July (2016) Running Challenge
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17th July: 5km
July total: 29.9km
15.1 km left2 -
8km for me today. Took close to a km before my calf loosened up and I could really start to run. Slowly getting better , taking less time/distance to warm up and able to run more distance. It is actually long run day for our club so everyone else is doing 16-30km as they ramp up for the next marathon/triathlon in their schedules.
Which means that I am usually running by myself right now except when someone doing loop repeats comes cruising past. My next event was supposed to be Aug 20 - Sprint Triathlon but that will be questionable right up to the last week. Haven't combined a brick ( Swim&Bike or Bike&Run ) workout yet and its getting a little tight for Training days when you work backwards from the 20th. On the positive side no ill effects from Wednesdays unplanned 11km Hill Repeats.
07/01 – 0.0 km – 0.0 - 100 km
07/05 – 4.0 km – 4.0 – 96 km
07/07 – 4.0 km – 8.0 – 92 km
07/09 – 5.0 km – 13.0 – 87 km
07/13 – 11.0 km – 24.0 – 76 km
07/16 – 8.0 km – 32.0 – 68 km –YTD 651.2 km
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No run for me today, as it is my usual rest and spend time with my son day.
So, to all of you I say... keep on running! I love all of you and the encouragement you give me. It's because of these challenges that I keep going. Can't wait to get out there again tomorrow.3 -
July Running Totals (miles)
7/1 – rest day
7/2 – 13.14 paced run
7/3 – 10.06 easy with fast finish
7/4 – rest day
7/5 – 6.74 easy with hills and a fast finish
7/6 – 7.26 group run
7/7 – 6.85 warmup, group run speed work
7/8 – rest day
7/9 – 12.33 paced run
7/10 – time for run squeezed out by Life Happens
7/11 – rest day 7.41 easy + 4 strides
7/12 – 8.07 warmup + fartlek
7/13 – unplanned rest day – time crunch
7/14 – 7.63 easy
7/15 – rest day
7/16 – 14.86 warmup + Shoreline Half Marathon
July total to date – 94.35
Nominal Challenge Goal – 150 miles
Real Goals: Become comfortable running 5 days a week. Finish Shoreline in good shape, managing the expected heat and humidity better than last year. Build base toward Rochester Marathon.
Today's notes – The schedule continues to be tight. I see I failed to post after Thursday's run, a rare early morning run at 75º F (24° C) with high humidity. After a couple weeks of running mostly in the 86-90° range (30-32º C), it felt pretty good even though I was soaked in sweat by the end.
This morning, we got unexpectedly cool running weather. It was 66º F (19° C) at gun time. I had planned and train to manage the heat, and the heat didn't arrive. Did a warm up that spent a bit of time on the last mile of the course, so I'd know how far was left when I got there. Set out to run the race with the goal of feeling good when I got done. I wasn't particularly trying to run fast, and I definitely wasn't trying for a PR. But the weather was quite a bit cooler than what I've run in recently, and less humid than it was Thursday.
Of course, I got sucked out by the starting surge; in the first couple of miles I had to keep reminding myself to run my race and let other runners pull ahead. By mile 3, that was mostly sorted out. A couple of guys passed me somewhere in mile 4 or 5; I took a gel at the 5 mile flag, felt restored, and passed them during mile 6. Passed a couple more guys who in mile 7; they looked like they had slowed down. Passed one more in mile 9, and it looked like I had achieved my final position.
I still felt pretty good at the mile 11 flag, so I started thinking maybe I could push it to T pace after the mile 12 flag. Turned out by the time I got to that flag, I was already running T. For the first time in my racing career, I passed 3 guys in the last mile of a half marathon. This is very, very rare. Anyone who is still ahead of me after 12 miles ought to know what they're doing and be faster than I am.
Put on a sprint for the finish line, crossing at an official time of 1:31:11. I was so focused on that sprint that I neglected to stop the Garmin for about 30 seconds, so I don't have a good split on the last tag end time; but the 13 mile splits Garmin reported were 6:54, 6:48, 7:00, 7:16, 7:14, 7:05, 6:50, 6:50, 6:50, 6:48, 6:59, 6:37, and 6:37. The course was mostly flat; what looked like small hills last year in ridiculous heat and humidity looked like gentle inclines and declines this year.
That result was good for 23rd out of 853 overall, 1st of 19 in the M 60-64 age group. Shoreline is the 3rd race in the Four Seasons Challenge, and I extended my already ridiculously large lead in the age group for the challenge. All I have to do to win the age group for the challenge is finish the Rochester Marathon.
