June 2021 Monthly Running Challenge

polskagirl01

@AlphaHowls at the level you're on, it seems like a marathon a month should be extremely doable for you.

yirara

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so in the end I had to run an additional 169m to finish my run on the watch compared to the phone. I'm getting a foot pod soon. hopefully that will help a bit as I have no idea whatelse to do. The GPS signal just is really bad in this town (not elsewhere).

It might not be your watch. It might be the app. When I enable Location settings (i don't leave it running), I have the option to enable ONLY gps or to enable "enhanced location services" (ELS). ELS apparently uses cell towers, wifi & bluetooth beacons to improve gps accuracy. But when I enable ELS using the GoogleFit app, the app records an extra .1mi every mile. On a known 3.1mi course, GoogleFit records around 3.45mi vs my ancient Garmin that records 3.1 +/-. If I disable ELS, GoogleFit generally matches my watch. I tried the Nike Run Club app yesterday and ran with ELS on, and unlike GoogleFit, NRCmatched my Garmin. Anyway... just saying it might not be your watch. It might be your phone that is off.

Yes, that's a possibility as well. However, the distances on the phone* appear to to be the same as when I map the distance in google, open streetmap or similar things, and are the same as old race markers on the sidewalks. A 16k I ran a few years ago was only off by 100m in the end. That's quite brilliant.
*I use ismoothrun for recording with the phone. It's supposed to be one of the most precise apps out there. Uses a good algorith for earth curvature and it creates a shitload of datapoints.

Today my running programme asked for a slow 4.02k. Yes I ran the fastest 4k since 2016. And the fastest bit of running of any distance in ages. I totally seem to be ignoring the running plan, but it seems to be working

Teresa502

Goal: 60 miles
June 1 – 5.28 miles (Biking 11.24 miles)
June 2 – 5.17 miles
June 3 – Rest
June 4 – 8.20 miles (0.58 warm-up/cool down walk)
June 5 – 5.03 miles

I went to our local park and ran this morning. The trail is only a mile long so I had to make 5 loops but I garnered 586 elevation gain.

ContraryMaryMary

Winter is here is all its rainy bleakness. Today called for 90 mins aerobic. I relaxed and enjoyed the quiet (bad weather + long weekend). As it turned out it only rained for about the first 5km. I now have to head out to our new property to finish planting some trees - fortunately the holes are dug so they just need to be popped in but the rain is back. I’m psyching myself up to get a good soaking. Muddy too probably.

quilteryoyo

@emptydog and @Tramboman You two are too funny!

Nice running @yirara ! Congrats on the pace.

Nice running for you too @Teresa502 ! Nothing wrong with running laps.

Channel your inner child and enjoy playing in the mud @ContraryMaryMary ! Sorry your weather is so bleak today. Great running in not great conditions.

quilteryoyo

My step daughter and her two kids, and either her significant other or her mom, are coming for a week long visit on Monday. My great nephew's 2nd birthday party is tomorrow, so had to try to get everything ready for the visit today. Mom came up and helped me clean house this afternoon, for 4 hours. That's 8 hours of woman hours and I still have just a little bit to do. I couldn't have done it without her.

Knowing that we were going to be cleaning this afternoon, I got up a little early and out for my run at 8:45. It was already 70°F and 73% humidity, so not pleasant, but not miserable either. The one HM plan I am using called for an 8 mile run today. The AF HM plan said 5 miles. Since I had a time constraint, and tomorrow will be 5 months post op, I chose an easy 5 mile run to celebrate that milestone. My average HR was 148 bpm, with only 7 minutes being above 153 bpm. I was happy with that...especially since my average pace was 12:50 min/mile. Not fast, but not horribly slow either. I also walked a mile total for warm up and cool down.

Month Totals:
Running: 7.25/70 miles
Walking: 5.00/30 miles
Other: 3:55:55 h:mm:ss

Juliexx00

June Goal 100km

6/1: 11km
6/2: 4.5km
6/3: 5km
6/4: 9km
6/5: 3.75km

23.25/100 km completed for June

abowersgirl

I accidently skipped a day so ended up doing more than I planned... Which shocked me.I was supposed to go 8 min run 5 min walk and 8 min run by it ended up doing 10 min run 5 min walk 10 min run... If you had told me on Monday this is where I would be on Saturday.. I wouldn't have believed it.

