February 2017 Running Challenge
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@mobycarp a few years back my job changed and it honestly went from being very high stressed, I was a site lead for a contractor on the Army's biggest program, to a very low level stress job now. So I honestly can't complain when I have a crazy week. I think I'm just not used to it ha ha! One of the managers here know I'm so over qualified for the job I have now that when she had a chance to grab me for a program she did, however, unlike the rest of the folks on the program I need to keep doing what I was. Being away from my desk without a computer for a few days at year end is not a good look on me. LOL
Sorry I haven't kept up on the thread, I will go through and read. My hip is feeling almost 100% finally, so I plan to run tomorrow.3 -
Date Miles today - Miles for February
2/1 5 miles - 5
2/2 10miles - 10
2/3 5 miles - 15
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
Huntsville Half Marathon - 11/12 << 1:35:55 2 in AG & 25 OA
Rocket City Marathon - 12/10 << 2:44:41
Elkmont Hound Dog Half (unofficial) - 1/21 << 1:46:48 2 OA
Elkmont Hound Dog Half (rescheduled) - 2/18
Kentucky Derby Marathon - 4/29
5 easy recovery miles this morning. Feeling a little bit sore from Thursday's run still which was carried over from Tuesday's double and weights session. Long run tomorrow and maybe more weights.
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Date :::: Miles :::: Feb MTD (goal = 70)
02/01/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 2.6
02/02/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 5.7
02/03/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 8.3
Treadmill run again today. Stella is not feeling well so we didn't get out this morning.
@lporter229 sounds like our Stellas are so similar - sometimes it's a challenge to have a little four-legged running buddy. They make up for it with cute though.
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2/3 - Ran mellow dirt trails through old mining tunnels. 7.3mi, 419ft vertical. Pretty flat. Slow/easy pace: 9:56/mi, with headwind. Gusts to 50mph. "Am I making forward progress?" That lean tho. Oh ya, this morning while eating Cinnamon toast crunch cereal, I decided to sign up for Vegas Hot Chocolate 15k. Day after Blood Sweat and Beers trail race which I'm going all out. Should be a decent double. Fast recovery run / maybe tempo with negative splits. Or 15k death slog haha. Pray for cold and clouds.
2/1 - 60min boring gym cardio
2/2 - 10 mi (trail) 1,043ft vert
2/3 - 7.3mi (trail) 419ft vert
Total: 17.3/100mi
Upcoming races
2/25: Blood Sweat and Beers 10k (mtn)
2/26: Vegas Hot Chocolate 15k
4/29: REVEL Mt Charleston (HM)6 -
Aargh. Day didn't go as planned. Gonna be heading out for a cold dark run in awhile. I haven't run in the dark since early December
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01 Feb – 10.1 km
02 Feb – 7.5 km + Body Balance
04 Feb – 10.7 km including parkrun
Goal: 100 miles / 160 km
Total: 28.3 km
Yay, yay, parkrunday! Love parkrunning, love meeting up for coffee afterwards with all my parkrun peeps.
Speaking of parkrun:
http://blog.parkrun.com/ca/2017/01/31/parkrun-canada-prospects-map/
parkrun launched in Canada in August. Now, there are parkruns being planned there all over the place (the red markers).
Two are up and running, 42 in the pipeline!
(There are currently 1,058 parkrun sites with parkrun every Saturday in the world.)3 -
So glad I didn't blow off my run! I felt so chilly all day getting in and out of the car, but felt fine in my running clothes
I think it was 37F feels like 29 when I headed out? I still worked up a sweat. It was a slow 3 miles. I thought about running longer but didn't want to worry the hubby since it was dark. 3 -
2/1/17----7.2miles
2/2/17----7.8miles
2/3/17----7.7miles
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2/1 Zumba
2/2 7 miles
2/3 6 miles
Total: 13/116
Chilly nighttime run tonight (~28 F, realfeel around 21 I think), with my headlamp and blinky light on my back, lol. You know that feeling you get, after a certain number of miles, when you suddenly feel like you could run forever? Well, for the first time in my running 'lifetime', that feeling hit while I was running uphill, on the steepest hill of my 6 mile route! Lol. It wasn't a mountain or anything, but that's the first time that feeling started on anything other than flat ground. Hope it happens again, made that stupid hill much more enjoyable!
