March 2016 Running Challenge

kristinegift wrote: »

3/1: Rest day
3/2: 12 miles (am), 5 miles (pm)
3/3: 7 miles speedwork (am), 6 miles with Thursday crew (pm)
3/4: Rest day
3/5: 7.3 miles

Ugh, what a slog. It took me three hours to just get out of bed and out the door this morning. And then I just felt like crap for the entire hour+ that I was out. My calves are so unbelievably tight because I wasn't able to foam roll all week because of the placement of the injuries on my hands from last weekend's fall. Pain or not though, I'm going to have to foam roll today. I had to stop 3-4 times to stretch out at park benches and curbsides, and that is not going to be doable on a 15 miler tomorrow.

Here's to hoping foam rolling cures all my woes! But for the immediate "woe is me" of a poor run... spicy ramen with eggs is the way to go! 10:30 am isn't too early for lunch is it?



Upcoming Races:
3/12: Run O' The Mill 5K (Clinton, NJ)
4/3: Caesar Rodney HM (Wilmington, DE)
5/1: New Jersey Marathon (Lots of towns, NJ)


PS: I watched this video two or three times yesterday.... maybe my legs were inspired?
https://youtu.be/XhmSVzhLltY

i follow this blog and youtube channel, she is awesome.

3/1 2.03
3/2 3.53
3/3 Rest (tweaked hammy)
3/4 Rest (tweaked Hammy)
3/5 6.00
3/6 3.13
3/7 Rest (twisted my knee on a walk with the family on Sunday)


Total: 14.69

I really need the ice to go away, this melting and refreezing makes for a lot of slippery, uneven road surfaces. Going to rest my knee today and see how it is tomorrow. Was planning rest today anyway, not really wanting to run more than 2 days in a row yet.

NEWBIE WELCOMES: @ccnagain

@Stoshew71: Congrats on the age group bronze!

@_nikkiwolf_: I’ve also done a race where you got “announced” coming in and it was pretty cool.

@shilshilshil: WTG on your first 10K!

@MNLittleFinn: nice 5K PR! I’m still hoping for my first sub 30:00

@kateparry84: Yeah, I think music (or SOME form of distraction) is a must when you start doing hitting 5+ mile runs. I think I’d want to put a bullet in my brainpan if all I could hear was my breathing for an hour at a time. (Although it’s kinda cool to hear my footsteps sync up with the beat of the tunes in my ear..)

Some real talk for the newbies: You may never "love" running, you may just "do" running. I mostly love the big calorie burns I get from it for weight loss purposes.
Every run I go out on is a struggle. I never go out thinking "I got this!"
But..(encouraging part coming)..you do get stronger and faster. At a mile I was thinking "I'll do a walk interval at 1.5 miles." I got to 1.5 and said "I'll wait until 2." At 2, I decided to go until 3. At 3, I slowed down a bit with the intention of walking at 3.5 because I "knew" I wouldn't be able to do the sprints otherwise. Suddenly the robo-female voice of my app was telling me to SPRINT...and.I.DID!?! I would never have believed I could when I started out Saturday. And I was dreading Sunday’s 6 miles but I managed to get it in.

03/01: PLAN:4 miles easy. Windy, pace between 12:15-12:30 for all splits.
03/02: PLAN:REST DAY..planning on some walking/weights (Walked at work but night walk didn’t happen)
03/03: PLAN:4 miles plus “strides”? (I think that’s what they would be called..they will be intervals of sprinting following the main easy run) I didn’t have enough time this morning to get in 4 plus but I wanted to make sure I didn’t skip out on running so I took my clothes with me to work (hour commute) and did what I could there. 2.65 miles at a fast pace (for me) of 10:50. I’ll plan on getting the 4+ in tonight, this will just be a bonus. EDIT: Overtime at work, really late by the time I fixed dinner, fresh coating of slick snow, decided strides not a good option tonight
03/04: PLAN: Rest Day
03/05: PLAN: 4 easy miles. 4.67 miles easy plus 4 20 second strides. 44 degrees, mist-light rain.
03/06: PLAN: 6 easy miles. About 45 degrees, slight wind. 6.03 miles. Did two walk intervals of ¼ mile each, thought it was pretty good for being on “dead” legs.
03/07: PLAN: REST DAY (and I’m-a take it!)

RACES UNDER CONSIDERATION
03/12 Pi Day 5K?
04/02 WARM Quest to End Poverty Run Westerville, OH
04/09 World Race for Hope Columbus, OH (Proceeds to anti-slave trafficking)

Had a follow-up with the orthopedic surgeon today. Now that the fibula has healed and isn't hiding other symptoms any more, I'm having an MRI to check my peroneal tendons for tears. He thinks I may have a partial tear from years ago that has not healed, so may require injections or surgery. We'll see once my insurance approved the scans...

On the plus side, I can run on it, as he says I won't do any more damage to it by doing so. Just dealing with the same old stiffness and popping I've had forever.

3/1 - 4 miles
3/2 - 3.5 miles
3/3 and 4 - travel days
3/5 - 5 miles
3/6 - 6.5 miles
3/7 - rest day (at least for now)

19 out of 100 miles

Skip and I just signed up for a Super Hero race and generally I'm not a dress up to run kinda person, but we are doing this for fun with a bunch of friends. Anyone know where I can buy moisture wicking super hero gear? thanks!

