April 2015 Running Challenge

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  • SBRRepeat
    SBRRepeat Posts: 384 Member
    @shanaber I put body glide on EVERYTHING. I carry it in, like, every bag I own. It's the only thing I've successfully used to prevent blisters (besides really good socks). I wear it under poorly fitting dress shoes, too.
    It's pretty water resistant, so it's still effective when I go splashing through creeks and puddles (because I'm actually five years old).

    Today's a bike day for me! Happy Easter/Passover/Non-religious enjoyable Sunday everyone!
  • Timby1
    Timby1 Posts: 294 Member
    8.1 for me on this lovely Easter morning. Brings my total to 25.45 miles so far. Not as much as some and they certainly aren't fast miles, but they are miles and I'm pretty excited about them.
  • ColleenWestico
    ColleenWestico Posts: 15 Member
    next run planned for Monday--glad I kept the miles for April low--2 miles down on April 1st, 2 more planned for April 6th--
  • Nottafattie
    Nottafattie Posts: 140 Member
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    4/1 = 3.50 miles
    4/5 = 5.54 miles
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    Total = 9.04 miles
    40.96 miles until goal
  • lippiestickmama
    lippiestickmama Posts: 15 Member

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  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    Had a great run last night. Good pace and felt strong through all 6 miles. I am tapering down even lower this week in prep for the two half marathons coming up on the next two Saturdays. Easy two mile runs planned Monday and Wednesday is all.

    4/1 - 6 miles
    4/4 - 6.1 miles


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  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    dennie24 wrote: »
    I ran 6.5 miles today. That's the farthest I have gone so far and now I am feeling pretty good about being able to complete the Bolder Boulder in May. Hopefully. I do have a question about cadence. I know that the ideal cadence is 180 for a minute but is there a range that is also acceptable? My Forerunner 220 said that my cadence was 168 today and I am just curious how far off I am from where I need to be.
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    Congrats on your longest run so far!
    As for the cadence: I guess "were you need to be" is a question of opinion. What I read in many places is that most beginners are around 160, most elite runners 180 and over. In a study done during the Olympics 1984, 45 of 46 runners had a cadence of 180 or more. That's were the "magic 180" comes from. There are some theories saying even more is even better because that means shorter strides and less impact on your knees and such. Some sites say cadence is constant with speed, but I've also read in some places that cadence changes with the pace. In that case, your training run won't necessarily compare to your race cadence (which is the situation the Olympic's runners where in when their cadence was measured...).
    I found this blog post on the topic interesting: http://sciencebasedrunning.com/2011/07/cadence-and-injuries-once-more-with-science/
    If you want to increase that to reduce the risk of injury, that might be a nice idea. In that case you could try adding intervalls with increasing length at 5% higher cadence or something like that - there are a lot of "increase running cadence" tipps on the web. In any case, I don't think running with a cadence of 168 is a showstopper for your race in May.
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    3.4.2015 : 6.1 km - first time I was able to maintain a pace less than 7 min /km for more than 5 k :-D
    5.4.2015 : 4.0 km - nice and easy run-walk run with my sister, who's also home for the holidays

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  • Nikki10129
    Nikki10129 Posts: 292 Member
    Jumping in a little late but it's exam month and I'm gonna need this

    Gonna leave this here...

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    Was kinda disappointed with the under-representation of cat tickers.
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    Be careful increasing your cadence. Do it slowly and adapt to that new pace for a few runs before going up a few more strides per minute. It adds a lot of effort to your runs, so you need to treat it similarly to other increases in effort, like increasing distance no more than 10% per week for example.
  • Vixenmd1
    Vixenmd1 Posts: 146 Member
    I am in for 110
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    4/1 - rest day
    4/2 - 4.4 miles - getting ready for HM on the 12th :smile:
    4/3 - 4.4 miles
    4/4 - rest day
    4/5 - 4.9 miles

    13.7 miles out of 130

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  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    1 - 12mi, intervals
    2 - 6mi, easy
    3 - 8mi, easy w/strides
    4 - 10mi, easy
    5 - 20mi, long run

    70 miles for my peak week. Taper time!

    Total: 56mi

    April goal: ~180mi

  • runner2445
    runner2445 Posts: 2 Member
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  • fabnine
    fabnine Posts: 379 Member
    edited April 2015
    __Date___ Miles
    Apr 1 ___ 9.2
    Apr 3 ___ 13.5
    Apr 5 ___ 6.6


    Month total= 29.3 running miles

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  • RunRachelleRun
    RunRachelleRun Posts: 1,854 Member
    Hi, hope I'm not too late to join. I'm looking forward to the challenge and getting to know everybody.

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  • RunRachelleRun
    RunRachelleRun Posts: 1,854 Member
    Timby1 wrote: »
    8.1 for me on this lovely Easter morning. Brings my total to 25.45 miles so far. Not as much as some and they certainly aren't fast miles, but they are miles and I'm pretty excited about them.

