March 2017 Running Challenge
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This morning's run was delayed a little while I waited for a storm system to pass by, and then I spent more time waiting for the other runners in the group that turned out to be a no-show (due to said storm)...so less miles than I would've liked, but it's all good.
01 - 13.30
02 - 9.87
03 - 18.13
06 - 13.37
07 - 7.13
Total: 61.80 / 200
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March Running Challenge
3/1: 2 very slow miles and yoga
3/2: Rest
3/3: 2.2 slow miles
3/4: 3 mile trail run
3/5: 5 mile trail run
3/6: 3 mile trail run
Goal: 15.2 of 90
Completed Races:
Cowtown Marathon (Full) Feb 26 (Registered): 3:54:06 / 8:56 min/mile
Upcoming Races:
The Trail Run at Eagle Mt Park (5 miles) Apr 2 (Registered)
XTERRA ATX Trail Run (21K) Apr 23 (Tentative)
Chicago Spring Half Marathon: May 21 (Registered)
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)
Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon: Oct 1 (Tentative)6 -
KatieJane83 wrote: »In happier news though, I have an awesome new problem. I'm still trying to lose some weight, but last week I lost ~3.5 lbs, and another 2.2 the previous week. That's too fast! So I need to eat even more! Woohoo! Guess I've been being a little too conservative with my estimates, and staying under my net goal a little too much.
I've been trying to make my weight trend sideways for 5 years now, and marathon training makes it hard to see the trend. I can be down a full pound two days in a row, then up 3 or 4 pounds after a rest day. That comes back off with 2 days of running. The fluctuations have to be water and other residuals in my gastro-intestinal system; but the fluctuations can obscure the truth.
Lately I've come to think that I'm mostly seeing water bound to glycogen going away with hard training, and coming back with rest. I think I began to see this a little when I was running 35 miles per week, but it's very obvious when I'm over 50 miles per week with a couple of quality workout days and a long run.
So . . . depending on how often you weight, what you're seeing may or may not reflect reality. The weight can fluctuate more in serious training mode than it does when you're just running the same amount every week. And yes, ramping up the miles can mean you need to eat more to maintain the weight; but if you're trying to lose, you feel good, and your running performance is good, I wouldn't worry about the weight coming off. Time enough to worry about that when you no longer want to lose and/or your running performance suffers and/or you feel awful after losing too much, too fast.
Just for the sake of example, here's my last 7 days of weight fluctuation.
rest day, then +1.2 lbs.
speed work day, then -0.2 lbs.
easy run day, then -0.4 lbs.
long MP interval day, then -1.0 lbs.
rest day, then +3.0 lbs.
16 mile snowy run, then -2.0 lbs.
12 mile run on tired legs, then -0.8 lbs.
Net change over 7 days, -0.2 lbs. I'll call that maintenance, even though the daily numbers bounce around more than they would if I were just conservatively running 35 mostly easy miles per week. Rest day today, and I expect my weight to bounce back up tomorrow morning.
@MobyCarp
Thanks for that! You made me look at my stats. (Sorry, my formatting is a bit different.)
01 Mar – 12.6 km easy; 64.2 kg
02 Mar – 2.6 km + 1200 metres swimming; 63.4 kg (-0.8 kg from previous day)
03 Mar – 10 km fairly easy; 64.4 kg (+ 1 kg from previous day)
04 Mar – 8.2 km including parkrun which was flat out; 64.2 kg (-0.2 kg from previous day)
05 Mar - rest/walk day; 63.5 kg (-0.7 kg from previous day)
06 Mar – 14.2 km easy; 64 kg (+0.5 kg from previous day)
07 Mar - 07 Mar – 2.7 km + 1200 metres swimming; 64.3 kg (+0.3 kg)
I'd been confused why I'd noticed I was going up after a rest day, but hadn't realised I was going down after a run day. Apart from today, but I ate a lot of salt yesterday.