And this is what happens when you need to get 6 miles in, but you don't feel like doing your 5k route twice, and you don't feel like taking your longer run route cause it's on kind of a busy road and it's dark out - lots and lots of little out-and-backs down side streets, squeezing those extra miles in, lol
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This cold is kicking my *kitten*. Was meant to hit a 15 but it was not happening. May have to do a 5km rest day tomorrow in advance of long run so my lungs don't mutiny
February 1- 15km
February 2- 11km
February 3- 11.1km
37.1 km/200km
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February goal: Lose 3 pounds
2/1: rest
2/2 3.16
2/3 3.60
Total: 6.76
@RespectTheKitty ...well if you ever get to the Big Island, I'll clue you in to where to find all the good snorkeling!
Ticker is my goal for 2017 and total to date:
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I am in! I haven't posted for a while and my running has fallen off a little, actually a lot! My total for January was 41km so February totals will be 54km.
No races booked at all for this year. Good luck everyone5 -
2/1- 8.1
2/2- REST
2/3- 4.23
2/4- 14.11
Total: 26.44
Monthly goals:
Mileage goal: 150
Real Goal: Stay healthy enough to get into the swing of real marathon training.
Today's notes: EMBRACE THE SUCK. 14.11 miles at 9:47 pace for a new distance PR by 0.11 miles. Moderately slow pace and high HR made for a less than enjoyable run, but I got it in. On the bright side, I ran that distance PR with absolutely zero calf/achilles/shin pain, so I'll have to call it a success. The rest of today, and tomorrow, will be dedicated to recovery and eating...and a little 3 miler tomorrow.10 -
@KatieJane83 Congrats on "that feeling"
I've run a couple 8 milers within a 1 mile radius of my house. Lol.
I've been trying to decide if running Fri/Sat/Sun is too much since I'm coming back off 2 low hit-and-miss months. I finally decided I will focus today on taking down the Christmas trees and stuff
and plan to run every other day - so Fri/Sun/Tues. I just don't want to overdo it and regret it. 3 -
Good plan there. That reminds me, I need to take down the Christmas tree...greenolivetree wrote: »ning Fri/Sat/Sun is too much since I'm coming back off 2 low hit-and-miss months. I finally decided I will focus today on taking down the Christmas trees and stuff and plan to run every other day - so Fri/Sun/Tues. I just don't want to overdo it and regret it.
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@MNLittleFinn I'm glad I'm not the only one! I took down the outdoor lights our first week back from Mayo so this weekend needs to be indoor. Boo.0
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Date :::: Miles :::: Feb MTD (goal = 70)
02/01/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 2.6
02/02/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 5.7
02/03/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 8.3
02/04/17 :::: 6.8 :::: 15.1
Slow and cold long run this morning. 18 degrees F with cold wind, but at least the sun was out. It was beautiful with the fresh snow everywhere. Unfortunately that meant the nice trails were too snowy so we kept to the plowed roads in the park/golf course area - which means hills. My legs are wobbly tired. I also didn't start the Garmin properly for the first 5 minutes so grrrr, should be over 7 miles really. Oh well.
Stella seems to be recovering from her stomach troubles so I'm sure she'll be raring to go out pretty soon for a hike but I need to warm up!
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Hi all
Goal: 100k
2/2: 3.1k easy, incline
2/4: 1.2k -abandoned
Yesterday and today I had two attempts to run properly and both failed. My adductor - inner quad- is suffering and now i figure out that it is impossible to run the 20k trail run tomorrow, so bb race. I was about to ask your opinion whether to race or not but things made clear on their own. I guess it's rest time for awhile.
Races:
2/5 -20k- trail race1 -
@katharmonic nice run this morning. Hope you have a wonderful hike later!
@NikolaosKey sorry to hear about your running troubles! I hope you can heal up soon!0 -
9.3 wet and stormy kilometres today. It's been warm (for February) the last week, and raining all the time. I figured the only good thing about that would be that the lower parts of the mountain roads would be mostly free of snow, so I headed over there today.
In the end, I couldn't get as high up as I had hoped before the road got too icy and I had to turn back. That was probably a good thing, since I was completely drenched by that point already, and the storm that had been predicted for later today began to pick up. With the wind in my face, running downhill back to the car was almost harder than the way up had been! And I could hardly see a thing because I had to take off my glasses and was squinting my eyes shut against the rain. #RunningIsAwesome
Of course, now that I'm home, the rain has stopped and the wind is dying down. There's days I swear the weather just wants to annoy me ^^10
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