September (2016) Running Challenge
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@Stoshew71 - No doubt you will be there in 2018, along with @kristinegift .
@MNLittleFinn - Keep working on your goals, and before you know it...
@Elise4270 -Big Sur is on my bucket list. Pittsburgh (my hometown), NYC and Big Sur. Let's do it!
Thanks all for the congrats. You guys are awesome!2 -
Got in four miles today. After power hour class yesterday, my legs were super sore. Mostly the inner area where the knee and thigh connect. Too many squats!
Running has loosened that all up, but I'm sure I'll be regretting it after sitting at my desk the next few hours.
No pain today. Think maybe it's the shoes. Wore my cushy altras today and no problems. May be time to retire the Nikes.2 -
Got in a final Philly run this AM, before hopping my train back to Pittsburgh. With the cooler morning weather, and breeze, my zone 2 HR was putting me at a 8:30 pace, which was pretty comfortable. Just did the southern Schuylkill route again from the hotel as I didn't want to get lost with a train to catch.
Planning my final 20 mile run for tomorrow before returning to Florida, as I'll appreciate the cooler weather for it and will want 9 recovery days before my Ironman 70.3 Augusta next weekend.
9/1 - 6 miles (treadmill)
9/2 - 10 miles
9/3 - 12 miles
9/4 - 16 miles
9/6 - 10.5 miles (w. HM pace running at end)
9/7 - 6 miles
9/9 - 6 miles
9/11 - 3 miles
9/12 - 8.5 miles
9/13 - 10 miles
9/14 - 12 miles
9/15 - 6.5 miles
Total: 106.5 miles, 2 MP+ faster session
Goal: 190 miles, 8 MP+ faster sessions
Remaining: 83.5 miles, 6 MP+ 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
@lporter229 - definitely enjoy exploring a new city by foot (and hitting up some monuments/iconic locations in the process).4 -
unplanned run lastnight, the little Mrs. brought me a new pair of cumulus's so had to try them out.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...I teach at a federal setting 4 special education school......I say that ALL of the time.mom3over40 wrote: »Like my kids' principal used to say for test day, "Just show what you've learned", you go show what you've trained for!
Things are looking good for smashing my HM PR in 9 days!
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I'm having one of those weeks where, I don't need the miles for tomorrow, with my LR on Sat, I'll be at 34-35 miles for the week, but my body wants to run.....I hate tapering off miles.0
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6---28 min swim
8---20 min crutches walk
9---30 min crutches walk
11---25 min crutches walk
12---weights
13---30 min swim
15---2.3 mile crutches walk/weights
Not Advisable races:
10/02/16 Spirit of Survival Lawton OK Quarter Marathon.
11/05/16 Jenks Half Jenks OK (registered)
12/11/16 BMW Dallas Marathon, Half (registered)
Run the year 2016 898.42/ 2016 (registered)
Advisable races:
March 19th 2017 RNR Half Dallas, TX
March 26th 2017 A2A 5k Ardmore, OK
April 30th 2017 OKC Memorial Marathon, Half -comeback goal.
It's hard to cross thoes off.2 -
@Elise4270 hugs1
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@Elise4270 - I have to say, I am seriously impressed. You did a 2.3 mile crutches walk? That's pretty amazing. I know it's been a difficult struggle for you, but when you get through this, you are gonna be one BAMF.4
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Date.....Distance..Type/min/km
September 1 - 12.8km - Tempo&Reps/4:20, 3:30
September 2 - 7.7 km - Easy/6:00
September 3 - 6.1 km - Easy/6:30
September 4 - 17.2km - MP/4:35
September 5 - rest
September 6 - 8.0 km - Easy+ST/6:05
September 7 - 8.9 km - Easy/5:40
September 8 - 17.2km - Tempo/4:25
September 9 - 9.1 km - Easy+ST/5:40
September 10- 5.9 km - Easy/6:23
September 11- 18.5km - Progressive Long Run (6:00-4:20)
September 12- rest
September 13- 8.8 km - Easy+ST/6:00
September 14- 12.0km - Tempo&Reps/4:15, 3:30
September 15- 9.1 km - Easy+ST/5:45
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) 48:28
18/09: Baneasa Trail Run (10k)
09/10: Bucharest International Marathon (Half Debut)2 -
lporter229 wrote: »@Elise4270 - I have to say, I am seriously impressed. You did a 2.3 mile crutches walk? That's pretty amazing. I know it's been a difficult struggle for you, but when you get through this, you are gonna be one BAMF.
