April 2015 Running Challenge

4/1- 3 mi
4/2- 1 mi (8:36) fastest mile time
4/3-rest day before 10K
4/4-6.2 mi 10-K race; PR 1:05:05 ; last year was 1:10:16
4/5- rest day
4/6-3 mi
4/7-0
Total Week 1 = 13.20
4/8-0
4/9-4
4/10-0
4/11-5.50
4/12-0
4/13-4
4/14-0
Total Week 2 = 13.50
4/15 0
4/16-0
4/17-3
4/18-0
4/19-0
4/20-3
4/21-4
Total Week 3 = 10= 36.70

I don't think I'm going to meet my goal this month

4/1: 5 miles
4/2: 7 miles
4/3: 4.2 miles
4/4: REST!
4/5: 18 miles
4/6: 4 miles
4/7: XT rowing and biking
4/8: 5 miles
4/9: 10 miles
4/10: 3.1 miles
4/11: 8.5 miles
4/12: REST
4/13: 6 miles
4/14: Rest
4/15: 6.2 miles
4/16: 8 miles
4/17: 6 miles
4/18: REST (Actually, hiking with a friend)
4/19: 3 miles (with same friend)
4/20: REST (rain today, but nice for running Tues-Fri)
4/21: 5 miles
4/22: 5 miles
4/23: 6.4 miles

Total: 110.4 miles


One more run and three more sleeps til race day! SO EXCITED!

skippygirlsmom wrote: »

SBRRepeat wrote: »

@skippygirlsmom Maybe I was supposed to carry it as a compact to fix my makeup in? Another race series gives out medals that are also bottle openers. It weighs like 6 lbs, though. Besides the ridiculous, vaguely racist belt buckle I won at a triathlon last year, it's the worst medal ever.
ETA: yes, we did 36 laps of the same .1 mile course yesterday. It was rough.

The medals are too funny! One of the mom's from soccer said to me one night, you should run the track while the girls are practicing. I said I need to run 10 miles, she said how long is the track, I said 1/4 mile, she said see that would be great. I said okay you stand here and count out 40 laps. The light bulb when off in her head and she said how boring :-)

Yeah, I tried to run laps at my son's soccer practice...it was the worst thing ever....

Maybe it would be good for just doing speed work...but the idea of doing a huge number of laps bored me to death...

peeanoe wrote: »

Ran 3.29 tonight and my April total is 26.5!

I'm running my first race tomorrow night! It's just a 5k and I don't expect to place or anything, I'm just excited to get started! Thanks for all your encouragement, everyone!

GOOD LUCK!

April 1 - 3.1 miles (5k)
April 2 - 3.1 miles (5k)
April 3rd, 4th, and 5th - Travel/Rest
April 6 - 3.1 miles (5k)
April 7 - 3.1 miles (5k)
April 8th & 9th - Travel
April 10 - 3.1 miles (5k)
April 11th-16th - House remodel and no time to run.
April 17 - 3.1 miles (5k)
April 18th - 21st - Painting every hour that I did not work.
April 22 - 3.1 miles (5k)

4/1 - 3.44 miles
4/3 - 5 miles
4/4 - 5 miles
4/6 - 4 miles
4/8 - 3 miles
4/10 - 3.5 miles
4/12 - 8 miles
4/13 - 3.5 miles
4/15 - 3.47 miles
4/17 - 3.25 miles
4/18 - 9 miles
4/20 - stair workout
4/23 - 3 miles
4/24 - 3.3 miles

1--- 8mi
2--- 8mi
3--- 20mi
4--- 6 mi
5--- 12mi --- Week total: 66.3 miles
6--- Rest day
7--- 14mi
8--- 8mi
9--- 12mi
10--- 8mi
11--- 8mi
12--- 20mi --- Week total:70 miles
13--- Rest day
14--- 8mi
15--- 10mi
16--- 8mi
17--- 7mi
18--- 6.2mi
19--- 12mi --- Week total: 50.22 miles
20--- Rest day
21--- 6mi
22--- 8mi
23--- 6mi
24--- Rest day (taper!)
25--- Rest day (taper!)

Total: 194.2 miles

Goal: 250 miles

SonicDeathMonkey80 wrote: »

If it's a training run, I wouldn't taper for it. Train right through it

More or less, I am. Took an extra day off Wednesday, went easy yesterday, pretty normal day today. Rest day tomorrow mostly due to brutal schedule of kids' activities. Then HM on Sunday. It's only my second one. Setting a goal of <1:55:00 and shooting for <1:50:00 for the next one on May 30.

4/1 - Nice 3.1 miles on indoor track
4/2 - Brutal 4.75 miles of "hilly" treadmill
4/4 - 10 miles, nice mix of hills
4/6 - 4 miles on indoor track
4/8 - 4 miles on indoor track (33:16...pretty speedy for me)
4/9 - Another hot, humid 5 miles on a "hilly" treadmill (Total 30.85/110)
4/10 - 4 miles on indoor track
4/12 - 11 miles, on the windy side, but otherwise nice
4/13 - 2 recovery miles - maybe should have skipped it...ouch!
4/14 - power outage = no alarm = unplanned rest
4/15 - 4 miles on indoor track
4/16 - 5 miles on treadmill (nice mix of hills, tempo and a few short "sprints")
4/17 - 4 miles on indoor track; weather forecast is making the 12-miler for the weekend look difficult to get in
4/18 - 10.4 miles; managed to squeeze in a shorter run than I planned between the thunderstorms
4/20 - 4 miles on indoor track
4/21 - 4 miles on indoor track
4/22 - planned rest day, part of my pseudo-taper. Blah. HM on Sunday, then another in 5 more weeks...don't need no stinkin' taper FYI, I don't post my weight workouts, stationary bike or other workouts here. So, some of those days not listed had other workouts.
4/23 - 5 easy miles on treadmill ("base pace" with a few burst of tempo and sprints...no hills)
4/24 - 4.5 miles on indoor track (Total 89/110)

cathyjones08 wrote: »

cathyjones08 wrote: »

3 more miles running - April 22
2 miles running, 1 mile walking April 23 ( it was freezing cold)

Total 11.5 miles, goal 17 miles (got stated late)