June 2017 Running Challenge
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@MobyCarp You don't see that spike early in all of your runs? I see it in mine (before surgery). I read something about it once but don't recall much to pass on, other than it could be you're not warmed up or static issue with a tech shirt before the contacts are wet.
I have it in my run from yesterday but peaks about 170 then drops to 150 then averages out about 160 for the run. I always hit that "oh crap, hang in there and just push past this" in the first quarter mile. So I just figure, for me it's warm up.
ETA dang! Just digesting your numbers, absolutely amazing!0 -
@MobyCarp and @PastorVincent - Thank you for the feedback. When I run on a treadmill that is what I concentrate on is pace but I struggle to transition that to regular run.
I don't know any other runners around me so I can't find a buddy.
I did look into groups runs but my work schedule is very unconventional so I struggle to find a time that works but will continue to work on that.
I just started wearing my Garmin again so I will try to be more vigilant with that. I have a pace alert on it I just need to play with it to set is up and figure out the range I want.
I have been trying to run by feel but that is how I end up with a 10:30 min/mile pace and needing to walk after a quarter mile if I am lucky. I do try to take terrain into account when I am looking at pace.
In a race environment it is a whole other animal. I hate crowds and almost panic at the starting line. Now I just wait until everyone else has started then I go LOL. Thank God for chip times. I seem to do a better job in races being mindful of pace which is weird. I purposely set a pace goal for races not a finish time goal if that makes sense.3 -
skippygirlsmom wrote: »I'm on my phone so I don't have everything in front of me
6/25 - 3 miles
77 of 70 miles
In Florida packing up mom's house. Hot this morning.
I'm impressed that you ran today! It was quite the scorcher. Way to go!0 -
June 25 – 7.0 miles Easy Run
Total: 83.35 miles/100 miles
I had to retire a pair of running shoes today. They gave their life at Friday’s race. I’m sad. I know they have seen way more than the recommended 300 miles. I’m pretty sure they’ve seen closer to 500 miles. They saw me through my first obstacle course race, my first 10K-5K-1-mile challenge, my first race in the rain, my first under 30 minutes 5K, and my first 10-mile run, along with miles and miles of training.
Sadly, the sides of the shoes have gotten so threadbare that you can see my socks, and the bottoms have almost no tread left. Sigh.
Upcoming Race:
July 21 - St. Pete Beach Series, Race #2, 5K
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6/1: rest
6/2: rest
6/3: 5 miles
6/4: 10 miles
6/5: 5 miles
6/6: rest
6/7: 5 miles
6/8: 4 miles
6/9: rest
6/10: 9 miles
6/11: 5 miles
6/12: 3 miles
6/13: rest
6/14: 5 miles
6/15: 6 miles
6/16: rest
6/17: 12 miles
6/18: 5 miles
6/19: rest
6/20: 8 miles
6/21: 3 miles
6/22: 3 miles
6/23: rest
6/24: 3 miles
6/25: rest/swim
TOTAL: 91/105 miles
Dropping in to update my miles and say hello! I've been doing a pretty bad job at keeping up with the thread (as usual) but those of you who I'm friends with on MFP and Strava - I see you've been rocking the miles this month! I've been plugging along in the heat for the most part, but have encountered a little bit of a setback this week with a bit of a hip problem. At the beginning of my run last Wednesday, I felt some tightness/discomfort in my left hip flexor and glute region. I kept running to see if I just needed to loosen it up and that did not go well. Twice since then I've tried two short runs at a slow pace and both have started off okay, but the hip gets worse as the run progresses. After my run yesterday, I felt more pain - a dull aching pain, but nevertheless pain - so I'm really going to back it off. I didn't run at all today and I might try out a short run/walk tomorrow if I don't feel any pain throughout the day walking around, but I most likely will take a rest day tomorrow too. I'm only about 14 miles away from goal but I'm not going to risk injuring myself more, so that may not happen. I'm leaving to go on vacation at the end of the week and already know that I won't be able to get in the same miles as I would if I were home, even if I were healthy. I think this vacation is coming at the perfect time and hopefully when I come back I'll be healthy enough to jump back into training.
Also, another PSA to remember to wear your sunscreen! I have been trying to be very diligent about sunscreen this year, even if I'm not going to be outside for that long. Well, today I headed to the gym to swim some laps in the indoor pool, so I didn't put any on. Turns out the swim team was having a swim meet using the indoor pool, so I had to swim laps outside. Totally forgot that having to swim outside meant that I needed to turn around and put on the sunscreen that was in my bag. I was only outside for a total of 30-40 minutes and it was overcast, windy, and on the cooler side (73F) but I still got pretty badly burned on my back. PLEASE...wear your sunscreen!
