June 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Shortgirlrunning
    Shortgirlrunning Posts: 1,020 Member
    @mbaker566 - My mom always works out with a hat on. Sweatbands/headbands never stay on her head and she sweats like crazy so a hat works best for keeping the sweat out of her eyes.
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,551 Member
    @mbaker566 I always wear a hat. In summer to keep sun off face (only works at a few angles though), but mostly to keep the sweat out of my eyes! I have a Halo running hat that has a sweatband built-in. It channels the sweat to each side of your face so it doesn't drip down into your eyes and sting like HELL!! Actually doesn't work as well as their dedicated headbands, but it is more versatile (and not as dorky looking).
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    i could see maybe this one as it's made of that cooling fabric. i've got a towel and a buff made of that kind of material. honestly. haven't had much oppurtunity to use it thus far.
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,443 Member
    Welcome to all the newcomers!

  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    edited June 2020
    6-1 7k moderate

    June Total: 7k
    June Goal: 170k

    January Total: 161k
    February Total: 167k
    March Total: 181k
    April Total: 191k
    May Total: 200k

    2020 Total through May: 900k

    Sunny and 70 degrees F today. Since it was so nice, ran after I played golf.

    A warm welcome to all the newcomers!!

    @mbaker566 I always wear a hat as well. Usually keeps the sweat and sun out of my eyes.


    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
  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,852 Member
    June 1 – 7.16 miles

    It was nice and cool at 46F this morning and low humidity. I felt I could have run the route again, but…work awaited me. My goal for the month is 130 miles. I’ve got half marathon on June 13 that the organizers have received special permission to hold. They have capped the number of participants. They plan to have wave starts. It will be interesting to see how it unfolds. It’s a challenging course out on country roads so it’s not a wildly popular race with some anyway. It’s in the Burke’s Garden area of Virginia. Beautiful country known as “God’s Thumbprint.” Story has it that at one point George Vanderbilt tried to buy it but was unable to and traveled to Asheville where he established Biltmore Gardens.

    @kgirlhart – I’m so sorry for your loss.

    @juliet3455 – sounds like your trail run was very adventurous!

    @eleanorhawkins – can you tell a difference in your “feel” after a month of doing yoga every single day? That is so impressive!

    @elise4270 – I love your summary of the human race! Sad but so true!

    @skippygirlsmom – are you streaking again this month?

    @mbaker566 – I use a hat to help keep sun out of my eyes and the band absorbs sweat on my forehead so that keeps it out of my eyes. There is a line of hats called Headsweats designed to specifically do that. Sunglasses bother me sometimes when I’m really sweaty and they slide down my nose!

    Welcome to all the newcomers to this thread!
    Anyone heard from @Camaramandy648 and her son's test results?
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    edited June 2020
    @mbaker566 I love my visor. I wear a knit cap for the coldest part of winter and the visor the rest of the time. It's got a velcro back so I can fit it exactly to my head, it's flexible for whatever I want to do with my hair (I've currently got short hair, but I've used it with really long hair in a ponytail too), and I don't have to put sunscreen on my forehead (which keeps it out of my eyes). Also, it keeps the rain off my glasses when it's raining.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,154 Member
    Thank you @Teresa502. I've been wondering about @Camaramandy648 and her son too.
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    Camaramandy648 wrote: »
    I’m so behind!

    We
    Got
    Results!

    Patchen is NEGATIVE!

    PRAISE JESUS WE CAN LIVE AGAIN!

    super glad i didn’t isolate him only to find out it’s not THE virus.

    He seems to be improving and getting energy back so I will probably not push for more tests right now. What a strange few days it has been.

    My June goal is 160 miles!

    Good news is the BEST news!!!
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    Camaramandy648 wrote: »
    I’m so behind!

    We
    Got
    Results!

    Patchen is NEGATIVE!

    PRAISE JESUS WE CAN LIVE AGAIN!

    super glad i didn’t isolate him only to find out it’s not THE virus.

    He seems to be improving and getting energy back so I will probably not push for more tests right now. What a strange few days it has been.

    My June goal is 160 miles!

    yay!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,154 Member
    Camaramandy648 wrote: »
    I’m so behind!

    We
    Got
    Results!

    Patchen is NEGATIVE!

    PRAISE JESUS WE CAN LIVE AGAIN!

    super glad i didn’t isolate him only to find out it’s not THE virus.

    He seems to be improving and getting energy back so I will probably not push for more tests right now. What a strange few days it has been.

    My June goal is 160 miles!

    I am so glad to hear that!!!
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    @Camaramandy648 What great news! I'm so happy for you and your family!
  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,852 Member
    Camaramandy648 wrote: »
    I’m so behind!

    We
    Got
    Results!

    Patchen is NEGATIVE!

    PRAISE JESUS WE CAN LIVE AGAIN!

    super glad i didn’t isolate him only to find out it’s not THE virus.

    He seems to be improving and getting energy back so I will probably not push for more tests right now. What a strange few days it has been.

    My June goal is 160 miles!

    Glad his results were negative and he is feeling better.
  • Faebert
    Faebert Posts: 1,588 Member
    Hi all, thanks for setting this up @skippygirlsmom.

    Yay @Camaramandy648 - what a relief!!

    Everyone reporting tough times within the spoilers - hugs to you all.

