October (2016) Running Challenge
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Date Miles MTD ------ ----- ------- Oct 1 6.2 6.2 Oct 2 6.5 12.7 Oct 4 4.3 17.0 Oct 5 4.3T 21.3 Oct 8 10.1 31.4 Oct 9 4.3T 35.7 Oct 12 4.6T 40.3 Oct 13 5.2T 45.5 Oct 15 6.5 52.0 Oct 16 4.3 56.3 Oct 19 4.3T 60.6 Oct 22 5.3 65.9 Oct 23 11.0 76.9
Oh, wow. Terrible run today. It was a long run and OF COURSE, at the furthest point from home I start to feel a hamstring problem, then the ankle, then the foot. Walk, run, jog, walk, run ... all the way home. A very long afternoon.1 -
@vandinem sorry to hear your run was so hard!0
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skippygirlsmom wrote: »My Skip brag, she has finally (and very happily) run a sub 22 5K with a 21:33 at yesterday's meet, that's more than 30 seconds off her past PR. She is beyond thrilled. I spoke with the running coach I hired over the summer the other day and I told him everything they said is coming true, she is peaking in time for sectionals when her teammates are getting tired.
@skippygirlsmom Congrats to Skip! That's an excellent time & a huuuuge PR!1 -
Oct 1: 15km long run day
Oct 2: 0km running, active recovery day, 6.62km brisk walk.
Oct 3: 12.06km
Oct 4: 90 minutes skating
Oct 5: 5km progression run before work, 3km base run at lunch.
Oct 6: 3.6 km hilly trail run at lunch, 5km tempo run on treadmill after work, 30 min strength training.
Oct 7: REST DAY
Oct 8: 16.7 km long run.
Oct 9: REST DAY
Oct 10: 7.65 km recovery run including 25 minutes of running drills
Oct 11: 6.96 km tempo run. First 5km was a PB 31:30. 30 minutes strength training.
Oct 12: 0km running, cross train day. 35 minutes on recumbent bike, 30 min brisk walk.
Oct 13: 6.67 km, hill intervals on treadmill. 30 minutes strength training.
Oct 14: 0.55km run to McDonald's to get a coffee. Hey, it's a rest day! Well and turned it into active recovery as I swam for 40 min (easy swim).
Oct 15: 19.7 km long run day. Will be my longest run leading up to my first HM on Nov 6th. Reffed 2 boys hockey games four hours later (90 minutes)
Oct 16th: knees too sore to run. Reffed 3 women's hockey games for 137 minutes of skating so I guess that counts as an active recovery. :-)
Oct 17: 30 min swim before work. Planned to run after work but life happened instead
Oct 18: 6.22km run. 30 minutes skating. 45 min strength training.
Oct 19: 25 min swim before work. 5.37 hill repeat run at lunch
Oct 20: 5.2km hill repeats
Oct 21: Refereed 7 hockey games (7 hours, 10 minutes of skating).
Oct 22: REST DAY
Oct 23: 12.42km long run. Included about 3-4km that was straight downhill, averaging about a 4% grade. Did this as my upcoming HM has a similar decline but for 7km. Thought I should practice my form on a long downhill. Only problem...I had to run back up the same hill for one long 3-4 km uphill!! Feeling different muscles ache now! Then did a 60 min training swim with my husband. Wasn't straight lengths, it was a coaching session as my husband used to swim competitively. Good calorie burn today!
Upcoming races:
Awesome Virtual Events 100 mile (160km) October challenge.
November 6th: Hamilton Road2Hope HM2 -
10/01: day off
10/02: 3.5
10/03: 3.5
10/04: day off
10/05: 3.5
10/06: 3.5
10/07: day off
10/08: 3.5
10/09: day off (major rain)
10/10: 3.5
10/11: day off
10/12: 3.5
10/13: 3.5
10/14: day off
10/15: 3.5
10/16: 3.5
10/17: day off
10/18: 2.0
10/19: 3.5
10/20: 3.5
10/21: day off
10/22: 4.25
10/23: 4.25
Total: 52.5/60
Did two longer runs for Saturday and Sunday. I'm so close to the goal. I'm really hoping I can find a way to keep up the consistency when the days get so short this winter.
