APRIL 2025 Monthly Running Challenge

WarmJellyfish

@martaindale you got this. Hear you on going stir crazy. It will end soon. I just got out of jail 🤣 Last year September, on one saturday, tested positive for covid (again), finally tested negative on the wednesday after, and THEN on the next saturday, I went and finished a half baked/trained 50k trail race. Didn't think I was actually going to finish, but I kept saying to myself, one step at a time. The highlight was being the last one to do the river crossing (crotch deep and mountain water BRRRR😳) just before the cut off. It wasn't pretty but I got it done. It ain't over until it's over. Love this community here. PS wait till you see the spiders we have in my home town…..😈

@SummerSkier right? not sure how @quilteryoyo does all of this? Maybe she is plugged in like the Matrix Neo.

@chris_in_cal Parkrun San Diego!

@yirara nice work

I liked as many posts as I could.

Weather is going to be nicer for the next week in the teens. I just set up a Garmin Coach Plan. I was originally going to not do it, given all the s**** so far but I decided to bite the bullet. Have a goal for a 100k trail race at the end of September. There I said it. Celebrating my 60th birthday with a 60 miler.

People. PLEASE give me grief if I slack off….😎 I can supply cattle prods.

AlphaHowls

1 8.13 miles, Running Partner A, 3555 Days on MFP
2 6.42 miles
3 6.11 miles, 2530 days on the run, Crazy Laps! so much rain!
4 6.04 miles, Crazy Laps!

Spoiler Warning

So, I spent the day in Nashville today. I had to be there for a consultation so I could get to the next step and get a steroid epidural injection. Doctor said after looking at MRI, "you do not have a lot of space left, and really do need the surgery." I explained that I understood that, but right now, I just need to buy time and get some relief. The surgery recovery time would be 3 months of no lifting or bending. I am taking care of my mother and just do not have that kind of time right now. So, doctor agreed with the steroid epidural and since I did not want to be sedated, he would do it today. I immediately went over to the surgery center and got checked in. I saw the doctor at 10 AM and he did the injection at 1 PM. I also do not have insurance, so I do not have to wait for approval. Traffic did not get horrible and I made it home by 3 PM (after a quick run to the grocery). I am feeling alright, a bit of pressure.

Spoiler Warning

What you are just dying to know: I will keep my running streak. I will wait till late tomorrow and do a slow 1 mile/crazy laps! Unless, things go south before then.

quilteryoyo

Thanks for the shoe porn and kind words @WarmJellyfish . I hope you love them on your run tonight and I hope you like your Garmin coach plan. Cattle prods will be had if you need them. I ran a 10K on my 60th, because that's what I did on my 50th too. I can't imagine doing 60 miles. But, I'm sure you will train well and get it done!

It would be great if you could get that going @chris_in_cal .

@martaindale I'm sorry that you haven't gotten over that chest congestion yet! Maybe a long, restful weekend, with hills (😉) will help. I understand not wanting to deal with a huge spider in the dark. I'm glad the water was left on for you. I've never been a fan of spiders, so I did my senior project, for my BS in Science, on the anatomy of the Argiope trifasciata, commonly known as the garden spider, to try to get over my fear. It helped a little, but am still not a fan - I admire their webs from afar. 😂 Update: Read your response to @WarmJellyfish . So sorry work is very stressful too. Feel free to invite us to your pity party any time. We all have them. Having company helps. Hang in there. I hope it gets better soon.

Congrats @yirara ! That's a pretty fast 5K in my book.

WOW @AlphaHowls . I hope the steroid injection gives you much needed relief and lasts for a while.

quilteryoyo

1 April - Walk 1.50 miles - Run 3.10 miles - Treadmill - Gym 24m56s - arm day
2 April - Walk 1.70 miles - Run 2.60 miles - Treadmill - Gym 29m17s - leg day
3 April - Walk 2.85 miles - Run 0.25 miles - Driveway - Push mow 17m44s
4 April - Walk 2.50 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill - Gym 23m40s

14.50/80.00 goal

I went to the gym this morning. I did a half mile walk on the treadmill for warm up. I told my trainer that I wanted to do more core. Not sure that was the best idea. 🤣 Today I did assisted pull ups, diverging seated row, Russian Twists with an exercise ball, and seated crunches with an exercise ball.

I sort of rushed home because the electrician was supposed to call about 11 to check my malfunctioning circuit breaker. He called about 11 to let me know he was going to be late because he had to help out a friend with car trouble.

So, while waiting on him to call again and get here, I did a 2 mile treadmill walk. I didn't want to get too sweaty because I had some other things I needed to do this afternoon.

Electricity woes under the spoiler, if interested.

Spoiler Warning

I think I told you guys about the circuit breakers being thrown when I was on the treadmill last week and one wouldn't reset. The one that didn't was my master bathroom, so I've been taking showers during the day so I could see what I was doing.

The electrician made it today and wound up having to replace the circuit breaker. He said they are just getting weak and breaking after 27 years. When we turned it back on, another one threw and wouldn't reset. So he needs to replace it too (but didn't have another breaker that would fit my box). He was able to "fix" it so that it would work safely for now. He said multiple threw at the same time because the grounds are all tied together and they will do that.

Since the other one that got thrown was the one for the refrigerator, I'm going to have him replace it too.

I also had him check a light switch where the light would work sometimes and sometimes not. Turns out, the switch was broken and falling apart, so a real fire hazard. He replaced that one. I had another switch that hasn't worked in years - went to the fan for my fireplace. He checked it and the same thing - falling apart. It's just weird. I know the house is getting up there in years, but you would think the switches wouldn't just fall apart. (I had one other do the same thing a few years ago.) I think they may have just used the cheapest switches they could find.

I decided to have him change out all of my fluorescent lights for LED ones, since all of my ballasts are going bad too. He is going to come back tomorrow and do that, since it wasn't planned today.

Tonight, I took the switch plates off of all the light switches and found 17 more that are faulty! Seventeen! I called him and he's going to fix them tomorrow too. He's flabbergasted that so many are bad. (That is something that I could do, but would rather pay him to just get it done.)

I went to Subway and got an Italian BMT and chips and dip for dinner. Why is stress eating so much easier than stress exercising?

martaindale

Yikes @quilteryoyo it's good you got the electrician out before something more serious happened. My dad was an electrical engineer and my parents always bought fixer upper houses. He redid the electrical in almost all of them. It's scary the things he would find that people had been living with for years.

Congrats @yirara!! Quite a streak!

@alphahowls I hope the injection gives you some relief. I worked for a neurosurgeon once upon a time. While there were some cases where surgery wasn't likely to give relief, there are definitely cases where success is high. You're active and a healthy weight with what sounded like a pretty focal issue. When the time comes you have a much higher likelihood of success than many! Until then 🤞the injections do the trick.