February 2018 Running Challenge
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Yesterday I tried something different and brought my running gear to work and stopped on the way home to run. This saved me quite a bit of time since I tend to dawdle at home before going out to run. The downside is that I wasn't able to bring Kody with me. Perhaps what I need to do is bring my running gear to work, get completely ready to run, the go home just long enough to get him and go.
7 miles of trail running last night at a location I normally only run on weekends. Rookie mistake, I overdressed and was too warm initially, got sweaty, then got cold. The toes on my right foot even got numb, which rarely happens.
The conditions were near perfect. A recent 3 inch snowfall had filled in the ruts and covered the ice from a earlier melt & refreeze. This particular park is a huge chunk of woods in the middle of suburbia so there was enough ambient light that I didn't need to use my headlamp. I absolutely LOVE running with just the ambient light at night when I can so this was fantastic. The only thing which would have made it better would be if it were snowing at the time.
During the run I could hear the owls out. At one point I stopped and looked up and saw one right above me in a tree and it stayed there long enough for me to get a photo.
It's been a good winter for ice beards!
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last minute treadmill run 3.25 miles recovery run
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2/1 - 3 miles
2/2 - 0 miles
2/3 - 3.1 Mardi Gras 5K
2/4 - 0 miles family stuff
2/5 - 8 miles
2/6 - 3 miles
2/7 - 0 miles
2/8 - 6 miles
23 of 110 miles7 -
I'm back.... going s-l-o-w. Feet feel a bit better so we'll see how it goes.
My goal for the month is 24 miles.
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I just have to share this with my fellow running addicts.
My husband has sent me a tentative list of fun things we're planning for this year (concerts, vacations, etc). At the bottom it says, "can you fill in your race dates around these and we can put a schedule together". Bless him.18 -
02/01/2018 - 4.01 miles
02/02/2018 - Rest Day
02/03/2018 - 4.11 miles
02/04/2018 - 2.01 miles
02/05/2018 - Unplanned Rest Day
02/06/2018 - Unplanned Rest Day/Rain
02/07/2018 - Rest Day
02/08/2018 - 3.02 miles
13.15/65 miles
Life and weather are happening and interfering with my run schedule. Today was first day out since Sunday afternoon. Cold and windy morning - temperatures in lower 40 F with feels like in upper 30 F. I was scheduled for 4 miles but woke up late and time only allowed 3 miles.
Life this week - daughter had to make a 3D model of a plant or animal cell, so we spent some of Monday and most of Tuesday night making a cake as her model. My son was running warm up mile at football yesterday during PE at school, another runner ran into him and now we are at the doctors office seeing if he has anything broken. Foot/ankle very swollen.
One of the races I was looking at in March I won’t be able to participate in. I had already purchased concert tickets the night before the race, so it is a no go.
I did catch up on the posts while at the doctors office.
@skippygirlsmom - I have always wanted to participate in a Run for God group, but I always thought they were geared toward new runners who are training for a 5K.
@PastorVincent - no elevation gain here in South Louisiana. Some races are actually at or below sea level. No hills or over passes close to my run route to have any elevation gain.
Upcoming races (Question marks are races not yet registered for):
Louisiana Marathon Quarter Marathon - 01/13/2018 - Done
Mardi Gras Mambo 10K -02/17/2018
Q50 Races Sunset Gulf - 6.5 miles 3/24/2018
BIG EASY BIG HEART 5K 7/21/2018 - ?1 -
Question for ya'll (I'm the newbie here doing C25K). I wear a Garmin VIvoactive HR watch which records my heart rate and have premium Endomondo so I can see the zones i'm in. During my 20 minute run yesterday, my HR was hovering around 160bpm peaking around 175bpm. I was breathing fast but i never felt out of breath and I could've kept going. My max HR per the old calculation is 175 but i've gone over that and still didn't feel like I was close to expiring. (ha). My resting HR has dropped from about 65 to 60 since January 1.
