FEBRUARY 2024 Monthly Running Challenge

Mari33a

07/02 3.52 miles
09/02 3.67 miles
13/02 3.67 miles
14/02 3.55 miles
15/02 3.66 miles
18/02 4.27 miles
19/02 3.53 miles
20/02 3.68 miles
21/02 3.55 miles
29/02 4.22 miles

Total 37.32/50 miles

Got a final run in this afternoon and it was freezing, my legs stayed stiff and cold the whole run mostly because of the wind chill.

Some of you have had a great running month so Well Done!

7lenny7

Can I cheat and post my goal on the last day of the month?

My goal is 150 miles. Just 6 miles to go!

daria0919

Catching up to do:

.8 miles outside yesterday lunchtime in drizzly, chilly rain.
Did another 1 mile on a treadmill at the hotel later yesterday.
Got in 3 miles outside this morning going around the parking lot and surrounding area of the hotel. Pace was 14:54 because lay of land is flat, so my fastest to date since joining this group.



Please note: this is the first time since I joined you guys in October that I actually reached my predicted goal. Yay me 😇😛

emptydog

Way to go!
Congratulations!

@dariao9i9Please note: this is the first time since I joined you guys in October that I actually reached my predicted goal. Yay me

SummerSkier

WHEW! Made it. Original goal 120. Then stretch goal of 130 and then decided to try for 145 (avg 5 miles per day)

It was 40s and cold wind and grey out this morning but the maths told me I had to get 5 to make my final goal. I think I need to quit moving the mark. 😳🤣

COngrats to all who stuck with us for the month and see you in March.

chris_in_cal

daria0919 wrote: »

I actually reached my predicted goal.

💯💯💯
🎉🎉🎉

7lenny7

@daria0919 that's fantastic!!

shanaber

So much great running this month regardless if you made goal or not! I have been reading along and liking or hugging where appropriate.

@AlphaHowls - I had no idea new cars no longer have a spare. Our Subaru is a 2018 but it has one of those donut tires, not a full size spare. I thought that was bad enough... I'm glad you were able to get towed and get it fixed and have someone pick you up!
@Teresa502 - Love the pictures from your hike of the AT. I would love to go too but as someone else said I will live vicariously through you! Hope your dad's pacemaker went in just fine. I have had mine since 2020 and wow it has made an amazing difference. They are so sophisticated now and can adjust as needed automatically.
@Laurz9191 - great job getting to 180.1km! I love that you are just loving your runs and training!
@daria0919 - congratulations on making goal and having a fast run!
@SummerSkier - awesome job hitting your 2x extended goal!
Hey there @7lenny7!

I got out for a Leap Day fast walk because I wanted to get to 40 miles for the month.I didn't have Hobbes with me so didn't have to stop for his business or slow down for sniffing. Interesting how much faster I can go when he isn't stopping to sniff! It rained early this morning and drizzled a little while I was out but the clouds were mostly just threatening. With my walk today I hit 40.87 miles. This is my highest in over a year. I don't think I realized how much time I was down being sick last year. No where near my previous 100mi months but I am inching my way back!

Pictures from yesterday's run and today's fast walk

The water level is the highest I have seen it with more rain in the forecast. There were several pelicans out on the water and I even saw one snag a fish.



The blue heron took off just as I was getting ready to take a picture of it sanding on the rocks by the water.


Threatening clouds from today.

martaindale

@shanaber You've done great keeping up with whatever activity you can handle through a really challenging year.

@daria0919 Great job on achieving your goal!

Leigh_b

2024 is my comeback year. I had a good January completing a daily mileage challenge and coming into February with good momentum. My February goal is to run a total of 85 miles.

2/3 - 3 miles
2/4 - 6 miles
2/6 - 2.55 miles
2/7 - 3.61 miles
2/8 ‐ 3.08 miles
2/10 - 8.02 miles
2/12 - skipped planned run
2/13 - 2.55 miles hill repeats + strength training (at home)
2/14 - strength training w/ personal trainer
2/15 - VERY sore from two days of strength training - skipped planned run
2/16 - 3.86 miles - long interval run
2/17 - 10.61 miles - long run
2/18 - rest day
2/19 - skipped run
2/20 - skipped run
2/21 - rest day / should have made up skipped run, but didn’t
2/22 - 3.51 miles
2/23 -skipped urn
2/24 - 8.03 miles
2/25 - Rest Day
2/26 - 3.35 miles - progressive pace run
2/27 - 2.83 miles - easy run
2/29 - 2.96 miles (really??? WHY didn’t I look at my watch before I stopped running?????)

