July 2015 Running Challenge

7/1: 6.5 miles
7/2: 6.5 miles with the Thursday running crew
7/3: Rest
7/4: 3.1 miles (New 5k PR of 23:42!)
7/5: 12 miles
7/6: 4 miles easy recovery pace
7/7: 5 miles of easy "I'm drowning in humidity" pace
7/8: 4 miles
7/9: 5 miles -- quick, fun ones with the Thursday running group!
7/10: Rest
7/11: 3.1 miles

My right calf is basically fine now, and my left calf/heel felt better today than it has all week and maybe all month, so I am a little less anxious about my 14 miler tomorrow. I was really worried about these legs, but after cruising through my run this morning, I think they'll hold up just fine.

This week and last week were both 33 miles, and next week I've got 42 scheduled (was supposed to do 38 this week), so hopefully I can get all my runs in before that MPW keeps climbing!

49.2/175 miles

July 1 - rest
July 2 - 3.75 run/walk combo
July 3 - 5 miles
July 4 - 5.76 miles
July 5 - walked 5 miles in morning to scout out a place to do long run. Then walked another 6 all around the city.
July 6 - rest
July 7 - 8.6 - fun run to Roosevelt Island and then around the island. Weather is great for me!
July 8 - 4.1 miles
July 9 - 3.51 miles - last run with daughter until HM in October.
July 10 - 5.2 miles in the hills of Virginia.
July 11 - 3.5 miles - found a different route leaving my mom's house that is not as hilly.





Doing my next long run on Tuesday so I suppose I should take a rest day before then. But I don't want to.

@melaniefave41 - beautiful pics of the trail. I envy those trail runs.

@JimCrackinDandy I have gradually quit running on the road all together over the past couple months. On accident. I'll do shorter distances on the road, but more than four miles and I just get incredibly bored. Even with music, lol. Becomes a huge mental struggle for me. I have great respect for road runners.

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Aine8046 wrote: »

Beautiful! Where is it? Rocky mountains?

@Aine8046 The area is called Golden Ears and is part of the Garibaldi Range in southwestern British Columbia, very near the west coast / city of Vancouver. Map | Images. Behind me is Gold Creek which should be numbing my nether regions but was surprisingly warm so doggy and I both got to swim. Down the trail a bit there were two others taking in the sun and that's it, completely empty of people. The more popular west canyon trail is the route up to the various peaks.

This is one really nice place you live in!

7/1 - 3.3 miles - usually my rest day, but keeping my streak alive (3 more days!)
7/2 - 4.6 miles while eating lots of breakfast gnats yuck!
7/3 - 2.3 miles - short run today - took a new running partner who hasn't run in a while. She did great! It was cooler and raining.
7/4 - 6.2 miles - last day of my Memorial Day to 4th of July 41 Days of Awesome running challenge.
7/5 - rest day and travel to El Paso ugh what a trip
7/6 - 2.5 horrible dreadmill miles
7/7 - 4.2 miles and 2.25 - went and ran where my boss told me. It was beautiful. It was like 90 and no shade during the run and my breathing is taking a beating, but it was worth to 30 min drive to get there.
7/8 - 5.5 miles
7/9 - 3.7 miles
7/10 rest day
7/11 - 3.1 miles Strong Girls 5K run today. I don't have the office times, but I have me at 29:06 and Skip was 23 something, she forgot to stop her watch LOL. Not PRs for either of us but we both finished in FIRST place in our age groups. I'm so excited, I never finished first before and yeah for Skip who moved up to the 15 - 19 AG. Cool bling for the win, these are ceramic tiles, plus a gift card for the running store...of course we were just there yesterday and did some damage getting inserts and spikes for Skip. My Mom was at the race today, she lives in Tampa and it was the first time she saw Skip run, she's a proud Grandma!




37.6 miles out of 100

@skippygirlsmom - Congratulations on the 1st place finish for both you and Skip! That is so awesome!!

1- rest
2-lunch swim, 12.15 bike
3-0.52 GI upset. Decided to lay on couch and eat popsicles instead.
4-5.18 hot. HI 99, temp 89 humidity 60%
5- 4.80 run, cold spring dip, run
6-rest
7- 3.27 80° 90% precip.
8-rest
9- 3.65 86° 62% humidity
10- no run, SI pain
11-5.47 improved pace! 87° 53% humidity real feel is 91°

19.26/70+
I think the heat runs are finally paying off. My most comfortable pace had been about 10-10:30. Today I couldn't slow down. First 1.5 miles was a 9! Whaa? It was hot and walked a bit and stood in the shade for a breeze a few times.. So my average was just less than 12. Even short up hill runs were 9ish. Stoked!


Congratulations to Skip and you @skippygirlsmom! I finished second once. But didn't get a place medal. My husband registered me as male and I didn't catch it til the day after. The run was the day after my son tried to commit suicide. The front of the shirt says "SAVE ME". So the bling wasn't a big deal.

Nadvicza wrote: »

Hey I'd like to join this challenge... I m joining pretty late but I will set my goal to 40.. being realistic. Today is my rest day.... so I will login my milage tmrw.

Welcome! Great bunch here!

Idk what happened here- something freaked out.

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My other half decided he wanted to join me on a run, I wasn't planning on going tonight but its a rare event for him to want to come so we went and did my 2.5k route. I beat my time for the third time this week, bringing it down to 13.18 this time

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Hey all, we had a cooler, lightly raining day today, so I thought I'd give it a go to see how I could do. I got to 1.62 miles with a pace of 13:00 min/mile, but I had to stop to spew twice as I jogged by some big dog dookie. Changed my route slightly (duh!) and I was good to go until someone decided to BBQ some meat. Hork-a-rama-jama!!! So, while I wouldn't exactly call today's run a success, at least I was (mostly) well enough to get out there & try. I hope to log at least 10 miles in July, but realistically, even a goal that low may be a joke. I'm a pretty (rediculously) stubborn lady, but I fear I have met my match in being pregnant. That won't stop me from trying on my good days, though!

@Wendy1Fl oh I feel for ya! Hopefully it'll pass soon.

@kgeiger141 welcome!

@skippygirlsmom - WOW!!! That's so cool that you both won first place! Grandma must be beaming!!!
@419er - this is a great community, I agree! Learned so much here. Some days when my head is playing with me on a run, I think of all the miles people here do and it keeps me going. Your mileage is very impressive!

So... today I went to a store in Northern VA that does one of those computer running tests of your feet. Bought two pairs of shoes, and the custom made orthotics. But they feel so good. My shoes have not felt good for a couple weeks and I just haven't had time to look. Got Brooks Glycerin 13s and a Saucony Triumph ISO. They claimed I shouldn't run in my current shoes anymore because of the wear on the bottom -- I hadn't even noticed but there is a terrible hole in the tread, on just one side on both of them! I am supposed to alternate the shoes if I run every day. Since I'm out of town for 2.5 weeks, I can't bike and lift so I am running more.

Also bought some swamp land in Florida and the Brooklyn Bridge, but it's okay. Can't wait to run again with these. Just going to do a very small run with one of them tomorrow to break them in.

@elise4270 I can't believe registered you as a boy I'm sorry to hear about your son, I'm sure it was a very difficult time.

Thanks everyone, we had a fun day.