March 2016 Running Challenge

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  • LJgfg
    LJgfg Posts: 81 Member
    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    @LJgfg I have a Garmin Connect account but don't really "socialize" on it. I do on strava though. So if you have GC, you can open a strava account and have the GC account automatically synch to strava. Then you can join the new "in thing" that we all in this thread are now doing. We even have a strava group for this thread.

    Oh joy. LOL! Another new account thing? I'll look into it. I like the Garmin Connect dashboard - just want a couple people I can cheer on / challenge with. Got six kids so I'm already having to follow fb, twitter, snapchat, insta-whatever, pintrest, so forth just to keep up with them and their things. (typed in a friendly yet resigned tone indicating exhaustion at the plethora of social connection sites and missing the days when an AOL board and email was as complicated as it got *grin*)
  • LJgfg
    LJgfg Posts: 81 Member
    GBrady43068 wrote: »
    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    So here is the other thing as far as losing weight and running performance.

    EDIT: Also, the more weight you are carrying, the more of an impact you make with each step (ground impact forces). So every time your foot hits the ground, your higher weight you are carrying stresses your bones, ligaments, and tendons due to these ground impact forces. So the more chance to injury you have especially as you increase mileage.

    I try not to think about this one...hopefully I can keep everything healthy long enough to lose the weight without breaking something :p

    @GBrady43068 - yeah I'm with you there! Had to give up martial arts due to the torque on the knees. So far doing okay with running / walking. My goal is to finish my first half in October - gotta stay uninjured to get there though. That's my motivation for weight-loss - though I'm not very good at it (yet) though.
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    Date Miles today. Miles for March
    3/1 7.25 miles - 7.25
    3/2 4 miles - 11.25
    3/3 9 miles - 20.25
    3/4 3.5 miles - 23.75
    3/5 6.2 miles - 29.95
    3/6 2 miles - 31.95 << race warm-up
    3/6 5 miles - 36.95 << 8K race
    3/7 6.2 miles - 43.15
    3/8 8 miles - 51.15
    3/9 4.1 miles - 55.25 << daily double

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    Upcoming races:
    UAH Spring Road Race 8K - 3/6
    Oak Barrel HM - 4/2
    Bridge Street HM - 4/10
    Cotton Row Run 10K - 5/30
    Firecracker Chase 10.2 miler - 6/25


  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    LJgfg wrote: »
    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    @LJgfg I have a Garmin Connect account but don't really "socialize" on it. I do on strava though. So if you have GC, you can open a strava account and have the GC account automatically synch to strava. Then you can join the new "in thing" that we all in this thread are now doing. We even have a strava group for this thread.

    Oh joy. LOL! Another new account thing? I'll look into it. I like the Garmin Connect dashboard - just want a couple people I can cheer on / challenge with. Got six kids so I'm already having to follow fb, twitter, snapchat, insta-whatever, pintrest, so forth just to keep up with them and their things. (typed in a friendly yet resigned tone indicating exhaustion at the plethora of social connection sites and missing the days when an AOL board and email was as complicated as it got *grin*)

    Give strava a check. You may like their set-up better. Once you set things up correctly, you don't even have to do anything on Garmin anymore. You just check everything on strava. More people socialize on strava than they do on GC even though they have accounts on both.


    Most of the regulars in this room are now all here:

    https://www.strava.com/clubs/mfpmnthlychlng
  • sthoma13
    sthoma13 Posts: 63 Member

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    Ran my first 11 mile distance last Saturday!
  • ccnagain
    ccnagain Posts: 50 Member
    Today went well, further then I planned. Hope you all have a great day!
  • 4leighbee
    4leighbee Posts: 1,275 Member
    Good morning from Virginia! I'm just checking in to staying plugged into the group. I have a couple more rest days to go ... Have a happy day!
  • ddmom0811
    ddmom0811 Posts: 1,881 Member
    Interval run this morning. I think I pushed the high intensity interval (HII) too much and needed to walk a little bit after the last 4 HIIs but it was a nice workout in any case.

    A co-worker told me that our insurance covers a nutritionist but I tend to go overboard on food logging, perfectionism, and I don't want to stress myself out on eating according to a plan. Just mentioning it because maybe those of you who want to see a nutritionist might have insurance that also cover nutritionist. Of course with deductibles so high and co-pays not sure what good insurance really does anymore unless you have a major issue. But, let's don't go there. :wink:

    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
    March 8 - recovery/rest day
    March 9 - 5.1 miles


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    No races planned but spending lots of time studying future HMs and fantasizing about which HM I am going to do!
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    1-nothing yet
    2-yoga
    3-sicker yet. sick sick sick
    4-still sick
    so since i had no running to blog about i made a blog with some running memes.
    Happy Friday
    5-nothing
    6-nothing
    7-3.77, it felt nice. lots of people out so dog couldn't come with. i have to keep working on socialization
    8-nothing yet
    9-yoga tonight, maybe sneak in a run, either that or tomorrow morning


