JUNE 2024 Monthly Running Challenge
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On that topic, how precious are you about your running getup?
On to topic two, who washes their running hats?
Match? Is this a foreign language?
Winter leggings - black
Summer compression shorts - black
Winter top - I have a blue one and green one
Summer top - wicking shirt under 50*F
Over 60*F sport bra - currently green/faded
Rotate two pairs of shoes at a time, two pairs of socks
Gear is hang to dry after every run/walk/cycle
I wear the same outfit 7 days
I wash on Sunday
Hat? I do not wear hats
I do not sweat until end of June to September. I have always had that issue. I wear deodorant every day, but I don't really get rank until I work in the yard all day. I noticed that once I lost 100 lbs and cleaned up my diet, that I do not have much odor.3 -
03/06 3.69 miles
06/06 4.33 miles
07/06 4.07 miles
09/06 4.08 miles
12/06 4.26 miles
14/06 4.07 miles
Total 24.50/50 miles
No run yesterday as rain was forecast and it did rained all day so did 2 sessions on bike instead. Today was bright and breezy but still very cold.
@quilteryoyo - Glad u didn’t get hurt but I did laugh at your connection to ‘Grandma got run over by a reindeer’. My punishment for laughing is the song now stuck in my head on repeat 😅
@Teresa502 - impressive Garmin age! Shows the benefits of hiking. I checked my Garmin age and it says 43 but I’m 48 so not great🙈😅 and I honestly cannot do anymore exercise than I’m doing at moment.
@ContraryMaryMary - On the matching clothes, I always wear black on legs & something slightly neon on top because even though I live very rural these is a lot of traffic as it’s on a tourist route. Never wear hats but prefer a hood for protection against wind & rain
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June Goal: 215 Miles
6/2: 11.02 miles
6/3: 3.15 miles
6/4: 6.26 miles
6/5: 1.10 miles
6/6: 6.27 miles
6/7: 6.51 miles
6/9: 10.02 miles
6/10: 3.15 miles
6/11: 5.51 miles
6/13: 6.52 miles
6/14: 6.02 miles
65.53/125 miles completed for June
My family reunion is this weekend, so I took today and Monday as vacation days. Luckily for me, the lake where we are holding the reunion is only 6.5 miles from my house. I decided to run today and then take Saturday and Sunday as rest days and do my long run on Monday. I figure that will be easier since my kids will be in town.
Since I didn't work today, I slept in a little and got out to run about 7:40. It was warm, but that's typical this time of year. I ran through the cemetery and then to the park. I was able to find some shade and ended up with 6 miles. When I was at the cemetery a dog came running up to me. She was way too friendly to be a stray. I thought she was going to follow me, but she only came about a block before heading home. I think she may have had some puppies, so maybe that is why she didn't get too far from home.
@ Teresa502 I am also enjoying being able to run when it is already light out. I love running at this time of year. I don't mind running in the dark, but I like it best when it is early morning light. I also checked and Garmin says my fitness age is 20. Not too bad for 56. I'm not sure how accurate that is but I'll take it.
@quilteryoyo I am glad you didn't get run over! But thanks a lot for getting that sing stuck in my head! 🤣
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chris_in_cal wrote: »
We're getting a really wide range of fitness ages in this group!!3 -
quilteryoyo wrote: »
I was reminded of the Christmas Classic "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" while I was wunning today, because it was almost me! I heard a noise beside the driveway that I thought was Tippy and then an adult deer came running full speed across the driveway and down the hill on the other side. It was about a foot from me when it crossed. That one would be hard to explain to the insurance company/EMTs.
Definitely chuckled hearing this @quilteryoyo!! Especially thinking about the explanation you’d give the insurance and EMTs!
My birthday is in my username 09-19, so yes, almost twins! 😀 starting to ask around about the Medicare info….
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My fitness age is 34.5 and I’m 39, so I’m not too impressed by that result .
The Tuesday race is usually on Wednesday before the last day of school. It’s held downtown in the evening, so people can hopefully get there in time to run it after work. My race is not until shortly before 8pm - definitely NOT my usual running time. They are holding in on Tuesday this year because of the European Soccer Championships. Germany has a game on Wednesday and that would put too many people around here in a conflict of interest.
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@Laurz9191-I’m not a soccer fan but the following for the Euros is huge here & we were watching the opening ceremony & match Scotland vs Germany. Ireland didn’t qualify. Does it effect u living there4
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Not a bad fitness age at all @martaindale .
