August 2017 Running Challenge

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  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    girlinahat wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    haha! Did you try bouncing on the lug wrench to loosen it? That's how we girls do it (well, I don't.. I have run flats and an 800 number- but I have!).

    Actually, yes! Probably looked stupid doing it, but was out of ideas at that point :lol:

    Bouncing is all very well except when you have the crappy wrench that came with the car and it bends.....

    I bought an extendable wrench for this very purpose. But I've still had to beg for help to loosen the nuts (it helps being female). I've also had to call for rescue in the rain as I couldn't undo them. I blame the garage who service the vehicle for doing them up too tight.

    Yeah, I have AAA, but I was less than a mile from the tire store so I figured it would be faster/easier to change the tire and drive to the store then to call AAA and wait for help to arrive. Shows what I know! LOL
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    edited August 2017
    8/1 - 5 miles
    8/2 - 4 miles
    8/3 - 6 miles
    8/4 - rest day
    8/5 - 8 miles
    8/6 - 3 miles
    8/7 - 0 miles - rest day
    8/8 - 5 miles
    8/9 - 5 miles
    8/10 - 5.6 miles happy birthday run - see what I did there 5.6 miles
    8/11 - rest day
    8/12 - 4 miles

    45 of 80 miles

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    @cburke8909 nice pictures, looks beautiful. How was your son’s first run?
    @pastorvincent I always ask the tire place to put the lugs on by hand so that I can get them off if I get a flat tire. I also have a “real” lug wrench in my truck not just the one that’s with the car. Sorry for the ordeal.
    @runningmischka during the week I don’t eat before I run because I’m out there like 5:30 ish. On the weekends I will usually have a piece of toast or something 30 mins before I run, it’s mostly a time issue for me.
    @wolfger welcome you’ll love us here and we will inspire you to keep running 
    @pinkamenaD8 enjoy Acapulco
    @jessicamcb what a beautiful picture

  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    8/1 = 4.5 miles
    8/2 = kettlebell strength training
    8/3 = 7.5 miles (six - 6 minute speed intervals)
    8/4 = 3.5 miles (track workout- 800m sprints & 200m recovery walk)
    8/5 = 4.5 miles
    8/6 = 15 miles
    8/7 = 3 miles on the dreadmill & strength training 45 minutes
    8/8 = 8 miles & vinyasa yoga class
    8/9 = 7.5 miles Tempo run
    8/10 = 5 miles run/walk
    8/11= kettlebell strength training
    8/12 = 5.5 miles

    Running rest day yesterday. My hip is still a little sore but feels 99% better than Wednesday. I went out for 5.5 easy miles this morning and my hip seems to be holding up. I think I am okay to run long tomorrow. I might cut it at 10 miles just to be on the safe side.

    I needed that rest day yesterday, however, my diet always suffers on non-running days. I went 700 calories over yesterday - LOL. I am so used to eating all my running calories, when I try to eat within my calorie limit on rest days - I starve (or say *kitten* it and eat WAY over). This is why I can't get those stupid last 10 pounds off. Well, that and chocolate. :)

    Question: My yoga teacher and a lady in my running group keep telling me I need to use a foam roller. I have a small one but it feels like torture when I try and use it. Does it really help that much? Is it supposed to hurt? Or, am I doing it wrong?


    (August miles) 64/150 (August goal miles)

    Upcoming Races:
    8/19 = 100th Verns No Frills 5K
    10/28 = Hill Country Halloween Half Marathon
    12/10 = BCS Marathon
    1/6/18 = River Road Run Half Marathon

  • Dcorrick
    Dcorrick Posts: 56 Member
    amymoreorless wrote: »
    Question: My yoga teacher and a lady in my running group keep telling me I need to use a foam roller. I have a small one but it feels like torture when I try and use it. Does it really help that much? Is it supposed to hurt? Or, am I doing it wrong?

    I love my foam roller. I pull my head forward, extending my neck, and roll up and down, delighting in the little cracks that relieve the tension in my spine. On other spots, I roll, and if I find a tight spot, I hold on it, like acupressure. Something like it is how I began to deal with my stiff back.
  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    Runningmischka wrote: »
    I was AFK for few days, and so here I am- reading over 200 absolutely wonderful posts, clicking "Like" and "Awesome" left and right. This group of people never fails to amaze me :smile:

    My report card
    Goal: 120
    Currently: 49
    8/1 - 6 miles
    8/2 - 0, strength training
    8/3 - 8 miles
    8/4 - 0, rest day
    8/5 - 7 miles
    8/6 - 6 miles
    8/7 - 6 miles
    8/8 - 7 miles
    8/9 - strength training, Body Pump
    8/10 - 0 miles, rest day (although busy day at work)
    8/11 - 9 miles. My first 9-miler in a long run, it felt terrific. I could have kept going longer, but my empty stomach reminded me of its existence around mile 7.

    For those of you who run in the morning: do you have a snack before you go out there? I know it's probably a matter of preference, but I am interested in what other runners do to keep their bellies from throwing a *kitten*-fest at ya mid run.

    @Runningmischka I usually eat a banana before my long Sunday run. It is the only thing I can tolerate early in the morning before running. My tummy can't handle all the running sugar/energy things they sell. I also usually add some diluted sports drink to my water bottle during my long runs in the summer heat.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    @amymoreorless It may help if there is a way you can ease up on the pressure. I know rolling my IT bands for the first time was alarmingly painful. I do enjoy rolling my back.
  • wishiwasarunner
    wishiwasarunner Posts: 202 Member
    August goals are 90 miles and figuring out what all the info from my new watch means about my training.

