April 2021 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,861 Member
    April 1 – 5.11 miles
    April 2 – 8.07 miles
    April 3 – Hiking (9.52 miles – 4135 elevation gain)
    April 4 – Walk (1.37 miles)
    April 5 – Strength Training; Exercise Bike (10 miles); Hiking (2.38 miles – 434 elevation gain)
    April 6 – 5.15 miles
    April 7 – Strength Training; Exercise Bike (8 miles); Hiking (7.7 miles – 1390 elevation gain)
    April 8 – 5.15 miles
    April 9 – Exercise Bike (10 miles); Biking (5.11 miles); Strength Training
    April 10 – 8.03 miles
    April 11 – 4.22 miles; Hiking (5 miles)
    April 12 – 5.18 miles; Hiking (4 miles)
    April 13 – Strength Training; Exercise Bike (14 miles); Hiking (2.12 miles)
    April 14 – Nothing
    April 15 – Nothing
    April 16 – Hiking (12.09 miles – 3387 elevation gain)
    April 17 – 3.15 miles
    April 18 – 7.04 miles; Walk (1.20 miles); Hiking (3.6 miles)
    April 19 – Strength; Stretch; Exercise Bike (14 miles)
    April 20 – 5.14 miles
    April 21 – Cardio & Core; Exercise Bike (11 miles)
    April 22 – 3.13 miles; Walk (1 mile)
    April 23 – 3.40 miles; Strength

    After work yesterday, I ran 3 miles on the trail in our local park. My calves were cramping the entire time. Guess I need to up the water intake. This morning, it was 26F when I headed out and 30F when I finished but at least the wind wasn’t blowing like it has been the past couple of days. Bring Spring back please! I have a trail race tomorrow at Natural Tunnel State Park. 100% chance of rain in the forecast brings promises of a slippery, muddy day. A chance to make memories!

    I like your running art @Polskagirl01! Glad you’re not overdoing it with the quad healing.
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,470 Member
    @WhatMeRunning Nice job on your run. Congrats on meeting your goal already.

    @Teresa502 You're doing great. Sorry about the cramps yesterday. Glad you got a good run in today. I want Spring back too!!! Good luck with the race tomorrow. I hope the forecast is wrong and it doesn't rain, unless, of course, you want to run in a cold rain. :wink:
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,470 Member
    Welcome @GatorLally ! This is a great group.

    @rheddmobile Glad you were able to run the Greenline again. The speed will come back, I'm sure.
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    GatorLally wrote: »
    Hi Everyone -- New to group but not new to running although since i've gained weight over the past 5 years, I haven't run/jogged as often as in previous years. I'm excited to get started and didn't want to wait for May challenge. Given that it's the 23rd, my goal is 20 miles by 4/30/21. totally doable but my problem has always been consistency!

    Welcome!!!
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    Welcome @GatorLally

    Glad you had a great time on your family getaway @Avidkeo
  • sweetdaisy13
    sweetdaisy13 Posts: 357 Member
    edited April 2021
    5.3 mile recovery trail run, with 726 feet of Elevation and an average pace of 10:01 min per mile.

    Sunny weather, but extremely windy which made it harder.

    April cumulative: 90/100 miles - 5,661 feet of Elevation
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,470 Member
    edited April 2021
    @Avidkeo Love the pictures. That is a very beautiful place to visit. I'm glad you all had a great time and that you are getting to spend time with your mom too.

    @TheMrWobbly Glad to see you are getting back to normal at work and able to get back into a routine. That sounds really stressful. You made me realize that we also haven't heard from @hamsterwheel6 @kirstymn @Faebert and @eleanorhawkins for a while. Hope all is well with you.

    @Tramboman Glad your run ended well. How was golf yesterday?

    Nice run @sweetdaisy13

    Thinking of @Teresa502 this morning as she is trail racing in the rain. Hope you had fun!

  • pfeiferlindsey
    pfeiferlindsey Posts: 163 Member
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    I'm in for 100 miles in April.

    Lunch run to start the day and month off right.

    April 1 - 3.14 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to Go- 96.86 miles

    Mileage goal for the week - (March 29 - April 4) - 25 miles - 13.15 miles to go

    I have been slacking about logging my miles daily.

    April 2 - 3.09 miles
    April 3 - 3.11 miles - Really great 5K. Feel like I'm getting my speed back.
    April 4 - 7.76 miles

    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to Go - 82.9 miles

    Mileage goal for the week - (March 29 - April 4) - 25 miles - Goal met with a little extra

    April 6 - 4.6 miles. Ran in a t-shirt today. Woohoo!!

    Total for April - 21.7 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    MIles to go - 78.3 miles

    Finals week in college, so things have been crazy and I've been falling behind on just about everything.

    April 7 - 4 lunch miles.

    Total for April - 25.7 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 74.3 miles

    April 9 - 6.03 miles

    Total for April - 31.73 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 68.27 miles

    Happy Happy Saturday!! Just realized I marked my Friday run wrong...I ran yesterday, not Thursday.

