October 2015 Running Challenge

01/10 - 10.3km
02/10 - 13.1 miles
03/10 - 10.3km
04/10 - 22.1 miles
05/10 - 10.3km
06/10 - 13.1 miles
07/10 - 13.3 miles
08/10 - 10.3km
09/10 - 13.2 miles
10/10 - 10.3km
11/10 - 22.2 miles
12/10 - 10.3km
13/10 - 13.1 miles
14/10 - 13.3 miles

tot 262/500km

last long run done this morning - what a beautiful sky, lots of stars! but cold, 3C!

less negative thoughts today, but still a few, in particular "have I over done it? / should have I trained following a plan?" but I managed to keep them pretty quiet and run another HM, slow but in control, didn't want to push or do any particular efforts

and what's been done has been done, so always looking forward

it's getting tougher cause of the dark, it really annoys me and going into the wood, where is even more dark, it's more difficult. My new cheap head lamp was lost by the courier yesterday, so got annoyed and bought an expensive one (petzl tikka rxp if anyone has some feedback), hope visibility will improve with that (I'm using a £8 one at the moment with a nice hole in the middle lol), but I'll have it next week

it seems like I cannot go straight, I lean towards one side of the road, don't get why

lots of sleeping cows, they are really funny and curious, they make me laugh

now 3 x 10km with a steady and standard pace, carb load, relax in 9 1/2 hours (5 o'clock please come soon)

4am run tomorrow, but knowing I'll take a plane and I won't be stuck in the traffic will be just a little bit better

thanks guys for your support

Date: 2/10 Length: 7.1 km Duration: 0:39:33 Total: 7.1 km of 100 km
Date: 4/10 Length: 12km Duration: 1:12:50 Total: 19.1 km of 100 km
Date: 6/10 Length: 8.2km Duration: 0.50:02 Total:27.3 km of 100 km
Date: 7/10 Length: 8.6km Duration: 0.55:23 Total:35.9 km of 100 km
Date: 11/10 Length: 8.1km Duration: 0.42:45 Total:44 km of 100 km
Date: 13/10 Length: 8km Duration: 0.47:56 Total:52 km of 100 km

Another build up run last night with the added bonus of running with a back pack loaded with my work stuff (it doesn't seem so heavy when I am wearing the clothes but put them all in a pack and it seem to magically double in weight...)

Pacing was a lot better and I managed to do so more evenly than the last time (well except for about the 5km mark and that ruddy great hill - which I always seem to forget about despite having run this route before - must be the previous traumatic experiences!) The route is generally undulating which adds a bit of variety too.

I enjoy these runs, especially the faster paced bits at the end, which is still at a manageable level. Feel great again this morning so may take a spin on the bike tonight if I have time.

Happy running everyone.

10/1: 8 miles am and 6.2 pm with the Thursday crew
10/2: Rest day
10/3: 10 miles with Saturday crew
10/4: 13.1 - Princeton Half Marathon (new HM PR!)
10/5: 5 miles recovery style
10/6: O Holy Rest Day........
10/7: 7 miles hills
10/8: 10 miles (am), 6.4 miles (pm) with the Thursday crew
10/9: Rest day
10/10: 20.5 miles
10/11: 4 miles
10/12: Rest day
10/13: 8 miles, very hilly!
10/14: 7 miles speedwork

Attempted a progression run, but some of the streets were just too dark for me to keep upping the pace. Turned into more of a tempo run somewhere within my HM-marathon pace range. Decided to just maintain intensity and step it up more the last 2 miles (when the sun was finally up) rather than trying to go faster each mile. Did 1 mile warm up at 8:50, then splits were: 8:12, 7:49, 7:48, 8:01, 7:43, 6:58. The fast finish was downhill and it felt really, really great. And reminded me that I need to do a mile time again since my current "fastest" mile is 6:51, and I know I can crush that

105.2/220

01-Oct: 2.64 miles; 3.09 miles (walk)
02-Oct: 2.44 miles (walk)
03-Oct: 6.27 miles
04-Oct:
05-Oct: 3.62 miles
06-Oct: 3.21 miles
07-Oct: <Life Day> but 2.38 miles (walk)
08-Oct: 6.54 miles
09-Oct: 5.57 miles
10-Oct: 6.82 miles
11-Oct: 6.47 miles
12-Oct: 4.34 miles; 3.73 miles (walk)
13-Oct: 4.81 miles (walk)
14-Oct: <Life Day> but 3.35 miles
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So far, so good on monthly goal:

10/1 - 8 miles
10/2 - 5 miles
10/3 - 5.1 miles
10/4 - rest day Allen's son is in the Nat'l Guard and was supposed to jump yesterday. We were headed there when they cancelled the jump
10/5 - 10.1 miles
10/6 - 5.1 recovery miles
10/7 - rest day
10/8 - 6.6 miles of hilly hills not big hills just rolling up and down and up and down
10/9 - 5 miles my first mile I thought was crappy because I thought my watch said 10:50 and it felt like 10:50. Turned out it was 10:05 which I didn't realize until I pushed harder and my next split was 9:47. Ended up with a 9:49 pace... so happy especially after dancing too much and too late at the Miranda Lambert concert last night!
10/10 - 5 miles - 9:55 pace don't know what's gotten into me. Ran with Skip who is home from Disney.
10/11 - 5.1 miles
10/12 - rest day
10/13 - 11.1 miles (yes I want my .1)
10/14 - 5 miles - recovery run with Skip, cool morning about 44F at run time.

