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September 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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quilteryoyo wrote: »
I ventured past the sheep and sheep dogs. I saw the big guard dog, but it ignored me. The little one that I was afraid of was no where in sight, so I'm hoping he got rid of it. I was able to go out the road about 2 miles and back and some shorter out and backs. I did stop for water 3 times, I think. My average pace was 11:52 with and AVG HR of 158. Fastest mile was mile 7 at 11:05 minutes. That's the mile where I began feeling the run in my legs. Perhaps it was the pace and not the mileage. LOL
Way to go @quilteryoyo! Speaking of sheep dogs. Yesterday I was running down a seldom traveled gravel road and heard something behind me. Turned around and saw this:
I gave him some good pettings and he trotted along with me for a little ways before returning to tend to his flock.5 -
September Goal: 26.2 miles during Boston Virtual Week for PastorVincent
9/1 3.85
9/2 off
9/3 2.58 + snorkel 1 hour
9/4 off
9/5 3.31
9/6 off
9/7 5.83 of 26.2 for @PastorVincent Virtual Boston Marathon
Total 15.57
Upcoming and current races:
D-Backs Virtual Run Against Cancer on 10/17 (which would have been my son's 43rd birthday....)
https://raceroster.com/events/2020/27903/2020-d-backs-virtual-race-against-cancer
Big Island Challenge (virtually run 110 miles from Hilo to Kona by 9/27)
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September Goal: 100 Miles
9/1: 6.22 miles
9/2: 5.05 miles
9/3: 6.06 miles
9/6: 10.11 miles
9/7: 6.25 miles
33.69/100 miles completed for September
978.92/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders
6.25/26.2 miles completed for the @PastorVincent vs. Boston Memorial Challenge
6 miles this morning to start the @PastorVincent Boston challenge. I decided to go ahead and run this morning. I have the day off and it was pretty nice at ~73°F. There may be rain later in the week which is ok, but we rarely get rain without lighting and since this is the week of the Boston challenge I didn't want to miss any runs. Plus running a 10K is one of my favorite things to do on a day off. 😁 I hope everyone who has the day off is enjoying it and hope everyone else is having a great day too!
Congrats on a great run @quilteryoyo!
Beautiful sunrise @Faebert!
@Teresa502 That's a beautiful dog. I'm glad he was friendly and just wanted to join you.
2020 races:
11/7/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon5 -
Thanks @shanaber and @T1DCarnivoreRunner so I look forward to the next few weeks!
It looks like it may take some time for my running energy to pick up @hanlonsk and I would be happy for you to join me if you haven't already been snapped up? Cheers, Bob!3 -
Great running everyone! @hamsterwheel6 Hope the hamstring is okay. @shanaber I saw that about the gender reveal, terrible that you are so close to it. I hope you guys in Cali catch a break soon.
Our 10 milers, @quilteryoyo and @marisap2010 are virtually approaching Natick town center!
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If y’all do form a team, let me know what you want your team name to be on the leaderboard!TheMrWobbly wrote: »Thanks @shanaber and @T1DCarnivoreRunner so I look forward to the next few weeks!
It looks like it may take some time for my running energy to pick up @hanlonsk and I would be happy for you to join me if you haven't already been snapped up? Cheers, Bob!
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@rheddmobile I'm late but thank you for setting up the challenge.
Sadly I'm still out. Calf is still niggly and annoying. Longest I'm able to walk is only a couple of km. I think its going to be October before I'm doing anything.
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@hamsterwheel6 So sorry to hear about your hamstring. I hope it is minor. Otherwise, great run and excellent paces for the 5Ks. Love the name of your team. I was thinking the other day that I was glad @PastorVincent 's neighbor figured out what it was he had been wearing on his back all this time.
@Faebert Glad you got your runs in and that sunrise is spectacular!
@Teresa502 So cool that the dog was friendly and just wanted some petting. They are really cool dogs.
@rheddmobile Thanks for the video. It would awsome to actually be there for that!
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@TheMrWobbly i think I am officially connected to your team thanks to @rheddmobile
I will leave it to you to pick our team name, since I am the tag along!
