March 2015 Running Challenge
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@stoshew71 Great race, congrats on the PR! - you couldn't find .65 miles to run to get to 200
@csman49 Hope you feel better soon, nutrition and exercise can wait until you are better
@honunui love the observation deck. Great picture!
@dennie24 congrats on hitting your goal
Congrats to everyone who hit goal with days to spare!
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Finished! With two days to spare. I'll go over for once!!0 -
I'm too late to the March 2015 party, and new to running. However, I ran my first ever race (5k fun run) and finished in less than 30 minutes! Had no idea how I would do in 'real' running because since beginning running in late 2014, I have only run at night on a treadmill - my son calls it 'fake' running. Felt great; I am hooked! Looks like I'll be joining y'all for April 2015; so, I better go find one of those super cool running tickers
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1 - 12mi, easy
2 - 8.2mi, easy
3 - 8.2mi, tempo
4 - 10mi, easy w/FF
5 - 8mi, intervals
6 - 8mi, easy+3.2mi, tempo
7 - 18mi, easy
8 - Rest
9 - 7.2mi, easy
10 - 6.3mi, easy
11 - 6.5mi, easy
12 - Rest
13 - 5.2mi, easy w/strides
14 - 3.14mi, easy
15 - 13.1, race
16 - 3mi, recovery
17 - Rest
18 - 6mi, easy
19 - 8mi, easy
20 - 6mi, easy w/strides
21 - 18mi, easy
22 - 11mi, easy
23 - 7mi, easy w/strides
24 - 8mi, easy
25 - 12mi, easy w/intervals
26 - Rest
27 - 8mi, easy
28 - 16mi, first 6 easy, last 10 @MP
29 - 10mi, easy
30 - 6mi, easy
Just looked at the numbers, and will hit 243 for the month tomorrow. Nothing I can do about that
Total: 235mi
Mar goal: 250mi
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March 1: 5 miles Tread mill
March 2: 5 miles ™
March 3: 2 miles ™ + strength
March 4: 5 miles ™ no runners high today
March 5: Rest
March 6: 5.5 miles ™
March 7: skied with the kids at Gunstock
March 8: nothing
March 9: 7.75 miles OUTSIDE!
March 10: Pump
March 11: Nada
March 12: 5.3 Miles OUTSIDE! woo hoo, so dam hilly and windy, but felt great :-)
March 13: Nothing
March 14: Nothing
March 15: Nothing
March 16: 10.25 outside. great!
March 17: Pump
March 18: 3.75 outside with friend+ 1 ™
March 19: nothing
March 20: 6 miles outside- great run!
March 21: nothing
March 22: nothing
March 23: 4.5 miles outside- windy and tough!
March 24: 2 miles ™
March 25: 4.8 slow miles outside with friend
March 26: 2.2 miles ™ & Pump
March 27: 2.5 ™
March 28: Nothing
March 29: 2.2 miles ™
March 30: 5.3 miles- outside- I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done! Now on to April!
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In running related news, I won this cool Timex One GPS watch from Run the Bluegrass. It was a contest for who could run the most 3+ mile training runs from 9 Nov - 22 Mar, and I had 160 runs. It does live tracking, text messaging without a phone, and has 4gb of music storage with Bluetooth headphone capability.
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I set up the April Challenge if anyone wants to start declaring their April miles.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10124017/april-2015-running-challenge
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SonicDeathMonkey80 wrote: »In running related news, I won this cool Timex One GPS watch from Run the Bluegrass. It was a contest for who could run the most 3+ mile training runs from 9 Nov - 22 Mar, and I had 160 runs. It does live tracking, text messaging without a phone, and has 4gb of music storage with Bluetooth headphone capability.
Nice running jewelry congrats on winning it. BTW how big is that screen, looks like I can see it without my glasses.
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skippygirlsmom wrote: »SonicDeathMonkey80 wrote: »In running related news, I won this cool Timex One GPS watch from Run the Bluegrass. It was a contest for who could run the most 3+ mile training runs from 9 Nov - 22 Mar, and I had 160 runs. It does live tracking, text messaging without a phone, and has 4gb of music storage with Bluetooth headphone capability.
Nice running jewelry congrats on winning it. BTW how big is that screen, looks like I can see it without my glasses.
Looks like a 2" screen... It's definitely not going to be my everyday runner, but I'll wear it for races and long runs. It's a little heavy
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@SBRRepeat, @SonicDeathMonkey80, @Elise4270, @Abakan, @autumnblade75, @Stoshew71, and anyone else I missed excellent racing all of you!
