March 2017 Running Challenge

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  • Bakins929
    Bakins929 Posts: 895 Member
    Another treadmill day, 5.4 miles. I wish it were a bit warmer outside!

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  • ctlaws44
    ctlaws44 Posts: 182 Member
    @ctlaws44 - Cold in SE Virginia? Oh, no! I have to run 8K in Virginia Beach on Saturday! (Forecast low 41º, high 63º. I think I'll survive the rain forecast for that day.) It's a bit chillier here; see picture and tale of woe below.

    That's exciting! Yes, the weather down here can change REALLY fast. we're just getting over a cold snap. I Don't trust the forecast more than 24 hours out. Hope the weather is good for y'all. Safe travels. You're going to do great!!
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    ctlaws44 wrote: »
    @ctlaws44 - Cold in SE Virginia? Oh, no! I have to run 8K in Virginia Beach on Saturday! (Forecast low 41º, high 63º. I think I'll survive the rain forecast for that day.) It's a bit chillier here; see picture and tale of woe below.

    That's exciting! Yes, the weather down here can change REALLY fast. we're just getting over a cold snap. I Don't trust the forecast more than 24 hours out. Hope the weather is good for y'all. Safe travels. You're going to do great!!

    That is perfect temps. for running. The rain doesn't sound fun, though.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    Really feeling my knee for some reason. Going to see how it is tomorrow and might just try 2-3 slow miles.
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    @7lenny7 Yikes, I had to go back and reread the story. I would be so *kitten* pee'd out over that woman who hit your son. You should be a proud papa for having 2 responsible sons. I am glad everyone is OK. Not glad the bike is totaled.
  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    MobyCarp wrote: »

    I was kind of surprised when I looked at the stats that both pace and HR looked like a well managed easy run. I just wasn't feeling it today.

    I'm curious here. Did it FEEL easy to you? Your description makes it sound like it didn't feel easy, or was hard work because of the environmental conditions. I'm interested in how when something reads on paper as being 'easy', whether it actually is, or whether we should rely on our gut feeling as to how a run feels - which is pretty much the decision you made at the end there. I've just been listening to a podcast about enjoyment of running and running to play rather than run with a hard target, and I think I'm more of a player (certainly if I want to maintain my interest in running).



  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    1/3/17 3.4m - faceplant!!!!
    2/3/17 2.7m
    4/3/14 9.8m
    5/3/17 2.9m
    8/3/17 3.8m
    9/3/17 4m
    11/3/17 10.5m
    15/3/17 3.5m
    16/3/17 5.1m

    Totals: 46.1/70

    Target 70 miles

    Planned races -

    29.4.17 HM Coastal Trail Series Pembrokeshire FULL!!!
    7.5.17 HM-ish The Ox Wiltshire.
    8.7.17 Cider Frolic?
    30.7.17 HM-ish Dorset Invader
    27.8.17 East Farm Frolic

    Ran with my club last night, off road, through the trees across fields with plenty of up and down-y stuff. I find myself struggling running with them, but it does mean I vary where I am in the group so I get to talk to different people during the run depending on how tired I am or how slowly I’m going!!! We tend to start and finish at a pub, so I get a beer and a burger for my troubles after.

    I’ve been having issues lately where the more I run the slower I seem to be getting and the harder it is. I don’t get into my stride until 2miles into a run so I’m wondering how to get my body better at handling it.

    Do I – continue with the running four days a week, with one long run? Or – do I run everyday but limit myself to 1-2 miles a day, with two of those days being longer (one proper long run, and one sort of halfway to that)? I just can’t work out how to better condition my body. At the moment the only other activities I am doing is one (intense) dance class and a T’ai Chi session. I’m building to a HM so I am concerned about the balance of my runs (looks like my long run is coming out at around 50% of my weekly mileage!!)
  • iofred
    iofred Posts: 488 Member
    @dkabambe Good luck on Sunday, whatever else you do, enjoy it :)
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    @7lenny7 I'm glad your son is alright!
    I can understand that he first told the driver he was okay - it's such a reflex. The only time I got hit by a car when I was on my bike, I did the same, which also resulted in the car driver leaving (at least with an excuse instead of any stupid comments!). It was only after he was gone that I realised one wheel was bent completely out of shape and I had a bleeding knee with matching hole in the jeans. I really hope I'll never ever hit someone with my car, but if I ever do, I promised myself I'll stay around, even if they say they are okay in the first shocked moment. Five minutes of time shouldn't be too much too ask if you hit someone with your car! I hope the police can track the driver down. In movies they always seem to have surveillance cameras at the next intersection...
    But it sounds like you have a great time with your sons despite the bike incident, that's awesome!

