February 2022 Monthly Running Challenge
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@avidkeo, yes, Coatesville is going ahead with staggered starts - yay! It's never a massive event anyway - maybe 600-700 people. Will have to carry my own water though, fortunately, I got a running vest for Christmas!
As for the house. We're in and it's fab. Just hanging out for the girls to start school - next Tuesday!4 -
ContraryMaryMary wrote: »@avidkeo, yes, Coatesville is going ahead with staggered starts - yay! It's never a massive event anyway - maybe 600-700 people. Will have to carry my own water though, fortunately, I got a running vest for Christmas!
As for the house. We're in and it's fab. Just hanging out for the girls to start school - next Tuesday!
Wooo hoo that's fantastic and yay for the running vest! I run in one anyway, just find it easier.0 -
Thanks for setting up Feb and adding the group dictionary.
@martaindale That sounds like a great plan for your races at the end of the month. It'll be fun to get pictures with your husband. I love that you are being proactive with injury reduction through exercise.
@kgirlhart I hope you feel better soon.
@rheddmobile I hope you get answers on the 8th!
That sounds really foggy @SummerSkier . Good idea to bank miles while the weather is good.
@ContraryMaryMary I'm glad you are joining us in running the world. Unfortunately, I forgot what you have to do to sign up. Maybe someone else can help you with that.
@eleanorhawkins I can't help you with the races problem. But, "Funnier still, I apparently signed him up for it as well. Pigs might fly..." That is really funny.
@Avidkeo I'm sure the girls loved the one on one time. Love your woman cave!
Oh no @Scott6255 . Did they really? That's so sad that he died. I figured they would have a replacement in the wings and no one would know the difference...kind of like buying the kids a new goldfish when the first one dies.
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I haven't set a goal for February yet, but I am thinking about starting another of Matt Fitzerald's plans. Since I haven't run much lately, I am thinking about doing his level 2 10K plan to ramp up my mileage and then maybe try the HM plan again. Not sure yet.
I did a driveway session after getting home from the ortho this afternoon. It was 59°F and sunny, so couldn't stay inside. Today would have been my dad's 90th birthday, so in honor of him, I ran 2.1 miles and walked 1.1 mile for a total of 3.2 miles.....2/1/32 - his date of birth.
Maybe the fact that I ran and am pondering starting a training plan gives you a hint as to what the ortho said. This guy was the total opposite of the one I saw in Dec. Thank you so much for the reference @Teresa502 ! I had explained to his nurse the reason for me coming in and she relayed a lot of that to him before he came in...and reviewed my x-ray. When he walked in he said, "So you have a slight curve in your spine..." and continued to say that he saw nothing that would prevent me from running and didn't expect that it would get much worse over time. He said to run, walk, and play tennis as I wanted....he does all three too and has about the same amount of scoliosis, apparently. He said he runs 12-15 miles a week. Anyway, he said I was one of the few people who was "doing it right," and that I should continue doing what I am doing. He said the worst thing I could do for my back would be to reduce my activity level and gain weight. I asked about any particular exercises to do and he said no. He just does a couple of stretches before going out for a run. He did say that he felt crunches and sit ups were not good for your back. I may continue to do some of the exercises/stretches I have been doing, but not worry about getting them in every day. I feel that they have helped, since I haven't had a bad episode in a month. I was so shocked with his positive diagnosis that I forgot to ask some questions I should have - like "What should I do if it (the catches and pain) happens again? Why do you think it happened to begin with? Should I use heat or cold?" I may call tomorrow and ask those questions. He did say I needed to keep up with my bone density testing semi-annually and, if something else does happen to my back, that he would be there.
It was a good day. I had hoped that the run would be an easy one and I'd feel as if I were celebrating, but it was sneasy. Oh well, I guess the universe was just trying to keep my feet on the ground and not let me get too cocky.
