May 2016 Running Challenge
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I missed it. Monday, May 9th, was the 1 year anniversary of my very first run (which happened to be a 5k). I wanted to get out for a short run to celebrate but completely forgot. Oh well.
Happy Runniversarry!!!!07KatieP13 wrote: »10k PB today, very happy with that
Also very happy with how my month is going so far
Congratulations on the PB!!!!1 -
DATE...............MILES.............TOTAL
5/1....................REST................00.00
5/2....................REST................00.00
5/3.......................5.00.................5.00
5/4.....................10.00...............15.00
5/5.......................3.00...............18.00
5/6....................REST................18.00
5/7.....................12.00...............30.00
5/8.......................6.00...............36.00
5/9....................REST................36.00
5/10..................REST................36.00
5/11.....................5.00...............41.00
2016 Races
5/14: Glacier Ridge Ultra -- 50k (Portersville, PA)
6/9: Buckeye Trail 50k -- 50k (Brecksville, OH)
7/16: ColorRun --5k (with my 15 year old)(Pittsburgh, PA)
7/17: Presque Isle Half-Marathon (Erie, PA) -- This is a maybe.. road races have too many people...
9/10: 1st Annual Possum Glory Endurance Race -- 50k (Northern Cambria, PA)
10/1: Cloudsplitter 100 -- 100 Miles (Pine Mountain, KY)
10/15: Buffalo Creek Half Marathon (Sarver, PA) -- This is also a maybe.. because people...2 -
Just starting this challenge today, but I have walk/ran 5km at least 4 times since the beginning of May.
Long term goal is to run 5km without stopping, then work on speed.
Perhaps bump up the distance in the future.
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5/1...Rest
5/2...4.25 @ 12:22 on the hilly lake trail
5/3...3.0 @ 13:00 (this is really 2.0 @ 12:00 and 1.0 walking) on the treadmill and strength training day
5/4...4.25 @ 11:51 (most of it was around 11:30, but mile 4 is a brutal hill) on the neighborhood rail trail
5/5...2 miles walking. I'm not counting it, but thought I'd throw it in here as my "active rest" day
5/6...5.0 @ 11:21 on the treadmill, since it's raining pairs of cats and dogs straight onto the ark...
5/7-8... Rest/life days
5/9...5.5 @ 12:40, nice and easy on the lake trail
5/10...2.0 @ 11:55 on the dreadmill, and strength training
5/11...7.5 @ 13:00 on the big lake trail and connector trail, nice and easy. My legs are tired! But no more running for at least a week.
5/12-20 Rest/Surgery/Recovery
Completed races:
1/18 MLK 8K, Burke, VA 56:14
2/22 Princess Half, Orlando FL, 2:49:33
4/23 Healthy Strides Community 10K, Burke, VA 1:14:29
4/30 Run for the Children 8K, Fairfax, VA 56:35
Upcoming races:
6/12 Celebrate Fairfax 5K, Fairfax, VA
7/4 Freedom 5K, Fairfax VA
9/5 Great American 5K, Fairfax, VA
Either Hemlock Half or Divas Half in September
10/30 MCM 10K, Washington, DC
11/6 The Parks 10K, Washington, DC
11/19 Potomac River Half, Carderock, MD
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Somehow, it seems like a big accomplishment creating and sending a Cruise Interval workout to my Forerunner 2302
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5/1 - 5 miles
5/2 - 4 miles
5/3 - rest day
5/4 - 6 miles
5/5 - 5 miles
5/6 - rest day
5/7 - 5 miles
5/8 - trip to Nashville
5/9 - 5 miles
5/10 - family day
5/11 - 5 miles
35 of 100 miles
stupid ticker won't update
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Great running @skippygirlsmom !0
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5/2 3.37 miles
5/5 5.86 miles
5/10 3.7 miles
5/11 4 miles
I haven't been feeling well lately. I missed a few runs last week and then another one on Monday. I did some intervals yesterday and they were hard so I went for a recovery pace run today. I am also one of those people who find it common to have an average heart rate in the 170s with a max in the 180s for even easy runs. Today I had an average of 163 and max of 173. My pace was only about 15 seconds per mile slower than usual so I was surprised. I think I am going to try around the same pace for my 80 minute run on Friday and see what that gets me.
