August (2016) Running Challenge

ereck44 · August 2016

Amandajs232 wrote: »

August

2Aug - 7m
4Aug - 8m
6Aug - 5m

20/100miles

Had a few drinks last night so my run was a couple of hours later this morning. Delighted to have made it out even if it was hot - the previous version of me would never have exercised after drinking.

This is definitely my crowd, self professed geeks, no coordination at other sports and live a good funny! Totally inspired by @MobyCarp and all you others starting later in life, doing mega distances, fighting back after illness/injury. Make it all seem possible for newer comers like me.

At @ereck44 you are giving me a sense of foreboding- I have osteopenia, was grossly overweight (so good to say that in past tense!) and now I am running! Better book me in for my new joints now

@Amandajs232 Osteopenia, really? I am glad that you got your weight under control. The people who I was writing about waited too late. The human body is amazingly resilient and can reverse a lot of damage that we put on it except if it as the "point of no return", i.e. liver damage, emphysema, etc. You are so young that by the time it may become a problem, there will already be a cure for it....medical science is growing by leaps and bounds.

Stoshew71 · August 2016

Date Miles today - Miles for August
8/1 9 miles - 9
8/1 4.5 miles - 13.5 << Daily Double
8/2 9 miles - 22.5
8/2 4 miles - 26.5 << Daily Double
8/3 5 miles - 31.5
8/4 9 miles - 40.5
8/4 4 miles - 44.5 << Daily Double
8/5 5.25 miles - 49.75
8/6 20.97 miles - 70.72

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

Dakotaderego · August 2016

Shooting to break 60 Miles. Clocked 12 already. Here we go.

Rise.
Grind.
Repeat.

vandinem · August 2016

Date     Miles      MTD
------   -----    -------
Aug  2     5.0      5.0 
Aug  3     5.8     10.8 
Aug  4     4.3     15.1 
Aug  6     5.6     20.7

Amandajs232 · August 2016

ereck44 wrote: »

Amandajs232 wrote: »

August

2Aug - 7m
4Aug - 8m
6Aug - 5m

20/100miles

Had a few drinks last night so my run was a couple of hours later this morning. Delighted to have made it out even if it was hot - the previous version of me would never have exercised after drinking.

This is definitely my crowd, self professed geeks, no coordination at other sports and live a good funny! Totally inspired by @MobyCarp and all you others starting later in life, doing mega distances, fighting back after illness/injury. Make it all seem possible for newer comers like me.

At @ereck44 you are giving me a sense of foreboding- I have osteopenia, was grossly overweight (so good to say that in past tense!) and now I am running! Better book me in for my new joints now

@Amandajs232 Osteopenia, really? I am glad that you got your weight under control. The people who I was writing about waited too late. The human body is amazingly resilient and can reverse a lot of damage that we put on it except if it as the "point of no return", i.e. liver damage, emphysema, etc. You are so young that by the time it may become a problem, there will already be a cure for it....medical science is growing by leaps and bounds.

@ereck44 at 38 "you are so young" made my day! Yeah I broke a variety of bones in a short space of time so got a sent for a dexa scan. Other than "try not to fall and get as much naturally occurring calcium" as possible it doesn't affect me at all. Been told it will likely become osteoporosis in 10-20 years so I will worry about it then.

lilawenta · August 2016

Nice job! I'm another Garmin Connect fan. Sent you a connection request.

KatieJane83 wrote: »

This was a bit hot for me for a speed training run, but I did it anyway. Especially since we found out we can leave work at 3:30 today, and I am totally taking advantage by going home and completely vegging out, lol, so wanted to get this run out of the way. Running in the heat just means I'll be faster in the fall. That's what I keep telling myself whenever I feel like stopping!

.5mi warmup/2mi fartleks/.5mi cooldown

9mi/75 for the month. Coming up: Zumba + lifting tomorrow, long run on Sunday.

TattooedDolphinGirl78 · August 2016

@ereck44 Thanks! This pic will stay out for a while. Someone had asked to see my dolphin tattoo before this one.

lilawenta · August 2016

Longest run in a while. Ran/walked 6.3 miles with my dog Hugo. Was supposed to stay in Zone 2 which wasn't happening, even with walking in an effort to get it down. Was in Z3 and Z4 the majority of the time.

TattooedDolphinGirl78 · August 2016

Walked the Colour Vibe course this morning, 4.5 kms! Pic to come later when I get onto my desktop.

