April 2016 Running Challenge
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@PoppetsMaster Welcome back! I still remember your previous two nicknames; you were taking part in this challenge already when I first found it, and I was absolutely in awe of the miles you did, really inspiring. Great to have you back!
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Brrr, as I'm writing this, I'm still trying to warm up. It got really cold again here all of a sudden! Okay, 3°C isn't that cold, but somehow the drop in temperature didn't register with me, and I headed out in shorts and a shirt.
Worse than that, these were shorts I hadn't used for a while, and they seem to have gotten worn out - they were fine last summer, but today I constantly had to pull them back up. It was a horrible run clothing-wise, but I threw in some faster intervals to warm up a little, so I guess at least I can chalk it up as speedwork!
And I've reached my goal for the month, with an entire weekend still remaining
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Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ----- Apr 01 103.7 103.7 April Fools!! Apr 03 6.2 6.2 Cohasset 10K, PR and 19th in my age group! Apr 05 5.3T 11.5 Apr 06 3.8T 15.3 Apr 09 6.4 21.7 Apr 10 5.0 26.7 Apr 11 3.6T 30.3 Apr 12 3.8T 34.1 Apr 16 11.2 45.3 Apr 17 4.3 49.6 Apr 19 5.0 54.6 Apr 20 4.2 58.8 Apr 22 5.1 63.9 Apr 23 11.4 75.3 Apr 24 5.6 80.9 Apr 27 5.1 86.0
@Stoshew71 I loved the Bible Verse story!1 -
And hey @PoppetsMaster ! Welcome back!!!0
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@PoppetsMaster - yay! You are back!
@_nikkiwolf_ - strange that temp dropped like that!
Ready for a rest day tomorrow - after a run and bike ride today/night.
4/1- 5.1 miles in the rain
4/2 - rest/travel day
4/3 - 34 miles on bike
4/4 - 5.1 miles (intervals)
4/5 - 5.1 miles - intervals (although slower than yesterday)
4/6 - 22 miles on bike + Strength training
4/7 - 4.2 miles - slow and steady
4/8 - strength training
4/9 - 34 miles on bike
4/10 - 50 miles on bike
4/11 - 5.1 miles - recovery run from all the biking + strength training
4/12 - 4.2 miles
4/13 - rest day (biking rained out).
4/14 - 4.8 miles
4/15 - sick day
4/16 - 4.2 very slow miles (feeling better)
4/17 - 35 miles on bike
4/18 - 5 miles (intervals)
4/19 - strength training
4/20 - 4 miles + 24 mile bike ride
4/21 - 5 miles
4/22 - strength training
4/23 - 34 miles on bike
4/24 - 50 miles on bike
4/25 - 3.9 miles - recovery run
4/26 - 5.2 miles - intervals! Or Fartleks.
4/27 - 4.2 miles + 24 mile bike ride
4/28 - rest day
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11 km run with 8 members of our local Club. Broke into 3 Different Groups, Speedsters, Average Gang and the Walking Wounded. All ways like seeing the injured out walking as that means they are getting better.
Uphill 5km on Pats Creek to the Top of the River Valley, across the top on some Bush Trails ( lots of Mud Bogs ) and then downhill on what we call the 12ft trail. It was a really nice run and great company. Not saying that we were Lost but the walkers got back to the Recreation center parking lot before we did. We were out for 75 minutes which is about 9 minutes off pace for 11km but we did have Viewpoint stops and Trail Guessing stops, it was a really good evening with a Temperature of 18C / 64F.
04/01 – 0.0 Km – 0.0 - 140 km
04/02 – 10. Km – 10 km- 130 km
04/03 – 8.0 Km – 18 km- 122 km
04/04 – 12 km – 30 km – 110 km
04/06 – 6.0 km – 36 km – 104 km
04/08 – 5.0 km – 41 km – 99 km
04/09 –16.0 km – 57 km – 83 km
04/11 –6.5 km – 63.5 km –76.5 km
04/16 – 21km – 84.5 km – 55.5 km
04/21 –8.5km – 93.0 km – 47.0 km
04/23 –10km –103.0 km – 37.0 km
04/27 –11km –114.0 km – 26.0 km YTD - 504.8 km
@PoppetsMaster - Glad to see you back, looking forward to your race report/updates and Trail Pictures.
I need two versions - 13.1 Winter and 13.1 Summer, 13.1W x 2 & 13.1S x 1.skippygirlsmom wrote: »There is a car here at work with stickers on the back 50K 26.2 and 13.1 the 13.1 cracks me up because is actually says 13.1 x 9 love it.2 -
Off from running and MFP for so many days....
Will be resuming from May... Injury is gone and had a lot of rest. April I fell short in April Running Challenge.