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@dennie24 great job!0
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04/05 4 miles
05/05 2 miles
09/05 4 miles
10/05 4 miles
11/05 4 miles
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@Marissaxzxzxz Good running!0
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I can't recall if this has been posted before or not. It's a thought-provoking video about running as a form of addiction.
https://youtube.com/embed/-NwHNHNXsg02 -
I can't recall if this has been posted before or not. It's a thought-provoking video about running as a form of addiction.
https://youtube.com/embed/-NwHNHNXsg0
I think it has been, but it's great so worth posting.0 -
Today I did c25k week 6 day 2. I decided to skip the walking interval between the two 10-minute running intervals and thus wound up running 23 minutes without stopping, though toward the end I was kind of seriously reaching for it. I don't know how you guys can go 10 miles, LOL. I know, I know, give it time.
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@RespectTheKitty Great job!0
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »Running fewer miles the week of a race is tough, but necessary. And I am totally bummed that I can't do my 38 Mile Night Fun Run on June 4.... I forgot that it was my son's graduation that day. I felt like crap because I debated long and hard about asking him if he would mind me not being there.
Anyway, I am going to swap that race out for another 50k in Ohio in July... that will still give me three 50ks and a couple of HMs to get ready for October... but still, I can't believe I was seriously thinking about skipping his graduation for a race....
You may be addicted to running if . . .4 -
5/1 - Rest day after HM to finish April. Another ugly, rainy day.
5/2 - 4.25 miles.
5/3 - 3.1 miles. Quick 5k while my daughter had soccer practice.
5/4 - 4.53 miles. Cool, pleasant morning run. Mostly base pace, but last mile tempo.
5/5 - 4.95 miles on treadmill (Trek class).
5/6 - 4.47 miles. Base pace.
5/7 - 4.84 miles, Market to Market Relay Leg 4
- 4.01 miles, Market to Market Relay Leg 11
5/8 - Planned rest day
5/9 - Unplanned rest day
5/10 - 5.17 miles
5/11 - Misty, foggy 5.01 miles
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@moyer566 wow, the frog looks like he's about to melt with relaxation and contentedness, nice photo!
@Orphia Wow, your fitness programm sounds awesome! Body weight exercises every day? That's so impressive, I already struggle to meet my good intentions of 2x strength training per week.
@5BeautifulDays All the best for the surgery, I'm wishing you a speedy recovery!
@7lenny7 Lol, no, I don't remember seeing that one before! Beware the dangerous running addiction!
@RespectTheKitty 23 minutes without stopping, well done! Actually, I think going from not-running to running 5k is the hardest. Going from 5k to 10k gets a little easier, and when you run 15km, 20km don't seem like that much longer anymore... Plus, t.b.h., it's not like everyone has to end up running 10miles or more - when I first started running, I was happy with my 3x30 minutes per week for quite a few years. Until I let my guard down and the addiction snuck up on me ^^
By the way, I'm convinced cyclists are just as crazy as runners. I drove over to "my" mountain today, met the same two guys a couple of times during the run:
First time they were going up shortly after I had turned around to go back down - they did say "Good evening", but they looked like what they were doing was hard! They passed me 15 minutes later (at that point all of us going down) near the foot of the climb, and sounded a lot happier as they were zipping past - they shouted back to me in passing that now I could have had the road to myself ^^ After that, I was actually thinking about those cyclists as I ran on - there's a hill I have to climb when I ride my bike to work and I hate it - how crazy that they ride to the freaking mountains for fun?
I usually run a little extra hill detour before I got all the way down to the car park. So today, as I got near the top of the extra hill, I met those same guys on their bikes again! My first though was "how on earth did they end up back up here - there were already down, why would they do a loop that leads them up another hill?!". To be fair, judging by their stunned expressions, they might have thought the same of me. In the end we all just grinned as we passed each other. Still, I'm counting that as evidence that we runners aren't the only crazies out there. Not to mention that cycling friend I have who keeps hoarding bikes like other people hord running shoes...3 -
PoppetsMaster wrote: »Running fewer miles the week of a race is tough, but necessary. And I am totally bummed that I can't do my 38 Mile Night Fun Run on June 4.... I forgot that it was my son's graduation that day. I felt like crap because I debated long and hard about asking him if he would mind me not being there. Anyway, I am going to swap that race out for another 50k in Ohio in July... that will still give me three 50ks and a couple of HMs to get ready for October... but still, I can't believe I was seriously thinking about skipping his graduation for a race....