We are probably a good pair for this thing, as I am also (due to peer pressure from a coworker and my boyfriend) dipping my toe into the keto pool. That fact, along with the snow, contributed to why I’m guessing my miles so low.4 -
After our discussion about lights I got an email that Noxgear is having a sale up to 42% off sitewide if anyone is interested.5
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Took my bike out this morning with the intention of doing the 14km I would need to complete the marathon distance for this week, as my running plan calls for 28km and change. I thought I remembered a way round the back lanes which would be pleasant and make for a circular route, but got a bit confused by a hill I didn't remember being there 20 years ago, which is when I last went round there on horseback. Half way up the hill I couldn't see the lane I was looking for, so turned around and after heading down a couple of dead ends and having to turn round I finally found my way back to the river trail. Just going home would have left me a few km short, so I decided to just go ahead and do the whole trail. Ended up being just under 21km when I was nearing home, so I went round the block to make it a HM distance. Legs are on fire now! Not sure I'll be up for doing tomorrow's 4 mile run at the race pace Hal calls for. I'm sure @PastorVincent would really approve of me disobeying Hal :-)
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Yay! Set out for 5 miles and made 5 miles. When my body runs out of energy I start with the rock'n'roll and head bobbing so I focus on form and made it. It was really slow, nearly 50 seconds a mile slower than carb-running.@TheMrWobbly i think I am officially connected to your team thanks to @rheddmobile
I will leave it to you to pick our team name, since I am the tag along!
The pressure!!! I'm not sure homw many characters we can have @rheddmobile but how about 'Make tomorrow better' a nod to PV's philosophy and subtly including keto in there
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It is really cool being able to see progress on the marathon map. Thank you so much @rheddmobile
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Is anyone else having issues with MFP? The forums keep freezing, so I can’t go back to any page other than the current one. I’ve had issues for about 24 hours.
Congrats to everything that everyone accomplished yesterday, even if I couldn’t read about it! I did 10 slow miles in the much cooler, less humid weather. I wish it would stay like that!6 -
TheMrWobbly wrote: »Yay! Set out for 5 miles and made 5 miles. When my body runs out of energy I start with the rock'n'roll and head bobbing so I focus on form and made it. It was really slow, nearly 50 seconds a mile slower than carb-running.@TheMrWobbly i think I am officially connected to your team thanks to @rheddmobile
I will leave it to you to pick our team name, since I am the tag along!
The pressure!!! I'm not sure homw many characters we can have @rheddmobile but how about 'Make tomorrow better' a nod to PV's philosophy and subtly including keto in there
“Make Tomorrow Better” it is!
@eleanorhawkins is virtually passing the Newton Firehouse now and nearing Heartbreak Hill! Note that she asked me to add bike to her recognized activities - if anyone else has special requests like that, let me know.
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I use the web to view the forum, not the app. No trouble viewing past pages.1
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Started off my Virtual Boston Marathon for @PastorVincent with almost 10 miles on trails yesterday, 5.5 running miles and the rest walking. Made it a little bit of a special occasion by wearing the singlet I usually wear to races and my lucky headband. I had forgotten it was Labor Day, man there were a lot more people on the trails than usual. Didn’t have a mask myself because it’s usually not that crowded. Most were good about passing at a distance but those trails are true singlefoot in places and not everyone was making an effort. You know when someone goes by and you can smell their laundry detergent, aftershave, and hair conditioner and you think, “Yeah if I’m breathing all of that, you are too close!” So now I’m freaking out just a little and reminding myself that outside transmission is rare. We’re still getting about 200 cases a day in the county.
Still a really nice run! Knee is holding up over gradually increasing distances. It was a little too warm to be perfect running weather but very nice walking weather. We go through this field of fragrant purple flowers which I can’t identify - it’s not lavender - maybe some variety of sage? I am terrible with plant id. Since there were so many people we took some lesser used trails, including one which was mainly roots! So many roots. It feels good to be up to slightly more technical trails.
Virtually that puts me in the middle of historic Natick!
There was this photo of an aid station right where I ended up on the map, so I put myself into it!10 -
9-1 7.2k slow
9-2 7.2k easy
9-3 7.2k moderate
9-4 7.2k measy (between moderate and easy)
9-5 7k measy
9-6 7k easy
9-7 rest
9-8 7k marathon pace
September Total: 49.8k
September Goal: 170k
January Total: 161k
February Total: 167k
March Total: 181k
April Total: 191k
May Total: 200k
June Total: 156k
July Total: 180k
August Total: 172k
2020 Total through August: 1408k / 176k per month
Cloudy, low 60s F and humid this morning, after we had 4.6 inches of rain yesterday. Ran really well up to the 5.25 k point, where I thought I was going to pass out. Cut back the pace and finished, but not as strong a finish as I would have liked.
Keep crushing those marathon miles for Vincent!!!
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:
9-8 to 9-13 "Virtual Boston with Vincent" Time goal 5:15:00
Date Distance Time Cumulative time
9-8 7k 47:43 47:437 -
This is a little bit of an odd week for me. I have a virtual, live photography conference that starts at 7 am my time. Then it's a short work week and I have same deadlines as usual. I normally lift on my lunch break but I may work through lunch or take a shorter break.
