April 2015 Running Challenge

Progress so far this month;
4/7/ treadmill 5.60
4/8/ Run 4.20
4/9/ Treadmill 3.9
4/11 Iowa Speedway 8K Road Race 45.23. A beautiful morning for a run with my little sister and friends.

Elise4270 wrote: »

@skippygirlsmom lol! Nah, was funny. LoneWolfRunner had a bird profile pic an my husband found this one from a year ago, thought I'd play along.

I leave for a couple of days and I'm immediately under the bus...

Date.......Miles......Total
04/01.....4.07.......4.07 - +2 mile walk
04/02.....5.20.......9.27 - + Strength Training
04/03.....6.48.....15.75
04/04...13.10.....28.85
04/05.....0.00.....28.85 - Rest - 3 mile walk on the beach
04/06.....7.20.....36.05 - + Agility
04/07.....6.24.....42.29 - + Strength Training
04/08.....0.00.....42.29 - Rest + Strength Training
04/09.....4.37.....46.66 - Surprisingly good tempo run
04/10.....6.20.....52.86
04/11.....8.23.....61.09 - Hill repeats, trail run and more hills!

I am looking for new zero drop shoes. Has anyone had experience with Skoras? How they fit, how they feel, how they wear? They have a new model called the Tempo that looks interesting.
I am also looking at the New Balance Minimus Zero v2
Weighing those against the Altra One2

grimmeanor wrote: »

Ran the Kansas City Rock the Parkway half marathon today with a PR of 2:42:09.4

AWESOME

Four miles out and I realized with sudden pain that I caused more damage than I thought yesterday. High outside ankle sprain ... it's too high up for that, unless pain is referred ... pain is about an inch or so above the ankle bone protrusion on the lateral aspect.

Anyway, during the long, rather uncomfortable walk back, I kept changing the song on my ipod thinking it would adjust my level of happiness. It did not. <swears loudly>

Edited to ask: I'm not one to go to the doc, especially if there's nothing they can really do. RICE. I get it. But I also haven't done this to myself before. Q: is there a reason to see a doc, aside from just playing it safe and making sure it's not too serious? TIA <swears loudly again>

4/1 - 3.8 miles (trail)
4/4 - 11 miles
4/5 - 3 miles
4/7 - 5 miles
4/8 - 3 miles
4/9 - 7 miles (speedwork)
4/11 - 12 miles

Aine8046 wrote: »

In for 50 miles!

April 1st - 3.5 miles
April 4th - 3.9 miles
April 6th - 4.3 miles
April 8th - 5.5 miles
April 10th - 5.5 miles
April 12th - 4.5 miles

Total: 27.2 miles




Well, it was not a very good idea to run first thing after attending an all-night Easter vigil. I slept only few hours and had a headache. To make it worse it's warm and sunny here today. I missed cold rain we had two days ago I was slow and had to walk from time to time...

@mobuckl Sounds like a great road race.

@JoRocka: is that a new profile pic? Awesome!

@4leighbee : Oh no, sorry to hear that you hurt yourself! Walking back four miles with a hurting ankle sounds excruciating. I always take "emergency bus money" with me. Because I'm really scared of something like that happening and having to walk a long ways back (and I hope that I'm actually anywhere remotely near a bus stop should I ever need it)... Hope you get better soon!
I'm also not a see-the-doctor person, so if it where me, I'd go with RICE for a few days first before makeing an appointment, if it doesn't hurt during rest (the two times I actually went to a doctor with a sprain / stained muscle, all the advice I got from the doctor was "rest" anyway). But that might not be the smartest thing to do, so you should probably not listen to me. Especially if it seems to get worse rather than better, that would be a reason to go see an expert.

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I ran 15.4 km today! It's actually only the second time I ran more than 15km, so I'm really happy. Unlike the first time where I planned it, today it was more of an accident - I wanted to try out a new route and got lost. At one point I actually realised I had been going in circles... But the weather was nice, running felt good, so no harm done by my refusal to buy one of these smart phone thingies with GPS map apps and the like. And I got back to a street I recognised eventually

12.04.2015 - 15.4 km
(41.4 of 100 km done)

@4leighbee - oh no, I hope you are okay! I would be swearing too. I'm not one to go to a doctor either unless it is excruciating.

@gabbo34 - hope things settle down and you can get your runs back. Family comes first and as much I'm sure you want to just take off and run you can't do it sometimes.

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 - hilly ride.
April 6 - 6.01 miles
April 7 - Weight Training
April 8 - 4.89
April 9 - 6.02
April 10 - 5.03
April 11 - 34 mile bike ride
April 12 - 40 mile bike ride

Back to running tomorrow! My spring break is over so not sure I can run the 6 I want to do in the morning ... I just can't set the alarm back to prior to 4. So I guess I'll do 5 miles and that seemed impossible 4 months ago, so I'll be happy with that!