February 2023 Monthly Running Challenge
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February Goal: 90 Miles
2/3: 5.27 miles
2/4: 5.26 miles
2/5: 13.15 miles
2/6: 5.02 miles
2/9: 5.52 miles
2/10: 6.02 miles
2/12: 10.10 miles
2/13: 5.51 miles
2/15: 6.02 miles
2/16: 5.12 miles
2/19: 10.26 miles
2/20: 5.51 miles
82.76/90 miles completed for February
There is a chance of thunderstorms Wednesday morning so I ran today and will rest on Wednesday. It was a really nice morning. A tad windy, but otherwise a really nice 5.5 mile run.
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Morning all
Today's 4 !
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One of my two favourite places to run around here is an old train line trail. Part of it is like running through a green tunnel with hills and trees, and then, after that I get treated to panorama views of the city and surrounding villages, followed by running through a forest tunnel. I’ve always wanted to do a multi-month long distance hiking trip like the AT. I think having a trail across the US would be really awesome.
Today, after sleeping really really poorly I woke up feeling sick and decided to bail on my long run. Then after coffee and some food I felt a bit better, so I decided to change into running clothes and at least give it a try. Half an hour into the run I still wasn’t feeling great, so I decided to loop back in case I wanted to significantly shorten the run. Instead of heading directly back to the car though, I was able to talk myself into one more shorter loop but I was feeling really out of energy, so instead of completing my planned HM, I let myself stop after 18.8k. I am ok with that and glad that I was able to talk myself into continuing for that long. Hopefully next time out, I have more energy.
I am 178.4/200 for the month, so 3 more runs should get me to my monthly goal.9 -
Feb 1 – 5.34 miles
Feb 4 – 9.07 miles
Feb 6 – 5.1 miles
Feb 8 – 5.11 miles
Feb 9 – 4.3 miles
Feb 11 – 10 miles
Feb 13 – 5.06 miles
Feb 15 – 3.1 miles
Feb 16 – 5.02 miles
Feb 18 – 12.01 miles
Feb 20 – 5.10 miles
Feb 21 – 4.39 miles
The rain cleared out overnight so I met a friend at 5:00 am for a short run. Temp was 45 – not bad at all.
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Great run @martaindale . The weather seems a little crazier than normal this year.
Great run @kgirlhart .
Another nice run @tarun_yadavA .
@Laurz9191 You really pushed your run. I hope you start to feel better during the day today.
Great run @Teresa502 . I'm glad for the sunshine today.1 -
Those rail trails sound like a really great place to run. I wish I had some near me. They technically do have a rail trail close by, but it basically follows the active transit train, through cities and side streets. Not at all what you all are describing.
@Laurz9191 great job getting over 18K in when feeling so bad!
My 7 miles this morning was just marginally better than yesterday.
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chris_in_cal wrote: »I'm prepping for my "ends in a zero" Bday too. Same age, but mine is in 6/2023.
@chris_in_cal: Let's keep motivating each other to make our "ends in a zero" bday year a positive one!
After reading about others doing treadmill runs, I finally did my first one in the hotel gym where I'm staying. Very weird. I felt like I was pounding my feet so hard. Kept trying to change my stride length to become lighter on my feet, but never felt fully comfortable. Couldn't stand it longer than 35 minutes. Suggestions?
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After reading about others doing treadmill runs, I finally did my first one in the hotel gym where I'm staying. Very weird. I felt like I was pounding my feet so hard. Kept trying to change my stride length to become lighter on my feet, but never felt fully comfortable. Couldn't stand it longer than 35 minutes. Suggestions?
My stride feels different on a treadmill. It’s gotten better, a bit more natural the more runs I have done but definitely not the same as running outside. For me, I feel like I bounce up and down more than I do in my usual stride. I figured out that I was doing that to avoid kicking the front of the treadmill and that I was standing way too close to the front. I had way more room behind me than I felt like I did. I forced myself to push back a little and it helped a lot with the bouncing. Also, paces just feel faster to me on a treadmill. I have done speed workouts on the treadmill but I really try to stick to easy runs so I can just slow it down. The faster paces just contribute to that feeling that I’m about to fall off the back of it.