You may be addicted to running if . . .
it may be fun to add our own.
...if you plan your wedding or honeymoon around a particular race. I'm not looking at @moyer566 on this one.
...if you missed the birth of a child/grandchild because of your long run.
...if you don't bother with your facebook but get stressed out if you have neglected your strava feed.
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@skippygirlsmom Thanks for the boot suggestions. If you hadn't shared that Skip ran in her's, I wouldn't have kept trying to figure this thing out. An orthotic and following the instructions putting it on helped. I think the way it was initially put on me was "wrong" or loose or something.0
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...if your lawn is terribly neglected from your weekend long runs and races. Not that this sort of thing has ever happened, mind you.PoppetsMaster wrote: »Running fewer miles the week of a race is tough, but necessary. And I am totally bummed that I can't do my 38 Mile Night Fun Run on June 4.... I forgot that it was my son's graduation that day. I felt like crap because I debated long and hard about asking him if he would mind me not being there. Anyway, I am going to swap that race out for another 50k in Ohio in July... that will still give me three 50ks and a couple of HMs to get ready for October... but still, I can't believe I was seriously thinking about skipping his graduation for a race....
You may be addicted to running if . . .
it may be fun to add our own.
...if you plan your wedding or honeymoon around a particular race. I'm not looking at @moyer566 on this one.
...if you missed the birth of a child/grandchild because of your long run.
...if you don't bother with your facebook but get stressed out if you have neglected your strava feed.
...if you have an Amazon Dash Button for your favorite pair of running shoes (or Pop-Tarts).0 -
PoppetsMaster wrote: »Running fewer miles the week of a race is tough, but necessary. And I am totally bummed that I can't do my 38 Mile Night Fun Run on June 4.... I forgot that it was my son's graduation that day. I felt like crap because I debated long and hard about asking him if he would mind me not being there. Anyway, I am going to swap that race out for another 50k in Ohio in July... that will still give me three 50ks and a couple of HMs to get ready for October... but still, I can't believe I was seriously thinking about skipping his graduation for a race....
You may be addicted to running if . . .
it may be fun to add our own.
...if you plan your wedding or honeymoon around a particular race. I'm not looking at @moyer566 on this one.
...if you missed the birth of a child/grandchild because of your long run.
...if you don't bother with your facebook but get stressed out if you have neglected your strava feed.
How about when you're traveling and feel the need to take the tangents on all roadways.
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....If you keep waking up earlier and earlier because it's so much more fun to get your mileage in in the dark.0
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PoppetsMaster wrote: »Running fewer miles the week of a race is tough, but necessary. And I am totally bummed that I can't do my 38 Mile Night Fun Run on June 4.... I forgot that it was my son's graduation that day. I felt like crap because I debated long and hard about asking him if he would mind me not being there. Anyway, I am going to swap that race out for another 50k in Ohio in July... that will still give me three 50ks and a couple of HMs to get ready for October... but still, I can't believe I was seriously thinking about skipping his graduation for a race....
You may be addicted to running if . . .
it may be fun to add our own.
...if you plan your wedding or honeymoon around a particular race. I'm not looking at @moyer566 on this one.
...if you missed the birth of a child/grandchild because of your long run.
...if you don't bother with your facebook but get stressed out if you have neglected your strava feed.
How about when you're traveling and feel the need to take the tangents on all roadways.
. . . if you describe driving to a race as being "trapped in a car all day."2 -
Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ----- May 03 4.2T 4.2 May 04 4.2T 8.4 May 06 5.1 13.5 May 07 8.2 21.7 May 08 5.6 27.3 May 09 4.2 31.5 May 11 6.5 38.0
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...if you ever decided it would be too painful to get out of your car after driving home from a race so you grab drive thru food and sleep in the car overnight.2
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