AUGUST 2023 Monthly Running Challenge

tarun_yadavA

Morning all
Hope everyone's having a nice Sunday!
Got in a pacier-than-usual 8Miler... Ran with a Running Club today.

@Scott6255 - well done on the Half!
@quilteryoyo - when's your birthday?
Cr-p. Sorry did I miss it? 😳
Happy (belated) birthday

AlphaHowls

This was my favorite of the day

I like this
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10896641/how-motivation-works#latest

quilteryoyo

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

19.40/80 mile goal

After church this morning, mom and I took lunch to my cousin in assisted living to celebrate his birthday. He's 78 today, 10 years younger than mom. We had a really nice visit. Then, we stopped by my niece's house and visited with them a bit. Another great visit.

When I got home, I was tired, so went down for a two mile treadmill walk. I didn't turn on my Garmin, to save power until I can get a new charging cable. I always use the treadmill's distance and time anyway. I just use the Garmin for calories which doesn't really matter today cuz I ain't logging calories when I had Zaxby's chicken dinner and carrot cake for lunch.

A couple of pictures from my day are under the spoiler, if you are interested. Not running related.

Me, mom, and my cousin Gary.


The girls gave mom "sticker pox." lol

I got new running shoes for my birthday. Mom was going to buy them for me, but I told her it would be too much, so she said she would buy one of them. She's so funny. Shoe porn under the spoiler.

They're a little lighter color than I expected, but I like the way they look - almost like a cloud. I haven't tried them yet. I want to wait until I'm actually planning to run.

Here's a couple of shoe porn out takes. Tippy photo bombs.

kgirlhart

August Goal: 125 Miles

8/1: 6.26 miles
8/2: 5.57 miles
8/3: 5.12 miles
8/6: 11.26 miles

28.21/125 miles completed for August

I managed to get up pretty early and got out the door about 6:50 am. So I was able to run during the coolest part of the day. Unfortunately, that was only about 84° F. But there was some light cloud cover and a little more shade at that time if the morning. So it was a pretty pleasant run and I ran 11.2 miles. I saw another runner and a few walkers. I was able to run through a sprinkler about 7 miles in, and that helped. I saw a few loose dogs, but none of them bothered me.

Love the shoes @quilteryoyo. Looks like Tippy isn't too sure about them.

quilteryoyo

Hahahaha @tarun_yadavA . My birthday was on Friday, the 4th. It's okay. Thanks for the belated wishes. You did great with your speedier run!

Beautiful picture @AlphaHowls ! That's about right with the discipline.

chris_in_cal

Cool Sunday sunset run at the beach.
In coastal California the hottest time is September and into October.


August Running Goal: 18 runs, 75 miles

1. Aug 1 - 3.00 miles
2. Aug 2 - 3.85 miles
3. Aug 4 - 3.27 miles
4. Aug 6 - 6.00 miles

Current: 4 runs, 16.12 miles

tarun_yadavA

Morning all
Got in a 4 (09"07) to kickstart the week
@quilteryoyo ugh so so sorry... The cake. And everything 🙈
Happy belated birthday!
@chris_in_cal well done on the 6! Burn off that pizza lunch and bourbon! 😊

chris_in_cal

"tarun_yadavA wrote: »

well done on the 6! Burn off that pizza lunch and bourbon!

I try not to think of it as a diet, but as a lifestyle. Thanks.

tarun_yadavA

@chris_in_cal hahaha

yirara

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

19.88km/no goal - 19.88km ahead

Still doing dummy intervals (run/walk) but I'm getting faster in my running intervals. Also still experimenting with the footpod and still have not found the sweetspot calibration factor, thus posting phone data here again. Look at how much faster I got all of a sudden! My running intervals are getting a bit longer, but also faster. Tomorrow I might try to just run and see how far I get. Probably not very far, and probably very slow, but doesn't matter.

Teresa502

@quilteryoyo - Hope you and your family/friends are ok. We are under a tornado warning and I know you are under a tornado watch and a rotation was just spotted in your area. Hope you are sheltered in a safe place.

martaindale

@quilteryoyo Your shoes are really pretty! I love the color!

