November 2022 Monthly Running Challenge

AlphaHowls

@kgirlhart wrote: »

but I was distracted by him and then noticed movement right beside me and it was a skunk. He was just running next to me. Normally I would have been looking for him because I often see the skunk on that block but I wasn't looking for him today. Luckily he wasn't bothered by me.

I admit to laughing about this!

tarun_yadavA

Good morning all.
Got in a 12k. Ran into the city and back.

quilteryoyo

Well, I think I am caught up again. I hope my comments are too confusing since they are on some older posts. LOL Hoping to get a run in later today. I'll catch up on my exercises for the week then.

Haha @Scott6255 . Glad you didn't feel like you were going to die on your run on the 9th. 🤣. Sounds like you did great.

@shanaber So sorry to hear about the floods and loss of life. I've not caught the news in a couple of days, so had no idea. 😢

@Teresa502 You are doing great while on vacation.... well even if you weren't. 🤣 I hope you have a safe trip home.

@SummerSkier Thanks for adding your miles to RTW. I enter mine manually too, so know how tedious it can be. Glad you are enjoying tennis so much. Wish we lived closer. That is a beautiful picture of the eclipse.

Great run @kgirlhart . Love the picture!

You are so consistent @tarun_yadavA ! Must be great to be able to have a school trip to Belgium. I hope your son enjoyed the experience.

@martaindale I'm glad your child has something they love to do - theater. I hear ya on those early morning bathroom walks in the cold. As for camping, my husband and I used to tent camp in FL. It wasn't too cold there. I think I am getting to where I would prefer glamping or RVing. LOL I'm not sure sleeping on the ground is something I would enjoy now. And, at my age, going to the bathroom in the middle of the night is a thing, so having to do that alone, in the dark, in the cold....doesn't sound like fun to me. You are doing great figuring out your fueling needs. Your lesson learned to just take the extra gel and eat the muffin made me chuckle a little.

Way to get in a hard 7 miles @Scott6255 .

@kgirlhart So glad that skunk just wanted a running partner. Yikes.

SummerSkier

"Dances with wolves. Runs with skunks"

@kgirlhart you will NEVER live this one down.

Wow chilly run this morning mid 30's as opposed to mid 70's all last week. First time furnace. Long pants hat and gloves and hand warmers. 5 miles this morning total 54.86 for the month. Only 49 more days left in the year and so I need to avg 3.5 to hit my mileage goal. Having grown up in the NE I don't really mind the colder weather but once it drops below freezing unless it's snowing or something exciting like that I don't enjoy it as much.

quilteryoyo

Great run @SummerSkier . It's the drastic change in temperatures that gets me more than anything else. I'll probably be on the treadmill for at least a week.

yirara

01.11 Tue 12°C 4.0km 33min 8:09/km
02.11 Wed 10°C 6.4km 51min 8:00/km
04.11 Fri 10°C 5.5km 45min 8:13/km
05.11 Sat 7°C 7.5km 65min 8:40/km
06.11 Sun 10°C 3.7km 30min 8:06/km
08.11 Tue 12°C 6.0km 48min 8:07/km
10.11 Thu 11°C 5.4km 46min 8:35/km
12.11 Sat 7°C 10.2km 88min 8:40/km

total: 48.64/80.5km (16.2km ahead)

third and last run in lovely flat landscape. I think I will miss this

shanaber

@kgirlhart - maybe that skunk recognizes you and knows you aren't going to threaten it. It may also have been hoping it could hide beside you and/or be protected from the dog if it ran next to you! 🦨 I am glad you didn't react badly (I probably would have jumped/screamed) and didn't get sprayed!!

Thanks for updating your miles in RTW @SummerSkier - We are no longer sinking into the cold Atlantic!

Great running @tarun_yadavA!

No run today. Got out for a good walk yesterday but didn't sleep well last night so now I am tired. Will get in a strength workout today and maybe a short pup walk and get out for a run tomorrow.

