February 2022 Monthly Running Challenge
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Scott6255
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WARNING: Following this thread may be addictive; it gets very talkative...miss a day and you can be 50 posts behind. This is the most popular challenge on MFP. If you found us in the middle (or end) of the month, you're still very welcome to join in - no requirements or special invite needed. Once you post, that's it you're in. And yes, we do this every month.
You set your own pace and distance for the month. We will all be doing it together. This is your virtual running group to help keep you accountable, to enjoy a virtual post-run coffee with your fellow runners, and to make new friends and learn a few things.
This is a continuation from the January 2022 Monthly Running Challenge which can be found at: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10852006/january-2022-monthly-running-challenge/p1
Anyone can join in, new and old, and if you found this thread late, you can join in at any time.
We have members ranging from total beginners all the way to Boston Qualifiers and beyond. We are a friendly and encouraging bunch. You never need to be ashamed of your miles. If you are making the effort, you will find only support here.
Here are the details from last month that apply again:
Anybody want to join in for a running challenge? Set a goal here and update us every day. OPTIONAL: You can post your progress by creating a ticker at http://www.tickerfactory.com (if creating one seems difficult, or you're like me and can't be bothered, then just type in your daily miles in this thread).
You can run, walk, or do treadmill - just be consistent. Don't let the high (or low) goals of others intimidate you. Some do 25 miles, others do 50, some go higher than that, some do lower; it's entirely your goal and therefore completely up to you. We help motivate each other, so what do you say? If you're new to running, set a low goal. If you're from a part of the world where miles aren't your thing, log your distances in KMs. And if you'd rather log your progress by time rather than distance, then you're entirely free to do that as well.
Feel free to set your goal now but wait until February 1, 2022 to start logging your runs!
Also, don't forget to join our group which can be found at:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/21182-monthly-running-challenges
Bookmark the previous and past challenges: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10393468/current-past-challenges#latest
Find a small group of runners that encourage and offer food support:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10573619/runners-that-need-some-nutritional-accountability#latest
Note: we also have a group on Strava and Facebook.
After you run, come into this thread and post what you did (don't forget to hit the star in the upper right corner to bookmark this thread). Simply keep a running tally of what you've done this month, and interact with the others. Many folks come in here and chit-chat it up, even on their rest days or while recouping from injury. This is a very social group and we talk about many things (sometimes even about running). It's a very friendly bunch here so don't be afraid to say hi (even if this is your first time), talk about a recent or up-coming race, ask questions, provide answers, or just lurk-n-learn. Participation is what makes this group successful.
Not quite sure how to log your runs? Follow the examples of many other challenge members. Even take a peek at last month's thread (posted above).
*******OPTIONAL TICKER*************
Info on tickers since I know there will be questions. Sign up for an account at http://www.tickerfactory.com and create your ticker. Then you need to update it after you finish a run and post it here. Here is what you will need to do.
After setting up your ticker, you will need to make note of the weblink they give you so you can return. An example would be:
http://www.tickerfactory.com/exercise/w6K1EiX/ <<<< the last part will be a part of the image link (explained below) that will be supplied to you after you initially create your link.
When you return to TickerFactory with the weblink, go to your settings page. Make sure you type your PIN in that you set when you created your ticker account. Then, where it says "Your current cumulative value", there is an add button. Simply add the distance that you just did, and the cumulative value automatically changes. Then hit next.
After adding your new miles (or KMs) to your ticker, you need to post it here.
After you hit next, it will give you a bunch of codes suggesting how to display your ticker.
Use the one at the bottom where it says Direct Image URL:
It will look something like:
http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/w6K1EiX/exercise.png
To display that correctly in your post, make sure you place the image (img) tags around that link. So it will look something like the following (but removing the spaces in the img tags):
[ img ] http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/w6K1EiX/exercise.png [ /img ]
^^^^^^^ Don't forget to remove the spaces between the brackets ^^^^^^^^^^
Some key things to pay attention to when posting your ticker:
Use the link that ends in .png
Remember the [ img] and [ /img] tags go in between the link
Remove the spaces in the img tags before posting
YES, there is a / in the second /img tag
By the way, everyone here should consider themselves a runner no matter how fast or slow. There's no judgment, we all started somewhere. And no comparisons, except with your former self. Don't compare your Chapter 1 to somebody else’s Chapter 20.