Had done a Blood Sugar level test today and found that I am having High Glucose level
This isn't a good news....
might be this will be a new motivation to run in May... 0 -
April Goal: Run often
4/1 couldn't
4/2 4.05
4/3 3.15
4/4 ennui
4/5 snorkel 3.5 hours
4/6 6.30
4/7 3.65
4/8 5.81
4/9 rest
4/10 6.20
4/11 strength train
4/12 3.00
4/13 rest
4/14 3.96
4/15 meh
4/16 4.12
4/17 strength train
4/18 4.05
4/19 4.02
4/20 snorkel 3.5 hours
4/21 too rough to snorkel: parasailed instead!
4/22 6.70
4/23 3.15
4/24 rest
4/25 3.15
4/26 meh
4/27 3.18
Total 70.29
Upcoming races:
6/26 SHEPower Virtual 1/2 marathon
11/13 Las Vegas Rock n Roll 1/2 marathon
Ticker is my goal for 2016 and accumulation to date:
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2 April – 5 km parkrun
3 April – 10 km PB 1:02:23
5 April – 8.2 km
7 April – 7.1 km
9 April – 5 km parkrun PB 29:12 Sub-30 goal achieved!
10 April – 15 km ran to the next town and back!
12 April – 8.4 km
14 April – 7 km
16 April – 5 km parkrun PB 28:43!
17 April – 12 km
19 April – 10 km
21 April – 7 km intervals
23 April – 5 km parkrun PB 28:35!
24 April – 13.8 km
26 April – 10 km
28 April – 8.2 km
Total: 136.7 km
Goal: 100 km – achieved!
Upcoming:
May 8: Mother’s Day Classic 8.4 km
June 19 – Winter Solstice Lighthouse to Lighthouse 15 km
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »Going to try this again.
This is Lonewolfrunner aka Morningghost14... Real life kicks *kitten*. Especially mine.... but working through it. I have been staying up with my running fortunately, and I feel decently ready for my 50K on May 14. I will just follow along this month (I have about 140 miles so far), but will get my ticker going again for May. I have missed you guys.
Yay, you're back!I'm now on day 3 of no running, and I feel like I'm slowly going insane o.0 The good news is that my knee is feeling a lot better today. Not 100% pain free, but very milk pain that is only there some of the time. Hamstring and hip both feel completely back to normal too so I'm pretty excited about that. Assuming things don't worsen over the course of the day, I'm going to try a short run tomorrow to see how things feel. I can't even begin to explain how much I'm looking forward to it!!
@ariceroni Ooh, good luck, sweetie! Hoping hard it all goes well.0 -
04/01 3.1 miles easy
04/06 4.5 miles comfortable run
04/08 10 miles much better than the last long run, managed to get out of the habit of walking breaks
04/14 4.5 miles
04/15 4.8 miles
04/19 5 miles
04/20 5 miles
04/23 13.1 miles Longest run ever!!!
04/27 6.5 miles Kept it easy with a little sprint at the end to fully stretch my legs out. Going to be close getting to my target doing a couple of recovery runs and then finish with a 6.5 miler.
03/20 Canterbury Riverside 10k 1:16:12
05/29 Edinburgh Half marathon1 -
Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ----- Apr 01 103.7 103.7 April Fools!! Apr 03 6.2 6.2 Cohasset 10K, PR and 19th in my age group! Apr 05 5.3T 11.5 Apr 06 3.8T 15.3 Apr 09 6.4 21.7 Apr 10 5.0 26.7 Apr 11 3.6T 30.3 Apr 12 3.8T 34.1 Apr 16 11.2 45.3 Apr 17 4.3 49.6 Apr 19 5.0 54.6 Apr 20 4.2 58.8 Apr 22 5.1 63.9 Apr 23 11.4 75.3 Apr 24 5.6 80.9 Apr 27 5.1 86.0 Apr 27 4.3 90.3
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4/1- Rest
4/2- 6.23 miles
4/3- 4.01 miles
4/4- Rest
4/5- 4.02 miles
4/6- Rest
4/7- 4.02 Miles
4/8- Rest
4/9- 6.24 Miles
4/10- 4.01 Miles
4/11- Rest
4/12- 4.14 Miles
4/13- 2.2 Miles (first Wednesday Run)
4/14- 4.13 Miles
4/15- Much needed Rest
4/16- 8.2
4/16- 1.4 <- Second little jog, with wife
4/17- Rest <- made myself rest
4/18- Rest <- Normal scheduled Rest day
4/19- 4.1
4/20- Rest<- Part of cut back/heal up
4/21- 4.28 Miles
4/22- 2.0<- Wife’s second run!
4/23- 6.3
4/24- Rest <- took a day after pushing on my 10K TT yesterday.