For Sträva users have you found that it shorts the distance with the 'walk' selection? I walked what I know to be right about 3 miles yesterday and it gave me 2.74 and that was after I used the distance correction on the web version. Seems way off for a GPS issue but who knows.

tarun_yadavA

@quilteryoyo @shanaber - thanks ladies! 😊

Eldest went on an overnight coach trip to Ypres in Belgium. There on Remembrance Day. Pretty cool. But then groan on how much of it is just lost on young teenagers!
"How was the trip?"
>>> "The coach was awesome... I saw XYZ on Netflix... We ate fries at this place... This kid nearly peed his pants". Etc etc.

"Ummm... Belgium?
>>> "Oh yeah. That was ok".

Ugh. 🤦.

Oh. And reviving something from a month or so ago...
Coffee and Walnut cake. I had some today!😊

Scott6255

12 miles this afternoon. After playing golf for 4 1/2 hours this morning, I thought this was going to be pretty tough. But it was a perfect 52F and light wind. Wasn't going for a fast pace, but after the first mile it was just over BQ pace, and didn't feel that hard. Now I don't think I could have sustained it for too much longer, but felt good.

quilteryoyo

@tarun_yadavA Haha about your son's conversation re Belgium. Oh to be young again. That cake looks delicious!

Great running @Scott6255 !

I haven't posted since Tuesday, but have kept up my streak. I played tennis twice, worked a couple of days, and cleared leaves again on Thursday! Each day, I walked at least a mile. Today, I had time to run, but was just tired and the drizzly, cool weather didn't help. My plan is to run tomorrow afternoon. We shall see. My monthly total so far is 21.50 miles/70 mile goal.

Yesterday was a good Veteran's Day for me. I worked at the daycare all day where the two older classes sang the song "Thank You Soldiers" for me, made me a poster and pictures to thank me for my service, the daycare gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and my aunt joined me for dinner at Fatz (so I could get my free Calabash Chicken Basket). Couldn't think of much that would have made it better. Pictures under the spoiler.

The eagles one of the classes made me. I'm not posting the poster that was made because it has the kid's names and we're not supposed to put those on social media.


My pretty bouquet.


Me and my aunt after dinner.

I almost forgot, I finally made hotel reservations for the race in FL in Dec. That makes it real, right? I really do need to try to get some longish runs in over the next few weeks.

kgirlhart

November Goal: 100 Miles

11/1: 5.26 miles
11/2: 5.26 miles
11/4: 5.55 miles
11/6: 11.15 miles
11/7: 2.11 miles
11/8: 5.26 miles
11/9: 5.31 miles
11/10: 6.01 miles
11/11: 3.30 miles
11/12: 3.20 miles


52.41/100 miles completed for November

It was cold this morning at 32°F when I got up. I decided to wait until it warmed up to get my 5K in for the Hug a Runner challenge. I ran at 12::15 and it was still 48°F. It was sunny though and really pretty out so I enjoyed the run. It should be similar weather tomorrow. I'm planning to try to sleep in a little bit so it will at least be in the 40's for my long run.

tarun_yadavA

Morning all.
Back to back 7s.
Happy Sunday!

Scott6255

5 recovery miles this afternoon.

kgirlhart

November Goal: 100 Miles

11/1: 5.26 miles
11/2: 5.26 miles
11/4: 5.55 miles
11/6: 11.15 miles
11/7: 2.11 miles
11/8: 5.26 miles
11/9: 5.31 miles
11/10: 6.01 miles
11/11: 3.30 miles
11/12: 3.20 miles
11/13: 10.12 miles


62.53/100 miles completed for November

It was 33°F when I got up this morning so I waited to run until about 9:30 when it was up to 42°F. That's still a colder than I like, so I waffled about what to wear. I finally decided on shorts and a t-shirt with sleeves and gloves. I was chilly starting out, but I reminded myself that I need to dress for the end of the run, not the start if the run especially on long run days. I was dressed appropriately. I ran 10 miles. I have mittens that open into fingerless gloves. I opened them up about 3 miles in and at about 3.5 miles I pulled the sleeves down to my elbows. And at about 4 miles I took them all off. But then at about 7 miles when I was headed home into the wind I got chilly and put them back on. It was a pretty day and it was a nice run.

quilteryoyo

Nice run @kgirlhart . I hope the weather cooperated for your long run today. We must have posted at the exact same time. Glad you had such a nice 10 mile run today.