I also was a bowler back in the day. I do not remember my average and I played 5-pin.

MobyCarp · August 2016

August Running Totals (miles)
8/1 – 5.90 easy plus 4 strides
8/2 – 6.24 hill run
8/3 – rest day
8/4 – 13.56 hot and humid
8/5 – rest day
8/6 – 14.13 paced run

August total to date – 39.83

Nominal Challenge Goal – 200 miles
Real Goals: Survive last month before retirement. Train as well as possible toward Rochester Marathon. Avoid putting myself back on the couch.

Today's notes – It wasn't all that warm at 7 AM, about 70º F (21º C). But I had to chuckle when one of the coaches warned the group that the humidity was deceptive. No, it wasn't. The humidity was right there in our faces, nothing deceptive about it!

Today Jim and I set out to pace 14 miles at 8:30, with my buddy Young Jeff and marathon trainee Mark. I was really impressed when Jim demonstrated sufficient hand-eye coordination to take a mid-run selfie of the group:

Mendon has a lot of hills, which was much of the point of the route today. Add in the humidity, and running at an easy pace is a bit more challenging than it would be in ideal weather; but the hills were still nowhere near as challenging as they are at race pace. Yes, I know this for a fact; the 14 miles included the entire route of the Spring Forward 15K and part of the route of the Resolution Run 7.5 mile. This is familiar territory, both for training and for racing.

Young Jeff was easily the runner who needed the slowest pace, so we let him set the pace. Of course, he was running about 8:15 (as compared to the nominal target of 8:30). This feels natural to me, as I've run with Jeff many times. The surprise was when Jeff decided he needed to slow to a walk around mile 7. We did see him again around mile 10, when he was on the way out and we were on the way back of an out and back.

Jim dropped off at 11 miles. He's limiting distance because he's reverse tapering from the Lake Placid Iron Man, and pointing at a sprint Tri in a week or two. That left Mark and me for the last 3. We had a nice chat, and I didn't pay attention to the watch; we ended up running the last 3 close to an 8:00 pace. I don't feel terribly bad about that, because I saw Mark's 2 mile time trial. He can handle 8:00 as an easy pace. If anything, he's a little faster than I am.

That brings the training week in at 47.43 miles, and I don't feel like I'm very beat up. That's a Good Thing. A week from today, I have a 5K. I'm having trouble getting motivated for it, but I expect motivation will materialize out of thin air on race day. It remains to be seen how well I can run a short, fast race given that my training has been focused first on injury recovery and then on building a base for a marathon.

On a different subject, there were some posts of stickers here earlier. I've never been much of a sticker kind of guy, and I mostly thought they just messed up the appearance of your car. A few weeks ago, I got to thinking. I drive a small silver sedan that looks like lots of other small silver sedans. Maybe putting a sticker on the trunk would help me find it in parking lots. As it happened, I had a "free" sticker from a race I ran earlier this year. So I put it on the trunk:

There are still an awful lot of small silver sedans that look a lot like mine, but there aren't very many that have a sticker that looks like this. Then today I saw the stickers from 2013 and 2015 on an SUV in the parking lot. They're better looking stickers than the 2016 that I have. Oh, well. Maybe the 2017 sticker will be more attractive.

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
August 13, 2016 Bergen Road Race 5K (Bergen, NY)
September 18, 2016 Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY)
November 24, 2016 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)

ddmom0811 · August 2016

ereck44 wrote: »

I have to comment on the lady who commented that running ruined her knees. I worked on an orthopedic unit off and on for the last 8 years, and most people who needed knee replacements or hip replacements were grossly overweight or morbidly obese and the wear and tear of the extra weight on the joints wears down those joints. Other reasons are osteopenia, osteoarthritis, and other bone diseases. Maybe saw one person having a replacement due to sports or athletic exercises. My experience is in the hospital, not a sports facility----I know that a lot of professional athletes have to get scoped for ACL, MCL repairs.

Love reading this! Thanks for sharing.

@Stoshew71 - how in the world did you get a good picture while running!
@MobyCarp - you got a good one too!
Not fair - we are all supposed to look awful in our running pics!

