March 2016 Running Challenge

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  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
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    5 easy paced miles to end the month. Congrats to everyone! See everyone in April!!

    3/1 - 5 miles
    3/2 - 5 miles
    3/3 - 5 miles
    3/4 - Rest
    3/5 - 12 miles
    3/6 - 5 miles
    3/7 - 5 miles
    3/8 - 5 miles
    3/9 - 5 miles
    3/10 - 5 miles
    3/11 - Rest
    3/12 - 12 miles
    3/13 - 5 miles
    3/14 - 5 miles
    3/15 - 5 miles
    3/16 - 5 miles
    3/17 - 5 miles
    3/18 - Rest
    3/19 - 12 miles
    3/20 - 5 miles
    3/21 - 4 miles
    3/22 - 4 miles
    3/23 - 4 miles
    3/24 - 4 miles
    3/25 - Rest
    3/26 - 8 miles
    3/27 - 4 miles
    3/28 - 5 miles
    3/29 - 5 miles
    3/30 - 8 miles
    3/31 - 5 miles

    157/150 Miles

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    Upcoming races:
    4/9 - Rock the Parkway half marathon (Kansas City, MO)
    4/16 - Garmin Wickedly Fast half marathon (Olathe, KS)
    4/23 - Race for Hope half marathon (North Kansas City, MO)
    5/1 - Buffalo Bell Stampede half marathon (Leavenworth, KS)
    5/14 - Running with the Cows half marathon (Bucyrus, KS)
    6/2 - Hospital Hill 5k 7pm PRE-RUN (Kansas City, MO)
    6/3 - Hospital Hill half marathon 7am RE-RUN (Kansas City, MO)
    9/25 - Broadway Bridge half marathon (Kansas City, MO)
    10/15 - Kansas City Marathon 26.2 (Kansas City, MO)
    11/5 - Jenks half marathon (Jenks, OK)
    11/6 - Kansas half marathon (Lawrence, KS)
    11/12 - Longview half marathon (Kansas City, MO)
    11/13 - Gobbler Grind half marathon (Overland Park, KS)
    11/19 - White River half marathon (Cotter, AR)
    11/20 - Pilgrim Pacer half marathon (Lenexa, KS)
  • lillymacki55
    lillymacki55 Posts: 35 Member
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    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
    03/10 6.25
    03/11 2.70
    03/12 0.00 (16 mile bike ride)
    03/13 7.01
    03/14 3.09
    03/15 3.28
    03/17 3.34
    03/18 5.21
    03/19 4.90
    03/20 7.01
    03/21 2.79
    03/22 3.11
    03/23 3.29
    03/24 3.30
    03/25 3.07
    03/26 8.01 CHALLENGE ACHIEVED!!!!!
    03/27 9.01
    03/28 2.42
    03/29 3.27
    03/30 3.45
    03/31 3.29

    TOTAL 127.70
    GOAL 100

  • kimlight2
    kimlight2 Posts: 483 Member
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    Congratulations to everyone who made their goals this month and to everyone who achieved a PB!!!
    I ended up taking most of the month off to try to let my hip heal so no where near my goal but that is fine if I can stay healthy. I getting back into it with couch to 10k and am starting with week 3. 90 second and 3 minute intervals feel easy but I am trying not to push it. After first run yesterday, so far so good. No pain or soreness. Here is hoping for a better April.
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
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    For those of you who hate to run in the morning, here's another good reason not to.

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  • greenolivetree
    greenolivetree Posts: 1,282 Member
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    Reposting my end total one last time even though I haven't ran since Monday. I never ran more than about 45 miles in a month so this month was a huge success for me.

    Great job everybody!

    3/1/16 - 2 miles
    3/4/16 - 6 miles
    3/5/16 - 4.5 miles
    3/6/16 - 3.1 miles
    3/11/16 - 6.2 miles
    3/12/16 - 5 miles
    3/14/16 - 3 miles
    3/15/16 - 4 miles
    3/18/16 - 6.5 miles
    3/19/16 - 4 miles
    3/20/16 - 5 miles
    3/21/16 - 3 miles
    3/23/16 - 2 miles
    3/25/16 - 4 miles
    3/26/16 - 7 miles
    3/28/16 - 6.2 miles

    Total 71.7 miles (Above numbers are rounded. 71.7 is the exact total.)
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
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    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
    23-more yoga
    24-4.78 mi
    25-cleaning day
    26-13.12 mi
    27-flaring/easter food
    28-flaring
    29-flare and cold. i miss my mileage
    30-yoga tonight-still flaring. I hope to run tomorrow. a rather suck it up buttercup sorta thing
    31-decided one more day of rest or i could set the flare off again, but i did better this month than last month

    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


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  • instantmartian
    instantmartian Posts: 335 Member
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    Hello, all. I have some questions for you about shoes, well, a specific type of shoe, really.