63.98 miles
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21.02 miles to go

Last day of the month - finished under my goal but happy I didn’t let one bad week set me completely off track. March goal will be 85 miles

quilteryoyo

A-MAZ-ING @AlphaHowls .

Of course you can @7lenny7 . I'm glad you joined us and hope you will be in March too. We miss you when you are gone.

Congrats on making your monthly goal for the first time @daria0919 ! You are doing great.

@shanaber You are amazing and just keep going like an energizer bunny when you have had such a tough year. I'm looking forward to following your journey this year and see how far you go! Love your pictures.

Nice running in Feb everyone whether you met your goal or not. Getting out there and doing what you can when life gets in the way is much better than giving up altogether. (Which I know I have felt like doing some days this month. )

quilteryoyo

1 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 2.00 miles - treadmill intervals
2 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
3 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps
4 Feb - Walked 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun
5 Feb - Walked 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun
6 Feb - Walked 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun
7 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill - Funeral later
8 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps
9 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
10 Feb - Walked 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway and treadmill
11 Feb - Walked 1.50 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
12 Feb - Walked 3.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun
13 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps
14 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps
15 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps - colonoscopy and endoscopy earlier
16 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps
17 Feb - Walked 1.50 miles - Ran 1.50 miles - treadmill
18 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill - played doubles tennis for 1h41m
19 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps
20 Feb - Walked 3.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps
21 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps
22 Feb - Walked 2.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun
23 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun
24 Feb - Walked 1.50 miles - Ran 1.50 miles - treadmill
25 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
26 Feb - Walked 3.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun
27 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 1.00 miles - driveway laps - intervals
28 Feb - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
29 Feb - Walked 3.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps

50.00/85.00 miles

I wasn't feeling the best today, but managed to get in a three mile walk to make my monthly total 50 miles. This is way shy of my goal, but I'm happy that I did what I did and didn't just sit on the couch when the days were long and tough.

You all may think I am a little behind the times, which I am, but I had my first real zoom meeting tonight. It was a mandatory training for daycare on preventing disease.....or at least keeping the germs at bay as much as possible. Nothing really new, but it has to be done every single year. And, I get paid for it, so I don't mine.

I think those of you who have been running the amazing HMs have gotten into my head. I had not one, but three dreams about running HMs last night. One of them I passed a bunch of people at the end to win first place overall, ending in my garage. A young version of my mom and dad came running out the driveway to congratulate me. Another I also won and was just cruising at the end and didn't even feel tired. The last one I was just getting ready to run. It was starting an hour late. My coach asked for someone to comment on running the race and I said that the key was to be happy with yourself wherever you are, and to be happy for and supportive of the person who is a mile in front of you AND the person who is five miles back.

7lenny7

I finished the month with an 8 mile run tonight, giving me 151 for the month which is my highest monthly total since July 2022! I hope to get in significantly more in March, with there being 5 weekends, though I'll be tapering for the last two weekends.

Both tonight's run and last nights run have felt fantastic. It's like my fitness has reached another level which is great after struggling all of January and most of February trying to get back into it. To be expected though with 40 miles in November and big fat zero in December. I now feel like I can start getting some speedwork in.

@quilteryoyo I missed being here!
Hey @shanaber love the photos. Pelicans are some of my favorite birds. We get a lot of them on the lake we sail on. To me they're right up there with bald eagles.
@AlphaHowls I'd never heard of cars not having a spare. My son just bought a 2020 model. I wonder if he has one.

ContraryMaryMary

So nice to see you back here @7lenny7 - I’m always impressed with your Strava efforts - especially with all that snow and ice.

Yay for achieving your goal @daria0919, that’s awesome.

@Teresa502, I loved your photos too - I’ve been wanting to walk some/all of the AT after reading Bill Bryson’s book but I’m not sure how my Kiwi self would do in a wilderness that has things that can kill you!

The pelican photos are awesome @shanaber. Such a majestic bird.

As for spare tyres, I can tell you my experience: When I learned to drive, my father said that I should also learn how to change a tyre. I assured him that if I had to change a tyre, I’d work it out at the time. As it turned out in the subsequent 30 years I never got a flat. Then, in 2020, I got a new car that came with a repair kit instead of a spare tyre, and in that first year I got three flats.

With the first flat, I tried the repair kit which didn’t work and I had to have my car towed to a tyre shop. Unimpressed, my husband went and bought a spare for my car. With the second flat, some kindly roadwork guys changed the tyre for me, saving me the trouble. When I got the third flat, I had a small mental breakdown (fully justified I believe - come on, three flats in the space of a few months!) and my husband drove to rescue me and changed the tyre.

I now have a new car and it has neither a spare nor a self repair kit. It’s a drive flat tyre. Apparently I can drive up to 100km with a flat. I don’t really want to test it but that’s what they say.