So..should I slow down even more (i'm only going 5.2-5.5mph ) or not really fuss too much over the higher heart rate during my runs?
I could hook up my strap monitor to see if there's a variation but I've found my watch to fairly accurate, surprisingly, unless the treadmill is interfering....
Here's the stats from my 20 minute run
If you used the 220-age formula, I believe that's pretty much accepted as mostly useless. I believe it was a very general trend that was noticed by a couple of scientists in a study they were doing, but they never intended for it to be a benchmark for determining your max HR. A significant portion of the population falls above or below the number that formula spits out. For example, according to that mine would be 185 but I've definitely seen it hit 200, so either the formula is wrong or I'm dead, lol.
At your point I wouldn't worry about it too much, and would try to go more on perceived effort. You want a lot of your running effort to be at a conversational pace, where you could talk to someone or sing along to a song without dying.
As an example, from previous calculations I've done, using my estimated lactate threshold HR and resting HR, 160 puts me right around the top of my zone 2 (out of 5 zones).1 -
Question for ya'll (I'm the newbie here doing C25K). I wear a Garmin VIvoactive HR watch which records my heart rate and have premium Endomondo so I can see the zones i'm in. During my 20 minute run yesterday, my HR was hovering around 160bpm peaking around 175bpm. I was breathing fast but i never felt out of breath and I could've kept going. My max HR per the old calculation is 175 but i've gone over that and still didn't feel like I was close to expiring. (ha). My resting HR has dropped from about 65 to 60 since January 1.
So..should I slow down even more (i'm only going 5.2-5.5mph ) or not really fuss too much over the higher heart rate during my runs?
I could hook up my strap monitor to see if there's a variation but I've found my watch to fairly accurate, surprisingly, unless the treadmill is interfering....
Here's the stats from my 20 minute run
@Link2Life the simplest way to tell if you're running the right pace for an easy run (which I think should be about 75 to 80 percent of your running) is the conversation test. You're at the right pace if you can speak complete sentences without gasping for breath. If you can only get out 3 or 4 words, you're going to fast. Alternately, and what I like to do, is sing while you run. It can be just quiet enough that only you can hear or you can serenade the entire block, but sing your favorite song using the same criteria.
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I forgot to mention in my run report above. That photo of me with my ice beard...I texted that to my son and what did he respond with?
"Stop, dad, you're scaring the children!"11 -
Question for ya'll (I'm the newbie here doing C25K). I wear a Garmin VIvoactive HR watch which records my heart rate and have premium Endomondo so I can see the zones i'm in. During my 20 minute run yesterday, my HR was hovering around 160bpm peaking around 175bpm. I was breathing fast but i never felt out of breath and I could've kept going. My max HR per the old calculation is 175 but i've gone over that and still didn't feel like I was close to expiring. (ha). My resting HR has dropped from about 65 to 60 since January 1.
So..should I slow down even more (i'm only going 5.2-5.5mph ) or not really fuss too much over the higher heart rate during my runs?
I could hook up my strap monitor to see if there's a variation but I've found my watch to fairly accurate, surprisingly, unless the treadmill is interfering....
Here's the stats from my 20 minute run
@Link2Life the simplest way to tell if you're running the right pace for an easy run (which I think should be about 75 to 80 percent of your running) is the conversation test. You're at the right pace if you can speak complete sentences without gasping for breath. If you can only get out 3 or 4 words, you're going to fast. Alternately, and what I like to do, is sing while you run. It can be just quiet enough that only you can hear or you can serenade the entire block, but sing your favorite song using the same criteria.
