December 2017 Running Challenge
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »Um... so far 1/2 have given me approval for the additional race for 2018.
Which one? We all know the wife approval is the most important one!0 -
JessicaMcB wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »Um... so far 1/2 have given me approval for the additional race for 2018.
Which one? We all know the wife approval is the most important one!
It's a flat course and my buddy is saying I could go sub-6 on it no problem......LOL, the issues I face2 -
December 1 - 10 km
December 2 - 16 km
December 3 - 5km club run / strength training
31 km - goal 350 km2 -
12/1: rest
12/2: 5k - St Jude Marathon weekend 5k
We had a great time!
My husband and I had one main goal this time. Since this was only our second 5k race and our first after completing c25k, we just wanted to run the whole distance with no walk breaks. Easy peasy. In fact we finished, looked at each other, and said, When does the race start? I feel like we could do that all over!
Our time was 38:03 according to the chip - according to our gps it was somewhat faster. I had hoped for a time better than 36 minutes but did not achieve this - learned a lot about running a big race with 5000 people though! I had diligently figured out my projected finishing time, entered it on my registration form, looked up and gotten in the correct corral. Crowd starts slowly inching towards the starting line. And across it. And slowly inching towards the finish line. And I suddenly realize - I am surrounded by walkers! Not a single person besides me read the sign up information and walkers are all over the place, including in the second corral (first corral was reserved for elites) frequently ten abreast, arms linked, wearing matching t-shirts. Or obliviously typing on their phones as they slowly strolled forwards! It seems like, compared to our first, smaller race, there were a lot fewer serious runners in this one and a lot higher percentage of walkers, probably because the serious runners were mostly competing at longer distances.
The gps says we traveled .2 extra miles, which involved looping around the walkers and trying to get through. It also says we were forced to walk for almost the entire first two minutes of the race before reaching open ground enough that we were able to run. As we headed under the Convention Center, the 5k merged briefly with the marathon, and we were able to run a little by veering left into the marathoners and running alongside them, passing hundreds of 5k walkers. But all too soon the marathoners went their way and we went ours, back into yet more walkers. At that point it felt more like playing football than anything else, dodging sideways and trying to slip between people who had no intention of moving even if you said excuse me. My husband and I had to go single file and take whatever openings we could.
Mile 2 of this 5k is really groovy, you run through the St Jude Children's Hospital campus and the children come out and line the streets and cheer for you and slap hands. Then up a big hill over an overpass and down into the baseball stadium. We had driven this hill before and were a little afraid of running it, but race day energy made it seem like nothing.
Anyway, even being slowed down by having to go around so many people, I placed 37th out of 250 in my age group, which I think is not bad for someone who weighed 100 lbs more this time last year, and first ran 5k less than a month ago! Altogether a very successful day, and a learning experience as far as what corral to start in.
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@PastorVincent Congrats on your PR. Amazing job!!0
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@sarahthes - The Edmonton ice story reminds me of the year I was in 7th grade in Lincoln, Nebraska. We had ice all winter long, and I walked a mile and a half to and from school. I started out falling down a lot, but by the end of the winter I was pretty sure-footed on ice; that trait has lasted till now, and no doubt helped me learn to run on ice at age 57 or so.
@eponine1984 - There is a certain cachet to being able to say you've run a race every year since it began. I have one race like that, Winter Warrior Half Marathon. I'll run the WW for the 4th time next January. I'm really impressed by the 100% club for Race with Grace 10K - 7 runners, 27 years and counting. (I'm at 7 years for RWG, every year since I became a runner.)
@PastorVincent - Way to execute a race plan! You did exactly what you needed to do, and the results blew away your expectations.
@rheddmobile - Yes, when the honor system is used for lining up there is widespread cheating. Or, widespread excessive optimism, if you want to be kind. Still, linking arms is uncalled for. There could be faster *walkers* trying to pass the clump. And yes, if there are multiple affiliated races at the same time and place, the serious runners will mostly go for the longer race. I recall I once ran a half marathon and noticed that my first 5K split would have been good for 3rd overall in the associated 5K, at age 59. That was a 5K split on a half marathon attempted PR, not a 5K run as a 5K race; I could have run a faster 5K if that's all the farther I planned to run. Of course, the serious runners were all in the half marathon just like I was. 59 year old guys don't finish 3rd in a 5K where three serious open (non-masters) runners show up.2 -
girlinahat wrote: »Third in Age Group, 40th overall!
You know what @PastorVincent - I think you are a winner after all!!!
Excellent job!!!
hehe thanks!0 -
@PastorVincent - Way to execute a race plan! You did exactly what you needed to do, and the results blew away your expectations.
Thanks! Yeah, I have to admit, I am always a bit surprised when a plan actually works0 -
December 2017 Runs
02 Dec – 5 km parkrun Course Best
03 Dec – 15 km
Goal: Run a 30 km run in December
Happy with today's 15 km. Strava says my moving time was 6:10 per km (9:57 per mile). Garmin says my Training Status is "productive".3 -
JessicaMcB wrote: »@JessicaMcB I've been waiting nervously to hear the scary but amazing story about how you got away from the cougar that turned your 100 miler into 131 km.
Blessedly short story. I saw him on the river line, he did not see me. There are at least 2 out there that we know of, I just was not chancing it where generally you won't know they have been stalking you until they are on top of you and you are 100% *kitten*.
So that's my story of being a *kitten* lol
Scary, but impressed with your bravery to run at all in such a place!!0 -
Dec 1: 5 miles
Dec 2: 6 miles
11 miles out of 100 miles1 -
NikolaosKey wrote: »@PastorVincent Congrats on your PR. Amazing job!!
Thanks!0 -
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@PastorVincent Congrats in the PR! Proving once again your awesomeness0
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December goal: 95.71 miles
12/1 3.51
12/2 5.00
Total 8.51
Great job @PastorVincent !
today I wore my new "embrace the suck" mfp shirt.....and it seemed fitting, because I just wasn't into it...but by 2.5 miles I was suddenly feeling pretty good, and finished 5 still feeling I had a few more in me.....glad that today the water on my favorite course had receded some, tho it was still calf high (I was able to find a way around it....)(um...it's the rainy season.....)
Ticker is my goal for 2017 and progress to date:
Upcoming races:
Phoenix Women's 10k 1/28/18
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Dec. 2 - 5km
MTD - 5km/60km1 -
amymoreorless wrote: »@PastorVincent Congrats in the PR! Proving once again your awesomeness
Thanks!
Well, awesome should be reserved for the likes of @JessicaMcB and company. I am just some random guy trying to outrun his very real need for a pacemaker...0 -
Great job @PastorVincent !
today I wore my new "embrace the suck" mfp shirt.....and it seemed fitting, because I just wasn't into it...but by 2.5 miles I was suddenly feeling pretty good, and finished 5 still feeling I had a few more in me.....glad that today the water on my favorite course had receded some, tho it was still calf high (I was able to find a way around it....)(um...it's the rainy season.....)
Thanks!
Hah! I guess you did not need to carry any water with you then!0 -
PastorVincent wrote: »amymoreorless wrote: »@PastorVincent Congrats in the PR! Proving once again your awesomeness
Thanks!
Well, awesome should be reserved for the likes of @JessicaMcB and company. I am just some random guy trying to outrun his very real need for a pacemaker...
Pssssh you're not awesome Pastor V. You aren't just out running a pace maker- you're out running a shocking amount of guys in their 20's. And all this while holding down a full time job and spending lots of time with your little family and you know, presumably being more right with Jesus than most of us .
So no, you aren't just awesome- you're exceptional5
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