July 2015 Running Challenge
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Hi all... Just wanted to inquire if there is an Aug page? I'm very very new to running, do you accept newbies?
I would love to see how much my body can do. Loved this thread for motivation, friendship and respect you have for each other.0 -
7.14.15.... 1 M... 12 min Treadmill incline sprints
7.15.15.... 2 M..... 20 min treadmill- 1/4 mile hill work (alternating 2.5%- 9% incline every 1/4 mile)
7.18.15.....4 M..... 37:25 pouring rain road miles. Happy happy
7.22.15.....1 M...... 10:44- boring easy day on the mill
7.26.15.... 4 M...... 38 minutes- little rough after my lifts on friday.
7.28.15.....3.12.....28:25 min- humid "race pace"
7.29.15.....3.06..... 28:06
so 18.2 of some magical number of this month's miles.
looks like I'll be hitting right at 20 miles- I have one more 3 miler for the week- my next run is in August- so it won't count toward this month. no worries.
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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
7/12: 14.3 miles
7/13: 4 miles easy recovery pace
7/14: 5 miles
7/15: 8 miles
7/16: 6.3 miles
7/17: Rest day/XT: 4 mile walk
7/18: 4 miles
7/19: 15 miles
7/20: 4.2 miles (recovery style!)
7/21: Rest/XT day (14 miles stationary bike)
7/22: 9 miles
7/23: 9 miles
7/24: 4 miles
7/25: 4 miles
7/26: 16 miles
7/27: 4 miles slow, easy recovery style
7/28: XT: 15 miles stationary bike
7/29: 10 miles
Hot/humid one today! It was 71 degrees & quickly rising when I got up at 5:30, and 90% humidity! Still managed to have waaaay negative splits (second 5 miles were ~4 mins faster than the first 5!) and felt good for the whole thing, if a bit ploddy up the hills. But we've got an excessive heat warning for the next couple days, so boo
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26/30. I ran two miles today!!!0
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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
July 12 - 4.3 very slow miles
July 13 - rest
July 14 - 9.26 miles
July 15- rest day - driving back to FL day.
July 16 - strength training
July 17 - 5.62 - back in the Florida heat! Wasn’t as bad as I imagined it would be.
July 18 - 34 mile bike ride
July 19 - 41 mile bike ride
July 20 - 3.26 miles + cycling indoor (FTP)
July 21 - strength training
July 22 - 10.21 miles!!! New longest run! It was quite slow (11-12+ min miles) but I don’t care. I’m working on distance and speed will come later.
July 23 - cycling class — Tabatas - 1 hour class, went 20 miles. Wow, this was intense. If you are also a cycler I recommend it!
July 24 - strength training
July 25 - 34 mile bike ride
July 26 - 41 mile bike ride
July 27 - 4.75 miles - felt good to run again, been since last Wednesday. (not on ticker)… Ticker should be 76.85 GOAL!
July 28 - strength training
July 29 - 9.6 miles - I felt so great all the way to mile 9 and then I had to find a bathroom, so took a shortcut home. It didn't seem nearly as humid as it has been, but I just checked my Endomondo app and it says it was 75 degrees and 100% humidity so I must be getting used to it!
@7lenny7 - love those pictures! Sorry about your achilles. Check out the KT tape. @kristinegift mentioned it for her achilles and I tried it for mine and it is helping!
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Date Miles today. Miles for July
7/1 REST DAY
7/2 7.5 miles - 7.5
7/3 REST DAY
7/4 13.2 miles - 20.7
7/5 REST DAY
7/6 7.3 miles - 28
7/7 7 miles - 35
7/8 REST DAY
7/9 5.25 miles - 40.25
7/10 REST DAY
7/11 13.4 miles - 53.65
7/12 REST DAY
7/13 8.1 miles - 61.75
7/14 9 miles - 70.75
7/15 3.6 miles - 74.35
7/16 8 miles - 82.35
7/17 REST DAY
7/18 15 miles - 97.35
7/19 REST DAY
7/20 8 miles - 105.35
7/21 9 miles - 114.35
7/22 4 miles - 118.35
7/23 8 miles - 126.35
7/24 REST DAY
7/25 16 miles - 142.35
7/26 REST DAY
7/27 9.6 miles - 151.95
7/28 9 miles - 160.95
7/29 6.2 miles - 167.15
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It appears that the ticker is working again.0
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To all that enquired, YES! I will post the August Challenge soon. Stay tuned & keep watching this thread. All are welcome.0
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7/1 - took the 0-fer today after taking my wife to the ER at midnight, I slept in
7/2 - 5 miles on a perfect morning for a run in DSM...you all should be jealous!
7/3 - 4 miles
7/4 - 7 miles, visiting in-laws, partial "trail run" through road construction
7/5 - rest day
7/6 - 3.1 miles; planned for 5 but got completely washed out by huge rain
7/7 - seem to have got a summer cold...slept in, no run
7/8 - getting worse...ugh! May be a sinus infection. Nothing worse than being sick in the summer!
