January 2017 Running Challenge

melaniefay82 wrote: »

What's the rule of thumb when coming back from illness?

Idk. Yours is chronic/autoimmune, right? For colds as long as I'm not gonna poo my pants, barf (too much), or have a fever, running is okay.
Maybe do a quick 10-15 minute run and see how it goes.

melaniefay82 wrote: »

@Elise4270 Woman! What is up with this insult to your injury?

Well..... I'm not supposed to be running anyhow. I'll swimming today if there's no storm.

melaniefay82 wrote: »

What's the rule of thumb when coming back from illness?

TMI ahead:

I don't know about time amounts or the illness itself, but will answer about what I do regarding some of the symptoms: Recently I've had seemingly endless snot running from my nose as well. Part of it is I think I have a sinus infection and the other part is that it is cold out. The snot doesn't bother me much - often I can't even feel it running down my face until I get home and go inside where it is a bit warmer. Then I can feel my face and the snot on it, lol. I do carry a hankerchief in my pocket where I can grab it and wipe without stopping. I do slow down usually to spit the mucus that runs the other way (down my throat) when it becomes too much of a problem for breathing. I slow down and spit sideways because if I spit forward... even after slowing down... well, I just end up wearing it.

Jan 1-5.3 miles
Jan 2- Rest day- P90X3 yoga
Jan 3- 6 miles w/ 3 @ tempo
Jan 4-5.1 miles (1 with crazy Stella)
Jan 5-5 miles treadmill fartlek run
Jan 6- 4 miles total -1 mile warm up outside with Stella then 3 miles of intervals on dreadmill
Jan 7-7.7 miles
Jan 8-14 miles
Jan 9- Rest day
Jan 10- 4.5 miles treadmill
Jan 11-6 miles (slow and icy)

Yesterday evening thunderstorms (yes, thunderstorms, complete with lightening and thunder) and high winds forced me onto the treadmill. I managed to suffer through 4.5 miles before I decided that was enough. This morning, after temperatures plummeted during the night, all of the streets were encased in a nice thin layer of black ice. I could not stomach the thought of another treadmill run (I did two last week), so I just took it slow. The immediate streets near my house were not too bad, but some of the streets in my subdivision have a different type of pavement that turned out to be very slick. I bounced back and forth between street and sidewalk. My headlamp did not offer a lot of assistance in determining where the slick spots were, and I almost bit it a few times. I capped the run off with a mile with Stella, who was bouncing off the walls after spending much of the last three days inside. I mostly ran in the grass with her because I knew she would be pulling me. After all was said and done, my average pace for 6 miles ended up being 9:15, which wasn't nearly as slow as it felt. I know that I altered my stride quite a bit and had a slightly lower than normal cadence though, so I am anxious to see how my legs feel tomorrow.

@MobyCarp- I made the mistake of underestimating recovery from a half marathon. This fall I raced HMs on back to back weekends. The thing is, my HM race pace is about 45 seconds per mile faster than my marathon pace. After two weekends of that, I actually was hurting much worse than after my last marathon.

this thread is so USEFUL!!!

I've been struggling to get my long run beyond the 7 mile distance, and am sort of resigned to throwing in some walking bits in order to achieve that. BUT I had also decided to try and increase my running frequency to increase miles on my feet - a couple of short half hour runs to see how that gets me.

Hopefully that will get me through the barrier and onto my HM goal. Don't think I could face doubles just yet but someone mentioned having extra washing of clothes when you do that - that's why I run outside where no one can smell me in yesterdays running gear.....

This talk about long runs has me reconsidering my long runs. Currently I run between 20 and 25 miles per week. My long run has usually been about 8-10 miles, which might be slightly too much for my running base. I calculated 35% of 22 (which is about average for me) and that was just over 7 miles. Assuming I run 4-ish miles four other times that week, that's about right. So... there it is. Looks like my long run should be between 7-8 miles right now.

But you know, I had to run 10 miles just to prove that I could do it.

@orphia love the article I'm so glad you posted it for us to see. I was laughing at the date of it, it was weird to see something dated tomorrow the simplest things amuse me.

I didn't run yet today. I had to pick up the guy I work with at 7:30 to take him to work. So I thought, if it's raining hard to go to the gym at 5:00 am and that will give me time, well I woke up and it wasn't raining so I said that will give me another 20 mins or so to lay here. I got up at 5:20, did the bathroom thing, got dressed, opened the front door at 5:40 am and it started to pour. Okay I'm not a weather baby and if it started to pour while I was running I would have gone, but it's stepping out cold into the pouring rain when it's not 70 degrees. So I thought well I'll wait it out a bit.........by 6:00 I knew I wouldn't have time to run, shower and take care of Macy and get Rick on time. So if it's pouring tonight I'll stop at the gym, if not I'll run at home.