May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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Thanks for setting this up @Avidkeo! Looks like I am going to exceed my goal of 75 miles for April. So, I am going to set my goal at 80 miles for May. If I'm still not working, that should be doable.4
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_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »Hi everyone! I haven't joined in the running challenge for at least half a year, I think. I was away from MFP for a bit, but now I'm back :-) Yesterday I finally finished the first longer-than-10km run of 2020, and I want to celebrate that by joining the May challenge!
My goal will be 100km (with the secret hope of making it to 120km - we will see...)
WB!0 -
PastorVincent wrote: »ContraryMaryMary wrote: »Thanks for setting this up Kim. You need to watch that mileage increase - it’s a bit more than the recommended 10 percent. I know you’re pretty good at listening to your body, but this is a kindly reminder to remember you’re in this for the long game - getting to the start line is a challenge in itself!
I’m in for about 200km, depending on what coach says.
Yeah when I added it up, was kinda like oh geez, but will follow the plan, see how it goes, and take breaks if needed. Will see how it goes.
Well you do not want to disappoint Hal!
He who must be obeyed. Unless I'm physically breaking down. Then rest breaks are necessary.
Yeah, listen to your body first, Hal second. He will get over it, eventually.
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_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »Hi everyone! I haven't joined in the running challenge for at least half a year, I think. I was away from MFP for a bit, but now I'm back :-) Yesterday I finally finished the first longer-than-10km run of 2020, and I want to celebrate that by joining the May challenge!
My goal will be 100km (with the secret hope of making it to 120km - we will see...)
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Hi Everyone,
I haven't been here for months and have done practically no running since last November and really miss it. So I got myself out this morning to test the water and see if I can still run. Managed 2 miles. I'd got a spin bike for the winter so think that helped. I'm going to aim for 30miles for May cos I'd still like to keep up the cycling. Hope everyone is well. This Corona virus is surreal. We aren't allowed to excercise more than 2km from our homes for over a month.6 -
Welcome back @_nikkiwolf_ and @Mari33a! Good to see you both again.3
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In for 100km (again).3
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I did something.
I am running the full moon 50K July 18 with a friend and it is through the night, on a trail, in south Arkansas.... It will be HOT, but it's going to be so much fun. We signed up for it before my injuries started becoming really real, so I may need to just do 25K, BUT THE POINT IS
I ordered light up shoe laces. And light up/glow stick hair crap. And glitter. And glow in the dark body paint.
Because at the time, it seemed like a good idea (last night).
Have any of you done anything like this? I need some inspiration for what the heck I am doing. is this a rave or a race. At this point, it's anybody's guess.4 -
Camaramandy648 wrote: »I did something.
I am running the full moon 50K July 18 with a friend and it is through the night, on a trail, in south Arkansas.... It will be HOT, but it's going to be so much fun. We signed up for it before my injuries started becoming really real, so I may need to just do 25K, BUT THE POINT IS
I ordered light up shoe laces. And light up/glow stick hair crap. And glitter. And glow in the dark body paint.
Because at the time, it seemed like a good idea (last night).
Have any of you done anything like this? I need some inspiration for what the heck I am doing. is this a rave or a race. At this point, it's anybody's guess.
That. Is Awesome.
You go sparkle! Have fun!2 -
PastorVincent wrote: »Camaramandy648 wrote: »I did something.
I am running the full moon 50K July 18 with a friend and it is through the night, on a trail, in south Arkansas.... It will be HOT, but it's going to be so much fun. We signed up for it before my injuries started becoming really real, so I may need to just do 25K, BUT THE POINT IS
I ordered light up shoe laces. And light up/glow stick hair crap. And glitter. And glow in the dark body paint.
Because at the time, it seemed like a good idea (last night).
Have any of you done anything like this? I need some inspiration for what the heck I am doing. is this a rave or a race. At this point, it's anybody's guess.
That. Is Awesome.
You go sparkle! Have fun!
@PastorVincent Thank you! In a previous life, I had quite a lot of fun with glitter and clubs and raves but now I'm old and a mother so I haven't really been down this road in a while. It will interesting for sure.
Also did you know a pound of glitter is $342? Did not know that. I bought sixty grams. So like.... two ounces, lol. As I recall, a little goes a long way.1 -
I'm in for 175 miles.4
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Camaramandy648 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Camaramandy648 wrote: »I did something.
I am running the full moon 50K July 18 with a friend and it is through the night, on a trail, in south Arkansas.... It will be HOT, but it's going to be so much fun. We signed up for it before my injuries started becoming really real, so I may need to just do 25K, BUT THE POINT IS
I ordered light up shoe laces. And light up/glow stick hair crap. And glitter. And glow in the dark body paint.
Because at the time, it seemed like a good idea (last night).
Have any of you done anything like this? I need some inspiration for what the heck I am doing. is this a rave or a race. At this point, it's anybody's guess.
That. Is Awesome.
You go sparkle! Have fun!
@PastorVincent Thank you! In a previous life, I had quite a lot of fun with glitter and clubs and raves but now I'm old and a mother so I haven't really been down this road in a while. It will interesting for sure.
Also did you know a pound of glitter is $342? Did not know that. I bought sixty grams. So like.... two ounces, lol. As I recall, a little goes a long way.