Another random tidbit: I saw some discussion of hydrations vests/backpacks earlier in the thread, which caught my eye because I've been looking into buying something like this too. I really dislike wearing my hydration belt as it's hard to get it into position that is comfortable and doesn't slide around. Additionally, even though I can add a third flask to the belt and then wear my handheld flask as well, it's not really the ideal situation when I get into the longer miles. I've been looking for a hydration backpack that meets the following requirements: lightweight/not cumbersome, has two front pockets for holding waterbottles/flasks in addition to holding a water bladder on the back (I'd like to use waterbottles for gatorade/nuun and the bladder for water), additional pockets that can hold gels/chews/money/phone. And I'd like that all at an affordable price...not too much to ask, right I came across this one on Amazon that is very reasonably priced and seems to fit the bill. It's gotten pretty good reviews...think I should go for it?
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6/1- REST
6/2- 5.2 Miles
6/3- 19
6/4- 4.3
6/5- 4.2
6/6- 3.2
6/7- 8.0
6/8- REST
6/9- 3.2
6/10- 9
6/11- REST
4/12- 4.0
6/13- REST
6/14- 5
6/15- REST
6/16- 3.1
6/17- 26.2
6/18- REST
6/19- REST
6/20- REST
6/21- 5.1
6/22- 5.1
6/23- REST
6/24- 8.7
6/25- 5
Total: 118.3
Goal for June. Finish Marathon training well, taper well and run Grandma's well
Nominal mileage goal: 100
Today's notes: Hello, my name is MNLittleFinn and I am a Trailoholic. Today was supposed to be a rest day.... Today WAS a rest day... So my family made the 60 mile drive to Duluth, MN so my wife could go craft stuff shopping, and I could hit up the running stores. Wife's trip was successful, mine less so.
THEN, about 1530, I get a text from my trail/ultra buddy asking if I want to hit our favorite 5 mile loop..... So... Yeah, at 1830, I hit the trails again. Got in 5 miles with 500 feet of elevation again. Tomorrow I WILL rest, to make up for today....
... Oh, and in the end, I did find a hudration vest/pack I thought I'd really like... I ordered this from running warehouse... It arrives on Wednesday.
2017 Races Scheduled
6/16- William A Irvin 5k
6/17- Grandma's Marathon 4:24:06
7/15- Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon
8/19- Rampage at the Ridge 5k OCR
9/23- Ely Marathon (full)
10/21 Wild Duluth 50k
11/23- TBD 5k Turkey Trot
Have a runderful day all!3 -
OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »
Another random tidbit: I saw some discussion of hydrations vests/backpacks earlier in the thread, which caught my eye because I've been looking into buying something like this too. I really dislike wearing my hydration belt as it's hard to get it into position that is comfortable and doesn't slide around. Additionally, even though I can add a third flask to the belt and then wear my handheld flask as well, it's not really the ideal situation when I get into the longer miles. I've been looking for a hydration backpack that meets the following requirements: lightweight/not cumbersome, has two front pockets for holding waterbottles/flasks in addition to holding a water bladder on the back (I'd like to use waterbottles for gatorade/nuun and the bladder for water), additional pockets that can hold gels/chews/money/phone. And I'd like that all at an affordable price...not too much to ask, right I came across this one on Amazon that is very reasonably priced and seems to fit the bill. It's gotten pretty good reviews...think I should go for it?
@OSUbuckeye906 - I have not broken down and gotten a pack yet, though I need one. These are the ones that were recommended by others up thread:
Nathan FireBall: http://amzn.to/2tbtOk7
Nathan FireCatcher: http://amzn.to/2taNXXv
Salomon Skin Pro 3: http://amzn.to/2s74lse
SingleTrack™ Race VestPack: http://amzn.to/2tL7nQb
Do not know if any of those will help you in your quest or not.0 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »... Oh, and in the end, I did find a hudration vest/pack I thought I'd really like... I ordered this from running warehouse... It arrives on Wednesday.
Interesting. What made you choose that one?
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Not sure I'm going to be able to catch up over 250 messages - had to be off-line because of house renovation shutting down the router and such. In fact, I'm not entirely sure I'm gonna hit my goal mileage this month.
Congrats to the good runs and races, commiserations for the injuries and bad runs, and let's finish the month strong.
Something like that.4 -
I've already run 23 miles this month! I guess 26 would be my goal, as I only have one more run to do this month of 3 miles. I've knocked the mileage down by quite a bit this year, and have noticed a difference in how my heart feels (a lot better).4
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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
6/5 rest
6/6 3.87
6/7 4.13
6/8 3.50
6/9 rest
6/10 6.12
6/11 3.50
6/12 4.00
6/13 rest
6/14 4.00
6/15 3.70
6/16 4.13
6/17 rest
6/18 6.40
6/19 snorkel 3 hours
6/20 4.70
6/21 3.50
6/22 DAMWORK
6/23 DAMWORK
6/24 3.40
6/25 3.25
Total 70.20
Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:
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WhatMeRunning wrote: »VydorScope wrote: »DANG. So I was wondering if I do a lot of hills and looked at the Strava MFP group... and umm... I took the leader board last week, by OVER 1200 feet.