    I was able to stop into Philadelphia Runner on my way to dinner last night, and I picked up a new pair of Mizunos. I've actually never run in Mizunos before. Saucony and Brooks have been my running shoes of choice as of late, but with my terrible, awful experience with the Brooks Ravenna 6, I decided I needed to change things up a bit. I tried on a few different pairs of shoes, and I had my options narrowed down to two shoes, ultimately deciding on the Mizunos because they felt like what I am used to, and since I don't have a decent pair of shoes to rotate into these with, I figured it was best to play it safe this time around. I over pronate, as told by a podiatrist after I injured my foot several years ago due to my over pronation, and I have found I am most comfortable in a stability shoe.

    So far so good with the Mizunos. I walked around in them a bit, and I will be doing a few miles in them this evening to really give them a try; however, I am still intrigued by the other shoes I was considering - the On Cloudflyer. The shoes felt great. They were much lighter than any stability shoe I've tried in the past, and the little bubble/pod things on the soles definitely made them feel different from anything I've tried before, but they were different in a good way. I was seriously considering them, and I was quite torn on which pair to purchase, but the Ons are so very different from what I'm used to, and since I pretty much have to jump right into a new shoe, I didn't want to be too adventurous with my purchase. So, I decided on Mizuno. I still want to give the Ons a try, however, spending $280 on shoes in one clip is a little (a lot) out of my current budget.

    Here are my questions: Has anyone had any experience with On running shoes? If so, do you like them? Why or why not?
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
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    3/1-2.03
    3/2-3.53
    3/3-Rest
    3/4-Rest
    3/5-6.00
    3/6-3.13
    3/7-3.26
    3/8-Rest
    3/9-3.23 (5k pr)
    3/10-Rest
    3/11-Rest
    3/12-7.01 (personal distance PR)
    3/13-2.25 (getting closer to doing a true recovery run)
    3/14-3.14
    3/15-2.02 (4-10 inches of snow in the forecast for tomorrow, so I snuck a quick run in tonight)
    3/16-Crosstrain HIIT core work
    3/17-Rest
    3/18-3.01 (First AM run, in the dark)
    3/19- 6.27
    3/20-3.0
    3/22-3.0
    3/23- Rest
    3/24- 5.52<-First ever daily double. 3.5 morning, 2.02 afternoon.
    3/26- 9.0 <- daily double
    3/27- 3.0
    3/29- 4.0
    3/31- 4.08

    Monthly total: 76.67/56

    Good run this morning in the chilly 28 degree weather. UA turtleneck and Brooks jacket on top and Nike pants on bottom made for a pleasant run. Topped off the clothes with a light knit hat and my gloves. Plenty warm. Managed to push it a little, for the last run of the month. Averaged 10:45 miles, first mile was slowest at 10:55, but it always is, as I'm warming up. Miles 2 and 3 were 10:31 and mile 4 was 10:27. Felt pretty good about the consistency of my pace. Average HR was 150 with a max of 162. 75% of the time in HR Zone 4 and the other 25% in Zone 3, felt really good the whole time, and there was time, so I was tempted to go another mile, but was good and stuck with my plan.
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
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    @skippygirlsmom - LOL about running early!:lol: I ran at oh-dark-negative-30 this morning. After not taking a flashlight yesterday and finding the run surprisingly enjoyable I did the same today along the streamway park trails. There is just enough ambient light from the surrounding civilization to see just fine. Things look so different though, and it is so quiet and peaceful. It's like running in a dream or something. I think I like this as much as running during snowfall. Plus, it might be dark enough that I pass right by the body without noticing.
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
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    WhatMeRunning wrote: »
    @skippygirlsmom - LOL about running early!:lol: I ran at oh-dark-negative-30 this morning. After not taking a flashlight yesterday and finding the run surprisingly enjoyable I did the same today along the streamway park trails. There is just enough ambient light from the surrounding civilization to see just fine. Things look so different though, and it is so quiet and peaceful. It's like running in a dream or something. Plus, it mighr be dark enough that I pass right by the body without noticing.