I discovered running at 52. Biking at 53. Weight lifting at 52 also. Now one of my cycling friends is trying to convince me to join in her a triathalon. Thing is I don't want to swim in lakes with gators! So she said we will do one in Pensacola where there are no gators. Then a teacher at school told me he did that one and he came out covered in jellyfish. He got stung the whole time. NO! Hell no! I freak out on an ant bite, so a jellyfish sting would just put me over the edge. I guess I might swim really fast though.

8/1 - 5.1 miles
8/2 - 4.6 miles with intervals
8/3 - 4.6 miles + Strength Training
8/4 - 5.67 miles
8/5 - 5.1 miles + hopefully Strength Training
8/6 - 43 miles biking

Upcoming races
2/5/17 - Daytona Beach HM
2/26/17 - Disney Princess HM Orlando

Ohhim · August 2016

Met a running buddy for an 11 mile run this morning, which was very manageable given the temperature, although the humidity at first was a bit thick.

On the run, I ended up letting her try my watch (garmin 225) and noticed that her HR was about 35 beats above mine for the run. I wasn't surprised as much that she could sustain the pace that long given the amount she runs (45-50 miles/week) but given our runs seem to border on therapy sessions with lots of taking, I was surprised that it was as easy of a conversational pace for her at that rate (as she was around 150 at an 11 pace on a hilly course, while I was averaging about 115). Regardless, I think she is now hooked, and may grab one of her own.

8/2 - 11 miles (w. 2 at MP)
8/3 - 4 miles (w. 2 miles near threshold HR)
8/5 - 12 miles
8/6 - 11 miles

Total: 38 miles, 2 session with MP/threshold HR/speedwork running
Goal: 200 miles, 8 faster sessions
Remaining; 162 miles, 6 faster sessions

2016 Race Schedule:
Disney Marathon - Jan 6 - 3:29:09
Gasparilla 15K - Feb 20 - 1:01:59
Ironman 70.3 Florida - Apr 10 - 5:07:51
Pittsburgh Marathon - May 1 - 3:08:25
Ironman 70.3 Augusta - Sep 25
Chicago Marathon - Oct 9
Ironman Florida - Nov 5
Rock 'n Roll Las Vegas 10K - Nov 13

mom3over40 · August 2016

Concluding the first week in August:

8/1 Rest
8/2 ....5
8/3 ....3.1
8/4 ..13.7 Longest run before race day
8/5 ....2.2 Recovery Run
8/6.....3.1 Tempo Run, sort of

Total according to Strava: 27.4
Does Strava always round down in daily miles? The total is always higher than just adding the daily miles.

15 days till AFC Half Marathon.

juliet3455 · August 2016

@kristinegift As a Northern Canadian I can relate to the Winter Olympic Events more than the summer - except for the swimming, running and biking ( Open road or Mountain Bike not the Banked Track events )

10km today, 2.5 up hill out of the River Valley, 2.5 on top Turn and head back. Coming down the hill I could hear the Train Whistle - managed to get across the track about 2-3 minutes ahead of the train. Otherwise it would be 30-50 minutes standing and watching the cars crawl by going up the hill.

08/01 – 0.0 km – 0.0 - 140 km
08/03 – 9.0 km – 9.0 - 131 km
08/06 –10.0 km – 19.0 - 121 km YTD – 744.2 km

sunkisd1105 · August 2016

End of the first week in August:

8/3 (started late): 1.79
8/4: rest (lazy)
8/5: 1.77
8/6: 3.5

All miles in the month of August (and maybe September) will be on the treadmill. The humidity in south Louisiana is miserable. Plus it's not so it intimidating in my house.

TattooedDolphinGirl78 · August 2016

I changed my profile pic to today's Color Run.

AdrianChr92 · August 2016

Finally I have some time to read the thread

@Ohhim Ha I average around 146 on easy runs. I have a friend that averages 130. I wouldn't dream to average 115. For me that is like a decisive walk pace. My max is 200
@MobyCarp Yeaaa mid run selfies are the best
@Amandajs232 @ereck44 Most people feel fine being overweight because they are young and the body can take the abuse. Almost all people that I know that disregard their bodies and reached the age of 40 are being hit with a hammer from all sides. It all comes crashing down. The body can't keep up so you start getting knee problems, back pain just to name the mild afflictions. Sure you can turn it around but it's not a good idea to let it get there in the last place. We had a guy here that was told by his doctor at 65 that his heart was a mess and if he didn't do a change he would die. He started running. He died at at 95 last year. Hit by a truck. He ran for 30 years and was doing mountain marathons at the age of 80 with no problems (he didn't like flat races). Most people can't walk at that age.

