February 2017 Running Challenge

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  • KeepRunningFatboy
    KeepRunningFatboy Posts: 3,055 Member
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    This Week:

    2.20.17 - lazy/lacked discipline.
    2.21.17 - 10.4 m. 9:30 pace.
    2.22.17 - 8 m. 8:40 pace.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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    OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »
    I hope everyone who is sick with all the sinus/cold/respiratory/flu crud feels better soon! We've had a lot of illness going around work and I'm trying my best to avoid it.

    lporter229 wrote: »
    @Elise4270- Did you say MFP MRC destination race??? I'm in! Can you imagine everyone here showing up for a race together? That would be awesome. And if it's Hawaii, then hell yeah!
    @lporter229 @Elise4270 Hawaii would be so fun! I watched a documentary on Netflix recently called Fat to Fit (if I'm remembering correctly). It's about an online weight loss group whose members started running to aid their weight loss. They're from all over the US and they decided to meet up and run a Ragnar race as a team. Most of them lost 50-100 pounds or even more and the documentary touches a little bit on each of their running and weight loss journeys. Pretty neat watch!


    That really would be great! I'd love to go!
  • BeeerRunner
    BeeerRunner Posts: 728 Member
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    Elise4270 wrote: »
    OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »
    I hope everyone who is sick with all the sinus/cold/respiratory/flu crud feels better soon! We've had a lot of illness going around work and I'm trying my best to avoid it.

    lporter229 wrote: »
    @Elise4270- Did you say MFP MRC destination race??? I'm in! Can you imagine everyone here showing up for a race together? That would be awesome. And if it's Hawaii, then hell yeah!
    @lporter229 @Elise4270 Hawaii would be so fun! I watched a documentary on Netflix recently called Fat to Fit (if I'm remembering correctly). It's about an online weight loss group whose members started running to aid their weight loss. They're from all over the US and they decided to meet up and run a Ragnar race as a team. Most of them lost 50-100 pounds or even more and the documentary touches a little bit on each of their running and weight loss journeys. Pretty neat watch!


    That really would be great! I'd love to go!

    You can count me in!! Would be soooo awesome and sooo fun!
  • 9voice9
    9voice9 Posts: 693 Member
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    88.52% of goal

    01-Feb: 3.18 miles
    02-Feb: 9.32 miles
    03-Feb: 8.75 miles
    04-Feb: 7.00 miles
    05-Feb: <Life Day>
    06-Feb: 7.01 miles
    07-Feb: 10.43 miles
    08-Feb: 3.35 miles
    09-Feb: 6.90 miles
    10-Feb: 6.94 miles
    11-Feb: 13.03 miles - Sweetheart 12K - 7.2m - 2/AG
    12-Feb: <Life Day>
    13-Feb: 13.44 miles
    14-Feb: 9.42 miles
    15-Feb: 3.11 miles
    16-Feb: 9.40 miles
    17-Feb: 6.47 miles
    18-Feb: 12.51 miles - Al Toll 15K - 9.33 - 2/AG
    19-Feb: <Life Day>
    20-Feb: 6.90 miles
    21-Feb: 9.28 miles
    22-Feb: 3.16 miles
    23-Feb:
    24-Feb:
    25-Feb: - Race Day!
    26-Feb: <Life Day>
    27-Feb:
    28-Feb:

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    Upcoming Races:
    25-Feb: Cantrell 5K, WR (*)
    04-Mar: Albany/Snickers HM, Albany
    11-Mar: Peach Road Race 10.5K, Byron (*)
    18-Mar: Cherry Blossom Road Race 10K, Macon (*)
    01-Apr: Run 2 End Alzheimers 5K, 10.5K, Bonaire (*)
    22-Apr: Taylor County Race for Literacy 5K, Reynolds (*)
    29-Apr: Running for Ronald 10K/15K, Macon (*)
    06-May: All About Animals 10.2K, Macon (*)
    13-May: Battle of Byron 5K, Byron (*)
    20-May: Georgia Jugfest 5K, Knoxville (*)
    27-May: Edge Fitness 5K, Bonaire (*)
    04-Jul: Peachtree Road Race 10K, Atlanta
  • RespectTheKitty
    RespectTheKitty Posts: 1,667 Member
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    2/1 6.3r 4.4w
    2/2 5.2r 5.3w
    2/3 0.0r 7.25w
    2/4 7.0r 0.5w
    2/5 4.2r 0.0w
    2/6 5.1r 4.6w
    2/7 5.05r 4.4w
    2/8 10.0r 0.5w
    2/9 0.0r 7.3w
    2/10 5.2r 6.1w
    2/11 7.5r 0.5w
    2/12 4.65r 0.0w
    2/13 7.1r 4.0w
    2/14 6.3r 5.0w
    2/15 5.2r 3.2w
    2/16 7.6r 5.6w
    2/17 0.0r 8.7w
    2/18 7.1r 0.75w
    2/19 5.2r 0.0w
    2/20 8.25r 4.0w
    2/21 0.0r 3.6w
    2/22 5.25r 4.5w
    Total so far = 112.2r + 80.2w = 192.4 miles

