August 2017 Running Challenge
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I'm certainly not going to hit my goal of 85 miles this month. I've done 50, but had to take too many enforced rest days thanks to my calf injury. But on the bright side, I ran two 5k road races and came second in my age-group in both of them.
I ran 6.5 miles last night and will probably get another 6 miles in tomorrow. After that, I've got a couple of weeks away from running because I'm going hiking in Utah. No running planned, but lots and lots of walking. And then when I get back, the cooler weather should mean I'll ace my long runs ready for my HM in November.
2017 upcoming races
9/16/17 Mystic Runners Classic 10k
9/30/17 Stride for Healthy Communities 5k
10/09/17 Tufts 10k for Women
10/29/17 Bill's Pizzeria 5k
11/18/17 YMCA Metro North Half Marathon
11/23/17 Concord Turkey Trot (this'll stretch the old legs after the half-marathon)
12/03/17 Newton Holiday Hustle 5k
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Foggy morning run today. Did 3 miles. Tomorrow starts my 5 mile midweek runs. Progressing.8
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PastorVincent wrote: »PinkamenaD8 wrote: »KatieJane83 wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »@KatieJane83 Does a person who can do that really even need personal training?
That's what I said! I was like, shouldn't you win the session if you CAN'T hit the target time?
Didn't really make sense to me, lol.
The message he is giving is that if you can't do those things, you'll be able to do them with his training.
@KatieJane83 if you did them it was because you're in very good shape.
That and they likely only want people to claim the prize if they will take it seriously. "Free session" with a trainer is probably almost always a waste of every ones' time.
Oh absolutely. Obviously, the end goal is they're looking to get people to sign up for paid sessions, so they're looking for the people that are going to take it seriously. I'm sure they're also hoping that the people who can't complete the challenge will then go hey, I want to be able to do that too! And sign up for sessions.
At this point I have neither the time nor the extra funds to be spending on personal training, lol. But I already told the trainer that I wanted to use our free session to learn more exercises that are good for supporting my running habit and preventing injury, lol.1 -
August Goal - 120 Miles
8/1/17 - 4.02 Easy
8/2/17 - 4.15 Easy
8/3/17 - 4.0 Easy
8/4/17 - 4.5 Easy
8/5/17 - 6.0 Easy
8/6/17 - 3.0 Easy - 28.71 Week
8/8/17 - 5.01 Easy
8/9/17 - 5.01 Easy
8/10/17 - 5.01 Easy
8/11/17 - 5.0 Easy
8/12/17 - 7.5 Easy
8/13/17 - 2.51 Easy - 30.04 Week
8/15/17 - 5.01 Easy
8/16/17 - 5.01 Easy
8/17/17 - 5.01 Easy
8/18/17 - 5.02 Easy
8/20/17 - 7.0 Easy - 27.06 Week
8/21/17 - 4.71 Easy
8/22/17 - 6.01 Easy
8/23/17 - 6.04 Easy
8/24/17 - 6.04 Easy
8/25/17 - 4.02 Easy
8/26/17 - 9.56 Easy - 36.38 Week
8/28/17 - 6.2 Easy
8/29/17 - 6.85 Easy w/ strides
Total 132.2 of 120 Miles
Had a beautiful 57 degree morning today at 4:30 am. Added in a some speed/cadence work and did 10x125m strides. Did them fairly easy and didn't push the pace, just worked on foot turnover and maintaining form. Made sure to keep the effort in the lower portion of z3.
@Orphia Pretty much everything I'm doing now is to get in shape to start training. Still have a long way to go to get back to last year but I'm confident by Mid October - Early November I'll be ready to circle a spring marathon and get to work. I've pretty much decided to go with Pfitzinger 18/70 training plan again so I've got some work to get back to 55-60mpw to get that started.4 -
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8/1 - Rest/sick day - feeling better, but not sure running would have been good. Hoping for tomorrow.
8/2 - 4.5 miles of hill repeats. Glad I did it, more glad I'm done.
8/3 - 3.5 short miles before getting in the car with the family.
8/4 - Road trip / vacation
8/5 - Road trip / vacation / anniversary
8/6 - 5 miles. Gorgeous morning for a run!
8/7 - 5 miles. Again, beautiful morning!
8/8 - 5 miles. Another nice morning!
8/9 - 4.6 miles of hill repeats with group. I am soooo tired and sleepy today.
8/10 - 4.4 treadmill miles / trek class. Then upper body weights/abs.
8/11 - Rest day because I have to.
8/12 - 6.6 mile group run. Perfect weather.
8/13 - 2.3 treadmill miles. Then quick upper body weights.