Date.....Distance..Type/min/km

August 1 - 6.6 km - V.Easy/7:00
August 2 - 7.4 km - Reps/4:00
August 3 - 7.6 km - V.Easy/6:50
August 4 - 6.4 km - Easy/6:15
August 5 - 12+4km - Tempo&Reps and Easy/4:50
August 6 - 5.0 km - Easy/6:05

03/04: Bucharest 10k and Family run 48:28
16/04: Color Run Bucharest
17/04: Forest Run 5k 22:05
04/06: Happy Run 5k 21:57
22/07: Bucharest After9Cross 9.5k 49:03
28/08: Fox Trail Half Marathon (10k)
18/09: Baneasa Trail Run (10k)
25/09: Black Sea 10k
09/10: Bucharest International Marathon (Half Debut)

Stoshew71 · August 2016

@ddmom0811 I stole it off the organizer's strava post. He took it at the very begging of the run when everyone was still bunched up together.

ereck44 · August 2016

Long run planned today....going to slow it waaay down at 70% max heart rate, hopefully 10 miles today...still very hot at Naptown....84 degrees, 91HI, and 52% humidity. Will check in later.

MobyCarp · August 2016

@mom3over40 - Yes, I believe Strava rounds individual runs down to the nearest tenth, so that a run Garmin records as 5.16 miles shows up on Strava as 5.1. (Just looked through my history to find one that should have rounded up.) Now that you made me look, it looks like Strava keeps the fractions internally. The sum of my Strava dailies this week is 39.7, but it shows a weekly total of 39.8. Adding the 2 decimal numbers from Garmin gives me 39.83. And yes, I populate Strava with an automatic feed from Garmin.

lporter229 · August 2016

Wait a minute. @Stoshew71 -Did you run 70 miles already this month? You are a beast!

I did my treadmill speed work yesterday evening. I had been dreading the workout all day (tip: speedwork is best done before you have any time to dread it!) but it turned out to be a pretty good workout. I previously did my 1 minute high intensity intervals @ 9mph on the treadmill. Yesterday, these intervals seemed surprisingly easy at that pace. I was questioning whether my HR was even approaching zone 5 in 1 minute intervals. Since I am a little skeptical of my treadmill's stability at higher speeds, I was hesitant to turn it up too much. Instead, I extended my intervals by 15 seconds. I'm not saying it wasn't a great workout, it was. Just surprisingly easier than I remembered, so I think I might be making gains in that area. I always have a harder time with shorter and faster, so I was very happy to see this.

This weekend's plan called for 80 minutes today and 10 miles with speed play (1st quarter of every mile in zone 3) tomorrow. I typically like to get my long run done on Saturday, but I also wanted to meet up with the running group but that makes the speed work a challenge. Since it was still pretty humid this morning but is supposed to be perfect tomorrow, I decided to meet the group and delay my long run. I ended up running 10 today because the girl I have been running with lately wanted 10. It was a slow run, but that's probably a good thing. She says I help push her in the heat, so she was grateful, which makes me feel good. It was a nice run.

@MobyCarp -Love the sticker! I have never seen a Boston Marathon sticker before. I hope I can earn one for 2017!

kristinegift · August 2016

@Stoshew71 I was just going to ask the same thing as @lporter229... you've done a 70 mile week this week?!?! Is that a weekly PR for you or did you do 70 earlier this summer? Either way, YOU ARE A CHAMP.

Stoshew71 · August 2016

kristinegift wrote: »

@Stoshew71 I was just going to ask the same thing as @lporter229... you've done a 70 mile week this week?!?! Is that a weekly PR for you or did you do 70 earlier this summer? Either way, YOU ARE A CHAMP.

Thanks @kristinegift and @lporter229
Yes, that's right. 70 miles. I had one week earlier this summer that was 70 and this week was closer to 71. So yeah, it's a PR (just barely) on weekly mileage. More important, I registered 3855 feet of elevation gain this week (most of it from today) which I believe is a PR for weekly elevation gain for me. If not, it's pretty darn close.

