May 2015 Running Challenge

isulo_kura wrote: »

Wendy1Fl wrote: »

I think I read somewhere that shoes should be replaced after 300 miles...Is this erroneous?

@Wendy1Fl They normally say around 500 but it can depend on many things from the way you run, your weight the surfaces you run on. I had one pair of road shoes I ran in most of last winter that had around 800 miles on them before I retired them. I've had other shoes such as asics that don't last me more than around 300 (so I don't buy them any more)' Trail shoes is a different kettle of fish I normally destroy the uppers before anything else on my trail shoes. 400- 500 is a good guide imo along with a sprinkling of common sense

Yep and my Altras are not known for lasting a long while... I do figure I can get another 100 on them while I wait for my new ones to arrive and get broken in to be regular running shoes...

@Elise4270 - so cool to have Bart Yasso speak! wow!!
@HonuNui - love your snorkeling pics as always!!
@ddmom0811 - love that you are running a 5k on the beach! Should be so much fun!!
@karllundy - good luck with the half and have a great time!!
@baldielove13 - congratulations on hitting 100!! Great job!
@skippygirlsmom - we are neck and neck finishing out the month and getting to goal
@kimlight2 - congratulations on completing your first 5k! great job!! I could not run in that heat and humidity!
@7lenny7 - aww... just rub Kody off with a towel and he will be fine! Or give him a quick bath I am sure he had a blast getting to run with you! I also love rain runs and running with my dog!
@ddmom0811 - my daughter and I are doing the SF 1st half and as she informed me tonight, it is just 8 weeks (almost 7) away. I was going to run it for time, but it is her first half and I am so excited a) to be running in SF and across the GG bridge and b) having the opportunity to do 'a' with her I think I will just run with her and we will finish together. There will be many others to run for time!

Tomorrow is a rest day (instead of Sunday) because I have things to do so switching my long run to Sunday. Plan calls for at least 11 - going to have to be up and out early before it gets hot!

Date.......Miles......Total
05/01.....9.20.......9.20
05/02.....0.00.......9.20 - Rest
05/03.....4.33.....13.53
05/04.....6.42.....19.95 - Running with a friend
05/05.....0.00.....19.95 - Strength Training
05/06.....5.13.....25.08
05/07.....0.00.....25.08 - Travel day (flight cancellations, etc...)
05/08.....0.00.....25.08 - Extended travel day
05/09.....4.13.....29.21 - Treadmill
05/10.....0.00.....29.21
05/11.....5.25.....34.46 - Treadmill
05/12.....3.76.....38.22 - Treadmill
05/13.....0.00.....38.22 - Travel day
05/14.....7.51.....45.73 - + Strength Training
05/15.....0.00.....45.73 - unplanned rest for my tight hip
05/16.....8.17.....53.90
05/17.....2.74.....56.64 - Dog beach run
05/18.....7.10.....63.74 - Timed run + Strength Training
05/19.....6.55.....70.29
05/20.....0.00.....70.29
05/21.....5.57.....75.86 - + Strength Training
05/22.....4.63.....80.49 - + Agility Trial
05/23.....7.23.....87.72 - + Agility Trial
05/24.....0.00.....87.72 - Rest
05/25.....8.26.....95.98
05/26.....5.55...101.53 - Timed run + Strength Training
05/27.....0.00...101.53
05/28.....8.19...109.72 - Race pace run + Strength Training
05/29.....6.30...116.02 - Slow and easy run
05/30.....0.00...116.02 - Rest