The age group award was a curved glass plaque. I'm not terribly fond of curved glass plaques, as they aren't very space efficient; but it's part of the set:
Of course, there was the finisher's medal and the 3rd piece of the 4-part series medal:
Here are the first three parts of the 4-part medal. I think I'll get something that they all go into for the middle square, after Rochester:
No PR; but a negative split, a decent time, an age group win, and I finished in great shape. I'm pretty happy with this one.
2016 races:
January 1, 2016 Resolution Run 7.5 mile (Mendon, NY) finished in 53:58
January 9, 2016 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) finished in 1:30:59
March 12, 2016 Johnny's Runnin' of the Green 5 mile (Rochester, NY) finished in 32:32
March 26, 2016 Spring Forward Distance Run 15K (Mendon, NY) finished in 1:05:24
April 18, 2016 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA) finished in 3:23:01
April 24, 2016 Flower City Challenge Half Marathon (Rochester, NY) finished in 1:36:50, targeting MP
May 15, 2016 Highland Hospital Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
June 19, 2016 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY) DNS - recovering from face plant
July 16, 2016 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hamlin, NY) finished in 1:31:11
September 18, 2016 Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY)
November 24, 2016 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
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Wow @MobyCarp great job on your race and age group win! The weather sure cooperated for running today. Way to run a great race and great finish. That medal series is cool and your age group wins are extremely impressive! Nice collection of prizes!!!
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TattooedDolphinGirl78 wrote: »@Josh_lol Have a great vacation and great progress!
ThanksTattooedDolphinGirl78 wrote: »New PR!!!!! Went for my run this morning and I accomplished 5K in 35 mins 53 sec!!! 5.64km in 41 mins 45 sec!!!
I always seem to do better outdoors than on the treadmill.
Great job on the PB2 -
Decided to up my monthly mileage goal to 100km from 60km because I obviously low-balled myself at the beginning of the month. Great run today! 60% trail, 40% road, about 10 minutes of rain, the other 49 blazingly hot haha. Even discovered a route to the new hospital from our house via trails that is only 3.5km!
07/01- 4.28km
07/02- 5.01km
07/03- Rest/Weights Day
07/04- 5.48km
07/05- Forced Rest Day (Husband OOT)
07/06- Forced Rest Day (Husband OOT)
07/07- 6.13km
07/08- 6.13km
07/09- 6.13km
07/10- 3km
07/11- 8.3km
07/12- 4.5km
07/13- 4.6km
07/14- 10km
07/15- Rest Day
07/16- 11km
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Fantastic job @mobycarp. Woohoo. I love the 4 piece medal.0
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Does anyone follow a low carb diet? Am i crazy for trying while running? I feel like eating something but I think I'm just bored or craving something....idk what...carbs...bread? I can't put my finger on it. I ate a big salad with lots of chicken and deli meat...drank 8 cups of water already...my stomach feels full but my mind isn't satisfied. I'm on day #13 of eating lower carbs. It got easy but the last two days are sucking. Something I ate triggered this maybe.0
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1TheQueenB wrote: »Does anyone follow a low carb diet? Am i crazy for trying while running? I feel like eating something but I think I'm just bored or craving something....idk what...carbs...bread? I can't put my finger on it. I ate a big salad with lots of chicken and deli meat...drank 8 cups of water already...my stomach feels full but my mind isn't satisfied. I'm on day #13 of eating lower carbs. It got easy but the last two days are sucking. Something I ate triggered this maybe.
I am a low-carber and have zero issues running. Are you eating fake sugars and keto baked crap? Because that'd do it imo.0 -
@skippygirlsmom - oh no, hope the foot doesn't make you miss a running day.
@MobyCarp - congrats! Love the bling. I guess it is still bling on a guy.
@kristinegift - Hope it cools down. Amazing you got that long of a run in with that heat.
Fun bike ride today with a small group. Heading up to VA tomorrow, but it looks like it will be hotter there than Orlando. WTH! Hoping to get lots of runs in while away!
7/1 - 5.23 miles in Washington
7/2 - 3.7 miles in Washington
7/3 - flying home all day - no running.
7/4 - couldn’t ride today.
7/5 - 4.5 miles in the Florida heat and humidity.
7/6 - 5 miles!
7/7 - 4.2 miles + 1 hour spinning class
7/8 - strength training - cancelled — rest day
7/9 - 34 mile bike ride
7/10 -35 miles biking
7/11 - 5 mile run + strength training
7/12 - 5 mile run
7/13 - 4 miles
7/14 - 4.3 miles
7/15 - 4.5 miles
7/16 - 41 miles biking
7/17 - rest day ... driving day
Upcoming races
2/5/17 - Daytona Beach HM
2/26/17 - Disney Princess HM Orlando2 -
JessicaMcB wrote: »1TheQueenB wrote: »Does anyone follow a low carb diet? Am i crazy for trying while running? I feel like eating something but I think I'm just bored or craving something....idk what...carbs...bread? I can't put my finger on it. I ate a big salad with lots of chicken and deli meat...drank 8 cups of water already...my stomach feels full but my mind isn't satisfied. I'm on day #13 of eating lower carbs. It got easy but the last two days are sucking. Something I ate triggered this maybe.