If I had followed that very common advice, I never would have run at all. For me at least, and I think for most beginner runners, there initially was no pace at which I could run and talk. I can run very slowly and talk now, after about six months, but I'm still not up to singing.5 -
@bride001 me too. There is group doing 0 to 5K our group is doing 5K to 10K and performance improvement plan. They do speed work and hill work which I never do. I adore my friend Lynda so when she asked if I was interested I was like yep. At the start they showed a film on being afraid and we wrote down what we were afraid of and burned them. After our run we had bible study. Some didn't stay and they are fine with that. I did and enjoyed it. Group aged from college to retirement men and woman.4
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rheddmobile wrote: »If I had followed that very common advice, I never would have run at all. For me at least, and I think for most beginner runners, there initially was no pace at which I could run and talk. I can run very slowly and talk now, after about six months, but I'm still not up to singing.
Walking at a brisk pace is a great option when starting out. When I started getting fit after buying a Fitbit, I didn't start by running, I started by walking. First walking with my regular speed, then power walking, then adding hiking into the mix. After walking exclusively for 2 months, I ran an impromptu 5k which I had intended to walk. Other than stopping for traffic a few times, I ran the whole route. Very slowly, but I ran it.
For a many people, myself included, the best way to start running is to start walking, which is a great cardio exercise in itself. I was borderline obese when I started. Now I'm borderline overweight. I don't think I could have gotten into running had I started running before walking.
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rheddmobile wrote: »If I had followed that very common advice, I never would have run at all. For me at least, and I think for most beginner runners, there initially was no pace at which I could run and talk. I can run very slowly and talk now, after about six months, but I'm still not up to singing.
Walking at a brisk pace is a great option when starting out. When I started getting fit after buying a Fitbit, I didn't start by running, I started by walking. First walking with my regular speed, then power walking, then adding hiking into the mix. After walking exclusively for 2 months, I ran an impromptu 5k which I had intended to walk. Other than stopping for traffic a few times, I ran the whole route. Very slowly, but I ran it.
For a many people, myself included, the best way to start running is to start walking, which is a great cardio exercise in itself.
I could walk all day when I started running, and running was very very different in terms of cardio.2 -
February Goal....get up. get out.
2/1 Just got back from a week on the mainland
2/2 and then had to start cleaning and cooking
2/3 and digging the underground oven to cook kalua pig and turkey for 55 people
2/4 who came to our annual SuperBowl Luau!
2/5 and then was too exhausted to move
2/6 4.10
2/7 5.20
Total 9.30
Ticker is my goal for 2018 and progress to date:
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rheddmobile wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »If I had followed that very common advice, I never would have run at all. For me at least, and I think for most beginner runners, there initially was no pace at which I could run and talk. I can run very slowly and talk now, after about six months, but I'm still not up to singing.
Walking at a brisk pace is a great option when starting out. When I started getting fit after buying a Fitbit, I didn't start by running, I started by walking. First walking with my regular speed, then power walking, then adding hiking into the mix. After walking exclusively for 2 months, I ran an impromptu 5k which I had intended to walk. Other than stopping for traffic a few times, I ran the whole route. Very slowly, but I ran it.
For a many people, myself included, the best way to start running is to start walking, which is a great cardio exercise in itself.
I could walk all day when I started running, and running was very very different in terms of cardio.
Just like running at different paces you can walk at different paces. I too could walk all day long before, but when I walked for fitness, I walked fast enough to raise my heart rate, which is key. Raising your heart rate, over time, causes your body to made physiological adaptations which allow it to utilize more of the oxygen in the air you breathe in and get it to your muscles faster, increasing your cardiovascular efficiency. Absent those adaptations your brain tells your lungs to breath faster to get more air through to feed the muscles the oxygen they need to work.
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I'm not even going to try to catch up, as I've been MIA all month. Haven't done much running due to being busy with the new job. I also bumped my new medication up to twice a day, so am dealing with the same awful side effects again: nausea, fatigue, etc. Hopefully I'll get back to normal in another week or so.
Hope everyone is doing well!