4/25-Rest
4/26-5.1
4/27- 3
4/28- 5.0
Totals: 77.44/60
Notes on Today's run: Today's assignment was 40m-1h at E. I ran a normal 5 mile route I have that goes over a couple longish rolling hills outside of town. I did go too fast this morning 10:30 is the bottom end of my E range according to McMillan). I'm starting to think that the problem is that it feels easier than it actually is some of the time. I have no real problem holding the 10:30 pace for the whole 5 miles, and could do more at that pace without feeling dead, but part of me thinks I'm going too fast. Anyway, the run was good, it's nice running back East facing the sunrise, which was beautiful this morning, with just enough clouds to add some nice purples to the orange and yellow sky. Overall, the run felt good, so maybe I am OK taking it at this pace.
Side note 1: I LOVE my new Brooks Glycerin 13s! They are a tiny bit heavier than my Nike Pegasus 32s but are so cushy that it's amazing.
Side note 2: On the back end of my run this morning I had one of those realizations.....a year ago, a 5 mile walk/jog of intervals might have capped off a 3 workout week and been the only run of the week. This week, after 3 runs, I'm at 13 miles and 5 milers are part of my normal midweek routine. I may not be fast, but it's really cool thinking about the progress I've made.5 -
The Bible verse story and the subsequent discussion seriously had me laughing. I agree - both Psalm verses definitely apply to some of my runs!
So...I just got my bib number and corral assignment for the Broad Street Run on Sunday. I am a bit disappointed. Now, I know I am slow, but they have me in the last corral...with the walkers. I'm going to do my best to get into the front of the corral, but having to weave through people walking annoys me to no end! The past handful of years has seen about 35,000+ finishers in this thing. I am a middle-of-the road runner. I consistently finish right in the middle of pretty much every race I run (except for that one race where I made a wrong turn and had to ask a Philly cop for directions). I expect it to be ungodly crowded, and I am doing this race simply for the experience, but I'm still slightly annoyed. It's a bucket list run for me, and I had to defer from last year due to my injury the month before. Maybe my deferment is why they put me last? I honestly don't expect to run this race again, at least not any time in the near future. Maybe they know what they're doing by putting me in the corral they did? On a positive note, the 10 miles is dead straight and slightly downhill the entire way with the exception for both being the detour around City Hall. I guess we'll see how it all goes on Sunday.0 -
Date Miles today. Miles for April
4/1 REST DAY
4/2 14.3 miles - 14.3 <<< 13.1 HM + 1.2 warmup
4/3 REST DAY
4/4 4.2 miles - 18.5 << will try and get a second lunch time run in
4/4 4.0 miles - 22.5 << daily double, 3E +1HMP
4/5 8 miles - 30.5
4/6 4.2 miles - 34.7 << easy recovery 4 (taper week)
4/7 6 miles - 40.7
4/8 5 miles - 45.7
4/9 3.3 miles - 49
4/10 14.2 miles - 63.2 << 13.1 + 1.1 w/u
4/11 6.2 miles - 69.4
4/12 9 miles - 78.4
4/12 6.2 miles - 84.6 << daily double
4/13 6.2 miles - 90.8
4/14 9.6 miles - 100.4
4/14 6.2 miles - 106.6 << daily double
4/15 6.2 miles - 112.8 << recovery run
4/16 16 miles - 128.8 << LSD run with a fast finish
4/17 REST DAY
4/18 10.5 miles 139.3
4/19 8 miles 147.3 << Tempo pace for a few miles
4/19 6.2 miles 153.5 << daily double
4/20 6.2 miles - 159.7
4/21 9 miles - 168.7 << Madkin Mnt + some tempo work
4/21 4 miles - 172.7 << daily double
4/22 6.2 miles - 178.9 << recovery day
4/23 17.5 miles - 196.4 << Long run on Madkin & Weeden Mnts 1193 ft elev
4/24 REST DAY
4/25 8 miles - 204.4 << have a daily double planned for later on today
4/25 4 miles - 208.4 << daily double
4/26 8 miles - 216.4
4/26 4 miles - 220.4 << daily double
4/27 6.2 miles - 226.6
4/28 9.5 miles - 236.1
Upcoming races:
UAH 8K - 3/6 <<< 34:33 3 in AG
Oak Barrel HM - 4/2 <<<< 1:38:00 3 in AG
Bridge Street HM - 4/10 <<< 1:36:33 3 in AG
PEO-AVN Team Day 5K - 5/4
Cotton Row Run 10K - 5/30
Firecracker Chase 10.2 miler 6/25
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Running to beat my March total of 127.71:
04/01 3.36
04/02 8.26
04/03 8.38
04/04 4.82
04/05 5.07
04/06 3.51
04/07 7.53
04/08 3.96 walking because I climbed 154 flights
04/09 5.76
04/11 3.41
04/12 3.18
04/13 3.09
04/14 3.19
04/15 2.32
04/16 6.40
04/17 9.31
04/18 3.19
04/19 3.15; 16.05 bike ride
04/20 3.21
04/21 3.63
04/22 4.73
04/23 9.49
04/24 7.08
04/25 3.79
04/26 4.39
04/27 3.78 GOAL ACHIEVED!!!
