AUGUST 2023 Monthly Running Challenge
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Aug 2 – 4.77 miles
Aug 4 – 3.28 miles
Aug 5 – 4.34 miles
Aug 6 – 8.02 miles
Aug 8 – 4.01 miles
Aug 9 - 4.26 miles
Aug 14 – 4.01 miles
Good Monday afternoon! Hope everyone had a great weekend. I took a vacation day on Friday and hiked 20 miles with 4,455 feet of elevation gain on the Appalachian Trail, camped overnight, and hiked another 17 miles with 2,324 feet of elevation gain on Saturday. I took Sunday as a rest day unless you count washing my car and cleaning inside also which I’m counting because I was a sweaty mess when I finished! This morning, I did my cross training workout and then ran 4 miles.
Welcome @nevermore6617!
I hope your treatments are going well @shanaber. Glad you felt like getting a walk in and I hope that you continue to feel strong and can find something that appeals to your taste buds.
@polskagirl01 – Traveling and changing time zones is so hard on the body. I hope today finds you feeling more “normal.” What a beautiful orchid! Hope the squash army can regroup and continue forward!
@quilteryoyo – Amis Mill is a beautiful setting for a restaurant. Have you ever run the Amis Mill 10K? It starts and ends at the restaurant (including breakfast afterwards)
Congrats on completing/not completing Run the Year @SummerSkier!
As for the dessert talk, yes...I love every single thing mentioned! I once played a pass-the-time game where you are asked if you could only have one food for the rest of your life what would it be. One person said salmon. Another said baked potato. I said cake.
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That is true @tarun_yadavA .
You are doing great @SummerSkier ! Congratulations to us. 😝
It's a learning process @yirara . You're doing great.
@polskagirl01 Sorry about the squash army. Sounds like they lost a battle with the lawnmower, but they haven't lost the war. With new recruits, I hope you still have plenty. 😜
@AlphaHowls That is a little creepy. I'm with you on the Southern style banana pudding.
@shanaber You are doing great! I hope you can find something that you can eat. That must be hard. Do you like peanut butter? I can eat that often when nothing else sounds good, but I've never been in your situation either.
@kgirlhart I don't know how you run so much in those temperatures! I love this group so much. Great friends.
Speaking of which, do any of you who have been here a while know anything about the lady who lives in Hawaii that used to post all the time. Is she anywhere near the fire?
You can do it @TheMrWobbly . I have no advice though.
I was recently asked what my favorite dessert was for my birthday. New York style cheesecake, plain, is my favorite. A real close second is carrot cake, moist and without raisins. After that, I'm not sure. My husband and I used to make a dump cake that was amazing and I've had this thing called Death By Chocolate that is fantastic, even though chocolate is not my favorite thing to eat. I also love Southern style banana pudding and a good German chocolate cake. I love my mom's apple cake without any icing though. She thinks I'm weird. 🤣6 -
@tarun_yadavA - it was the smaller two finger/four finger bars. If you like dark chocolate with coconut the bar in the US is a Mounds - also one I love.
@TheMrWobbly - going to have to look up Eton Mess... have no idea what that is.
@kgirlhart - Thanks - I love PB and make my own because I like it fresh with just peanuts and nothing else. I like to have a toasted waffle with PB and honey or toast with PB and a banana sliced on top. I just have to be careful about all the fat but my body seems to be slowly adjusting to it.
After being totally and completely exhausted last night I woke up feeling great. Dare I say, normal?? So certainly no ill affects of overdoing. Today will be errands and agility! I haven't been to agility in 2 months. DH has been taking Hobbes so he can run with with one of the other people in class. Hope he will still want to run with me!8 -
tarun_yadavA wrote: »Had in Birmingham Alabama whilst on my Roadtrip. Went down a treat after copious beers then BBQ smothered in white sauce! 😊
What the what?!? I have to assume you mean gravy. But BBQ is not served with gravy. Sometimes with a bbq sauce that is a dark red-brown color, a little smoky, maybe spicy. I have no idea what you ate but the idea of bbq w gravy made me 🤢.
Desserts. I love dessert in general so I have to used very broad categories here.