I am a slow runner compared to many of you, but I wonder how y'all would hold up in my neighborhood!
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Pastor Vincent
He's still doing crazy stuff... You see his lifting gains? Insane.
ETA @WhatMeRunning my HM PR is 2:17 too. I cleared it on my watch. The times are still in Garmin online, least probably til I sync it. Idk. All my PR's are written in the bill of my first running hat. I still intend to get a 1:45 hm the one that kills me to give up is my 24:24 5k. I'm 47 and need to shave some time off that since all I'd been doing was base building for the half. I kill a 5k if I trained. Hahaha. (For an old broad).
Wish me luck! I'm in downtown Dallas at the hip surgeons office. Will we schedule a shot or surgery? Who knows. Where's my Dallas peeps? Late lunch anyone? 1 ish? It's fish Friday.
I'm so proud of all y'all schoolin' up the newbies!
I've been enjoying the Powerlifting world. A cool 55lbs over optimal race weight haha. I did run about a half mile yesterday in the 110f desert catching a Pokemon lol. In sandals. Definitely lacking endurance! Felt like a gorilla.
There's a chance I might return. Once the weather cools down. Hope you're all doing well!10 -
1/6 2 miles easy
aid station support for Burrington Blaster race
2/6 post-work swim (30 minutes)
3/6 5.5m run along the river to collect car
4/6 walk to pub (lazy day)
5/6 general walking (lazy day)
6/6 re-starting Stronglifts 5x5 - squat, bench and row just with the bar. Hamstring twinging.
afternoon swim - much much better than the previous swims - getting the hang of breathing a bit more now - like remembering to breathe in!!
7/6 1.76 miles plod. Need to run further, this isn't far enough for me to get into the groove of it so it feels awful
8/6 3.57miles. working my way back up to more regular running. legs still aching somewhat from the strength training.
9/6 swim
10/6 7 miles including Parkrun
11/6 quarry swim
12/6 rest
13/6 3.7miles
14/6 rest
15/6 London for a course so lots of walking!!
16/6 3.6miles
17/6 10.3 miles run/walk
18/6 Open-water swim training
19/6 rest
20/6 3.6m run
21/6 3.2m run
22/6 4.1m run with the club
23/6 rest
24/6 rest
25/6 11.6 mile run
totals 48.7/50
got in a few morning runs this week, and a nice but short run with the club. They are doing a long distance relay race on the Cotswold Way on Saturday so all the talk was about that. Next year..... Apparently if you do all 10 legs of the relay over the years you get crowned King or Queen of the Cotswolds. So that's my running for the next ten years sorted.
Delayed my Saturday run as I had heaps of stuff to do to Sunday, thinking I could do some of the Costwold Way myself, then go open water swimming in a nearby quarry. And then it was raining. I shouldn't be a fair-weather runner, but I wasn't exactly inspired to get in the car, drive to find somewhere to park, to do a run in the rain.
Eventually I pulled myself together and decided to stay local. With a 9.5 mile run on the rota, I headed out on my usual route, but planned on the way back to do a recce for a local potential swimming spot. Foolishly stopped my tomtom when I found the pool, meaning I have a run of 7.4 miles and a run of 4.2 miles for the way back.
The pool looked lovely. I didn't get in, although it would have been warm enough, as there were lots of families around and I'd decided not to bring a towel or anything to change into. I don't mind getting in in my run kit, but it wasn't quite warm enough to do the run home in wet kit. It's definitely an option for me on a summer's evening after work.
runs are going to be awkward this week. I have an early morning site visit tomorrow so no morning run, plus I should be blood doning and running after makes my legs feel like lead. Then I am at my folks for the weekend. Should get a few beach runs in there but nothing too long.
Races/events:
1st June - Burrington Blaster 8k ish moorland race - Helping on the Aid Station not running
30th July - Dorset invader HM6 -
PastorVincent wrote: »OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »
Another random tidbit: I saw some discussion of hydrations vests/backpacks earlier in the thread, which caught my eye because I've been looking into buying something like this too. I really dislike wearing my hydration belt as it's hard to get it into position that is comfortable and doesn't slide around. Additionally, even though I can add a third flask to the belt and then wear my handheld flask as well, it's not really the ideal situation when I get into the longer miles. I've been looking for a hydration backpack that meets the following requirements: lightweight/not cumbersome, has two front pockets for holding waterbottles/flasks in addition to holding a water bladder on the back (I'd like to use waterbottles for gatorade/nuun and the bladder for water), additional pockets that can hold gels/chews/money/phone. And I'd like that all at an affordable price...not too much to ask, right I came across this one on Amazon that is very reasonably priced and seems to fit the bill. It's gotten pretty good reviews...think I should go for it?
