February 2017 Running Challenge

2/01: 3.75 miles & Pilates
2/02: 1.32 miles & 60 min of Pilates
2/03: 3.16 miles
2/04: rest
2/05: rest
2/06: 3.4 miles on treadmill
2/07: Pilates
2/08: 4.08 miles on treadmill
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Upcoming Races(Not complete-still waiting on MRTC)
FedEx St. Jude Classic Fairway 5K - 4/8/2017
Bluff City 10k - 5/13/2017

A nice run with the club last night, and a slow, cold run this evening. Nothing exciting, but getting those miles in. Just the small matter of 17 miles to do on Saturday morning... ahhhhhh!

February Running Challenge

1st-2nd - Sick
3rd - 6.15 miles
5th - 5.19 miles XC Race
7th - 4.06 miles
8th - 6.49 miles
9th - 5.02 miles

MTD - 26.91/100 miles

Upcoming races:
19th February - Bramley 20mile
12th March - North London Half Marathon
9th April - Brighton Marathon

February Running Totals (miles)
2/1 – 7.00 easy
2/2 – 2.63 easy shakedown run
2/3 – travel day, didn't get a run in
2/4 – 7.99 warm up on road + 8K cross country
2/5 – travel day, didn't get a run in
2/6 – travel day
2/7 – 9.26 warm up, speed work, cool down
2/8 – 7.02 group run
2/9 – 12.03 MP intervals

February total to date – 45.93

Nominal Challenge Goal – 225 miles
Real Goals: Survive travel to and from Bend. Train well toward Boston. Avoid injury.

Today's notes – Got out to run in the heat of the day at 3:30 PM, 21º F (-6º C) with 15 mph NW wind. The revised training plan called for 10 miles today, structured as 2 easy, 3 MP, 2 easy, 2 MP, 1 easy. Because I missed too much running with the travel to Bend, I tacked on an extra 2 easy miles at the end. Then I had to go run a hilly route. The idea was to target 7:30 for MP, based on my flaming out during marathons while trying to run a more aggressive pace. The first MP interval was okay, though mile 5 looks slow because I hit a stoplight with unfavorable cross traffic. Mile 6 looks close to MP, as I wasn't good at slowing back down to easy. Mile 7 was more of an easy pace, and during that mile I realized I was supposed to pick it up to MP right at mile 8, which is the geographically most challenging mile on this route. Geared myself up for it, and ended up running miles 8 and 9 faster than the target on average. Like, 7:19 and 7:16. Oops. Trying to run that kind of pace at Boston will get me into trouble. The good news is, after that I didn't have any trouble slowing down to an easy pace for the last 3 miles.

It would be nice to get out for an easy 5 miles tomorrow, but my best guess is that I won't be able to fit that into the schedule. Oh, well. It won't kill me to keep the scheduled rest day tomorrow and bring the week in below the training plan's target mileage. Next week should be a lot easier on the schedule.

2017 races:
January 1, 2017 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY) Finished in 50:45
January 7, 2017 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) Finished in 1:32:40
January 14, 2017 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds Park 5 mile) (Spencerport, NY) Finished in 33:42
January 28, 2017 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY) short course, finished 4.88 miles in 32:50
February 4, 2017 USATF Cross Country National Championship Masters 8K (Bend, OR) Finished in 35:39, team won the 60+ Men's cross country championship
February 11, 2017 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) will sit out due to training schedule
February 25, 2017 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY)
March 11, 2017 Johnny's Runnin' of the Green 5 mile (Rochester, NY)
March 18, 2017 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Virginia Beach, VA)
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)

2/1/17----7.2miles
2/2/17----7.8miles
2/3/17----7.7miles
2/4/17----8.7miles
2/5/17----5.1miles
2/6/17----6.5miles
2/7/17----9.1miles
2/8/17----6.75miles
2/9/17----7.8miles

My plan had been to run Fri/Sun/Tues and ended up running Fri/Tues/Thur....so still 3 runs in the same 7 day period. Only 11 miles total :-/

I think I need to stick to 3 days a week and low mileage. I ran 16 miles the week before and felt like I could be bringing on shin splints already (ugh, I've barely ran!) Today I had some sharp shin pain and had to walk a minute. I've also had some random sharp shin pains when I'm just sitting around?