71.1 of 120 miles



@5beautifuldays how do you like rowing?
@jorocka I'll have to look at your pix at home, work is blocking them
@marissaxzxzxz sometimes you can't look at the scale, I try to go by how my clothes fit.
@jtarmom since the pain seems to be getting worse, it might be time to see a doc or PT
@kristinegift I wish we lived closer so Skip could run with you, I know I hold her back and she would do great with a running partner like you.

@JoRocka - love the story of your HM and the photos! I have increasingly found myself seeing race day as the reward for training, not the goal...you totally rocked that vibe!
@Stoshew71 - the first time I saw that "Find Your Greatness" video / ad, I literally cried! I was the funny fat kid my entire life until 3 years ago...only took me until I was 38 to find it.

All, just wondering about people's "name" on MFP. Any great stories behind them, etc. I am not very creative about such things, but love hearing about them from others.

10/1 - 3.1 miles on the 'mill; plus 5.8 miles / 20 minutes on stationary bike.
10/2 - Had to skip run/workout for a life insurance physical (bloodwork, etc.). Then, they couldn't get me to bleed, so I'm gonna have to do it again! Grrr!
10/3 - 11.5 miles with HM group; cool, beautiful weather!
10/4 - waaaayy overslept!
10/5 - not off to a good start this month; kids up half the night with illness / asthma issues
10/6 - 4.75 miles on a beautiful, cool morning.
10/7 - 4.85 miles of hills with HM group
10/8 - 4.65 miles
10/9 - 0. Up half the night, again! Now feeling a bit under the weather. It's too early for this stuff, isn't it?
10/10 - 7.92 miles with HM group. Cool morning, flat loop...nice run!
10/11 - 3.15 mile "recovery" run. Slower pace with one of my 9 year olds...love getting to run with my kids! Sore hip though.
10/12 - 4.75 miles. Beautiful weather! Hip better, but not perfect. Fired up for 5k and HM this weekend!
10/13 - 0. Had my repeat life insurance physical, which went fine. Then spent the whole day waiting at home for Des Moines Water Works to turn water back on. Some sort of miscommunication between dispatch and the technician...UGH!!
10/14 - 5.16 relaxing, lovely miles with HM group as we "taper" for this weekend. Got pulled over on the way to meet them at 4:45 a.m. Just a warning...woo hoo!

Did my first "official" half marathon Saturday, it was absolutely an amazingly beautiful day - temp at the start of race was 43 degrees, watched the sun come up over my great city and at the end of the race was a sunny 63 degrees. I ran my pace @ 10.02 finished #997 of a total of 4389 participants and #39 in my demographic (F50-54). for the October challenge I am at 49% [img][/img]

@krdews that is fantastic!!! Glad you don't live near me so you don't kill me in our AG ha ha!
@karllundy my name is just that. Skip is my daughter's nickname, it comes from two things, years back our friends would call everyone Skip don't ask me why it was just a thing. "hey Skip" when someone walked in the door. Also a saying I've only heard in Jersey - question "are you going down the Shore?" Reply "Damn Skippy" aka "you bet I am". When she was a younger I called her Gomer, my mother hated it and lost her mind that I would call her that, it's fitting though. She's silly, lovable, naive and her way of looking at life and her thinking are definitely Gomer Pyle (now I'm really showing my age). I still call her that from time to time. Okay long story short, it's her nickname and the rest is self explanatory. BTW all her friends call her Skip and most of her friend's parents and teachers do too. Her coaches call her "lil bit" and the other calls her "Squirp". It's pretty funny because when I use her real name at a meet or soccer game half the parents don't know who I'm talking about and they will go "oh you mean Skip?".

5BeautifulDays wrote: »

10/14 9.0 @ 12:32 twice around the lake on the park trail. My longest long-run yet! I tried using the pacing feature on Map My Run to slow me down just a little (13 mm), but Siri was all "19 minutes, you're too slow!" "8 minutes, you're too fast!". Go home Pacer Siri, you're drunk. My fastest split was mile 6 at 11:43, after a short water break, and my slowest split was mile 8 at 13:01--there's a big hill and I was just wearing out. And hungry! I've never been hungry on a run before. Weird!

LOL - Pacer Siri -- this had me cracking up! I have been hungry on runs before and I hate that feeling, because when it happens it hits me so strongly, that I feel like I might get sick. It happened to me Monday this week. Usually Monday is a rest day for me but I decided to change it this week. Since I did so much biking on the weekend, I guess I just didn't eat enough. Luckily this is a rare thing for me because I eat a lot to keep up with all the biking and running, but every once in awhile I'm out of whack I guess.

@krdews- That's awesome about your HM! Congrats!

krdews wrote: »

Did my first "official" half marathon Saturday, it was absolutely an amazingly beautiful day - temp at the start of race was 43 degrees, watched the sun come up over my great city and at the end of the race was a sunny 63 degrees. I ran my pace @ 10.02 finished #997 of a total of 4389 participants and #39 in my demographic (F50-54). for the October challenge I am at 49% [img][/img]

Congratulations!

10/13-Workout A-Strong Curves
10/14-5.3 miles