May 2017 Running Challenge

@rusgolden - I got the QuadLock, and it looks really cool to be able to "unclick" it and remount it, but like you I have (again) reversed to my trusted belt which even holds my gin bottles

@JessicaMcB Your abysmal time is still 16min faster than my PR
Running that time while having to "push your knee cap back in" is seriously impressive!
I haven't done a race where they started half and full together, but the marathon I ran earlier this month had a relay option, where you could split the distance between 4-6 runners. So a lot of people were taking off really fast. And during the first half of race (and sometimes even later) I was often overtaken by people speeding by like crazy - I guess whenever a relay team had put a slower runner first, whose pace was comparable to mine, but the person running the next leg had a 7km race speed faster than my MP. But they had bibs in different colors, so if you paid attention when they were passing, you could tell what's going on.

@KatieJane83 Fantastic race report and outfit! And such a great PR, congratulations!!
If I tried to gently slosh a drink into my mouth while running, I would end up wearing it all on my shirt

@rusgolden I'm glad that you didn't get hurt more in the accident, I hope you are feeling better now. Really frustrating that your car is totaled, but better your truck than you!

@midwesterner85 I know the zombie chases are supposed to be random, but I swear they are not! Though usually I don't get them when I want to take a photo; I get them just when the trail starts to be muddy or at the foot of a hill

@Orphia I don't know of what I'm more jealous - the new shoes or the Star Wars medal

@iofred I tried running with one of those phone armbands; I only ever managed to adjust it either to "sliding down" or "cutting of circulation". My solution: for the last three years, I've been happily running holding my phone in my left hand. Works better for me than armbands or belts or pants with deep pockets or whatever else.

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I can't remember the last time I ran as little as in the last two weeks. 3.6 & 7.6km in the week right after the marathon, a single 8km run the next week. Otherwise, I was trying to be sensible and let my left knee recover.
Between 120km cycling in that first week, and then work crazyness+family visit+90km of cycling in the second week, I didn't even miss running it as much as I expected.
Still, I'm happy to come back to it! Monday I ran 6.6km; and didn't get any complaints from the knee at all. As the final test I decided to add back some real hills, and did a tiny bit of mountain running today, up a road and down a lovely forest trail. During the descent I realised that the side pockets of my newest running shorts are deep, but aparently loose enough that my car keys fly out when I do enough jumping over roots and rapid changes of direction. The first time it happened I noticed right away; the second time I had to backtrack a bit to find them. I was really lucky that both times they landed on the trail and not in the shrubbery! I didn't want to tempt fate a third time, so I kept them in my hand until I got back to flat-ish paved roads.

While the pockets annoyed me, the knee was fine again. I think I can now declare the marathon recovery over and the knee fully healed
Still, I don't want to overdo it. It's only 18 days to my summer vacation (not that I'm counting or anything ^^). Until then I'll limit myself to 3 or 4 short(...-ish) runs per week with some more cycling than before, and only start builing back up to longer distances when I come back end of June.