I am starting to learn my preferred pace to keep me going and working out in the morning definitely is a ton easier than at night. I also think today was the first day I was able to actually enjoy the run, dont get me wrong I would always feel good after the run but the during the run seemed like I non stop attempt to visualize a finishing post and fight to get there.. but today I had my breathing down and was able to zone out.

Starting to feel excited

quilteryoyo

Good for you @abowersgirl ! You're doing great!

katharmonic

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
06/01/21 :::: 3.1 :::: 3.1
06/02/21 :::: 2.1 :::: 5.3
06/03/21 :::: 2.4 :::: 7.6
06/04/21 :::: 0.0 :::: 7.6
06/05/21 :::: 13.1 :::: 20.7

Thousand Islands Half Marathon: Race report

Well, that was not great, but it's done and all things considered, I'm not disappointed. I had to be on the road at 5 am so I was not really pleased about that especially with not sleeping that well the night before. I drove up with a friend and her friend who I just met today. The race was on Wellesley Island in the Thousand Islands state park which is one of the (thousand) islands in the St. Lawrence river between New York state and Ontario Canada. It was supposed to be 90 degrees here in Syracuse and promised to be in the low 80s there, with no rain until later in the day. I was hopeful that it wouldn't be too bad for running in the morning but it was HOT.

The race organization was pretty laid back, they sent out a course change email the night before, and things just seemed last minute. But it came together OK and the start was on time at 8:15 am. The beginning of the course was lovely on a shaded tree-lined road along the golf course. Then we headed out onto road that were gently rolling hills, mostly in the full sun. There was a nice breeze in some places but this was one of the first hot days of the year that I've done a long run and I struggled. It was mostly an out and back and the turnaround was at mile 6, so we knew there had to be a little extra tacked on somewhere (I didn't really pay attention to the course map and change they sent out). Around mile 9 I started to really feel hot and like I was not going to make it. I had taken some gels at the halfway and I had tailwind and a little gatorade at a water stop but it wasn't really helping. I finally told my friends I needed to walk a little and one walked with me for maybe a half mile while I took in some more water and poured some water over me to try to cool down.

I was able to start running again and then we reached the point where we had to do the makeup distance, a little offshoot out and back. My friend and I were so tempted to just skip it, but of course we couldn't do that. We ran into these two women who we had been kind of passing back and forth along the way and one started clapping her hands and singing "I'm 👏 not 👏 having 👏 any 👏 fun 👏 any 👏@#%!^ 👏more!" and I've never related to anything so much. I said, oh I know that song! And now my friend and I have adopted that as our new anthem and are writing more verses

The last couple of miles seemed eternal. I told my friend to go ahead because I know she wanted to just get done. I kept moving but walked a bit more on a hill and slowed down the pace quite a bit. Finally I saw the finish line, but by my Garmin I was thinking that it was not enough distance to make 13.1 even though my watch had been just slightly ahead but consistent with the mile markers all along the course. And sure enough I crossed the finish line and was short and my watch said 12.95, so I circled around in the grassy area until it hit 13.1. My friend's watch said 12.85. So we are pretty sure the course was a bit short, which may be due to the last minute course change.

The post-race food was ok - there were wraps and chips and cookies. Plus some samples of hard lemonade and a watermelon ale from a brewery that were quite good (in the small amount). I was so happy to be done and felt ok after sitting in the shade and getting some food in me. The breeze as we sat there on the country club lawn was lovely and it seemed so much different than suffering in the hot sun on the course.

I didn't have any specific goals going in to this but was hoping it might be my best HM of the year so far - which is not a high bar as they have all been slow, especially after I hurt my back in March. And it was just a minute short of the time I ran in January, but that was not a race and I'm sure that I stopped my watch when I took a couple water breaks. So this time really is faster for continuous running, and would have been better if I had not taken the walk break. I'm ok with that but I would really like to have a good HM at some point this year. I think I'm going to start HM group training if I can force myself to start going again and I'm sure that will help. It's just not the priority for me that it used to be, with my focus on hiking and other things right now.

Photos of bling and post race sweaty mess. The medal was kind of a cool necklace type of thing. I also put on my T-shirt (long sleeve, why?) and my June medal for the HM a month challenge.

ContraryMaryMary

Sounds like a tough day at the office @katharmonic but good work for getting it done.

sweetdaisy13

Well done in your race @katharmonic. I love the medal, it looks interesting. Completely different to the usual race medals.