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@ContraryMaryMary and @Avidkeo - you can join us here:
https://www.challengehound.com/join/96a9cf00-6b41-11ec-ac26-d96d8cbe3fe6?code=MFPRunners
I think we still have enough credits for you to join but let me know if you have an issue.2 -
@quilteryoyo that's great news from the ortho!1
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@ContraryMaryMary and @Avidkeo - you can join us here:
https://www.challengehound.com/join/96a9cf00-6b41-11ec-ac26-d96d8cbe3fe6?code=MFPRunners
I think we still have enough credits for you to join but let me know if you have an issue.
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Thanks @eleanorhawkings ! I was super excited.0
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@quilteryoyo Fantastic news! I’m so happy for you.1
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That's exactly what they do with Phil. Today I learned that there are a bunch of famous groundhogs, other than the one I knew about.quilteryoyo wrote: »I figured they would have a replacement in the wings and no one would know the difference...kind of like buying the kids a new goldfish when the first one dies.
https://www.rd.com/article/famous-groundhogs-besides-punxsutawney-phil/
I went lap swimming today and it went well. It seems like an awful lot of work for so few calories though. But I got a membership card with money on it for the next 3 months, so I'll be doing it more regularly. I used up my last pool membership just before they shut down the pool in my previous city in 2020. So it's been a while.5 -
"Keepin' it sleasy since 1952"
2-1 4k treadmill
2-2 7k easy
February Total: 11k
February Goal: 140k
Cloudy, mid 30s F, and a light wind from the south. First easy pace since mid December.
@quilteryoyo That's fantastic news!!!!!6 -
Feb totals: 9.5/110 miles
2/1: 4.5 miles
2/2: 5 miles
Super foggy speed work this morning. I had droplets on my hairline and headband from running through the clouds for several miles. 8 x 400m repeats on my neighborhood “track” loop. My repeats are getting faster even though I am trying to target a prescribed pace. Todays were consistently faster than target but I felt like I could have done a few more if I had to, so maybe I’m not over pacing my workouts. Maybe I’m just seeing some fitness improvement since I hadn’t done any speed work in almost a year before the past couple of months.
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@quilteryoyo I’m so happy for you!
My first run of February did not go well. My heart did the thing again - the good news is at least this time I was looking out for it, caught it the instant it started to go haywire and did a valsalva maneuver which made it go back into rhythm, but I still feel like crud from even that momentary spike. The bad news is I wasn’t pushing hard when it did the thing, just running a little faster than easy pace for less than half a mile with my heart rate about 140 when I felt this sort of “pull” and went, huh, you @$&# I know what you’re up to, and sure enough it leaped from 140 to 189. It looks like at the moment I can’t push myself even slightly. I wasn’t pushing so much as not holding back, because the weather felt nice and I felt good. Anyway the valsava maneuver does work as advertised, which is additional proof the diagnosis is right, but that doesn’t keep it from happening, it just allows me to get it back into rhythm when it does happen.
So, after getting my heart rate back down I finished 5k at a boringly easy pace. I am going to go mad if I can’t ever run fast again. Heart rate about 10 points higher than it should have been for the effort level due to still being stressed from the spike.
No groundhog shadows in sight for us here today, it’s solidly cloudy. Not that I have ever seen a groundhog around here, although theoretically we are within their range. I’m very worried about tomorrow’s weather, since we are supposed to get significant freezing rain. I still remember the ice storm of 1994 when all of Memphis had no power for up to a month. My husband and I had just been married and were extremely lucky to be living in a townhouse next to one of the members of the board of the power company, so they prioritized our line, and we only had an outage for about ten hours, but my mom and dad had no power for three weeks, you couldn’t drive anywhere, there were no street lights, no way to buy food, it was awful. And we have perfect conditions for a repeat. Fingers crossed that we don’t get as much ice as they are predicting!8 -
@rheddmobile Fingers crossed the weather isn’t as bad as predicted. We are headed into that same storm though not as bad as you guys are getting. People here still seem to have some PTSD from the last winter storm (you may remember TX catastrophic electrical grid failure last February) and have started panic shopping. It’s getting cold but not like last year, so I am hoping we will be fine, if a bit bored, for a couple of days.
