April 2015 Running Challenge

Congratulations to all those who participated in a race this past weekend. Awesome!

4/27 3 miles

4/1--4.51 miles(treadmill)
4/2--strength training
4/3--3.25miles(treadmill)
4/4--6.04 miles outside
4/5--rest day
4/6--3.09 miles(treadmill)
4/7--strength training
4/8--4.3 miles outside
4/9--rest day
4/10-3.21 miles outside
4/11-7.65 miles outside
4/12-rest day
4/13-bike & 10 plus minutes stretching-surprisingly, my knees feel so much better.
4/14-3.25 miles outside
4/17-3.29 miles(treadmill)
4/19-6.2(Linking Hands 10K/5K-came in second in my age group! How about that? 1:08:05 First 10K ever!)
4/20-4.1 miles outside(got a running buddy!)
4/21-rest day
4/22-4.89 miles outside(with new running buddy)
4/23-rest day
4/24-rest day
4/25-8.5 miles
4/26-rest day
4/27-4.15 miles(perfect weather)

Surpassed my goal and I have one more day to run for this month.

Stoshew71 wrote: »

kristinegift wrote: »

Stoshew71 wrote: »

@kristinegift Congratulations on your half. I am originally from NJ. What exit are ya? :-)
I grew up in Union County, lived in Bayonne for a bit, moved down to Eatontown, then Brick before moving to Alabama.

No idea what exit I am! But I live in Princeton. I moved out here just last September for grad school Pretty sure I drove through Eatontown yesterday (but then again I could be mistaken as my NJ geography is awful).

I did a quick lookup on your race. Sounds like a nice route. Not only did you have to drive through Eatontown (Exit 105 off the GSP) but you ran through the back side of my old work site (Ft. Monmouth).

Princeton is exit 67 off I-295 (from the south) or exit 8 from the Turnpike for those coming from the North.

I remember we used to have our State Wrestling Finals in Jadwin Gym in Priceton back in my day.

skippygirlsmom wrote: »

@kristinegift since you are in Princeton technically you don't have an exit. In case you don't know the big joke (at least for people who live outside of Jersey) is that everyone lives off an exit off the garden state parkway, so when you say you are from Jersey people say "what exit?"


I'm sure I missed people - congrats to everyone this weekend!!!

This poor Princetonian is learning so many Jersey things today!

Wendy1Fl wrote: »

gabbo34 wrote: »

Wendy1Fl wrote: »

Great job on the mileage this weekend. Just be careful pushing personal distance records on back to back days. Ramping up mileage in a short period of time without recovery can be a recipe for an overuse injury. (Have have a t-shirt for doing that at the end of the November challenge. )

Thank you for pointing this out, I had not thought of putting myself at risk. I shall err on the side of caution and back off the distance for a bit. Does anyone have an article or good personal experience regarding the rate one should be increasing their distance? I have been told that as long as I don't exceed 10% of my record I would be ok, but I didn't think of the danger of increasing my distance record two days in a row.

I think the 10% rule applies to weekly mileage...with the idea being you shouldn't increase your overall weekly mileage by more than 10%.

It's really hard to do when you're ramping up mileage. I know in my case I felt fine adding miles...so I jumped up quickly over a period of a couple of weeks and ended up sidelined for awhile.

@kristinegift - You're amazing! A day after a HM and you're out running....my legs are absolutely shot today!

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)
April 23rd -25th - House remodel
April 26 - 3.1 miles (5k)
April 27 - 2.1 miles (early run...will run again)

kristinegift wrote: »

gabbo34 wrote: »

@kristinegift - You're amazing! A day after a HM and you're out running....my legs are absolutely shot today!

Haha, thanks! The HM is just part of marathon training, so gotta keep on truckin'! Though to be fair, I was a bit sore after actually pushing myself in the race yesterday. Hope you're run-ready again soon!

Amazing how what once probably dragged you down is now just another day

Congrats to everyone who raced this last weekend @peeanoe, @csman49, @gabbo34, @kristinegift, @Training2BeFast, @briebee7, @SonicDeathMonkey80, @MrsKGrady along with anyone else I missed. You are all awesome and I love seeing all the race pictures and medals!!

