June 2017 Running Challenge
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@hanlonsk Great report and finish time for your first HM. You may hurt less than you think.
Especially if you get some post race walking in to let the muscles cool down and an easy natural stretch.
Loved the "so this country girl may or may not have cut off into the woods mid race".
I always knew about Deadwood, SD because I once attended a Public School that was named Deadwood ( in Alberta, Canada ) - one of the stories was in the early 1900's Dustbowl days people had abandoned their land in SD and moved North to get out of the Dustbowls and called their new Homestead Deadwood after where their families had moved from.1 -
Way to rock your first HM @hanlonsk ! I love your friends' OR contribution, haha1
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June Goal: Goal? We don't need no stinkin goal.....
6/1 nothin
6/2 4.00
6/3 4.00
6/4 4.00
Total 12.00
Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:
upcoming races:
Volcano Rainforest Runs 10k 8/19
BlockThe Sun Run 5k Oct 14 (https://walk.aimatmelanoma.org/Hilo2017) (physical and virtual options available)
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I found the most awesome app!
It generates a video with an animated app of your run and the pics you took on it.
https://www.relive.cc/
You can sync it to Strava or Garmin.
I synced mine to Strava, and it worked a treat with the photos I'd uploaded after I'd added them (after syncing my Garmin). Not sure how it gets the photos from Garmin but maybe it uses your photos from the timestamp on your phone.6 -
Hello fellow runners!
6/1: 8.7k -w/u, Tempo Run, c/d-
6/2: 10.3k -again Tempo-
6/4: 7.1k - urban running
Aim: 26.1k/161k
Legs feel heavy due to concrete retain. I am in Cyprus for a survey and I cannot find any different retain. Let's hope not to injure anything.
Stay free of injuries!1 -
6/1 - 6 miles
6/2 - 4 miles
6/3 - rest day
6/4 - 7 miles
6/5 - 3 miles of recovery run
20 of 70 miles
Humid morning 97% at 5 am. 3 miles of recovery.
Upcoming races:
6/7 - Big Run 5K at Fleet Feet
and a couple other things I'm eyeing up
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So as mentioned previously, I've been re-reading the book 80/20 Running, and I realised that I've been letting myself slip in regards to the 20% portion of my running. If I'm honest with myself, that 20% has really been at mid-level effort, or if I've put in any actual high intensity work, then it's been maybe 5% of my running at best...that is, I've not been putting in the level of effort actually required for the 20%.
Looking at my typical running week, it looks like if I do my Monday run hard, that should cover most of the 20%, and with part of Friday's long run at marathon pace, that should see the remainder of the 20% covered.
Well, today's Monday, so tempo pace it was then. I feel pretty knackered now...my heart rate averaged 175, and was in Z4 (threshold) for 82% of the run. I'm sooo going to hate Mondays.
01 - 11.39
02 - 21.12
05 - 13.44
Total: 45.94 / 225 miles
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After Saturday's 9 miler, I decided to take a rest day yesterday. I'm planning a 6 mile run tonight, a leisurely short run on Tuesday, and probably a rest day Wednesday. Then Thursday is the 3.5 mile J P Morgan Corporate Challenge.
6/1 - 6.6 miles
6/2 - rest
6/3 - 9 miles
6/4 - rest
My running goals this year are:-
1) to come in under an hour in a 10k - I've been doing it in training, just need to do it in a race. I signed up for four 10ks this year. January's was mainly flat and I finished in 1:00:13. The one in June is a bit hilly, but September's and October's are really flat, so I'm quietly confident.
2) to win my age-group in a 5k (had two thirds and a second, so I'm getting there).
3) to beat my half-marathon time from 6 years ago.![exercise.png[\img]](https://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wp0dj8F/exercise.png[\img])
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I haven't done one yet. Sometime this morning if work isn't too crazy.3 -
6/1 - 4 miles
6/2 - Pre-race rest day. Ate some donuts for national donut day / carb load
6/3 - 13.2 miles. Damn HOT Dam to Dam half marathon! Race report forthcoming.
6/4 - Ow.
6/5 - Still ow. Had hoped for a recovery run, but decided against it when I got up.
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Joining a little late but i am really trying to get back into running. I was up at my furthest last spring with 10 miles being my furthest, I am signed up to run my very first half in October. My goal for this month, which will include starting to train for the half, is 70 miles..
6/17 - Summer Slam 5k
8/5 - Coast Guard 10k & 5k
10/7 - Crawlin Crab 5k
10/8 - Crawlin Crab Half Marathon
10/28 - Wicked 10k
11/18 - Harbor Lights 5k
11/19 - Harbor Lights Half Marathon
12/16 - Surfin Santa 5 Miler11 -
6/1 - 4 miles
6/2 - Pre-race rest day. Ate some donuts for national donut day / carb load
6/3 - 13.2 miles. Damn HOT Dam to Dam half marathon! Race report forthcoming.
6/4 - Ow.
6/5 - Still ow. Had hoped for a recovery run, but decided against it when I got up.