    Aug 3 - 10 miles
    Aug 4 - 6.2 miles
    Aug 5- 7.5 miles
    Aug 6- too rainy/ wimpy
    Aug 7- 7 miles
    Aug 10- 7.3 miles
    Aug 12 - 12.2 miles

    Beautiful, sunny morning run by the river. Tried to stay at the same effort I would put in when I was running my long training runs for my spring marathon - well at least the effort for the first half of those runs - I always felt it at the end. My watch is still telling me that I am mostly in zone 4-5 - and other than finishing the hill that leads to my house at the end of my run (10% grade that lasts for just under a quarter of a mile in the last third of a mile of any run I do) I really am feeling very comfortable and almost lazy on these runs. Well, I always feel the longer, steeper hills no matter how much I decrease my pace. Anyway - still thinking the zones are wrong, but I am going to just keep doing what I have been doing - going by feel and collecting data until I have a sample size that means something. I need to work in a faster pace run at some time - but I just really don't like them much, lol.


    Total 53.2/100 goal
  • cburke8909
    cburke8909 Posts: 990 Member
    @skippygirlsmom He loved it. I tried to send a picture but it didn't work, I'll try from my laptop latter.
  • katharmonic
    katharmonic Posts: 5,720 Member
    Wow, good for your son @JimCrackinDandy! And you too, that's awesome to come in 4th. You guys had a great day!

    I find foam rolling a little painful @amymoreorless, although the more I do it (when I do, which isn't often) the better it feels. I would rather have a massage though, I'm not very dedicated in doing the torture to myself but gladly accept the torture from a good deep tissue massage.

    As for eating before running, I always eat before morning runs. I have skyr (yogurt), granola and a banana almost every time. I've started bringing something with me for the long runs, like a gel or sports beans though I'm not sure it does much for me. Today's gel was peanut butter flavored and I didn't really like it as much as I hoped. Need to find some better flavors.
  • anitamistry1
    anitamistry1 Posts: 44 Member
    6 Aug 3.15 km (1.95m)
    8 Aug PT session leg day
    9 Aug 3.71 km (2.30m)
    10 Aug PT session mix circuit
    11 Aug rest day
    12 Aug 3.69km (2.29)
  • wishiwasarunner
    wishiwasarunner Posts: 202 Member
    zdyb23456 wrote: »
    8/1 8miles 1hr:16m:25s

    We made it to the beach house even though traffic was horrendous. Rest day tomorrow... I'm going to look up some running routes! Sadly I think it's pretty much just a north or south route along the ocean.

    Hmm...North or south route ALONG THE OCEAN does not sound to bad to me. Enjoy
  • cburke8909
    cburke8909 Posts: 990 Member
    @PastorVincent that was some challenge. Glad you were able to find your way. Better luck at the next race.
  • KatieJane83
    KatieJane83 Posts: 2,002 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    So for my rest day I got to spend hours with my a flat tire on my truck, side wall blew out. No two ways about it, have to change it.

    Okay pull in to a parking lot, and start to get out the jack and etc - but the owner of the parking lot came out saying this was their "prime time" and I was taking up valuable space. *sigh* drive the truck a little farther on the flat, now at a place where getting at the tire is much harder, but at least the owner goes away.

    Set the parking brake and get out the spare. It is, of course, flat and of course, the pump I carry in my truck is broken. But the spare is less flat than the tire on the truck, so I decided to try it. Next, I get out the lug wrench and attempt to get the lug nuts loose. The will not budge. Great.

    Just then a fellow pastor pulls up and asks if I need help. I brief him and he takes the spare tire and heads off to get it filled with air and comes back with a bigger wrench.

    Lug nuts still will not budge. Call the tire place that put them on and they offer to let us borrow an even bigger wrench. Pastor buddy goes and gets it, comes back with a wrench that is about FIVE FEET long. That is finally enough leverage that can break the nuts free - still was a struggle, but we got them off.

    Okay lift the truck the rest of the way... but wait! there is more! The stupid scissor jack can not get the truck up high enough to get the tire off. Pastor buddy gets the jack out of his car and we use it to compress the shock and get the few more inches we need. So we get the spare on... and then lower the truck on it... and it s low on air, again. Of course. And it is starting to rain.

    BUT the spare has SOME air, and it is only a mile to the tire place, so I throw everything into the truck and head to the tire store. I sit and wait while they fix the spare tire and take the main tire back into the shop. It is, of course, unfixable so they will have to replace the original tire, which of course is not in stock. Thankfully I have road hazard insurance on the tires so it is covered, but ugh. Sometime next week I will get the tire, until then I am on the patched spare.

    If I put this in a book, y'all would tell me that it was too many coincidences in a row and unrealistic. heh. Shows what you know. :tongue:

    Ughhh, that sucks! The most inconvenient flat I ever had was when I got home from vacation. Had been out and about all day in SF on Saturday, and took a red eye home to NY Saturday night. I CANNOT sleep on planes so I finally land at Newark, catch the shuttle to the off-site lot where my car was, get in my car around 8am Sunday on zero sleep, start driving and realize my tire is pancake flat with a nail in it. I didn't even contemplate trying to change it myself at that point, I was so tired I would have dropped the car on myself, lol. Called Geico roadside, and by some kind of miracle their estimated one hour wait ended up being 15 min, cause the guy was literally down the street from where I was. Then I just spent an enjoyable almost hour drive nursing my spare tire home on the Garden State Parkway, lol
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    OH! Forgot to mention the good highlight...

    I won a MilestonePod in the raffle. Started looking at it. It does not seem to sync with ANYTHING, just its own app. Might goof around with it some just to see what the hype is all about.
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @pastorvincent WTH what a disaster of a race. Glad it all worked out but honestly here's a map find your way for 15K. Just insane.
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @respectthekitty hang in there - hugs

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