“I often hear someone say I’m not a real runner. We are all runners, some just run faster than others. I never met a fake runner.” – Bart Yasso
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
"We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.” – Deena Kastor
“Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.” – Steve Prefontaine
“Get going … walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.” – Ron Hill
"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run." - John Bingham
You may see some phrases / words that are unique to our little group when it comes to describing some of our runs. It is a mash-up of words that seem to best describe the way the run felt that day. Here are some examples. Feel free to come up with your own to add to the dictionary 😃
'sleasy' - Slow and Easy
'sneasy' - Slow Not Easy
'scrappy' - mix of Slow and Crappy
'wun' - mix of Walking and Running
'wog' - mix of Walking and Jogging
Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay on track.
You set your own pace and distance for the month. We will all be doing it together. This is your virtual running group to help keep you accountable, to enjoy a virtual post-run coffee with your fellow runners, and to make new friends and learn a few things.
This is a continuation from the January 2022 Monthly Running Challenge which can be found at: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10852006/january-2022-monthly-running-challenge/p1
Anyone can join in, new and old, and if you found this thread late, you can join in at any time.
We have members ranging from total beginners all the way to Boston Qualifiers and beyond. We are a friendly and encouraging bunch. You never need to be ashamed of your miles. If you are making the effort, you will find only support here.
Here are the details from last month that apply again:
Anybody want to join in for a running challenge? Set a goal here and update us every day. OPTIONAL: You can post your progress by creating a ticker at http://www.tickerfactory.com (if creating one seems difficult, or you're like me and can't be bothered, then just type in your daily miles in this thread).
You can run, walk, or do treadmill - just be consistent. Don't let the high (or low) goals of others intimidate you. Some do 25 miles, others do 50, some go higher than that, some do lower; it's entirely your goal and therefore completely up to you. We help motivate each other, so what do you say? If you're new to running, set a low goal. If you're from a part of the world where miles aren't your thing, log your distances in KMs. And if you'd rather log your progress by time rather than distance, then you're entirely free to do that as well.
Feel free to set your goal now but wait until February 1, 2022 to start logging your runs!
Also, don't forget to join our group which can be found at:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/21182-monthly-running-challenges
Bookmark the previous and past challenges: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10393468/current-past-challenges#latest
Find a small group of runners that encourage and offer food support:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10573619/runners-that-need-some-nutritional-accountability#latest
Note: we also have a group on Strava and Facebook.
After you run, come into this thread and post what you did (don't forget to hit the star in the upper right corner to bookmark this thread). Simply keep a running tally of what you've done this month, and interact with the others. Many folks come in here and chit-chat it up, even on their rest days or while recouping from injury. This is a very social group and we talk about many things (sometimes even about running). It's a very friendly bunch here so don't be afraid to say hi (even if this is your first time), talk about a recent or up-coming race, ask questions, provide answers, or just lurk-n-learn. Participation is what makes this group successful.
Not quite sure how to log your runs? Follow the examples of many other challenge members. Even take a peek at last month's thread (posted above).
*******OPTIONAL TICKER*************
Info on tickers since I know there will be questions. Sign up for an account at http://www.tickerfactory.com and create your ticker. Then you need to update it after you finish a run and post it here. Here is what you will need to do.
After setting up your ticker, you will need to make note of the weblink they give you so you can return. An example would be:
http://www.tickerfactory.com/exercise/w6K1EiX/ <<<< the last part will be a part of the image link (explained below) that will be supplied to you after you initially create your link.
When you return to TickerFactory with the weblink, go to your settings page. Make sure you type your PIN in that you set when you created your ticker account. Then, where it says "Your current cumulative value", there is an add button. Simply add the distance that you just did, and the cumulative value automatically changes. Then hit next.
After adding your new miles (or KMs) to your ticker, you need to post it here.
After you hit next, it will give you a bunch of codes suggesting how to display your ticker.