2/5/18 - 5.5 miles
2/8/18 1.0 miles + step class
Progress: 6.5 miles/75 mile goal8 -
February Training:
02.01.18 - 10 m. 8:53 pace
02.03.18 - Run: 11.2 m. 8:28 pace; Bike Trainer: 88 minutes.
02.04.18 - run 1 m. Bike Trainer: 60 min. Chest congestion
02.05.18 - Run 1: 3 m @ 9:10 pace. Run 2: 7 m @ 8:45 pace.
02.06.18 - Run 3.5 m.
02.07.18 - Run 3.1 m.
02.08.18 - Run 1: 3.1 m.
Upcoming Events:
3.04.18 - Little Rock Marathon
4.07.18 - Yakima River Marathon
5.06.18 - Flying Pig Marathon
5.20.18 - Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga
February Goal:
Run: 200 miles, Bike: 10 rides, Swim: Start Program9 -
Goal for February 150 miles. I better step it up! I'm only at 27 so far.
Big Goal: Indiana Trail 100K 10/13/2018
I don't know if I can actually do all those long distances because of recovery periods. We shall see...
I am hoping to do the 50 miler at the Indiana Trail! Maybe see you there! My schedule is also pretty aggressive (though not as aggressive as yours
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Got out in the Nature Park after and before work the last two days. Both days there was a light coating of snow (about an inch) so a little slippery on the uphills and downhills, but not too bad. Did 8 mi on Wednesday and another 4 mi this morning after my PT appointment (more scraping and manual manipulation of the muscles). Got in some yoga Wednesday as well. Tomorrow is water walking and then a lot of miles this weekend!
Feb 1 Ran 6.0 mi + stretching
Feb 2 Water walking
Feb 3 Ran 10.2 mi + stretching + foam rolling
Feb 4 Ran 18 mi + stretching + foam rolling
Feb 5 Water walking
Feb 6 Ran 4.5 mi + stretching
Feb 7 Ran 8.0 mi + yoga+ stretching + foam rolling + strength
Feb 8 Ran 4.0 mi + PT +stretching
Feb goal: 140 mi
Done: 50.7 mi
To go: 89.3 mi
Upcoming races:
Bound the Mound Half Marathon Feb 24
OPSF 50/50 50K Mar 24
2018 Spring Plan:
Spring Fling 10K Mar 3
DINO Eagle Creek 15K Apr 7
April 28 Glacial Esker 20 mi Apr 28
DINO Muscatuck 15K May 5
DWD Gnawbone Marathon May 19
DINO Brown County 15K Jun 2
8 h @ Brown County Jun 16-17
DINO Griffin Park 15K Jun 23
Big goal for the fall: 50 miler before I turn 50
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2/1 = Vinyasa yoga class
2/2 = 12 miles
2/3 = rest day
2/4 = 11 miles (run / walk intervals)
2/5 = the flu day 1
2/6 = the flu day 2
2/7 = the flu day 3
2/8 = the flu day 4
Ugh. Improvement - I am now a member of the death "warmed over" posse instead of the "really freakin' cold & rotting" walking-dead posse.
I will never catch up on this thread. I hope everyone is healthy, happy, and enjoying everything about their runs/races.
February goal miles 150 = 23 miles completed
3/4/18 = Alamo Half Marathon
1/27/19 = Miami Marathon? I am thinking yes.... 10 -
2/1 5miles
2/2 14.1miles!!
2/3 5miles
2/4 rest
2/5 6.5miles
2/6 4miles
2/7 9.03miles
2/8 7miles
Slow and easy. Only 35 degrees compared to almost 60 yesterday.
I’m not feeling great, my chest cough has returned. No other symptoms just a persistent cough. I think I’ll shorten my long run to 10 miles instead of 13 tomorrow.