    RACES:
    Jan 16-Frosty 5k-33:43:123 (gun time-don't have chip time)
    Feb 13-Steve Cullen Run 8k chip time: 53:37
    Feb 15 Puppy Love Virtual Run 10k runkeeper time: 1:13:20
    Mar 14-Great Pi Run
    May 7-Door County Half Marathon
    ?Jun 11-Rock n Sole 5 or 8k? honeymoon might interfere
    June 19th through Sunday, July 10th SHE Power Virtual Half


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  • kristinegift
    kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
    edited March 2016
    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
    3/6: 15.2 miles
    3/7: 6 miles with Joe to Go crew
    3/8: Rest day
    3/9: 12 miles (am)

    Such a great run. Temps in the mid-40s, basically no wind, bright sunshine. Gonna be a high of almost 80 today when I do my afternoon/evening run. Glad that one will be nice and short! Usually do my midweek long run fasted, but I ate a chocolate honey stinger waffle this morning because I was starving, and I think it boosted my energy quite a bit. Ended up pacing closer to 8:20 rather than my usual 8:40-8:50 pace. Every time I hit an 8:10s or 8:20s mile, I was genuinely surprised. And I didn't spend the whole run muttering, "I'm hungry. I'm sooooo hungry. I want food!" like I usually do ;)

    Wish I'd brought my phone though. There were some beautiful stretches of backroads lit up all golden from the morning sunlight. It was really beautiful. I wish I could share the sights with y'all!

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    ^^This puts me over the 500 mile mark for 2016 already. Hooray!

    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)
  • lillymacki55
    lillymacki55 Posts: 35 Member

    03/01 3.23
    03/02 3.19
    03/03 3.17
    03/04 3.27
    03/05 6.83
    03/06 8.15
    03/07 3.17
    03/08 3.43
    03/09 3.59
    TOTAL 38.03

    GOAL 100


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  • zmcgrandles
    zmcgrandles Posts: 78 Member
    03/02 4.5 miles Legs took a while to warm up seriously thought of turning back home at mile 1 but persevered with it and turned into a really good run.
    03/04 4.6 miles Kept it comfortable rather than the build up that was suggested legs wanted a slight break
    03/06 8.7 miles Bit hillier than I normally do so was rather happy to find that I could run up the hill on the route.
    03/08 4.4 miles

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    03/20 Canterbury Riverside 10k
    05/29 Edinburgh Half marathon
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited March 2016
    Discount on GU. It's about 40% off. Shipping on the 2 boxes I bought was 10$. ~27$ for 24. They have the maple bacon. Didn't see any salted caramel..


    http://gearup.active.com/mobile/Event.aspx?l=00011442248100000000

    On a another note- my DQS score yesterday was negative... I bought a few Matt Fitzgerald books, including a cook book.

    With any luck I'll get a run in today. Been stuck late at work all week.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    planning a 3 miler today, knee feels great, did a bunch of stretching/icing/elevating/resting and then worked it a little with squats and lunges last night with no issues.

    @kristinegift Every time I read about your runs, I'm a bit jealous. Wishing I could go that long, that often. I'll just keep plugging away until I can I guess
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    3/1 - nada
    3/2 - 3.9 miles
    3/3 - 3.8
    3/4 - 3.29
    3/5 - 3.25
    3/6 - 6.3
    3/7 - 1.2
    3/8 - 2.53
    3/9 - 2.4


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  • kristinegift
    kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    planning a 3 miler today, knee feels great, did a bunch of stretching/icing/elevating/resting and then worked it a little with squats and lunges last night with no issues.

    @kristinegift Every time I read about your runs, I'm a bit jealous. Wishing I could go that long, that often. I'll just keep plugging away until I can I guess

    @MNLittleFinn Glad your knee is feeling good! And the distance comes with time. A year ago, I could never imagine running this many miles in a week. Keep plugging away and you'll get there :)
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
    kristinegift wrote: »
    @MNLittleFinn Glad your knee is feeling good! And the distance comes with time. A year ago, I could never imagine running this many miles in a week. Keep plugging away and you'll get there :)
    That's my plan. Going to make a decision in another month on whether to register for my first half Marathon. There's one in September. It's plenty of time to get in shape for it but, being me, I don't just want to finish, I want to feel like I killed it.
  • freakymistkd
    freakymistkd Posts: 586 Member
    edited March 2016
    March Goal - 50km walking

    March 9 - 1km
    March total - 26km

    24km to go :smile:
  • Mari33a
    Mari33a Posts: 1,281 Member
    edited March 2016
    01/03 3.5miles
    02/03 3.5miles
    04/03 3.5miles
    05/03 3 miles
    07/03 3 miles
    09/03 4.5miles - definitely an all weather run, started with clear sky and sun which made me suffer, then just changed to wind and pelting rain which make me run faster.