04/28 3.84
04/29
04/30
Total 131.83
GOAL = > 127.71
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@instantmartian Can you get the corral assignment changed at the expo? Just tell them some of your current race results and they should be able to cross out and write in a different corral. I've done this at a few races when I've gotten faster over the course of a season and realized my predicted finish was way off.1
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Date.........Miles..........Total
1/4............Rest..............0
2/4............Rest..............0
3/4.............3.7..............3.7
4/4.............3.0..............6.7
5/4............Rest............6.7
6/4.............6.0.............12.7
7/4.............3.0.............15.7
8/4............Rest............15.7
9/4............Rest............15.7
10/4..........Rest............15.7
11/4...........3.5.............19.2
12/4..........Rest............19.
13/4..........Rest............19.2
14/4...........3.6..............22.8
15/4..........Rest............22.8
16/4..........Rest............22.8
17/4..........Rest............22.8
18/4...........3.8............ 26.6
19/4...........3.8.............30.4
20/4..........Rest............30.4
21/4...........6.3.............36.7
22/4..........Rest...........36.7
23/4...........4.0.............40.7
24/4..........Rest...........40.7
25/4...........2.2.............42.9
26/4...........4.0.............46.9
27/4..........Rest...........46.9
28/4...........6.2.............53.1
A hard 6.2 miles today, I thought I was ready to take on a steep long hill out on the back lanes. I was wrong. For the first time since starting running I had to stop and walk a bit up a hill. I think I'll give it a month or two and then give it another go. I kinda like having another goal to work towards.
I've got one more run planned for this month which is going to leave me just under 3 miles short of my goal, hopefully next month I'll finally hit 60 miles 3 -
Life is crazy and busy right now. Having a tough time running, let alone getting here to keep up with everybody. :-(
4/1 - 3.5 miles on indoor track + weights/abs
4/2 - Life day
4/3 - 10 miles. Very windy.
4/4 - Rest day.
4/5 - 4 miles on the treadmill, then weights/abs.
4/6 - 4.3 miles. Cool, damp and breezy.
4/7 - 4.5 miles on treadmill (Trek class)
4/8 - Rest day...lots of housework/painting/yardwork
4/9 - 4.05 mile trail race...super fun with local microbrews at the end! Had way more fun than I expected!
4/10 - Skipped my long run due to back pain / spasms. Not sure if they were from the trail race or from moving my son's room. Had to skip my planned 10+ mile long run. Hope it gets better fast!
4/11 - Woke up with continued back pain. Getting cranky.
4/12 - 4.4 miles. Chilly, but tolerable. Back was tender, but not painful.
4/13 - 5.43 miles. Went further than planned, because it was beautiful out.
4/14 - 3.48 mile evening run.
4/15 - 10.01 miles. UGLY. Hot, humid early afternoon run. Went out too fast. Had to take a short walk break in the middle.
4/16 - Rest day.
4/17 - 5.19 miles. Cool, comfortable.
4/18 - 4.72 miles.
4/19 - 3.98 miles while my daughter had soccer practice
4/20 - Unplanned rest day.
4/21 - 4.8 miles on treadmill (Trek class)
4/22 - 4.0 speedy miles on indoor track, then weights/abs
4/23 - 11.05 miles long run
4/24 - Rest day.
4/25 - 3.5 miles. Small taper leading up to HM on Saturday.
4/26 - 4 miles.
4/27 - Unplanned rest day / life day.
4/28 - 4.5 miles on treadmill (Trek class) - reduced my regular pace and did "hills" at lower incline than instructed
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@07KatieP13 Sounds like you have good plan/attitude with that hill climb goal. 3 miles shy of your goal is still good, putting on the mileage!
@karllundy Keep it up! sometimes just plowing through and getting it done is what ya gotta do, and you're doing it!0 -
For everyone that's injured. Or will be injured.
http://www.runnersworld.com/psychology/5-steps-for-coping-with-the-psychological-effects-of-injuries
I'm at 98/130 for the month- so sad. Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to get 2 miles before the end of the month.
My foot still hurts. No where near passing a hop test. I'm terribly concerned that I have a stress fracture. And of course, timed so close to surgery I'll be forced to take 6 months off of running. I could skip surgery.... And ignore the foot that won't let me run... But I can't figure out how to make that work.
Guess I'll go read the article I posted a link to... Think of me on your runs.
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