5 more miles to my goal, which I should hit with tomorrow's run

5/1- rest day
5/2 - 5 miles 8K Steeple Chase Race
5/3 - 3.5 miles
5/4 - rest day
5/5 - 6.3 miles
5/6 - 3.5 miles - decided to cut it short a bit so I could go home and get Macy for a walk
5/7 - 4.5 miles
5/8 - 4.6 miles
5/9 - 2.4 miles - just a quick run to get my legs moving
5/10 - 3.5 miles of Mother's Day fun with Skip way hot at 85 degrees
5/11 - active rest day walked the Macy 3 miles
5/12 - 6.5 miles
5/13 - rest day - well I walked 3 miles with Macy and cut the yard so my feet were moving LOL
5/14 - 5.5 miles
5/15 - 5.3 miles
5/16 - 3.2 miles - 5K and a little extra with warm up
5/17 - 6.4 miles with Skip nice easy miles
5/18 - rest day walked Macy a few miles but that's it, took Skip to breakfast in the morning for her birthday and went to the track banquet last night
5/19 - 6.2 miles
5/20 - 5.3 miles
5/21 - 4.4 miles - I've been running this route pretty consistent since Nov 2014 and this was the fastest I ran it, 43:59
5/22 - 3.4 miles
5/23 - 3.5 miles - easy run with Skip before our 10K on Monday
5/24 - rest day - walked Macy 3 miles
5/25 - 6.2 miles 10K cotton row run - tough course, it wanted to make me cry LOL No PR for me 1:03.03 was the chip time. Skip finished 57:49 chip time a PR for her though she wasn't thrilled with it. The "hill" was all everyone promised it was be I did a speed walk up it and wanted to die never mind run Race was delayed an hour because a tree fell on the course 30 mins before start time. I'm checking mapmyrun and it looks like the hill goes up 100 feet in less than a quarter mile. But before that "hill" it uphill for over a mile.
5/26 - 4.6 recovery miles - ouch
5/27 - 3.5 miles decided to cut it a bit short - needed to get to work my VACATION starts at noon today!
5/28 - 3.5 miles
5/29 - 8.25 miles
5/30 - 4.8 miles


114.8 out of 120 miles completed - doubt I'll make goal, but I'm happy to be back at the century mark

On Allen's computer so my ticker won't work - 5.2 miles to go

DATE...............MILES............TOTAL
5/1...................6.25.................6.25
5/2...................6.50...............12.75
5/3...................6.00...............18.75
5/4...................Weight training
5/5...................5.25...............24.00
5/6...................5.00...............29.00
5/7...................5.75...............34.75
5/8...................Weight training
5/9..................19.00..............53.75 (30k trail race)
5/10..................7.75..............61.50
5/11.................Weight training
5/12..................7.00..............68.50
5/14..................8.00..............76.50
5/16................14.50..............91.00
5/17..................7.00..............98.00
5/19..................7.00............105.00
5/20................13.00............118.00
5/23................10.00............128.00
5/24................10.00............138.00
5/26..................6.00............144.00
5/27..................5.00............149.00
5/28..................6.25............155.25
5/29..................2.00............157.25
5/30................14.00............171.25






Blew past my goal this month....

Steamy trail run last night in the 1000% humidity. I always forget just how awful it gets here in the summer, and then summer rolls around...
Anyway, fun 6.3 miles with strides, puts me at 47.something for the month.
Another run is scheduled for today but I woke up with the strangest hip pain (not my normal knee, shin, back or foot pain, smh) so we'll see if it works itself out this morning.

01/5 - Recovery
02/5 - 15.1 miles Trail
03/5 - 8.1 miles Trail
04/5 - Recovery
05/5 - 10.6 miles Trail
06/5 - 12.1 Miles Trail (split into 2 runs)
07/5 - 10.3 Road
08/5 - Recovery
09/5 - 17.3 Trail
10/5 - Swapped a recovery day due to twinge in calf
11/5 - 10.8 miles -2 runs one trail and one on the road
12/5 - 8.2 miles Trail Hill repeat
13/5 - 11.8 miles Trail
14/5 - 13 miles Road with the Hound of Love
15/5 - Recovery Day
16/5 - 11 Miles Trail
17/5 - Recovery (swapped day)
18/5 - 21.6 miles Trail
19/5 - 10.2 miles Trail
20/5 - Recovery Day
21/5 - 8 miles Road
22/5 - Recovery day because life got in the way
23/5 - 22 Miles Trail
24/5 - 14.5 Miles Trail
25/5 - Recovery
26/5 - 5 miles Trail with Mad Labrador
27/5 - 6 miles a very wet Trail Run
28/5 - 12 Miles Trail Hill repeats
29/5 - Recovery
30/5 - 13.24 Road

easy Paced road run today. Should hit my months goal on tomorrows long Trail run

I haven't been online much since Thursday so I have a LOT of posts to try and catch up with!