    I hear ya on running in the dark. I have streetlights most places, but it's still pretty darn dark. I love it. It's going to be hard in summer when the sun is up earlier, I'll have to get used to running in the light again.
  • 9voice9
    9voice9 Posts: 693 Member
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    I used to be an early-morning runner, but since I'm signed up for the Peachtree Road Race (10K) this summer (04-July on the streets of Hot-lanta!), I've decided to keep a fair percentage of my running in the mid-day so I can go ahead and acclimatize myself to the heat gradually. Plus, it makes SWMBO a little happier that I'm not out in the dark. With the stupid drivers.
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
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    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.!
    3/23 - Wet 4.3 miles...almost biffed it when I slipped on a downhill. Thankfully saved myself without tweaking anything...thank God for small favors!
    3/24 - 5 miles on treadmill (Trek class)...lots of "speedwork" today. Sore calves.
    3/25 - 4 miles. Nice afternoon run.
    3/26 - Rest day
    3/27 - 9.01 miles...took a while to get warmed up and then was extremely sore in the hamstrings and calves.
    3/28 - Rest day...woke up with a lot of soreness.
    3/29 - 4.33 miles
    3/30 - 3.5 miles on treadmill + weights.
    3/31 - 4.2 miles on treadmill (Trek class)...had to leave early for a meeting :-1:

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  • 5BeautifulDays
    5BeautifulDays Posts: 683 Member
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    What have I done to my foot!??

    Yesterday while I was running I started feeling a pain across the top of my foot, behind my big toe. The pain moved up into the front of my ankle while I was running. I was halfway around the lake so I just kept going, I just took it slow. I didn't have any real problems with it the rest of the day--maybe a little twingy, but not a big deal. Well this morning, I went to put on my running shoes and I can't even walk without pain while I'm wearing them! I tried loosening the laces, stretching my ankle, ice...no help. I'm going to take a couple of ibuprofen and rest today, but I'd sure like to know what I've done. I'm guessing tendinitis? I'm so sad! :(

  • pcarvalho3
    pcarvalho3 Posts: 36 Member
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  • kristinegift
    kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
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    @5BeautifulDays That sounds like tendinitis to me! If the pain is radiating from the toe upward, try taping your big toe to the next 1-2 toes over to keep it from irritating the tendon in the short term. Hope it feels better quickly!
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
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    9voice9 wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    It helps me break that stereotype of what runners look like. It helps me see the runner in me.
    Love this! I sometimes ... struggle is not the right word, but I can't think of a better one ... with my self-image (my legs look pretty good, I think, but still have a bit of a "beer belly" - used to be 260 pounds, so...).

    I think too often about what I must look like to the folks in the neighborhood who see me out pounding the miles, but then I think about how proud I am of the "large mammal" folks I sometimes see out walking or whatever, and think, "Maybe I can provoke some positive feelings in some folks seeing me."

    Or something. :wink:

    Yes! Me, too! Unless I have surgery, I'm always gonna have a gut. Loose skin ain't attractive and a washboard isn't in my future, but if I can lose ~100 lbs from my highest ever weight after being overweight from age 5 to almost 40, maybe I can inspire someone to be healthier, too!
  • 5BeautifulDays
    5BeautifulDays Posts: 683 Member
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    kristinegift wrote: »
    @5BeautifulDays That sounds like tendinitis to me! If the pain is radiating from the toe upward, try taping your big toe to the next 1-2 toes over to keep it from irritating the tendon in the short term. Hope it feels better quickly!

    Thank you!
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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    skippygirlsmom wrote: »
    For those of you who hate to run in the morning, here's another good reason not to.

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    I'll get my pokin' stick.
  • PlantBasedRnr
    PlantBasedRnr Posts: 129 Member
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    Hey everyone - I don't really remember what I posted as my goal earlier this month and was somewhat bad about posting updates as I am a little overwhelmed by the activity here but with that said I am " friends " with most of you so I am going to TRY to do a better job and get more involved here. I have been " lurking " here for a couple months and am amazed at the knowledge that is here and that is one of the main reasons I want to get involved, you guys/gals have a lot to offer and even while " lurking " I have learned a ton...

    Now back to my mileage... I don't remember what I posted I was shooting for but looking back at my personal log I managed to get in 151 miles before last Fridays run which has put me firmly in the spectators seat for the last week.
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
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    @skippygirlsmom - Boys have cooties...ha! Also, as long as the body isn't mine, I'll keep running in the morning.
    @Stoshew71 - I am totally gonna be like Jack was to Focker when my daughter is older! Go Dad!

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