May 2015 Running Challenge

Just finished my first Tri of the season, pretty happy with how it went, except for a few mistakes here and there. Won my age group and finished 9th overall female of 59 in the sprint!
As per usual, my run was my biggest limiter, but I was putting up mile splits about 1-2 minutes faster than all of last year's races, so, progress!
My bike split was awesome, felt really strong- 23rd overall of the full field of 140ish people.
Swim was painful. I panicked when I hit the water, no idea why, and it took a couple hundred yards to get my breathing under control. Still finished in the top half of the field, but I was a full 2 minutes slower than where I self-seeded (sorry to anyone who got stuck behind me!). Most importantly, I felt awesome after the race, so it's good to know I could have pushed myself even harder.

Overall, good start to the real race season

At the finish line with my dad:

Short on time so will catch up on posts tonight.

Was having lunch with my dad today and decided to run out to his place instead of driving. Temps were nice and the scenery was nice as I got further out of town. Lunch was great too. Might do this regularly, and maybe run back next time as well!

5/2 - 6.07 miles
5/4 - 3 miles
5/5 - 3.01 miles
5/6 - 3.02 miles
5/9 - 13.1 miles 2:37:20.4 new PR
5/11 - 3.04 miles
5/16 - 13.1 miles 2:53:02
5/19 - 3.06 miles
5/20 - 3.01 miles
5/21 - 3.1 miles
5/23 - 12.8 miles

@SBRRepeat Sounds like a really nice start to the race season, well done!

@skippygirlsmom Wow, the "speed bump" is a full mile long? That would make for some nice hill repeats training, I bet

I bought new running socks and wore them the first time last night. I guess they don't fit as well as a thought when I first tried them on - they started chafing after half an hour, and now I have blisters on the soles of my big toes. Now I can't decide if I should give those socks a second chance on another run or not...

2.5.15 - 4.1km
4.5.15 - 3.9km
6.5.15 - 4.2km
8.5.15 - 5.3km
10.5.15 - 11.7 km
11.5.15 - 3.6 km
13.5.15 - 6.8 km
15.5.15 - 6.2 km
17.5.15 - 15.3 km
18.5.15 - 5.2 km
22.5.15 - 6.8 km
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73.2km (of 100km) done

5/1 - 3.4 miles
5/3 - 10.5 miles
5/4 - 3 miles
5/6 - 3.4 miles
5/8 - 3.5 miles
5/10 - 12 miles
5/11 - 4 miles
5/13 - 3.5 miles
5/15 - 4 miles
5/17 - 7 miles
5/18 - 3.6 miles
5/20 - 3 miles
5/23 - 2 miles

Buffalo 1/2 marathon tomorrow!! So excited/nervous - I can't wait (but I feel like I could use another week or ten of training....haha)

jtarmom wrote: »

Buffalo 1/2 marathon tomorrow!! So excited/nervous - I can't wait (but I feel like I could use another week or ten of training....haha)

Good luck at your HM!!

5/23: 5 miles

So far: 90.1 miles out of 100

4 miles on the TM bare foot. Found that 3 is all my feet can take before I get blisters.

46.23/75

Gonna push and try to make the 75.

Month to date: 181.70 km; Goal: 160km Stretch goal: 200km
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Sat May 23 5:17PM	0.00 Rest; 36km cycling + nice dinner instead
Fri May 22 12:23PM	13.54
Thu May 21 12:23PM	15.83 
Wed May 20 6:55PM	4.78 
Tue May 19 3:39PM	12.26
Mon May 18 11:50AM	0.00 Rest; 51km cycling instead
Sun May 17 9:13AM	13.47
Sat May 16 8:09PM	0.00 Rest
Fri May 15 1:28PM	7.70 
Thu May 14 6:27PM	4.67
Wed May 13 3:53PM	14.02 
Tue May 12 5:28PM	7.54 
Mon May 11 4:20PM	10.01
Sun May 10 9:52AM	6.09
Sat May 9 1:56 PM	14.16
Fri May 8 12:05 PM	7.67
Thu May 7 5:38 PM	4.19
Wed May 6 4:05 PM	10.02
Tue May 5 7:25 PM	8.49
Tue May 4 0:00 PM	0.00 Rest
Sun May 3 5:32 PM	6.5
Sat May 2 4:16 PM	13.13
Fri May 1 1:57 PM	7.62

May 1- strength training
May 2- cycling - 34 miles
May 3 - rest day/walked 4 miles
May 4 - 4.1 miles + Strength training
May 5- 5.2 miles
May 6 - rest
May 7 - 5.1 miles
May 8 - Strength training
May 9 - 39 miles biking
May 10 - 5K and 36 miles biking
May 11 - Strength training
May 12 - 5.5 miles
May 13 - 3.53 miles + 21 mile bike ride
May 14 - 5.44 miles
May 15 - weight training
May 16 - biking - 34 miles
MAY 17 - biking 40 miles
May 18 - 5 miles
May 19 - 5.75 New York’s central park! Very hilly for this Florida lady.
May 20 - rest day - daughter’s graduation
May 21- rest day - moving out of dorm
May 22 - 6 miles down Hudson River!
May 23 - 22 miles biking around Long Island
May 24 - 5 mile run - along the water in Long Island- PERFECT temps and beautiful out. Don't want to go home to Florida temps tomorrow.





@SBRRepeat - Congratulations! Great picture!
@elise4270 - yes, I get sore when I have rest days too. So strange! If I am feeling sore an easy run just works it all out!
@whatmerunning - Love that idea of running to meet your dad. Only thing is I'd be so sweaty but I would love to do something like that!

1 - 6.2mi, trail
2 - 8.4mi, 5k, kids run, treadmill challenge
3 - 13.1mi, Pittsburgh half marathon
4 - 7mi, easy
5 - 5.5mi, 5k race
6 - Rest
7 - 8mi, easy w/strides
8 - 6mi, easy
9 - 6mi, trail
10 - 10mi, 7 easy/3 @7:00
11- Rest
12 - 7mi, easy
13 - 5mi, easy (jogged a 5K+)
14 - 6mi, easy
15 - Rest
16 - 4mi, easy
17 - 26.5mi, Cleveland Marathon pacer
18 - Rest
19 - 4mi, easy
20 - 6.4mi, easy
21 - Rest
22 - 6mi, easy
23 - 8mi, easy

Pretty big regional 5K I'm running tomorrow - Lou Cox Memorial. If you're not sub-16, you won't see the top 100. The plan is to stick at slightly faster than tempo pace and use it as a training run, but it would be in the neighborhood of my PR. I haven't done any speedwork, so I'm not going to bother trying to ace it. That's July 18th

Total: 148.9mi

May goal: 180mi