@AlphaHowls I'm surprised that you don't sweat. I can sweat when it's freezing outside if I'm exercising. I think it's supposed to be good for cleaning out your pores. If that's so, mine should be really really clean. You are saving on clothes and laundry detergent. I feel like I'm doing laundry all the time.
Sorry @Mari33a . It got stuck in my head too. Great running and biking.
@kgirlhart Great running. That puppy is so cute! I hope it found it's way hope. Fitness age of 20! Wow. I'm impressed. Enjoy your family reunion! Thanks - sorry about the song. It is one of those that get stuck in your head, like Baby Shark, which I refuse to sing to the kids at daycare.
@chris_in_cal . Does that mean you are a baby? (Keep up the good work. You're age should decrease over time as you put more activities into your Garmin. I think it wants us to do more intense exercise than I do. )
I've almost been hit by one when driving my car in the driveway before @daria0919 and I do wonder how the insurance would take that. LOL So cool that our birthdays are so close. I got my Medicare card in the mail really early - like I've already had it for 2 months. Fortunately, with me being retired military, I don't have to worry about a supplement, but I'm still getting all the mail from companies wanting to sell me some.
@laurz9191 I was wondering if it was an evening run. Funny that they move the race because of the Soccer Championships....well, I say that, but around here people schedule things around the University of TN football games, if possible. That fitness age isn't bad.
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Parkrun this morning and while I missed my PR by nine seconds, I managed to be first woman home and to beat that little ginger kid. Woo hoo!10
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Neighborhood 1Mile (at 12"53 pace). Day 46.
I'm looking forward to the weekend, a couple mile run at the beach.5 -
@ContraryMaryMary - I try to keep my running outfits in generally the same color palette or coordinated if I have multicolored leggings or shorts. I don't worry about the shoe colors though. I never go for a walk or run without a hat and have a drawer full of them. I love to visit running stores when we travel or when I was traveling for work. I would always look for a hat with something on it related to where I was like the name of a run club or the store or town. I do wash them in a lingerie bag with my running clothes and hang them to dry.
Congratulations on your Parkrun win!
I agree with @chris_in_cal that people underestimate what the weather is like here in the beginning of summer. We get lots of marine layer and sometimes drizzle off the ocean way inland even. They call it May grey and June gloom. Since I am a bit north and inland of Chris we heat up a bit more but not much. Today it hit 80 but that is unusual and it will be back around 70F early next week.
@daria0919 - I don't know if you have it where you are but we have people here who will take all your Medicare information (medical requirements, prescriptions, etc.) and help you determine if a supplemental plan is right for you and if so which one. It is free to the consumer and they are paid by the different plans all at the same rate so there is no bias. My husband and I ended up on different plans from different companies. They also do a review every year to see if changing plans is warranted.
@VO2Maxlet - what app are you using to track your runs or is the graph from Garmin?
I don't have a Garmin so no idea what age it would think I am. I know before I got sick I was always way below my actual age when I looked at sites that calculated things like that. Somehow I feel like my Apple Watch used to give me something along those lines. I also think it was off because my RHR was so low, even now with the pacemaker.
I have continued to keep up with my walking and trying to get in close to 10000 steps or more when the schedule allows. I even got on the walking pad the other night to get it done while I watched a Food Network show I would have watched anyway. I had done a lot already with some gardening (planting and transplanting) and the strength program but it did feel good to just walk. I am actually enjoying the Peloton program and my completing mine seems to be encouraging my daughter to get hers in too. She is super busy and I am always surprised to see her get in a workout at the end of her very busy days.
06/01 - 4.37mi 12797steps
06/02 - 3.72mi 11339steps
06/03 - 4719steps
06/04 - 2.27mi 9450steps, Peloton strength program
06/05 - 2634steps, treatment day
06/06 - 3112steps
06/07 - 1.83mi, 6680steps
06/08 - 4.13mi, 12850steps
06/09 - 2.74mi, 10464steps
06/10 - 0.6mi, 6379steps, walking pad test, Peloton strength program
06/11 - 3925steps
06/12 - 2.35mi, 10275 steps
06/13 - 2242steps
06/14 - 2.78mi, ~8000steps
Total - 24.79 miles, most in months
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@quilteryoyo I'm not sure if this should be considered nice running considering these are supposed to be rest/easy runs. For the last few runs I have been breaking the regiment a bit. Also, nope! No pain in the tibia or shin! They just burn my soles whenever I don't wear moleskin, but honestly, that's any pair of shoes I run with.