Another nice run @tarun_yadavA !

Great recovery run @Scott6255 .

I managed to get in a short treadmill session after church, lunch, and a much needed nap. I walked a total of 0.70 miles for warm up and cool down and did a run/walk for 3/2 minutes at 4.5-5.1/3.8 mph. Overall pace was okay @ 13:39 min/mile. I know it is slow, but still planning on this strategy for my 10 mile race in Dec.

Speaking of which, when I was making my hotel reservations yesterday, I noticed that we have to be at the gate to get onto Cape Canaveral no later than 6:30 (they open it up at 4:30) the morning of the race, which starts at 7:30am. You all know that I am NOT a morning person. Should I try to get up early most days between now and then so my body is somewhat used it or just go with my normal and know that is going to be a different sort of day? Also, I am trying to find out how many people are registered for the race, but am having no luck with that. I have a feeling this will be the biggest race I have ever run, as far as number of people go, so I'm a little nervous about the whole thing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

AlphaHowls

@quilteryoyo wrote: »

Speaking of which, when I was making my hotel reservations yesterday, I noticed that we have to be at the gate to get onto Cape Canaveral no later than 6:30 (they open it up at 4:30) the morning of the race, which starts at 7:30am. You all know that I am NOT a morning person. Should I try to get up early most days between now and then so my body is somewhat used it or just go with my normal and know that is going to be a different sort of day? Also, I am trying to find out how many people are registered for the race, but am having no luck with that. I have a feeling this will be the biggest race I have ever run, as far as number of people go, so I'm a little nervous about the whole thing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I do my best to match conditions of my runs to race day conditions. I had the opposite last month where I am used to running at 5 AM and the race did not start till 8 AM. I made sure a few of my runs were at that time. Around here you are dealing with rapidly changing conditions this time of year. It could have been cold or blazing hot. I was not worried about cold conditions, my main concern was running too hot. Thankfully, race day was mild. I think your plan would be to match some conditions of a few of your runs to what you think race day will be like.

tarun_yadavA

@quilteryoyo lovely pic of you and your aunt! 😊

tarun_yadavA

Morning all. Monday! Back to the grind.
Got in a 9k

quilteryoyo

Thanks for the insight @AlphaHowls . I will try to do that.

Thanks @tarun_yadavA . You are getting back to your normal speedy self.

eleanorhawkins

@quilteryoyo I agree with AlphaHowls... I always try to make my training as similar as possible to race day conditions: same time of day, same clothes, same shoes, same breakfast, etc. etc. So yes, I'd say try to get used to waking up and running at that time of day for at least a few days/weeks beforehand. Bear in mind that if you usually run later in the day, you may need to find what works for you in regards to waking up and having coffee or something to eat or whatever and then running with that in your stomach, and also bathroom visits... Regarding the crowds... my only piece of advice as a back-of-the-pack runner is to get as far back in the corral as you can to avoid being trampled by faster runners at the start and be prepared to have to walk for a bit at the beginning until the crowd thins out a little, especially if a lot of runners have to get through relatively narrow gates/gaps or whatever.

I'm finally feeling recovered from my race and am gradually easing myself back into things. So far this month I've also managed to do all the strength, mobility and core workouts on my plan and they're starting not to hurt so much, yay!
One thing the plan calls for is a 20-30 minute 'test' at some point near the beginning to determine zones for effort levels, speedwork, etc. so I did that this morning instead of the 20 minutes 'tempo' in the progression run on the schedule. I didn't die, but oh boy did it remind me how long it is since I've tried to run 'fast'. I've lost some speed but not too much, and at least I know I won't pass out during a little local charity 3k I've signed up for in a couple of weeks' time!