8/14 - 5.3 miles track / intervals.
8/15 - 5 miles. Another relatively cool, delightful morning to run.
8/16 - 4.85 miles of group hill run. Rough, but good.
8/17 - Rest day. If I run more than 5 days in a row, bad things tend to happen.
8/18 - 5 miles. Gorgeous morning to run.
8/19 - 7.75 mile group run.
8/20 - Unplanned rest day.
8/21 - 5 miles of treadmill "intervals"...ugh
8/22 - 5 miles.
8/23 - 4.9 miles of group hill run.
8/24 - 3.5 slowish miles. Had to cut it short since I overslept a bit.
8/25 - Rest day.
8/26 - 8 mile group run.
8/27 - Hip / knee pain...decided to pass.
8/28 - 5 gentle/ginger miles...hips still sore, knees OK
8/29 - 5 comfortable miles.
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Hey everyone! Hope everyone’s staying healthy. So sorry to hear about MobyCarp. You’ll be back to running (and passing us) in no time though. Sorry, I’ve been MIA with work getting real busy and hamstring healing. It kind of was a blessing in a way. It would’ve been torture being healthy but too busy to run. I’ve slowly been getting out and running and adding miles. I’m still not 100%. I’m afraid to kick off on my right side. I did run a couple races while I was hurt just because I’m just that stupid. The Coast Guard 5k was the roughest one. After that one, I was forced to take a break. I’ve scrapped my training plan for Peak to Creek Oct 28 (my first marathon), but I’m still going to “run” it. I’ll take it as a learning experience. I didn’t set a goal for August but since I’m close to 50 I’ll say that. I’ll try to catch up on the last 5 pages to get an idea of what everyone’s up to.
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@Orphia congrats on your first marathon!!!
August 1- 13.4
August 2- 17.3
August 3- 16.5
August 4- 17.3
August 5- 40
August 6- 20
August 7- Off
August 8- 24.5
August 9- 34.
August 10- 15.3
August 11- 20
August 12- 21
August 13- 14.8
August 14- Off
August 15- 16.3
August 16- 8.2
August 17- 11.2
August 18- Off
August 19- Off
August 20- 42.2 [Edmonton Marathon, 4:01:18]
August 21- Off
August 22- 12.1
August 23- 30
August 24- 19
August 25- 20.3
August 26- 52.1
August 27- 15
August 28- Off
August 29- 18.2
499.3/420km
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KatieJane83 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »PinkamenaD8 wrote: »KatieJane83 wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »@KatieJane83 Does a person who can do that really even need personal training?
That's what I said! I was like, shouldn't you win the session if you CAN'T hit the target time? Didn't really make sense to me, lol.
The message he is giving is that if you can't do those things, you'll be able to do them with his training.
@KatieJane83 if you did them it was because you're in very good shape.
That and they likely only want people to claim the prize if they will take it seriously. "Free session" with a trainer is probably almost always a waste of every ones' time.
Oh absolutely. Obviously, the end goal is they're looking to get people to sign up for paid sessions, so they're looking for the people that are going to take it seriously. I'm sure they're also hoping that the people who can't complete the challenge will then go hey, I want to be able to do that too! And sign up for sessions.
At this point I have neither the time nor the extra funds to be spending on personal training, lol. But I already told the trainer that I wanted to use our free session to learn more exercises that are good for supporting my running habit and preventing injury, lol.
Yeah, I hear you. Cost can be insane for a personal trainer. One lady I was talking to online told me she was "cheaper than I thought" and that she was only "about the price of a Starbucks every day" and I am like "but I can not afford Starbucks every day"
I meet for a free session and they wrote me up a list of things to do. Now, I have to try and make myself do them. Alone with no accountability. Traditionally I suck at that so we will see. Wednesday is day one.1 -
Good morning! Just thought I would share a few of the eclipse and paddle board photos with you.
This was a sculpture built by the group of people next to us. It was really cool and everyone was stopping to take pictures
I thought this one captured the apocalyptic vibe of the event pretty well
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Paddling out to the creek
Almost there
Beautiful morning for yoga!