@SonicDeathMonkey80 - my Godson lives in Temecula (near San Diego) so when he is running a race there he will invite me to join him. He has been running less than a year and has already gotten the racing bug - this was his 3rd half (3rd we have run together as well) and there have been a few 5 and 10Ks in between. I have another one that he may join me in again in SD but he needs to get his time down a bit to qualify.
I also can't believe I ran a half as a training run and got right back out there today even though it was very hot and very windy! Just another day as you said to @kristinegift!

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!
04/12.....0.00.....61.09 - Rest - 3 mile walk on the beach
04/13.....7.40.....68.49
04/14.....5.36.....73.85 - + Strength Training
04/15.....0.00.....73.85 - Rest
04/16.....5.57.....79.42 - + Strength Training
04/18.....5.50.....90.94
04/19.....0.00.....90.94 - Rest
04/20.....4.64.....95.58 - Taper Week
04/21.....0.00.....95.58 - Rest
04/22.....4.62...100.20 - + Strength Training
04/23.....0.00...100.20 - Strength Training
04/24.....4.17...104.37
04/26...13.10...117.47 - La Jolla Half
04/27.....4.11...121.58 - Hot and windy run to get the stiffness out! GOAL!!

I love the pics of all the folks running together at races. The one thing i hope to do in the future is find some friends to do HM's with...or join a running club or something. It seems like a lot of the fun is comradery before and after the race. When you go solo, it feels like you just sorta show up, run...hang around a bit and leave.

A race question for you vets. One thing that threw me off was my running app was counting off distance faster than the race markers. It was just a little bit each mile...but added up to about a .25 mile for the race. I'd only run a couple of 5ks before and the distance was dead on. Is that pretty normal?...I imagine a GPS is an approximate distance..but can be bit off. Just wondered for training purposes if I'm going as shorter distance than I thought....

@gabbo34 Have a read of this: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2009/03/racing-line-understanding-how-courses.html

csman49 wrote: »

@gabbo34 Have a read of this: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2009/03/racing-line-understanding-how-courses.html

Someone on here (sorry can't remember who!) pointed this out to me after a 5K I did in December when I mentioned that the route was much longer than a 5K. Anyway, since reading that article, I have done a few races and I have been able to get my gps to be very close to the signs because I have tried to use the turns to my advantage. Not that I was taking huge turns prior to that...but I guess I just didn't think about it too much.

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 and weight training
April 11 - 34 mile bike ride
April 12 - 40 mile bike ride
April 13 - 4.25 miles
April 14 - Weight Training
April 15 - 5.1 miles
April 16 - rest
April 17 - Weight Training
April 18 - 5.15
April 19 - 41 mile bike ride
April 20 - 4.32
April 21 - rest
April 22 - 5.25
April 23 - 5.36
April 24 - Weight training
April 25 - 34 mile bike ride
April 26 - 67 mile bike ride
April 27 - 3.15
April 28 - Weight training

2 more days to get my miles in! Can't wait!

gabbo34 wrote: »

I love the pics of all the folks running together at races. The one thing i hope to do in the future is find some friends to do HM's with...or join a running club or something. It seems like a lot of the fun is comradery before and after the race. When you go solo, it feels like you just sorta show up, run...hang around a bit and leave.

A race question for you vets. One thing that threw me off was my running app was counting off distance faster than the race markers. It was just a little bit each mile...but added up to about a .25 mile for the race. I'd only run a couple of 5ks before and the distance was dead on. Is that pretty normal?...I imagine a GPS is an approximate distance..but can be bit off. Just wondered for training purposes if I'm going as shorter distance than I thought....

Being 0.25 long off for a 5K is a lot, but it's pretty standard (probably the higher end of average) for a half/full. Most of mine are about +0.05 for a half and +0.10 for a full. My last half measured 13.15 and full was 26.26. Your Garmin is a training/pacing tool - not an accurate means of measuring a course.