October 2020 Monthly Running Challange
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GUYS LOOK WHAT JUST CAME IN THE MAIL.
[That's actually the face I'm making. WOW!]
I am impressed that you got yours first. You must be closer to where they are manufactured.
@katharmonic Those pictures are beautiful. I'd say well worth the time and effort it took to get there.6 -
Hello lovely people. Over 250 posts behind so will take me a while to catch up but I wanted to say hi before doing so. As you may have guessed, this month has been a bit of a disaster for running. I got a bit overwhelmed juggling full-time work, single parenthood, trying to fix my broken house and doing it all solo as the pandemic has stolen all my childcare help!!
But after just a few weeks I feel sluggish and unfit and so fed up. So I gritted my teeth and bought the treadmill, spent all day Saturday building it with just my 9yo daughter to help me - the thing weighs over 80kg and involved a depressing number of bolts and screws so I’m amazed I managed it. Ran 4 miles on it on Sunday and got a run in today. I’ve also managed to sort out some of those house repairs and it’s only two days into the 1 week break from school so I’m not doing too badly!
October will be a terrible month for my mileage but hopefully the sacrifices this month will pay off for the rest of winter.
Hope you’re all well - have missed you all x
October total: 30.8m
October goal: 80m
5/10: 6.2m
7/10: 6.2m
12/10: 4.6m
19/10: 5m
25/10: 3.9m
27/10: 5m
Jan - Sep: 625.4 miles11 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »GUYS LOOK WHAT JUST CAME IN THE MAIL.
[That's actually the face I'm making. WOW!]
I am impressed that you got yours first. You must be closer to where they are manufactured.
@katharmonic Those pictures are beautiful. I'd say well worth the time and effort it took to get there.
^^^^ This... EXACTLY!!!
@Faebert hang in there! You are doing great!!!3 -
@Faebert sorry to hear you've been having a rough time. I hope the treadmill helps, and that you can get back into the routine you want.
I did my long run today, 25 km and it was slow but good. I tried to be in the forests as much as possible (no mask required there) and my mood was definitely better on the trails.
It's becoming more of a "golden autumn" here:8 -
No run for me again today. My quads are still sore but not as bad as yesterday. I did a couple of gentle stretch videos this morning and hope to get out for a run in the morning.
@katharmonic – those pictures from your hike are gorgeous but I am not ready for snow! What was the temperature during your hike? Did you ever get warm enough to take your jacket off?
@polskagirl01 – Beautiful Fall foliage!
@Faebert – I have zero mechanical skills so I’m in awe of your putting together the treadmill all by yourself! I hope having it will relieve some stress you have going on now. Hugs!
@noblsheep – The medal is beautiful!
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@katharmonic Great hiking pictures. For some reason, I wasn't expecting to see snow.
@noblsheep That's awesome! You must be the first one to receive it. Can't wait to get mine.
@Faebert Sorry you have had such a rough month, but sounds like you are making progress. I'm impressed that you were able to put the treadmill together by yourself. Sometimes handling life is hard. You are doing great.
@polskagirl01 Nice run and love the forest trail and golden colors. Mom and dad and I are planning to go for another drive today to take in all of the colors around here.
@Teresa502 Hope the stretching helped and your quads feel better.3 -
10-1 7k easy
10-2 7k slow
10-3 7k slow
10-4 7k easy
10-5 rest
10-6 7k easy
10-7 7k easy
10-8 7k easy
10-9 7k easy
10-10 7k easy
10-11 7k easy
10-12 rest
10-13 7k easy
10-14 7k easy
10-15 7k slow
10-16 7k moderate
10-17 7k easy
10-18 7k easy
10-19 rest
10-20 7k easy
10-21 7k easy
10-22 7k easy
10-23 7k easy
10-24 7k easy
10-25 7k moderate
10-26 rest
10-27 7k slooooooooow
October Total: 161k
October 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
September Total: 176k
2020 Total through September: 1584k / 176k per month
Cloudy, damp, mid 40s F and no wind this morning. Felt slow, so ran slow.
I don't pay a lot of attention to heart rate, other as an indicator of what my relative effort is. Noticed that my maximum heart rate Sunday was 215 BPM, while my maximum heart rate today was 169 BPM.
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 - Completed 10-11
Stretch goal: If I can average 169k per month, I can run 2020k in 2020
Run the Year Team: Pavement Pounders -- Completed 9-29
2020 races:
9-8 to 9-13 "Virtual Boston with Vincent" Time goal 5:15:00; actual time 4:47:014 -
@Faebert good for you for getting your treadmill assembled and using it! Hang in there, you're doing great.
@noblsheep the medal turned out so cool.@katharmonic – those pictures from your hike are gorgeous but I am not ready for snow! What was the temperature during your hike? Did you ever get warm enough to take your jacket off?
