February 2018 Running Challenge

PastorVincent · February 2018

My poor wife is trying to train for Pittsburgh Marathon (May 6th), but with the weather, and life issues, and now an injury she is well behind schedule. Two weeks ago she did run 19 miles at around a 14 min pace, so I think she still has a fair shot at a completion, but sheesh. Poor girl.

I also need to get her on some hill work though, or she will smash into the big hill at the half-way point and not be ready. Most of the hills on the course are normal kinds of things for this area, but that one at mile thirteen is not a joke.

*SIGH* I guess if we do not get the hill work in, I will tell her to fast walk that hill.

PastorVincent · February 2018

midwesterner85 wrote: »

I finally heard back again from Active.com and they said the premium subscription is not available to residents of IA or VT for legal reasons. They did not explain what the legal issue is specifically, and I know they have races listed here in IA. Hmm... oh well.

Odd. There was a Google App recently that would not work in IA also, had to do with privacy laws there. This might be related.

sarahthes · February 2018

Freezing rain outside my office window right now, should make this afternoon's run interesting...

shanaber · February 2018

@RunsOnEspresso - We finally got rain last night while I was at agility class with Hobbes the Vizsla. Fortunately it was towards the end of class and he got all of his runs in before it got too bad. Once we got home and pretty much late into the night, it really poured, which no one was expecting. This morning when it was supposed to rain more it is bright sunshine! So that rain may now be heading your way

@polskagirl01 - Have fun with that night race but be careful of the ice!
@ddmom0811 - The inner harbor is nice but Baltimore has some notorious bad areas. May want to check your route with the hotel staff. Also if you have a chance go to the National Aquarium. It is in that area and really nice.
@abutcher2122 - The rain was something wasn't it? Way more than they thought it would be. I have a gym membership at a close Planet Fitness ($10/mo) for just that reason - I can always go there at any time and run on the treadmill. Usually it is when it is too hot though.

abutcher2122 · February 2018

@shanaber, it actually didn’t start raining by me until about 11 and of course it stopped at 4:30 which would have been enough time to get up and out but by that time if I’m not out I won’t go. Lol. I’m not one to pay attention to the weather cuz this is SoCal and it changes so quickly. Reminds me of living in Denver where you could be bundled up for the snow at 7am and by 10 the sun is shining and the snow is about gone and then the rest of the day involves removing layers. Lol. I’ve thought about a gym memebership but ultimately it would just be a waste of money plus I don’t like working out around people. I’m a sweaty hot mess. Lol.

@HRKinchen I prefer to run outside too. I think I’ve only ran on a treadmill maybe 4 times ever and I hated it but back then I was playing basketball so running in place was boring.

springtimez · February 2018

Have been tough two weeks. Busy at personal front and down with flu. Ran 3 miles yesterday.
Total 14 miles so far.

Stoshew71 · February 2018

Date Miles today - Miles for February

2/1 REST DAY
2/2 REST DAY
2/3 REST DAY
2/4 REST DAY
2/5 REST DAY
2/6 6.2 miles - 6.2
2/7 REST DAY
2/8 6.2 miles - 12.4
2/9 REST DAY
2/10 9 miles - 21.4
2/11 REST DAY
2/12 4 miles - 25.4
2/13 7 miles - 32.4

Stoshew71 · February 2018

juliet3455 wrote: »

Which Winter Olympic game calls me. Curling - so much strategy and finesse trying to get a 44 Pound rock to slide 105 to 135ft down the ice as it curls ( curved path ) to a location the size of a Teacup. Very physical workout for what is referred to as the front end (sweepers).

I never understood curling and what they heck they were doing.

MichelleWithMoxie · February 2018

I was on a cruise for the last 5 days, so here is my update with my additional miles from 2/8 - today:

2/1: 11.85 miles
2/2: 13 miles
2/3: 13.07 miles
2/4: 10.3 miles
2/5: 10.26 miles
2/6: 10.26 miles
2/7: 10.35 miles

2/8: 9 miles
2/9: 8.2 miles
2/10: 8.5 miles
2/11: 8.5 miles
2/12: no run
2/13: 10.8 miles

Total so far: 124.09 miles/300

KatieJane83 · February 2018

Date Miles Notes
2/1/18 3.1 ----drizzly evening run squeezed in before zumba!
2/2/18 0 ----rest
2/3/18 0 ----zumba (migraine aura started 1/2 way through but I fended off the pain!)
2/4/18 8 ----out and back on the Rails-to-Trails
2/5/18 0 ----rest
2/6/18 4 ----lunch break run
2/7/18 0 ----zumba class
2/8/18 0 ----rest
2/9/18 0 ----rest
2/10/18 0 ----extra long Carnival-themed zumba class!
2/11/18 9 ----wet, soggy, rainy run
2/12/18 0 ----rest
2/13/18 4 ----neg split run: 1st time in ages doing any kind of pace focus - felt good!