@dennie24 I love running with my kids, my older daughters are great runners. My youngest kids run with spurts of speed & intervals of walking, but that's how they learn. Keep bringing your son out with you he'll be running the whole 3 miles in no time.
@_nikkiwolf_ If you can reverse that route it looks like a fun challenge & you can run the rolling downhill side without putting your life or legs in danger.
@SBRRepeat Getting caught in a hailstorm while running is painful- add the speed of cycling & that must have been awful, I hope you're okay.
@HonuNui Beautiful moon & great job on the observation deck- all your hard work really paid off!
@labyars There is walking and there is running. Running on a treadmill is still running, though running out of doors does feel so much better.
@SonicDeathMonkey80- 160 3+mile runs is impressive. I went back and looked I only have 109 in that same time frame even though I ran at least a mile every single day.
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__Date___ Miles
Mar 1 ___ 3.5am 7°F + 6.1pm 26°F + strength training
Mar 2 ___ 5.7 with friends + 3.6 alone
Mar 3 ___ 1.4 streak + strength training
Mar 4 ___ 5.1 with friend + 3.5 alone
Mar 5 ___ 2.3 + strength training
Mar 6 ___ 8.8am alone + 4.6pm w/friend
Mar 7 ___ 3.1
Mar 8 ___ 12.5 cloudy, then snowy, then sunny all in the same run
Mar 9 ___ 6.0 w/friends (& another 1.4 with my youngest not included in total.)
Mar 10 __ 3.1+ strength training
Mar 11 __ 5.8 + Yoga
Mar 12 __ 2.2 + strength training
Mar 13 __ 7.1 + Yoga ***halfway to goal***
Mar 14 __ 4.6
Mar 15 __ 1.5 last run for the streak- 203days 1265.6miles (6.2 miles/day)
Mar 25 __ 6.2 + 1
Mar 27 __ 6.1
Mar 28 __ 6.6 snowing
Mar 30 __ 8.1 snowing again
Month total= 118.4 running miles __46.6 remaining
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SonicDeathMonkey80 wrote: »In running related news, I won this cool Timex One GPS watch from Run the Bluegrass. It was a contest for who could run the most 3+ mile training runs from 9 Nov - 22 Mar, and I had 160 runs. It does live tracking, text messaging without a phone, and has 4gb of music storage with Bluetooth headphone capability.
It makes your wrist look dainty
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33.7 last week. 128.2 for the month. 1.8 to go, which means, unless something catastrophic happens between now and the time I head out for my run after work, I got this!0
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Yay goal! Congrats to you guys!
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Training2BeFast wrote: »SonicDeathMonkey80 wrote: »In running related news, I won this cool Timex One GPS watch from Run the Bluegrass. It was a contest for who could run the most 3+ mile training runs from 9 Nov - 22 Mar, and I had 160 runs. It does live tracking, text messaging without a phone, and has 4gb of music storage with Bluetooth headphone capability.
It makes your wrist look dainty
That's why I asked what size it was. It's very cool.
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skippygirlsmom wrote: »Training2BeFast wrote: »SonicDeathMonkey80 wrote: »In running related news, I won this cool Timex One GPS watch from Run the Bluegrass. It was a contest for who could run the most 3+ mile training runs from 9 Nov - 22 Mar, and I had 160 runs. It does live tracking, text messaging without a phone, and has 4gb of music storage with Bluetooth headphone capability.
It makes your wrist look dainty
That's why I asked what size it was. It's very cool.
I do have dainty wrists, what can I say
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03/03 - 6.2km
04/03 - 8.59km
06/03 - 4.0km
10/03 - 6.1km
11/03 - 6.02km
13/03 - 4.02km
18/03 - 4.04km
24/03 - 6.10km
25/03 - 6.0km
28/03 - 5.02km
31/03 - 8.5km
A near perfect run to finish out the month!! Weather was great, temperature was bang on, gentle breeze appeared at just the right moments to cool me down, I felt good and apart from the track being a bit slippery from last nights rain it couldn't have been better!!!!
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@labyers Congrats on the 5k and welcome!!
Super excited.... hit my goal today!!!! And I did 10 miles on Friday, which is the furthest I've done yet.
We did it! Post-run selfie.
