October 2017 Running Challenge

@WandaVaughn - sorry to hear about your friend. Praying he can recover and can return to running.
@carolineb81 - congrats on finishing two 10K's in two days. Besides just not having the want to, do you have any other reasons why one shouldn't do this? The reason I ask is because one of our local hospitals is having a running weekend that consists of a 5K and kids run on a Saturday and then a 10K and half marathon on Sunday. Seriously considering doing the 5K and 10K.
@JessicaMcB - Awesome doing the 100K! I have to think every time I read yout posts where you mention LSU -that is the abbreviation for our flagship university and I have to remind myself you are talking about the race and not the university!

Question: does anyone that runs marathons or ultras divide up their long runs into two seperate runs and complete them with in twelve hours of starting the first run and finishing the second run? Someone I met through another running friend does this when she is training for ultra races. Just wondering pros and cons of this method.

10/1 - rest (walk)
10/2 - rest (yoga)
10/3 - 4.1km
10/4 - cross training (workout dvd)
10/5 - 4.8km + a really wimpy strength workout
10/6 - rest
10/7 - 4.0 km
10/8 - cross training (walk)
10/9 - yoga
10/10 - 6.0 km
10/11 - rest
10/12 - 4.0 km
10/13 - rest
10/14 - 6.1 km
10/15 - rest
10/16 - rest
10/17 - unplanned rest (weather apocalypse)
10/18 - 5.1 km
10/19 - rest
10/20 - 4.0 km
10/21 - rest (travel)
10/22 - rest
10/23 - rest
10/24 - 5.5km Dreadmill
10/25 - rest
10/26 - rest
10/27 - rest
10/28 - 7.6 km
10/29 - rest

Total 45.1/55 km

The rest of last week just got sucked into audit hell. I'm not a fan of 10-11 hour workdays.

I flew home Friday after work and my 2.5 year old would not leave me alone. Kept covering me in kisses. He was being pretty adorable.

The weather was great yesterday so I managed a longer run than I have in a while. Still going to miss goal, though, as my next run isn't until Tuesday and it's a mini-cutback so lower mileage. Maybe I'll meet my goal for November!

Upcoming Races:
9/24 Heartbeat Run 10K 1:24:44 (11.1km)
1/1/18 Resolution Run 5K
4/8/18 Jasper Half Marathon
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon 10K

JessicaMcB wrote: »

@Orphia partially because I just wanted to (to give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift, right?) and partially because my trainer wanted a 100k speed baseline for us to work from while we build towards LSU100 next year.

I actually pared down a lot because I knew from Whistler that my piri would be shot and I didn't need more weight on it. So 2L filled bladder with Elete additive, 10 salt pills, my 50km pill packet (2 Naproxen, 1 Immodium, 200mg caffeine), a 10oz bottle of keto-ade, my lamp, a thermal headband, my phone, my spare battery and chicken in a sandwich bag.

I suspected it was going to be awesome, and I was right. 100 km just because. Incredible.

juliet3455 wrote: »

@JessicaMcB 100k I think you can take at least 1 day off, maybe even 2. The rest of us mere mortals would need a week.

LOL, make that 2 months, and yeah.

@katharmonic great job on your race! Way to embrace the suck!

@WandaVaughn Ugh. Heart stuff can happen to the best of us - but the fact he so healthy gives him a better chance for a full recovery.

@carolineb81 - that hill at the start!!!

@_nikkiwolf_ love that cartoon about the cheap sport. Agreed on cycling. We always joke on the group rides that cycling is free! As we sit on our $2000 bikes. And one of the favorite jokes is “what is the difference between regular socks and cycling socks?” $10.00. Love the pictures from your 20km and the medal!

@juliet3455 - love the pictures!

@skippygirlsmom - prancersizing - I’m dying. Then I got caught up watching a couple of his other videos and need to get back to work!

@osubuckeye906 - I will cheer you on! Let me know your bib number and I will try to track you! Also will text you and see if we can meet. Denise got me a cow bell. I hope your hip holds out and that the weather is amazing! Denise is obsessing on every aspect of the marathon as well! She's lucky that she lives there but she too has to leave very early for her start @10:15 or 10:30.


No where close to my 70 mile goal but it's okay. Since I have added a lot more warmup/strength training I'm okay with it. Feeling very good with doing those new warmups. Just bought a new book - Strong Curves (for women). It's all about building up the glute muscles because according to the author if you build that up it helps the whole body. I'm also trying to get more sleep and part of that is no electronics for about 30-60 mins before bed. So I bought the actual book (I've been a kindle reader for years). It's HUGE and it says really big on the cover "STRONG CURVES AND HOW TO BUILD A BETTER BUTT". I am not actually trying to build a better butt... I don't think I have the nerve to read it on the plane to NYC to watch the marathon. Although who cares what my plane neighbors think ...