@Teresa502 and @quilteryoyo - there was really only snow/frost on the trees and greenery up above 3500 feet or so. There wasn't snow on the ground, but lots of ice. I think the temps started around 28 degrees when we set out at 4 am. It really varied a lot but the sun came out and it felt pretty good, maybe into the 40s at points, but of course colder at the summits. I never took my jacket off I did take my gloves off and on a lot. I also wore fleece-lined hiking pants which was a good move, and my new Salomon hiking boots did well. I certainly tested out their waterproof nature.
@Teresa502 hope your quads feel better after some more stretching. Mine are pretty sore and yoga helped some today.
@polskagirl01 beautiful fall colors. Looks like a lovely place to run and clear your head.
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
10/01/20 :::: 2.1 :::: 2.1
10/02/20 :::: 1.8 :::: 3.9
10/03/20 :::: 5.0 :::: 8.9
10/04/20 :::: 3.1 :::: 12.0
10/05/20 :::: 3.6 :::: 15.5
10/06/20 :::: 1.9 :::: 17.4
10/07/20 :::: 1.5 :::: 19.0
10/08/20 :::: 2.7 :::: 21.6
10/09/20 :::: 2.0 :::: 23.7
10/10/20 :::: 4.2 :::: 27.8
10/11/20 :::: 3.0 :::: 30.9
10/12/20 :::: 3.5 :::: 34.3
10/13/20 :::: 2.4 :::: 36.7
10/14/20 :::: 3.0 :::: 39.8
10/15/20 :::: 1.7 :::: 41.5
10/16/20 :::: 2.0 :::: 43.5
10/17/20 :::: 7.8 :::: 51.3
10/18/20 :::: 0.9 :::: 52.2
10/19/20 :::: 1.9 :::: 54.1
10/20/20 :::: 1.8 :::: 55.9
10/21/20 :::: 4.4 :::: 60.3
10/22/20 :::: 1.7 :::: 62.0
10/23/20 :::: 3.2 :::: 65.2
10/24/20 :::: 10.7 :::: 75.9
10/25/20 :::: 0.9 :::: 76.8
10/26/20 :::: 2.7 :::: 79.5
10/27/20 :::: 1.6 :::: 81.1
Treadmill this morning before yoga, but I didn't get there on time so I had to finish up after. My Garmin is still not even close to being calibrated to the treadmill pace. I may need to do a longer run on it. It is frustrating because I keep adjusting it and it shows up fine in Connect, but in Strava it doesn't adjust to the new distance so I've been deleting and re-entering manually. Let's get it together everybody!
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GUYS LOOK WHAT JUST CAME IN THE MAIL.
Wow it looks great! I showed it to my husband and he says it turned out perfect, he wasn’t sure how they would handle the two sided ribbon but they did exactly what he requested.
@Teresa502 amazing job finishing your marathon and kudos to your support and finish line crew for making it feel like the real thing! @quilteryoyo I agree the Marine really do have the best uniform!5 -
Got 5 miles running and a hike on the far side of the river Monday. Getting used to the gravel, my legs don’t feel as beat up as the first time. It’s really pretty back there. There were two large horse trailers at the trail head when we arrived and we kept seeing fresh hoof prints (and fresh poops!) but we never did see any horses. I think they turned the opposite direction from us and looped back around before we finished. We did see two bobcats though! Two! I looked it up and bobcats are solitary ordinarily, and this isn’t their breeding season, but sometimes they remain with their mothers through the winter, so I’m guessing it was either two young brothers or a mom and mostly grown child. They were standing right in the middle of the trail when we sighted them and just looked at us as calm as could be, then swiftly vanished into the underbrush.
My husband also glimpsed what he guessed was a gray fox run across the trail but wasn’t sure. We peeked back and yep, big brushy pile exactly like the fox den they used to have in our back pasture. And then a dozen strides down the road we could smell it. Yep! Definitely a fox!
Weather was windy, nippy, and foggy. I got to try out my new sleeves. I was a little chilly setting out, never got hot enough to want to take them off. They were comfortable though.
I liked this big golden tree.
New sleeves!
This was where we stopped - according to the map the trail ends about half a mile before this point, but we didn’t figure that out until later.3 -
61.4/70 miles
10/2: 3.1 miles
10/3: 6.2 miles
10/5: 5.2 miles
10/7: 3 miles
10/8: 4.7 miles
10/13: 3.5 miles
10/14: 3.5 miles
10/16: 5 miles
10/17: 4 miles
10/20: 3.9 miles
10/21: 3 miles
10/22: 3.1 miles
10/24: 6.2 miles
10/26: 3.5 miles
10/27: 3.5 miles
Easy run this morning. Temps are right at that cutoff where I have problems getting my clothes right. It was 59F, windy, and humid. I wore a t-shirt and shorts which would have been fine for the temp, but once the wind picked up I was actually a little underdressed. Also, if I were doing a longer run or speed I might have been ok, but not enough for an easy run. I really need to remember that I own sleeves. Today would have been the perfect day for them.5 -
@teresa502 Great job on finishing your marathon!