    Not much to report. Another treadmill session. So looking forward to when I can run outside during the week.
  • BeeerRunner
    BeeerRunner Posts: 728 Member
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    7lenny7 wrote: »
    @MNLittleFinn I don't know how your last few weeks look, nor am I an experienced marathoner, but here's my suggestion.

    First, you want to keep those 2 weeks available to "cash in" as long as possible, as @MobyCarp suggests. Instead of repeating the last two weeks before the taper, however, consider inserting two cut-back weeks. Instead of this:


    consider this:
    • Week 16 - Big Miles
    • Inserted Week - Cutback week by 10 to 15 percent
    • Week 17 - Big Miles
    • Inserted Week - Cutback week by 10 to 15 percent
    • Week 18 - Big Miles
    • Week 19 - Taper
    • Week 20 - Taper to race

    Doing this, you are not going to lose a bit of fitness and you'll allow your body a better chance to recover from all the hard miles you've been putting in. I think you'll reap a greater reward by the extra recovery than you would from the extra miles, and at a lower risk. For my ultra training I have every other week as a cutback week, other than some exceptions for scheduling reasons.

    If nothing else, ask your coach.


    This is what plan called for but it was a bigger cut. Mine was:
    20
    12
    20
    12
    20
    Taper
    Taper
    Race

    Since I ended up having some knee issues, those cutback weeks really helped me. The 3rd 20 miler was awesome!

    I'll know on Sunday if it worked or not. ;)
  • cchen2015
    cchen2015 Posts: 33 Member
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    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
    2/10/17----5.3miles
    2/11/17----10.2miles
    2/12/17----6.5miles
    2/13/17----7.3miles
    2/14/17----7.6miles
    2/15/17----7.5miles
    2/16/17----6.4miles
    2/17/17----6.9miles
    2/18/17----6.1miles
    2/19/17----5miles
    2/20/17----10.7miles
    2/21/17----7.2miles
    2/22/17----6.6miles

    new goal 200miles for Feb...these logs are walking/running combined.

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  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,493 Member
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    Kody & I ran 9 miles tonight, 5 of which were on the local trails. Nearly all of the ice has melted leaving behind a mix of soupy slop and muddy muck. I loved running the trails after dark. The trails are just 2 miles from my house. Why have I not been running these on weeknights in past?!?!?

    Tomorrow is my hill night, but I think I'll run these trails some more. They have enough hills to count for hill work as well.

    Kody enjoyed the trail running.
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    Apparently we weren't alone out there!
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  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
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    dkabambe wrote: »
    @Orphia 10miles is actually 16.1km so that's a strange distance - they could have built the pub 300m closer :smiley:
    I've only ever run 10miles in long slow training runs, but you can use the Daniel's formula to scale up your 10K time to get a time for 16.4km as follows:

    Race Time = ((Race Dist / Reference Dist) ^ 1.06 ) * Reference Time
    i.e. 16.4km Time = ((16.4/10)^1.06) * 10K Time
    So, 16.4km Time = 1.69 * 10K Time

    I find if you run those sorts of distances regularly it scales up well, but if not it can tend to think you'll run quicker. For example it scales quite well between my 1mile, 5K and 10K times but at HM or longer it gives me a time faster than I can currently run probably because I'm not used to those distances yet.

    Thanks, very much, @dkabambe ! I appreciate you taking the time to write that out. My maths is failing me. What does ^ mean?

