October 2017 Running Challenge
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »59k
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10/01 - REST
10/02 - 4m
10/03 - CROSS // 20 mins mat pilates + walk
10/04 - 4m
10/05 - REST
10/06 - CROSS // 60 mins Bodypump + 5 minute treadmill run
10/07 - REST
10/08 - 3.2
10/09 - 4
10/10 - CROSS // 20 minutes core/stretching work
10/11 - 4
10/12 - REST
10/13 - CROSS // 30 mins TRX / 20 mins CXWORKS / .3 mile jog with dog
10/14 - 6
10/15 - REST
10/16 - 4.5
10/17 - 2.2
10/18 - 4.5
10/19 - REST
10/20 - CROSS //30 mins BODYPUMP / 30 mins CXWORKS / 15 mins treadmill
10/21 - 7
Goal: 50
MTD: 40.4
Upcoming Races
10/08 - (5k) Run the Rocks
10/29 - (10k) Kooky Spooky
11/18 - (10k) Turkey Trek
12/09 - (HM) Fa La La Half Marathon
Made it the 7 miles, and ran the first 6 pretty hard on a flavor of the course for my 10k next week. Sure glad I did because the gradual, longer incline was definitely some work. I should be able to beat my first 10k time, and I am hoping to beat the course average as a stretch goal. That hill and the weather will play into how fast I can go. There were some ugly headwinds today that I hope I don't have to face next Sunday.
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »59k
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10/1 = 15 miles
10/2 = 6.5 miles and strength training
10/3 = rest day
10/4 = 8 miles
10/5 = 6.5 easy miles and strength training
10/6 = kettlebell workout
10/7 = 7 miles
10/8 = 16 miles
10/9 = 8 miles
10/10 = Vinyasa yoga class & 5.5 mile hike
10/11 = 8.5 miles
10/12 = rest day (because of stupid work crap)
10/13 = 7.5 miles and 30 minutes of weights at the gym
10/14 = 5.5 miles
10/15 = 17 rainy miles (run/walk intervals with the group)
10/16 = 8 miles and 20 minutes of strength training
10/17 = Vinyasa yoga class
10/18 = 9 miles
10/19 = 6.5 miles
10/20 = 7 miles
10/21 = 7 miles
10/22 = 18 miles
OMG you guys. Running 18 miles is really, really, really hard. My everything hurts right now and I can’t move. Why do I want to run a marathon? I was barely shuffling at mile 18. I am going to die trying to run 26!
166/175 (September goal miles)
Upcoming Races:
10/28 = Hill Country Halloween Half Marathon
11/23 = Georgetown Turkey Trot
12/10 = BCS Marathon
1/6/18 = River Road Run Half Marathon7 -
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re: Metric vs. US measurements . . .
Runners in the US are halfway converted to metric. We have the 5K and 10K. I see more 15K races than 10 mile. Track races are mostly in meters; the mile is a rare exception, which could easily be phased out in favor of 1600m.
And as runners, we learn to convert standard distances of miles and kilometers to each other. That came home to me last Tuesday. I had bought a new Honda Fit, and drove it to club practice. On the way home, I went slightly out of my way to get a stretch of highway driving. Wanted to drive 65 mph, but horrors! The top of the steering wheel blocked my view of the top of the speedometer, and I couldn't see precisely how fast I was driving!
But in the US, cars have a smaller print version of kph inside the larger print mph. I could see the kph numbers. I know that 100 kph is 62 mph, so 65 mph is just a bit past the 100 kph mark. Problem solved.
Got home, dug out the owners manual, and found the lever to adjust the steering wheel that I couldn't locate while I was moving. Don't have the visibility problem now, and I probably won't adjust the steering wheel again for as long as I own this car.2 -
@MNLittleFinn Good going!
@amymoreorless The first time you run it, it's hard. Then you run the 20, and that feels hard while the 18 feels not so hard. And then you run another 20, and the 18 feels a little less hard than before while the 20 still probably feels hard. Rinse, lather, repeat, and add in the fact that you tend to run these long runs on tired legs, you'll actually be in good shape for the marathon where you'll be fully fueled and properly rested, and miles 24-26 will feel like how mile 18 did today. You'll do just fine.