One more thing, I did today's (almost) 21 miler in in 3:20:02. If I did my 26.2 in that time this December, then I qualify for Boston. And today's run had a ton of elevation gain (3260 according to strava). RCM has a little over 400 ft elevation gain.

kristinegift · August 2016

@Stoshew71 You are making such crazy progress this year. After this summer conditioning, you're going to smash it in December! I'm in awe of your mileage these days.

skippygirlsmom · August 2016

According to mutual Facebook friends? @Stoshew71 did the suckest run ever today. Not that he did a bad run but the run was brutal. Great job Stan.

Took a rest day today. Skip had a little 2 miler this morning at the local Fleet Feet so we pushed our long run out until tomorrow. She ran great, but we thought it was a 5K so she was surprised when they headed back to the finish line. She ran a 14:38 and I think was the 3rd girl in. It's was very informal the results were by bib number and everyone was a male lol. Of course she came home with new spikes

but with 20% Off and my $25 loyal customer money I couldn't resist.

ariceroni · August 2016

8/01: Off, rest day
8/02: 4 miles, easy + strides + strength training
8/03: 8 miles, fartlek
8/04: 4 miles, easy + strides + strength training
8/05: Off, active rest day - leisurely biking and walking
8/06: 13.1 miles, long and super easy
Total: 29.2 miles

Overview:
Reeeeal slow and easy 13 miles (plus a tiny bit extra to make it an even half!), followed by a nice long ice bath. Something weird is happening because I’m actually starting to enjoy the ice baths? Especially since I overslept today, which meant starting at 10am and running in 82+ degrees and direct sunlight. Lets just say I was really really hot by the time I got back home

Anyways, kept it extra easy because it’s a cut back week and I’m registered for a 10k tomorrow. Not sure yet what my race strategy will be; I should keep it easy and fun (which has been my plan all along) but of course the competitive side of me wants to go all out! There’s no way I could PR though because I’ve traded a lot of my speed for distance -_-

Upcoming races:
8/07: Chicago 10K
8/26: Rock the Night 5K
9/10: Chicago Women's Half Marathon
9/25: Lifetime 5K
10/09: Chicago Marathon
10/30: Hot Chocolate 5K
11/27: Space Coast Half Marathon

Stoshew71 · August 2016

skippygirlsmom wrote: »

According to mutual Facebook friends? @Stoshew71 did the suckest run ever today. Not that he did a bad run but the run was brutal. Great job Stan.

Took a rest day today. Skip had a little 2 miler this morning at the local Fleet Feet so we pushed our long run out until tomorrow. She ran great, but we thought it was a 5K so she was surprised when they headed back to the finish line. She ran a 14:38 and I think was the 3rd girl in. It's was very informal the results were by bib number and everyone was a male lol. Of course she came home with new spikes but with 20% Off and my $25 loyal customer money I couldn't resist.

Thanks @skippygirlsmom Actually it wasn't too bad. The weather cooperated very well. It was pretty much cloudy all morning which kept it cooler than other weekends. I was the first one done that actually completed 2.5.

The Firecracker Chase up in TN was the suckiest run this year for me.

Congratulations to Skip.

skippygirlsmom · August 2016

@stoshew71 glad it wasn't too awful.

mrs_madison_keane · August 2016

I had the WORST start to my 12 mile run this morning... cramping, sore legs, sides burning... but with a quick encouragement from my husband, I pushed through it, and finally got into my running groove. So thankful for runs like today that teach me how to persevere through hard runs and cherish the ones that come easy.

MNLittleFinn · August 2016

Checking in late today. I'll have to catch up on all the posts from the day after I eat some more (2164 calories eaten, 1110 more to break even) Hope everyone had a great day!

8/1- 4.01
8/1- 9.02<---Daily Double. If it isn't thunderstorming in the morning, I will not be happy.
8/2- REST <- Recovering from the INSANE daily double
8/3-4.1
8/4- 7.82
8/5- 4
8/6- 13.11

total/monthly goal: 42.11/125

Today's notes: went for a 13.11 jog/walk with my mom. The course for my September HM is definitely hillier than the other routes I've been on. That said, total elevation (according to Strava and GC) isn't much more if any, than my other runs. Difference is that most of my runs have 1 or 2 big hills that cover the bulk of the elevation, and the September HM has it spread out throughout the whole run.

At this point (7 weeks out) I'm not sure I can run it in 2:00:00, but with a few weeks more training, and weather that's going to be a lot cooler, I am hoping I'll be in the position to go for it, as the other option is to be running w/o a pacer to folloew.

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