll count it as running.

    I ran the Hope Un-Cancelled 10K today and then tacked on an extra 1.8 miles to make 8 miles. I don't know if this is "good" news or not, but, because I was going so slow, I didn't do the run/walk as I usually do. Nope. I ran the entire thing!!! And it really did feel easy and like I could have gone further. Disclaimer: I did stop after every couple of miles or so to get a drink and eat 2 gummy bears and I allowed myself to walk up the steepest part of the one hill during the final 1.8 miles. So, total stop time was around 4 minutes and total walking maybe 1.5 minutes. Total elevation gain during the 8 miles was 2,459 feet!

    I can feel the difference in continual running vs run/walk in my legs already. I don't know if I did too much, too fast or not. I guess I'll find out tomorrow. I'm still trying to work out which "method" I will go with for my training and races. Anyway, with the warm up and cool down walks, I traversed a total of 9.0 miles today.

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    t753mygtfbjc.jpgWhy does she look so fresh? She was sleeping while I was running. LOL
    Next scheduled run YOU should sleep and make HER run!!!

  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,853 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    When I went to the bathroom this morning, I got really dizzy. I thought I might have a touch of inner ear, which I rarely get. But, I just didn't feel the greatest all morning. It was such a nice day, 60°F,sunny, and no wind, that I decided to try to do my run outside. In case I needed to bale on the run, I chose to run laps on my driveway. I was trying to follow the 80/20 guidelines for an easy run. If I did the trial correctly the other day, that would have meant keeping my HR below 142 BPM. I tried. I really did. But my driveway is hilly, as I have said before. I managed to keep it mostly below 160 BPM, which felt really easy. I could tell a difference in perceived effort when it was approaching that mark. My pace was atrocious. I expected it to be slow, but it was 14:29/mile. I can walk faster than that! Seriously! I do think that I had both feet off of the ground at some point, so I'll count it as running.

    I ran the Hope Un-Cancelled 10K today and then tacked on an extra 1.8 miles to make 8 miles. I don't know if this is "good" news or not, but, because I was going so slow, I didn't do the run/walk as I usually do. Nope. I ran the entire thing!!! And it really did feel easy and like I could have gone further. Disclaimer: I did stop after every couple of miles or so to get a drink and eat 2 gummy bears and I allowed myself to walk up the steepest part of the one hill during the final 1.8 miles. So, total stop time was around 4 minutes and total walking maybe 1.5 minutes. Total elevation gain during the 8 miles was 2,459 feet!

    I can feel the difference in continual running vs run/walk in my legs already. I don't know if I did too much, too fast or not. I guess I'll find out tomorrow. I'm still trying to work out which "method" I will go with for my training and races. Anyway, with the warm up and cool down walks, I traversed a total of 9.0 miles today.
    Congratulations on running when you felt bad and running the entire time! Woot!
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Looks like a great place to run @skippysmom .

    @Avidkeo Hope the plan works and you can get out of isolation soon. Sorry about the other deaths. Glad no new cases in your province.

    QUESTION: Does it still count as running if you can walk at a faster pace? Asking for a friend. :wink: Run report later, after a shower and dinner.

    As long as at some point you have no foot contact with the ground, it's running. At least that's what I believe lol, given walking is judged as "always having at least one foot on the ground"

    This.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    @quilteryoyo great job!
  • noblsheep
    noblsheep Posts: 593 Member
    0411-9k, total-25.4k goal-100k

    Loop of the park late afternoon yesterday. It was 22°C when I started! Lots of people in shorts. Which is a byproduct of lots of people... Spent plenty of time dodging crowds. Walked a portion of it because I've given up running with a mask but people were looking at me funny, so I put on the mask and walked until I hit somewhere less populated.

    @quilteryoyo Great run!
    @eleanorhawkins Sorry but that just sounds wrong :|
  • Camaramandy648
    Camaramandy648 Posts: 711 Member
    Whew! What a day! It’s 11:12pm - easter baskets are put together and set out. I broke the news to my son about the Easter bunny the other day but he took it really well. Madison used to think I ACTUALLY TURNED INTO A RABBIT (And an elf, and a fairy- now that she’s a teen I am way less magical. But Patchen. Oh my heart. He cried. But he felt better after a heart to heart about what really makes magic in the world. Hope and love. And the fierce love of a mother. And being intentional about hanging onto every bit of joy and wonder we can. I told him that will never stop and that I will do my best to deliver on that. I hope he’s full of wonderment in the morning.

    My 10K went all right. Had to turn around and go back home once I was already on my way to the trail because there are certain bathroom breaks i will not take behind a tree. I’m just not there yet. Not when i live only a few minutes away and cops and people are everywhere.

    The first three miles, I was pretty sure I’d be walking the whole thing. I woke up less motivated than normal and was annoyed at the sound of video games at 7am IN MY BEDROOM NO LESS, as well as Madison’s wayyyyy too early waking.

    But i convinced myself - what the heck was I even there for, if not to try? My knee was hurting, my left leg felt like dead weight, and I just wanted a nap

    At some point, there was a shift - a breaking point where I just ran because i love to run. I wore my bib today and I got a lot of smiles. Not many people considering, but still more than last week were out. The smiles were encouraging and I felt so proud and tried to intentionally pray and hope for the world and all it’s people. God, help us.