This is my first month doing the running challenge on the board... thanks for welcoming and supporting me! Off to set my April goal! :-D
3/2 = 4.56 miles
3/3 = 2.26 miles
3/4 = 3.52 miles
3/5 = rest
3/6 = 4.51 miles
3/7 = rest
3/8 = 8 miles
3/9 = rest
3/10 = 5.02 miles
3/11 = 3 miles
3/12 = 4.59 miles
3/13 = rest
3/14 = rest
3/15 = 6.41 miles
3/16 = 2.03 miles
3/17 = 5.0 miles
3/18 = 3.58 miles
3/19 = rest
3/20 = rest
3/21 = 7.02 miles
3/22 = rest
3/23 = 4.67 mi
3/24 = 3.37 miles
3/25 = 3.4 miles
3/26 = rest
3/27 = 10.01 miles
3/28 = rest
3/29 = rest
3/30 = 5.68 miles
Total = 86.63 miles
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@fabnine it was pretty small hail. No serious damage done.
I did a quick three miles in the park where I first started running today. I moved, so I haven't been back since I finished C25K almost two years ago. It was a surreal experience. This route used to kick my butt. Like, collapse panting and shaking on my front porch, potentially with heat stroke. One lap was less than a mile and a half.
That "big hill" that I used to struggle up and usually ended up walking? 16 feet of elevation change. 16!
Amazing.
I can't believe I ran 110 miles (okay, 109.4) this month. At least 4x as much as I could do then...0 -
I'm wrapping up March with 66.4 miles, including my first half marathon yesterday. 'Twas a great month—can't wait for April!0
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3/1--Rest day
3/2--3.32 miles(treadmill)
3/3--Strength Training
3/4--3.34 miles(treadmill)
3/5--Strength Training
3/6--rest day
3/7--rest day
3/8--rest day
3/9--3.27 miles
3/10-strength training
3/11-3.3 miles(treadmill)
3/12-strength training
3/13-3.28(treadmill)
3/14-3.38(week 16 completed)
3/15-rest
3/16-3.12(Outside w/ the Zombies)
3/17-Strength Training
3/18-3.16(Outside w/ my Zombie peeps making me drop my supplies because I refuse to start off too fast)
3/19-Strength training
3/20-Strength training & 3.33 miles(treadmill)
3/21-3.34 miles(week 15 completed)
3/22-rest day
3/23-4.18 miles(Outside)
3/24-Strength training
3/25-3.44(treadmill)
3/26-Strength training
3/27-4.42(treadmill)
3/28-3.14(Glo Run 5k-week 14 completed)
3/29-rest day
3/30-3.44 miles(treadmill)
3/31-strength training
Congrats to everyone who completed races this month! I'm also sending a big "Whoop! Whoop!" To everyone who set new personal records
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March 1 - 5K - 3rd place in my age group. Not my best time, but happy with it! 29:07
March 2- rest
March 3- 5.05 miles and strength training
March 4 - 5.09 miles
March 5 - 5.13 miles
March 6 - strength training
March 7 - 34 miles Biking - brutal winds today. I couldn’t keep up around the lake.
March 8 - 71 miles biking. Beautiful day out but that was too long.
March 9 - rest day
March 10 - strength training.
March 11 - 5.2 miles - knee felt fine! So thankful.
March 12 - 5.2 miles.
March 13- rest
March 14 - 10K
March 15 - 3.3 miles
March 16 - 4.4 miles
March 17 - Strength training
March 18 - 5.0423 miles
March 19- 5.12 miles.
March 20 - Strength Training
March 21 - 34 mile bike ride.
March 22 - 5 mile run; 8 mile biking.
March 23 - Strength Training
March 24 - 5.01 miles
March 25 - Strength Training
March 26 - 5.5 miles
March 27 - rest
March 28 - rest - driving up to visit mom in Virginia
March 29 - 5.2
March 30 - 4.1 running; 35 miles biking.
Bike riding along the Potomac River in Virginia. Oh my gosh… forgot about these things called hills! We hardly have any at home. We rode up to Mount Vernon and of course, George Washington had to live on top of a big hill.
I was so jealous of every runner we passed! It looks like such a great place to run!!! Twisty, turny, beautiful along the Potomac.
Tomorrow I may be a little sore! Probably will take a rest day!
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3/1 - 6.5 miles
3/2 - 3.9 miles - miserable windy 20 mph with gusts, I hate wind even when it's 100 out LOL
3/3 - rest day
3/4 - 6.1 miles a beautiful 64F at 5:30 am when I ran - ran in a tank top. I love Alabama, tonight it will be 25F with a winter storm watch
3/5 - ice day
3/6 - ice day
3/7 - 8.4 miles
3/8 - lazy day
3/9 - 3.5 miles
3/10 - 6.5 miles
3/11 - 4.4 miles - yes yes yes it's been a bit since I was a sub 10:30 pace...10:27 but hey it's sub 10:30
I felt great today! Wish I'd paid better attention to the time, it got way dark and I had to head home. Didn't have my lights with me.