And sorry to hear your heart is acting up again. I really hope you will be able to get back to running as fast as you want. It sucks to feel like your body can’t do what it really wants to.2 -
martaindale wrote: »@rheddmobile Fingers crossed the weather isn’t as bad as predicted. We are headed into that same storm though not as bad as you guys are getting. People here still seem to have some PTSD from the last winter storm (you may remember TX catastrophic electrical grid failure last February) and have started panic shopping. It’s getting cold but not like last year, so I am hoping we will be fine, if a bit bored, for a couple of days.
And sorry to hear your heart is acting up again. I really hope you will be able to get back to running as fast as you want. It sucks to feel like your body can’t do what it really wants to.
Yes. I am one of those with PTSD but I also have some better ideas and am hoping the power doesn’t go out again,
Today’s sunrise at 55 tomorrow who knows… but Red sky in the morning Sailor take warning…
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@quilteryoyo That is wonderful news from the ortho and I am so glad you found a doctor who understands about running.
@rheddmobile I am so sorry your heart did the thing again.
We Texans definitely have some PTSD from last February's winter storms. I was pretty lucky since we live near the hospital and we only lost power for about an hour. But most here were out much longer. I am hoping that it won't be too bad this time but it is already looking gross out there.
I am feeling somewhat better this morning, but still tired. Temp has been 99.3, but not higher than that. My husband woke up feeling poorly though so it looks like we are in for round two. I did go online and set up a grocery pickup for noon. I'm really glad they do curbside delivery now. I know lots of you may be used to it, but they just started offering it here a couple of months ago. One of the joys of small town living.
I wish I could have banked some miles while the weather was nice, but honestly I didn't feel like running at all. I did a little gentle yoga yesterday and that was nice. I may do that again this afternoon. I don't know when I will get my first run in for February. I will just play it by ear. I keep reminding myself that it is only February 2nd. And so far I have only missed 3 regular runs due to Covid.7 -
I had a little pile of medals that I hadn't gotten around to putting on my display. Well, today I took the time to get it sorted. It looks really nice and I love seeing my little medal collection grow. It's getting very full and I now wish I had gotten one with a double or triple row as there is precious little room to feed any more ribbon between the bar and the wall.
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@quilteryoyo That is great news from the ortho. Very cool you found a doctor who understands runners
@rheddmobile Sorry your heart did the thing again, but very glad you found a way to bring it back to normal.
Waiting for our annual Texas February ice/snow storm. Will probably have to settle for treadmill running for the next few sessions.5 -
martaindale wrote: »I had a little pile of medals that I hadn't gotten around to putting on my display. Well, today I took the time to get it sorted. It looks really nice and I love seeing my little medal collection grow. It's getting very full and I now wish I had gotten one with a double or triple row as there is precious little room to feed any more ribbon between the bar and the wall.
That's a VERY nice display!!!!1 -
@rheddmobile Sorry to hear your heart misbehaved again.1
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@rheddmobile oh thats so frustrating. Hopefully it settles and you can get ba k to normal.
@martaindale live the display! Mine is currently tiny haha.
I did my first HM training run today. 6.44k (I assume that's 4 miles lol) easy. And she meant really easy haha. It's hot and sticky already and not even 8am sigh. I'm kinda looking forward to winter, but we don't get winters like you guys do. No snow for us (yay?!). I really enjoyed today's run despite the heat.
Now I get to go to my last training session for my adult teaching course. Yay sitting all day (sarcasm...)7 -
2/1 – 7.04 miles
2/2 – 3.11 miles
Work has been crazy the past few days. I managed to take a long lunch break yesterday and a shorter one today to get a run in. Rain is heading our way tonight. Hoping it stays rain for everyone in the path and not ice!