3/18/2018 Shamrock half marathon
10/7/2018 Crawlin Crab half marathon
11/18/2018 Norfolk Harbor half marathon8 -
February 1 - 2.1 mile Treadmill run
February 2 - strength workout
February 4 - 2.25 mile Treadmill run
February 6 - 4 mile Treadmill run
February 8 - 3 mile Treadmill run
11.35 miles so far/Goal 40 miles
Upcoming Races:
2/10/18 Steve Cullen Healthy Heart 8K
3/17/18 USO 10 Mile Race
6/10/18 Manitowoc Half Marathon6 -
February goal: 88 miles
2/1 - 4.0 miles
2/4 - 9.2 miles
2/7 - 4.4 miles
2/8 - 4.3 miles
21.9/88 miles completed
I had a nice 4.3 mile run today. I played Zombies Run and other than a few zombie chases I kept my pace pretty easy.
@amymoreorless and @zdyb23456 I hope you are both feeling better soon. The flu is so bad around here that they actually closed the schools today and tomorrow.
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February Running Totals (miles)
2/1 – 5.01 easy
2/2 – rest day
2/3 – 7.00 paced run
2/4 – 5.17 almost easy
2/5 – rest day
2/6 – unplanned rest day
2/7 – scheduled rest day
2/8 – 5.17 easy with fast finish
February running total to date – 22.35
Nominal challenge goal: 100 miles
Real goals: Transition from recovery to base building by end of month. Give myself a chance to start and complete Boston 2018.
Today's notes – Missed 3 days of posts here due to Life Happening and spending a bunch of online time on non-running subjects. Won't catch up, so I have a hole in my memory of the conversations here.
Came down with a mild cold last weekend, didn't keep me from running Saturday or Sunday. Monday it knocked me back into bed in the afternoon, and Tuesday it would have been really dumb to run with my energy all sucked up fighting the virus. Wednesday I felt just about good enough to run, and looked out my door:
The first thing out of my mouth (with no one to hear but my cat) was, "I don't want to go out in that *kitten*." And I didn't. It got worse before it got better, got deep enough that I used the snowblower instead of just a shovel, and other than clearing the driveway and one run out to get some food I stayed home with my copious supply of tissues and OTC drugs.
This morning there was more snow in the driveway (no surprise for February in the Land of Lake Effect Snow), but I felt as good as I had on Saturday. So I shoveled the snow, and got out to run about 2:30 PM in the heat of the day at 27º F (-3º C). I saw that my driveway was clear, even the part shaded by the house; so I wore road shoes on the assumption that I'd have clear shoulders to run on. And I did.
Three rest days in a row, and the hurt quad felt totally normal for the first half mile. After that, I could feel some secondary aches, mostly from the hamstring, but they were minor. Running felt more normal than it has since mid November. Slowed myself down a few times, tried to keep it easy (i.e., 7:45 per mile or slower). Then when 5 miles ticked over, I let my self run at threshold effort back to my driveway. Mile splits turned out to be 7:54, 7:50, 7:43, 7:30 (oops), and 7:22 (*really* oops), then a 6:51 pace for the tag end when I was deliberately running tempo.
Best news, after stretching and rolling I felt better than I have immediately after a run since . . . mid November. Ground contact time balance given by Garmin is very close to even (50.1% left, 49.9% right), with the last half of the run in the green color that Garmin counts as balanced.
I felt like I could run 8 miles today, but stopped at 5 because I was mindful of the secondary aches and the possibility of breaking something other than my recovering quad. I am optimistic that I'm almost past this latest injury. It appears that having that cold and the resulting Lost Run was a fortunate occurrence.
Next test is Saturday, with a paced run of 7, 8, 12, or 13 miles. I will see how many miles I'm good for.
2018 races:
February 17, 2018 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY)
February 24, 2018 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY)
March 17, 2018 USATF Masters 8K (Shamrock 8K, Virginia Beach, VA) – tentative
April 16, 2018 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)
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Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
02/01/18 :::: 5.0 :::: 5.0
02/02/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 5.0
02/03/18 :::: 7.4 :::: 12.4
02/04/18 :::: 3.2 :::: 15.6
02/05/18 :::: 3.8 :::: 19.4
02/06/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 22.5
02/07/18 :::: 3.3 :::: 25.8
02/08/18 :::: 3.4 :::: 29.2
One last treadmill run for the week. About 8 inches or so of new snow out there that I was not eager to run in. Travel tomorrow, and hopefully I will make it through Chicago despite the winter storm warnings I've been getting since yesterday.