    Mine aren't fast miles either. Way to go!
  • JustWant2Run
    JustWant2Run Posts: 286 Member
    edited April 2015
    1--- 8mi
    2--- 8mi
    3--- 20mi
    4--- 6 mi
    5--- 12mi --- Week total: 66.3 miles
    6--- Rest day

    Total: 54 miles

    Goal: 250 miles
  • ftrMrsC
    ftrMrsC Posts: 11 Member

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  • Runningmischka
    Runningmischka Posts: 386 Member
    @ShortMrsN @ddmom0811 Hello ladies! I am still pregnant :) 9 more weeks to go. I stopped running due a series of sickness (just cold and flu, nothing too serious) But I am still lifting and doing some light impact cardio exercises. I shall return to running as soon as I can! Seriously, I cannot wait to do my usual 6-12 milers ... In the mean time, here is my latest update.

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    And happy running everyone! B)
  • Remus42
    Remus42 Posts: 149 Member
    Ticker wasn't working on the other computer I was using.... so now I'm updating it.

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  • ddmom0811
    ddmom0811 Posts: 1,881 Member
    Runningmischka wrote: »
    @ShortMrsN @ddmom0811 Hello ladies! I am still pregnant :) 9 more weeks to go. I stopped running due a series of sickness (just cold and flu, nothing too serious) But I am still lifting and doing some light impact cardio exercises. I shall return to running as soon as I can! Seriously, I cannot wait to do my usual 6-12 milers ... In the mean time, here is my latest update.

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    And happy running everyone! B)

    It looks like your dog is smiling in that middle picture. :) Wow, you look great!!! You will have to take several weeks (6?) after the little one is here but then you will be out running me in no time! Thanks for the update!
  • ddmom0811
    ddmom0811 Posts: 1,881 Member
    April 1 - rest
    April 2- 6.01 miles
    April 3- 5.15 miles
    April 4 - 34 mile bike ride
    April 5 - 20 mile bike ride. Then had to rush back to home to make Easter dinner!

    Happy Easter!


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  • peeanoe
    peeanoe Posts: 11 Member
    April 2- 2.77
    April 5-3.14
    Total is 5.9 so far!
  • Aarjono
    Aarjono Posts: 228 Member
    4/1 2.0 miles
    4/2 4.1 miles
    4/4 2.5 miles
    4/4 2.8 miles


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  • 9voice9
    9voice9 Posts: 693 Member
    edited April 2015
    01-Apr - 4.24 miles (dreadmill)
    02-Apr - 2.15 miles (C25K - Week 1)
    03-Apr - 2.45 miles (walk)
    04-Apr - 3.20 miles (C25K - Week 1 plus some)
    05-Apr - 7.06 miles (walk)

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  • Jwls23
    Jwls23 Posts: 37 Member
    4/5 3 miles
    39 to go. :smiley:
  • Ohhim
    Ohhim Posts: 1,142 Member
    Opted to do 20 miles tonight as I needed the distance to complete 6 bridge crossings. Living in flatlands, and racing a relatively hilly marathon in a month necessitated some ascending/declining practice on my long run. Legs are a bit unhappy at the moment, but worst case, if I end up doing a 167 mile cross-state bike ride next Sunday, I will have gotten in my final 20 miler pre-marathon with a 3 week taper sequence.

    4/1 - 8 miles
    4/2 - 5 miles
    4/4 - 8 miles
    4/5 - 20 miles

    Total: 41 miles
    Goal: 145 miles
    Remaining: 104 miles
  • ShortMrsN
    ShortMrsN Posts: 177 Member
    Runningmischka wrote: »
    @ShortMrsN @ddmom0811 Hello ladies! I am still pregnant :) 9 more weeks to go. I stopped running due a series of sickness (just cold and flu, nothing too serious) But I am still lifting and doing some light impact cardio exercises. I shall return to running as soon as I can! Seriously, I cannot wait to do my usual 6-12 milers ... In the mean time, here is my latest update.


    And happy running everyone! B)
    You look amazing!! Glad to hear everything is going well :)

    I had planned to run this morning, but our family ( Husband, Me, our 4 kids.... twins 8, Mr 6 and Miss 4, BIL, SIL, nieces 5 and 1) finally walked up the "hill" behind our house......... it is 4.4km of mostly (90%) uphill (the whole 8.8km up and down took about 2hr 45mins). It has the most amazing view at the top, I can see why it is such a popular track!!
    My butt muscles are feeling it today..... but I think I might start running/walking it once a week! :)

  • rajnigandha21
    rajnigandha21 Posts: 121 Member
    Even though I'm late by a week still want to join!! I want to run 30 km this April. Lowest milage :cold_sweat: But I have other work outs as well so forgive me folks!! ;)




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