@shanaber yes. It's Garmin. Fitness age is 22 but every time I look at my VO2 max I'm reminded of just how average I am. I will never amount to being a freak of human nature managing to run at 5:30min/mile for a marathon.
How do you like the Apple Watch? I
My wife has one and it looks so slick. The current year is 2024 and the only company that can make a device with such seamless UI and some of the haptic feedback I've felt is Apple. The Garmin watch sometimes feels laggy even though the FRs can go as high $500. Although I cheaped out with a Venu 2S
"Rest" day today. I think I can call it rest considering I barely even hit my Zone 5.
PIU/ITG session today at the arcade. Think Dance Dance Revolution.
Average HR 139
Maximum HR 190
I'm not sure what other metric could be used here. I would like to know my SPM, but cardio function doesn't track it.3 -
@Laurz9191 I have to agree with @quilteryoyo here. >5year age difference in fitness space sounds pretty impressive. I don't know the exact form for fitness age on Garmin, but assuming it's correlated to VO2 max, then i assume the further you go out in real age, the harder it is for you to attain a VO2 max that is more in line with someone a year or two younger than you. Even more difficult if it's a 5 year gap. Likewise, it's easier for a 25 year old to get a fitness age of near 20 simply because they're younger and the body can recover much more easily.
Again, I don't know the exact form, I'm just assuming because Garmin really likes to humiliate encourage you to look at your fitness age when you look at your VO2 max.3 -
Hello everyone!
Got in 7.14M (at 09"42 pace).
@Laurz9191 well that was an emphatic opening display by Germany! Scotland's only goal was a clumsy own goal too!
So I'm gonna be in Germany in 3 weeks time! Going to Berlin with my Florida travel buddy! He's flying in. Doing a long weekend, and we have tickets for the Quarter Finals! (Don't know who's playing but think it might be France if they win all their games and top their group).
Will have to ask you for some must-sees (bars?) in Berlin!
Will deffo run-see too.
First time to Berlin. Second time Germany. And that too, was back in 2006. Also football related - For the World Cup. 1 night in Hamburg.
@Mari33a shame about no Ireland. Closest thing - we got Roy Keane being Roy Keane as the half time pundit! Lol.
@ContraryMaryMary the ginger kid was taken down! Well done! 🙌🏽
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WOW! Congratulations @ContraryMaryMary ! That's fantastic and I love that you beat the little ginger kid.
Very nice @chris_in_cal . Enjoy the beach runs!
You are doing great @shanaber ! I love that you and DD are working together to get your steps in.
@VO2Maxlet I thing you are right and your run today was not a rest day - hitting 190 bpm HR is definitely NOT an easy run. Have fun at the arcade.
Nice run @tarun_yadavA . Your trip to Germany sounds like fun.2 -
Today, I ran/walked 4 pavement miles. With today's run/walk, I'm over half of my goal of 40 miles. Total: 20.9/40. WooHoo!4
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Hat trick
Even though I do not wear hats, I do know a good way to clean. My mother has 'yard' hats.
Any way, use the dishwasher, top rack.
6/1 13.24 miles Crazy Laps! Rain and Mom confused
6/2 13.46 miles County Line and back
6/3 13.34 miles
6/4 13.63 miles, Running Partner A last half!
6/5 13.48 miles, rain caught me @11.36 miles
6/6 13.6 miles, Running Partner A last 45 minutes
6/7 13.36 miles, 2230 days on the run
6/8 14.35 miles, Running Partner E (2 hours)
6/9 13.54 miles County Line and back
6/10 14.41 miles
6/11 13.46 miles
6/12 14.35 miles
6/13 14.28 miles
6/14 14.37 miles
6/15 17.54 miles, Running Partner A & E, Mizuno Wave Inspire 186 -
You're doing great @steviebee888 .