3/12 - rest day
3/13 - lazy day LOL
3/14 - 8.4 miles - cut 4 mins off my time from when I ran this course on 3/7 :-)
3/15 - 3.5 miles
3/16 - 4.5 miles
3/17 - 6.3 miles
3/18 - planned rest day
3/19 - 3.5 miles
3/20 - 3.5 miles
3/21 - rest day and beach day! Did walk about 3 miles at the outlets
3/22 - 5.3 miles Goal!
3/23 - rest day - went on an air boat ride with Skip and saw some alligators - too fun!
3/24 - 9.5 miles
3/25 - rest day
3/26 - 4.4 miles
3/27 - rest day
3/28 - rest day - my thighs were sore and I knew I wanted to run some of my HM course on Sunday so I rested 2 days
3/29 - 12.1 miles my goofy iPod stopped tracking miles at 3 but I'm sure this is about right. Ran my HM course - I was panicking the other day but now that I ran it, I like it.
3/30 - 3.1 miles
103.3 out of 70 miles
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03/02 - 2 miles
03/04 - 2.5 miles
03/06- 3.1 miles
03/09 - 3 miles
03/10- rest
03/11- 2.5 miles
03/12- rest day (backyard clean up- 'tis the season, and agility practice)
03/13- 3 miles... Graduated C25K today!!! At the start of the year I could barely run 90 seconds, now I'm running 30 min straight.
03/16- 2.5 miles
03/17- rest day w/ more dog training.
03/18- 2.5 miles
03/19- 2 miles(went back and did an interval of running/walking with faster runs) + weight training. Will be out of the gym for four days as I will be at an event. But I will be right back at it on Monday!
03/23- 2 mile intervals(running as fast as I could for a min) + weight training. Shin is feeling soar after my run so may have over did a bit.
03/24- arc trainer and weights, shin still sore.
03/25- rest day(will try for a run tomorrow)
03/26- 2.5 miles + weight training
03/30- 2 miles + weight training
Total 29.5 miles .....Goal 26 miles
So glad I'm finished! Not sure what my goal for April will be kinda getting board with treadmill running.
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01/03- rest sick
02/03- rest still sick
03/03- 3.6 miles TM
04/03- 3.74 miles TM
05/03- 3.84 miles TM
06/03- 4.08 miles TM
07/03- 1.4 miles OUTSIDE 3.7 TM
08/03- rest day
09/03- 1.5 miles TM
10/03- 4.25 miles outside on a trail
11/03- 2.7 miles trail
12/03- 4.32 miles road
13/03- 4.48 miles road
14/03- rest Happy Men's Valentine's Day
15/03- 4.02 miles TM
16/03- 4.47 miles road
17/03- 4.62 miles road
18/03- rest
19/03- 2.2 miles road with hubby and the munchkin
20/03- 4.42 TM incline/speed intervals
21/03- rest (science fair/going away party out of town)
22/03- 4.9 miles road with hubby
23/03- rest
24/03- 5k walk with a friend
25/03- rest
26/03- 5.29 miles road
27/03- 4.8 miles road
28/03- cold miserable day at my moms=no run
29/03- 3.3 miles PR'd
30/03- 3.47 miles (hard going today)
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01-Mar - Rest
02-Mar - 3.16 run
03-Mar - 2.17 run, 2.18 walk
04-Mar - 2.59 run
05-Mar - 2.16 run, 2.11 walk
06-Mar - surgery
07-, 08-, 09-, 10-Mar - recuperation
11-Mar - 1.24 walk
12-Mar - 2.19 walk, 1.95 walk
13-Mar - 4.00 walk (dreadmill)
14-Mar - 3.26 walk
15-Mar - 2.20 walk, 2.91 walk
16-Mar - 4.98 walk, 3.02 walk (dreadmill)
17-Mar - 4.35 walk, 2.59 walk
18-Mar - 4.60 walk
19-Mar - 4.25 walk (dreadmill), 1.25 walk (dreadmill)
20-Mar - 2.36 walk (dreadmill), 2.00 walk (dreadmill)
21-Mar - 5.40 walk
22-Mar - Rest
23-Mar - 6.08 walk (dreadmill)
24-Mar - 7.21 walk
25-Mar - 4.08 walk (dreadmill)
26-Mar - 4.26 walk
27-Mar - 5.50 walk
28-Mar - 3.16 RUN!!!!!! First post-surgery. Also 2.60 walk
29-Mar - 2.15 run
30-Mar - 3.00 walk (dreadmill)
Gonna have to give some serious thought to next month's goal....