    @greenolivetree I hope times will be less stressful for you now, and that your knees hurting was just a one-time thing on a horrible day.

    @ddmom0811 I can't believe you call 5:30 sleeping in :D I'm a zombie if you drag me out of bed at that hour, I'm really impressed by how early you usually run.

    @RuNaRoUnDaFiEld If you don't live near that course, do you have other hills nearby? From the picture you posted it's hard to tell, but it looks like none of the hills are steeper than maybe 5%? Then I think you would be fine by running whatever other hills you come across instead. If you don't have any hills at all, you might have to get more creative by running stairs or bridges or parking garage ramps...

    @ereck44 Great 8mile run!
    I haven't got tight lower back muscles from running; but if the distance was new for you and the last two miles were really hard, it's probably not surprising that you felt still the next day. Especially if your running form "degrades" when you get tired towards the end.

    @KatieJane83 Glad you are feeling better!
    Of course a distance still counts if it's not tracked by Garmin - since my running watch is a Tomtom, otherwise I wouldn't run any distance at all. That's going to sound crazy, but when I started running (~10 years ago), I actually tracked my distance by estimating the route on a paper map! Hard to imagine now, but it was at least accurate enough to tell the difference between 3km and 6km, at least :p
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    edited March 2017
    Question for anyone with an optical heart rate monitor:
    My HRM has been acting really weird recently. For runs where I would expect the heart rate to be between 150-160bpm, it's sometimes climbing up past 200 or dropping below 100.
    Did anyone ever have problems like that, and did you find a way to fix it?

    With the optical heart rate measurement, I've often seen that it takes a few minutes to give good readings when it's cold outside, but nothing like this:
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    That's yesterdays run, which was a nice, easy run. In the past, I might have gotten close to 200 at the end of a series of hill sprints with little recovery, but recently my HRM has shown me readings like this one during regular runs.

    Or the other extreme, where it suddenly drops down (the pace stayed the same):
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    If my actual heart rate was doing funny things like that, I should notice, shouldn't I?
  • RespectTheKitty
    RespectTheKitty Posts: 1,667 Member
    edited March 2017
    3/1 6.3r + 4.2w
    3/2 7.25r + 4.5w + 1000m row
    3/3 6.5r + 4.8w
    3/4 10.2r + 0.5w
    3/5 0.0r + 4.0w
    3/6 5.1r + 5.1w + 1200m row
    3/7 7.1r + 3.5w
    3/8 0.0r + 3.25w
    3/9 5.3r + 1.25w + 1000m row
    3/10 0.0r + 5.8w
    3/11 7.0r + 1.0w
    3/12 5.25r + 0.0w
    3/13 5.3r + 4.4w
    3/14 5.6r + 4.55w
    3/15 7.2r + 4.5w + 1000m row
    3/16 5.2r + 5.4w
    Total so far: 83.4r + 58.25w = 141.65 miles

    Today is a walking-only day for me. I had to bring my car into the shop early this morning (they open at 7, OOOF), so I arrived at work far too early. Decided to walk around the atrium until it was time to start. I've already gotten 1.5 miles done and it's not even 8:30 am. Determined to hit my 15,000 Garmin step goal without any running today. (Most days I'm over 20,000 when I do both walking and running.)

    One odd thing I noticed after my run last night was that my HR didn't get above 121 the entire time. Usually it gets into the 140s when I run. I did go easy yesterday, but I didn't think I was going THAT easy. Hmm.

    Hoping they can get to the bottom of whatever's wrong with my car. It's having the exact same problem it did when I brought it in a month ago. Apparently changing the spark plugs was not the answer. In the meantime, I have a loaner car, and it's always fun driving a new car for a while.

    Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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