May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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@mbaker566 What an utterly gorgeous dress!
Happy May everyone!
Tomorrow was supposed to be my 20 mile trail race, instead I'm going to pile all my energy into Sunday's long run. I really struggled miles 13-17 last week due to general hydration level so I'm focusing on fixing that.
5/1: 2m
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@Ringbearer2 I've thought about doing that in a year, but not 3 months. That's a lot of running. What part of TN do you live in? I'm in upper E. TN.
@Scott6255 Glad you are all CoVID free. Hugs to you and your wife dealing with your aunt. Dementia is such a horrible disease and so hard on the family. I hope you can get her back into the assisted living center soon.1 -
quilteryoyo wrote: »@Ringbearer2 I've thought about doing that in a year, but not 3 months. That's a lot of running. What part of TN do you live in? I'm in upper E. TN.
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May, June, July, August = 4 right? So not as bad as you thought?1 -
PastorVincent wrote: »Ringbearer2 wrote: »Well, I’ve done a potentially ludicrous thing and signed up for a 1000k virtual race across Tennessee between today and the end of August. Getting too big for my britches I guess. Pray for me.
250k a month? I do not know your fitness level, but that is a pretty serious commitment. Just make sure you are up to it, especially given that Tennessee will be nice and warm for most of that time.
If that is in the range you know you can do, then go for it! Even if it is a little stretch, maybe more so.
Oh it’s virtual, so most of it will be in my living room in Germany. 😀 My goal is to end up running at least half, with percentages increasing as I improve. My overall fitness is pretty good according to my V02 max and I hike 10-15 miles in rugged terrain (or at least I used to) fairly regularLy so im not too worried about that. Mostly it’s a medium term goal I think could actually be accomplished, given the current variables.
Also, I was born in TN, so there’s that...
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@quilteryoyo, I don’t live there, it’s a virtual race. I just thought it would be fun because I was born in Knoxville. Plus my crazy Ironman athlete friend made me do it and I also roped my daughter in as well.
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My goal for May is 55Km4
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I have some friends who signed up for it and I think it averages out to 5 miles a day?Ringbearer2 wrote: »@quilteryoyo, I don’t live there, it’s a virtual race. I just thought it would be fun because I was born in Knoxville. Plus my crazy Ironman athlete friend made me do it and I also roped my daughter in as well.
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I have some friends who signed up for it and I think it averages out to 5 miles a day?Ringbearer2 wrote: »@quilteryoyo, I don’t live there, it’s a virtual race. I just thought it would be fun because I was born in Knoxville. Plus my crazy Ironman athlete friend made me do it and I also roped my daughter in as well.
Well 1000km / 4 months = 250km per month
250km / 4 weeks = 62.5 km per week
62.5km /7 days = roughly 9km a day.
So about 6 miles a day is ballpark I would say. Probably want to do more for the days you will miss due to scheudal, weather, and such though.2 -
Lenamarshae wrote: »Hi Everyone!
I’m going to shoot for 30 miles for the month of May. Thanks for this forum and support.
Good Luck! 😉
May 1: 4.5 miles! Yayy (walked 3.5, jogged 1)8 -
Aiming for 150 miles (mostly walking, some jogging)4
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5-1 7k moderate
May Total: 191k
May Goal: 170k
January Total: 161k
February Total: 167k
March Total: 181k
April Total: 191k
2020 Total through April: 700k
Doesn't get much better than today. 45 degrees F, a light misty drizzle, and just a bit of a breeze from the north.
You may want to slow down there a little bit buddy. You are already 21k past your May goal, and it's only May 1!
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@PastorVincent Apparently I can't count. LOL I was going by August being the 8th month and May the 5th, so 8-5 is 3, right? Forgot to be inclusive instead of exclusive.
@Ringbearer2 Cool that you were born in Knoxville. I'm not too far from there. Can't imagine trying to do that challenge in my living room. I hope that means you have a treadmill in there.
Welcome to all the newcomers!
Today's plan called for Speed Play: easy warm up for 10 minutes followed by 3 x 2 minutes hard/2 minutes easy, finish with 5 minute easy. I did laps on the driveway again. It was pretty windy, but otherwise great weather wise. But, I think Garmin was sleeping or something. As many times as I have done these driveway laps, I pretty much know how far the lap and how fast I am going. It started with my warm up walk. Normally one lap is 0.31 miles and takes me 5 minutes. Well, today I had to go a little bit further than one lap to get 0.30 miles and it took 5:30 minutes...3.3 mph. I haven't walked that slowly, when trying to walk fast, in ages. The theme continued during the run and cool down walk too. I checked the track afterwards and there are no gaps like it dropped out or anything. It was just different today. I'm just going with what Garmin said, but am about 99% sure that I went further and faster than what it showed.
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01/05 1.5 miles
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Almost forgot to tell you I ordered new shoes today. I ordered the Brooks Launch 6. It's the old style, so they were on sale. Only $65. My current shoes are Brooks Adrenaline GTS. I got them because I had some overpronation, but when I did the test for that today, I don't seem to have it anymore. Is it possible to correct that sort of thing? We'll see. The good thing about Brooks is that you get 90 days to return them. They predict that I will get them next week.6
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quilteryoyo wrote: »@PastorVincent Apparently I can't count. LOL I was going by August being the 8th month and May the 5th, so 8-5 is 3, right? Forgot to be inclusive instead of exclusive.
It is actually a very normal mistake to make. While in college I took a lot of useless classes but one interesting class was essentially on counting and we covered lots of gotchas like this one. Most of the class I have of course forgotten, but I seem to have remembered enough to get this count right.
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Would like to join in this month!
Will set my goal at 40 miles.
Best wishes!!
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5/1 - 3 miles
3 of 50 miles
@quilteryoyo I just brought a new pair of Brooks Launch too. Can’t wait for them to get here, they are what I wear all the time on the road. I usually buy at my local Fleet Feet but the didn’t have any.1 -
@skippygirlsmom That's good to hear. I hope I like them as much as you do.2
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5-1 7k moderate
May Total: 191k
May Goal: 170k
January Total: 161k
February Total: 167k
March Total: 181k
April Total: 191k
2020 Total through April: 700k
Doesn't get much better than today. 45 degrees F, a light misty drizzle, and just a bit of a breeze from the north.
You may want to slow down there a little bit buddy. You are already 21k past your May goal, and it's only May 1!
I TOLD you it doesn't get much better than today!!!!!!
The editing and proofreading, however, leaves something to be desired.4
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