@chris_in_cal Yep, that's how you do it. Make changes you can stick with.

martaindale

Aug total: 25.9/100 miles

8/1: 5.6 miles
8/2: 3.3 miles
8/5: 10 miles
8/7: 7 miles

Yep, hot. Found some sprinklers and remembered my salt tabs. Got it done and it wasn't too bad.

Scott6255

Happy belated birthday @quilteryoyo! I love how your mom said she would buy by ONE shoe!

Needed some recovery after that brutal HM on Saturday, so did a 7 mile TM run INDOORS. Looking at the extended forecast, we are in for this same extreme heat for AT LEAST 2 more weeks! (that's as far as the extended forecast went out)

quilteryoyo

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

21.40/80 mile goal

Today, mom and I had the pleasure of spending the day playing with her great-granddaughters while their parents were at work.

Non-running stuff under the spoiler.

It was a great day, except for the fact that we had to be at their house before 7 am and they live an hour away! Early morning. But, we all had fun and no one had a breakdown - child or adult. LOL


We did some early morning coloring.


Mom getting a makeover.


They played nicely together, for the most part.


Mom and the girls.

It did come another huge storm while we were up there. Coming home was an adventure with water crossing the road in several places, torrential downfalls for a few minutes on and off, and a tree across the road that we had to figure out how to get around to get home without having to go all the way back to town - the tree was about a tenth of a mile from my driveway.


Tree across the road.


Then, my neighbor had wanted us to call him when we got home. He came down and gave me a cheesecake he had bought me for my birthday. We had to try it, of course. It is delicious! I was glad that no trees had fallen across my driveway.

I got home at 5, and went down for a 2 mile walk on the treadmill. Again, I didn't turn on Garmin. I get my new charger cable on Wed. I hope everyone who was in the line of the storms today stayed safe.

quilteryoyo

Thanks @kgirlhart . Great 11.2 miles in that heat!

Nice that you have a cool run by the beach @chris_in_cal !

Thanks @tarun_yadavA ! You are doing great. How is your knee holding up?

That's a great improvement @yirara !

Thanks @Teresa502 . We are fine. We were at my niece's house during the tornado watch, but I didn't hear that one was actually spotted. The area had flooding and downed trees and a little structural damage to roofs, but that is all I know about.....except for my neighbor's driveway that got washed out for the second time in 4 days! I hope you are safe and didn't get any damage.

Thanks @martaindale! You do so good running in the heat!

Great recovery run @Scott6255 ! I hope the forecast is wrong and it cools down some for you. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Mom is a hoot and doesn't even try to be!

chris_in_cal

quilteryoyo wrote: »

Tippy photo bombs.

Good spot Tippy, those are good look shoes.

tarun_yadavA

Morning all
Got in a 4.5 (09"03 pace)
@quilteryoyo - nice pics! 😊 Knee is fine, thank you! Hope you and @Teresa502 totally unaffected and not inconvenienced by tornadoes!
(Sounds so exotic from out here in London!
Occasional snowfall in winters and the odd freakish heat wave for a few days in the summer is about all that happens here... Otherwise we're very much a Seattle-lite. Nowhere near as much rainfall, but 9/12M a year - always cloudy, overcast. 'will it rain?', 'do I need a jacket?' 'do I need an umbrella?' etc etc)

quilteryoyo

Thanks @chris_in_cal !

Thank you @tarun_yadavA ! Great running. I'm glad your knee is fine. Except for having to re-route on my way home, I had nothing else to deal with from the storms. I always picture London as foggy/rainy and sort of dreary. I'm not sure I could stand it being cloudy that much, but I guess if you grow up there, you are used to it.

yirara

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

23.28km/no goal - 23.28km ahead

Today I didn't do quick successions of run/walk intervals but instead ran 1km, then walked 200m, and then the same 2 more times. Thus I ran 3km. Ran far too fast today and every attempt at trying to slow down resulted in going even faster thereafter. Too restless I guess Btw, if anyone wonders about the temperatures: yeah, it's the height of summer here. And it's ridiculously cold.