May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Went onto the Brooks site this afternoon. Of course, the pair of GTS 19's that were on sale are no longer available. Today, they had, or I did a better job of finding them, a pair of the GTS 20's in my size. I ordered them. Credit card went through right away. I'm thinking there was a system glitch or something yesterday. Since the 20's weren't on sale, they were more expensive. At least I have a new pair on the way. Probably 2 weeks before I get them.
    I hope you like the 20s! I skipped the 19s because they felt like they made me run funny, but I don’t mind the 20s as much.
  • ImeldaOmom
    ImeldaOmom Posts: 12 Member
    31.7/ 55 km Completed
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    Teresa502 wrote: »
    brittanystebbins95 wrote: »
    I did 3 miles Friday, 3.25 Saturday, and set out to do 3 yesterday but ended up walking after 1.5 because I had shin splints.
    I don't understand. I've been averaging 12-15 miles a week the last 2-3 months with no issues. I don't know if maybe 3 days in a row is becoming too much, if I ran too hard the first two days, if it could be my shoes, or if its the extra 20 lbs with being 26 weeks along catching up to me. I was very frustrated and disappointed at myself. The dogs were frustrated as well. When we walk to cool down, they usually stop pulling (I have them trained to run in front of me, makes me push my pace) and walk nicely beside me. I think they were confused because they kept me at a pretty good speedwalk the whole way home.

    Go back and read your post and look at what you have done in the last 3 days. How many pregnant women do you see out running? You are doing all this and the rest of life while growing a human in your body! You are doing amazing! It's ok to listen to your body when it protests. That's how we prevent really bad injuries and shorten our recovery time. You are awesome so no negative talk!

    Absolutely!!!!!!!
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    5-1 7k moderate
    5-2 7k easy
    5-3 11k easy
    5-4 rest
    5-5 7k moderate
    5-6 7k moderate
    5-7 7k moderate
    5-8 7k easy
    5-9 11k slow
    5-10 7k moderate
    5-11 rest
    5-12 7k moderate
    5-13 7k moderate
    5-14 7k thresholdy
    5-15 7k easy
    5-16 11k slow
    5-17 7k moderate
    5-18 rest

    May Total: 117k
    May Goal: 170k

    January Total: 161k
    February Total: 167k
    March Total: 181k
    April Total: 191k

    2020 Total through April: 700k

    A rainy, scheduled rest day today.

    When you pop in here claiming your December 2020 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?

    Return to a good running weight of 175 lbs
    Run at least 4 5k races
    Get a 5k PR
    Average at least 138k per month, to meet my Run the Year pledge of 1,020 miles
    Stretch goal: If I can average 169k per month, I can run 2020K in 2020

    Run the Year Team: Pavement Pounders

    2020 races:

    6-20 Freedom Run 5k, Aurora, OH
    9-19 Race for the Parks 5k, Hudson, OH
    10-11 Haunted Hustle 5k, Aurora, OH
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Tramboman wrote: »
    Teresa502 wrote: »
    brittanystebbins95 wrote: »
    I did 3 miles Friday, 3.25 Saturday, and set out to do 3 yesterday but ended up walking after 1.5 because I had shin splints.
    I don't understand. I've been averaging 12-15 miles a week the last 2-3 months with no issues. I don't know if maybe 3 days in a row is becoming too much, if I ran too hard the first two days, if it could be my shoes, or if its the extra 20 lbs with being 26 weeks along catching up to me. I was very frustrated and disappointed at myself. The dogs were frustrated as well. When we walk to cool down, they usually stop pulling (I have them trained to run in front of me, makes me push my pace) and walk nicely beside me. I think they were confused because they kept me at a pretty good speedwalk the whole way home.

    Go back and read your post and look at what you have done in the last 3 days. How many pregnant women do you see out running? You are doing all this and the rest of life while growing a human in your body! You are doing amazing! It's ok to listen to your body when it protests. That's how we prevent really bad injuries and shorten our recovery time. You are awesome so no negative talk!

    Absolutely!!!!!!!

