June (2016) Running Challenge

@elise4270 - good luck tomorrow! Love the RICE for women, although I need it to be chocolate.
@mnlittlefinn - love the bulls eye shirt. I wear a belt that holds the bibs when I do a race.

I don't know if @shanaber or anyone else wanting to do the women's Nike run mentioned it (no time to check), but I got emails from Nike that both Atlanta and LA were cancelled. UGH - I was waiting to sign up for something until I had those dates. Oh well... I know I will do Daytona Beach in Feb but not sure what in the fall yet. Still quite indecisive.

KC has been really great for running in the mornings. Great group of people run all different speeds. So fun to not be on my usual route and it's been less humid after the first day. Just 3 more days of KC runs and then fly home on Saturday.

6/1 - 22 miles cycling
6/2 - 5 miles + strength training
6/3 -rest and recovery day
6/4 - 34 miles cycling
6/5 - 42 miles cycling
6/6 - rest day - only 4 hours sleep - didn’t think I should
6/7 - strength training + 1 mile on treadmill (tropical storm rest day)
6/8 - 5 miles - yay! finally. Even though it was 95% humidity.
6/9 - 6 miles in the daylight!
6/10 - travel/rest day
6/11 - 4.28 miles in KC
6/12 - 5.5 miles in KC
6/13 - 4.4 miles approx
6/14 - 5.28 miles - beautiful KC morning!

Stoshew71 wrote: »

As far as bibs are concerned, I usually pin mine to my shirt the night before (for my flat Stanley). Just one less thing to worry about in the morning. I seen people also pin it to their shorts (for the shirt-less dudes). The RD should supply pins. If you do packet pickup the day off, I usually bring an extra set of pins with me just in case. With all the races my wife and I have done, it's easy to find bib-pins in my home. Heck, I think we each have a set in the car already.

@MNLittleFinn 90% of the time I pin it to the shirt. Like @Stoshew71 I carry pins from previous events ( permanently ) pinned to the mesh liner in my suitcase and my running bag so If I forget to grab pins or loose one I am still good. This is important for me as 99% of my races are out of town = Road Trip = Race Day Pickup. In the Winter races I pin it to the leg of my pants so if I need to remove my coat or first top layer I can without fighting with the bib. Also I refuse to Pin it to my coats as most of them are Gore-Tex and I don't want to damage the coat with a pin wobbling around in it. I have seen some people who have the Nathan Bib Holder for that very reason.

I am still on the IR List nursing my calf so no Km's for me. Volunteered at the 1st water station ( 2.5km mark ) at our local Race. Watching all my friends and other athletes running, seeing their bibs 5k, 10k, HM bibs and thinking I am faster than him/her wishing I was running. Being at the first station I see the 5K athletes once,10k twice and HM 4 times. It is one of the Figure 8 trails where I am right at the crossover. Was a little crazy at one time with all the 5k, 10k outbound and the fast HM inbound on the first loop crossing each other - controlled confusion/near collisions. Once they cleared out it was a very normal day. A few of the 10k runners were Socializing and just following the runner in front of them and took the HM extender at the top of the loop so they ended up with 10.55km. Still swimming and hope to Trail Test the leg this weekend.

Couldn't get out of bed this morning and it was nice and cool so I decided to run to the baseball field. Forgot it was mostly uphill and needed a "bathroom break " at Dairy Queen.


Date Run Totals
6/1 - 2 mi - 2 mi
6/3 - 3 mi - 5 mi
6/4 - 3 mi - 8 mi
6/7 - 3 mi - 11 mi
6/11- 3 mi - 14 mi
6/12- 2 mi - 16mi
6/14- 3 mi - 19 mi
Goal 40 miles

Races :
6/11 Run and Ride 5K Cedar Point - Done
7/10 Debbie Hudacko 5 mile
10/8 Outdoor Trail Series 5 mile #1
11/5 Outdoor Trail Series 5 mile #2
12/3 Outdoor Trail Series 5 mile #3
12/11 Santa Hustle Half Marathon Cedar Point

@Elise4270 Good luck! I'm sending you virtual coffee & eclaires for your recovery.