This is interesting. I keep meaning to start using a weight trend tracker and actually weigh every day. I suppose I should suck it up and start, lol. Especially as I get down closer to my goal weight. Normally I weigh once a week, same day/time/lack of clothing/post bathroom trip/etc. This was my recent trend:
Sunday, 2/19 - 159.6
Sunday, 2/26 - 156.8
Sunday, 3/5 - 153.2
150 marks the top end of my supposed healthy BMI range, so I was definitely surprised to see this much of a drop this quickly. It would be interesting to see how it fluctuates on a daily basis, and how it's influenced by my workout schedule. Right now, my weigh in day is the day after a cross-training day, which just consists of a 1 hour zumba class.
Anyone have any favorite weight trend apps for Android?2 -
1.55 miles in yesterday
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Got my new trail shoes yesterday! Altra Lone Peaks. They are so pretty! I wasn't going to trail run again, but I had to test them out!! Lol! They did great...they were comfy on my feet and handled very well on the rocky ups and downs.
As many of you know, Altras are 0 drop shoes. My road shoes are Altras as well, and I'm used to them / ran my marathon in them. However, by the end of the trail run last night, my calves were killing me. My previous trail shoes are Brooks Cascadias with a 10mm drop. I'm not sure if the calf pain was due to running hilly trails 3 days in a row. (In preparation for my marathon, I stuck to roads / paved trails and only ran rocky dirt trails once.) Maybe it was the 0 drop shoes or a combo of lots of trail running and new 0 drop shoes. I thought my body would transition fine since I run in 0 drop shoes on the roads.
Anyway, I guess I'll try them out again in a few days for a short trail run to see how they do. If they still hurt my calves, I think I'll go to my local running store to get some inserts that will take them up to something in between 0mm to 10mm. (They offered this option in my road shoes, but I went with a 4mm drop shoe before transitioning to 0 drop.)
I also got to enjoy a very pretty sunset at the end of my run.
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midwesterner85 wrote: »girlinahat wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »RespectTheKitty wrote: »http://runningmagazine.ca/kris-bucci-recaps-5k-run-with-justin-trudeau/
Justin Trudeau is a runner, because of course he is!
I'm sure he squats too... just guessing from those glutes.
Is there some visual evidence to support this assertion?
http://www.thebitbag.com/much-new-justin-trudeau-memes-flood-twitter-due-bubble-butt-photo/228485
ah. that's just what a girl needs to start her morning.....2 -
3/1: 2 miles
3/2: rest
3/3: 3.1 miles
3/4: X-train (45 mins swim)
3/5: 4 miles
3/6: rest
3/7: 2.8 miles
Total: 11.8/60 miles
Today's run was a bit of an interesting one. Woke up feeling a bit better but it was raining outside, so I headed to the gym to run on the treadmill. I'll run in the rain in the summer, but I'm less likely to run in it when it's cold and especially when I'm trying to get over being sick. Today's run was supposed to be intervals of 1, 1/2, 1, and 1/2 miles...my first run post injury running a mile straight! I also decided to pick up some simple arch support orthotics last night, so this was my first run in them. My gait felt slightly different, but in a good way. The only tightness/soreness I had was in the outside of my left foot. Kind of strange and I'm not sure what's causing that, so I'm going to bring that up to the PT next week. During the second mile interval, I could tell I was still feeling a little under the weather as I started feeling a little light headed and my HR jumped up a bit, so I decided to cut it short and skip the last 1/2 mile intervals. Ended up with 2.83 miles in 30:18. Still pretty happy with how the run went. Hopefully I'll feel back to 100% soon.6 -
3/01-3.1 miles
3/02-1.44 miles
3/03-3.14 miles
3/04-3.85 miles
3/05-yoga
3/06-4.25 miles
Of course as soon as I posted that the registration wasn't open for the Road Race Series, it opened. I'm thankful for my useful coworker who had me join the local runners club and has checked up on me to see if I'm participating. No slacking for me.I still have to register for one more half but that opens in May. In the meantime, I'll keep on keeping on with my running, yoga and pilates.
