April 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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Welcome to all the newcomers!0
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I feel so late to the party already! Welcome to all the newcomers to the monthly challenge thread! So glad to have you, please jump right in.
My goal for April is 104.8 miles - the marathon a week challenge (not all at once, just 26.2 miles every week).
My other goal is to keep doing other training for strength at least 3x week and keep up with pull-ups everyday.
Monthly question:
The first thing I'll do when we're allowed is go out for a beer (multiple) and hug people. I'm not a hugger or touchy-feely person normally but I live alone and this lack of connection is hitting me harder than I would have expected.8 -
Hmmmm monthly question for me is a tough one for me, and probably a bit different from every one else, since due to my job I'm not isolating, I still get out to work every day.
I think sit on the couch cuddling my kids for a couple of hrs... But actually I'll take a holiday where I am going to visit my mum in another city with my girls and just get out and do stuff.
I have a weeks leave In July so hopefully that's when I'll be doing this, along with the Wellington Marathon!6 -
Monthly question: I really don't know. Probably go back to work at the daycare where I sub. They are still open, but since I am in a "higher risk" category and my mom & dad are 84 and 88, I have asked to not work unless they are desperate. So far, I have been home for over a week. I really miss the kids and all of the hugs. I even miss hearing, "Ms. Vicky" 900,000 times a day.
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Hello! First timer here. I'm going to say walk 30 miles this month. I will see how this goes to prepare for next month!
Weekly Distance Ran/Walked:
April 1:
April 8:
April 15:
April 22:
April 29:Total Distance:
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Welcome @Kiki_StartingOver !1
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Last time I logged any runs on this group was 2016. Didn't run much in 2019 but I started again in January.
I ran 30 miles in March so I'll set my goal for April at 40 miles.
Remembering to log in and keep recording my milage is the challenge but I'm going to put a reminder in my phone 😁3 -
I am sticking with this forum until I am told to hang up my running shoes permanently. My follow up is 4/21 unless they cancel it for Corona reasons.
My exercise goal for April - 50 miles a week on the bike - 200 miles or the distance from Austin to Dallas.🚴♀️
Possibly a few miles running if I get the go ahead.....
Question of the Month: When this is over I look forward to celebrating my daughter's college graduation with real people and some champagne and a cake instead of virtually.🤘9 -
So March is a weird month which finished at 71 miles run and 74 miles speed walking. I think April will be equally difficult and almost certain to not get any HMs in so I am in for the same at a stretch!5
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Morning all!
Well I've started April with a gentle 5k run. It was a beautiful day out, cool but not cold. Calm, still, no clouds. Just a beautiful autumn day.
I just looked at my total for March and I ended up 1.2k short of goal bahaha. I've done a lot of walking that I haven't tracked, so I'm calling it.
I'm going to have to go back and remind myself of what my goal was lol but still tracking along with whatever Hal tells me.
I got leave for July, so am able to go to the marathon, I hope its going to still happen, July it a few months away....
Ill put an update to my home life in a spoiler, I know that a lot of my posts are so down atm, and I don't want to be that poster.I had to xray 2 patients yesterday that were suspected covid. I've managed to avoid it till now. The first patient was not a high risk covid patient but we were taking precautions anyway. The second patient hasn't been confirmed but is so highly likely to have it that we are just waiting doe the positive test to come back, will be surprised if its negative. As a result, I'm stepping up to almost complete self isolation.
I'm trying to see the positive, I have a LOT of unfinished projects that I'm going to get through in the next few weeks. Nothing is expected of me, just work and relax. I feel a bit guilty that my husband is doing the bulk of the house work - though because I'm sleeping in the basement I've defaulted to doing the laundry haha. But the guilt isn't huge cause its hubby that's insisting on this so.... So I'm trying to just relax. It's kinda my first holiday in about 6 years...
Looking forward to Friday, 8k run, then a 16k on Saturday! Whoop whoop!10 -
Question of the month: will go to a park and use the bathroom!
I stopped running at the parks here due to crowding a few weeks ago. Then they closed the bathrooms, but left the parks themselves open. Just yesterday they announced they are closing the access roads to Shelby Farms and Riverside drive because of crowding. The parks are technically still open if you can get there. If I can just train my Pavlovian self to hold it, I may start running at Shelby Farms again, since presumably most people won’t bother going. I can park at the Starbucks and run down the Greenline to the park. Still not comfortable with passing people on the Greenline, however.
I read an article by a lady who has been studying sneezes and coughs for 25 years who says the “6 foot” rule is the experts talking out of their hats. According to her, viruses don’t travel in ways that can be neatly divided into large droplets, microdroplets, or aerosols, they travel as part of a cloud which transports all those things. That cloud can travel 27 feet, and if it’s formed by a sneeze, the speed varies from 33 feet to 100 feet a second. And that’s not accounting for wind currents,
I poked around in Google earth with a ruler and if you are on the opposite sidewalk from someone on a three lane road in my neighborhood, you are just at 27 feet.