    SERIOUSLY.
  • eleanorhawkins
    eleanorhawkins Posts: 1,659 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    Tramboman wrote: »
    Teresa502 wrote: »
    brittanystebbins95 wrote: »
    I did 3 miles Friday, 3.25 Saturday, and set out to do 3 yesterday but ended up walking after 1.5 because I had shin splints.
    I don't understand. I've been averaging 12-15 miles a week the last 2-3 months with no issues. I don't know if maybe 3 days in a row is becoming too much, if I ran too hard the first two days, if it could be my shoes, or if its the extra 20 lbs with being 26 weeks along catching up to me. I was very frustrated and disappointed at myself. The dogs were frustrated as well. When we walk to cool down, they usually stop pulling (I have them trained to run in front of me, makes me push my pace) and walk nicely beside me. I think they were confused because they kept me at a pretty good speedwalk the whole way home.

    Go back and read your post and look at what you have done in the last 3 days. How many pregnant women do you see out running? You are doing all this and the rest of life while growing a human in your body! You are doing amazing! It's ok to listen to your body when it protests. That's how we prevent really bad injuries and shorten our recovery time. You are awesome so no negative talk!

    Absolutely!!!!!!!

    SERIOUSLY.

    Definitely! I can't run three days in a row at all, let alone do so carrying another human being!

    Have been speed reading and not talking much recently, been in a bit of a fug with my cabin fever. I've been for 4 outdoor runs and 1 outdoor walk now, still taking a lot of effort to force myself out of the door but it is nice to be outside apart from dodging idiots and sliding about... I try to be out the door by 7am to avoid the crowds of walkers and runners that have suddenly appeared but our local council seems to think the way to deal with the current situation is to spray all the streets with disinfectant every morning and I don't know what it is they're using but oh boy is it slippery!
    Hal is working me hard, I think this week is the 'peak' of this base training he has me doing. The total for the week is 23 miles, which is about the same as the peak week of his novice HM plans and my highest so far. Feels like I've been increasing mileage for weeks on end, and my legs are missing swimming and the evil physio. Add the fact I'd never really done much speedwork before and now I'm doing it every week, and you'll understand why I quickly felt the difference between nice soft treadmill and hard sidewalks and roads! So decided to only go outside for one run last week and this week. The next two weeks' runs are a lot shorter (thank GOD!) so I might head out more often then. Unless (as people think) they decide to make masks obligatory in public spaces. I don't think I could run with a real mask on. What I'm doing atm is wear a buff and pull it up over my mouth and nose whenever I see another human.
    Then I start the next HM training cycle. The first few weeks at least should feel like a rest. I'm going to try and intermediate plan this time round, and I think (and fear) the mileage is higher than I've done before. It was that or train for a marathon for a challenge, but I'm not at all likely to be running a marathon anytime soon.


    02/05: 11.3km race pace
    04/05: 6.15km fartleks
    06/05: 6.57km easy
    07/05: 10.4km intervals
    09/05: 11.5km lsr
    11/05: 5.53km tempo
    13/05: 8.04 easy
    14/05: 9.6km intervals
    16/05: 13.07km lsr
    18/05: 5.12km

    May goal: 140km. Run so far: 87.28km
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    5/1 – 3
    5/2 – 3
    5/3 – 3
    5/4 – 3
    5/5 – 0
    5/6 – 2
    5/7 – 4
    5/8 – 4
    5/9 – 3
    5/10 – 10K Mother’s Day virtual
    5/11 - 2
    5/12 – 3
    5/13 – 2
    5/14 – 5
    5/15 – 4
    5/16 – 5
    5/17 - 5
    5/18 - 2 - it's Skip's birthday so I ran 2.0 in honor of her turning 20

    59 of 50 miles


    Races:
    Mother’s Day Virtual 5K – done
    Retro Run Virtual 5K – done
    Rona on the Run - Virtual for St. Jude benefit - done
    Keep Moving Huntsville - at least one mile a day 1 - 31 May
    Pirate Challenge – 10 weeks mile challenge June - Sept
    Flora-Bama 600K - Virtual race from Huntsville AL to the Florida Alabama state line in Orange Beach
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @Faebert I don't even know how the spoiler thing works ha ha nice shoes
    @brittanystebbins95 I agree with @Teresa502 you are doing great, give your body a rest when it needs it, could really be as simple or complex as your body changing right now.
    @eleanorhawkins they are spraying the streets. Okay that is a new level of insanity. Since you are starting another cycle of HM I would definitely rest just as if you would after a race. Skip is ultra training, she took off about 10 days after her marathon and then came back slowly running mostly with dear old me and then started a couple weeks ago on the plan. Body needs to rest. I don't run with a mask, sorry I can barely run with a buff when it's 10F out without feeling like I can't breathe let alone when it's 80F. I wear one if I'm in a store though they are not mandatory here.


