The January 2016 Running Challenge

01-Jan (15 days to HM): 5.80 miles
02-Jan (14 days to HM): 10.01 miles
03-Jan (13 days to HM): <HM Training-mandated Rest Day>
04-Jan (12 days to HM): 5.21 miles
05-Jan (11 days to HM): 4.00 miles
06-Jan (10 days to HM): 3.57 miles
07-Jan (9 days to HM): 4.42 miles
08-Jan (8 days to HM): 3.09 miles
09-Jan (7 days to HM): 11.82 miles
10-Jan (6 days to HM): <HM Training-mandated Rest Day>
11-Jan (5 days to HM): 3.36 miles
12-Jan (4 days to HM): 3.39 miles
13-Jan (3 days to HM): 3.07 miles
14-Jan (2 days to HM): <HM Training-mandated Rest Day>
15-Jan (1 days to HM): 2.29 miles plus 1.09 miles (walk)
16-Jan (Museum of Aviation HM): 13.16 miles
17-Jan: <Life Day> but 2.83 miles
18-Jan: 6.40 miles
19-Jan: 4.43 miles
20-Jan: 1.26 miles (walk)
21-Jan: 4.11 miles
22-Jan:
23-Jan:
24-Jan: <Life Day>
25-Jan:
26-Jan:
27-Jan:
28-Jan:
29-Jan:
30-Jan:
31-Jan: <Life Day>

Well, after a crappy day yesterday (too much stuff going on in both my work-lives), and not being able to run after choir rehearsal (thanks to one of my oh-so-talkative singers! love her, but....), I planned to hit the road between rain showers at lunchtime. So I get dressed and geared, and what do you know? It's raining. A steady, slow rain with no sign of stopping (and it didn't, for a couple of hours). So I just sucked it up, and ran in the rain. Not the misty stuff, or the occasional drips. This was a real January cold soaking rain.

And I loved it! Well, maybe not quite loved. But didn't hate it at all! Got in 4+ miles too!

Upcoming Races:
06-Feb: Al Toll Memorial 15K, Macon, GA
27-Feb: Cantrell Center 5K, Warner Robins, GA
19-Mar: Cherry Blossom 10K, Macon, GA
02-Apr: Run 2 End Alzheimer's 10.5K, Bonaire, GA
16-Apr: Running for Ronald 10K or 15K, Macon, GA
04-Jul: Peachtree Road Race 10K, Atlanta, GA

I'm so far behind.

I didn't log Tuesday's run. Ended up doing 5k on the treadmill (not as bad as I expected)

Elise4270 wrote: »

@Becky_44 When I first started running I had to give up on distance and focus on time. Before long I was up to a mile or two then 3.... Ect.. It was motivating seeing the added distance in the same amount of time.

I am doing a challenge for miles in 2016, so I'm a bit focused on miles. But I have to look at time, as 15 mins of running sounds much more impressive than a mile. Haha! Gotta love my body! I remember 10 min miles well.

@Ohhim, I'm sure you've mentioned this before, what marathon are you training for?

I start my marathon training Monday as well, for the Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon on May 14th.

did i share this here already?



funny running memes

Last nights run: 10 miles at an 8:12 pace. Good run. Over 150 for the month.

Becky_44 wrote: »

runner_girl83 wrote: »

Becky_44 wrote: »

I have finally decided, with a little bit of a two year old fit throwing, to just go back to the beginning of c25k. I think I'm just struggling because I have increased in my walking so much to get more time, steps, floors and mileage in my days when I can. SO I think my body isn't tolerating it all so well. SO If I just start from the beginning, and blend them better I should be fine with moving forward. I don't like feeling stuck. LOL! and I know the schedule works. I have a goal to reach 10 k this year, It's been 2 years of struggling to get to a 5k race which I did THanksgiving, and I know that getting to the 10 k would be a slow process too, I just need to be willing to give it the time my body needs to balance it all in order to make it happen. I also need to clean up my diet more, I'm doing good, and am losing weight but I need to cut out more of what makes my inflammation, and nerve pain worse.

Monthly Totals/ Run = 6.83, Walk = 30.73, Steps = 134.203, Floors = 200, Daily miles = 65.57

And don't forget to throw some rest days in there between running days ... It's okay to walk on rest days, though at an easy pace as your body needs time to adjust to running. If I run 2-3 days straight, my shin bones feel like they will snap! But if I have 1 rest day between those 3 running days... I am fine! Just need to let your body adjust slowly.

Whoa! I'm missing responses to me, good thing I took the time to catch up! Thanks for your reply! I know my pushing the floors especially is not helping, like today I pushed from 26 my highest to 32. (Thought I'd get one last Harrah in) but I have 16 steps so about 550 steps today, definitely messes with my thighs and groin area. As well as my hip area, my biggest problem. So I will take it easy, and stay at just my daily goals, so I'm good to go for next week, and keep it there so running can progress again.

OK I have to ask, what is "pushing the floors" I Googled it and Google comes back with kegel/pelvic floor exercises. I'm thinking, "that is not right". .