I may start wearing a mask outside. Shelby county is actually, unlike most places in America, under a local directive to wear masks if you are older or in a high risk population. I’ve been resisting the idea since it’s so uncomfortable, but being in a constant state of low-key freaking out about having Coronavirus is uncomfortable too. Saw a heat map of where the virus is spreading locally and my neighborhood is the biggest, reddest blob in the middle.7 -
Last time I logged any runs on this group was 2016. Didn't run much in 2019 but I started again in January.
I ran 30 miles in March so I'll set my goal for April at 40 miles.
Remembering to log in and keep recording my milage is the challenge but I'm going to put a reminder in my phone 😁
Welcome back!2 -
Hugs to you @Avidkeo . I hope with all of your precautions that you and your family stay Corona free.1
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I am sticking with this forum until I am told to hang up my running shoes permanently. My follow up is 4/21 unless they cancel it for Corona reasons.
My exercise goal for April - 50 miles a week on the bike - 200 miles or the distance from Austin to Dallas.🚴♀️
Possibly a few miles running if I get the go ahead.....
Question of the Month: When this is over I look forward to celebrating my daughter's college graduation with real people and some champagne and a cake instead of virtually.🤘
What's the f/u for? If ya don't mind probably re-sharing? My appointment in Dallas was cancelled and not rescheduled. The did say mid April. I haven't run in a year, still haven't uncrossed those fingers for a return. And it'll be another year earliest that I can try to get back at it.2 -
@Elise4270 I was diagnosed with a femoral head stress fracture a while back, which I assumed was just tight hip flexors or bursisit or IT band issues. The MRI said "bone insufficiency". I started adding mileage and a little more pace to my runs in the past 6 months and did myself in. I do have osteopenia but well....isn't running weight-bearing exercise and supposed to be good for you? I am in denial...doing all the "right" things to combat it. They said 10 weeks off and go from there.
What is your injury? Sorry to hear all that.3 -
@Elise4270 I was diagnosed with a femoral head stress fracture a while back, which I assumed was just tight hip flexors or bursisit or IT band issues. The MRI said "bone insufficiency". I started adding mileage and a little more pace to my runs in the past 6 months and did myself in. I do have osteopenia but well....isn't running weight-bearing exercise and supposed to be good for you? I am in denial...doing all the "right" things to combat it. They said 10 weeks off and go from there.
What is your injury? Sorry to hear all that.
Hugs @bearly63 sounds a bit like ostrochondritis dissecans. Which does not improve with constant use. You have to rest it to allow the bone to regrow.1 -
@Elise4270 I was diagnosed with a femoral head stress fracture a while back, which I assumed was just tight hip flexors or bursisit or IT band issues. The MRI said "bone insufficiency". I started adding mileage and a little more pace to my runs in the past 6 months and did myself in. I do have osteopenia but well....isn't running weight-bearing exercise and supposed to be good for you? I am in denial...doing all the "right" things to combat it. They said 10 weeks off and go from there.
What is your injury? Sorry to hear all that.
I think I remember that now. Sounds rough. My doc recommended peleton. I noticed it in the March tread. You buy it? Like it?
Honestly I am not "injured". I'm broken. Haah! I have a congenital deformity where my femur is rotated and my leg turns inward. It was fixed march 2019 then labrum in September and reshaped acetabulum. Leg de- rotated and labrum tore. So... Redo it all or total hip replacement is where I'm at. I'm hoping redo.3 -
Morning all!I had to xray 2 patients yesterday that were suspected covid. I've managed to avoid it till now. The first patient was not a high risk covid patient but we were taking precautions anyway. The second patient hasn't been confirmed but is so highly likely to have it that we are just waiting doe the positive test to come back, will be surprised if its negative. As a result, I'm stepping up to almost complete self isolation.
I'm trying to see the positive, I have a LOT of unfinished projects that I'm going to get through in the next few weeks. Nothing is expected of me, just work and relax. I feel a bit guilty that my husband is doing the bulk of the house work - though because I'm sleeping in the basement I've defaulted to doing the laundry haha. But the guilt isn't huge cause its hubby that's insisting on this so.... So I'm trying to just relax. It's kinda my first holiday in about 6 years...
Looking forward to Friday, 8k run, then a 16k on Saturday! Whoop whoop!
Good gawd woman, everyone in your field deserves to be put up in a 6-star spa resort for the duration and pampered head to toe for everything they're currently doing, and still have to do, for the rest of humanity. And given medals. Don't feel guilty at all, he sounds perfectly capable of doing the work and yeah, at the end of the day it was his idea!
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Ooh first of the month but I’m very late to the party! Kicked off the month with a run just under 6km. Gorgeous sunny frosty morning. Even though I was later than I planned getting out, I still didn’t have many people to distance from and it’s so quiet on the roads you can mostly just run off the pavement. London is unrecognisable. I live in a very hilly area to the north of the city and the views on a clear day as I run over one bridge are incredible. Today it looked like time had stood still. Never would have thought I would miss the mundanity of London traffic...