1. Ice cream. Sometimes fruity, sometimes rich chocolate stuff.
2. Brownies. No frosting.
3. My mom's coconut cream pie.
4. Anything citrus. Lemon bars, key lime pie. Mmmm.
5. This banana macadamia nut cake that I make once a year for my FIL. It's my favorite cake of all time.5 -
Aug total: 49.3/100 miles
8/1: 5.6 miles
8/2: 3.3 miles
8/5: 10 miles
8/7: 7 miles
8/10: 6 miles
8/11: 5.1 miles
8/12: 9.2 miles
8/14: 3.1 miles
Quick pre-work run this morning. I can finally tell that sunrise is getting later. It was dark through my whole run for the first time. Time to charge my nox vest I guess.6 -
01.08 Tue 18°C 2.1km 20min 9:30/km
03.08 Thu 19°C 5.2km 47min 8:57/km
05.08 Sat 20°C 5.6km 50min 8:58/km
07.08 Mon 17°C 6.0km 52min 8:41/km
08.08 Tue 17°C 3.4km 29min 8:36/km
09.08 Wed 20°C 5.0km 44min 8:46/km
11.08 Fri 26°C 6.5km 58min 8:52/km
13.08 Sun 23°C 3.4km 30min 8:44/km
14.08 Mon 26°C 5.0km 43min 8:35/km
42.24km/no goal - 42.24kmkm ahead
Decided to do some kind of C25K, decreasing walking and increasing running. Today was 350m running and 150m walking all the way through. Obviously I was running too fast again. Too restless. Seems to be a common theme at the moment.
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@Teresa502 I have not run that race. It would probably be fun though. Do you know when it is? Not that I can't look it up. 🤣. Haha about the one food for the rest of your life.
@shanaber So glad you are feeling good, almost normal today. I hope you and Hobbes both enjoy agility class tonight!
Nice run @martaindale !
You'll get there @yirara .4 -
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It was held in June last year but I don't see where they had it this year. I hope they haven't discontinued it. Mark Skeleton law office was the organizer/sponsor. He usually has about 4 races each year (Surgoinsville 10-Miler and a couple up at Bays Mountain).quilteryoyo wrote: »@Teresa502 I have not run that race. It would probably be fun though. Do you know when it is? Not that I can't look it up. 🤣. Haha about the one food for the rest of your life.
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@TheMrWobbly I had to look up Eton Mess, but when I did, I realized it's also a thing here. Very delicious!
That's such a wonderful feeling to get a good day like that. May you have many more!After being totally and completely exhausted last night I woke up feeling great. Dare I say, normal?? So certainly no ill affects of overdoing. Today will be errands and agility! I haven't been to agility in 2 months. DH has been taking Hobbes so he can run with with one of the other people in class. Hope he will still want to run with me!
My only activity for the day was grocery shopping (which honestly is an endurance event at this point) and a date with my husband. We sat outside at the coffee/sandwich shop, and were in the shade, but maybe should've stayed in the air conditioning. It's not *that* bad (high of 32°C/90°F), but still. Feeling very dizzy and tired, which is normal for me, but it has its ups and downs. Maybe it will get a little better when jet lag wears off. The nap I took probably didn't help with that. But of course I'm staying hydrated (+electrolytes), taking the supplements, doing the light and pressure therapies, taking it easy. And connecting with you folks 😁 sending likes and hugs as appropriate.8 -
@martaindale YES! All of a sudden it was dark when I ran this morning. I enjoyed a nice sliver of moon and saw a huge deathstarish ball of red Sun coming up. I never understand how it changes so quickly. Will also have to find my lights today...
and tomorrow for my birthday a COLD FRONT is supposed to be light north wind and temps low 70;s. I ran 6.5 today to celebrate tomorrow being 65 birthday but maybe I should have waited? I just like to grab it while the grabbing is good because tomorrow I might feel crappy.5 -
@martaindale - I had the same thought on @tarun_yadavA's post about the BBQ. Only thing I could think of was chicken fried steak with country gravy and he thought it was BBQ or it was served along with BBQ? 😂 😂
@AlphaHowls - while 'normal' may be a stretch goal since I wasn't before, it is nice to not feel like I have been run over by a truck recently 😁
@polskagirl01 - so glad you got to have a date with your husband and sit outside a bit even though at 90 I would say that is hot. I am a firm believer that getting out in the sunshine, works wonders for jet lag and getting your body back into its circadian rhythm.
On all the food comments - I think we may need to have a recipe section... Molasses Ginger Cookies, Banana Macadamia Nut cake - yum! I also love lime bars! our neighbor has a very prolific lime tree, more than they or there family can use so lime bars! I also have a family and friend favorite that is requested all the time but one that isn't my favorite because it it way too sweet for me, Rocky Road Fudge Bars with brownie base, a baked in cream cheese nut middle, followed by melted chocolate chips and of course melted marshmallows and more chocolate on top.
It seems the Eton Mess is like what I would call a trifle here or even a berry shortcake.
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Happy 65 @SummerSkier 🎉🎈🎂
Yes, getting a 'cold' front tonight. It finally dropped below 100F here today, but tonight it is still going to be 81F. BUT.. Wednesday morning supposed to be 73F! 🤯 So planning to run outside Wednesday morning.