    Thanks also, @karllundy @ritzvin and @RespectTheKitty

    We had to estimate our times, and I think I've set myself a pretty difficult goal of 1:45:00 :open_mouth:
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
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    Hit 100 miles today, and earned my medal! :smile:
  • dkabambe
    dkabambe Posts: 544 Member
    edited February 2017
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    Orphia wrote: »
    dkabambe wrote: »
    @Orphia 10miles is actually 16.1km so that's a strange distance - they could have built the pub 300m closer :smiley:
    I've only ever run 10miles in long slow training runs, but you can use the Daniel's formula to scale up your 10K time to get a time for 16.4km as follows:

    Race Time = ((Race Dist / Reference Dist) ^ 1.06 ) * Reference Time
    i.e. 16.4km Time = ((16.4/10)^1.06) * 10K Time
    So, 16.4km Time = 1.69 * 10K Time

    I find if you run those sorts of distances regularly it scales up well, but if not it can tend to think you'll run quicker. For example it scales quite well between my 1mile, 5K and 10K times but at HM or longer it gives me a time faster than I can currently run probably because I'm not used to those distances yet.

    Thanks, very much, @dkabambe ! I appreciate you taking the time to write that out. My maths is failing me. What does ^ mean?

    @Orphia ^ means "to the power of". e.g. ^2 is squared; ^3 is cubed so 5^3 = 5×5×5 = 125
    Gets more difficult when not whole numbers after the ^ sign, but just trust that your phone/computer/calculator will know what it means!
  • dkabambe
    dkabambe Posts: 544 Member
    edited February 2017
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    Today's dilemma: An hour outside with 30mph headwind and rain (10C/85% humidity) ...or... an hour on the treadmill.
    The assignment is only for an easy run but not sure that's possible into that headwind and makes the treadmill option even more boring - I struggle with 10mins so no idea how I'll manage that long! I genuinely don't know which sounds worse!
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
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    dkabambe wrote: »
    Orphia wrote: »
    dkabambe wrote: »
    @Orphia 10miles is actually 16.1km so that's a strange distance - they could have built the pub 300m closer :smiley:
    I've only ever run 10miles in long slow training runs, but you can use the Daniel's formula to scale up your 10K time to get a time for 16.4km as follows:

    Race Time = ((Race Dist / Reference Dist) ^ 1.06 ) * Reference Time
    i.e. 16.4km Time = ((16.4/10)^1.06) * 10K Time
    So, 16.4km Time = 1.69 * 10K Time

    I find if you run those sorts of distances regularly it scales up well, but if not it can tend to think you'll run quicker. For example it scales quite well between my 1mile, 5K and 10K times but at HM or longer it gives me a time faster than I can currently run probably because I'm not used to those distances yet.

    Thanks, very much, @dkabambe ! I appreciate you taking the time to write that out. My maths is failing me. What does ^ mean?

    @Orphia ^ means "to the power of". e.g. ^2 is squared; ^3 is cubed so 5^3 = 5×5×5 = 125
    Gets more difficult when not whole numbers after the ^ sign, but just trust that your phone/computer/calculator will know what it means!

    Thought so. But my calculator wasn't showing that symbol. Cheers.
  • ctlaws44
    ctlaws44 Posts: 182 Member
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    dkabambe wrote: »
    Today's dilemma: An hour outside with 30mph headwind and rain (10C/85% humidity) ...or... an hour on the treadmill.
    The assignment is only for an easy run but not sure that's possible into that headwind and makes the treadmill option even more boring - I struggle with 10mins so no idea how I'll manage that long! I genuinely don't know which sounds worse!

    The treadmill for me would definitely be worse. That thing's the smith machine for runners. Maybe change your route enough to split the wind? 50% head/ 50% tail.