And then a few days of running in San Diego! At least that's the plan, if I can work it around my conference schedule.
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2/1 Run 10.31 miles
2/2 Run 13.12 miles
2/3 Run 27.01 miles
2/4 Run 6.55 miles
2/5 Run 10.26 miles
2/6 Run 10.28 miles
2/7 Run 6.61 miles
2/8 Run 10.23 miles9 -
2/1 - 6.5km
2/2 - strength
2/3 - 9.0km
2/4 - strength
2/5 - rest
2/6 - 6.0km
2/7 - 3.1km
2/8 - 6.3km
30.9/110 km
I forgot my earbuds when I packed for the gym this morning. Oops... They're not allowed for some of my races this season though so good practice for that. I just wish it had been an outdoor run instead of inside...
Upcoming Races:
1/1/18 Resolution Run 5K ~38:00 (no official times)
3/4/18 MEC Road Race #1 10K
4/7/18 Jasper Half Marathon
4/22/18 MEC Trail Race #1 5K
5/20/18 MEC Trail Race #2 10K
6/24/18 MEC Trail Race #3 15K
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon 10K
9/2/18 MEC Trail Race #4 10K
10/7/18 MEC Trail Race #5 15K
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Feb 8: 6.2 mi
This was my first ever time running 10K! Weather could not have been more beautiful, 50 F and sunny. We were super slow, about 13:30 mi pace, but then again it was a pretty technical single file trail which involved small lagoons, wading a river, stretches of sand, and bounding up eroded inclines from one tree root to the next. We did have to stop and take a detour to find a bridge at one point which slowed us down, and I tripped over a stob and went sprawling once - however I am learning to fall, I went down gently. My bad leg does get clumsy when I get tired, but apart from that it was a good run, and I love the new trails, with the exception of the cyclists who are specifically not allowed on that trail but kept passing us anyway. Yeah, those signs at every intersection with the bicycle with the red "no" symbol over it? That means you, all the cyclists with the bells forcing me to climb out of the path and cling to a tree every time you need to pass!
Also, my GPS was messing with me. We walked seven minutes to warm up, then ran 3.1 miles, then hit the end of the trail and turned around. And ran two something and passed where we started running. And then we passed where we started warming up, and we were only at 5.8 total. Went under the bridge and kept going another four tenths of a mile before GPS finally decided we had gone far enough. I looked at the tracker for the path we supposedly ran and the identical retracing of our steps is half a mile shorter than our run out. So no clue how far we actually ran, except that according to the park info that trail is 4 miles one way, which would make it somewhat less than eight miles since we didn't start at the trail head. I'm guessing about seven in reality.13 -
February Training:
02.01.18 - 10 m. 8:53 pace
02.03.18 - Run: 11.2 m. 8:28 pace; Bike Trainer: 88 minutes.
02.04.18 - run 1 m. Bike Trainer: 60 min. Chest congestion
02.05.18 - Run 1: 3 m @ 9:10 pace. Run 2: 7 m @ 8:45 pace.
02.06.18 - Run 3.5 m.
02.07.18 - Run 3.1 m.
02.08.18 - Run 1: 3.1 m. Run 2: 8 m. @ 8:26 pace
Upcoming Events:
3.04.18 - Little Rock Marathon
4.07.18 - Yakima River Marathon
5.06.18 - Flying Pig Marathon
5.20.18 - Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga
February Goal:
Run: 200 miles, Bike: 10 rides, Swim: Start Program7 -
No run today. Grrrr. Meetings.3
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