  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »
    I try to be out the door by 7am to avoid the crowds of walkers and runners that have suddenly appeared but our local council seems to think the way to deal with the current situation is to spray all the streets with disinfectant every morning and I don't know what it is they're using but oh boy is it slippery!

    Spraying the streets? I mean unless you have a lot of people licking the streets or something, I am not sure what they think it will do?

    Ikr? On the news last night, they were showing some town that has set up a 'disinfecting arch' over the main road into town so all cars coming from elsewhere get sprayed before they drive in. I mean wtf? They think the cars are going to bring a virus in, rather than the people inside them? It's like you see people driving about in their cars, alone, wearing masks. But then at the other end of the scale you have the people that pay no attention at all to any of the rules. As of today we are allowed to visit relatives as long as more than 10 of us don't gather at once, we all stay 2 metres apart and wear masks. Sport is still strictly individual and we must keep at least 10m distance for running, 20m for cycling. Walking in pairs at the most and only people who live together, and at least 4m from other walkers. So 7.30am I found a group of like 15 teenaged girls out walking, no masks, arms linked, spread all the way across the street. The mind boggles, it really does. Is there no middle-ground or common sense left in this world?

    ETA on the spraying thing. My mother lives in a small rural village up in the mountains. They don't have street-cleaning vehicles there. So they've recruited a bunch of local farmers to use their tractors to pull tanks of disinfectant with hoses round the streets, with a council worker walking behind operating the hoses. Dunno what they're spraying, but dogs keep burning their paws on it afterwards :(

    Not only does it not sound very effective at limiting spread of the virus, but it also sounds harmful to wildlife and plant life (in addition to people and pets).
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    T1DCarnivoreRunner wrote: »
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »
    I try to be out the door by 7am to avoid the crowds of walkers and runners that have suddenly appeared but our local council seems to think the way to deal with the current situation is to spray all the streets with disinfectant every morning and I don't know what it is they're using but oh boy is it slippery!

    Spraying the streets? I mean unless you have a lot of people licking the streets or something, I am not sure what they think it will do?

    Ikr? On the news last night, they were showing some town that has set up a 'disinfecting arch' over the main road into town so all cars coming from elsewhere get sprayed before they drive in. I mean wtf? They think the cars are going to bring a virus in, rather than the people inside them? It's like you see people driving about in their cars, alone, wearing masks. But then at the other end of the scale you have the people that pay no attention at all to any of the rules. As of today we are allowed to visit relatives as long as more than 10 of us don't gather at once, we all stay 2 metres apart and wear masks. Sport is still strictly individual and we must keep at least 10m distance for running, 20m for cycling. Walking in pairs at the most and only people who live together, and at least 4m from other walkers. So 7.30am I found a group of like 15 teenaged girls out walking, no masks, arms linked, spread all the way across the street. The mind boggles, it really does. Is there no middle-ground or common sense left in this world?

    ETA on the spraying thing. My mother lives in a small rural village up in the mountains. They don't have street-cleaning vehicles there. So they've recruited a bunch of local farmers to use their tractors to pull tanks of disinfectant with hoses round the streets, with a council worker walking behind operating the hoses. Dunno what they're spraying, but dogs keep burning their paws on it afterwards :(

    Not only does it not sound very effective at limiting spread of the virus, but it also sounds harmful to wildlife and plant life (in addition to people and pets).

    I guess this would be a bad time to be on a motorcycle or drive a convertible!
  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,854 Member
    Hope you had a great birthday @bearly63 !