I felt really good today and went further than planned. Set a new distance record for myself so that was nice.

ETA - Cool! Looks like I passed the 100 mile mark for the first time! Woo-Hoo!

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
5/24 - 6.1 miles
5/25 - 1 mile
5/26 - 4 miles
5/27 - 3.7 miles
5/28 - 4 miles
5/30 - 16.1 miles

I've given up on posting, because sometimes it's just the little things... I had to switch to IE from FireFox and I can't figure out how to get to my ticker to update it from here.

Today's 5 miles are done, and I've got 12 miles for tomorrow, and I complete my goal of 120 miles at the 11 mile mark. Yay!

5/7 - 2.25
5/12 - 3.25
5/16 - 3.75
5/17 - 1.5
5/20 - 3.0
5/22 - 2.25
5/24 - 3.0
5/25 - 2.5
5/27 - 1.5
5/29 - 3.1
5/30 - 2.0

Total 28.1 - Killed my goal of 25 miles this month.

I was so irritated by my 5k yesterday I went out again today for a shorter and much better run. I needed to convince myself it was the heat and the humidity that made it suck not my fitness level. Only did 2 miles, but could have continued and time was right were I wanted to be.

I got an email for gear up active. Smartwool socks are half off for the next few day.

http://gearup.active.com/mobile/Event.aspx?l=00011186214900000000

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Month to date:		215.07 km
Goal:			160.00 km
Stretch Goal:		200.00 km
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Sat May 30 11:59AM	7.70 Knee fine yay!
Fri May 29 11:00AM	5.54 Knee 'ok'; 44km ride. And Beer.
Thu May 28 0:00PM	0.00 Rest, Knee twinges
Wed May 27 0:00PM	0.00 Rest
Tue May 26 4:03PM	0.00 Rest; 52km cycling
Mon May 25 4:03PM	20.12 
Sun May 24 0:00PM	0.00 Rest; 
Sat May 23 5:17PM	0.00 Rest; 36km cycling
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 
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

5/30- 6.0m Trail, making my total for the month 60.2 miles. (I know I will not be able to fun tomorrow.) My goal for May was 45m.

I typically just go out to run for fun and to shut my mind down, so I didn't know what I could do if I attempted to actually apply myself. This was the first time I set a goal with the intention to meet it, and I really enjoyed seeing how every little and big run added up. I am excited to see what June brings!

@shanaber yes, your right. I ordered 7 pair, some with a little longer tops, hoping that it'll keep rocks and dirt out of my shoes. I only have 2 pair of the short ones. I am not picky. I love these socks!

Elise4270 wrote: »

Omg, sounds like we have a lot in common. One after another for me too. I have some muscle imbalance issues. My hips do the snaping thing when I'm sitting and extend and bring my knees up. My PT said "just don't keep doing that, its a tendon and youll aggravate it" .

Wow, solid advice from the PT lol. Sounds like my ortho- he just said "I don't know, seems like you're managing the pain okay. Just be careful" after I explained that the excruciating pain and frequent knee dislocations were making it hard for me to train. Wouldn't even order an MRI. That's what I get for expecting empathy from a surgeon

I did get in another three-ish miles running and walking with my momma last night. She and the dog took a break at the river while I did some extra laps on the access roads. I've been trying to talk both of my parents into doing a C25K program so we can do a charity run together in the fall, I may almost have mom convinced. Been a bit obnoxious about it, really- strategically left the book Older, Faster, Stronger on their coffee table last week.

Anyway, TLDR- adding 2.9 miles, put me at 50.3 this month.