Thanks! Yes. All on crutches. Took me 63 minutes though. DH signed us up for walk this Saturday, I'm not sure how far it is. Figure I should do a few training walks
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@Elise4270 You're my hero
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9/1 -- 3.25 miles
9/5 -- 6.25 miles
9/6 -- 3 miles
9/8 -- 5.1 miles
9/10 -- 1.7 miles (unscheduled)
9/11 -- 4.1 miles
9/13 -- skipped
9/15 -- 6.25 miles
29.65/50
Today's run was the halfway run of my scheduled runs, so I have 6 remaining. Since I skipped Tuesday's run due to life and not feeling up to it, I tried to make up for it today and did 10K (my second full 10K!) to try and keep me on my average.
So now I need 20 more miles in the next 6 runs, which is a nice tidy 3.5 per run, roughly. Easily enough done as long as I don't skip any again, or make up for it if I do.
The hills in the 10K were a bit tough for me today, but I did it anyway. I'm pretty pleased with that.1 -
@kristinegift @skippygirlsmom Just found out this morning that I will be travelling to NJ on business next week.
Plans are to arrive in Newark Monday afternoon and head back home Wednesday night. I have business to deal with Tuesday morning at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and hopefully I don't have to go back Wednesday morning.
All I am waiting for now is my final authorization from contracts and I get to book my flight.2 -
Tough week, not many miles laid down
Monday 3.78
Tuesday 2.69
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9/1: 4.3 miles
9/2: Rest day
9/3: 9.4 miles
9/4: 5.7 miles
9/5: 6 miles
9/6: 6 miles
9/7: 4 miles
9/8: 3.2 miles with the Thursday crew!
9/9: Rest day
9/10: 5.3 miles
9/11: 13.1 - Via HM
9/12: 3 miles with the Coffee Crew!
9/13: 7.9 miles
9/14: 4.3 miles run commute home
9/15: 7.3 miles run commute to work
........: 6.2 miles with the Thursday crew!
Beautiful night for a run! It was mid-70s instead of low-90s for the first time in ages! And yet we had one of the smallest groups in weeks. Then again, school just started and we had a huge run last week with our Pub Run, so I'll give them a pass Felt surprisingly good for a double plus having run 6 days in a row. Great start to my first OFFICIAL marathon training week post-calf strain! Woo!
Upcoming Races:
9/11 LVHN Via Half-Marathon DONE!
10/8: Coe College Homecoming 5k
10/16: Halloween Half-Marathon
11/20: Philadelphia Marathon
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9/15 - 1.9 miles
Week so far: 4.5 miles
Month so far:
Today I felt like I was running on giraffe legs - every movement felt wobbly and wrong. I don't know what is going on but maybe I'm overcompensating for the pain I was having and adjusting my gait in some weird way. Then I got a phone call I needed to take so I ended up cutting it short and walking the rest of the way home.1 -
lporter229 wrote: »@Elise4270 - I have to say, I am seriously impressed. You did a 2.3 mile crutches walk? That's pretty amazing. I know it's been a difficult struggle for you, but when you get through this, you are gonna be one BAMF.