Use the one at the bottom where it says Direct Image URL:
It will look something like:
http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/w6K1EiX/exercise.png
To display that correctly in your post, make sure you place the image (img) tags around that link. So it will look something like the following (but removing the spaces in the img tags):
[ img ] http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/w6K1EiX/exercise.png [ /img ]
^^^^^^^ Don't forget to remove the spaces between the brackets ^^^^^^^^^^
Some key things to pay attention to when posting your ticker:
Use the link that ends in .png
Remember the [ img] and [ /img] tags go in between the link
Remove the spaces in the img tags before posting
YES, there is a / in the second /img tag
By the way, everyone here should consider themselves a runner no matter how fast or slow. There's no judgment, we all started somewhere. And no comparisons, except with your former self. Don't compare your Chapter 1 to somebody else’s Chapter 20.
“I often hear someone say I’m not a real runner. We are all runners, some just run faster than others. I never met a fake runner.” – Bart Yasso
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
"We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.” – Deena Kastor
“Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.” – Steve Prefontaine
“Get going … walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.” – Ron Hill
"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run." - John Bingham
You may see some phrases / words that are unique to our little group when it comes to describing some of our runs. It is a mash-up of words that seem to best describe the way the run felt that day. Here are some examples. Feel free to come up with your own to add to the dictionary 😃
'sleasy' - Slow and Easy
'sneasy' - Slow Not Easy
'scrappy' - mix of Slow and Crappy
'wun' - mix of Walking and Running
'wog' - mix of Walking and Jogging
Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay on track.
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I'll start the 100 mile club for February
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Thanks @scott6255 for setting us up and getting our dictionary added to the intro!3
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My plan puts me at about 110 miles for the month.
I have a 10k/HM challenge race (Fairy Tale Challenge) at the end of the month. I haven't settled on a strategy for that yet but I am leaning towards racing the 10k and enjoying the HM. The course and style of runners the race attracts makes going for a HM PR really hard unless you are fast enough to get a corral 1 or 2 placement. I am just barely out of that window. My hope, which is based on nothing factual whatsoever, is that the 10k will be a tad smaller and more people will be running it vs walking or run/walking. Maybe it will be easier to get up to pace and I haven't raced a 10k in 2-3 years. Also, if I don't worry about pace for the HM, I can start it with my husband though we will likely not finish together. We are probably in different corrals so I will have to go back to him and the start will be even slower. But we can at least do part of the course together and get some pics of both of us!6 -
Thanks for getting us going and including the dictionary, @Scott6255 !!!
Looking at 140 k again this month.4 -
Thanks for setting us up @Scott6255. I am planning to set a goal for February, but I will wait until later this week to decide what it will be. It may not be a distance goal this time. I guess if I was going to be sick it was good for it to happen after I reached my January goal and before I set my February goal.4
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Oh thank you @Scott6255 I think I am in for 100 miles in Feb also. It's a short month and the weather is typically very iffy here. Love the inclusion of the dictionary...2
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Thank you Scott! My goal for February is 70 miles. That is a high number for me but I’ll do my best! What is this group’s name on FB? I’m on Strava but not a member, not sure if I can join that group.2
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Thank you @Scott6255
I'm in. I think im gonna aim for 150km. That's a big goal for me. I did 121 in January so will see.
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Thanks @scott6255! I’m going to aim for 60 miles this month. Will be a stretch as I want to add back in more cross-training and yoga, but let’s give it a go!5
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Thanks for this @scott6256.
My plans for February are to keep on top of this foot issue (hopefully resolve it for once and all), get my mileage back up to 200km+, and to complete the Coatesville Half on the 13th in a semi-decent time without further rooting my foot (does rooting work across international borders? I’m aware there are a couple of meanings). Easy peasy…5 -
Thanks for setting us up for February @Scott6255!!
I am going for 70 this month. we are going to be in Zion for a week and I am not sure how much running I will get in. Add that to it being a short month well I will be happy to get 70 miles.
A note on run the world - we have left @polskagirl01 and her lovely hospitality and are now headed towards Belarus. We are still around 40 miles behind pace but hopefully we can make that up. Otherwise we will need to rope in a couple more runners! @ContraryMaryMary or @Avidkeo are you interested?4 -
Goal for February is to run regularly and start to build back up to where I was before this heart issue. I have my follow up appointment on the 8th which is when I discuss what all these tests add up to and what happens next.5
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A note on run the world - we have left @polskagirl01 and her lovely hospitality and are now headed towards Belarus. We are still around 40 miles behind pace but hopefully we can make that up. Otherwise we will need to rope in a couple more runners! @ContraryMaryMary or @Avidkeo are you interested?
