March 2016 Running Challenge

AdrianChr92 wrote: »

@elise4270 @ceciliaslater

A few days ago the 6633 Arctic Ultra (566 km) ended and a romanian won it

The romanian president decided to congratulate him but made the mistake of calling it the Arctic Marathon. I'm guessing for non-runners everything that involves running for 1 hour or more is a marathon

^^^this is my husband! Every race I run from 5k to HM is a 'marathon' as far as he is concerned... He will tell people 'oh, she just ran a marathon' doesn't matter how often I tell him otherwise - I think anything more than a mile seems long to him, therefore it is a marathon by default

@kristinegift - Happy 'late' Birthday!! Looks like an awesome celebration!
@zmcgrandles - Congratulations on your first race and a PR!
@ariceroni - love the costumes and congratulations on the PR and 2nd place!!
@CivicSista - congratulaions on the relay finish! I have often thought that a relay would be a lot of fun.
@brian_gunther - Congratulations and keep it up!!
@skippygirlsmom - Skip is just awesome! Tell her congratulations! I am sorry you are missing Allan! How long is he gone for this time?
@rohanivan - what and how much are you eating calorie wise? Do you eat before you run and has that changed recently? I know when I don't eat enough my running gets progressively worse because I have no energy.
@Elise4270 - Fantastic running weekend with great bling! I can't believe you went out for a long recovery run, new shoes or not.
In the sock conversation - I am a wool sock person and love Smartwool. I wear the micro run socks the majority of the time. I very rarely get blisters or any irritation and my feet don't get hot. I find how hot they get is more a function of the shoes.
@WhatMeRunning - beet roots taste like dirt.. that is all... dirt...
@ceciliaslater - Fantastic marathon finish!! Congratulations!!
@ceckhardt369 - Way To Go hitting your goal early! As for the calf tightness... stretching, rolling, rest are probably best. I might also look at how many miles I have on my shoes - that is usually a sign mine need to be replaced soon.
@louubelle16 - I only have one or two friends who really 'get' running and they were partially responsible for me actually running. Everyone else is worried about my health and what running 'at your age' is doing to your body! Well I can tell them that I am one of the healthiest people I know 'at my age' and that I love when my doctor tells me I am her healthiest patient or that when I was in the prep for my hand surgery and setting off the alarms because my HR was so low! Ha!!

God damn , i dont even think i cant finish 3 miles and every 1 here is saying 70 miles and omg i need to catch up

@ceciliaslater - Too funny! Maybe you taught the cashier something.
@Meffordh - As @WhatMeRunning just posted we all started out slow. We aren't comparing ourselves to anyone here. We are cheering for everyone no matter where they are in their running journey.

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 + strength training
March 10 - 5.02 miles
March 11 - strength training
March 12 - 35 miles bike
March 13- 62.5 miles biking Tour de Cure
March 14 - 4.12 miles - PI run + 0.98
March 15 - Recovery day
March 16 - 4.7 miles (intervals) + strength training
March 17 - 4.5 miles
March 18 - strength training cancelled
March 19 - 34 mile bike ride
March 20 - 8.4 miles - biking was canceled so impromptu run
March 21 - 4.4 miles (after school) + day 1 of 28 squat challenge
March 22 - 4.4 miles (intervals on a beautiful chilly morning) plus day 2 of squats (while blow drying hair - my dog was laying down on the bath rug next to me just staring like I'd lost my mind).

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), 5 miles (pm)
3/10: 8 miles (am), 6 miles with Thursday crew (pm)
3/11: Rest day
3/12: 5.6 miles (2.5 mile warm up and 5k race)
3/13: 18 miles
3/14: Impromptu rest day
3/15: 6 miles (am), 8 miles (pm)
3/16: 10 miles (am), 7 miles with Wednesday crew (pm)
3/17: DC mini-vacation
3/18: DC mini-vacation
3/19: 7.2 miles
3/20: 20 birthday miles!
3/21: 6 miles with Joe to Go crew
3/22: Rest day!

Rest day! Which means doing the core work exercises I dislike most (the worst: side planks!). Calves continue to feel better; hopefully they'll be 100% when I set out to run tomorrow! Fingers crossed!