    Happy Birthday to Skip too! Oh to be 20 years old again!
  • robynmac5819
    robynmac5819 Posts: 161 Member
    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

    5/11-4.25 miles treadmill run
    5/13-4.25 miles Treadmill Run

    5/15-3.0 miles treadmill run
    5/18-1.5 miles treadmill run 5min/2min (5.0mph/3.5mph)

    F****** damnit


    Current Total: 32.6 miles
    Goal:50 miles
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,553 Member
    katharmonic wrote: »
    Hope you had a happy birthday @bearly63!
    And happy birthday to @skippygirlsmom's Skip!

    Great long run @janejellyroll! I know what you mean, but my coach says no training goes to waste. You'll be stronger for it regardless of whether you get to race in the near future.

    Take it easy @brittanystebbins95! You're doing so great staying active but give yourself a break.

    @teresa502 great job taking advantage of the nice weather and doing an easy run.

    I don't know what to say about this spraying the streets and spraying cars craziness. Seems like a huge waste and potentially harmful as @T1DCarnivoreRunner said. This is the first I've heard of such a thing.

    @penko47 well done on your fastest 2 miles postpartum! Good for you!

    ALL OF THIS^^^^

    And yes @katharmonic those toe mobility exercises are very difficult for me too!

    @robynmac5819 so sorry about your calf injury. I know how crushing that feels. I've had all of the lower leg injuries imaginable. Maybe it just needs a few more days rest and rolling. 🙏🤞
  • bearly63
    bearly63 Posts: 734 Member
    Thanks for the birthday wishes! Feel good today after the run yesterday so I plan to run before my Fleet Feet appt.

    @skippygirlsmom Happy Birthday to Skip. I recall 20 being a pretty great year! I loved literally every single minute of college.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    katharmonic wrote: »
    Hope you had a happy birthday @bearly63!
    And happy birthday to @skippygirlsmom's Skip!

    I missed these! Well happy birthday to both! You can have extra cake since I missed it, and you do not need to track the calories, cause we all know birthday cake has none.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,204 Member
    Hey all, skimmed posts again. Work is busy again, yay!

    Went for a walk this morning, but didn't strength train, I skipped strength on Sunday cause I needed the rest after Saturdays long run. And I slept in this morning so didn't have time to do strength this morning. May try do some tonight but it's not likely given kids...
  • hanlonsk
    hanlonsk Posts: 762 Member
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »

    Ikr? On the news last night, they were showing some town that has set up a 'disinfecting arch' over the main road into town so all cars coming from elsewhere get sprayed before they drive in. I mean wtf? They think the cars are going to bring a virus in, rather than the people inside them? It's like you see people driving about in their cars, alone, wearing masks. But then at the other end of the scale you have the people that pay no attention at all to any of the rules.

    So, I am routinely pointing out to the people saying how totally dumb the people are who do this are, and laughing at the rare person in my area being respectful and taking this precaution....so, I’m saying it here, also.... some who are driving by themselves in their car with a mask on, may be truly dumb, I have know way to know this.... but some of us are just lazy and can not be arsed to screw with it. If I have 3 errands to run, and I get the darn mask situated so that it is comfortable, stays put, and most importantly doesn’t fog my darn glasses - I am NOT taking the thing off between stops, and starting over. Especially since I have no way to truly wash my hands between stops. So, you can think we are being ridiculous if you want... some of us are just lazy.

    @brittanystebbins95 color me impressed...my best friend who I thought would run thru anything stopped fairly early in both her pregnancies... not because of any major issue, but because she had to pee about every mile, and got tired of loops and stops. Haha

    I did my forest service trail hike/run today. Plan was to take a turn and come up just short of 3 miles... but it’s been long enough since I ran them I took the wrong turn and had a route that was pushing towards 6+ miles, I went rogue and cut some corners, and ended up just short of 5.... not quite what I planned... little more intense than I expected today. And I was as even trying to run some bits in the beginning. I was soooo over it by the end.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    @brittanystebbins95 Pregnancy aside, 20 lbs makes a significant difference to running. The rule of thumb is mile pace gets about twenty seconds faster per ten pounds, so very quickly gaining 20 should be expected to slow you down quite a bit. Not to mention your balance is changing, as well as the looseness of your tendons, which can impact your form.

    Just keep listening to your body and remember your real goal is to stay healthy, not to run any particular distance at any particular speed!

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