The January 2016 Running Challenge

@Orphia and @Virkati : hips have *mostly* resolved, and yesterdays 3.7 miles were great. Thanks for asking! Like @Virkati said, I tend to ignore it till it becomes intolerable. The "primary care" doctor in me says to rest, nsaid and stretch." The "internal medicine" doctor says "oh...it could be a stress fracture from an occult malignancy, it could be avascular necrosis from too much running with my overweight body......." I'll listen to the PCP.

HonuNui wrote: »

@Orphia and @Virkati : hips have *mostly* resolved, and yesterdays 3.7 miles were great. Thanks for asking! Like @Virkati said, I tend to ignore it till it becomes intolerable. The "primary care" doctor in me says to rest, nsaid and stretch." The "internal medicine" doctor says "oh...it could be a stress fracture from an occult malignancy, it could be avascular necrosis from too much running with my overweight body......." I'll listen to the PCP.

Lol! Glad I'm not alone!

2/1 - 5k

Cold cleared up, toe not too bad. Managed a 5k jog without stopping. Really pleased with a good start to the year.

@Orphia

up and down - I really struggle to understand my body

it goes completely then comes back so bad I cannot walk

01/01 - 10 miles
02/01 - 10.4 km

tot 26/500 km

left this morning, couldn't even walk, run 300 meters and back home

after 30 minutes, I was much better, tried again, and managed to jog my usual 10k, at a ridicolous pace, but nevermind the pace, I want to keep my streak

I don't understand my hip and foot at all, pain comes and goes randomly

no way I'll run 20 miles tomorrow, I hope to be able to do 10km, probably after a good warm up

awful start of the year

it might be borsitis for the hip

DATE...............MILES...............TOTAL
1/1....................REST...................0.00
1/2.....................16.00.................16.00

Ericjayh wrote: »

Hi everyone I'm Eric, @Elise4270 's husband. I'll join in but I have no goal. We'll just see where the month takes us.

1-rest

Upcoming races
2-6-2016 Hot Chocolate Dallas
3-19-2016 rock and roll 5k
3-20-16 rock and roll half Dallas
And what ever else my wife rooks me in too!

Come on.. Let's go walk...

@kristinegift nice run day! I couldn't have left it at .6, I love round numbers too much!
@patrikc333 that sounds painful! Hope your run tomorrow is ok.
@HonuNui sounds like the internal medicine doc is a bit of a hypochondriac... That's certainly unusual!

1st Jan - 3.1miles (Parkrun)
2nd Jan - 4.5miles

MTD - 7.6/50miles

Looks fun. My target is 70 miles, today I did 8 miles, now i just need to work out how to do the ticker thing...

Hi All! I'm new to the group, in for 50 miles in January

@patrikc333 I have a similar pain. Mine stems from nerve impingement at the piriformis level. The foot pain is with the stance phase. Hip is outter med glute area to the sacrum.

I wouldn't wish that condition on anyone. A good hip specialist might be able to help identify the cause or some PT.

Good luck!

@summerdaze120 congrats on reaching your december goal! This group challenge can be really motivating - I'm sure you'll hit your increased January goal as well.

@HonuNui Woah, that's a cool fish! It's really spectacular to see the stripes suddenly appearing. Thanks for sharing that video!

@racingislife97 you just went out and spontaneously ran a marathon? Wow, that's insane! (and impressive ;-) ). I've read so much about gradually increasing milage to avoid injury, I probably would have been terrified to go such a long distance without training for it. Glad you are well - if you didn't run at all since Thanksgiving and then go out and do a marathon, "quads are a bit wobbly today" doesn't sound nearly as bad as I would have expected
From looking at your Strava profile, you did the same ~21km out-and-back route twice in a row?
I'm not sure I could have done that (not even with a shorter distance) - running the same stretch of road twice always makes the second time seem much longer to me, since I already know all the landmarks I'm going to see (and how many I still have to pass)...

@Virkati Thanks! It seems finding the "perfect" HM training plan isn't easy, right?
I found two, maybe three, promising candidates, but they all have something about them I'm not 100 percent happy with. I'll probably sit down tonight and try to combine them into a single one which fits the current length of my long runs and how many (or few) times I'm planning to run per week: with one day of cross-country skiing (hopefully, if the snow allows it) and 2(-3) times strength training per week, there's no way I'll be able to fit in the 4-5 runs per week some plans seem to foresee...
I only want to plan with 3 runs per week, and throw in a 4th one spontaneously when I have time. And I want to have a "cutback week" every ~4 weeks. But still the plan shouls have at least one or two long runs of 10 miles or more, otherwise I might not have the confidence I'll be able to go the full distance in the HM. ... I'm beginning to think I'm making things overly complicated, lol



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1.1.2016 strength training
2.1.2016 long run, 10.6km - a bit of rain all the way. Made my regret I was too lazy to put in my contact lenses, since I kept having to wipe my glasses. Otherwise it was a good run, nice start of the year
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10.6 km (of 110 km) done

@_nikkiwolf_ I actually pulled three different marathon and one half marathon plans, and made it into ONE plan. More tailor made for me than any of them individually but all of them having something I wanted that the others didn't. So even though I'm not doing any full marathons, those are the plans I used the most of. That way I can still modify them to suit me but I'm practically guaranteed success for the races I signed up for because, if I can do the training plans, there's no reason I can't do my halfs! BUT with that said, I've never actually run ANY races, so I'm honestly winging it here!!

A slow 7 km - 49 minute run up the backside of Misery Mountain Ski Hill.
Bundled up but forgot my neck warmer, -14C Sunny No wind. Calf felt good.

01/01 –0.0 Km – 140 km – 0.0 Km – – YTD – 0.0Km
01/01 –6.0 Km – 134 km – 6.0 Km – – YTD – 0.0 + 6.0 = 6.0Km
01/02 –7.0 Km – 127 km – 13.0 Km – – YTD – 7.0 + 6.0 = 13.0Km


A big Welcome to all the New Challenge Members and returning Challengers.
@kateparry84 Great Attitude - You will do well.

kateparry84 wrote: »

First run today, only 1.5 miles but that's 1.4 miles further than I could do a month ago.

Ericjayh wrote: »

Hi everyone I'm Eric, @Elise4270 's husband. I'll join in but I have no goal. We'll just see where the month takes us.

@Ericjayh and @Elise4270 I swear I heard the Sound of a Whip Snapping in the air just before I read the above post . Okay me bad but I couldn't resist.