May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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@janejellyroll I’ve done this a couple of times now and I love this method. Especially as I’m getting older, it’s much safer and makes it more enjoyable. I’ll get to running the whole time soon enough.1
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Welcome @robynmac5819!
And happy mothers day! Well it was mother's day yesterday for me. Went for a big walk in the morning, then spent the afternoon with the kids, walking through a local reserve. It was just incredibly beautiful, and so calm and still.
One advantage of this lock down is that my two girls have gone from fairly indifferent siblings to best of friends. Ok they are only just 6 and 4, but honestly I was worried that they would never connect. Now I know that they may not be best friends for life, but the fact that at the moment they know they can rely on eachother, that's one of the best mothers day gifts I can get!
OK running, my legs felt great today as I set off for 6.5k. I'm really amazed at how well I recovered from Saturdays long run! I was expecting to be sore for days.
But I have to slow down again on the next run. I found I would do really well, then zone out and my pace would creep up. My average pace was 6:20m/pm. I probably need that closer to 6:30. Work on progress. And my aim for this coming Saturday8 -
May 10th- 2.1 miles
19.03/50.03 miles complete3 -
@robynmac5819 Welcome. Your approach sounds like very good plan. Hang in there.1
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Another week over, time for a quick check-in, then I will sit down and read the 8! pages that I missed over the weekend.
My runs this week:
5/5/2020 11.1 km - should have been 2km more, but I developed a really painful blister on my big toe after 5km and decided to quit early
5/6/2020 5.9 km , and
5/7/2020 7.9 km, uneventful evening runs
5/9/2020 1.7 km to the bakery to get croissants, 4.7 km after breakfast
5/10/2020 7.6 km in super sunny weather. Temperatures are supposed to drop to 12°C (53°F) tomorrow, but today it was 19°C (66F) in the shadow - and there was not nearly enough shadow where I was running. Hot enough that I enjoyed a nice, cold shower after getting home
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49.5 km of 100km(120km?) for May done
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Welcome @robynmac5819 . I too am a fan of the run/walk method, especially to start out.
@katharmonic I love all of the animals you see on your runs. Glad the horse was well behaved.
@Avidkeo What a great place to walk. Your daughters are adorable!
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Thank you all again. We had a family zoom call as a memorial service. It was really nice seeing everyone from around the globe (I have a very large extended family from Africa, to Canada to England, etc).
Went for family bike ride and now waiting on dinner. Good day considering.
Happy Mother’s Day12 -
Went out to the woods today to take my new Hoka Challengers for a spin. They got plenty muddy and I got a slow 9.21 miles in on some fun technical trails.
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robynmac5819 wrote: »Hi. I’m new, I just started running again 20 days ago. I’m not running outside just yet and refuse till I’m in much better shape, hopefully in 2-3 months. So far still in the stage of me working my way up from walking to running by doing intervals run:walk. I’m taking it really slow and watching my heart rate. I do roll my ankle very easily which is one of the reason I’m waiting till I’m further along in training to run my neighborhood. I have to be very aware of my feet/step. On the days in between I’m trying to walk the neighborhood(lots of hills) and I hope to motivate myself to do some supportive strength training.
I’m trying to run 4 days a week, 3-3.5 miles on my treadmill(Nordic track commercial 1750). My goal is 50 miles this month.
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Thank you everyone! Happy Mother’s Day!
From my Garmin Forerunner(for whatever reason it doesn’t have my distances the same as my treadmill. It’s always about .25 miles less). I don’t know if my treadmill would be more accurate or not so I’m going to go with the lesser amount.
5/1- 3.4 miles
5/3-3.5 miles
5/5-3.4 miles
5/6-3.3 miles
6/8-3 miles
5/10- 3 miles this was 4:1minute. 4minute Run @ 5.5 mph:walk 1 minute @3.5 mph
Current Total: 19.6 miles
Goal:50
It was a great run. I did sneak in a couple 6 mph minutes in but my heart rate jumped up too high. I did a 5 minute 5 mph:1 minute 3.5 mph the run before on 6/8 and did much better with my heart rate though.
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SUNDAY UPDATE - Pastor Vincent vs Boston!
For those new/or with short memories I recently hired a coach to help me run faster - with the goal of a BQ in 2021. It is probably an unrealistic goal, but I am not getting any younger, so going for it. Several people asked to be updated on what the coach has in for me so I post each week what the coach's plan was, and what I actually did.
So here we go:
DAY :::: PLAN :::: ACTUAL
Monday :::: 8 Miles :::: 10 miles
Tuesday :::: Rest Day ::::: Rest Day
Wednesday :::: 8 miles:::: Had to work late
Thursday :::: 8 miles :::: 10 miles
Friday :::: Rest Day ::::: Rest Day
Saturday ::::: 14 miles :::: 1 hour cross training
Sunday ::::: 6 miles ::::: 8.67 miles
Total Miles: 28 out of 44 planned
Yeah, not so on plan this week LOL
This week was a cut back week, so it is a good week to miss some runs on. Saturday I could have run, but honestly, it was snowing, sub-freezing and windy and I really just was not in the mood to run in that kind of weather again. Sunday I had planned to run at least 10 but foot came down wrong on some rock and my knee started hurting so I aborted right away and walked home. Walking was fine, but any running felt bad. Thankfully I was only like 3/4th of. a mile from home.