Races- 5K - 7/16
- 5K - 7/30
- 5 miles - 8/13
- 5 miles - 8/27
- 10K - 9/10
- 10K - 9/24
- 10 miles - 10/8
- 10 miles - 10/22
- Half marathon - 11/5
- Half marathon - 11/19
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KatieJane83 wrote: »
Anyone have any favorite weight trend apps for Android?
Not so much Android, but if you have a Fitbit account, you can sync it to Trendweight.com. I used to have a Fitbit and kept my account just so that it acts as a pass-through... I enter weight in MFP, which goes to Fitbit, which then goes to Trendweight. Unfortunately, you can't enter weight manually there.
I've heard from others who use Happy Scale, but have no personal experience with it.1 -
I don't know what drop any of my shoes are... but they have the most padding so probably a big drop.girlinahat wrote: »padding does not equate to drop. so for example a lot of the Hoka shoes are low drop but you could hardly call them lacking in cushioning.1
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Date Miles today - Miles for March
3/1 5 miles - 5
3/2 10 miles - 15
3/3 3.1 miles - 18.1
3/4 20 miles - 38.1
3/5 REST DAY
3/6 7 miles - 45.1
3/7 7 miles - 52.1
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 << 1:41:04 1 in AG & 24 OA
Kentucky Derby Marathon - 4/29
For some reason my Garmin won't synch with my Connect app on my phone. Therefore, no Strava upload either.
A little rain in my run this morning. it's a cutback week, so lower miles and slow & easy.2 -
3/1 - Hate starting a month on a rest day.
3/2 - 5.0 miles.
3/3 - Grrr...overslept this morning and have commitments after work. No run. Unwanted rest day!
3/4 - 6.0 miles.
3/5 - 3.1 'mill miles, then upper body weights.
3/6 - Life got in the way. Had to get kids up and going early.
3/7 - WINDY 4.38 miles.3 -
@BeeerRunner WOW nice shoes and beautiful pics!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!1
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All this talk of shoes makes me want to shop. Hmmm...3
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juliet3455 wrote: »I don't know what drop any of my shoes are... but they have the most padding so probably a big drop.girlinahat wrote: »padding does not equate to drop. so for example a lot of the Hoka shoes are low drop but you could hardly call them lacking in cushioning.
I know some people love Hokas, but I'm like you...just can't get into them either. Way too squishy for me.
@ddmom0811 The drop has to do with the difference in height between the toe and heel of the shoe. 0 Drop means that the toe and heel are at the exact same level, no matter how much or little padding is in the shoe. A 10 mm drop means the forefoot of the shoe will be 10 mm lower than the heel of the shoe. You can google your shoes and find out what the drop is.
The book, Born to Run talks a lot about this, but I know there are 2 sides to every story.0 -
Holy Moly Batman! I just had my second session of dry needle therapy on my hamstring. The deep, dull pain was way more intense than the first session. The PT said this was because he put the needles more directly into the muscle rather than on the edges. He said that he bent quite a few needles trying to get them in because my tendons were so tight. He leaves them in there until the tendon naturally releases them. After he finished the therapy, I did some strengthening exercises and the difference was AMAZING! The release of pain after the therapy was almost instantaneous. I guess this therapy is somewhat controversial and not approved in all states, but the forums and blogs that I have read seem to indicate that most people that have had it say it is the *kitten*. I wasn't too impressed after my first session, but if my legs keep feeling as good as they do now, I will be one happy runner girl!
He was happy with how I did on the exercises and said that I can start running for 30 minutes every other day. The plan for now is to stick to 75% cross training/25% running. We will see how that goes and maybe ramp it up to 50/50 next week. I am so excited.8 -
I had an epiphany: one of the reasons I run is because I'm too impatient to walk.
I walk a lot in addition to running, and I notice that I frequently get impatient when I walk. Like, I know I can get to where I'm going faster if I just RUN. But most of the time I walk, I'm not wearing the proper bra for running, so any attempts at running usually get nipped in the bud really fast.1
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