@OSUbuckeye906 - I have not broken down and gotten a pack yet, though I need one. These are the ones that were recommended by others up thread:
Nathan FireBall: http://amzn.to/2tbtOk7
Nathan FireCatcher: http://amzn.to/2taNXXv
Salomon Skin Pro 3: http://amzn.to/2s74lse
SingleTrack™ Race VestPack: http://amzn.to/2tL7nQb
Do not know if any of those will help you in your quest or not.
just another thing on hydration vests/packs - watch the size. The bigger the pack the more stuff you will put into it. Find a pack that doesn't flap around when not full. 'race vest' is geared towards just hydration and gels, 'race pack' tends to be geared towards some of the stuff you have to (are required to on some races) carry on long races - such as waterproofs, emergency blankets etc.2 -
1/6 - 3.6
2/6 - 4.9
3/6-5.6
4/6 -REST
5/6-3.9
6/6-4.7
7/6-3.1
8/6-4.3
9/0 -REST
10/6-3.8
11/6-6.5
12/6-REST
13/6-3.7
14/6-5.2
15/6-6.0
16/6-REST
17/6-5.1
18/6-5.1
19/6-3.4
20/6-3.4
21/6-REST
22/6 - 4.0
23/6-3.6
24/6-REST
25/6-7.2
26/6-4.6
Total - 91.7/90 Miles
**goal met**** Going to see if I can shoot for 100 miles now!4 -
6/1 completed day 2 week 2 c25k
6/2 three hours karate lessons / practice
6/3 two hours karate lessons / practice
6/4 rest 6/5 completed day 3 week 2 c25k
6/6 karate lesson
6/7 Completed week 3 day 1 c25k(yay) & karate lesson
6/8 rest
6/9 Completed week 3 day 2 c25k & karate lesson
6/10 karate lesson
6/11 Completed week3 day 3 c25k
6/12 rest
6/13 Completed week 4 day 1 C25K & karate lesson
6/14 Karate lesson
6/15 Completed week 4 day 2 C25K
6/16 Graduation to 3rd brown belt - woohoo!
6/17 Completed week 4 day 3 C25K & 2 hours karate training
6/18 Elliptical warm up walk and strength training - legs
6/19 rest
6/20 Completed Week 5 day 1 C25K & Karate lessons
6/21 Karate lesson
6/22 Completed Week 5 day 2 C25K
6/23 Karate lesson
6/24 Completed Week 5 day 3! Goal met!
6/25 rest
Weekdays I get ~6 miles walking / steps per day.
Day 3 week 5, they threw an unexpected challenge - run 20 minutes straight. I managed it and only thought I'd never make it every minute of the twenty haha. Challenge met, yay, so now I'll see how much further I get before the end of the month. Two mornings later and the upper legs are still a little sore from that 20 minute run, they'll just have to get used to that.4 -
3 miles on the treadmill easy. 132.9/150. If I adhere strictly to my training program. I'll miss my goal of 150 by just a bit. Yesterday's swimming was good on my legs but I banged my toe on the pool ladder getting out quickly as part of playing around. Toe is a little black and blue but ok to walk and run on. Both my wife and I fell asleep before the seven and three year old in the hotel room. Taking the boys to their first Fenway Park Sox game tonight. They saw their first Sox game in Baltimore in April.4
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PastorVincent wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »... Oh, and in the end, I did find a hudration vest/pack I thought I'd really like... I ordered this from running warehouse... It arrives on Wednesday.
Interesting. What made you choose that one?
Recommendation from several ultra runners. It's overkill for 50k and marathon, but they said thst I'd I want to go to 50 mile and further I'll be glad to have it. It had thr features I wanted too, so with the endorsement of folks with WAY more miles than me, I went for it. I still have to see how I like it's feel, so there's a chance that I won't like it when I get it, but it arrives wednesday and I'll test it out.0 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »Recommendation from several ultra runners. It's overkill for 50k and marathon, but they said thst I'd I want to go to 50 mile and further I'll be glad to have it. It had thr features I wanted too, so with the endorsement of folks with WAY more miles than me, I went for it. I still have to see how I like it's feel, so there's a chance that I won't like it when I get it, but it arrives wednesday and I'll test it out.
Yeah, I would want to find a big running store that carried these things and try them on at least before I got one. Still not sure I see myself running an ultra. Finding time to train at Marathon distances is hard enough.0 -
June 25 - 2 mile trail run. Started to get s little lingering pain from a recent ankle roll so I shut down early. Revised June goal met, I will probably cycle more this week until the pain is totally gone.
June total 75/750
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