January 2021 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,213 Member
    ContraryMaryMary wrote: »
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    Hey all.

    Fun day for me. After a frustrating and long night at work last night, I slept like a log. Was up at 7am because I was being race director for our local Park Run! It was great. I was going to do my 7k long run after but by 930 it was very hot, humid and Busy. Also I was tired. So I canned it, went home, and slept for almost 3hrs instead. Definitely needed!

    I decided to try the 14 day trial of Hal, and yep already liking it. Its updated my runs based on what my paces actually are, and has moved my long run to tomorrow, and given me a 5k race challenge. I like this.

    Of course I waited too long and now the special offer has passed. So if I decide to pay for the full version, it's $95 for a year. Ouch. Its 11 per month, might do that for a couple of months. And hope for another offer.

    $95 for a year ain’t that bad - I pay $360 every two months for a real life person but doubt it’s 22 times better. Do it. Stick with it. Reap the rewards of an awesome result in October!!

    Hmmm good way to look at it. Also, I was going to do the rotorua half, but it's off road. I'm not ready for trails yet. So the $100 id have spent on that can go towards Hal.
  • eleanorhawkins
    eleanorhawkins Posts: 1,659 Member
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »
    katharmonic wrote: »
    @eleanorhawkins

    this is the half marathon a month challenge that I'm doing that @skippygirlsmom told me about. Not sure if they'll ship internationally.



    I signed up for ski school at the same little ski hill I tried out a couple of weeks ago and had my first "lesson" tonight. I went with my running friend who had skied a little but years ago and she was looking for something to do to get out of the house a little more. We were two women in their 40s/50s among a sea of kids, some of whom were literally about knee height to me I swear. We felt really nervous and ridiculous to start but ended up having a great time. They convinced us to try without polls and I was highly skeptical and nervous about it but it was a big game changer for me from the previous attempt. I felt so much more in control not relying on polls I guess. I only fell one time and that was getting off the chair lift, I kind of slid down the hill on my butt.

    The lesson itself was pretty minimal and totally not worth it - our instructor was a high school kid who was nice enough but pretty much all he told us was to do the pizza wedge and go for it. I'm not mad about it though, the price for a 6 week school was way cheaper than paying lift fees and rentals and my friend and I have a date on Friday nights for 5 more weeks. Our only regret is that there are no drinks in the lodge after due to COVID. We are hoping that we are both getting vaccinated soon and we can o out and celebrate with drinks after one of our later lessons. And then we're going to have a graduation party at a real mountain. :)

    Thanks @katharmonic I'll have a look.
    My family used to go on skiing holidays every winter when I was small, I got dragged along a few times and sent for lessons and they always took our poles away the same way they often teach you to horse ride without stirrups. I remember a teacher told me if I felt out of control to just sit down. I spent all my time on my *kitten* after that!

    So I asked them about international and the reply was 'sure, we already have a few folks from England'. But it said somewhere during the sign up stuff that it's 15 dollars for shipping and they're not sure how they will do it. I'm torn, I would really like to do it, but it's quite a lot of money and I'm concerned that when they realise the costs of international shipping they may realise they need to demand more on top to cover it. So, have to think about it for a day or two.
    On a similar note, I have yet to receive my RTY stuff which was shipped on 12/12 :-(
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,542 Member
    edited January 2021
    The walking bit was only up the Long Man part which is about 500ft of incline in 1.3 miles of the route @katharmonic though the pace was still good for me 😅. Great HM as well - same again next week?
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    Morning all.

    Well today I'm doing a 5k "race" against myself. Hal wants me to do 5k at race pace. I haven't gone race pace in MONTHS. Originally he wanted me to do 5:10 - 5:40 but I'm not confident on that at all given I hardly ever go 6:00 atm, I usually plod around 6:20 - 6:30 atm. Though I admit I'm not pushing myself on those runs. So I tweeked things a bit, and am now aiming for 5:40 - 6:10. Probably more appropriate at this point in my training I think.

    Just gonna finisglhy coffee.

    Speaking of @runs_on_espresso hope you doing well. We miss you.

    Have a great "race."
  • Faebert
    Faebert Posts: 1,588 Member
    shanaber wrote: »
    Hi guys - behind on responding to everyone and need to catch up but I wanted to post this here. I just saw an update from @quilteryoyo on the CaringBridge site and thought I would pass it along so you know how great she is doing:
    "The surgery went well. I've walked 3 times today and have all of the tubes out. They say I'm doing great."

    Great news @shanaber! Thanks for sharing. Hope @quilteryoyo continues to recover well.
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,583 Member
    Thanks for the update @shanaber. So glad to hear @quilteryoyo is doing so well. I had no doubt. She is a strong, tough woman!!
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Thanks everyone. I scanned your posts. You're doing great.
    I'm sore. I'm guessing this is what it feels like to get beat up really badly. I was glad to get all of the tubes out, but think where the chest tubes were hurts worse with them out. I'm really tired too. Didn't sleep any Thursday night and they've been waking me up every hour to get my blood glucose. They're supposed to stop that tonight. I'm hoping to get to go home Tuesday.

    Glad you're on the road to recovery.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Thanks everyone. I scanned your posts. You're doing great.
    I'm sore. I'm guessing this is what it feels like to get beat up really badly. I was glad to get all of the tubes out, but think where the chest tubes were hurts worse with them out. I'm really tired too. Didn't sleep any Thursday night and they've been waking me up every hour to get my blood glucose. They're supposed to stop that tonight. I'm hoping to get to go home Tuesday.
    So happy you’re doing well! I was thinking about you all day!

    I’ve been reading all about why they need to take glucose so often after cardiac surgery, since I didn’t know that! Short version: your body doesn’t like being cut open and pumps out a bunch of stress hormones which block the action of insulin so your glucose temporarily shoots through the roof. So they gotta control it so healing can take place. Heart surgery is pretty amazing stuff!

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