TL:DR, I’ve never changed a tyre and I doubt I ever will.

kgirlhart

February Goal: 130 Miles

2/1: 6.02 miles
2/2: 3.25 miles
2/4: 11.11 miles
2/5: 3.12 miles
2/6: 6.02 miles
2/7: 6.52 miles
2/8: 6.02 miles
2/9: 6.05 miles
2/11: 8.02 miles
2/13: 6.02 miles
2/14: 6.02 miles
2/15: 6.25 miles
2/16: 3.26 miles
2/18: 10.30 miles
2/20: 6.02 miles
2/21: 7.03 miles
2/22: 6.02 miles
2/23: 3.51 miles
2/25: 11.11 miles
2/27: 6.02 miles
2/28: 6.22 miles
2/29: 6.30 miles


140.21/130 miles completed for February

I had considered taking a rest day today if it was raining. It wasn't raining when I got up. It had rained, and there was more rain on the way. But I decided that I had a window so I would go ahead and run. I thought I might have to cut it short, but I ended up running 6 miles. I don't love running in rainy weather, but it really wasn't bad. It was a little drizzly at times and then when I was about a mile from home it actually did rain some, but it was a light rain and not unpleasant. I finished February with 140 miles.

Thanks for the advice on the Possum's Revenge @martaindale. It sounds like a lot of fun. I am really thinking about doing it.

Good to see you back @7lenny7!

Congrats on making your goal @daria0919!

Beautiful pictures @shanaber! Great job on exceeding your goal.

Everyone in this group did great whether you made your goal or not! See you all in the March thread!

chris_in_cal

Short and sweet month done!
Pretty pretty pretty good.

I am feeling prepared to launch into a some springtime light and miles.

February Running Goal: 13 runs,40 miles

1. Feb 2 -2.87 miles
2. Feb 4 -3.48 miles
3. Feb 9 -1.86 miles
4. Feb 11-2.73 miles
5. Feb 14-2.01 miles
6. Feb 17-3.59 miles
7. Feb 19-2.86 miles
8. Feb 21-2.02 miles
9. Feb 23-3.31 miles
10. Feb 25-5.07 miles
11. Feb 26-2.13 miles
12. Feb 28-1.54 miles
13. Feb 29-3.63 miles

Current: 13 runs, 37.10 miles

7lenny7

ContraryMaryMary wrote: »

So nice to see you back here @7lenny7 - I’m always impressed with your Strava efforts - especially with all that snow and ice.

Thanks, @kgirlhart and @ContraryMaryMary ! Unfortunately this winter we've not seen near enough snow and cold. There was one day in January and a few days in February I wore shorts, which is unheard of. One benefit I guess is that I'll be more acclimated to race my in Georgia next month. Last year I trained in the snow and cold and then drove down there to race day temps reaching over 80F. Tomorrow the temp will be 30 degrees F (17 deg C) above normal for my long run.

I need to go back and find the photos that @teresa502 posted. The one time I hiked the AT ( just a few miles) in Pennsylvania I got lost for two hours after I decided to take an interesting looking deer trail to explore and had a hard time finding my way back.

7lenny7

@Teresa502 I found your beautiful AT photos and loved reading about your adventure! It sounds like you had perfect hiking weather, at least for my preference. I'm actually thinking about running the AT from Springer Mountain as one of my runs leading up to my race. Depending on when I get I have a 13 or 7 mile run planned.

It's odd that you had to actually hike TO the start before you even get to it. In any case, I'm hoping it works out for me to run on it. Last year when I ran this race I made stops to run on the Trail of Tears in Arkansas, The Natchez Trace Scenic Trail in Mississippi, and the Pinhoti Trail in Alabama.

Teresa502

7lenny7 wrote: »

@Teresa502 I found your beautiful AT photos and loved reading about your adventure! It sounds like you had perfect hiking weather, at least for my preference. I'm actually thinking about running the AT from Springer Mountain as one of my runs leading up to my race. Depending on when I get I have a 13 or 7 mile run planned.

It's odd that you had to actually hike TO the start before you even get to it. In any case, I'm hoping it works out for me to run on it. Last year when I ran this race I made stops to run on the Trail of Tears in Arkansas, The Natchez Trace Scenic Trail in Mississippi, and the Pinhoti Trail in Alabama.

@7lenny7 - that would be a great place for you to stop and run. Depending on when your race is next month, the bubble of hikers heading north should be thinning out some. In any event, I'm sure most of them would be happy to step aside with their heavy backpacks and let you pass plus each hiker always has an interesting backstory, trail name, gear, etc. if you decide you need a rest and someone to chat with!