7/9 - still sick...blah.
7/10 - heading out of town for a baseball tournament...still have a cold.
7/11 - FINALLY! 3.5 miles on hotel treadmill (22.6 for month)
7/12 - more baseball...son's team won 9 year-old state championship! Woo hoo!
7/13 - 4 miles at 5:00 a.m., 81° and humid...air you can wear (26.6 for the month so far). Will catch up with everyone's weekend later today.
7/14 - 5 miles, still pretty hot, but not as humid as yesterday. Because of all the missed days from illness, adjusting my goal down to 100.
7/15 - 4.1 miles
7/16 - rest day; had to take oldest son in for his well child check.
7/17 - 4.1 miles. STICKY! How can it be 81° at 5:30 a.m.?
7/18 - 6.2 miles
7/19 - rest day (plus A LOT of yard work)
7/20 - 4.2 miles
7/21 - 4.0 miles - may not hit revised goal of 100
7/22 - 4.0 miles - beautiful morning!
7/23 - 4.5 miles (62.7 / 100)
7/24 - rest day - out of order this week due to a business trip
7/25 - 5.25 miles (67.95/100)
7/26 - 4.11 miles
7/27 - 4.14 miles
7/28 - weights, then 4.0 miles on hotel treadmill (80.2/100)
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July 2 - 2.2
July 4 - 2.1
July 13 - 2.8
July 17 - 3
July 19 - 3.8
July 21 - 3.0
July 24 - Temple to Temple 5k - 3.1
July 27 - 3.0
July 29 - 2.5
25.5/35
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Put another four miles in today... I plan on passing my goal for the month... 37.58 / 40 miles complete
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To all those looking to join in August...Welcome!
To all who have exceeded, met or are about to meet their goals, Congrats!! To those who may not reach their planned goal for the month, it happens to everyone and there is always another month.
@68myra - Sorry to hear about the injury this month. Welcome back and will see you in the August thread!
@shanaber - That is such a great experience with your daughter! My son hates running (I bought him a 0.0 sticker). Maybe someday he will want to run with me. That would be great!
@Wendy1Fl - Great to hear you are getting back to your regular running self!
@mwyvr - I would love to be like Joe when I grow up. I run a lot now, but I am not as good as Joe about diet and regularly doing strength workouts and stretches. That part I still need to work on. Thanks for letting me know about the Hoka ogre snacks. That definitely explains what happened to those shoes. There is no reason a quality shoe like that should fall apart after 9 miles. Unless of course an ogre nibbled on them. I'll have to check for tooth marks.
@Ohhim - I had a similar issue with my mileage as I reached the halfway mark well ahead of schedule. I think I can still hit my goal, but I will need to log a few more miles than planned in the next two days. The big question is if I will stick to the plan, or go for the goal!
@7lenny7 - Hope that achilles is OK. Congrats on hitting your goal!
@shanaber - I'm not used to the afternoon heat either. Both of my last two runs were in the afternoon and my pace on both was pretty low. The effort felt right on though. I read somewhere about how training in the heat can actually be good for you. I hope so. Otherwise...what the heck am I doing???
@kristinegift - I hear running in excessive heat can be good for you. I think whoever said that was just crazy. But that's what I keep reminding myself when running in the stupidly high heat.
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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.
7/12 - 5.6 miles - HOT HOT HOT
7/13 - 3.5 quick miles - working with the big boss today so I had to be in when he got in.
7/14 - rest day
7/15 - 4.3 miles
7/16 - 5 miles
7/17 - 3.4 miles
7/18 - 1.6 miles just to move - 2 miles after walking with Macy.
7/19 - 7.3 miles
7/20 - 3.4 mile recovery run with Skip (so glad my girl is home!)
7/21 - 5.5 miles
7/22 - rest day
7/23 - 4.4 miles
7/24 - 3.4 miles
7/25 - 7 miles went to the Greenway with Skip.
7/26 - 4.5 miles of sniff and run with Macy (sniff) and Skip (run). Wore Macy out, she had a nice time playing in the creek at about mile 3.5
7/27 - 4.2 miles
7/28 - rest day
7/29 - 4.6 miles
105.3 of 100 miles
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Hot and sticky 5k today. Doesn't look like I'll quite make my goal this month. It was a lofty goal, considering my previous high month was 83 miles. But I will get 100 next month!!!
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31 minutes today. I am so glad that I met my goal this month without irritating my tibia too much. I am going to take it easy again in August and hopefully by September I can start ramping up my mileage agin.
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WhatMeRunning wrote: »
@shanaber - I'm not used to the afternoon heat either. Both of my last two runs were in the afternoon and my pace on both was pretty low. The effort felt right on though. I read somewhere about how training in the heat can actually be good for you. I hope so. Otherwise...what the heck am I doing???