Also, some treadmills are “harder” than others. No matter what, I hear my feet more on a treadmill but some are worse than others. The one I have at home is way quieter than most of the hotel treadmills I have encountered. Some of those feel so hard. Totally unforgiving. So, some of that feeling could just be the particular treadmill you were on.3 -
February total: 87.9/125 miles
2/1: 3.1 miles
2/3: 5.2 miles
2/4: 9 miles
2/6: 5.1 miles
2/7: 5.5 miles
2/8: 3.2 miles
2/10: 6.3 miles
2/11: 10 miles
2/13: 5 miles
2/14: 5 miles
2/15: 3 miles
2/16: 6.5 miles
2/18: 11 miles
2/20: 5 miles
2/21: 5 miles
Had some more almost summer temps this morning: 70F, 97% humidity. Blech. Run today was 400m repeats. I tried something different with this one. I usually do my 400m then another 400m loop for recovery. I’m not on a track. I use a loop around a pond in my neighborhood that just happens to be about 400m. There are benches on either side. I can tell one “half” is slightly longer than the other but I figured it was good enough so I ran 1 full loop then a half loop using the other bench as my reference, then repeat switching reference benches. It upped the level of difficulty significantly. I hit my paces on the repeats but my HR didn’t drop as much on the recovery. The last couple were hard! This is probably what this workout is really supposed to be like. I wore my new shoes and my paces were good, consistent, and felt easier than with the ghost.5 -
No. If I had done so, my count would have been two cardinals; 1 chickadee; 5,763,924,765 English sparrows; and one peregrine falcon (after the English sparrows). It's hilarious to watch the sparrows hop around in the bushes while the falcon hops along after them.5 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »Ah, I found the GC "connection request" link.
Hi! Join me on the Garmin Connect app. You can track your health and fitness data, and we can follow each other’s activities. Click to join: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/profile/chris_in_cal
I sent you a connection request. Figure my stats will be good for a laugh, if nothing else...2 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »Ah, I found the GC "connection request" link.
Hi! Join me on the Garmin Connect app. You can track your health and fitness data, and we can follow each other’s activities. Click to join: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/profile/chris_in_cal
I sent you a connection request. Figure my stats will be good for a laugh, if nothing else...
Me too. And to @martaindale (I think?)
I did something that in hindsight was probably really dumb today and must now pray it wasn't a big mistake!
Since I accidentally signed up for the local 30k race next Tuesday I've been unable to get them to confirm whether the time limit is really the same 3.5 hours as the HM (it was very generous for the HM and I kept hoping they had just cut and pasted the small print and not thought to change the details). The reason I signed up was supposedly because I intended to do a long run of around 19 or 20 miles around this point anyway, so thought that would work as my long training run.
BUT of course, now I'm obsessing over that 3.5 hour thing. Especially as people can only sign up until Friday lunch time, and at the moment there are only 4 other women on the list!
Sooooo, having done just short of 25k in my race on the 12th, I decided today would be a great day to do 27.5k (most of the course for the 30k, minus the silly road loop at the beginning and end). The plan was to do it very slowly, first and last 7k on my own and the fun middle part with a friend. While heading out to start I decided on a whim that as I would like to taper some at least, I should get one of the speedwork sessions on the plan out of the way at the same time!
To cut a long story short, I ended up pushing way more than was sensible and ended up doing the 27.5k in 3hr20 or so (not counting the 10 minutes I had to wait for my friend because the speedwork made me reach the place we'd agreed to meet early or the two stops at a bathroom). The last 5k were.so.hard and while I was trying to just get them done it dawned on me that I hadn't taken into account my last few runs, so while my brain was thinking '27.5k at the start of a new calendar week, take it easy rest of week' it failed to notice that I've ended up doing 59.5k over the last 7 days, which is a lot more than my average 38-40! Argh!
All to say, while I'm more or less confident now I could finish the race in around the 3.5 hours if I push hard enough (and have rested and recovered sufficiently) I'm not entirely sure I won't be hobbling tomorrow!7 -
2/1 16.37 miles, 1738 days on the run, 920 days HM+ Streak, Crazy Laps! Ice Storm!
2/2 15.41 miles, Crazy Laps! Ice still out there!
2/3 15.2 miles, 1740 days on the run, 922 days HM+ Streak, Crazy Laps! Polar Vortex!
2/4 15.27 miles, Crazy Laps! Polar Vortex!
2/5 15.43 miles, Crazy Laps!
2/6 15.4 miles, Crazy Laps!
2/7 15.47 miles, Running Partner A
2/8 15.28 miles, 1745 days on the run, 927 days HM+ Streak, Crazy Laps!
2/9 15.29 miles, Crazy Laps!
2/10 15.26 miles
2/11 15.53 miles, Crazy Laps!
2/12 15.31 miles, Crazy Laps!
2/13 15.53 miles, 1750 days on the run, 932 days HM+ Streak, Crazy Laps!
2/14 16.78 miles, Running Partner A
2/15 15.48 miles
2/16 16.46 miles, Crazy Laps!
2/17 15.23 miles, Crazy Laps!
2/18 15.58 miles, 1755 days on the run, 937 days HM+ Streak, Running Partner A
2/19 15.35 miles, Crazy Laps!