10/1 - 33 miles cycling; 1 mile run
10/2 - rest day
10/3 - 5.6 miles - birthday run!
10/4 - strength training
10/5 - 3.5 cut short by rain.
10/6 - strength training
10/7 - 44 miles cycling
10/8 - 45 miles cycling
10/9 - 4 miles
10/10 - strength training
10/11 - 4 miles
10/12 - Strength training - tabatas - push ups/pull ups/sit ups and wall squats
10/13 - rest day
10/14 - 9 miles on bike - rained out… AIM at Melanoma 5K!
10/15 - 48 miles cycling
10/16 - 3 miles
10/17 - rest day/surgery
10/18 - 4.3 miles
10/19 - 4.1 sluggish miles
10/20 - strength training
10/21 - 43 miles cycling
10/22 - 66 miles cycling — 1 short of 100 for the weekend!
10/23 - 3.7 miles
10/24 - 4 miles + strength training/tabatas
10/25 - 4.1 miles
10/26 - 5 miles
10/27 - let’s make it a rest day!
10/28 - 53 miles cycling
10/29 - 4 miles with grandDog
10/30 - 4 miles with grandDog again





NYC Central Park - Abbott Dash to the Finish Line 5K - 11/4
I/ITSEC 5K in Orlando - 11/29
Daytona Beach HM - 2/4/19

Going to spend most of the morning catching up with you all!

Thursday's planned run didn't happen, did something weird to my hip at the gym that afternoon and was feeeeeelin' it hard, so skipped the run. Friday got rear-ended by a Domino's delivery guy - and got absolutely no pizza out of it, boo - so yesterday's run was slow and a bit achey but otherwise felt great

Happy Monday! And now I go read all the pages I missed

MNLittleFinn wrote: »

@PastorVincent you can run up to a 100k on 50MPW... Or at least I did.... you might not enjoy it, but it's doable.... I know people who have finished 100 mile races un under 40 a week..... ]Ultras are 10% physical and 90% mental.....

True af. The majority of the drops I saw at Whistler or that I know of at CDR and Sin 7 when friends have run them happened to people who were uninjured and 100% fit enough to get it done- they mentally didn't have what it took on those days and it ended them. Fortify your mind and you can take an ultra

@ddmom0811 I have been doing the Strong Curves program for two weeks and I really enjoy it. I will say, however, that I am really bad at the reaching one leg Romanian deadlift thing... hence my previous post about hurting myself at the gym, haha. Other than that (which I'm sure is 100% operator error), its been great!

PastorVincent wrote: »

MNLittleFinn wrote: »

@PastorVincent you can run up to a 100k on 50MPW... Or at least I did.... you might not enjoy it, but it's doable.... I know people who have finished 100 mile races un under 40 a week..... Ultras are 10% physical and 90% mental.....

You have said that before. I am hoping to put more long runs in my week, but weather and schedule is against me right now. Especially as we go into the holidays.

Over the past few months I have been hanging around 50MPW, but I expect that to fall off as mentioned.

Dunno yet. Time will tell. After all, I used to think "5k is SOOOO far! I will never run farther than 5k!"

Weather doesn't mean much. I'll still be doing my 10+ mile long runs in the cold. Might have to go to 2-3 of them a week though, to get my mileage up. Getting in a 20+ in the cold gets kind of hard.

WandaVaughn wrote: »

I'm a wimp. We had freezing fog this morning before the sun came up so I made the executive decision to wait until this afternoon to run. I've got my gear in the car. The track is on the way home, so no excuses!

I've never run in freezing fog. It sounds fun. Enjoy that track run!

PastorVincent wrote: »

After all, I used to think "5k is SOOOO far! I will never run farther than 5k!"

I think most distance runners have some distance that used to seem very, very far and now seems trivial. The magic distance for me was 5 miles; the magic time was 30 minutes. I thought if I could just keep running for 30 minutes, I'd be able to finish the 3.5 mile Corporate Challenge without walk breaks. And when I was in high school, I thought cross country runners ran really, really far because they did 5 mile races.

Fast forward to now, and 30 minutes seems like a minimum to be worth getting out to run. Cross country has converted to kilometers, with 8K races taking the place of 5 mile races. And I'm a little disappointed when they cut the masters down to 6K for a race where the open guys do 8K, or to 8K where the open guys do 10K; but it's a relatively short race either way. Have to go to roads or trails to get a real distance race.

Stoshew71 wrote: »

Thought I get a head start on posting this....


http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10611680/november-2017-running-challenge/

Everyone still has a couple of days to finish up their goals for October. I am personally way behind... again!

The HM on the 4th is all I can see right now. I have no idea what comes next? I don't have the time to train for a marathon. Learn to trail run? I'm not even sure what constitutes a trail. I don't think I'm experienced enough or competitive enough to try and become a speed demon. Try running x amount a day? Doesn't sound too exciting. I'm a goal oriented person without a new goal...

10/28 - 12.0 miles
10/29 _ Rest Day
10/30 - 4.0 miles

49/119 miles

@WandaVaughn - Set a new goal for you - it does not have to be another race. It could be something as "I am going to run 10 miles over 7 days after the HM" or " I will run so many miles between the HM and Thanksgiving or Christmas" Find a Jingle Jog or Reindeer Run in your area for December, most in my are 5K's.