May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
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    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
    5/19 – 4
    5/20 - 4
    5/21 - 4
    5/22 - 3
    5/23 - 6
    5/24 - 6
    5/25 – 5
    5/26 – 5
    5/27 – 5
    5/28 - 5

    106 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
    The Big Run - June 3
    NEGU virtual run - June - Team NEGU helping support kids with cancer
    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
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
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    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
    5-19 7k moderate
    5-20 7k easy
    5-21 6k moderateish
    5-22 7k easyish
    5-23 7k moderate
    5-24 7k easyish
    5-25 7k easy
    5-26 7k easyish
    5-27 7k moderate
    5-28 7k moderate

    May Total: 186k
    May Goal: 170k

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

    2020 Total through April: 700k

    Cloudy and high 60s F today, with a little light rain to help evaporative cooling. Lower back was stiff and that never makes for a good beginning, although it did eventually loosen up.
    Beans have begun to sprout.

    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
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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    Any one wanna do the honors of starting June’s thread?
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
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    @PastorVincent I’m still trying to figure out why your wash cycle is 2 hours.

    @rheddmobile I love when I see a double rainbow. Poor cherry tree.

    @janejellyroll under my training log in Strava I can see my weekly runs for the whole month, but not a total.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
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    @katharmonic On the app I can't (only the option to start a free trial), but I just looked on the web version and I can see everything. Thanks!
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    edited May 2020
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    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Any one wanna do the honors of starting June’s thread?

    I will :-)


    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10798171/june-2020-monthly-running-challenge/p1?new=1

  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
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    @skippygirlsmom Once you've on the training calendar, if you click into the particular month it will show you how many miles you've run (at least it does for me).
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
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    janejellyroll wrote: »
    @skippygirlsmom Once you've on the training calendar, if you click into the particular month it will show you how many miles you've run (at least it does for me).

    thanks!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 4,973 Member
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    May Goal: 100 Miles

    5/3: 11.07 miles
    5/5: 6.25 miles
    5/6: 5.71 miles
    5/7: 5.16 miles
    5/10: 13.2 miles
    5/12: 5.35 miles
    5/13: 6.40 miles
    5/14: 5.31 miles
    5/17: 10.02 miles
    5/19: 6.55 miles
    5/20: 6.55 miles
    5/21: 6.25 miles
    5/24: 10.02 miles
    5/26: 6.25 miles
    5/27: 6.30 miles
    5/28: 6.51 miles

    116.91/100 miles completed for May

    553.07/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders

    It was another beautiful run this morning. It was a little humid, but cool and really pleasant. I ran 6.5 miles. It was still a little dark when I headed out, but the sun was up for most of the run. It was a good but uneventful run. I'm well over my goal for May and thanks to @Tramboman our RTY team got our 1100 mile bib this morning so we are over halfway to our 2020 mile goal.

    I actually stopped to take a couple of pictures of the sunrise. Although they never do it justice.
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    I still had my Garmin for the run. I haven't shipped it off yet. The instructions were to get a tracking number when I shipped it, but I live in the middle of nowhere and there is no UPS store near me, just a drop off location. So they told me to contact Garmin to get a pre-printed label. Yesterday when I contacted them I used the "chat" function but today it wasn't available and I had to email them. The automatic response says they will respond in the next 3-5 days. If I don't hear from them this afternoon I will probably just call. I hate to have to be without it, but I'd just as soon get it sent off so I can get it back. I'm planning to just track my runs with Strava while I'm waiting. I guess I need to check and see if I can get the info from Strava to RTY. I think you can manually add stuff to RTY though.


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    2020 races:
    11/7/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 5,959 Member
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    @PastorVincent Just a little bit competitive, are you? :wink:

    @katharmonic That's a long hill. I did hill repeats today too, but mine was only .04 miles.

    @skippysmom Thanks for setting up June's thread.