DATE...............MILES...............TOTAL
1/1....................REST...................0.00
1/2.....................16.00.................16.00
1/3.......................5.00.................21.00
1/4.....................REST................21.00
1/5.......................7.00.................28.00
1/6.......................5.00.................33.00
1/7.......................7.00.................40.00
1/8...................WEIGHTS...........40.00
1/9......................16.50................56.50
1/10......................5.00................61.50
1/11....................REST...............61.50
1/12......................6.00................67.50
1/13......................4.25................71.75
1/14......................5.25................77.00
1/15....................REST...............77.00
1/16.....................14.00...............91.00
1/17.......................6.00...............97.00
1/18....................REST...............97.00
1/19.....................10.00.............107.00
1/20.......................5.00.............112.00
1/21.......................7.75.............119.75
1/22....................REST.............119.75








Upcoming races:
May 14, 2016 Glacier Ridge Trail Ultra 50K (Portersville, PA)
June 4, 2106 38 Mile NIght Fun Run (Kettle Moraine State Forest, WI)
October 1, 2016 Cloudsplitter 100K (Pine Mountain, KY)

Stoshew71 wrote: »

5BeautifulDays wrote: »

ceciliaslater wrote: »

Have you tried an anti-chafe balm? I use Body Glide, and it works really well, both for prevention and for protecting and comforting existing chafed areas.

runner_girl83 wrote: »

And Vaseline/ Petroleum Jelly (not sure what you call it over there!) Its all I use and its cheap

On my list! I've been using vaseline (ouch! it stings!) but need to get something preventative, so I'm going to try the body glide.

A good cheap alternative for anti-chaffing is underarm deoderant. Just go to the dollar store and rub on the cheap stuff (after you buy it - offcourse lol).

Of course if you don't buy it first, it just means you get in an extra run

Newbie welcome to @bluelove2004

Had an “Aha” moment. I’d been wondering why my run program had these intervals that seemed incredibly fast to me for someone targeting a 2:30:00 half marathon (I’m trying to run my first one ever and I wanted a target to shoot for that will push me a little but not something completely unattainable.) There are places in the program calling for a fast split of 2 miles and it says the target pace is around 8:30-9:00 (which for me would basically be outright sprinting). I just realized I only THOUGHT I was using the “sub 2:30:00 half marathon” program…I was actually using the “sub 2:00:00 half marathon” program.
So…I think from this point on I’ll continue you with it but just focus on going “fast for me” if there’s a split mentioned rather than killing myself trying to hit the pace prescribed..and since I’m probably not going to do my HM until summer, I can probably switch over to the sub 2:30:00 program next.

@Becky_44: 6.55 miles run makes you a “real runner”..maybe not a super-beast but I’m guessing the super-beast runners took awhile to get there. And I think if your body is telling you to repeat C25K you can go with that. And what @Elise4270 says is true, if you just focus your mind around “Today I will run/jog every time it says to for the amount of time it says to” eventually you’ll notice that the mile that took you 15 or 14 minutes at the start now takes you 13 and distance will take care of itself because even though you’re still running for 20 or 30 minutes, your pace is slowly going up.

@ddmom0811: I’m not quite at your level of gadget-iness but I’d definitely lose my !*@! over a rebooting phone as well. I’m kind of irritated that RunKeeper doesn’t seem to be syncing up with MFP again.

@5BeautifulDays: I suppose if you pace hard enough, you’ll just be a blur and naked won’t matter

@runner_girl83: Good luck on the park run

@snha: I’m hard on myself because I suspect I could do better than I’m doing…I “excuse myself” from running on days I really shouldn’t…although I notice this run just put me over December’s miles.  Congrats on the 10.5 miles BTW.

@dominichoran: Wow..can’t even fathom getting that kind of run streak in. Pretty sure every muscle in my body would call in sick :P

@tweekedgirl and @whatang: Congrats on the impending goal smash!

@kristinegift, @5BeautifulDays (and anyone else buckling down for Jonas):Good luck with the snowpocalypse…

@9voice9: A cold soaking rain is the worst..kudos for getting in the mileage anyhow.

@Elise4270: If “pushing the floors” means what you said, I (and every male here) are simultaneously in awe/frightened that @Becky_44 can push between 26-32 of anything with, well, y’know…

Jan 1: 6.59 cold night miles, slow, around 12:40/mile.
Jan 2: REST DAY
Jan 3: First “official” training day for the HM, first snowfall for a run, 3.51 miles. Some fast intervals mixed in with slower paced runs. 12:10 average pace, fastest split was mile 2 (11:29).
Jan 4: Wimped out 
Jan 5: 3.2 miles this morning
Jan 6: 5.05 miles avg. pace around 12:11
Jan 7: REST DAY. Plan on some walking and weights.
Jan 8: Wimped out 
Jan 9: 50 degrees this morning in Central Ohio! Easy 6.2 miles 12:08 average pace. A little over 1/3 of the way to month’s goal.
Jan 10: Sick..no run
Jan 11: 3 degrees with wind chill, decided to skip run and recuperate one more day
Jan 12: Big snowfall in the morning (needed to leave a lot earlier for morning commute). Night run: Actual temp in the teens, single digit windchill. My “slow” pace is usually somewhere around the high 11s to low 12/mile and it was around a 13:30 tonight..and at times it felt like it was a “hard” pace. Is this a common thing for first-time winter runners? 3.92 miles
Jan 13: Single digit temps this morning, much warmer at night. Slow 3.05 miles, avg pace 12:14 but NO walking…at all. 
Jan 14: Plan called for 8 miles tonight…and a fast interval of 9 min pace for 2 of that I think..wimped out
Jan. 15: Got out there and tried to do some pace pushing as penance for yesterday but my legs weren’t having it. My “fast” was only in the low 11s..bleah. 4.02 miles..officially just past halfway to goal.
Jan. 16-17-18-19: Cold, wimped out.
Jan. 20: Temp got to 18. 3.05 miles. 11:26 avg pace.
Jan. 21: No run
Jan 22: 5.09 miles this morning, 22 degrees.