Upcoming Races:
3/12: Run O' The Mill 5K: New PR! 21:55
4/3: Caesar Rodney HM (Wilmington, DE)
4/16: River Horse 6K (Ewing, NJ)
5/1: New Jersey Marathon (Lots of towns, NJ)

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
10-new medicine-nauseous
11-yoga
12-Great Pi Race 5k. great time with some horrible hills. I would have had an amazing time without them and as it was i still beat my last 5k by 2:37min. Stepdaughter to be got second in her age group. i was 20 out of 36.
13-rest day
14-4.87mi happy bunny
15-no run (yet) knee and kidneys are sore.
16-no run-kidney's still hurt
17-carpool-no run. grumble.
18-carpool and slush fell from the sky this morning. so I vinyasa/power aerial yoga-ed
19-car shopping
20-family stuff
21-6.13mi not easy not too hard. well the first 15 min were awful but then it settled in.
22-wedding stuff to do, hip hurts-yoga tonight

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 12-Great Pi Run 5k 32:17
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

March goal—can I make 120 km?
second half on 3/27—Dongguan Songshan First Annual
3/1—3.31 km having trouble getting my butt out of bed.
3/3—5.09 km
3/4—7.01 km—dear self, remember if you’re going to run to use your inhaler, mmkay?
3/7—3.9 km would have run more but yeah…excuses
3/9—5.06 km
3/11—5.22 km
3/13—5.90 km
3/16—5.1 km—tracker malfunctioned though and said was 5.5
3/19–11.75 km…
3/22—5.44 km

username301 wrote: »

Not sure if this story would have made it across the pond but it's well worth a read. Comedian Eddie izzard has ran 27 marathons in 27days for charity.

an incredible achievement in almost anyone's book (save a few idiots in the comments section)

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/mar/20/eddie-izzard-tired-yet-triumphant-after-running-27-marathons-in-27-days

That is just insane! Good for Eddie, though, and for a great cause of awareness!

WhatMeRunning wrote: »

Virkati wrote: »

@WhatMeRunning ...first of all, I read "beer notes" instead of "Beet Roots"...dunno, just don't know where my brain was going with that! And second...what's the deal with beet roots that you'd run four miles round trip to get them? Sounds like I missed an important memo!!

Oh, nothing that big really. They definitely have loads of iron and help in transport of oxygen through the blood. There are some indications that taking beet juice before a 2 to 4 hour run has a measurable performane gain of 1% to 2% reduction in time due to the nitrates in the beets, but that's not necessarily why I wanted to get some. I'm more interested in having the added nutrients in them that are lacking in basically everything else...and maybe out of curiosity to see if it has an impact on endurance. I had a 4 mile run planned and I know from one of my routes that I hit the 2 mile mark right in front of a grocery store. So I did not have to add it to a shopping list for later, I just picked them up while on my run today!

So...you ran two miles carrying a bag of beets? I've always loved the things, myself. When I briefly lived in Australia (somewhere I wish I still live at least three times per day), I was a ton more excite than I should be the first time I had beet root on a sandwich. I had never considered doing such a thing in my life. They were always a side dish/snack to me. It was definitely a life-changing experience! I'm finally getting my boyfriend interested in them after five years of pushing. haha He likes the beet, carrot, whatever (ginger?...I don't know) juice from Whole Foods. Personally, I prefer chewing my beets.


@ceciliaslater: It sounds like, overall, you had a really good marathon! Kudos to you; a marathon isn't something I'm sure I'll ever decide to do. I just don't know if I can find the time to dedicate to so many miles per week, but maybe one day. I, too, and working more on speed work than distance, right now. I ran my half last month, and I have a 15K coming up in two weeks. After that, it's a few 5Ks and 10Ks before my next half in September. My plan is speed between now and June, then working on the whole half thing, again.

MNLittleFinn wrote: »

Gonna throw this out there for some ideas. The half marathon I'm signed up for has 6 miles on gravel road. I'm currently running Nike Pegasus 32 for shoes. I haven't run on gravel much (not much near me) I am wondering, are they an appropriate shoe for this? I love them, so it's actually not an excuse to get another pair of shoes, just out of curiosity.