Thanks! Yes. All on crutches. Took me 63 minutes though. DH signed us up for walk this Saturday, I'm not sure how far it is. Figure I should do a few training walks
I broke a leg playing hockey 3 days before a family vacation to Disney. We were fortunately able to reschedule 6 weeks later but I was still on crutches. Doing the whole Epcot loop on them sucks, and is much harder work than running. I honestly can say I've felt your pain. When I broke my ankle a few years earlier, I was able to use a knee scooter, which is basically the best invention ever for anyone who's active. Is one of those an option for you?0 -
September Running Totals (miles)
9/1 – 10.07 warmup + tempo intervals
9/2 – 7.76 partial course preview
9/3 – 3.80 easy 30 minutes
9/4 – 15.44 warmup + Oak Tree Half
9/5 – 4.52 easy 30 minutes + 4 strides
9/6 – 6.72 warmup + speed work
9/7 – 4.04 easy
9/8 – 7.18 warmup + intervals
9/9 – rest day
9/10 – 6.06 easy
9/11 – 11.04 partial course preview
9/12 – 3.77 easy
9/13 – 6.36 warmup, intervals, cool down
9/14 – extra rest day
9/15 – 2.07 warmup
9/16 – rest day
September total to date – 88.83
Nominal Challenge Goal – 200 miles
Real Goals: Manage Rochester Marathon well as a race, recover quickly.
Today's notes – The wonky calf was better today, so I went to the club workout. It felt wonky again in the last half mile of the warmup, so I decided to ditch the scheduled workout of 20 minutes easy, 10 minutes MP, 10 minutes easy in favor of an easy run and possibly bail out early.
Got talking to another experienced runner who was only doing easy stuff, and he urged me to just quit for the day. "You've been running hard a lot lately. I saw you finish Oak Tree, and you were flying. Right now, rest will help you more at Rochester than running."
He was right. I thanked him for the advice, because I'd been thinking about bailing anyway and the feedback helped. I mentioned that I'm stupider for myself than I am for other runners. "Yeah, I'm the same way."
So I walked over and watched the bulk of the club do their 3 x (800m T, 800m I, 3 minutes recovery), chatted with some people, talked to Coach about race day strategy, and came home. I'm posting tomorrow as a rest day because I need to keep it a rest day. Maybe I'll run the 20 minutes easy that's scheduled for Saturday, maybe Saturday will be a rest day as well.
I seem to remember that I was worried about both ankles before Boston; I hope the worry about my left upper ankle/lower calf turns out to be no more significant than my ankles were for Boston. At least I know that taper crazies mean I can't take my perceptions at face value.
Oh, and for all you folks trying for Boston: The club has a 56 year old who beat his target by 9:44 at Erie. The only other time he BQ'd (at a younger age), he beat the target by 8 seconds and missed the cutoff. We also have a 65 year old who beat his target by 14 minutes and change at Erie, after assuming for years that Boston was beyond his reach.
It can happen.
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) finished in 1:31:37
September 18, 2016 Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY)
October 2, 2016 USATF Masters 5K Championship (Syracuse, NY)
October 15, 2016 Finish Strong 15K (Hilton, NY)
October 22, 2016 Scare Brain Cancer Away 5K (East Rochester, NY)
November 24, 2016 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
2017 races:
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)3 -
@RespectTheKitty I hated running with my old glasses because they'd keep sliding down my nose, so I'd usually just take them off beforehand. Though, without glasses at night I'd get disoriented and take wrong turns in the park, which was bad. I recently got new glasses (still plastic frames, but thinner and tighter) and they stay on a lot better, though rain or sweat or any kind of water on the lenses is still super irritating. Maybe contact lenses are better for sports(?), but the idea of poking contacts into my eyes is too unpleasant for me to ever try them.
@chassp8pooh Congrats on 10k distance!
9/1 6.3 miles
9/3 6.2 miles, split into two equal runs as I started out way too fast.
9/4 6.3 miles
9/6 6.2 miles (treadmill)
9/8 4.8 miles fartlek run on treadmill, felt sick after completing speed portions and had to stop.
9/9 6.4 miles easy run
9/10 3.1 miles (Pure Tap 5k)
9/11 6.5 miles
9/13 6.3 miles
9/15 6.3 miles
Upcoming races:
9/10 - Louisville Pure Tap 5k 25:03
10/1 - Norton Sports Health Great Pumpkin 10k
10/22 - Urban Bourbon Half Marathon
11/24 - Hungry Turkey 5k[/quote]
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