April 2021 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • katharmonic
    katharmonic Posts: 5,720 Member
    Happy birthday @kgirlhart!!! Hope you have a great day. I'm excited for you for the 10k next weekend.

    @Teresa502 beautiful hike! I have a hard time imaging the through hiking and all the gear you'd need, and endless miles. Amazing. Great job completing a 5k after that.

    @quilteryoyo thanks for the running tour! Looks like we are fast approaching Tusculum as of now. It looks beautiful in your area. The cannonball church is very cool. I'd love to see the Smoky Mountains.
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    Sounds like a fun event @katharmonic Glad you were feeling good the whole way through!
  • kirstymn
    kirstymn Posts: 90 Member
    @quilteryoyo Thanks for the pictures, you live in a beautiful area

    @kgirlhart Happy birthday!

    @katharmonic Great job on getting the HM done

    @WhatMeRunning My condolences on the dead 630. RIP. Wishing you speedy delivery on your new 245 :)
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,164 Member
    Thanks @Scott6255
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,470 Member
    edited April 2021
    @katharmonic You're welcome. I think the cannonball church is pretty cool too. This part of the country is very pretty. Sounds like you had fun running your HM! Finishing healthy is always the goal! :smile: You're doing great and will get the speed back.

    I am so sorry for your loss @WhatMeRunning ! Glad you were able to attend the ordering ceremony arranged by your dear wife. Glad the pictures made you more smiley. :wink:

    @kirstymn You're doing great with your streak. It does help motivate you to get out and do something.

    @kgirlhart Nice birthday run. It would have been cool had you gotten it done in 53 minutes too. But still a great run!

    @Scott6255 Your welcome. Glad you enjoyed the tour. Great run today. Awesome time.
  • AlphaHowls
    AlphaHowls Posts: 1,996 Member
    I am sad to report that my 5 year old Garmin Forerunner 630 has ceased to be after an accidental drowning when I washed my hands under the faucet. Attempts to revive it by extracting the water with silica gel packets were unsuccesful as the display was declared unresponsive at an undetermined time (due to no watch display) but roughly around 11:15am. There was no way to open it or shut it off to prevent the eventual freak out which the display endured until it finally became unresponsive. Attempts to reset were met only with a haptic feedback pulse but no other visible means of functionality.

    A short service was held with great wailing and gnashing of teeth quickly followed by my wife suggesting I attend an ordering ceremony to summon a new Garmin Forerunner 245.

    I will be forced to run blinded and naked until the new watch arrives sometime on Tuesday.

    Thanks for sharing the photo tour @quilteryoyo it made my coming here a lot more smiley. :smiley:

    My heartfelt condolences, even if it did give me giggles. 5 years! *dew claws up*

  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,470 Member
    Nice run @Teresa502 !

    Glad you had a great 5K @pfeiferlindsey !
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,164 Member
    Thanks @Teresa502

    Great Half @katharmonic!

    Lovely pictures @quilteryoyo! I love the cannonball church. And those puppies are adorable and getting so big!
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,470 Member
    @polskagirl01 I hope you can get in to see a physio soon and figure out what is going on.

    Really? @rheddmobile ! That's so cool. What was the video game?
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    4-1 7k slow
    4-2 7k slooooooow
    4-3 4k easy
    4-4 7k slow
    4-5 7k easy
    4-6 rest
    4-7 7k temperate (between tempo and moderate)
    4-8 4k easy
    4-9 7k easy
    4-10 7k temperate
    4-11 7k tempo
    4-12 rest
    4-13 7k tempo
    4-14 4k easy
    4-15 6k treadmill
    4-16 5k treadmill
    4-17 6k treadmill
    4-18 7k tempo
    4-19 rest

    April Total: 99k
    April Goal: 150k

    Rest day today. Golf instead of running.


    When you pop in here claiming your December 2021 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?

    PUT THE FUN BACK IN THE RUN!
    Return to a good running weight of 175 lbs (second attempt)

    2021 Races:

    6/26 Direction Up 5k, Solon, OH
    9/18 5k Run and Roll, Aurora, OH
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,135 Member
    emptydog wrote: »
    Back after my absence.

    The short story of it is that the family doctor was alarmed by a heart murmur that I have had all my life. He said it was getting worse. He told me no running, nothing strenuous, no lifting over 20 lbs. He made an appointment with the cardiologist for me for the following week. I worried the entire time.

    Went to the cardiologist he examined me and said I was fine. No restrictions, go running, see him in a year.

    Interestingly, the cardiologist is also a runner. He finished the doctoring part and then we had a nice running chat. Nice guy.

    The loss of the running days is going to mess up this month's goal. But we shall persevere.

    April to date: 20.01 miles.

    I have a mitral valve prolapse which the dr can barely hear but showed up in a stress test. My cardiologist was the same - run run run. :) I think MVP is similar to murmur. I probably need to go back and get checked but not a lot of drs are taking appts yet for non emergent stuff. I do wonder if it's why my HR on great effort is a lot higher than "max predicted" for my age. <shrug>
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    @polskagirl01 I hope you can get in to see a physio soon and figure out what is going on.

    Really? @rheddmobile ! That's so cool. What was the video game?

    It was going to be a turn based Civil War strategy game which never saw the light of day because after the protests the producer didn’t want to touch the subject matter. Pity but we get paid either way since we are contractors. It was fun to build for, I built a bunch of small towns in NC mostly.