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October Running Totals (miles)
10/1 – rest day
10/2 – 0.56 test run (big mistake)
10/3 – no running day
10/4 – no running day
10/5 – no running day
10/6 – no running day
10/7 – no running day
10/8 – no running day
10/9 – no running day
10/10 –no running day
10/11 – 0.55 run/walk intervals
10/12 – rest day
10/13 – 0.56 run/walk intervals
10/14 – rest day
10/15 – rest day
10/16 – 0.85 run/walk intervals
10/17 – rest day
10/18 – 0.83 run/walk intervals
10/19 – rest day
10/20 – 1.17 run/walk intervals
10/21 – rest day
10/22 – 1.53 run/walk intervals
10/23 – 1.52 run/walk intervals
October total to date – 7.57
Nominal Challenge Goal – no stated distance
Real Goal: Return to regular running
Today's notes – This morning, jogging the hallway while the eggs cooked felt just about the same as yesterday morning. I took that to be good news, given that yesterday I ran more than I have since being in PT this time. So after a sedentary morning in church, I got out to run intervals this noon.
I started out thinking I'd see how many 2 minute running intervals I could do, but I felt so good at 2 minutes that I changed my mind. Maybe I can run 10 minutes straight? Nope. At 5 minutes, I turned it back into intervals. Ran 2 x (5 minutes easy run, 1 minute walking recovery). At that point, I thought I had about another 2 minute running interval left in the leg. That turned out not to be the case. I quit running after 1 minute, took a last minute of walking, and came out very close to yesterday's distance with one minute less time, but one minute more running.
The bad news was, my calf/Achilles ached pretty bad and my shin had started to ache. The good news is, getting off my feet for 20 minutes pretty much made the ache go away and I was able to walk briskly later in the day. So I think this is progress. It still hurts to run, but I'm recovering from the hurt faster. I have another PT appointment on Tuesday, I'll see what the PT has to say about this phenomenon then.
Meanwhile, I'm modestly encourage that I was able to run 5 minutes solid, and that I was able to do run/walk intervals two days in a row. It's still not real running, and I don't expect to be ready for a 5K this week; but a 10K on Thanksgiving Day seems within the realm of possibility.
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) DNF a mile from finish
October 15, 2016 Finish Strong 15K (Hilton, NY) DNS – Achilles tendonitis
October 22, 2016 Scare Brain Cancer Away 5K (East Rochester, NY) DNS – Achilles tendonitis
November 24, 2016 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
2017 races:
January 7, 2017 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY)
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)
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@MobyCarp it's great to see your making progress! Your determination and grit are a great inspiration0
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Has anyone used Runcoach online before? I can use the runcoach program to train for the Marathon I signed up for, for $25 instead of the usual $100 for the program, but I'm looking for some input before really considering it.0
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Date :::: Miles :::: Oct total (goal 50)
10/01/16 :::: 5.8 :::: 5.8
10/02/16 :::: 2.8 :::: 8.6
10/03/16 :::: 2.2 :::: 10.8
10/04/16 :::: 3.1 :::: 13.9
10/05/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.9
10/06/16 :::: 2.2 :::: 16.1
10/07/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 16.1
10/08/16 :::: 1.2 :::: 17.3
10/09/16 :::: 13.1 :::: 30.4
10/10/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 30.4
10/11/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 30.4
10/12/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 30.4
10/13/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 30.4
10/14/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 30.4
10/15/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 30.4
10/16/16 :::: 2.2 :::: 32.6
10/17/16 :::: 1.4 :::: 33.9
10/18/16 :::: 5.4 :::: 39.3
10/19/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 39.3
10/20/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 39.3
10/21/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 39.3
10/22/16 :::: 0.0 :::: 39.3
10/23/16 :::: 5.0 :::: 44.3
I finally had a run today after another several days off. I planned to run the last couple of days but I was traveling and it was a constant downpour of rain. I also wanted to give my legs plenty of recovery time as they were still complaining after the last couple of runs since my HM. Today's run was the first time it felt good/normal to me. I did 5 miles and at a relatively normal pace for me, not the extra-slow pace I had been barely managing in the last few. I feel relieved to be back in action and feeling good about it. I will continue to take it easy because I expect that I pushed myself too hard in the weeks leading up to the race.