June 1 - Walk 0.70 miles - Ran 1.40 miles - driveway laps - trimmed trees
June 2 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
June 3 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 1.15 miles - driveway laps - Gym 21:03 - trimmed trees
June 4 - Walk 1.09 miles - Ran 1.66 miles - driveway laps
June 5 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill wun - Gym 45:31 - trimmed trees and fell
June 6 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill - Gym 46:51
June 7 - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 1.75 miles - driveway laps - push mowed at mom's
June 8 - Walk 4.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun - trimmed trees
June 9 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
June 10 - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 1.40 miles - driveway laps - Gym 42:19
June 11 - Walk 1.20 miles - Ran 1.80 miles - driveway laps
June 12 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill - Gym 37:32 - tennis 1h36m31s
June 13 - Walk 0.80 miles - Ran 2.20 miles - driveway wun
June 14 - Walk 2.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway wun - Gym 30:56 min
June 15 - Walk 1.44 miles - Ran 1.56 miles - driveway wun - trimmed trees
35.85/80.0 mile goal
I got up earlier than normal on a Saturday morning so I could get a longer run in before mom and worked some more on trimming trees along the driveway.
I wasn't feeling the best, tummy issues, but went out to run at 8:50, about 20 min later than I had hoped. I was short on time, as I was supposed to get mom at 10 and I wanted time to cool down and rest a little first.
I wasn't horrible, once I got started. I decided to do a wun and keep track of the running separately with the segments button. I walked 0.35 miles for warm up, ran/walked mostly 0.3/0.15 miles and then walked 0.5 miles for cool down. Avg running pace was 12:18 min/mile. Avg HR was 129 with a max of 153 bpm.
I was a real sweaty mess when I finished (75F - 23.9C) and 78% humidity. It shouldn't have been that bad, but it was. Then, I just couldn't get cooled down and was still dripping sweat 20 min later, in the AC. I finally went to the potty and cleaned out my colon. TMI? I was dripping sweat in the floor. I finally got cooled down and I felt better.
I weighed myself, and after having eaten breakfast and coffee, running, and all the other stuff, I had lost over a pound from "right out of bed" weight.
Mom and I did trim trees for about 1.5 hours (working time). We did 3 Gator loads. I guess I wasn't completely better because I had to take a couple of extra breaks I didn't feel I should have had to...mom was still working. I didn't take any before and after pictures today.
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June total: 47.1/100 miles
YTD: 435/1200 miles
6/2: 4.9 miles
6/3: 3.1 miles
6/5: 8 miles
6/7: 6.5 miles
6/8: 2.8 miles
6/10: 6.4 miles
6/11: 3 miles
6/12: 6.5 miles
6/13: 3.3 miles
6/15: 2.6 miles
I had to work today and was feeling tired so I opted for a short easy treadmill run. After work we took my kid to see their boyfriend. My husband and I saw a movie while they climbed. Now we're sitting on the couch watching TV. We watched a documentary about a murder in a town with a population of 11. Intertbunch of characters!4 -
Neighborhood 1Mile (at 12"54 pace). Day 47.
I'm hot. Is summer almost over?4 -
I don’t understand Garmin. Yesterday I ran a fast 5k and it told me I was being unproductive, today I ran a long slow 16k and it tells me I’m being unproductive. The only reason I still like it is because it says my fitness age is 20.5
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@steviebee888 Right on track to hit that mark!
@AlphaHowls how are the Mizus? I've been expanding to new shoe territory. Hokas are okay. Asics are always my go to. OnCloud are the best for the first 10-30 miles and then I feel like they're worse than my oldest pair.
@quilteryoyo that was an arcade session. My program doesn't have me doing intervals or stride sprints yet very nice with the run session though with the stomach issues. Hopefully tomorrow turns out better!
@ContraryMaryMary Garmin really goes the extra mile to tell their users "you could do better". How are you getting it to tell you your unproductive though? The only way mine scolds me is by reminding me of my fitness age and VO2 Max constantly.4 -
@VO2Maxlet if you look under ‘performance stats’ and then go to ‘training status’ it’ll let you know how it thinks you’re doing. The only one worse than ‘unproductive’ is ‘detraining’. You want to get either ‘maintaining’, ‘productive’,‘peaking’, or ‘recovery’3
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Today I hit the treadmill. I woke up really late since I came home from the arcade yesterday at 2AM. Afterwards, tried to get a new inner tube for a bike, went to a food fest, ate a turkey leg and then ran on the treadmill by the end of the day. My vision is so bad. I can't be running at night like I used to.
Garmin claims my average speed was 7:44 min/mile. I'm flattered. But that's not the case. I was running on it for 6.3 mph.