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March 1 -Rest
March 2 - 4 miles
March 3 - 5.1 miles (furthest run to date)
March 4-6th - Rest arches, I pulled them jumping rope.
March 7 - 4 miles OUTSIDE!!! It was so warm here, I was surprised!
March 8 - 4 miles (plus a hike on the mountain)
March 9 - 3.1 miles (5k OUTSIDE!!, plus a 2 mile walk and weight training)
March 10 - 2.25 miles (It was hard to run tonight....)
March 11 - 3.1 miles (5k)
March 12 - 3.1 miles (5k, outside and the pace was MUCH different than on the treadmill. It was 9:47 mpm versus the almost 12 that I get on the machine)
March 13 - 2 miles (night before first 5k race)
March 14 - 3.1 miles (5k) I feel great about most of my first race! I ran my fastest mile time so far (8:56 mpm) and was on track to *maybe* place but ended up with a side stitch right in the middle that slowed me way down for about 1/2 mile (I need to fine tune what I should eat on race mornings) so my finish time was right at 30 minutes. I *think* this is a decent time for a first 5k race??
March 15 - 4 miles
March 16 - 3.1 miles (5k)
March 17 - 3.1 miles (5k)
March 18 - 22 Traveling and horrible stomach flu
March 23 - 2 miles (Wanted to make sure my stomach could handle it)
March 24 - 4 miles
March 25 - 3.1 miles (5k)
March 26 & 27 - Rest
March 28 - 3.1 miles (5k)
March 29 - Hiked over some local mountains
March 30 - 4.15 miles on the dreadmill....
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Looks like I won't quite make my goal this month but after 5 days of nothing due to a horrible stomach flu that left me drained I feel pretty good about getting as close as I have! I plan to get another run in tomorrow but it won't be 11.7 miles (even if I wanted to attempt it I won't have time). Congrats to everyone this month, way to go!!!0
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Congrats to all the racers this last weekend - sounds like everyone had great results!!
Congrats to everyone running so well this month making, exceeding, or even almost hitting your goal, everyone has done an amazing job this month!!
@VintageMatch - is there somewhere you can run outside, maybe even take your dog along for a run? You will probably find it much more fun and interesting!
@skippygirlsmom - look at you getting in over 100 miles this month after just getting back from an injury! Wow, you are awesome!
Date.......Miles.......Total
03/01.... 2.00....... 2.00 - Dog Beach run
03/02.... 5.22....... 7.22 - Fast rain run
03/03.... 7.88......15.10 - + Strength Training
03/04.... 0.00......15.10
03/05.... 4.03......19.13 - + Strength Training
03/06.... 8.74......27.87 - Windy and so dry
03/07.... 6.70......34.57 - Hot, hot, hot (sorry to all who are still dealing with snow and ice!)
03/08.... 2.00......36.57 - Dog Beach run
03/09.... 5.09......41.66
03/10.....9.52......51.18 - + Strength Training
03/11.....0.00......51.18 - much needed rest day!
03/12.....4.75......55.93 - + Strength Training
03/13.....7.08......63.01 - Hot and windy but a good run! Much better than yesterday
03/14.....0.00......63.01 - pre-5K rest and travel to San DIego
03/15.....3.10......66.11 - 5K
03/16.....5.44......71.55
03/17.....5.05......76.60 - + Strength Training
03/18.....0.00......76.60
03/19.....7.16......83.76 - + Strength Training
03/20.....4.64......88.40 - early morning run watching the sunrise behind the clouds
03/21.....3.00......91.40 - Dog Beach run
03/22...11.87....103.27 - Longest run this month! Found a new route!
03/23.....5.15....108.42
03/24.....6.28....114.70 - + Strength Training
03/25.....0.00....114.70
03/26.....6.24....120.94 - + Strength Training
03/27.....6.05....126.99 - Goal!
03/28.....9.07....136.06
03/29.....3.00....139.06
03/30.....5.20....144.26
03/31.....0.00....144.26
Taking tomorrow off as a rest day. See everyone over on the April Challenge!!0 -
31-Mar: 5.9K as End of March-finale ... April is going to focus on achieving 10k distances within 55 minutes ... we'll see
Total running miles March: 108
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