June goal.....run

6/1 rest
6/2 3.59
6/3 dog nursing
6/4 worked unplanned, unexpected overtime. crap.
6/5 5.39
6/6 dog nursing....DH was longingly looking at his weedwhacker. I spelled him to go whack off.
6/7 5.31
6/8 3.60
6/9 3.12
6/10 gave DH a nursing break
6/11 8.32
6/12 3.71
6/13 3.38
6/14 4.41 snuck out of work and ran in the rain.....so I can dognurse/give DH a break when I get home. 3 weeks till he's allowed off leash.....

Total 41.45

Upcoming races:
SHEPower Virtual Half: sometime in June or July......when dog needs less nursing
Las Vegas RocknRoll Half 11/13/16

Ticker is my goal for 2016 and accumulation to date:

@greenolivetree thanks! I'm working on it!

Goal 120 km run 120 km bike 12 km swim

4 - 6 km run
6 - 21.4 km run
9 - 30.1 km cycling
10 - 6.1 km run
11 - 8.2 km run
12 - 1.1 km swim & 8 6.1 km run
13 - rest
14 - 0.5 km swim & 8.5 km run

Totals 56.3 km running 30.1 km cycling 1.6 km swimming

Received Joe's Your First Triathlon book - I think this was a good investment. Yesterday's swim just sucked because the lanes where too full and i choose the general swim area. Not going to do that again. My daughter was more assertive and just grabbed a slot in a lane. Next time.

As to RICE?

For Mexicans, we say arroz and serve it with frijoles y unos taquitos.

@_nikkiwolf_ Oh god. Now I want an eclair too. XD

@greenolivetree Let us know how your early morning run went! I've run at 6:30 before, but the weather's supposed to clear up next week and it may get pretty hot at some point, so I may have to switch to running earlier too...

It was raining heavily this morning and I did not get to run after all. Maybe tonight if it stays cool?

6/1: 5 miles
6/2: 6.4 miles
6/3: Rest
6/4: Lazy
6/5: 9 miles
6/6: 5 miles
6/7: 4 miles
6/8: 6.5 miles << Wednesday group run
6/9: 6.4 miles << Thursday PUB RUN!
6/10: Rest day finally
6/11: 13.1 << Halfway Half (unofficial)
6/12: 10 miles
6/13: 6 miles with Joe2Go crew
6/14: 6.2 miles << Group runner send off!
6/15: 5 miles

Up at 6, out the door at 6:30 to run with my buddy today. Neither of us particularly wanted to run this morning, but it was perfect weather (slight breeze, 58F, sunny, low humidity) that is about to go away starting with rain storms tomorrow followed by a warmer weekend.




Upcoming Races:
7/4: A 4th of July race somewhere!
9/11: Lehigh Valley Via Marathon (Allentown, PA)
11/20: Philadelphia Marathon (Philly, PA)

6/1- 4.17
6/2- 5.79
6/3-Rest
6/4-12.25
6/5-Rest
6/6- Rest
6/7-5.03
6/8-Rest
6/9-5.0
6/10- Rest
6/11-10k race
6/12- Rest/recovery
6/13- Rest
6/14- 9.12
6/15- 4.02

Total: 51.43/100

Today's assignment was 30-45m at E. I ended up running just over 4 miles in 45:17 for an average pace of 11:16. Interesting thing. I was looking at my strava data for this route, and the last time I ran it was just over 2 months ago. Back then, my average pace was 22 seconds slower, and my average HR for the run was 7 BPM higher.....it's nice seeing progress in more than one way.

Today's run made for a nice recovery between yesterday's 9 miler, and tomorrow's 2x2mile tmpo intervals.