    My time wasn’t bad - worst time was just over twelve minutes, best time was just under twelve. I made myself walk the downhills so as not to aggravate my IT band too much - i think it helped but I am still hurting. I kept thinking, man, would this be a cakewalk if i werent in pain??? My endurance is better but I have noticed physically some fitness I have lost (cellulite that was solid muscle a few weeks ago :(

    My daughter took a photo for me this morning and I felt like i have chunky arms..... i hate that negative self talk. My arms are fine.

    We colored eggs today and let me just say - to those of you with younger kids (younger than 11 and almost 14), enjoy it while you can. They eventually turn into teenagers that are too busy to spend more than five minutes with you .

    I hate how negative I sound. I guess I miss normalcy and the magic of when they were little bitty.

    But the run was great! I am weighing whether or not I should go ahead and run the marathon on the 25th. It’ll be a long freaking day and then there’s the IT Band to contend with. It may be a good idea to stick to shorter distances until I am all healed up.

    @quilteryoyo great job today! You are amazing and such an inspiration!

    @katharmonic i think i will pass on the oiselle Volee also - i am not an elite runner by any stretch and I prefer to run alone. I’m not sure what it could really offer me. Also i don’t want to pay $120 for a $40 gift card. They could just give me a gift card anyway, for what I’ve already spent with them lol ;)

    Anyway, happy easter to all! Remember- we have this hope! Sleep well!
  • marisap2010
    marisap2010 Posts: 909 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    Bit of a giggle for you today... I'm in agony.
    Half naked pic in the spoiler, you have been warned.

    My sports bra has finally reached the end of its life. It was a cold morning this morning and when I started noticing the pain, just under my arms around the back, I assumed it was due to cold. This started at around the 9k mark. But as I kept going, it got worse, and I realised the dredded chaffe had come on!

    Advice? Tips? What do I do?

    Bra is getting BURNED!

    Ugh, I had the chafe after my marathon last month! It was so hot that I sweated waaaay more than normal. I just slathered it with Vaseline and went without a bra whenever I was at home for a couple of days. After about three days, it felt a lot better. I noticed last night that I still have lines on my torso from them...I hope they won’t be permanent.

  • marisap2010
    marisap2010 Posts: 909 Member
    @eleanorhawkins Your relationship with Hal has me dying!!! 😂

    @ContraryMaryMary Wow, 45 minutes is baller! I have a jump rope somewhere. I may get it out and see if I can do maybe 10...

    It was so pretty yesterday, so I got out for 4 miles in the morning. We are supposed to have storms starting later and going through tonight, so I may try to get out before the rain begins for another 3-4.
  • brittanystebbins95
    brittanystebbins95 Posts: 567 Member
    Really TMI question having to do with chafing.
    I'm 21 weeks pregnant now and I have never had nipple chafing before. I've always been pretty small chested and regular sports bras were efficient enough. How does one stop this from happening? Its awful! They feel like they're on fire after running. Would a more supportive or tighter bra help?
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    noblsheep wrote: »
    0411-9k, total-25.4k goal-100k

    Loop of the park late afternoon yesterday. It was 22°C when I started! Lots of people in shorts. Which is a byproduct of lots of people... Spent plenty of time dodging crowds. Walked a portion of it because I've given up running with a mask but people were looking at me funny, so I put on the mask and walked until I hit somewhere less populated.

    Most people here still have not caught on to the whole wear a mask thing. I made some for my family, and then found a place to buy them at $6 each (and for every one you buy, one is donated to a hospital). Last time I went out though it was around 3 in 10 wearing masks, and of those maybe 1/2 actually were doing a reasonable job of wearing them.

    This whole event is just so culturally alien to the American Way of life that despite most people caring, they are struggling to adapt.

    Ah well.
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,446 Member
    Thanks for all the kudos on my run yesterday. I am surprised I'm not sore today. I really needed my now defunct heating pad last night. I wound up improvising with a microwaved, rice filled sock. It worked pretty good, just not big enough to cover all of the areas I needed to heat up. I thought about getting out my electric blanket to see if that would work.

    On the topic of bra chafe.
    I have a couple of really bad places today. Mine is on the underside of my breast. And, not to be the bearer of bad news, but I still have "scars" from the chafe I got back in July. I really need to find a bra that works for me. The newest one I got back in the summer always gives me chafe - it is really designed wrong and may be a little too tight, so not going to wear it anymore for running. The ones that don't chafe under my breast chafe on my shoulders. It's a good thing I'm not dating anyone. It's not pretty. :lol: Any bra recommendations would be welcomed.

    Love the cake @Faebert ! You're very talented!

    Great runs everyone.
  • eleanorhawkins
    eleanorhawkins Posts: 1,659 Member
    I messaged @Avidkeo directly with this, but as I see it's a recurring topic today I'll share this here too.... not chaffing exactly, but I suffer with severe psoriasis and bra areas have always been a problem, especially under straps, bands and wires. My dermatologist suggested sticking pantyliners (cut to size if necessary) inside my bras (with the soft side against the skin) to protect lesions from rubbing. Probably not much help during a run, but to reduce pain in general day-to-day life while sore spots heal it might help?

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