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September (2016) Running Challenge
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No slouches in this group! Except for me maybe......LOL
09/01 – Unplanned Rest Day but swam 45 minutes this afternoon (too hot here to run)
Races
Oct. hoping to do another 5K in Long Beach- Rock the Beach, just waiting for a few other things happening to make sure I don't waste the money and can actually go.
Nov. 19 - 10K Turkey Trot - San Dimas
Have a great month everyone! My goal is still pretty low but I'm hoping to beat it.5 -
Welcome @merlinofchaos and @teresasupermama!!
I hope you all don't mind a little graph-related nerdiness, but I was just playing around with an online graphing program that I want my students to use and I made this graph of my miles per month and total steps per month since last November. I really started running end of August/beginning of September last year but don't have the data from those first couple of months in the same way. You can tell that May is when I started to get more serious!
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First run done ..3.10 miles. ..
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August Running Totals (miles)
9/1 – 10.07 warmup + tempo intervals
Sepetember total to date – 10.07
Nominal Challenge Goal – 200 miles
Real Goals: Manage Rochester Marathon well as a race, recover quickly.
Today's notes – September 1, and all of a sudden it was a touch cooler with massively lower humidity. 72º F (22º C) felt like really good running weather in the early evening. Ran my 2 mile warm up, then set out for the assigned tempo work: 3 miles easy, 20 minutes at T, 2 miles easy. In stark contrast to the way long speed work has been going in the heat and humidity, the paces came in where I'd expect and the heart rate did what it was supposed to do with that type of interval. Perhaps the lower stress from being retired may have helped a bit, too.
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) finished in 19:07 (5K PR)
September 4, 2016 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY)
September 18, 2016 Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY)
November 24, 2016 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
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@luluinca, and me. I'm here in FL with Tropical storm Hermine, so there was no running here. There could have been some swimming, but, I think I'd get strange looks if I would be seen swimming in the streets
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I'm new to the group, but excited for the extra motivation. I usually average about 85 miles a month, but I'm going to push for 100 this month.
9/1: 7 miles
7 miles total5 -
I've set a small goal of 40 kilometres during September as I am a beginner.5 -
September goal: run/jog/prance....
9/1 3.12 and core/strength training
Total 3.12
Upcoming races:
Las Vegas RocknRoll Half 11/13/16
Ticker is my goal for 2016 and accumulation to date:
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Hi everyone, back again. Day 1 and I ran 4 miles today at pace of 11:25. The weather was great...nice and cool and virtually no humidity. I am more consistently running at 12:00 pace or under at these shorter distances. I still need to run a long run...but can't figure out yet how to do it. Maybe can get it in on Sunday...at least 8 miles.
Declaring a September goal of 70 miles....fell quite short of goal last month, but determined to get it done this month.
@skippygirlsmom: Really appreciate the pic of racehorses leaving the starting gate....huge horse racing fan...always try to read blood horse on line at least once a day. Sparked my interest in running at an early age.
@katharmonic: Love the bar graph...surprised that your lowest running month was April...would have thought December or January to be the lowest.
2016/2017 races:
10/8 Indianapolis Half Marathon
5/6 One America Mini-marathon4 -
1 September – 10.3 km
2 September – 10.3 km
Goal: 150 km
Total: 20.6 km
Upcoming:
September 18 – Beat the Blerch Virtual Half Marathon 21.1 km
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I am going to aim for 100 again this month. Ran 3.2 miles today and getting up before 6 am to run felt a little normal now. Hope I can keep that up
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Second run done
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First post for the month and starting on page 5. You are all running ANIMALS. I am in for 80, hoping to stretch to 100 if the weather finally cools down a little. The sun is ebbing away here in the Northeast, but I'm trying to put off the day I have to return to the treadmill at Planet Fitness to get my miles in!
Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ------- Sep 1 0.0 0.0
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@katharmonic: Love the bar graph...surprised that your lowest running month was April...would have thought December or January to be the lowest.
Thank you, @ereck44. April was a bad month because we had a terrible spring here weather-wise after a comparatively mild minter and I was sick with bronchitis for a couple of weeks. January was up more than it would have been because I spent some time in Florida and ran every day. I'll be interested to see how the data goes this winter! I hope I'll be able to keep it up.
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@ebonibabe1 that sounds like a pretty good excuse to me! Sounds like you survived the storm okay anyway!
Finally going to get my run in this morning after 3 days of no running......uggghhhh.2 -
First time runner here - so no judgement! But I'm proud of myself for getting up early and running a mile.11 -
Good Morning everyone, had a nice slow short run last night but its a start
9/1 - 3.65 -
Hitting my favorite trail and the dreaded hill later after breakfast date with the hubs. Wish me luck! I will let my food settle while I run errands (that's what I call shopping/spending money. Hehe.)
High five to newbies! @cbro70 @beginforthelasttime16 @chassp8pooh and others I may miss!6 -
sparklyglitterbomb wrote: »thanks I was thinking around 30, so I'll go for that. I usually (try to) run 3x a week, so I'll post after the runs.
My first running challenge! eek!
Mine too!3 -
Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ------- Sep 1 0.0 0.0 Sep 2 6.5 6.5
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9/1 - 7 miles
9/2 - 6 miles
13 out of 115 miles
Beautiful morning 66F and breezing. When I opened the door and walked out it was cold ha ha
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Got my first 2 in yesterday, hope to get 2 more tonight!
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All of the data available to me which I analyzed meticulously said I was not recovered enough today so the plan was another easy recovery run.
OK, truth be told it was one data point from my Garmin watch's Recovery Advisor. But it was definitely correct as I was stiff on that first mile, and did probably as much walking as running on the last mile. So the actual "running data" validated the Garmin.
Rest day tomorrow. Then an attempt at a "long run", whatever that may be at this point. I'm going down a familiar 8 mile out and back route, so maybe 8 miles if I have a great day.
9/1 - 2 miles
9/2 - 2 miles
Total 4 of 50 miles
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We're proud of you too! You'll find NO judgement here, just support! Great job!!beginforthelasttime16 wrote: »First time runner here - so no judgement! But I'm proud of myself for getting up early and running a mile.
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Im in
Im starting slow though, I want to do 15 miles. Struggling with fluid retention in my legs so I know there will be some days I cant run so I want to make this maintainable. 5 -
Nice swim @9voice9!7
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4.5 miles last night for the first run of the month. The first 1.7 miles were with Kody, my lab, and the last 2.8 miles were solo as I ran to the auto mechanic to pick up my car that had to be fixed.
Goal progress:
4.5 of 120 miles
The run went great, with a pace under 9:00 when running solo, but in the last 3 blocks the niggling pain I had in my calf muscle turned into a sharp pain. I've have this niggling pain since last week when I had two long runs. I'm grateful it's just a muscle strain and not my achilles. I had planned an 8 or 9 miler tonight but will skip it and hope I'm good to go on Saturday morning for a short one.
For you USA folks, any plans for the holiday weekend? We'll be heading for the lake on our boat and spending the three days sailing. Weather looks great though some possible showers on Monday. Hope to get in some lakeside runs at least a couple of days but won't sweat it if I don't.7 -
4.07 miles today - really slow today, but that's ok
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