    I get the losing weight/running/calorie deficit thing. I've got over 30 lbs to lose and do feel quite lethargic when running and then tired and restless after but I hate being this heavy. If I stick at it in a few months time it will be worth it and hopefully my pace will increase.


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  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    kristinegift wrote: »
    MNLittleFinn wrote: »
    planning a 3 miler today, knee feels great, did a bunch of stretching/icing/elevating/resting and then worked it a little with squats and lunges last night with no issues.

    @kristinegift Every time I read about your runs, I'm a bit jealous. Wishing I could go that long, that often. I'll just keep plugging away until I can I guess

    @MNLittleFinn Glad your knee is feeling good! And the distance comes with time. A year ago, I could never imagine running this many miles in a week. Keep plugging away and you'll get there :)

    +1 ^^^^ This

  • briscogun
    briscogun Posts: 1,138 Member
    edited March 2016
    I've taken a few days off since last week, struggled to finish my training on 2 days so I took a few days to "re-evaluate" my plan and how enthusiastic I am about it. But, got back on this morning and knocked out a run.

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  • GBrady43068
    GBrady43068 Posts: 1,256 Member
    Stoshew71 wrote: »
    So here is the other thing as far as losing weight and running performance.

    EDIT: Also, the more weight you are carrying, the more of an impact you make with each step (ground impact forces). So every time your foot hits the ground, your higher weight you are carrying stresses your bones, ligaments, and tendons due to these ground impact forces. So the more chance to injury you have especially as you increase mileage.

    @Stoshew71: So if you ARE carrying extra (or a lot extra poundage), is there a specific part of the running chain that's most susceptible to injury I should focus on looking for strength exercises for because I am GOING to be ratcheting up mileage more and more as I train for the HM in August..in fact, my planned next long run is calling for a 10 miler.
  • 07KatieP13
    07KatieP13 Posts: 220 Member
    Gutted, no run today :'( Kids have a sickness bug so I was up all night with them and by the time it got to 6am I could barely keep my eyes open let alone run. Hopefully they're over the worst of it, I might attempt a 5 miler tomorrow to make up for my lost miles today.
  • Ron_Dco
    Ron_Dco Posts: 51 Member
    Need to run tomorrow, but I am struck in Office still ;'(
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
    Wow! 26 pages?!? No way I am going to be able to catch up with that. Will try in the next day or two.

    My MIL passed away last Thursday. Between going to see her just before, helping with arrangements and then the visitation / funeral, no time to keep up and very few opportunities to run.

    3/3 - 3.25 miles on indoor track
    3/5 - 4 windy miles.
    3/6 - 6.5 flat, windy, hot (72°) miles...sweaty.
    3/9 - 3.46 miles

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  • CChen8520
    CChen8520 Posts: 64 Member
    03/08:3.3 miles
    CChen8520 wrote: »
    newbie here, setting a goal of 50miles!

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    Looking forward to my first 4 mile race in June :) good luck everyone

  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    Sorry to hear that @karllundy
  • Ally_mf18007
    Ally_mf18007 Posts: 1 Member
    edited March 2016
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    Hi! I'm Ally :)

    I'm excited to hit my goal, and hopefully a little more, this month!
  • ariceroni
    ariceroni Posts: 422 Member
    3/01: 3 miles, easy (am)
    3/01: 6 miles, 2x1 mile at LTP (7:30) then 800m @ 5K pace (pm)
    3/02: 6 miles, easy
    3/03: 5 miles, 5x800m at 6:45 pace with 400m recovery between
    3/04: 5 miles, easy
    3/05: 6 miles, easy
    3/06: 13.1 miles, long and easy
    3/07: Off, have the flu
    3/08: 4.25 miles, easy
    3/09: 5 miles, easy (am)
    Total: 53.54 miles


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    Upcoming races:
    3/12 - Leprechaun Leap (5K)
    3/20 - Excalibur 10 Miler
    3/26 - Chicago Quarter Marathon
    4/03 - Shamrock Shuffle (8K)
    4/09 - Chi Town Half Marathon
    5/28 - Soldier Field Run (10 miles)
  • ccnagain
    ccnagain Posts: 50 Member
    ccnagain wrote: »
    Today went well, further then I planned. Hope you all have a great day!

    Okay for some reason it didn't keep my miles :(

    March Goal -12
    03/07 -1.53mi
    03/09 -2.10mi
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