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October Running Totals (miles)
10/1 – rest day
10/2 – 5.07 easy
10/3 – 5.05 easy
10/4 – rest day
10/5 – 6.01 easy
10/6 – rest day
10/7 – 10.09 paced run
10/8 – 7.20 easy to MP
10/9 – rest day
10/10 – 6.09 mostly easy
10/11 – 6.30 group run
10/12 – 6.12 easy
10/13 – rest day
10/14 – 11.02 paced run
10/15 – 6.51 rainy run
10/16 – rest day
10/17 – 6.02 easy plus intervals
10/18 – 6.39 group run
10/19 – 5.87 warmup, XC practice
10/20 – rest day
10/21 – 11.54 paced run
October running total to date – 99.28
Nominal challenge goal: 100 miles
Real goals: Get healthy enough to run 5 days a week. Avoid re-injury. Build base.
Today's notes – This morning it felt like autumn. My porch thermometer said 43º F (6º C). The forecast called for it to be a few degrees warmer at run time, but still cool enough that I wanted a long sleeve shirt and light gloves. Upon consideration, I layered a short sleeve shirt over the long sleeve. That was partly because the short sleeve shirt is the current session's pacer shirt.
Got to Ontario Beach, and my car said it was 54º F (12º C) out. It felt cooler than that. Garmin says it was 46º F (8º C) when we started running at 7:30 AM. That sounds more like what it felt like. The assignment was 6 +3 = 9 miles. Nominally, I was the 8:00 pacer; but the 8:30 pacer and the normal sub were both out of town for the Marine Corps Marathon, so I held up both signs. Got one pacee; Ravi requested an 8 pace because he felt cold. There were no 7:30 runners, so the regular 7:30 pacer ran the first 6 miles with us before leaving to go find some trails.
It was a beautiful day. After a mile or so moving, I was nice and comfortable. The designated selfie location for today's run was the end of the pier at the mouth of the Genesee River. I tried to get a piece of the lighthouse in the background and failed; but at least you can see that we're on the lake:
After getting back to base at about 9.3 miles, I felt like I wanted 10 to 12 miles. So I set out to run them solo. On the way up the trail by the river, I took time for one shot of what I had to my left:
I felt pretty good till past 11 miles; then I began to experience some intestinal distress. In 20-20 hindsight, I realized I had disrupted my normal food intake pattern yesterday. Oops. Ran back to get to the port-a-pot. It was out of toilet paper. There were leaves available. Anything more is likely TMI.
So I ended up running 11.54 miles at an average pace of 8:05 per mile. Totally moving mile splits while pacing ranged from 7:53 to 8:12, not bad for an 8:00 target; but I really should have worked harder to slow Ravi down. I would say that my fastest pace was from letting Ravi push me, but I did run faster than that in the classic port-a-pot dash for the last half mile or so.