    Welcome to all the newcomers!

    I’m in for 75 miles this month as I’m planning to continue with running every other day. I’m off the mark with 5 miles for today.

    June goal: 75 miles
    June total: 5 miles

    1/6: 5m

    May: 80 m
    April: 115 m
    March: 76.4 m
    February: 17.8 m
    January: 0
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,443 Member
    @Camaramandy648 Yeah! Great news!!!
  • ContraryMaryMary
    ContraryMaryMary Posts: 1,777 Member
    Yay @Camaramandy648 that’s great news.

    On hats, @mbaker566, I always wear one, not only for sun protection and sweat absorption and keeping my hair off my face, but they will also keep rain out of your eyes. Not just any cap though, has to be quick dry fabric and no Velcro as I put it in the washing machine after every run (a lot of people don’t, I’ve discovered).
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @Camaramandy648 that is fantastic news.
  • ContraryMaryMary
    ContraryMaryMary Posts: 1,777 Member
    Nice to have you here @enaliba and @natacosupreme
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    Welcome to the new folks!!

    @kgirlhart sorry about your Aunt.

    @mbaker566 I can probably count on one hand the number of times I have worn a hat or visor. Usually only if it’s raining, otherwise my glasses get wet and I can’t see…oh yeah it’s has to be raining when I leave the house ha ha Skip wears sweatband hats and swears by them

    @brittanystebbins95 I didn’t used to run with glasses, I just went blurry eyed until I started to trail run because I really needed to see the roots etc. I can’t wear contacts because I can’t get them in my eyes, even the contact specialist guy at the eye doctor couldn’t get them in.

    @Teresa502 I’m not really streaking I’m just trying to get my 600K in before Labor Day weekend ha ha. If I miss a day I’ll be okay with that. I’m 30% done, I have I think like 30 miles in reserve. But then again in June and July and part of August I’m supposed to run as many miles as I can for this other race, and then Fleet Feet just hit me up to run I think it’s 40 miles in one week which is a distance from our town to another locally. I guess the ultra runners used to run it all the time on Saturdays ha ha

  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    Well, great. It’s going to be 90 degrees at sundown, dropping to 80 shortly thereafter, and we are under a curfew starting 10 pm. At least it’s not earlier.

    Warning, contains my opinions.
    So, I spent most of last night watching live feed from various sources from our local protests, which were 100% peaceful - although they attempted to walk to the bridge which the police did not want them to do - until police in riot gear started firing tear gas at peaceful protesters. All of the TV reporters present got a snootful, except the Fox News people who apparently were forewarned and were above the crowd looking down. After that, a single individual broke a single window, and was immediately reprimanded and chased away by everyone else. This is being reported as if there were huge riots. Shortly afterwards massive National Guard presence rolled up in a bunch of humvees. Who asked for them? They weren’t needed, and they made everyone there instantly hostile.

    Previously I had been warned by a friend that a local mall was going to get hit. She claimed she had heard this from police. I did some poking around on reddit and everyone had the same rumor. It was completely unfounded and no one seemed to be able to say where it had come from.

    The suggestion has been made that there are outside agitators involved. Well... the crowd split into two, before the protests, with the past organizer of the peaceful protests being followed around by a guy with a siren who set it off every time he attempted to speak, led chants saying the peaceful organizer was a cop (which is absurd) then took over the megaphone and said that he wasn’t going to go where the police wanted him to go, he was goin across the bridge. The peaceful guy then said he wasn’t going to burn his own city down and anyone who wanted a peaceful protest needed to leave with him now. He left, with about half the crowd at that time. Later more people arrived without having any idea the protest had been hijacked.

    Unfortunately Memphis can’t blame this on “outside agitators” because I know the second guy and he is a 100% home grown doofus with a history of protesting trivial things such as parking at the zoo and provoking police into arresting him. He is white, by the way, he’s an all purpose doofus who will protest anything. Later in the evening the megaphone was taken by a black guy, and I know him too, he’s been active in the past as an activist demanding MORE police presence at the basketball courts near the East precinct, since people were getting into fistfights over games right in front of the police station. He’s not exactly homegrown, since he lives in Olive Branch, Mississippi, but he’s not exactly an outsider. I guess he doesn’t see the contradiction between demanding that police referee basketball games and demanding that they leave everyone alone.

    Ugh, very annoyed at everyone right now. But I am mostly annoyed that someone felt it was necessary to call in National Guard when the local police were already causing trouble by being too heavy handed. If they had just allowed everyone to walk across the bridge to Arkansas, there would have been no trouble whatsoever. There are no businesses on the bridge and nothing to be set on fire, and traffic was already stopped.
  • hamsterwheel6
    hamsterwheel6 Posts: 544 Member
    Beautiful day here. Going for a walk in a few. Summer is here already going to be in 90’s this week. I love the hot weather. But not for running lol.
    @Camaramandy648 Wonderful news! Hopefully you can go run and celebrate
    @mbaker566 Always wear hat - to keep sun out, sweat out, hair out of my face and rain when it does. I do run without sometimes, but not often.

    Welcome to the newcomers!

  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    @rheddmobile I lived in Memphis for years and I still find myself forgetting how hot it gets!
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,551 Member
    @Camaramandy648 Yay!! Great news!! 🤗

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