    April 10 - 4 miles
    Total for April - 35.73 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 64.27 miles

    Got the rare opportunity to run with my husband today :smile:

    April 11 - 8 miles
    Total for April - 43.73 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 56.27 miles

    5.11 miles to start this great day.

    Total for April - 48.84 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 51.16 miles

    Easy 5K on my day off...

    April 14 - 3.11 miles
    Total for April - 51.95 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 48.05 miles

    Got my second COVID vaccine dose yesterday and I am sure feeling it today. Glad I got to run yesterday morning because there is no way I'd have been able to run today.

    April 15 - 4.98 miles (8K as part of a virtual challenge)
    Total for April - 56.93 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 43.07 miles

    Felt so good at Saturday's 5K :smile: - Made me realize I still have a lot left in me and I am progressing towards another PR.

    April 17 - 3.11 miles
    April 18 - 3.38 miles

    Total for April - 63.42 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 36.58 miles

    3.5 miles to celebrate my 35th birthday!

    April 19 - 3.5 miles
    Total for April - 66.92 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 33.08 miles

    I appreciate all the birthday wishes!! Thank you all so much!!! All in all, it was a really good day.

    April 21 - 6.2 miles
    Total for April - 73.12 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 26.88 miles

    Asked my son last night how far I should run today. His first response was "85 miles!!", but decided on 4 after I told him 85 was a little out of my league.

    April 22 - 4.43 miles (little extra credit)
    Total for April - 77.55 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 22.45 miles

    @quilteryoyo - He's 7, so he totally knows 85 miles is a lot of miles to run. I wonder if he was just messing with me, but yes, 4 was the better choice.
    @WhatMeRunning - Maybe when they're older I'll venture into the realm of ultra running.

    April 24 - 4.59 miles
    Total for April - 82.14 miles
    April Goal - 100 miles
    Miles to go - 17.86 miles

  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,206 Member
    @TheMrWobbly welcome back. Hope the knee behaves
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
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    Yesterday I was itching to run, but kept it to 1 mile on the treadmill (barefoot!) and did my little routine on the weight machine. I got nominated to do this Strava art challenge, so I planned a route in my neighborhood and did it this morning, for 8.4 km at a very relaxed pace. Actually I walked or stopped at some points to make sure the GPS caught it right. Also paused the watch and went around to another area, then unpaused, just to get a line through an area where I couldn't go (steep embankment, railroad bridge, fenced in houses), and it worked! My quad feels fine now, but lower back hurts and that's where it starts. So I won't push it.
    uzu2x2009xq0.jpg Supposed to be the Polish eagle (with a crown, and tongue out) but my husband is making fun of me by saying it has a dog face. :D
    I didn't want to do the "force your friends to participate by tagging them" thing, but it could be fun for us to see what kind of designs we can do with our routes. How about a MFP Strava-art Challenge? Use your mapping app, plan a route, run it and post it for us all to see!

    Sokol Polska.

    You're very close - sokol is a falcon, and this is their eagle, so "orzeł polski" :)
    ...and then to add to the fun, jastrząb is a hawk, so my [new] town of Jastrzębie-Zdrój translates as "Hawk Spa". Try to pronounce all of those without spraining your tongue!

    I behaved and biked today, around 10k, then hiked in the woods with my daughter. My kids have very different hiking styles. This one likes to talk - the whole way, haha. Quad feels fine, but I want it to also feel fine with me running at least 40k/week.
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    Re: Strava art. I didn't think I'd find anything either, but after staring at heatmaps and playing with different routes for a while, the eagle just kinda jumped out at me. Then I started looking for ways to improve it, and kept coming back to it until I was happy with it. It was kinda fun :)

    Since I only speak about 5 words of Polish, I was harkening back to my misspent youth.
    We had two Polish Falcon establishments in Erie: Third Street Falcons and Nineteenth Street Falcons. Neither establishment carded for age, so it was possible I consumed some alcoholic beverages before attaining the legal age for drinking in Pennsylvania, which was 21.

    Since you said those years were misspent, I won't ask what your other 4 words are ;) And the legal drinking age here is lower, I think 18 but apparently much younger if the child is drinking at home... but I also just read that it's illegal to drink outside in public (I mean you can't even legally eat in public right now because of mask regulations, and bars are closed anyway, but apparently it was illegal before as well) and now I'm confused because I'm sure I've seen it happening and the rules seem contradictory to me.
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,470 Member
    @pfeiferlindsey Hahaha He was probably messing with you!

    Oh no @RunsOnEspresso ! Sorry you didn't get to run the race in person.

    @polskagirl01 Nice bike ride and hike. I almost missed the duck in the first picture. It is getting green and pretty.

    @Tramboman Wow. Great job on the golfing!

    @Scott6255 Congratulations on your longest run for the year. There's no shame in having to take walk breaks. As long as you are moving forward, you are making progress.

    @Teresa502 Glad you stayed upright during your race. Having to be careful on the wet pavement and stone affected your pace, I'm sure. Congrats on your AG placement!




  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,470 Member
    @rheddmobile The Run The World Group is almost to Memphis. See you tomorrow, probably.

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