2017 races:
January 1, 2017 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY) Finished in 50:45
January 7, 2017 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) Finished in 1:32:40
January 14, 2017 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds Park 5 mile) (Spencerport, NY) Finished in 33:42
January 28, 2017 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY) short course, finished 4.88 miles in 32:50
February 4, 2017 USATF Cross Country National Championship Masters 8K (Bend, OR) Finished in 35:39, team won the 60+ Men's cross country championship
February 11, 2017 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) sat out due to training schedule
February 25, 2017 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) short course, finished 4.34 miles in 27:51
March 11, 2017 Johnny's Runnin' of the Green 5 mile (Rochester, NY) finished in 33:25
March 18, 2017 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Shamrock 8K, Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 30:59, PR for 8K
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA) finished in 3:49:42
April 30, 2017 USATF Masters 10K Championship (James Joyce Ramble, Dedham, MA) finished in 39:54, PR for 10K
May 21, 2017 Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY) finished in 40:04
May 27, 2017 Canandaigua Classic Half Marathon (Canandaigua, NY) finished in 1:33:06
June 9, 2017 Charlie McMullen Mile (Fairport, NY) finished in 5:44.90, PR for mile
June 18, 2017 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY) finished in 19:32
July 4, 2017 Firecracker Four Mile (Fairport, NY) finished in 25:42
July 15, 2017 Shoreline Half Marathon [1:40 pacer] (Hamlin, NY) finished in 1:39:05
July 28, 2017 Karknocker 5K (East Rochester, NY) finished in 19:28
August 9, 2017 Pound the Ground 10K (Mendon, NY) finished in 41:26
August 12, 2017 Bergen Road Race 5K (Bergen, NY) finished in 19:47
August 25, 2017 USATF Masters Mile (Hap Crim Michigan Mile, Flint, MI) DNS - injury
September 3, 2017 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY) DNS - injury
September 17, 2017 MVP Rochester Marathon (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
October 29, 2017 Pete Glavin XC Race #4 6K (Brighton, NY)
November 23, 2017 Race with Grace 10K (Hilton, NY)
2018 races:
January 6, 2018 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY)
April 16, 2018 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)
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Oct. 21 - 7km walking
MTD - 71.3km/100km3 -
10/1 rest
10/2 5.5miles 50m:22s
10/3 5miles 45m:30s
10/4 9miles 1h:24m:02s
10/5 6miles 55:m:30s
10/6 11miles 1h:45m:40s
10/7 4miles 38m:39s
10/8 rest
10/9 6.56miles 61m:30s
10/10 5miles 47m:01s
10/11 7miles 1h:06m:10s
10/12 4.42miles 48m:00s
10/13 12miles 1h:53m:24s
10/15 5miles 48m:31s
10/16 rest
10/17 5.8miles 55m:37s
10/18 7miles 64m:13s
10/19 9miles 1h:20m:51s
10/20 5miles 46m:17s
10/21 12miles 1h:51m:25s
10/22 5miles 48m
Sore, heavy legs this morning... I baked cupcakes and cleaned the house before heading out. It was hot and I was really slow. I almost cut it short but persevered. We ran a bunch of errands afterwards.
Tomorrow we have a very busy day - church, my husband’s work party/BBQ, and we are celebrating my youngest’s birthday with a party at our house. Expecting 30 guests. Is it bad that I wish it were over already?
In light of how busy life has been coupled with peak mileage, I’m thinking of having a rest week in the middle of my training- is that a thing? Would it set me back too much? I was thinking I’d just run every other day and keep it low - 3-5 miles and maybe a lot of walking.4 -
Oct goal 120 miles
Oct 1.......11 miles.......MTD 11
Oct 2.......11 miles.......MTD 22
Oct 3.....,,10 miles.......MTD 32
Oct 4........6 miles........MTD 38
Oct 5........0 miles........MTD 38.
Oct 6........5 miles........MTD 43
Oct 7........13.1 miles...MTD 56.1
Oct 8........11 miles......MTD 67.1
Oct 9.........3.1 ez m.....MTD 70.1
Oct 10.......5 miles........MTD 75.1
Oct 11 ......0 miles........MTD 75.1
Oct 12.......5.1 m..........MTD 80.2
Oct 13.......2 miles........MTD 82.2
Oct 14.......6 miles........MTD 88.2
Oct 15.......11 miles......MTD 99.2
Oct 16.......3.6 miles.....MTD 102.8
Oct 17.......7.4 miles.....MTD 110.4
Oct 18.......5.6 miles.....MTD 116
Oct 19.......10 miles......MTD 126
Oct 20........0 miles.......MTD 126
Oct 21........11 miles.....MTD 137
Next race: Nov 18 Turkey Trot HM in Pinehurst NC.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!4 -
@zdyb23456 If you're following a training plan then it should include cutback weeks for recovery. If not, then a cutback week is not only advisable, but necessary...you need to give your body a chance to recover or you run the risk of injury or over-training. A typical cutback week doesn't mean putting your feet up (I mean, I guess you could!), but rather running with the same intensity but at a lower mileage. During my training, I would take a cutback week every fourth week, and would typically reduce my mileage down to about 60-70% of my regular running weeks.4
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10/1 - Rest
10/2 - Rest
10/3 - 5 miles treadmill before weight lifting
10/4 - 8.15 miles
10/5 - 5 miles treadmill. Worst workout ever with serious BG problems. So bad that I skipped weight lifting afterwards.