2/20 15.51 miles, half Crazy Laps!
2/21 15.25 miles, Running Partner A
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I finally did my first one in the hotel gym where I'm staying. Very weird.
I agree. I've come to understand and accept using a treadmill occasionally. Though for me, it is still very weird.
Like running with earbuds, lots of opinions and preferences.
I learned to love podcasts when working out my treadmill issues. Ultimately I could start one of my favorite :45 min podcast, start the treadmill, and sort of relax and get in some work.
It was never my preference, but I came to be comfortable doing it and appreciate how at times it was the only available options vs. not doing anything. Good luck.6 -
No. If I had done so, my count would have been two cardinals; 1 chickadee; 5,763,924,765 English sparrows; and one peregrine falcon (after the English sparrows). It's hilarious to watch the sparrows hop around in the bushes while the falcon hops along after them.
It really does feel like there are 5 million HOSP around when I am first starting up my purple martin colony in the spring but usually all it takes it to trap one male and they get the picture that the gourds are not for them. THey are annoying along with the english starlings which are nasty. Invasive species...3 -
Shoot. I had part of a post ready, but forgot to hit save draft and lost it.
@Scott6255 I hope your runs continually to improve day by day. You are doing great for when they feel so hard.
@spl3 and @martaindale . I sometimes I feel like I bounce up and down more than normal on the treadmill too. Especially when I am going slower. Now I wonder if it is because I am closer to the front when I'm running slowly. I'll have to pay closer attention next time. Changing your speed might help make it feel so hard @spl8 . And, I agree, some of those hotel treadmills just aren't that great.
@martaindale Those are some summer temps! Sounds like you have a nice place to run 400 m repeats. Well done on the modification today.
Hahaha @Tramboman Of course, that info is still data on what birds you saw. I tried again this year, but didn't get to report very many species as Tippy decided she was the guardian of the feeder and most of the birds flew away. The titmice and chick-a-dees could care less.
@eleanorhawkins I hope you aren't too sore in the morning and can do a proper taper before next Tues.
Plus, I hope the cutoff is longer than 3.5 hours, just so you won't have to push so hard if you don't want to.
Great running and beautiful pictures @AlphaHowls !
Today's plan called for 40 min easy run or cross train. I decided on a treadmill wun. I walked the first and last 0.25 miles at 3.8 mph and the middle 3.0 miles I ran at 4.2 mph enough to keep my HR above 110 bpm, but below around 130 bpm. It was really, really slow (15 min miles), so I'll be counting it as a walk in my stats. My avg HR was 120, with a max of 136 bpm.
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February Goal: 90 Miles
2/3: 5.27 miles
2/4: 5.26 miles
2/5: 13.15 miles
2/6: 5.02 miles
2/9: 5.52 miles
2/10: 6.02 miles
2/12: 10.10 miles
2/13: 5.51 miles
2/15: 6.02 miles
2/16: 5.12 miles
2/19: 10.26 miles
2/20: 5.51 miles
2/21: 6.02 miles
88.78/90 miles completed for February
I had nice weather this morning. It was 64°F with just a light wind. I was worried that I would be really tired. My feet were kind of tired and achy yesterday, but I felt great this morning and ran 6 miles. It was a nice run. I am planning to rest tomorrow even if we don't get rain or thunderstorms. The wind is picking up already. I will just plan on a nice long yoga practice tomorrow. And hopefully the weather will be nice again on Thursday.
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Morning everyone 😊
Got in a 9K
Side note-
If anyone's interested... Came across this 1 minute tiktok reel on Facebook yesterday. Guy talks about part of my running route - apparently it's the longest street in London (I didn't know that!) and a bit of American history thrown in!
https://www.facebook.com/reel/577039647672468?s=yWDuG2&fs=e
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@tarun_yadavA that is NOT how I imagined your route with those building looming over. I kind of always thought of it as a boardwalk. It reminds me of "call the midwife" type scenery. Haven't watched the whole thing but pretty cool! thanks for sharing.0
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@tarun_yadavA Also not how I imagined that route based on your strava map. I thought of it like those paths along the Siene in Paris. Old buildings on one side and a walking path open to the river on the other. Does it get crowded?1
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@kgirlhart So glad you had a really good run. I hope the storms stay away.
Good to see you getting back to your normal running pattern @tarun_yadavA . Also not how I had your route pictured. No wonder you got irritated at the crowds when you ran your marathon distance there. I think I would feel claustrophobic with no one else on the street but me.
