August 2015 Running Challenge

8/1 - 9 miles
8/2 - 4 miles
8/4 - 3.2 miles
8/5 - 4 miles
8/6 - 2.5 miles (hill repeats)
8/8 - 6 miles (tempo run)
8/9 - 3 miles
8/12 - 4.5 miles (trail)
8/13 - 4 miles
8/14 - 2 miles
8/15 - 10 miles
8/16 - 2.6 miles (trail)
8/19 - 3.1 miles
8/20 - 4 miles
8/22 - 11 miles

Forgot to take my inhaler before my long run on Saturday, and realized it 1/2 mile in. I decided to not go back for it, kept my pace slow and added regular walk breaks. I made it through the run with no breathing issues, but started to have problems later in the day. I'm starting to feel better, but there is still some inflammation, so today is going to be another rest day. Hopefully tomorrow I'm back to normal.

Here are some reminders why winter running sucks:
— Running below a certain temperature is not safe
— You wear layers and are cold two minutes after your run ends
— Fingers feel frozen even when you wear gloves
— Frozen eyelashes or beards and icicles in your hair
— It is dark for what feels like all the time

Hilarious!!! Actually, I love winter running. I would rather have cold and snow than heat and humidity. One of my best 5k's was in February, air temp was -10F, wind chill was -30. My hands get HOT when running, there were only 2 times last winter where I didn't have bare hands at some point (I make sure I have a pocket for my gloves). A mfp friend sent me a link for glow in the dark running shoes and I want to get a pair for winter. Mostly because I think it would be fun, but anything that makes me more visible in the dark is good

@7lenny7, congrats on your son making the soccer team! My son's HS soccer coach encouraged them all to run track to get in shape for summer soccer training. My son finally ran track for the first time his junior year and discovered that he loved it just as much (or more) than soccer. And great pictures!

@mwyvr, great finish and photos!

8/1 - 5.82 mi
8/2 - 4.05 mi
8/3 - 4.35 mi of on-track speed work...tough!
8/4 - Rest day; might sneak in a walk this evening though.
8/5 - 2.0 mi on indoor track; 45 minutes of aerobics / cross-training with HM group.
8/6 - 3.1 mi, beautiful morning in Central Iowa!
8/7 - 4.25 mi, love that 70° and humid now seems pleasant!
8/8 - 5.7 mi with my HM training group
8/9 - rest day
8/10 - 3.5 mi along the Galena River.
8/11 - 4.48 mi, cool morning
8/12 - 4.6 mi; 2.5 of hill repeats with 2.1 run to finish up (HM training group)
8/13 - 4.75 mi, Trek/treadmill
8/14 - 4 mi; one of those runs that is hard, but you don't know why.
8/15 - 6.01 mi with HM training group
8/16 - 3.18...5k PR woo hoo! 24:39 chip time
8/17 - 5.58 mi, some tempo intervals bookended by a few easy miles. Sore from the weekend.
8/18 - rest day
8/19 - 5.23 mi with HM training group...lots of hills. Now I am seriously hungry!
8/20 - 4.4 mi, Trek/treadmill
8/21 - unplanned rest day; sore/swollen ankle
8/22 - 4.0 mi
8/23 - 7.55 mi with HM training group; beautiful morning for a run!
8/24 - 5.7 mi of intervals with HM training group; loving the cool weather!



I have been contemplating getting some running hats just to keep the sweat off my face a bit. After reading everyone's comments, I am definitely going to give them a shot. Thanks for the input!

@ohhim glad the rash is getting better
@_nikkiwolf_ and @shell1005 I'm torn between winter and summer running. I ran all last winter down to 5 degrees, but this Jersey Girl's blood has thinned in the 8 years I've lived in the South LOL I like being able to get up throw on minimal clothes and go.
@mwyvr great pictures, awesome job on the Grind. Wow!
@shanaber and all thanks Skip's eye is okay, by 5:00 Saturday night all the swelling was gone and she didn't mentioned it again
@cancersurvivor2014 fantastic PR on the 5 miler
@elise4270 slow is still out there go forward like you said. You amaze me that you get out there, awesome all the time.
@juliet3455 Awesome on the Tri - ouch on the knee
@ruqayyahsmum I have not advice on the migraines, sorry they sound so painful
@7lenny7 great runs. Love the pictures, I need to find nicer places to run.
@ctdebbie try a flipbelt for running. I use my Garmin 15 for tracking and uploading my runs so I don't really carry much, I just an iPod Nano for music when I run without Skip. I have a belt that I used during a HM I'd have to look at whose it is I like it and if you make it tight enough it works great, very comfortable. I only used it to take my iPod Touch with me but something ran amuck and my music died so it was a waste to have it with me.
@stoshew71 thisclose to your 200. You are killing it this month

Took a rest day today since the last 2 days runs were horrible. Thought I'd break the cycle. I tried Saturday to set up and account for Skip on my Garmin Connect so she could download her runs, it put everything on my runs. So I deleted her runs and got an account under her email set up. It would download her runs, but downloaded mine, so I deleted mine only to find out it then deleted them off my account (WHAT?!). So both our runs are gone. I sync'd after yesterday's run and got that off the watch but that was it. I'm going to have to manually add them back in. UGH!

Aug 21: 3.13 miles
Aug 22: 2 miles
Aug 23: 6.14 miles

I did 36km this weekend for a total of 236km/146 miles. I've got 60km planned between Sat & Sun so I should be on track to reach my 350km goal this month.