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January 2018 Running Challenge
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It's been a hectic week at work and I've been keeping up with my running as best I could.
Congratulations to all the wonderful runs! I've been keeping up with the achievements and loving all the posts.
My progress for January so far is:
Jan 1 - 7.77K
Jan 2 - 2.18K
Jan 3 - 6.24K
Jan 7 - 7.04K
Jan 8 - 1.98K
Jan 12 - 8.98K
January total: 34.19K/100K6 -
@skippygirlsmom and @Teresa502 - Thank you!
@katharmonic - Thank you and good luck to you in Key West!
@ceciliaslater - WOW on your run this morning! Sorry to hear and hopefully he/she died of natural causes.
@amymoreorless - there is an interesting half marathon in New Orleans during the summer called Hotter Than Hell half marathon. I will be thinking about the seventh level of hell during my race tomorrow while it is below freezing.
So start temperature is predicted at 30 F currently.
Expo was not very good this year - but I found a few goodies. One was this shirt:
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January 1 — 4.15 miles
January 3 — 4.25 miles
January 5 — 4.12 miles
January 7 — 4.15 miles
January 9 — 9.27 miles
January 12 — 5.14 miles
January total — 31.08/75 miles
First treadmill run of the season. Freezing rain today and the roads are a sheet of ice. Saw a kid step off the school bus earlier today and fall on his *kitten*. I thought, “Yeah, no.” The ice coupled with 21 mph north winds made the treadmill an easy choice.
It wasn’t so bad. Got to listen to my music at full volume and sing along with reckless abandon (at home, not at a gym )7 -
Okay! So my husband and I went out experimentally to see if we were getting up to run tomorrow. Conditions are 20 degrees F, a patchy layer of snow over a thin sheet of black glare ice which was wobbly since it was over water. My trail shoes have rubber nubbins, which helped, which meant I only nearly died about twenty times in half a mile. My husband was basically skating the whole time. We walked around the block, covering .58 miles in 19 minutes. There is not only no safe way to run in this, we can't even safely walk a mile to reach the gym and the treadmill. Incidentally I hate my running gloves - after only twenty minutes my fingertips are still red and painful, and I think the gloves may actually be worse than bare hands - they get wet when I touch something like a car for balance then the water chills my fingers.
Looks like tomorrow is a stationary bike day with some cardio videos and bodyweight strength. I admire all you Viking types who run in all weather but I don't see how you manage. If I tried to take a running stride I would be on my butt instantly.5 -
still plugging away Thanks for the motivation 2 today (but they were hills) but I am going for 4-5 tomorrow6
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rheddmobile wrote: »Okay! So my husband and I went out experimentally to see if we were getting up to run tomorrow. Conditions are 20 degrees F, a patchy layer of snow over a thin sheet of black glare ice which was wobbly since it was over water. My trail shoes have rubber nubbins, which helped, which meant I only nearly died about twenty times in half a mile. My husband was basically skating the whole time. We walked around the block, covering .58 miles in 19 minutes. There is not only no safe way to run in this, we can't even safely walk a mile to reach the gym and the treadmill. Incidentally I hate my running gloves - after only twenty minutes my fingertips are still red and painful, and I think the gloves may actually be worse than bare hands - they get wet when I touch something like a car for balance then the water chills my fingers.
Looks like tomorrow is a stationary bike day with some cardio videos and bodyweight strength. I admire all you Viking types who run in all weather but I don't see how you manage. If I tried to take a running stride I would be on my butt instantly.
Sounds like you could use some Yak Trax and some water proof gloves. I bought a pair of the yak Trax a few years ago, but haven't had the conditions to need them. We have something similar issued at work that work great in icy conditions.
Or you could always screw your shoes. Like.... um , who was that? @vandinem ?3 -
rheddmobile wrote: »Okay! So my husband and I went out experimentally to see if we were getting up to run tomorrow. Conditions are 20 degrees F, a patchy layer of snow over a thin sheet of black glare ice which was wobbly since it was over water. My trail shoes have rubber nubbins, which helped, which meant I only nearly died about twenty times in half a mile. My husband was basically skating the whole time. We walked around the block, covering .58 miles in 19 minutes. There is not only no safe way to run in this, we can't even safely walk a mile to reach the gym and the treadmill. Incidentally I hate my running gloves - after only twenty minutes my fingertips are still red and painful, and I think the gloves may actually be worse than bare hands - they get wet when I touch something like a car for balance then the water chills my fingers.
