November 2017 Running Challenge

katharmonic wrote: »

greenolivetree wrote: »

Confession: I am forevermore confusing @katharmonic and @ddmom0811 And I just realized you are both posed the same in your profile pics and both wearing red. Somebody needs to change their pic and help me out

LOL. We do have similar poses going on in our profile pics. I'll work on that for you.

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
11/01/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/02/17 :::: 2.7 :::: 2.7
11/03/17 :::: 4.3 :::: 7.0
11/04/17 :::: 7.6 :::: 14.6
11/05/17 :::: 3.2 :::: 17.7
11/06/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 20.7
11/07/17 :::: 3.5 :::: 24.3
11/08/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 24.3
11/09/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 27.3
11/10/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 27.3
11/11/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 27.3
11/12/17 :::: 13.2 :::: 40.5
11/13/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 40.5
11/14/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 40.5
11/15/17 :::: 2.5 :::: 43.0
11/16/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 45.6

A rare weekday morning run for me, but the weather is so nice I wanted to take advantage and get a short run in outside.

And the real reason I ran this morning is I am so lazy about not wanting to shower multiple times - I really needed to shower and wash my hair this morning and thought I might as well run first, because if I put off the run until later I don't want to shower again. I used to wash my hair every single day regardless and now I try to get away with as few as possible times per week.

Haha I’m the same way. I feel like I’m wasting a shower if I don’t get a sweaty run in first!

October goal: Not chicken out and Register for Zumbro. Start training for Zumbro and figure out real mileage
Nominal Mileage goal: 100 miles???

11/1- REST
11/2- 3.1+ 20 minutes shoveling
11/3- REST
11/4- 7.8
11/5- 4
11/6- REST
11/7- 5.8
11/8- 4.1
11/9- REST
11/10- 4.1
11/11- 6.6
11/12- 6.3
11/13 REST
11/14- 3.3
11/15- 4.2
11/16- REST
11/17- 4.4
11/18- 7.3
11/19- 7.2

Total: 68.2

Today's notes- Today's assignment was 1:45:00 at easy pace. it was a nice 6F (-14C), with a light wind I met up with my buddy Andy, which meant that doing true easy wasn't really going to happen but, well, that's OK. We hit the ridge to hit the snowshoe and XC trails, avoiding where the snow machines were blowing. We really only ran on the XC trail for a small section... we both thought that repeating the short snowshoe trail was more entertaining than hitting different territory on the "boring" XC trail.

Got in 7.2 miles in during the run, which is only like 0.8 mire miles than last time, despite being 15 minutes longer.... ugh.... I was 0:30 slower per mile...... My legs were really feeling it on the last uphill, I think the 400m repeats from yesterday took more out of me than I appreciated initially...

..... Then I looked at elevation. By adding that 0.8 miles, I added 623 feet of elevation.... slightly different route this time, it would appear... That might have had something to do with the slower pace.....

Anyway, tomorrow is a rest day, and after my Fri/Sat/Sun of Trail/Speed/Trail, I'm looking forward to the recovery.

Have a Runderful day everyone!

2017 Races Scheduled
6/16- William A Irvin 5k
6/17- Grandma's Marathon 4:24:06
7/15- Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon 7:22:23
8/12- UMTR FatAss "Not Quite" 50k DNF, too darn hot out
8/19- Rampage at the Ridge 5k OCR
9/23- Ely Marathon 6:24:36
10/21 Wild Duluth 100k 18:15:51
11/23- TBD 5k Turkey Trot???

2018 races
4/13- Zumbro Endurance Race 100 Mile
5/19- Superior Trail 25k (Lottery)
7/8- Afton 50k???
9/8- Superior Trail 50 mile (Lottery)
10/xx Wild Duluth 50k? 100k?

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@cameronheel sounds like you are a good influence on your daughter. That's great! Congrats on taking the plunge on a full, you're primed for it, so training should be "easy." Sounds like you have a good plan for the coming months!

I'm so sorry about your lay off @skippygirlsmom . We've been there more than once where the oilfield is mercurial at best. Thinking good thoughts for you and Skip

November 1- 18+8
November 2- 22
November 3- 20
November 4- 42
November 5- 20
November 6- 18
November 7- 18
November 8- 19
November 9- 18
November 10- 28+6
November 11- 38
November 12- 20
November 13- Off
November 14- 19
November 15- 19
November 16- 24
November 17- 25
November 18- 52
November 19- 23

457/500km

2018 Races
*Gord's Frozen A** 50K, February 19
*JAJA Trail Marathon, April 1
*Red Deer Marathon, May 20
*Cactus Coulee Crawl 30km, TBA June
*Eddie's Half Marathon, TBA June
*Run in the Buff 120km TBA August
*Lost Souls 100 Mile September 7

Nov. 19 - 4.35km. First snow filled run of the season. The sidewalks and roads were in pretty good shape, a couple of places had lots of snow where the plow went by but for my first snowy run it wasn't too bad. Will probably (definitely) do it again.
MTD - 46.2km/80km

Running in -4C this morning made me realize how under dressed I was to run in -15C last weekend

@skippygirlsmom sorry about the job. especially after all the time you put in. I second the thought that perhaps its a blessing in disguise and there is something better around the corner waiting for you.

@MNLittleFinn I think i am running a few hills then I see your elevation changes and think.. nope.. lol. A big hill here might climb 100 feet before leveling off or heading back downhill. I guess when the highest elevation in the entire state is about 250ft I have to work with what ive got

@amymoreorless I read to my husband what your husband had ready for you and his reply was "we cant all be winners" Maybe he will be inspired however.. lol

11/1 - 8 miles
11/2 - 0 miles
11/3 - 0 miles
11/4 - 3 miles of horrible
11/5 – 10 miles of awesome
11/6 – 0 miles
11/7 – 6 miles
11/8 - 0 miles
11/9 – 5 miles
11/10 – 6 miles
11/11 - 0 miles state XC meet
11/12 - 4 miles
11/13 - 0 miles
11/14 - 7 miles
11/15 - 5 miles
11/16 – 0 miles
11/17 – 0 miles
11/18 – 6 miles
11/19 – 5 miles

65 of 100 miles





Oh my gosh you all are just the best, I feel so much better just reading your comments and works of encouragement. I had planned to look for a new job after Skip graduated because I’m really not doing a job up to my brain level, but I liked having almost 30 days a year vacation and the freedom to leave to do things with her whenever I wanted to do that. This will just push me to do it sooner. I didn’t talk to one person I do a lot of work for and she sent me 2 charge numbers to use and she told someone else who sent me an email yesterday with a charge number from their group. Both were horrified and wanted to know who to talk to to stop this from happening. Which I’m so appreciative of.


Skip walked in this morning and wanted to run with me, which we don’t do much of during the school year since she’s always practicing with the team. We did a nice 5 miles around the hood and chatted away, she’s a good kid.

@HonuNui looks like a postcard!
@hjeppley great race for you and your son. I hate that they have nothing lower than 15 and below age group, that is rough when you are 9 years old. Great job in your AG and I’m so jealous of that medal, love it!
@_nikkiwolf_ sorry for the fall, looks like a deer feeder to me. All I can think is I don’t know any hunter that would use that, or maybe I don’t know any smart enough to make one ha ha
@cameronheel yeah for your daughter continuing to run and running with, it’s so awesome.
@amymoreorless super long run and yummy!
@bjderhak please take this in the nicest way, after seeing that picture I hate you ha ha I used to love to run by the palm trees at my mom’s house. “we can’t all be winners” ha ha!!!