So I'll probably do Saturday then Monday or Tuesday and keep evaluating. I don't think I'll get more than 40 miles this month Just trying to play it safe.

@HonuNui Creepy creature!

KatieJane83 wrote: »

Orphia wrote: »

01 Feb – 10.1 km
02 Feb – 7.5 km + Body Balance
04 Feb – 10.7 km including parkrun
05 Feb – 13.3 km hilly run
06 Feb – 2.6 km + 1150m swimming
07 Feb – 9 km + Pilates
08 Feb - swimming
09 Feb – 10 km

Goal: 100 miles / 160 km
Total: 63.2 km

Upcoming:
25 Feb - 16.4 km Farm to Pub

Ran 10 km this morning, and Garmin sent my run to Strava, but Garmin didn't save the activity in Garmin Connect.

I've synced it at least 10 times, logged out and in of GC, updated on Garmin Express, and synced some more, but it's still not showing as a run in Garmin Connect.

I've lodged an error report.

Pretty happy, though, that all is well in Strava. Strava is my life.

This happens to me occasionally with my Garmin as well. If you physically connect it to your computer (like when you need to access Garmin Express if you want to add or update an app on your watch) you can import it directly to Garmin Connect. In Garmin Connect click the big white plus sign in the top right corner and select 'Import Data'. You can then hit Browse, or open your File Explorer to drag and drop, and browse to your watch (it should show up as a storage device on the left, see first image below). Open the GARMIN folder, then ACTIVITY, and then pick the most recently-dated file. If you are good with computers and this is an insult to your intelligence I humbly apologize!!! Lol. I only stress how to do this because one time this happened to me, and not even Strava caught it, and Strava is my life as well!

Woo Yay Hooplah! That worked!

@KatieJane83 Thank you so much for going to all that trouble to explain it for me. That's such a nice thing to do.

I really, really appreciate it! xxoo

My run, that once was dead, now lives! Zombie Run!

@HonuNui - My first thought was octopus too. Whatever it is I think I am in love! It is beautiful and I could just sit and watch the video over and over. I also love nudibranchs - studied them extensively in college and they are beautiful. This doesn't really look like one except in the body.

2.1.17 - 11.5 m. TM @ 8:00 pace.
2.2.17 - 7.5 m. TM RH Lvl 1 9:25 pace.
2.4.17 - 19 m. TM 9:22 pace.
2.5.17 - 1.1 m. Need recovery day.
2.6.17 - 9.9 m. Nice day in Ohio.
2.7.17 - 7 m. 8:00 pace.
2.9.17 - 8 m. 8:40 pace.

@KatieJane83 Hope you survived the snow! How much did you get? Seeing all your zumba makes me want to do that again. It's so much fun!! Maybe I'll tty to make some classes after the marathon.

@OSUbuckeye906 Loved the trail pics with the trees lining the path! So pretty!

@HonuNui Loved the video! My husband and I used to scuba on vacations, but it's been years!! We loved it though. Thanks for sharing with us.

February Running Challenge:

2/1 10 miles
2/2 2.2 miles
2/3 Rest day
2/4 10 mile pace run
2/5 20 mile run
2/6 5 mile very slow run
2/7 2 mile run with Spotty
2/8 8 mile run: 1 w/u with Spotty, 6 pace, 1 c/d
2/9 4 mile run


Goal: 61.2 of 135

Upcoming Races:

Cowtown Marathon (Full) Feb 26 (Registered)
XTERRA ATX Trail Run (21K) Apr 23 (Tentative)
XTERRA Rock Dallas Trail Run (HM at night) May 27 (Tentative)
XTERRA Jurassic Trail Run (HM at night) Jul 8 (Tentative)
La Sportiva Vail Half Marathon: Jul 22 (Tentative)

Orphia wrote: »

KatieJane83 wrote: »

Orphia wrote: »

01 Feb – 10.1 km
02 Feb – 7.5 km + Body Balance
04 Feb – 10.7 km including parkrun
05 Feb – 13.3 km hilly run
06 Feb – 2.6 km + 1150m swimming
07 Feb – 9 km + Pilates
08 Feb - swimming
09 Feb – 10 km

Goal: 100 miles / 160 km
Total: 63.2 km

Upcoming:
25 Feb - 16.4 km Farm to Pub

Ran 10 km this morning, and Garmin sent my run to Strava, but Garmin didn't save the activity in Garmin Connect.