So I'll lift tonight. Tomorrow I will go out before the conference for some speed work then Thursday is back to normal.
All weekend I've had a low grade headache that won't go away and stuffiness when I wake up. The only thing I can think of is the fires in California. The field behind us was cut a week or so ago so it's not that.5 -
@eleanorhawkins Great bike ride. I was going to say Hal will be really disappointed. Yes, @PastorVincent would be pleased. LOL
@TheMrWobbly Way to get the planned distance in. Sometimes it's a real struggle. Hope you adjust to keto soon.
Great run @marisap2010 . The cooler weather is nice while it lasts.
@rheddmobile I have never been in a big race. Most of the support along the routes I have run have been sporadic or none at all until the end. Now I really want to run a race with support like this. Glad you had a good run/walk and the knee is holing up.
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morning all.
looks like everyone got a good start
speed demon had a dns on sunday. it was storming when we would have driven and storming at the start time. she was not having it. i'm all for pushing her, but i let her hide in her hallwaythen later i picked up a new foster. and the rest of the weekend was showing her the ropes. she's a good girl. named vengeance. 25lb shepherd mix. knows sit. velcro dog. some submissive peeing when old girl has had enough of her shenanigans. her "owners" dropped her off during the latest hurricane with over 30 ticks on her
goal is to get out tonight
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@mbaker566 The new foster is beautiful! 😍😍😍2
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@mbaker566 Vengeance is adorable. I hope she finds a great home soon!1
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9/1 – 6 with Champ
9/2 – 3 with Champ
9/3 – 5 miles
9/4 – 3 miles of trail climb with Champ
9/5 – 7 miles
9/6 – 5 miles
9/7 – 5 miles with Champ
9/8 – 5 miles with Champ
39 of 115 miles
Sorry trying to catch up on the thread
Miles for PastorVincent – 10.26
@rheddmobile great job setting us all up I love looking at all of us running
@katharmonic amazing pictures
@Scott6255 the heat and humidity has been brutal, great job getting in 9 miles.
@RunsOnEspresso too funny about the dog, at least I can just pick Champ up ha ha
@hanlonsk our local weather guy posted pictures on his FB today of snow in Wyoming.
@shanaber my cousins in CA has been complaining it’s so hot. No way on the gender reveal starting the fire, OMG. The fires are horrible.
@quilteryoyo great 10 miles.
@Faebert pretty pictures
@Teresa502 that looks like a Great Pyrenees, there’s a lot of farms by me so I see a lot of them, great dogs, and they love to wander and then go home
@mbaker566 poor Speed Demon, the new foster is a beauty
So I’ve been trying to change where I run, I’m really getting bored with the hood and Monte Sano so Friday I took Champ out to Blevins Gap, they said it’s very kid friendly…oh that’s only is you are going in the “main gate” not that place you went in Kathie ha ha We did lots of climbing, all by ourselves, didn’t see a soul for 2 hours. Fun and Champ loved it.
Pictures here:
A little while back they took what was a mess of a cross country course and part of an old golf course and made it into an amazing XC course that will allow all different distances. The NCAA D1 Nationals will be here next year (can’t wait!!!!). Anyway they also added a 2.5 mile ish rubberized path around it, seriously 2.5 miles of rubberized path. So Champ and I gave it a try out. Very nice.