10/6 - Rest
10/7 - 1.4 miles. Was supposed to be 12 miles, but it was raining and I had some GI issues. Ugh.
10/8 - 4.72 miles. Was harder than it should have been.
10/9 - Rest
10/10 - Figured out why I've been having GI/stomach issues/pain and difficulty breathing. Gall stones. Skipped run to try to flush gall stones.
10/11 - 5.04 miles - was supposed to be race pace. Some gall stones were flushed, but still having abdomen issues. Still, this went pretty well and was almost to race pace. Going to do the home flush again on 10/13 to get rid of any remaining gall stones.
10/12 - 5.53 miles. Went well, but will still do another gall bladder flush.
10/13 - Rest / 2nd gall bladder flush
10/14 - Rest
10/15 - 12 miles
10/16 - Rest
10/17 - 5.58 miles
10/18 - 4.60 miles
10/19 - 5.1 miles
10/20 - Rest
10/21 - 26.2 Oregon Trail Run marathon (Failed to make goal by a huge amount… very disappointed)
Upcoming Races:
10/21/17 - Oregon Trail Run marathon (First marathon... goal 4:10) - Actual... somewhere just beyond 6 hrs.
Marathon race report:
Started out a bit fast, but not terrible. It was very windy, crosswinds at first, then headwinds.
Between mile 1 and mile 2, I noticed my BG plummeting. This is what I try to avoid. Whenever that happens, the rest of the run just does not go very well at all. Had 2 glucose tablets.
Mile 2 aid station, I stopped and CGM showed 50 mg/dl. A little bit low… not much, but just enough to cause problems. Ate half of a banana
Mile 4 aid station… BG still in 50's mg/dl. Ate oranges slices. Was already 10 min. behind goal time.
For the next several miles, BG began to rise… got to 60's and then 70's. Changed to headwind for the remainder of the race.
Mile 8 aid station, BG had gotten to 70's, but my pace had already slowed considerably and I was walking way more than I wanted.
By mile 10, BG had risen and was starting to go high. I was so far behind time and just couldn't keep running.
Walked more of the 2nd half than I ran.
Total time was about 6 hours… it is my fastest marathon and my slowest marathon. I have much room for improvement. I know a goal of 4:10 was a stretch, but not that much if conditions had been different.
Short story: BG issues and wind really slowed me down a whole lot. One of my worst runs ever... and when I have these types of training runs, they are generally 3-5 miles. In my longest training run, 20 miles, I had a similar issue at around mile 13-14 and pace slowed after that... but to have this problem at the beginning and pace slowing afterwards is depressing.10 -
@midwesterner85 sorry the race didn’t go as planned. You are still an inspiration- I can’t even imagine attempting a marathon.2
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My right Achilles heel was aching a little bit when I ran 10 km yesterday, and today on a 9 km walk I felt a few twinges.
I've never had any Achilles problems before, and I hope I never do, so I'm going to do nothing (eek) tomorrow, then test it with a walk on Tuesday.
I was looking forward to some easy short runs this week after last Sunday's HM run event, but I need to be tapering a bit before my 35 km walk in 2 weeks.
I like having this thread - it helps me think things through.5 -
@midwesterner85 Bravo on completing your first marathon!
Sorry it was such a difficult run.
You did great to manage your blood glucose and keep going till the end. Fantastic.2 -
@midwesterner85 Ah man, sorry you had sugar issues. But congrats on your first marathon! You now have a time to beat 2
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Congratulations @midwesterner85 ! Sorry it didn't go as anticipated.2
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