Thinking about my long run day coming up on Saturday, would it maybe be better to set a time goal of 60 minutes and just see how far I go? Rather than trying for the 6-6.5 miles I was thinking of? Take the emphasis off the distance and put it on the keep going?

Easy 2mi @7:45/mi
3/1: 15mi easy
3/3: 20mi easy long LSD
3/7: 2mi
Total: 37/150+

3/1 Easy 2 miles
3/3 1 mile on Treadmill.
3/4 2 miles on Treadmill
3/7 1.5 miles on treadmill.

18.5 to go.

First mostly pain free run in over a month!!!!

Hi All -
I can't believe it is already the 7th and I have barely had time to catch up here and now there are 21 pages! I am reading through but I am not going to go back and comment on everything at this point.

Welcome to everyone - Newbies and all the returning friends from previous challenges!

I got a LSR in on Saturday. Wanted to go for 15 but only managed 12 and my legs were dead with that. I am starting to think I need to rethink my eating and calories overall and have started to do some reading on the subject. I found this interesting:
http://www.mapmyrun.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-weight-management-for-runners-5147/?utm_source=silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_content=weight_button&utm_campaign=newsletter&spMailingID=50810682&spUserID=MTYwMjQ5NTI5MTkzS0&spJobID=880039810&spReportId=ODgwMDM5ODEwS0
If you have some recommended reading on this topic let me know.

This is my last week of running for at least a few weeks as I have my hand surgery a week from today so I am going to try to get as many runs in as my schedule will allow. I am also hoping they will release me to run after 2 weeks when I get the stitches out.

Date..........Miles.........Total
03/01.......0.00..........0.00
03/02.......4.16..........4.16
03/03.......0.00..........4.16
03/04.......6.23........10.39
03/05.....12.13........22.52
03/06.......0.00........22.52

@WhatMeRunning thanks for the tip. I didn't know about IT band (yep, newbie here). I'll pay a bit more attention tomorrow to feel where the pain is and will be careful to stop and switch to cross-training if necessary

WhatMeRunning wrote: »

@skippygirlsmom - I have seen the Under Armour Marvel superheroes shirts at Academy sports here.

Thanks @whatmerunning I'll check there tonight. I'm seeing lots of shirts, but only men's dri fit.

@shanaber good luck with the hand surgery. My doc said to wait until the stitches were out so that is probably going to be the way to go.

Ch1psNQueso wrote: »

23 miles last week (including Feb 29th) is my new weekly high. With the temps here in Chicago looking to be in the 50's for the foreseaeable future I'm hoping to increase that gradually the rest of the month.

One thing that has me worried about meeting my goal this month and in future months is cycling. I was planning to take today off before doing a longish run tomorrow but the temps are up and I really really want to go put 40 miles on my bike. I'll need to get to the point where I'm content with either activity promoting better fitness. That said, I don't want heavy bike miles to take away from continued running progression.

My biking has definitely forced me to not raise my running goal, however I am still improving with both sports. The thing I really like is that it seems like if I get a lot of mileage in one sport, I can still do the other sport the next day. Different muscles. Some days I have biked and run or done my strength training with one or both, but I got a little carried away with it for a while. So I try to just do a max of two workouts only once a week. I wanted to run four times a week, bike 4 times, weights 2x and one day of rest. But since there are only 7 days a week and that was 10 workouts in 6 days it just wasn't working! I was getting too tired and couldn't eat enough.



March 1 - 5.05 miles + 1 hour spinning
March 2 - strength training
March 3 - 5K for Orlando City Soccer (not sure why they need $) + 1 mile warmup
March 4- strength training
March 5 - 43 mile bike ride (went 9 more than the usual 34 mile Sat ride).
March 6 - 51 mile bike ride
March 7 - 5 miles

sleepigrl wrote: »

I'm way behind on posting, and I'm really struggling with my (short, I know) runs right now. I'm just going to keep on, though and hope it works itself out.

3/1 - 2 mile run
3/2 - 3 mile walk
3/3 - 2.25 mile run
3/6 - 2 mile run






Upcoming Races:
12/3/16 SA Rock N Roll - 5K/10K

@sleepigrl Your runs look like mine. I'm going pretty short too, except my long Saturday run. Just keep at it, you can do it!

sleepigrl wrote: »

I'm way behind on posting, and I'm really struggling with my (short, I know) runs right now. I'm just going to keep on, though and hope it works itself out.

3/1 - 2 mile run
3/2 - 3 mile walk
3/3 - 2.25 mile run
3/6 - 2 mile run






Upcoming Races:
12/3/16 SA Rock N Roll - 5K/10K

In what way are you struggling? Is it just a motivation thing? Or are you running out of steam part way through? I ask because it's very common for newer runners to go out too fast and end up flailing to the finish line, so to speak. I've done it myself (and still do on occasion). Assuming that's the "struggle" you're referring to:

Even if you think you're already going slow, if you can't talk (full sentences) without gasping, you need to slow down further. Of course, that's assuming you are trying to build up your mileage with easy running!

Just skimming through this board, you'll see easy run paces ranging anywhere from 7:00/mile to 15+/mile.

Keep getting out there and doing your thing. It will get easier!