Anyway, setting a goal of 75 miles for April. It’s more than double my March goal, but in the end I totalled 76 for March. So this should be achievable if I’m careful and stay injury free. Sticking with the little and often approach, mainly because of stay at home measures.
Monthly question: When this is over I just want to see and spend time with loved ones. My parents who are self isolating, my sister’s family who are strictly shielding due to my niece’s severe health issues, and my partner. I don’t live with him and we have very separate lives. But under normal circumstances we do spend the weekends together when my ex has the kids. And now we are not and I am finding it hard having no contact with another adult. But really, I can’t complain. I know how fortunate I am compared to many out there...
April goal: 75 miles
April total: 3.6 miles
1/4: 3.6 miles
March: 76.4 m
February: 17.8 m
January: 0
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So there goes Q1. My only goal remaining is the 2020 miles on foot @ 4 mph+ in 2020 which is still on target. 263 miles speed walking, 307 miles running with a paltry 69 miles of cycling (and the bike is in the garage for now!). In total I did 1.5 Million steps (789 miles) which is a surprising amount of non-exercise miles. Q2 is going to be tough as I have only managed 1.6 miles per day since quarantine in the UK.
Question of the month - go and get my haircut, I'll be like bleedin' Rapunzel at the rate this is going!8 -
Now I'm into my third week locked up inside, I think I might finally be starting to get used to running on my 'rather-be-deadmill' again. It's still bloody hard, but a little less so than a fortnight ago. This morning Hal had ordered a tempo run and I actually quite enjoyed it! I guess knowing it was supposed to feel hard made me fret less over how hard the dreadmill made it feel.
I did however panic when I clicked on next Thursday's workout, which looked like it was long, to see 9 of those freakin 400 metre 5k race pace intervals. Argh! Something to dread look forward to for the next week :-D What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? I just keep telling myself to remember how awesomely easy outdoor runs will feel when we get out on bail.
01/04: 4.8 km tempo run
April goal: 144km.7 -
I'm in for 125!
So far this year I have run/walked 350 miles. I am pretty happy with that, all things considered.
I also just logged all of my food for today, excepting dinner.
I am also trying to determine what distance would be safe to run/ walk this weekend for the Uncancelled Project, all things considered. The creators of this series also said that 15-20 minutes of ANY exercise will count as 1 mile, so I'm pretty happy with that as it will allow me to participate, even with a stupid idiot injury.
Also... I need more coffee. I just almost deleted a bunch of financial projection sheets at work. . . . .4 -
@Avidkeo Yikes....how many days do I got? lol! I will look that up today. Can a 50ish....very ish chick regrow bone? I have heard ice cream is an option but it also leads to secondary growth in the back end. Sweet. I am in. Where do I start
My medical vocab is growing by leaps and bounds. I feel like a pretty good epidemiologist so now maybe head into orthopedics.
@Elise4270 I read your bio....wow! Sorry to hear that it de-rotated. Sounds like you have great docs. How close are you to Dallas? Yes....I have a 30 day trial of the Peloton. Came at a really timely moment. I have to decide by the end of April. I am really enjoying it and all the classes on the app too. I am only doing low impact rides or modifying so not standing at all but its a good cardio option. Daughter is using it too - my shoes are a bit big but its working. I just worry about getting huge quads so I need to focus on the glutes too....somehow. I might try swimming too once we are free to be out and about.1 -
Happy April everyone! I'm wishing increasingly good running weather for everyone for whom that is relevant. We hit 50 degrees yesterday, which felt great on my afternoon walk (in the AM, when I ran, it was still colder). It was 41 degrees during my run this morning and I loved every balmy-feeling minute of it!
4/1: 7.75m6 -
@Camaramandy648 That sounds delish! Thanks for the tips. Going to try that. I have been trying to do more vegetarian too - found a great recipe for a "bhudda style bowl" with roasted veggies and a tamari lemon dressing. So good.
@shanaber Yes....I do remember the river. Very pretty area to run. My neighborhood in HS in Costa Mesa abutted the Santa Ana River but not trail that I recall.
@rheddmobile Regarding the cute baby raccoon, we had a weird thing happen like 15 years ago. Woke up to our dog making an odd growl. 3 baby raccoons had wedged themselves up in the corner of our front door sidelight window against the bricks. They stayed there for hours. Neighbors told us to leave them alone and that they would eventually leave with or without their parents....pretty darn cute. Wish I could find the pic.1 -
I would like to join this group for 30 miles this month6
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@aliciawb130 Welcome!1
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Since everyone's talking about raccoons, last summer I was driving along a busy highway near my home and noticed a baby blundering along all by himself. I did a U-turn as fast as I could and pulled over close to him so no one would hit him. I looked around for a momma, but it was all open field and I didn't see her anywhere. I scooped him up with a sweatshirt I had in my car and took him home. My husband, pictured with the little guy, wanted to keep him soooo bad. I easily would have been talked into it had we not rented at the time. Lol. I think my landlords would have killed me.
We gave him to a wildlife rehabilitator who said he had about 15 other abandoned babies at home for him to play with, and that he releases them back into the wild once they can care for themselves.
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I will do running and walking.
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