I've synced it at least 10 times, logged out and in of GC, updated on Garmin Express, and synced some more, but it's still not showing as a run in Garmin Connect.

I've lodged an error report.

Pretty happy, though, that all is well in Strava. Strava is my life.

This happens to me occasionally with my Garmin as well. If you physically connect it to your computer (like when you need to access Garmin Express if you want to add or update an app on your watch) you can import it directly to Garmin Connect. In Garmin Connect click the big white plus sign in the top right corner and select 'Import Data'. You can then hit Browse, or open your File Explorer to drag and drop, and browse to your watch (it should show up as a storage device on the left, see first image below). Open the GARMIN folder, then ACTIVITY, and then pick the most recently-dated file. If you are good with computers and this is an insult to your intelligence I humbly apologize!!! Lol. I only stress how to do this because one time this happened to me, and not even Strava caught it, and Strava is my life as well!

Woo Yay Hooplah! That worked!

@KatieJane83 Thank you so much for going to all that trouble to explain it for me. That's such a nice thing to do.

I really, really appreciate it! xxoo

My run, that once was dead, now lives! Zombie Run!

Yayyy!!! I'm so happy my directions made sense and were helpful! I'm a total nerd, lol, I enjoy it. I'm not in IT or anything, but am pretty decent with computers, so often ended up being the person people would ask for help at work, haha. I like doing it! And most importantly, I wanted to save you from the panicky feeling I went through the one time it didn't even pull through to Strava! I was so sad thinking I'd have to manually enter it and lose all the actual data (HR, elevation, pace, etc)

BeeerRunner wrote: »

@KatieJane83 Hope you survived the snow! How much did you get? Seeing all your zumba makes me want to do that again. It's so much fun!! Maybe I'll tty to make some classes after the marathon.

@OSUbuckeye906 Loved the trail pics with the trees lining the path! So pretty!

@HonuNui Loved the video! My husband and I used to scuba on vacations, but it's been years!! We loved it though. Thanks for sharing with us.

Hi, thanks for asking, I did survive! Only got 7 inches, booo (yes I'm weird, but I like snow and they were saying 8-12 inches! haha). Will be doing today's run on the dreadmill though, because the temps have stayed really low so the roads are still not in good condition, and I still have no special shoe equipment for dealing with ice/snow. And yes to zumba! I grew up with dance as my sport (ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, etc.) and also taught it for a number of years, so zumba is my dance fix now. I'm really bummed because my Wednesday class just got a new teacher and, no offense to her, but for me her routines and choreography are really slow, and repetitive, and boring. I always look for the classes that are the most challenging, but I burned about a 1/3rd the cals I normally do for Wed zumba with her class. Ugh. But you should totally do it, it's so much fun!

@garygse - Really?!?!?! I thought crazy things like that only happened in movies or at my house. Good luck!

@ritzvin- That's a bad *kitten* photo. Looks like a band promo or something!
@garygse- Holy cow! Sounds like definite cause for a run! Good luck with the clean up.
@BeerRunner- Your running path looks almost identical to the one I run along near my work. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten to spend much time there recently because I don't feel safe to run in the dark there, but now that it is staying light later, I should get some runs in soon.
@Katiejane83- Wow! Totally jealous of your running territory! Beautiful!

2/1-5.2 miles +1 mile with Stella
2/2-1.2 miles with Stella +6.9 miles solo
2/3-1 mile with Stella+2.3 shakeout miles
2/4-6.2 miles Cyclones Frozen 10K-PR!
2/5-14 miles
2/6-rest day
2/7-5.7 miles
2/8-7.5 miles
2/9-6 miles

Pretty, frozen moonlight run yesterday evening. 5 easy, peaceful miles after a 1 mile warm-up with Stella. This morning was supposed to be speedwork on the treadmill. I am still experiencing some tightness in my hamstring and glute and decided to skip the speedwork. The logical side of me says to take a rest day in preparation for my 20 miles this weekend. But I packed my bag and am hoping to get out of work with enough daylight to maybe hit a short, easy run on the bike path. I am hoping that getting some flat terrain in might help balance things out. Maybe it's wishful thinking. I am just going to play it by ear based on how I feel. I know that maybe I am being stubborn, but 4 flat easy miles can't hurt, right? Right?