October 2017 Running Challenge

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  • ddmom0811
    ddmom0811 Posts: 1,878 Member
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    @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. :smile: 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


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    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
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
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    2 months @Orphia - you know you couldn't stay away that long silly lady ;)

    @PastorVincent come to the ultra side- we have cool stories about crying in the woods :D . Seriously though I feel you on the training struggle, Saturdays I need to start getting up earlier against distance increase I think :/

    Only got 10 in this morning and my pace was meh (5'28") but my legs handled really well which is a big victory for me because I think they're finally acclimating to the high mileage days. If I wasn't so damn tired today I'd have gone for the 20, but whateva. Came home to a sweet message from a lady I know in town saying she saw me out this morning and that I'm bat *kitten* crazy but that it got her out too. Now only to work on the other 8,998 residents of this town :D


    October 1- 28+7
    October 2- 18
    October 3- 20
    October 4- 15
    October 5- 18
    October 6- Off
    October 7- 32
    October 8- 18
    October 9- 13
    October 10- 8
    October 11- 12
    October 12- Off
    October 13- Off
    October 14- 86
    October 15- Off
    October 16- Off
    October 17- Off
    October 18- 15
    October 19- 16
    October 20- 17
    October 21- 34
    October 22- 18
    October 23- Off
    October 24- 23
    October 25- 19
    October 26- 17
    October 27- 18
    October 28- 15
    October 29- 100
    October 30-10

    577/450km
  • LC0924
    LC0924 Posts: 71 Member
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    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 :lol:
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
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    @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.....
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
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    @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 <3
  • zdyb23456
    zdyb23456 Posts: 1,706 Member
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    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
    10/24 5miles 50m:35s
    10/25 7miles 1h:07m:32s
    10/26 4miles 38m:44s
    10/27 14miles!!! 2h:11m:18s
    10/28 5miles 46m:50s
    10/29 rest
    10/30 7miles 1h:01m:49s

    Interval Monday- the hardest yet. 6 repeats of .75mi at 10k pace with .25mi recovery jog. All the intervals I’ve done before had walking. I’m happy I finished!

  • LC0924
    LC0924 Posts: 71 Member
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    @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
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
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    @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. :smiley: 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!" :lol:
  • MNLittleFinn
    MNLittleFinn Posts: 4,271 Member
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    @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. :smiley: 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!" :lol:

    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
    WandaVaughn Posts: 420 Member
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    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!
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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    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!
  • MobyCarp
    MobyCarp Posts: 2,927 Member
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    After all, I used to think "5k is SOOOO far! I will never run farther than 5k!" :lol:

    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.
  • WandaVaughn
    WandaVaughn Posts: 420 Member
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    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...
  • shrcpr
    shrcpr Posts: 885 Member
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    @WandaVaughn, so sorry to hear about your friend. Hoping for a full recovery.

    Got out and did 10+ miles yesterday morning and am still getting sore after that distance. It was a nice run, though, because the weather was perfect and I ran in a new neighborhood and I like to look at how people do their landscaping.

    Two weeks until my HM and I'm feeling better about finishing but know that I'll be really feeling it afterwards. And, we have to rush home afterwards because a friend of mine is having a party at my house that afternoon and it would be weird if I didn't show up at my own house.

    I think I'm going to sign up for the Hot Chocolate 15k in Scottsdale beginning of December. I have to take some more time off work and I have a friend in Tempe I like to visit. And because, chocolate!
  • bride001
    bride001 Posts: 153 Member
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    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.
  • NikolaosKey
    NikolaosKey Posts: 410 Member
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    10/1: 16.35k -Easy long run-
    10/2: 10.3k -Easy+11 strides-
    10/5: 10.6k -Moderate Tempo-
    10/6: 7.6k -Easy run-
    10/7: 15k -Intervals-
    10/8: 14.4k -Easy run-
    10/12: 10.6k -Easy run-
    10/13: 10.6k -Easy+13ST-
    10/14: 2.2k -shake off b4 race-
    10/15: 13.2 -3.2k w/u and 10k Trail Race-
    10/18: 11.1k -Easy-
    10/20: 10.6k -Trail-
    10/21: 13.9k -Easy+strides-
    10/22: 14.6k -Trail, hills-
    10/24: 10k -Easy-
    10/25:14.4k -w/u, Intervals, c/d-
    10/26: 10.2k -Easy-
    10/29: 18.2k -Long run-
    10/30: 14.7k -Intervals-

    Goal: 228.8k/180k

    Ok, month is almost over. Lets see how November wil be. Take care all and...
    stay hydrated!

    Upcoming races:
    9/16: 4th Kavala Night City Run 10k: 49:47 (new PR)
    9/24: Xiropotamos Trail 2017 11k: 1:17:59
    10/1: Voreia Sirris Challenge 23k: Not registered
    10/15: Nestos Trail VFUT 10k: 49:51
    11/26: 4th Democritus Half Marathon
    12/10: Valdirkeia Run10k