What do I need to do?2 -
I love the addition of the dictionary!
I am going to decrease to 60 miles this month because we will be visiting family later this month, and even though I plan to continue my streak, I honestly don’t know what our schedule will be. I also have my 15K mid month.4 -
ContraryMaryMary wrote: »and to complete the Coatesville Half on the 13th in a semi-decent time without further rooting my foot (does rooting work across international borders? I’m aware there are a couple of meanings).
Rooting is definitely not a term I had heard in this way before but it’s clear what you mean in context.
Glad you are joining the RTW team!2 -
"Keepin' it sleasy since 1952"
2-1 4k treadmill
February Total: 4k
February Goal: 140k
Even though it's nice out today, have a ton of things to do this morning, capped off by a visit to the dentist. Didn't think I'd want to run after that, so I treadmilled.4 -
Thanks @Scott6255!
February is going to start off with a 0 I think. I'll have to think about whether I can set a running goal beyond "survive" for this month. It's thankfully a short month and hopefully weather and my attitude may turn around by March
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Feb goal:100 miles
1 Feb 5.31 foggy miles.
I mean to the point I had to go back in the house when I walked outside to get my blinker lights. Supposed to have "weather" and "cold" later this week so trying to bank some so I don't have to run in the teens or ice.3 -
Thanks @Scott6255!
Once again, I have no idea what my goal is going to be this month because I am no longer managing to follow a fixed plan. Yes, I am aware this is probably going to end in tears! I continue to plug my next race into Hal's app for a training plan, and vaguely follow it, but my trail club meets on Mondays and Thursdays tend to end up with me running more than Hal wants me to that day, especially because I have to wog a couple of kilometres before the start to warm my legs up enough to have half a chance of keeping up with the guys! (And I still don't for another 45 minutes or so, they keep having to stop and wait for me, SO embarrassing!) This inevitably leads to some barely veiled disapproval from the app.
Also, the evil coaches who originally gave us proper training plans seem to have gone off the rails the last couple of months and meets have been pretty random and based on someone just pulling a route suggestion out of a hat. I may have made some not very subtle comments about that this week.
In the meantime, as my daughter now has Covid I'm not attending this week anyway, running on my own instead, in keeping with our unspoken protocol on the matter.
I am however looking for some advice. I have our local rural HM on the 28th, which I'd been wanting but not managing for various reasons to run for quite a few years.
This morning, the council of the neighbouring town announced that they're resuming their 'urban race circuit' from 2020. We ran a 3k in Feb20, then they had to postpone the 5k due in March20 and the 7k due in April20. So guess when the 5k is? YUP, Feb 27th.
I don't think I've ever tried to run the day before a race. I usually walk for an hour (around 5k at my pace). I do run two days in a row, but never with races or a HM distance in the equation.
Anyone have any tips on how the heck I can prepare my legs to not refuse to play??? I guess just go for 5k runs one day and long runs the next...
I probably need to decide which of them I care about the most as well, rather than treating them both as races. But but but we all know that is great in theory but probably not going to happen in practice.
My husband was just like "well don't turn up for the 5k". Excuse me? A race I've been signed up for for more than two years and that is FINALLY happening? Really? Funnier still, I apparently signed him up for it as well. Pigs might fly...5 -
Feb totals: 4.5/110 miles
2/1: 4.5 miles
Ended up rearranging my week and doing yesterday's run this morning. It was just a soggy, cold day yesterday and I could not make myself go out.
In an effort to do some proactive injury risk reduction, I signed up for the runsmart site and did my first workout last night. It was a lot of balance stuff. While I actually have really good balance, my feet were still burning during some of the exercises so I know some underutilized muscles were getting worked out. My goal is to do a minimum of a yoga workout once a week and a strength workout twice a week. I still want to go climb a couple days a week, but 1 day a week minimum, so I am trying to add stuff in judiciously so I don't burn out. The runsmart workouts are all under 30 minutes, so I think I can squeeze these in without too much disruption.2