Here it is with HR overlaid.
So I took the data and normalized it accordingly to the pace of the treadmill. I honestly don't know where I got that 4.49 number in my data, but I'm too lazy and too tired to fix it. My predicted pacing is on the right. Regardless, my pace is pretty all over the place no matter what. Kind of to be expected-and probably more indicative of my cadence than anything.I took my recorded pace and got two numbers out of them. My average pace, which I think would be reflective of the treadmill pace I would be at if Garmin was correct. I also got my simple moving average (SMA) trend, because it may be more indicative of my steps per minute (SPM). In hindsight, this might've been was stupid, since if you're on a treadmill and your SPM increases you are still at the same treadmill pace, but I did it anyways.
Once I had that, I calculated the signed distance from those two trends to the recorded pace.
The 4-5 min/mile range is most likely from the point of me actually starting to run. It's probably safe to ignore that.
The signed distance from the average is super far weighted to the right regardless, indicating that I probably accelerated a lot during the run. It was a long treadmill so I have the opportunity to change my static running in place position.
Anyways, when I look at the histogram for the errors on the predicted pace, it's flipped. Now that I'm actually looking at it and thinking more critically, maybe it would've been worth it for me to omit the right tail of the errors in the previous histogram just to see where it really is weighted. This doesn't make much sense to me in terms of my scaling. But my desire was to reflect that an object moving at a high speed needs more time to slow down with some force. If we apply that same force to the same object moving slower, then it slows down faster. This reflects non-linear behavior because the impact of deceleration is more significant at higher speeds. However, this non-linear behavior does not apply in the same way to positive acceleration, where increasing speed does not follow the same proportional relationship.
My running pace-or rather my cadence-is still varied pretty wildly, regardless of whether or not I was running slow or fast. Interesting considering my behavior is different on the ground.
Easy run for Sunday. 30 minute run, easy pace.4 -
@ContraryMaryMary interesting. I don't see this feature. I'll finagle around with the app to see if I can get it to appear0
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Sorry all, not been keeping up and not running.
The loss of the newsfeed has led to me not checking in regularly as well.
Here's to getting my head back in the game!8 -
@tarun_yadavA That will be really cool to get to see a quarter finals game when you are in Berlin. As for bar suggestions, I really have to disappoint. I can’t remember ever going to a bar in Berlin. Museums however…. . Although I must say my favourite thing to do when we are in Berlin is to visit the surround areas or just walk through the city. There are lakes and bike/foot paths everywhere and it’s a very green and clean capital city. You shouldn’t have any reason not to keep getting your daily runs in when you’re in Berlin. As you seem to be able to run no matter how many beers you’ve had the night before. It’s also completely flat. Not unlike Hamburg, if you switch port city stuff for culture stuff.
@ContraryMaryMary I didn’t know Garmin had a “peaking” comment. Never got that one…. I have gotten the “unproductive” one several times.The last time being after I completed a 10 mile hike. I didn’t appreciate it.
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@martaindale Great job getting in a TM run after work. Sounds like a great evening and interesting movie.
Great pace @chris_in_cal . Summer is almost over - in Australia.
@ContraryMaryMary . I never agree with the productive/non productive evaluation of Garmin, but it is spot on with your fitness age.
Thanks @VO2Maxlet . I do seem to be feeling better today. With all of those graphs, which I don't really understand, what do you do for a living? When I run on the treadmill, I always take the distance from the treadmill display, but use my calorie count from the Garmin. If you don't have a foot pod or have calibrated your Garmin to the TM, it is almost always off. I don't worry about too much else. LOL
@TheMrWobbly Glad to see you back and hope you can figure out how to motivate yourself to get back to running. I don't like the loss of the newsfeed either. I mean, what's the point of having a friends list if you can't easily see what they are doing?
Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there.
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Afternoon all.
Got in 7.0M (at 09"28).
Happy Father's Day!
My haulMassively outnumbered women to men here... But men so so much easier to buy gifts for.
Birthday - chocolate and beer.
Fathers Day - chocolate!
Gonna watch S4 of the Boys on Prime.
England ⚽ game in the evening!
All set.
@quilteryoyo thank you!
@Laurz9191 thanks for the tips! Got a few bars lined up! Looking for some Eurotrash Heavy metal place.
Museums - David Hasselhoff museum!!!!!! Totally going to that.5
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