    @kgirlhart Photos rarely do sunrises or sunsets justice. You're are pretty though. Glad you had a good run.
  • quilteryoyo
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    I finally got to do a hill repeats workout today. I thought I would be doing it on the treadmill because mom and dad were going to come help me saw up some trees that had fallen beside of my driveway. They did come up and we got the biggest one partially cut up when the chain flew off of the bar. You have to wait until it cools down to put it back on. We had the worst part done, so decided to wait until it's cooler one day next week to finish.

    It was hot already (well, 77°F and partly cloudy), but decided to do the run on my driveway. The hill I chose to run up was 0.04 miles long/short. It was the perfect distance as it took me almost exactly 30 seconds to sprint up. The plan I did called for 10 minutes easy run, 6 x (30 sec hard effort uphill/90 sec easy), followed by 5 minutes easy pace. I did a little extra to reach 2.25 miles. I also walked for a mile.

    This hill repeat was sort of fun. It showed me that I can run up this hill at a good pace - best pace was 9:31/mile. But, 6 times was plenty. I think had I had to do a 7th, it would have been much slower.

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  • Teresa502
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    I had to go to town today to ship some work-related items at the UPS store which opened at 8:00 am so I met a friend at 6:00 am and got a 7-mile run in, gassed up the car, went to the grocery store and Starbucks. No spectacular views on the run – just city streets but the smells of various plants in bloom was heavenly!

    @Scott6255 – great news about your aunt! Will she be able to return to the nursing home now?

    Thanks @janejellyroll, @kgirlhart, @bearly63, @Elise4270, @PastorVincent, @Scott6255, @hamsterwheel6, @quilteryoyo, @mbaker566, @skippygirlsmom, @Avidkeo, @katharmonic, @Faebert, @rheddmobile for your condolences.

    @bearly63 – great job surpassing that goal! I can’t imagine doing speed work on trails. My main goal is to not trip on roots, rocks and ruts and to stay upright!

    @mbaker566 – I love the pictures of you and your fur babies and love that you have the heart and soul for fostering. Bless you!

    @eleanorhawkins – great hill workout! Our governor has declared that all residents must wear masks starting tomorrow while inside “brick and mortar retail establishments,” public transportation or indoor space shared by groups of people. The way people are complaining you would think he has asked them to wear handcuffs and shackles. Unlike Spain, however, the police will not be enforcing this regulation…

    Thanks @skippygirlsmom for starting the new thread!

    Great job Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders (@kgirlhart an
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
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    @Teresa502 I love those spring runs where you can smell all the various plants blooming and growing.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,190 Member
    edited May 2020
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    janejellyroll wrote: »
    Could it be? A rainfree weekend in the forecast! :D Relatively mild temperatures too.

    I realized this morning that Strava has moved the total miles for the month to their paid version and there's no good way to see it on my free account. I understand some of the fancier features getting moved, but I really didn't think this counted as "premium"-style content. Oh well!

    Nooo poo dang it. That's so frustrating. Got no real use for strava now really, and I don't care enough about the social stuff to pay for it.

    ETA ok can view on Webpage. Hmmm....
  • Mari33a
    Mari33a Posts: 1,080 Member
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    01/05 1.54 miles
    05/05 2.35 miles
    06/05 2.51 miles
    07/05 1.52 miles
    13/05 2.51 miles
    16/05 2.65 miles
    17/05 2.12 miles
    19/05 2.61 miles
    25/05 2.21 miles
    26/05 2.60 miles
    27/05 2.85 miles
    28/05 2.07 miles


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  • quilteryoyo
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    @hamsterwheel6 Really surprised that you have a completely blocked artery and they are doing nothing. But, on the bright side, it is likely that the heart has grown another artery around the block. That happens often, I hear. When dad had open heart surgery, they said he had started growing a new one, it just hadn't finished yet. I think the body is a very amazing machine.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,190 Member
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    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    @hamsterwheel6 Really surprised that you have a completely blocked artery and they are doing nothing. But, on the bright side, it is likely that the heart has grown another artery around the block. That happens often, I hear. When dad had open heart surgery, they said he had started growing a new one, it just hadn't finished yet. I think the body is a very amazing machine.

    Yep this is exactly what happens. They are called collaterals. I was in angio yesterday (operating the machine, not me personally) and they are really neat to see

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