I think it is time for new shoes too, which is disappointing. I have less than 1/2 the normal miles I put on shoes on these. I do have a backup pair, so I will run in them for a week and see how things go. My current shoes I think are causing some pains so I think I will tell coach I am going to do another easy week with the new shoes and see how things go.6 -
robynmac5819 wrote: »Thank you everyone! Happy Mother’s Day!
From my Garmin Forerunner(for whatever reason it doesn’t have my distances the same as my treadmill. It’s always about .25 miles less). I don’t know if my treadmill would be more accurate or not so I’m going to go with the lesser amount.
So...
1) If it is a good quality dreadmill and you are not using a footpod, then the dreadmill is going to be more accurate than the Garmin. Garmin is guessing distance based on arm swing which will only be ballpark
2) If you are using a footpod that has been properly calibrated for you, then the Garmin is more accurate.
3) If the dreadmill is suspect, then the Garmin is more accurate in all cases.
So there you go.
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@PastorVincent I would think my Garmin watch is off. I’m not using a foot pod. My treadmill is decent, Nordic Track commercial 1750, it’s not the most expensive but it’s a good enough treadmill.2
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robynmac5819 wrote: »@PastorVincent I would think my Garmin watch is off. I’m not using a foot pod. My treadmill is decent, Nordic Track commercial 1750, it’s not the most expensive but it’s a good enough treadmill.
You can adjust the miles on the Garmin watch when you do a dreadmill run. I forget the button combination but you can basically tell it it "No I ran 10.0 miles, not 9.25 miles" and it will update all the stats to reflect it.2 -
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PastorVincent wrote: »robynmac5819 wrote: »@PastorVincent I would think my Garmin watch is off. I’m not using a foot pod. My treadmill is decent, Nordic Track commercial 1750, it’s not the most expensive but it’s a good enough treadmill.
You can adjust the miles on the Garmin watch when you do a dreadmill run. I forget the button combination but you can basically tell it it "No I ran 10.0 miles, not 9.25 miles" and it will update all the stats to reflect it.
I didn't know that. I just ignore what Garmin says and use treadmill distance for my own personal charts. I'll have to look into that.1 -
quilteryoyo wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »robynmac5819 wrote: »@PastorVincent I would think my Garmin watch is off. I’m not using a foot pod. My treadmill is decent, Nordic Track commercial 1750, it’s not the most expensive but it’s a good enough treadmill.
You can adjust the miles on the Garmin watch when you do a dreadmill run. I forget the button combination but you can basically tell it it "No I ran 10.0 miles, not 9.25 miles" and it will update all the stats to reflect it.
I didn't know that. I just ignore what Garmin says and use treadmill distance for my own personal charts. I'll have to look into that.
I don't know how to do that on the watch, but after loading to Garmin Connect, I know I can edit on the app or website. It's already been sent to Strava by then, though.1 -
5/1 – 3
5/2 – 3
5/3 – 3
5/4 – 3
5/5 – 0
5/6 – 2 with Champ
5/7 – 4
5/8 – 4
5/9 – 3 with Champ
5/10 – 10K Mother’s Day run
31 of 50 miles
@quilteryoyo and @brittanystebbins95 yeah I’ve read both on the marking. He tried that once in the house I yelled at him and that was it, hasn’t tried it since.
Welcome @robynmac5819 like so many others I started with walk walk walk run walk walk walk method ha ha I remember the first time I ran a full mile without stopping I cried and cried.
So I'm in this challenge and you need to run 600K by Labor Day weekend and we are headed to the beach, virtually at least for now. It started on May 7th, can you believe there are 2 people who have completed like 150 miles already in the first like 4 days, so I checked ones strava and he was walking or running for 8 hours for those days. Seriously who has time for that? 8 HOURS a day. ha ha
My shirt and medal from my virtual race today
Races:
Retro Run – virtual - done
Rona on the Run - Virtual for St. Jude benefit – done
Mother’s Day Run – Virtual - done
Keep Moving Huntsville - at least one mile a day 1 - 31 May
Flora-Bama 600K - Virtual race from Huntsville AL to the Florida Alabama state line in Orange Beach
Pirates Challenge Virtual 10 weeks to run as many miles as you can
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T1DCarnivoreRunner wrote: »quilteryoyo wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »robynmac5819 wrote: »@PastorVincent I would think my Garmin watch is off. I’m not using a foot pod. My treadmill is decent, Nordic Track commercial 1750, it’s not the most expensive but it’s a good enough treadmill.
You can adjust the miles on the Garmin watch when you do a dreadmill run. I forget the button combination but you can basically tell it it "No I ran 10.0 miles, not 9.25 miles" and it will update all the stats to reflect it.
I didn't know that. I just ignore what Garmin says and use treadmill distance for my own personal charts. I'll have to look into that.
I don't know how to do that on the watch, but after loading to Garmin Connect, I know I can edit on the app or website. It's already been sent to Strava by then, though.
You can do it on the watch before you save the run. I think when you hit stop on the run (assuming you told it it was a dreadmill run) you can then scroll down in the menu and pick "Calibrate & Save" and then edit the run. It is supposed to learn from such calibration to be right next time, but IME without the footpod, it will never really do a great job.2
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