Pictures:
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 - done
The Big Run - June 3 - done
NEGU virtual run - June - Team NEGU helping support kids with cancer - done
Big Foot Wild Thangs Trail Race 5K/10K – June 20 on the trails…all together like a real race - done
Run 4 on the 4th – Virtual 4 miles on 4th of July - done
ISS Virtual 5K in July – done
Jackalope Trail Run 4 miler – done
Flora-Bama 600K - Virtual race from Huntsville AL to the Florida Alabama state line in Orange Beach – done
Scooby Doo Virtual 10K - done
Skunk Ape 5 miler August 1 trail race in person – done
Pirate Challenge – 10 weeks mile challenge June – August – done
Chupacabra 10K/HM – August 22 - done
Running of the Bulls Virtual 5K – 9/14 – 30/2020
The Pinhoti Trail Challenge 335 miles virtual – 1 Sept to 31 Dec – 9 miles done
2020 Liberty Road Challenge WWII soldiers journey from St. Mere Eglisde to Bastogne, Belgium – charity virtual run for the WII museum in New Orleans 716 miles team event 4 July – September – our team has finished
Space Race 400K Challenge 12 weeks running 248.5 miles to the ISS – August to November – 72 miles done
Oak Barrel Half Marathon – October – postponed from April7 -
September Goal: 100 Miles
9/1: 6.22 miles
9/2: 5.05 miles
9/3: 6.06 miles
9/6: 10.11 miles
9/7: 6.25 miles
9/8: 6.11 miles
39.80/100 miles completed for September
985.03/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders
12.36/26.2 miles completed for the@PastorVincent vs. Boston Memorial Challenge
6 miles this morning. It was a good run. Still kind of warm at 75°F but not too bad. The cold front is supposed to be here tomorrow with thundershowers in the morning. Really I think all day tomorrow. Since I ran on Monday I'll take tomorrow as a rest day. It may rain on Thursday too, but it looks like tomorrow will be the day for thunder. I can do rain, but not lightning. Today's run was good. I ran through the sprinklers at the courthouse. Then I saw a walker that I usually see heading east while I'm heading west. He was already heading west so I called out to him that I was going to pass him. He was really nice and asked how far I usually run. Then about 2 miles into my run my batteries went out on my noxgear so I stopped to change them. Then as I started back to running I heard a huge dog barking. Looked up and there was a great dane. I started to turn around then I noticed his owner on her porch. She called him in and I spoke to her briefly. He was a good dog and he went right back into the house. He wasn't ever aggressive, but great danes are big dogs with big barks so hearing him when it was still mostly dark outside was kind of scary. I guess they are new to that house because the dog that used to live there is a little terrier. After that my run was pretty uneventful except my aftershokz died on me. Luckily I was only about 10 minutes or so from home when she first said, "charge me" and they died just around the corner from my house. So all in all a great run. I'm not quite halfway in my virtual Boston marathon, but I'm getting there. Good thing I have a whole week and don't have to do it all in one run.
@hamsterwheel6 So sorry aobut the hamstring. I hope it heals quickly.
@Avidkeo Sorry your calf is still bothering you.
@rheddmobile I'm glad the knee seems to be on the mend.
@mbaker566 Poor Speed Demon. And Vengence is beautiful. I hope she finds a good home soon.
I was also going to mention that I had the email about the Noxgear sale. I know several on here use them and I just want to say I really love mine. I did have to stop and change the batteries today, but it wasn't a problem. When you turn the vest on and off it flashes green lights if the battery is good. When the batteries are starting to get low it flashes yellow and you will have 30/45 minutes of battery time left. If it goes to red then the batteries are about to die. Mine flashed yellow the last time I used it so I knew they were getting low and I almost changed the batteries before I left this morning, but I'm a cheapskate and I wanted to get all the use out of them I could so I carried a fresh pair with me.
2020 races:
11/7/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon6 -
@rheddmobile @quilteryoyo @kgirlhart Hamstring feels a bit better today. I did a whole lot of stretching, icing and rolling yesterday. It is still there though. I cycled today and fared ok with it. I'll try to run tomorrow, but if it is painful will have to walk it. We shall see. Thanks for the thoughts.
@mbaker566 beautiful new foster
@Avidkeo sorry about the calf. Totally understand!
@rheddmobile so happy the knee is finally behaving!
22 miles on the spin bike today. What is that in running miles? HA.
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@Avidkeo hope your calf mends quickly! I know you must be frustrated.
@mbaker566 Oh my, poor Speed Demon! I am a huge Speed Demon fan, I love her airplane ears.
@hamsterwheel6 Glad to hear the hamstring may be a little better.
@kgirlhart Sounds like a great run! Virtually you are passing right through the Wellesley Scream Tunnel right now!
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Today I kicked off @noblsheep and my VM for PV with a short speedwork session on the treadmill, because I had extra time this morning when I realized my kid is still coughing and still can't go to school.Any cough or sniffle at all, and they don't want them in the building. It's understandable, but send the homework list PLEASE because the kids feel fine and there's no reason for them to get behind on schoolwork.Then I had an exciting time with 4 groups at preschooldisinfect everything kids touch between groups, and I also got to witness an epic tantrum by new girl who decided she wanted to get mad and beat her new classmates with a Boom Whacker, and then threw herself on the floor screaming when I dared to pluck the thing out of her little hands before any real damage could be done 😆and now I'm spending Day #2 in the kitchen basically doing a banana bread baking marathon for work events. I know it's part of my job and not random, but it's for homeless/needy folks and I'm getting tired and the bananas came with a fruit fly infestation that I'm repeatedly vacuuming up but more keep coming, so can I just count this as my random act of kindness? 😆9
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i_gwDq4-QSk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4BELQapa814
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jx7t8p4GWw
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