Did 6 TM miles today. Dug the Kinvaras out of the closet and changed shoes halfway through. They felt quite a bit better than they did the first time I tried them. Will give them a try outside soon.
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August 1: Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 1.50 miles
August 2: Wun 3.00 miles - driveway after mowing my lawn - yellow jacket stings
August 3: Walk 1.50 miles - Ran 1.00 mile - treadmill
August 4: Walk 1.00 mile - Ran 6.40 miles - treadmill (birthday run)
August 5: Walk 2.00 miles - treadmill
August 6: Walk 2.00 miles - treadmill
August 7: Walk 2.00 miles - treadmill
August 8: Walk 2.00 miles - treadmill, mowed, and sawed wood
August 9: Walk 1.50 miles - Ran 1.50 miles - driveway laps after tennis
August 10: Walk 2.00 miles - driveway laps
August 11: Walk 1.50 miles - Ran 4.00 miles - treadmill - Also weed eat for 50 min later
August 12: Walk 2.00 miles - treadmill - played 2h26m25s of singles tennis (traversed 1.90 miles)
August 13: Walk 1.00 mile - treadmill
August 14: Walk 2.00 miles - treadmill
85.90/80 mile goal
Yesterday was a long day. I got up earlier than usual in order to feed the neighbor's animals before going to church. I'm glad I decided to go before I got dressed in my Sunday best, because their rabbit had dug out from under it's pen. Fortunately, it was nearby and I was able to catch it fairly easily, but I had to carry it around until I could find something to plug the hole and put at the other corners so hopefully it won't try to dig out again. Got that done, and we went to church.
I came home and did a one mile walk on the treadmill. I hadn't slept much the night before and was really tired. I rested a few minutes, and then left to pick up mom and her two sisters and we went to a nearby town for my mom's great nephew's visitation and funeral. He passed from colon cancer and was only 48 year old. So sad. I was worn out by the time I got home, so didn't get on the computer to post about my day.
This morning, I got up early, fed the animals, and worked all day at the daycare. The class I was in had 10 2 - 3 year olds. They were really pretty good today, but you have to stay on your toes.
I did sleep better last night, but am still tired today, so I did a 2 mile walk on the treadmill after I got home.
Another reason I didn't run is that I am wanting to give my muscles another day to "rest" because I did a stupid thing yesterday on the treadmill. I felt like I was getting too close to the back of the treadmill, so sort of turned around to see how close I was getting as I walked. I must tell you, it isn't a very good idea to look behind you when the treadmill is going. I almost fell, but was thankfully holding onto the handrails. I twisted weird though. I feel okay when walking, but yesterday I felt a couple of twinges after sitting for a while. I figure another day of walking isn't going to hurt anything.7 -
@AlphaHowls You're normal certainly isn't my normal. I don't think any of us are "normal," but we have "our normal".
@polskagirl01 Sounds like a nice day. I hope you start feeling better soon.
Great running @SummerSkier ! Happy Birthday tomorrow. Hey, nothing says you can't do two birthday runs. Right?
Great running @Scott6255 ! Glad you are going to have some cooler mornings coming up.5 -
Many happy returns @SummerSkier , have a great day!
Breaking in a pair of shoes today, about time as they are two years old! A bit monochrome but there we are.
Half way through the month though not half way through the target!
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Morning everyone!
Got in a 6K (09"03).
First off... Happy birthday @SummerSkier I hope you have a lovely day! 😊
@martaindale , @shanaber 🤷
White sauce is apparently their thing in AL.
Smothered on everything... Definitely the chicken 100%. (Had had about 6 at various breweries before rocking up there! Lol)
Think my favourite BBQ items are Ribs and the Jalapeno-cheddar sausage. Side: Coleslaw.
When I did my 48State Roadtrip... Had BBQ in 6 states... Thought NC was overrated and I love LOVE the late great Anthony Bourdain but his Kansas City tip didn't do it for me (maybe not a Burnt Ends person - so lost on me)
And yes everyone... Just like that... Dessert to BBQ lol6 -
Hmmm, I'm with @martaindale on this one. Have never heard of 'white sauce' on BBQ. Not sure what the base is, but just can't image it. Give me a spicy dry rub or sauce any day!
Did 8 miles this morning. It dipped below 80F, so HAD to go out and run😁 7 -
Cool shoes @TheMrWobbly . You're close to be half way to your goal. You can do it.
Great run @tarun_yadavA ! When did you do a 48 state BBQ tour? BBQ isn't my favorite food, so maybe I could do a 48 state Chicken Alfredo tour.
Nice run @Scott6255 !
Happy Happy Birthday @SummerSkier ! I hope you have a great day! For those who don't know, bON does, my mom's birthday is today too. She's 88 and going strong.4
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