Re: race being short. When I did my first marathon it was a trail/mountain marathon and I think it messed up my GPS as we were in and out of trees a lot (had a much cheaper GPS watch back then). The distance was shorter than the mileage markers. When I crossed the finish line I was 0.4 of a mile out so quickly picked up my medal and a bottle of water and carried on running. The race official was like "you can stop running now" I shouted back "no I can't I've got 0.4 miles to go, no way am I stopping short". As they say, 'if it ain't on Strava, it never happened' 😁

quilteryoyo

Sounds like a tough race @katharmonic ! You did great, especially given the circumstances. I've been hot like that and it isn't fun. Nice bling too! I looked at the website to see where the race was, before I saw your description. The site said "We are planning on a single start for each race event but if we have to offer the events in "waves" again." Just wondering how the race actually started.

When I was looking up @katharmonic's race, I put "Thousand Island HM" into the search. Google wanted to know if I meant "Thousand Island homes?" Obviously, Google isn't a runner!

Tramboman

6-1 7k tempo
6-2 rest
6-3 7k tempo
6-4 6k tempo
6-5 7k tempo
6-6 6k tempo


June Total: 33k
June Goal: 150k

Sunny, mid 60s F, and a tiny breeze from the southeast. Was tired again today and my hips were burning, too.
@katharmonic Amazing how some bling and swag can put a smile on one's face. Good race!!


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
7/17 Run of the Ox 5k, Mantua, OH
9/18 5k Run and Roll, Aurora, OH

WhatMeRunning

Congrats on the great progress @abowersgirl

Sounds like a tough event @katharmonic congrats on pushing through!

WhatMeRunning

6/1 - 3.36 miles, easy effort (45 mins Z2)
6/2 - 3.23 miles, tempo run (25 mins Z4 w/7.5 min warm-up/cool-down)
6/3 - 3.32 miles, easy effort (45 mins Z2)
6/4 - 3.35 miles, sprint intervals (12 x 45 secs w/1:45 recovery and 7.5 min warm-up/cool-down)
6/5 - 6.76 miles, long run (90 mins Z2, 5 mins Z3)

Total: 20.02 miles
Goal: 105 miles

Kind of feeling like garbage at the moment so a quick check-in today. Hope all are doing well!

Today started out pretty good. The scale gave me a surprising drop over the last week. I got ready for my run and was enjoying it. My cadence seemed up too (confirmed by Garmin). Cue the morning birds, sunrise, coyote, and the crane first flying one way, then flying back the other just a few minutes later with a gullet filled with something.

Then my HR started climbing a little after an hour in. It wasn't my monitor, I was feeling it too. I eventually realized I felt parched, but brought no water.

I decided to see how I could manage and be mindful of things. At 90 minutes in my watch switched to a 30 minute Z3 interval. I could get into Z3 easy at that point, but pushing over 3.5 was so hard I cut the run short by about 25 minutes.

Feeling human again after getting home and drinking a surprising amount of fluid. Hopefully back to normal tomorrow.

Scott6255

Congrats on the amazing progress @abowersgirl

That sounds like ireally tough conditions for a race @katharmonic! You deserve that medal even more just for pushing through!

katharmonic

Thank you @scott6255, @WhatMeRunning, @ContraryMaryMary, @quilteryoyo, @Tramboman, @sweetdaisy13. It wasn't the worst I've raced in and many of you run in hotter temps all the time but I was definitely not adapted. Glad to be done with June in any case!

Official race times have not been posted which is very annoying. Or I should say only 1 person's time shows up (I assume the 1st place finisher) and anyone else you look up has blanks for times. I wonder if it's a glitch in posting or they somehow lost the timings altogether. I see some people posting on the facebook site asking about it and there is no response yet.

@quilteryoyo it was just one wave start. Everything seemed back to "normal".

plzfeedmecookies

I'm joining in a little late, but I've been running since it has been over 40F. lol I think I will do a 50mi goal to start. I may try one of those virtual competitions later. I've done in-person half-marathons before, but I really don't like crowds much, so maybe a good fallback for me.

Date :==== Miles ==== Cumulative
06/02/21 = 8.72mi === 8.72mi
06/04/21 = 4.01mi === 12.73mi
06/06/21 = TBD

emptydog

@katharmonic Congratulations! Running in the heat can be brutal. Great job on doing it!


6/1 5.30
6/2 10.32
6/3 1.15
6/4 6.37
6/5 5.52
6/6 5.28

33.94 / 100 miles