December 2015 Running Challenge

01/12 - 13.2 miles
02/12 - 13.6 miles
03/12 - 10.3 km
04/12 - 13.6 miles
05/12 - 10.4 km
06/12 - 20.8 miles
07/12 - 10.3 km
08/12 - 13.4 miles
09/12 - 13.6 miles
10/12 - 10.4 km
11/12 - 13.7 miles
12/12 - 10.4 km
13/12 - 21.1 miles
14/12 - 10.3 km
15/12 - 13.5 miles
16/12 - 13.6 miles
17/12 - 10.4 km
18/12 - 13.8 miles
19/12 - 10.4 km
20/12 - 21.2 miles
21/12 - 10.4 km

tot 393/500

recovery 10k this morning, but I feel very energetic and I had to refrain myself, otherwise it would have been similar to a tempo run. cannot believe I went out with clear sky and stars, and it managed to rain in the middle of the run! this place must hate me

so many deers around, I enjoy running with them

I'm pissed off with the comments about my weight, as said a few days ago people should mind their business. I'm not stupid, I lost a bunch of weight more than an year ago because I was obese (and then I started to run, because I wanted new challenges, I've never used running to lose weight!) and I don't want to lose more. I did lost a further 1.5kg in the last period, but because I'm active and it's not easy, running every day, have a clear idea of estimated calories to eat back and to know my exact weight. I average 3.7k calories per day, 4.5k on long run days, is this someone who has an ED and wants to lose more weight? And I think it's pretty understandable if I don't want to increase randomly my calory intake to gain weight (in the end what is 1.5kg?), having spent more than 10 years being obese. If I let something go, I'll let everything go, and I don't want to do it.

With the amount of running I do, I bet you can inject me with 100% fat while I'm sleeping, but I'll burn it. Oh, maybe I shouldn't run then, why doing something I finally enjoy and makes me more fit/relaxed/focused etc etc?

Running lots of miles is a commitment and a challenge, but if I manage to do it, it prob means that my body is ok with it now, doesn't it? Rest is important, but I believe some bodies require a 24 hours rest period, others less. It's just training, nothing exceptional. When I run my first HM, I had crumps everywhere and I was dizzy and tired, and emotionally drained. Now I come home after 2 back to back HM, have a shower, have breakfast and go to work. But people see it as an obsession.

Being obese, unhealthy and more importantly unhappy was OK, being active, not bothering anyone, and more importantly fit and happy, is not ok and makes people "worry because they care"

and never mention to anyone when the alarm rings in the morning!

Stoshew71 wrote: »

patrikc333 wrote: »

I'm pissed off with the comments about my weight, as said a few days ago people should mind their business.

????????????


I must have missed something.

Some were saying a few days ago that they were sick of family/friends saying they were over-doing it with running and exercise..

I've got the same problem, except that I used to be underweight and now that I am a healthy weight and running/walking - I get the whole "you're overdoing it" and "you're too little" from family members.. Even though I am actually in a healthy weight range now and I eat back all of my exercise calories (and usually more )

Virkati wrote: »

@patrikc333 You're putting in a HUGE number of miles and kilometers. How is your body holding up to that? And your daily tracking has me confused...some days are miles and some are kilometers. Are you tracking them both ways?

No issues at all - otherwise I won't be able to run so many miles, I think it's pretty obvious

I normally track 10k in km (don't really like 6.something miles), long runs in miles (comes more natural to call a hm 13.1 than 21.1 and a 20 miler a 20 miles than a 32.2km but don't ask me why )

Tot is in km as it's my preferred distance unit

I love running so much I don't care if some people think I'm a skinny bltch.

7lenny7 wrote: »

Sunday morning I decided to run some trails near my house for the first time but since dogs aren't allowed on these trails, Kody stayed home and pouted. The trails are just 1.5 miles from my home and are in a park where they have three different trail races in the summer and fall, including a 50 mile run (though it's a 16+ mile loop you run thrice). The course was very hilly and pretty much kicked my *kitten*. Running, walking, stumbling and scrambling I did finish however. Somehow...I have no idea how...I managed an average 11:18 pace.

The 11:18 quoted above was my moving pace. If I include my stoppage time, it was a 12:28 pace. I just checked the website for the Surf The Murph trail races and if I were able to hold that pace for 5 more miles, and I'm sure I could, I would have placed 49th out of 80 runners in the 25K race last September. Considering I was trying to take it easy yesterday (average HR of 140 whereas my HM HR was 172), I think I may have to register for this race when it comes around again next fall and see how I do.

@patrikc333 - You're the first person I've seen describe an experience like mine, except yours is more so. I took off some weight, then started running, then had to learn to stop losing weight, then had the dance of figuring out how much to eat to maintain my weight. I'm currently maintaining weight to a target 59 pounds less than my all-time peak weight, which was into the low end of the obese category. I spent a lot of years in the overweight category, as defined by BMI.

The thing I found with other people was, many people said I shouldn't lose so much weight the year I took off the last 30 pounds, and for a year afterwards. These weren't mean people; they were well meaning people who were used to seeing me overweight or borderline obese. Some were afraid to congratulate me on losing, because such a rapid weight loss might indicate I had a serious health problem. When you're over 50, that's how people think.

After a year of maintaining a stable weight, I stopped getting the comments that I shouldn't lose so much weight except from people who don't see me very often. People simply got used to the new me. Even non-runners got used to the new me, and stopped telling me I need to gain back some weight. Now they ask typical non-runner questions like, "How many miles do you run every day?" or "You're not going to run outside in *this weather*, are you?" The cluelessness can get old, but it's a lot better than being told I'm underweight.

My sister tells me it takes a year per 25 lbs. lost for your self-image to catch up to your actual body size. That was about right for me, and also about right for the people who thought I lost too much weight.

Crazy busy last couple days…

Dec 1: Advent begins. Light mist but warm (low 50s), still a little bit of hip twinge, nice and slow this morning, 4.44 miles.
Dec 2: Hound of the Baskervilles fog this morning, no demon dogs spotted. 2.35 miles
Dec 3: Rest day, however, intended to walk..and it didn’t happen 
Dec 4: Chilly tonight but not unbearable. 2.5 miles
Dec 5: No run (family outing out of town) but did get in a half hour walk.
Dec 6-8: Days of suck
Dec 9: Back at it. 4.34 miles this morning in the DARKy dark dark…Already more than halfway to the miles I ran last month..December looks to be better.
Dec 10: Rest day
Dec 11: 3.19 miles. Weather is beautiful.
Dec 12: 4.72 miles in my new shoes but I kept 'em (mostly) clean
Dec 13: Rest day (intentional..not just being lazy). Still minor hip twinges but I’ve been doing more stretching and that seems to be helping. I probably need to bite the bullet and start doing core muscle building though. 
Dec 14: Intended to run but sleep won out. *sigh*
Dec 15: A little cooler this morning and drizzly. 3.07 miles.
Dec 16: Busy until late that night, intended to get run in but sleepy won out.
Dec 17: 5.04 miles. Just realized that I have officially run more than I did last month and I’m also looking on target to hit my goal. 
Dec 18: 3.31miles (and it's starting to FEEL like December now..)
Dec 19: No running but a lot of furniture moving.
Dec 20: No running, 3 mile hike.