Looks like tomorrow is a stationary bike day with some cardio videos and bodyweight strength. I admire all you Viking types who run in all weather but I don't see how you manage. If I tried to take a running stride I would be on my butt instantly.
Sounds like you could use some Yak Trax and some water proof gloves. I bought a pair of the yak Trax a few years ago, but haven't had the conditions to need them. We have something similar issued at work that work great in icy conditions.
Or you could always screw your shoes. Like.... um , who was that? @vandinem ?
Honestly, I don't see how Yaxtrax would help much... traction is only about half the problem, the other half is that the ice is over a layer of water, so even if you were glued to the ice the ice is not consistently attached to the pavement. I definitely need some better gloves though! This is my first winter after my diabetes diagnosis and I feel like my circulation in my fingers isn't what it used to be. Twenty degrees is cold, but not THAT cold.1 -
1/1 - 4.2
2/1-2.0
3/1-3.7 & 1.7
4/1-ill
5/1-ill
6/1-ill
8/1-ill
9/1-ill
10/1-4.2
11/1-4.5
12/1-12.0
13/1-1.2
Total - 33.5Miles/120 Miles
Upcoming races:
25th February - Brighton Half Marathon
22nd April - London Marathon
5th May - Mid Sussex Marathon 10 Mile
6th May - Mid Sussex Marathon 10 Mile
7th May - Mid Sussex Marathon 10k5 -
No running this weekend it seems. Got a bad cold and I am failing the neck test. My chest is congested so I am happy that I can breath and do a walk, but running is simply not an option.
Not happy about it but I need to take care of this first.4 -
rheddmobile wrote: »Honestly, I don't see how Yaxtrax would help much... traction is only about half the problem, the other half is that the ice is over a layer of water, so even if you were glued to the ice the ice is not consistently attached to the pavement. I definitely need some better gloves though! This is my first winter after my diabetes diagnosis and I feel like my circulation in my fingers isn't what it used to be. Twenty degrees is cold, but not THAT cold.
I have the same problem, and my gloves are waterproof. I have to pull my fingers inside the glove an make a fist to keep them some semblance of warm. The only thing that I know of that actually works is to stick hand warmers in your gloves and still retract your fingers and wrap them around the warmer. I have run for hours doing that.
Someone else mentioned these: ProActive Sports Winter Pull Up Mitts
They are basically large mittens you wear over your gloves tath you can pull back when you need access to your fingers. I have a pair but have not used them yet. I do not think I bought a big enough size cause the time I tried, I could not get them over everything, so buy bigger than you think you need.
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rheddmobile wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »Okay! So my husband and I went out experimentally to see if we were getting up to run tomorrow. Conditions are 20 degrees F, a patchy layer of snow over a thin sheet of black glare ice which was wobbly since it was over water. My trail shoes have rubber nubbins, which helped, which meant I only nearly died about twenty times in half a mile. My husband was basically skating the whole time. We walked around the block, covering .58 miles in 19 minutes. There is not only no safe way to run in this, we can't even safely walk a mile to reach the gym and the treadmill. Incidentally I hate my running gloves - after only twenty minutes my fingertips are still red and painful, and I think the gloves may actually be worse than bare hands - they get wet when I touch something like a car for balance then the water chills my fingers.
Looks like tomorrow is a stationary bike day with some cardio videos and bodyweight strength. I admire all you Viking types who run in all weather but I don't see how you manage. If I tried to take a running stride I would be on my butt instantly.
Sounds like you could use some Yak Trax and some water proof gloves. I bought a pair of the yak Trax a few years ago, but haven't had the conditions to need them. We have something similar issued at work that work great in icy conditions.
Or you could always screw your shoes. Like.... um , who was that? @vandinem ?