@karllundy hope your legs stop owing soon.
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Today's run sucked a million *kitten*.
The assignment was 9 miles (up from 8 miles in previous weeks), with a 2.25 mile warm up, then speed work intervals over a planned 4.5 mile span, then 2.25 miles of cool down. Since one out and back on the most evil, hilliest route I have available is 9 miles, it seemed the appropriate way to go. I updated my interval workout on Garmin Connect and thought I had sent it to my watch.
Just before heading out I thought to check the local weather on my phone. It was 68° F (20° C for the rest of the planet) so not too bad...but the humidity was 100%.
As I headed out I thought it felt OK. Fog was thick all around in the valleys.
I was heading up a hill towards a big intersection just past which I was expecting to start my first interval. But my Garmin told me to start running up the hill! So I did. Once past the intersection I ran past my first recovery alert since I did not get as much of a without due to waiting at that intersection.
I had to continue adapting due to the continually steep, rolling hills, but kept my overall heart rate up well into where it should have averaged.
The sun came out and the fog started slowly lifting. I was waiting for such a break in humidity but it still felt every bit as swampy as before, only now the sun was beating down.
I ran by one sprinkler just past mile 6 which was so amazing.
Turned out my Garmin has not updated with my new workout because it stopped at mile 8. No problem, I hit the run button again. But I knew this meant I started my intervals earlier than planned.
I was so knackered those last two cool down miles that I walked most of the last mile.
When I finished I checked the weather again. It was now 70° and only 98% humidity. I think that's the last time I check the weather.
6/1 - rest
6/2 - 3.1 miles
6/3 - 13.1 miles
6/4 - 4.5 miles
6/5 - 9 miles
29.7 of 170 miles completed
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My trail/ultra running friend is either thr best/most encouraging friend ever, or he wants to see me suffer........4
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Both.MNLittleFinn wrote: »My trail/ultra running friend is either thr best/most encouraging friend ever, or he wants to see me suffer........3 -
6/1- REST
6/2- 5.2 Miles
6/3- 19
6/4- 4.3
6/5- 4.2
Total: 28.5
Goal for June. Finish Marathon training well, taper well and run Grandma's well
Nominal mileage goal: 100
Today's notes: 4 miles were assigned. I ran 4.2 at 9:23 pace. My quads still hate me from the one big downhill near the end of Saturday's run, but other than that, it was a decent run. A flat route, but I figure giving the quads rest is a good idea now.
Have a runderful day all!
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2017 Races
6/16- William A Irvin 5k
6/17- Grandma's Marathon (Full!)
8/19- Rampage at the Ridge 5k OCR
9/23- Ely Marathon (full)
10/21 Wild Duluth 50k
11/23- TBD 5k Turkey Trot2 -
6/1 5miles 46:33min
6/2 3miles 27:09min
6/3 7miles 65:53min
6/4 rest
6/5 3miles 27:52min
3 miles on the treadmill today. Tapering feels kinda crazy. Tomorrow is 4, then 3, then rest, then 3. I haven't done this little running in a loooonnnnggg time.
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Date Miles today - Miles for June
6/1 10.5 miles - 10.5
6/2 7.5 miles - 18
6/3 14 miles - 32
6/4 REST DAY
6/5 8 miles - 40
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 Festival Marathon - 4/29 << 4:09:59
Upcoming races:
None so far
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So as mentioned previously, I've been re-reading the book 80/20 Running, and I realised that I've been letting myself slip in regards to the 20% portion of my running. If I'm honest with myself, that 20% has really been at mid-level effort, or if I've put in any actual high intensity work, then it's been maybe 5% of my running at best...that is, I've not been putting in the level of effort actually required for the 20%.
I'm not familiar with that book, so I don't know whether it calls for 20% of the time or 20% of the miles to be hard. Other systems are more nuanced, and call for decreasing percentages (typically of miles) at increasing levels of intensity. Maybe 15% at mid-level and 5% at high intensity isn't as bad as you think.
Confession: I've never actually calculated the percentage of my distance at various paces, and I haven't paid strict attention to what the target percentages are. I do, however, honor the concept that most of the running miles should be easy.3 -
WhatMeRunning wrote: »No worries @RespectTheKitty. We would all rather you be healthy and happy than sacrificing that over some race. I hope your back is OK.
Honestly, this year I have started to question why I sign up for so many events. I like running on my own schedule per my training plan and I have to keep modifying everything to fit in all these events I signed up for. At this point, I have loads of bling and swag, and while those are nice, it's also starting to seem a bit ridiculous. About the only thing I really get excited about is a great finish time, but to do that I would have to target my training for one specific event, then recover and start again. That's not how I have worked before, and tend to just sign up for events to just do them.
I guess that's a long way of saying that events don't have to be for just everyone. And there's nothing wrong with not doing them either. What matters is that you enjoy running and do so in a way that maximizes that joy for you.
I kinda echo this. Since KDF Marathon, I haven't been all that thrilled to sign up for anything right now.
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