@noblsheep The medal looks great!
@katharmonic Beautiful hiking photos!
@faebert Sorry things have been hard lately. Great job on getting the treadmill together. I hope it helps.
@polskagirl01 What a lovely fall run.
@rheddmobile How scary to see not just one bobcat but two. Great photos too.
@martaindale The one good thing about running in warm weather is I always know how to dress.
I decided to move today's run to Friday. It was 32°F feels like 23°F with freezing drizzle this morning. I don't have the right gear for that kind of weather and I don't want to slip and fall running on icy roads in the dark. Especially when my race is less than 2 weeks away. I'm not sure if I will try to run tomorrow or not. It's only supposed to be 36°F tomorrow and rainy but not icy. I haven't decided if I will tough it out or not. But it should be nicer on Thursday and Friday.4 -
Morning guys!
I've missed so much! The medals loom amazing! Congratulations to some, I see @Tramboman did a half? And hugs to everyone who needs them.
Been a long weekend here and zi was on call all weekend, so basically 4 nights of about 4-6hrs of very broken sleep. I felt like I had a newborn again, without the cuteness. I was absolutely exhausted by the end of yesterday I was asleep by 830pm!
So I didn't run on Monday, I was so tired I worried I would get another injury. And yesterday was just as bad. So I ran this morning. It was chilly and WET! and absolutely glorious. It was wonderful being out.
Some good news, I've officially been pain free for a week! I have had 1 run in that time, but no niggles, pain or weirdness. A tough of tightness after Fridays run, but it didn't last long. I see the physio today and I want to bring in more running days (currently doing Mon and Fri only), and I have an event I want to build towards.
There's a half in 4 months, @ContraryMaryMary and anyone else who's done a calf injury, how likely is it ill be able to run it? I'm thinking the 8k is more sensible, but man I really want to do the half haha.
It's flat if that means anything.6 -
Oh and I forgot to share. You guys get bears, coyotes, and other deadly creatures. Because of the rain and warmth, NZs most dangerous creature has come out! Open to suggestions on how to deal with these wee beasties...
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10/1 – 6 miles
10/2 – 9 miles
10/3 – 6 miles intervals with Champ
10/4 – 4 with Champ
10/5 – 0 rest day
10/6 – 6 miles
10/7 – 5 miles with Champ
10/8 – 3.13 miles
10/9 – 13.1 Oak Barrel Virtual Half Marathon
10/10 – 2 miles recovery
10/11 – 6 miles
10/12 – 6 miles
10/13 – 4 miles with Skip and Champ and Miss Ann
10/14 – 0 life took over day
10/15 – 6 miles
10/16 – 0 life took over today – again
10/17 – 9 miles
10/18 – 5 miles of the Wade Mountain 10K trail race
10/19 – 3 with Champ
10/20 – 6 miles
10/21 – 4 with Champ
10/22 – 5 miles
10/23 – 3 miles with Champ
10/24 – 13.1 Bridge Street Virtual Half Marathon
10/25 – 4 miles recovery with Champ
10/26 – 0 unplanned rest – work
10/27 – 5 miles
133 (135.21) of 115 miles
Hey can you all save me a minute are these folks in our challenge? Arrowj653, Mamichael322 and Topofmountains? If so I’ll go accept your friend request, if not I’ll delete them. Thanks
@noblsheep the medals are beautiful
@rheddmobile nice sleeves, what kind are they?
I signed up for a 15K trail race, it’s similar to the one I ran last year except I did the 5K and this year decided to do the 15K. I have done a lot of volunteering for the race director so he gave me 50% the race. Couldn’t pass it up.
@Avidkeo I have those in my yard, I call them my running mates.
Races:
283 of 335 miles Pinhoti Trail Challenge doneMother’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 - done
The Pinhoti Trail Challenge 335 miles virtual – 1 Sept to 31 Dec – 133 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 – 194 miles done
Bridge Street HM Virtual – 10/24 – 11/7/2020
Yuletide Madness Oct 31 – Dec 31 2020
Oak Barrel Half Marathon – October – running virtual - done
Cathedral Caverns 15K trail race – in person
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So decided to see what Hal would do for a 50k in 18 weeks. Not a fan of his plan.7
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@kgirlhart Unless you are a rabbit the bobcats aren’t all that scary, they are super shy. I grew up on a farm with bobcats on the property and only once saw one, although we often heard them screaming in the mornings! They sound like human women, it’s freaky.
@skippygirlsmom The sleeves are Decathlon. I tend to forget Decathlon even exists but everything I’ve bought from them was inexpensive but good quality.3
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