October 2017 Running Challenge

WandaVaughn wrote: »

T-minus 12 days! I run my regular weekly miles this week, probably 10 miles on Saturday, then next week taper until (gulp!) the HM on the 4th!

I work best with goals. I'm about to tackle the biggest fitness goal yet. Not sure what I'll do next. I don't have the time right now (or the drive) to start planning a marathon run. But where do I go from here? Faster 5ks or 10ks? Learn how to trail run? My future is a big black hole....

You will do great... just keep telling yourself that HM == Half MILE

@WandaVaughn you have worked hard and will do great. The cool thing about this course is at mile 3 you loop back to the start and yeah everyone is there to cheer you on. The part I had a hard time was the out and back on the greenway from miles 6 to 10 but if the Panera Pounders are at 6/10 they are awesome and will keep you going. You will probably see people coming back at you at mile 5.5 that would be Brandon York and he's just FAST. There is a hill coming back at mile 12 just keep your form and next thing you know you are coming in to the finish. They give lots of great stuff away so be sure to stay for door prizes and awards.

midwesterner85 wrote: »

Marathon race report:

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.

Congratulations on finishing and sorry it didn't go as planned! Anyone who finishes a marathon is amazing in my book.

MNLittleFinn wrote: »

Finished 16 minutes after cut off. The course was nasty, mud was really awful. My legs are totally trashed, but I did 100k

Woo hoo!!! Awesome job finishing anything of that distance. So impressed.

@Runningmischka, congratulations on the half! Sounds like a great time and lovely pic!

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
10/14 5miles 48m:31s
10/15 rest
10/16 5.8miles 55m:37s
10/17 7miles 64m:13s
10/18 9miles 1h:20m:51s
10/19 5miles 46m:17s
10/20 12miles 1h:51m:25s
10/21 5miles 48m
10/22 rest
10/23 6.6miles 1h:01m:37s

Did Monday intervals. I was tired but I pushed through it.

This is completely off topic but it’s bugging me! I’m super annoyed by people who bail last minute to parties. I’ve planned food, party favors, etc and when you bail last minute or don’t even show up it really sucks! We had my youngest daughter’s birthday party and 3 families bailed, literally within hours of the party and one family didn’t even show up! What’s wrong with people?! 4 families is a lot of wasted money on food and favors! Now I’m stuck eating a crap-load of pizza and cupcakes.

@Runningmischka - Nice race report. You make me want to run the Gettysburg Blue-Gray Half. Too bad Gettysburg is clear across Pennsylvania from me; it would require trip planning that I probably won't do.

@ctlaws44 - 42 day running streak on your 42nd birthday? Maybe that's why 42 is the answer to the ultimate question. Oh, and cool medal for the NASA 10K!

Rest day for me today. Mowed the lawn. The way it's growing, I'll still be mowing in November, sigh. Where is the happy season between lawn mowing and snow shoveling?

PastorVincent wrote: »

So this question is mainly for our female runners...

So I am out running and on a section of paved trail (in a public park) that is an out and back and is about a mile. Early on, a young woman very slowly passes me. Without even thinking about it, I pick up the pace and start matching her. Nothing deliberate just happens. So was feeling a bit awkward running right next to her for a bit, (and figured she probably did not like some random guy pacing her) and so I turned off the trail and sprinted up a hill, leaped a concrete barrier, crossed a parking lot, and headed back down the trail in the other direction. Never did see her again.

Was that the umm proper thing to do? LOL. I was stuck, cause I really did not want to slow down, and speeding up probably would have seemed rude or macho or something.

She probably turned around and left because you spooked her!

I would probably be weirded out a little, but would have slowed to let you pass.

girlinahat wrote: »

@PastorVincent mostly guys whizz past me - never had one match my pace before.

TBH if someone ran alongside me, male OR female, I’d find it weird. But then I also don’t like it if someone is walking a bit close behind me, matching my steps, even if I’m with friends and it’s daylight. It’s a personal space thing. I tend to find myself suddenly needing to tie my shoelace or something to let them pass.

One night walking home (yes, it was VERY late, yes there had been alcohol), I had a guy repeatedly try and reassure me he wasn’t following me, even calling out as he crossed the road that he was trying to make me not scared by him (which I wasn’t). And then, just as he got to the corner of a street, having spent all that time trying to reassure me, he calls out ‘do you want to come in for a smoke?’ Yeah, that was weird.

Just what I was going to say. In fact only yesterday I was trundling along in my own little world when I realized another runner was coming up behind me. He shouted a cheery, "good morning!", and powered past me. I think I'd have been really freaked out if he'd decided to slow down and match my pace.

@WandaVaughn so exciting! I am sure you will do great, but watch out - you might get addicted to running 13.1 miles. Either way, we will be here waiting for your race report.

Anyone ever get in a funk after an accomplishment because you didn't know what to do next? Yeah, that's where I'm at. Weird feeling.