I'm almost to my goal of 50 miles for October. It's a good thing I set the bar low for this month. I feel like kind of a lousy runner, because I have to say it would be pretty easy for me to just quit running right now. I made my goal, it was hard, and I was tired. But I'm starting to regroup and will work on the enjoyment of running, and running for fitness rather than a specific race goal for right now.3 -
@katharmonic glad to see you got a run in today! It's always easy to feel the pull of quitting. It's coming back after a lay off, like you did, that makes people strong runners. Enjoying it is key, and it's good to see you just doing that!0
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8 more days left of October, lets get the final miles in!
A short run today before heading off to the cinema
1/Oct - 8.82 miles
2/Oct - 1.58 miles
3/Oct - 5.01 miles
4/Oct - 7.18 miles
5/Oct - 5.02 miles
6/Oct - 3.30 miles
7/Oct - 1.27 miles
8/Oct - 2.05 miles
9/Oct - Oxford Half Marathon
10/Oct - 1.64 miles
11/Oct - 5.05 miles
12/Oct - 8.06 miles
13/Oct - 4.04 miles
14/Oct - 5.14 miles
15/Oct - 13.16 miles
16/Oct - 2.99 miles
17/Oct - 1.68 miles
18/Oct - 10.02 miles
19/Oct - 6.52 miles
20/Oct - 3.60 miles
21/Oct - 5.28 miles
22/Oct - 16.59 miles
23/Oct - 2.11 miles
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Got in a quick 6 miler after my long ride this afternoon. Kept it faster but closer to the planned pace for my ironman to see how my legs would feel after a long ride. Felt ok, and I think I'll be good at an 8 pace for my end of ironman marathon.
10/1 - 5 miles (w. 5x800s @ 6:00 pace)
10/2 - 8 miles (finished at MP)
10/3 - 4 miles
10/4 - 4 miles
10/5 - 4 mile
10/8 - 3 miles
10/9 - 26.2 miles (3:04:57 - Chicago marathon, 7:03 pace)
10/13 - 4 miles
10/15 - 6 miles
10/17 - 12 miles
10/18 - 5 miles
10/20 - 8 miles
10/21 - 6 miles
10/22 - 15 miles
10/23 - 6 miles
Total: 116 miles
Goal: 140 miles
Remaining: 24 miles
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 - 4:43:56
Chicago Marathon - Oct 9 - 3:04:57
Ironman Florida - Nov 5
Rock 'n Roll Las Vegas 10K - Nov 131 -
@Ohhim, that's awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing how you do in a couple weeks!0
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@HeatherMN @_nikkiwolf_ I received my Milestone Pod on Thursday and finally got a run in with it today - I did 8 miles this afternoon. It is small with a battery that needs to be inserted - not rechargeable - you attach it on one shoe - either 2nd cross or 3rd cross of laces from the toe (based on the heel to toe drop of your shoe). Once on your shoe, there is nothing more to do with it - set up an account on the app, pick your shoe out of the list and you are good to go. When you run it automatically wakes up and records data on your run. Once done, you sync from your phone and it records the data into a new run for you. The screens look like this:
So I don't over-stride until I get tired and I heel strike alot - 100%
so the information is fairly useful.
You can drill down into some details per lap:
I need to calibrate I believe but I want to verify that first - I understand the unit might not start collecting data until you strat running or after a few minutes of movement so I want to confirm that before calibrating. I do not like that it ties to one pair of shoes - done during setup - you can swap it between shoes but the mileage tracking won't be accurate. The company also suggests that your gait may be different in different shoes, so they recommend purchasing a separate pod for each pair of shoes (of course they do )
It does seem like a good deal of information for $25 on Amazon....3 -
Wow @mmteixeira ! For 25$ that's pretty neat! My Garmin gives cadence, contact time, stride length, pace and distance (and a few other metrics too not mentioned with your new device).
Idk for 25$ I might be interested! I think my gait is way off, like different stride lengths, ground contact time, leg swing are different between each legs. Wonder if it'd be helpful. Thanks for sharing that!
Do you have to run with your phone?1 -
Do you have to run with your phone?
Good question - I would not think so as you sync after the fact and there is no GPS data - but I'm not sure about that - I always run with mine to play music...
Edit: just read somewhere that you do not need your phone with you - you can sync afterwards - I cannot confirm that...
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mmteixeira wrote: »
No, I have the FR620. I'm just a data/gadget nerd like so many here.
It'd be neat for walking, until I get back to running. I feel like a dweeb walking with my Garmin. I've just been using my phone with the Google Fit app. (Playing Pokémon). That little pod would be great also to get my daughter out and about.1
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