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Feb 1 – 5.34 miles
Feb 4 – 9.07 miles
Feb 6 – 5.1 miles
Feb 8 – 5.11 miles
Feb 9 – 4.3 miles
Feb 11 – 10 miles
Feb 13 – 5.06 miles
Feb 15 – 3.1 miles
Feb 16 – 5.02 miles
Feb 18 – 12.01 miles
Feb 20 – 5.10 miles
Feb 21 – 4.39 miles
Feb 22 – 4.53 miles
I don’t know how some of you all run every day! Today made my third day in a row and my legs were so tired. Especially after I finished, showered for work and had to walk up a flight of stairs to exit the gym!
@tarun_yadavA – thanks for sharing the visual. The church and the grounds look beautiful.
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@eleanorhawkins since you were going to run approximately 30k anyway, I'd think you'd be fine running it however long as it takes you. If it's over the limit, they'll either give you the medal, or they won't. If there are only 4 women signed up, they may wait just so they have someone to give AG awards too 😉 Good job accidentally signing up though!!!4
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2-1 4k slooowww; resistance band training
2-2 golf swing training
2-3 3k treadmill; resistance band training
2-4 golf swing training
2-5 4k slow
2-6 4k slow; resistance band training
2-7 golf swing training
2-8 4k slow; resistance band training
2-9 desultory golf swing training (mind was elsewhere)
2-10 4k slow; resistance band training
2-11 golf swing training
2-12 4k slow
2-13 4k slow; resistance band training; car shopping
2-14 golf swing training; trout fishing
2-15 4k slow; resistance band training
2-16 Lazy...
2-17 4k slow; resistance band training
2-18 Extra lazy
2-19 4k slow
2-20 4k sleasy; resistance band training
2-21 golf swing training
2-22 3k treadmill
February total: 50 k
February goal: 50 k
Cloudy, low 30s F, and a pouring cold rain with ice forming on the trees and elevated surfaces. Thought treadmill was the right call.6 -
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@SummerSkier @quilteryoyo @Teresa502 @martaindale thanks ladies! 😊
That's the first 0.7M of my run before I either go straight to into the park, or take a right and run into the City.
@quilteryoyo it's more residential at this part. If having gone right (and into the City), that's where it starts getting quite touristy and selfie-takers. Tower Bridge is about 1.75 ish from me. That's probably the most touristy bit.
Mayflower pub is nice. Small. But nice! 😊4 -
@tarun_yadavA That’s not how I pictured your route either. Don’t get me wrong, it definitely looks cool, but I never envisioned cobblestones. Doesn’t it bother you to run on them?
Today I wasn’t planning on running because my 3 year old was home, but the weather was so much over 15C, so we went to the park nearby, dusted off the standing bike, and took off. I thought I would be chasing him, but after a long winter of not biking I was more coaxing him to keep going. Afterwards we went to the playground
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Spoiler is of my running buddy
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I am counting today’s run as a recovery run. Today’s total distance was 2.7K
177.6/200 for February so far
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@Teresa502 I'm with you on that, I really can't do more than 2 days in a row unless I do morning, morning, evening so there's really a day an a half between runs 2 and 3, and even then it pisses my legs off a lot.
@polskagirl01 yeah, the distance isn't a problem, the whole reason I decided to do it is because I was planning to do 20 miles around that time anyway. Totally winging marathon training due to a week long hiking holiday/pilgrimage that ends exactly 3 weeks before the marathon, when I should according to standard training plans have been doing the big long run. The problem will be the speed. Knowing I have a chance of actually making that cutoff time is going to make me really want to push and race it... With 42 hours left to sign up, there are 6 women for the 30k, which means finishing before they close the finish is an automatic trophy and that is really getting my competitive streak itchy! If no other women sign up I might manage to convince myself to keep it steady and sensible and hope they're lenient. If more sign up, I'll have to decide whether to fight or not 😅7 -
@tarun_yadavA That’s not how I pictured your route either. Don’t get me wrong, it definitely looks cool, but I never envisioned cobblestones. Doesn’t it bother you to run on them?
Today I wasn’t planning on running because my 3 year old was home, but the weather was so much over 15C, so we went to the park nearby, dusted off the standing bike, and took off. I thought I would be chasing him, but after a long winter of not biking I was more coaxing him to keep going. Afterwards we went to the playground.
Spoiler is of my running buddy.
I am counting today’s run as a recovery run. Today’s total distance was 2.7K
177.6/200 for February so far
@Laurz9191 awww. Cute!😊
How old are your kids??
RE: Route - again, that particular street is only the first 0.7M of my daily run, and there are non-Cobble footpaths for most of it. I do have to do a little bit of it though. Not a fan! lol.
@martaindale hey Sarah, the running along like it's the Seine in Paris bit... Not in the 'loop' bit where I live. If I go into the City - it does get like that before Tower bridge/Tower of London... ie a Footpath, landmark one side, river other.
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chris_in_cal wrote: »
My vocabulary is much stronger than my running.6
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