I am a low-carber and have zero issues running. Are you eating fake sugars and keto baked crap? Because that'd do it imo.
@JessicaMcB No fake sugar that I can think of,no keto products... I've have whole wheat thin slice bread..22g carbs. How many grams do you eat daily?0 -
@MobyCarp Sweet, sweet swag!
8--- 1.0 walk
9---0.52 walk, +1.01 walk
10---1.57 walk
16---2.1walk
I swear, crutches were not made for walkin'.
Upcoming races:
11/05/16 Jenks Half Jenks OK
12/11/16 BMW Dallas Marathon, Half
Run the year 2016 898.42/ 2016
Hopeful races:
March 19th 2017 RNR Half Dallas, TX
March 26th 2017 A2A 5k Ardmore, OK
April 30th 2017 OKC Memorial Marathon, Half.5 -
1TheQueenB wrote: »JessicaMcB wrote: »1TheQueenB wrote: »Does anyone follow a low carb diet? Am i crazy for trying while running? I feel like eating something but I think I'm just bored or craving something....idk what...carbs...bread? I can't put my finger on it. I ate a big salad with lots of chicken and deli meat...drank 8 cups of water already...my stomach feels full but my mind isn't satisfied. I'm on day #13 of eating lower carbs. It got easy but the last two days are sucking. Something I ate triggered this maybe.
I am a low-carber and have zero issues running. Are you eating fake sugars and keto baked crap? Because that'd do it imo.
@JessicaMcB No fake sugar that I can think of,no keto products... I've have whole wheat thin slice bread..22g carbs. How many grams do you eat daily?
I eat 20g net or less per day basically all of that from vegetables, definitely no bread going on over here at this point. The one time I attempted to eat bread after going low-carb in the beginning I thought I was dying though.1 -
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@comet236 Welcome to the group!
@Elise4270 I've never been on crutches but 2 miles seems impressive
@mobycarp Nice job!
Lots of laziness, napping, and eating today. Planning 4 miles in the morning. I think it will be 75 instead of the cool (ish) 68 this morning (although 90% humidity this morning had me still sweating plenty).2 -
Say, I have been trying to follow everyone's post...this is a very active site. What is a tempo run? Fartlek? (Am I spelling this correctly) and taper. Thanks.
Also curious about the Japanese training program. I have read that theie athletes run long, long distances for their training....150-200 miles per week. Also doing the same with their race horses. Lani (Japanese race horse) finished 3rd in the Belmont stakes (1.5 miles) this year. He was being trained by running 15 miles at a time, pretty unconventional.
Fartlek is a Sweedish word that means "speed play". It means that you just speed up your pace for a random distance. Like I run hard to that telephone poll then go back to my normal pace till I catch my breath. Then speed back up again. It's very informal and up to you. Tempo runs are more formal and you can learn more in the group page. Just look up the main announcementsite that says Links and References then about 2/3rds down it talks about all about threshold runs.2 -
7/16: 4.5 miles (basketball officiating)
Monthly total: 106.25/140 miles2 -
Date Miles today. Miles for July
7/1 3.1 miles - 3.1
7/2 14 miles - 17.1
7/3 REST DAY
7/4 9 miles - 26.1
7/5 9 miles - 35.1
7/5 6.2 miles - 41.3 << Daily Double
7/6 6.2 miles - 47.5
7/7 8.25 miles - 55.75
7/7 5 miles - 60.75 << Daily Double, FF Pub Run
7/8 13 miles - 73.75 << PPounders Swamp Run
7/9 REST DAY
7/10 REST DAY
7/11 9.25 miles - 83
7/11 5 miles - 88 << Daily Double
7/12 9 miles - 97
7/12 4 miles - 101 << Daily Double
7/13 6.2 miles - 107.2
7/14 9 miles - 116.2
7/15 REST DAY unplanned
7/16 15 miles - 131.2
7/16 6.2 miles - 137.4 << Daily Double w/ wife
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 <<< 19:10 (2.9 mi) 1 in AG 5 OA
Cotton Row Run 10K - 5/30 << 44:57 PR
Firecracker Chase 10.2 miler 6/25 << 1:20:22 1 in AG & 15 OA
Rocket City Marathon - 12/10
Wife and I running together this evening.
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