Before I started my "new" job in June, 2014, I ran most of my miles on a gravel rail trail. I almost exclusively used my trail runners (Saucony Peregrine), as I felt like I was slipping when I used my road shoes. I was definitely more comfortable in ht trail shoes. However, I know and saw many people running in regular road shoes. I guess it's all personal preference. You might want to get yourself a good pair of trail runners and run on some gravel/dirt trying out both shoes to see what works best for you.

ariceroni wrote: »

As the saying goes, If you chase two rabbits you won't catch either one.

I have never heard this saying before. I love it!!


General statement about the calories thing: My mileage is all over the place right now, but I average somewhere around 1600 calories per day. I eat when I'm hungry. Some days I'm full at 1200 calories, some days I'm not full until 1800 calories (which are typically my rest days). While I am losing some weight (I want/need to), it is definitely less than .5 lbs per week, and probably close to 1-1.5 lbs per month. Female, 5'4", ~145 lbs. So, for me, the RW statement probably isn't that far off. I feel like this is totally a genetic thing, though. My brother, who also runs, also has to put a lot of effort into the calorie thing if he wants to lose any weight. We both low-end hypertension (I am currently resisting being medicated for this, but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to convince my doctor to wait until "next time"), and I've had low-end high cholesterol since I was first tested at the age of 8. Thank you, awesome genetics! Anyway, I started running casually in an attempt to improve my health. Six years later, here I am.

Meffordh wrote: »

God damn , i dont even think i cant finish 3 miles and every 1 here is saying 70 miles and omg i need to catch up

That was me a few months ago. You'll soon get more distance, then get addicted, and find yourself annoyed at rest days.

Elise4270 wrote: »

Hey that's awesome (for me)! That's where I've found I don't gain. I noticed this week that I can pinch more skin so that's a win, even though the scale won't move. It's slow, but progress. I'm sure those numbers are net.

That's what I was thinking, too. While I go over nearly every day, my current goal calories are 1710 net. This would be a 1 lb / week loss without any exercise. I always eat back my calories though. If you look at my food diary, you will see most days are between 2500-2800 calories and I am maintaining at ~185.

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
3/10 - 4.45 miles on treadmill (Trek class)
3/11 - 4 miles on indoor track + weights
3/12 - 7.5 hilly miles
3/13 - 4 miles on indoor track + weights
3/14 - Rest day...seriously sore from squats and dead lifts on Sunday
3/15 - 4 miles on treadmill + weights (early a.m. thunderstorm kept me inside)
3/16 - 4.02 windy miles...took a good 2 miles to get into a groove.
3/17 - 5 miles on treadmill (Trek class)
3/18 - 4.13 miles. Sooo excited that I am on track for my goal this month!
3/19 - Unplanned rest day...life got in the way.
3/20 - 8 wind, flat miles
3/21 - Planned rest day
3/22 - Beautiful 4.7 miles. It was about 50° F with a very light breeze at 5:00 a.m.!



@kristinegift - Love the Rides! I just saw a preview of the Ride 9 on Runners World FB page...they added more plush! Can't wait! Being frugal like I am though, it may be a year from now...when they bring out the 10s!

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Mondays are usually rest days, but since there's snow forecast for Wednesday, well ran/walked yesterday. at the end little pain on right knee. Tonight I have Step/tonus/Aeroboxe class. Hope knee won't be a problem.

WhatMeRunning wrote: »

@instantmartian - I did indeed run 2 miles carrying a bag of beets. It was a little annoying but I grabbed firmly down low on the bag to minimize the flopping around and had to switch sides I was carrying it a few times.

That's why I carry a backpack on grocery runs, less flopping.... Still, great mental image, running carrying a bag of beets.

Elise4270 wrote: »

WhatMeRunning wrote: »

@instantmartian - I did indeed run 2 miles carrying a bag of beets. It was a little annoying but I grabbed firmly down low on the bag to minimize the flopping around and had to switch sides I was carrying it a few times.

Couldn't you have used your jog strap?

Well a lot of good that idea does for me NOW that I've already done it!

Elise4270 wrote: »

WhatMeRunning wrote: »

@instantmartian - I did indeed run 2 miles carrying a bag of beets. It was a little annoying but I grabbed firmly down low on the bag to minimize the flopping around and had to switch sides I was carrying it a few times.

Couldn't you have used your jog strap?

Hahahahaha - this made me laugh out loud! Just the mental image of it is keeping me giggling!