    It was raining, 55F no wind though here (SE Va) last night. I went for my run just cause I'd been sick and haven't been able to go. Once I was wet, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Sometimes if it's raining,cold, and windy, I cut holes in a trash bag and wear it. Hopefully you were able to get your run in.
  • ctlaws44
    ctlaws44 Posts: 182 Member
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    Date activity Run dist (mi)
    1-Feb Yoga 60 min
    2-Feb rest
    3-Feb rest
    4-Feb run 10
    5-Feb rest
    6-Feb Yoga 60 min
    7-Feb HIIT 40 min
    8-Feb Yoga 60 min/ run 7.5
    9-Feb rest
    10-Feb HIIT 40 min
    11-Feb run 12
    12-Feb run 6.5
    13-Feb Yoga 60 min/ HIIT 40 min
    14-Feb rest
    15-Feb Yoga 60 min/ run 7.7
    16-Feb run 5
    17-Feb rest
    18-Feb run 5.8
    19-Feb run/walk (sick) 5.4
    20-Feb sick
    21-Feb sick
    22-Feb Yoga 60 min/run 7.7
    23-Feb
    24-Feb
    25-Feb
    26-Feb
    27-Feb
    28-Feb
    67.6

    Goal (miles) 100
    left (miles) 32.4
  • BeeerRunner
    BeeerRunner Posts: 728 Member
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    dkabambe wrote: »
    Today's dilemma: An hour outside with 30mph headwind and rain (10C/85% humidity) ...or... an hour on the treadmill.
    The assignment is only for an easy run but not sure that's possible into that headwind and makes the treadmill option even more boring - I struggle with 10mins so no idea how I'll manage that long! I genuinely don't know which sounds worse!

    I'd go outside with the wind. If you can find a route that has a lot of trees it will help block the wind. Plus, you'll should have the wind at your back half the time.
  • garygse
    garygse Posts: 896 Member
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    03 - 2.24 miles
    04 - 9.30
    06 - 11.67
    07 - 7.25
    08 - 12.43
    09 - 7.61
    10 - 16.13
    11 - 5.60
    13 - 13.46
    14 - 6.83
    15 - 13.40
    16 - 6.64
    17 - 17.01
    19 - 5.63
    21 - 10.92
    22 - 13.35
    23 - 10.93

    Total: 170.40 / 200
  • BeeerRunner
    BeeerRunner Posts: 728 Member
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    @Stoshew71 Hopefully they find the guy who put all those nails on the trail. It's not just adults out on trails. A lot of families with kids like to hike the trails near us, and it would be horrible if a small child stepped on or fell on one of those nails. It's truly a cruel act.

    @KatieJane83 and @girlinahat Hope you both start feeling better soon.

    @garygse Great job on your PR and I'm sure you'll do great in your upcoming HM. Which race are you doing? I've only got 2 races planned in DFW. One is a 5 mile trail race I just found out about yesterday. It's on the trails at Eagle Mountain Lake. I'm so excited since it's one of my fave places to run. The other is a HM night time trail race on the trails at Grapevine Lake.
  • OSUbuckeye906
    OSUbuckeye906 Posts: 315 Member
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    2/1: 2.2 miles walk, 6.3 miles bike
    2/2: Rest/PT
    2/3: 45 mins elliptical
    2/4: 10 miles bike
    2/5: 67 mins elliptical
    2/6: 9 miles bike
    2/7: 40 mins elliptical
    2/8: Rest
    2/9: 1.4 miles walk, 30 mins elliptical
    2/10: PT, 9.8 miles bike
    2/11: 1.9 miles walk/jog
    2/12: Rest
    2/13: 5.5 miles bike, 1.4 miles walk/jog
    2/14: 60 mins elliptical
    2/15: PT, 10 miles bike
    2/16: Rest
    2/17: 2.6 miles run/walk
    2/18: 3.1 miles hike/walk
    2/19: 2.5 miles run/walk
    2/20: 10 miles bike
    2/21: 2.8 miles run/walk
    2/22: PT, 9.7 miles bike
    2/23: 3.2 miles run/walk

    TOTAL: 19/22 workout days

    First run with 5 minute intervals went well! Warm up walk, 4 x 5 mins run/4 mins walk, cool down walk; 3.2 miles in 39:05. The 5 minute intervals didn't feel any harder than the 4 minutes and I was able to slow down and control my pace a lot better (splits were between 9:40-9:50 pace). I felt some tightness in my left calf/foot at the beginning again but it actually went away as I was able to slow down and control my pace. Tried out some new shoes that arrived yesterday as well (Saucony Guide 9s). My left shoe felt a little loose, but not sure yet if it's too loose and would cause blisters or if it can be adjusted. May need to get another run in them before I decide. Oh, and it was a beautiful morning...56F and sunny!

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