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Great pics @lporter2290
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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
8/13 - 10 miles
8/14 - 3 miles
8/15 – rest day rest day my legs said they need a rest day
8/16 - 5 miles
8/17 - 2 miles
8/18 - 5 miles wow it was like running a swamp out there today
8/19 - 2 miles
8/20 - 0 miles decided to take a rest day
8/21 - 5 miles
8/22 - 4 miles
8/23 – 0 miles rest day
8/24 - 6 miles
8/25 - 5 miles
8/26 - 3 miles
8/27 - 4 miles
8/28 - 4 miles
8/29 - 0 miles - rest day
8/30 - 0 miles - out of town
103 of 100 miles
I'm taking a rest day today (1) I needed to take one and (2) I have a million things to do that started at Oh Dark Thirty today. I took the doggie to the kennel, I'm work ha ha, then going to vendor to pick up XC uniforms, at 4 I'm meeting the team for pictures, then at 6:00 attending a meeting on a school trip to Costa Rica that Skip wants to go on, after that we are driving 3 hours South to Montgomery for a court date at 9:00 am on Wed. As many of you know Skip is adopted from Russia, though she has been a citizen since she came home at 1 year old, she does not have a certificate of citizenship even though she has a US Passport. I never wanted to spend the extra money to get the CoC but last year heard it was doubling in price and with all the things going on in the world decided to apply for it. So naturally she was approved but since she's over 14 she has to say the Oath. She is very excited and so am I!
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@PastorVincent sorry about the cold, Skip has one too, bad time of year for it. Feel better soon.
@MNLittleFinn great track work out
@JimCrackinDandy I hope the knee feels better soon
Great splits @KristineGift
@ddmom0811 take care of that ankle
Hiking in Utah sounds great @BruinsGal_91
@KarlLundy glad the hip/knee is feeling better
What awesome pictures @lporter229 I can’t imagine yoga on a paddleboard though it’s popular here, also at the YMCA they have classes in the pool standing on something.
How are all our Texas/Louisiana friends doing?
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8/1- 5miles
8/6-11 miles
8/8-5 miles
8/9-3 miles
8/14-14 miles
8/16-2.75 miles
8/20-6 miles
8/24-2.5 miles
8/26-12.25 miles
8/28-3 Miles
(I also have a few miles on the elliptical when i couldnt get out and run, but I didnt count those here)
64.5/75 total4 -
@Orphia, congratulations on the marathon. Loved your recap and the pics!
@RespectTheKitty, hope you feel better soon.
Did my first run since getting back from vacation this morning. 3.6 miles. I've been trying to rest a bit because I've got a weird pain in my glute/hamstring that's been giving me issues.
Anyway, going to miss my August goal as I'm only at 57 / 75 and I'm not running 18 miles in the next two days.
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8/1 8miles 1hr:16m:25s
8/2 6miles 60m:39s
8/3 5miles 46m:32s
8/4 rest
8/5 12miles 1hr:57m:36s
8/6 rest
8/7 6miles 57m:25s
8/8 5miles 49m:20s
8/9 rest
8/10 13.1miles!!!! 2hr:04m:17s
8/11 6mi 56m:44s
8/12 5mi 48m:30s
8/13 rest
8/14 6miles 57m:56s
8/15 9miles 1h:29m:30s
8/16 rest
8/17 12miles 2h:02m:55s
8/18 6miles 58m:49s
8/19 5miles 49m:16s
8/20 rest
8/21 5miles 47m:34s
8/22 5miles 46m:54s
8/23 rest
8/24 6miles 56m:30s
8/25 4miles 38m:08s
8/26 9miles 1h:37m:58s
8/27 rest
8/28 3miles 27m:39s
8/29 3miles 29m:19s
3 miles on the treadmill - intervals and pretty miserable.4 -
8/27: 4m easy
8/28: 6m easy
August miles completed: 61.6 of 70
Target Races:
10/2 Apple Harvest 5K
11/5 Movember 5K
12/3 Blue Back Mitten Run 5K
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Date Miles today - Miles for August
8/1 8 miles - 8
8/2 4 miles - 12
8/3 8 miles - 20
8/4 REST DAY
8/5 12 miles - 32
8/6 REST DAY
8/7 7 miles - 39
8/8 8 miles - 47
8/9 REST DAY
8/10 7 miles - 54
8/11 REST DAY
8/12 7 miles - 61
8/13 REST DAY
8/14 7 miles 68
8/15 8 miles 76
8/21 9 miles 85
8/22 8 miles 93
8/23 4 miles 97
8/24 9 miles - 106
8/25 REST DAY
8/26 11 miles - 117
8/27 REST DAY
8/28 7 miles - 124
8/29 9 miles - 133
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
I will be posting the September Challenge in a couple of days.
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Interesting study... it seems to imply that stretching is all in your head (though the article admits more testing needed)
https://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/does-stretching-alter-your-muscles-or-your-brain
Do any of you stretch before you run? I have not since leaving gym class. Does not seem to help/hinder me best I can tell.1 -
Love the pictures @lporter229 !
@PastorVincent secret shame but I don't stretch, seems to make no difference for me either.1
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