@quilteryoyo – I’m so glad you got some good news and are back to running!
Sorry for another erratic heart rate episode @rheddmobile.
Beautiful sky @SummerSkier!
I’m glad you are not experiencing any worse effects @kgirlhart. Continue to listen to your body. Our medical doctor at work warned that overdoing it could cause a setback.
Very nice medal collection @martaindale!4 -
@quilteryoyo great news!
@rheddmobile ugggh, sorry it happened again. I'm going to go Google the valsava maneuver now, sounds interesting. And I hope you can get back to not having to worry about this, that's got to be frustrating.
@SummerSkier hmmm, that IS a very red sky. Hope everyone in the path of storms stays warm and safe!
@martaindale nice medals! I have one with what I thought at the time was lots of space, but it's filling up too.2 -
Nice medal display @martaindale. I recognize a couple of them from my collection ☺️
Did 5 miles on the treadmill this evening to start February off.
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@quilteryoyo that is great news that you can run. Glad you found an understanding and informed doctor.
@rheddmobile thinking of you and your heart issues. Sorry it is keeping you from running the way you want to.
Pretty but ominous sky @SummerSkier
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
02/01/22 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
02/02/22 :::: 3.1 :::: 3.1
Some miles started for February. It was actually 40 degrees this afternoon but somehow I still felt really cold starting out. I guess I thought 30 some degrees warmer than the last time I ran should feel way better.
We are expecting potentially 10-12 inches of snow starting tomorrow here. I'm kind of hoping it is that much or more. Let's just do it. I want a snow day (which is pretty rare for the university no matter how much it snows). I would love to be stuck inside with wine and snacks for a couple of days though.5 -
Thanks @martaindale @Tramboman @rheddmobile @kgirlhart @Scott6255 @Teresa502 and @polskagirl01 .
Nice run @Tramboman !
@martaindale Sounds like a fitness improvement to me. WTG! That is some fog to run in. No wonder you were dripping. Hope you don't get any severe weather. Love your medal display!
@rheddmobile So sorry you had another episode with your heart, but glad you know what to do to get it back into rhythm. I hope the weather is better than expected and you don't lose power. Those ice storms are horrible.
@SummerSkier Beautiful sunrise. I hope you don't have any power outages.
@kgirlhart I'm glad you are feeling a little better and yoga sounds like what you needed. Hope your DH feels better too.
Glad you enjoyed your training run @Avidkeo .
Nice run @Scott6255 .
I walked 2.2 miles on the treadmill today, to celebrate TWO day (2-2-22) . It was 52°F outside, but the cold wind was blowing and I just wasn't into that today.5 -
Feb totals: 12.1/110 miles
2/1: 4.5 miles
2/2: 7.6 miles
Did my recovery run tonight so I could avoid the cold rain tomorrow evening and to get me back on schedule for the week. It was almost 70 F! So crazy that we will be below freezing by tomorrow night. Tomorrow is a climbing day and I'm going to try out a yoga session from the runsmart site.2 -
Hi all 👋
I’m new here. I used to run 5k twice a week about ten years ago, but life and family happened and I never truly got back into it. I would pick it up for a bit, did a few races, but never stayed consistent. Well, I want to start again! I don’t have a goal in mind, I just want to track what I’m doing and go from there!
Feb. 1: 1.29 sleasy mile
Feb. 2: 1.31 sleasy mile10 -
Welcome @AriannaBier . I see you already have the lingo down!
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"Keepin' it sleasy since 1952"
2-1 4k treadmill
2-2 7k easy
2-3 4k treadmill
February Total: 15k
February Goal: 140k
Today is "supposed" to be a rest day, but with the ugly weather coming, decided to treadmill so as not to get too far behind goal. We're supposed to get between 6 and 10 inches of snow, so the streets won't be safe for awhile.
@AriannaBier Welcome!!!
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