Honestly, I don't see how Yaxtrax would help much... traction is only about half the problem, the other half is that the ice is over a layer of water, so even if you were glued to the ice the ice is not consistently attached to the pavement. I definitely need some better gloves though! This is my first winter after my diabetes diagnosis and I feel like my circulation in my fingers isn't what it used to be. Twenty degrees is cold, but not THAT cold.
I see. We don't have much wet cold weather, so I haven't had any experience in it yet. If it snows, or more likely sleets, it's never around very long.
Glad you didn't get hurt out there. 20's cold, not too bad for running. Horrible from car to store, and it's always windy here.1 -
So since I took it easy on my ankle this week I needed 11 miles or so for my weekly goal. So I downloaded that Zombie Run app for some fun motivation. Knocked out 9.2 miles and even improved my 10K time by 8:58
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January goal: Keep kicking at Zumbro training
Nominal mileage goal: Let's say 140? I really don't know. Real plan is to follow training and coach's advice well.
1/1- REST
1/2- 8.1
1/3- 6.4
1/4- REST
1/5- 4.8
1/6- 8.1
1/7- 5.4
1/8- REST
1/9- 8.5
1/10- 6.7
1/11- REST
1/12- 9.3
1/13- 10
Total: 67.3
Today's notes: Scheduled assignment was 2:30:00 on trail. I wimped out and stopped at 2:24:00 exactly when I hit 10 miles. My left hand was cold, and I just figured that I was back at the truck, so it was all good. Got in the truck and saw that it had warmed up to -15F, so I was pretty pleased, since it had felt kind of nasty when I got up. Still feeling like a wimp for cutting that 6min off.... oh well
Have a Runderful day!
2018 races and possibilities
3/28- END-SURE 50k
4/13- Zumbro Endurance Race 100 Mile
7/28- Minnesota Voyageur 50 (coach brought up this one)
9/8- Superior Trail 50 mile (Lottery)
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We are going to get colder temps in Florida starting tonight, (yeah nothing for most of you, I know!) but that means no biking tomorrow again. Gosh, I've hardly biked in a month! But I will run tomorrow!
Today did 44 miles in a pretty strong wind. The worst is when you have the tailwind going out... and you know what's to come. And it came alright.
1/1 - 4.5 miles #RWRunStreak Day 40!!! I’m done!
1/2 - REST day!
1/3 - Strength training - glutes/arms
1/4 - 5 miles
1/5 - strength training - glutes/arms W4C
1/6 - 8 miles
1/7 - strength training - arms only
1/8 - strength training - gluten
1/9 - 4 miles
1/10 - REST day
1/11 - 4 miles
1/12 - 3.75 miles
1/13 - 44 miles biking
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Looks like we got 5" inches and there are cars sliding off the roads around here. Probably warm enough to run outside (think its like 18F now) but with the cars so out of control, might hit the dreadmill. Not sure yet
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1/1/17 1.65 Leg Day
1/2/17
1/3/17
1/4/17 Biceps and abs
1/5/17 3
1/6/17 Booty Day!
1/7/17 Chest & Back
1/8/17 5.55
1/9/17 3
1/10/17
1/11/17
1/12/17 Shoulders & Triceps
1/13/17 3.17
Total 16.37 of 50
I know today was a 5K but the garmin said 3.17 so I went with that number. I was weaving all over the course to avoid walkers.8 -
PastorVincent wrote: »Looks like we got 5" inches and there are cars sliding off the roads around here. Probably warm enough to run outside (think its like 18F now) but with the cars so out of control, might hit the dreadmill. Not sure yet
Coming from me, this will be odd, but I think the DM might be the better option......4 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Looks like we got 5" inches and there are cars sliding off the roads around here. Probably warm enough to run outside (think its like 18F now) but with the cars so out of control, might hit the dreadmill. Not sure yet
Coming from me, this will be odd, but I think the DM might be the better option......
*falls over in shock*1 -
PastorVincent wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Looks like we got 5" inches and there are cars sliding off the roads around here. Probably warm enough to run outside (think its like 18F now) but with the cars so out of control, might hit the dreadmill. Not sure yet
Coming from me, this will be odd, but I think the DM might be the better option......
*falls over in shock*
Cars are the only thing that really stop me from running... probably why I run mostly trail, since that particular problem goes away in the woods.2
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