@kristinegift - I hear running in excessive heat can be good for you. I think whoever said that was just crazy. But that's what I keep reminding myself when running in the stupidly high heat.
Here's the article...
http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/heat-stress-plasma-volume-and-the-benefits-of-dehydration?cid=socTP_20150727_49697346&adbid=10153494547632090&adbpl=fb&adbpr=23403427089
By the way, I notice my best improvements in September on that first cool day. ;-)
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You asked for it, now here it is. I just posted the August 2015 Running Challenge.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10222628/august-2015-running-challenge
Great work everyone this month. It looks like I may actually meet my goal this month, coming close since I am building back my miles coming off glute and hamstring problems the last couple of months.0 -
I am just starting up today. My goal will be 25 km per week - 15.5 miles (minimum).
I use a treadmill for now. Sometimes with a bit of an incline.
Currently run/walking. Found a running interval trainer I really like by Runtastic. I will check out the ticker in the future.
Cheers all.0 -
7/1 - 4.05
7/3 - 6.91
7/5 - 4.02
7/6 - 3.05
7/8 - 4.52
7/9 - 8.37
7/11 - 4.29
7/13 - 3.08
7/14 - 4.51
7/15 - 4.52
7/16 - 4.53
7/19 - 6.2
7/22 - 4.56
7/23 - 2.46
7/26 - 4.77
7/27 - 3.61
7/28 - 4.31
77.76 of 100 miles0 -
LAte to the party. I had set a goal for 100 this month. Just hit 107 for the month!0
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7/2 - 2.34
7/4 - 6.1
7/6 - 2.94
7/7 - 4.0
7/8 - 2.42
7/9 - 3.56
7/10 - 4.01
7/13 - 4.5
7/14 - 5.3
7/15 - 4.6
7/16 - 3.6
7/17 - 6.5
7/18 - 3.0
7/19 - 2.5
7/20 - 6.0
7/21 - 7.9
7/22 - 5.0
7/23 - 3.4
7/27 - 5.0
7/28 - 4.5
7/29 - 5.5
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Okay, I'm coming to this super late in the game, but at the end of this week, I will have run 6 miles. I'm a beginner, training for a 5K on September 20th. I will be run/walking it with the hope of a 16 minute mile. Once that goal is reached, I'll be working on whittling down my time for a Thanksgiving day 5K to support a local food shelter. And I still have to find a race for January...
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@wendy1Fl, congrats to you and your passenger on the puke-free run.
@joeRocka, thanks for pix. You need a vacation run (might I suggest Paris?).
Thanks @shanaber and @skippygirlsmom, for being ever-encouraging- Jul 04 - 5.2mi
- Jul 10 - 3.8mi
- Jul 12 - 5.5mi
- Jul 18 - 9.7mi (Bay Bridge run)
- Jul 22 - 6.2mi
- Jul 25 - 1.5mi (Sat morning run with the whole family..what fun)
- Jul 29 - 6.6mi (first run following the glass shard incident...guess I'm healed)
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I'm posting my ticker even though my post is up there ^ somewhere. I'm doing it just because I like the way ticker looks when you pass your goal. ha ha
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5km/15km for the last 3 days of July0
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4 easy sweaty miles this evening with a neighbor. May run again later tonight to knock out most of my remaining target.
7/1 - 6 miles
7/2 - 6 miles (w. 0.25-0.5-0.75-mile-0.75-0.5-0.25 pyramid @ 7/mile pace)
7/3 - 5 miles w. strides
7/5 - 13 miles
7/6 - 6.5 miles
7/7 - 7 miles w. strides
7/9 - 6 miles (w. 0.25-0.5-0.75-mile-0.75-0.5-0.25 pyramid @ 6:52/mile pace)
7/10 - 6 miles
7/11 - 5.5 miles
7/12 - 10.5 miles
7/13 - 8.5 miles
7/14 - 5 miles
7/15 - 4 miles
7/16 - 5.5 miles (w. 6x800 @ 6:40/mile w. 400 walk/jogs between each)
7/18 - 5 miles
7/19 - 3 miles
7/21 - 5 miles
7/22 - 5 miles
7/23 - 3.5 miles (w. 5x400 @ 5:45/mile w. 400 jogs in between each)
7/24 - 3 miles
7/25 - 4 miles
7/28 - 5 miles
7/29 - 4 miles
Total: 131.5 miles, 4 speedwork sessions
Goal: 140 miles, 5 speedwork sessions
Remaining: 8.5 miles, 1 speedwork sessions0 -
Did another 2 miles on my new to me treadmill tonight. May make that 100 after all. 0
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And TickerFactory is back! So time for a recap:
I was at 73/100 on 7/22
7/23 4.4 miles
7/25 5.0 miles
7/26 6.4 miles
7/28 5.0 miles
7/29 3.6 miles today
So 97.4/100 miles after today. It is beastly hot, and a rest day tomorrow, so it will take all 31 days of the month to hit the goal!
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