I really hope you do not spill that stuff inside LOL0 -
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Had typed this all in a the April thread, but it's May here so...
@kgirlhart yay, I love runs like that, that just come together, and love the shoes. I'm supposed to get a new pair today, just waiting to hear from the shop if they have them in stock, then I'll either go collect or he will deliver - I'm sticking to supporting local and I got a discount. So win/win.
@Scott6255 thinking of you and your family. How is everyone doing?
@brittanystebbins95 I'm going to break the pattern and say woo hoo instead of yay lol
@mbaker566 that's frustrating. Hugs.
@eleanorhawkins hmmm I've been thinking about my plan, I haven't had any speed, tempo or hill runs in my training plan at all, but I wonder if it's because I'm set to just run the distance and I don't have any time goals? Once I've finished this plan, I'll jump straight into another one, which will have a time goal, you know, since I'll have done one, I'll want to beat my time haha.
Was looking at the elevation of the Auckland marathon, and the first 10k is a bit hilly, but looks like no more than 40m elevation. I'm doing that on my home circuit anyway. Then after that it's completely flat. So I'm going to continue doing my mix of training, middle distance - anything on week days on my home circuit where I get regular climbs, and I'll start pushing myself on those a bit more, and my long runs on the flat. I think that will help balance out the two and give me a change of scenery.
Just had breakfast so will be going out for 11.5k soon. And to be good to my word, I'm going to take a slightly more hilly path to really include them.
Then work at 3pm tonight, through till 11. Woo hoo...5 -
@Avidkeo I'm assuming you chose Novice... I think the speedwork starts when you select intermediate. What I plugged into the app was that I wanted to run 4 days a week and follow an intermediate plan to run a HM on August 30th in 2 hours 45, because I thought I'd run the distance but make it more of a long training run than a race, and then try to maintain for my race which (atm) was put back to November 8th. Hal said I was going to do base training until it was time to start the HM specific plan. It'll be interesting to see whether the speedwork/pace demands change once I start that!
News today, as of Saturday we're allowed outside for exercise. Two time windows: 6-10am and 8-11pm. We can go out for a walk for 1 hour with 1 person who lives with us, remaining within a 1km radius of our homes. OR we can go out alone to do 'sport' once per day, with no set time limit (as long as it is within the permitted windows) and no set distance but we must stay in our 'municipality'. I'm really lucky to live on the edge of one of the biggest municipalities around here. Just have to find out where the boundaries with the neighbouring town lie and possibly adjust some of my routes a little to avoid those! Once I dare to actually do it, I'll be trying to get out as early as possible and sticking to the isolated routes. Might get abducted but oh well. I can't bear the thought of running in a mask, I'll wear a buff round my neck and pull it up if I come across other humans.
However, the silly anxiety has already come up with lots of excuses to wait until Monday instead of getting straight out there on Saturday:
- I binned my small water bottles cause they were smelly, and there are no shops open tomorrow to buy new ones (and the one I use on the treadmill is too big to carry).
- The last banana is looking like it might not last until Saturday (no idea why my brain thinks I can run on the treadmill without my pre-run banana but not outdoors?).
- Hal wants me to do a hard workout on Saturday: 1.5km warm up, 100m 'strides', 8km at 5km race pace (:-O), 1km cool down. I can't think where I could go to concentrate on doing all of that without encountering hills/lots of roads to cross/covidiots.
- The entire local population, many of whom haven't been out except to the supermarket since March 14th, is probably going to be out there walking/running/pretending to exercise. Maybe crack of dawn on Monday some of them will be going to work instead?
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I'm in for 50 miles, thanks for setting it up @Avidkeo
So I joined two challenges locally one is run/walk a mile a day in May and the other is starting 5/7 - 9/7 I need to do 600k. Basically like a run/walk from my house to the beach. I wish :-)
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Hi Everyone!
I’m going to shoot for 30 miles for the month of May. Thanks for this forum and support.
Good Luck! 😉6 -
Well im going to log the first run of May. 11.5k. Well was actually an eventful run.
First at 0.59km I realised that my watch was set for pace in miles. Continued drama since resetting it a couple of days ago. I can't think in miles, and because pace matters atm, I stopped and faffed around to change it back. Turns out that All my settings were Americanised. Sigh. So changed them as well.
Then as I was going I realised all the alerts were still showing up. So getting frequent buzzing as I got my various goals (floors climbed, intensity minutes etcl. OK. Cool. I can ignore that fortunately.
I took a slightly different route today that had more hills, that was some good running. Then the ultimate running badge happened just on 6k. i tripped. While going down hill. Landed with a thud on my palms, left elbow and left knee. Man that stings! Honestly though, it's mostly the pride that was bruised haha. It was silly really, had gone in the road briefly to run around some rubbish bins people had put on the sidewalk for collection, and when I went back up on the footpath, I just caught the toe of my left foot on the edge, and over I went.
Immediately got up and kept going. It successfully slowed my pace a bit haha but I kept going and finished well.
Got home and the best Dr in the world (miss 3) put plasters on my scuffs and are looking after me. So going to relax now before going to walk.10 -
@Camaramandy648 well, that sounds crazy but fun.
@Avidkeo oh no! that looks painful, especially on the elbow. Good for you for finishing your first run in May even with the challenges.1
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