Total: 28.1
Goal: 80
Miles Left: 51.9

First time in ages that I've done any kind of focus on pace and boy did it feel really good! My 4th mile was over 2 minutes faster than my 1st. Woot!

Also, I did a thing.

It is my bday month, and you only turn 35 once, right?!? I probably shouldn't have, but I've had the original Vivoactive non-HR for quite a while now, I've already replaced the strap once, and I decided to treat myself to an upgrade. Ahhh, I can't wait until Thursday!!!

PastorVincent · February 2018

@KatieJane83 congrats on the new toy!

weat0043 · February 2018

@juliet3455 I used to figure skate and curl so I'd love to do those again. The snowboard slope style looked pretty neat too.
I am still not running, the foot/ankle are feeling better but I don't want to re-hurt it by doing something too soon. Maybe by the end of the week I'll be out running/walking again.

ceciliaslater · February 2018

Again, not trying to catch up. Just a quick check in. Work is keeping me super busy, and I haven't gotten many runs in. I did run 5.5 one day last week (can't even remember what day that was), and got in 6 miles over lunch today. Slim chance that I'll make my goal this month, but at least it isn't due to injury or illness.

Hope everyone is doing well!

2/5/18 - 5.5 miles
2/8/18 1.0 miles + step class
2/9/18 - 5.5 miles
2/13/18 - 6.0 miles

Progress: 18 miles/75 mile goal

KatieJane83 · February 2018

PastorVincent wrote: »

@KatieJane83 congrats on the new toy!

haha, thanks! Omg, I get so impatient for new toys to come once I finally commit to buying and ordering them

Km818818 · February 2018

Teresa502 wrote: »

Km818818 wrote: »

Has anyone every done one of the inflatable 5ks?

A few years back I did a Dirty Girl 5K in Alabama that had obstacles and some of them were inflatables. It was after I just started running and I did it with a couple of friends who were also beginner runners. We just had fun with it. It was in February and it ended up being a chilly day -especially going through the mud pit that was waist deep!

The is one here in Alabama in April and it seems like a good transition back into racing just to get my feet wet and dust off the cob webs lol

MobyCarp · February 2018

PastorVincent wrote: »

MobyCarp wrote: »

PastorVincent wrote: »

polskagirl01 wrote: »

Yesterday was this month's 5k race. I had a hard time with it, and was really struck with how completely "different hard" it was from the marathon. You would think that if you can run 27k comfortably at marathon pace, plus another 15k uncomfortably but determined, that you should be able to speed that up and knock out a fast 5k no problem.

Once you become a distance runner, you need to approach the "shorter" races WAY differently. In all likelihood, you were not even really fully warmed up by the end of the race. To run a 5k, you really should consider a couple miles of warm up before the race starts. It makes a big difference. Some people even say run the entire 5k course as a warm-up. It really does help.

I'm one of the people who like to run a preview of the 5K course as a warmup. The idea is to run it easy, but on race day I might end up running it almost as fast as marathon pace, just because I'm worked up and it's almost a race environment and sometimes I worry foolishly about getting back to the start line in time.

Then I typically think of the 5K as an interval workout: 4800m at interval pace, plus 200m at rep pace. I find myself passing some fading runners in mile 3, because I'm trained to go much further than 5K and I only have to hold a fast pace for a little while. And yes, it's hard; but it's not really that much harder than, say, 2 x 2 miles at threshold with 2 minutes recovery. Which is one of the speed workouts I've done in marathon training.

At least, that's how it went when I was healthy. I hope to get back to that again.

You know... I wonder how far gone you have to be to do the same kind of warm-up for a Marathon.

The shorter the race, the longer the warmup. For a marathon, we don't need no steenkin' warmup. The first 10K of the marathon *is* the warmup.

bride001 · February 2018

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
02/09/2018 - Rest Day
02/10/2018 - 5.02 miles
02/11/2018 - Rest Day
02/12/2018 - 4.01 miles
02/13/2018 - 4.05 miles

26.23/65 miles

Everywhere else it's just Tuesday, but here it is Marci Gras! Thankful for the end of Carnival season but especially thankful for the end of King Cake season.

To Day was a State Holiday for me, so I slept in and ran late this morning. What a day a difference makes - sunny, hot and humid weather today. Most of y’all just want winter to end, I just want the weather to make up its mind what season it wants to be in Louisiana!

To catch up on my monthly goal for my miles - I am thinking about running on Friday morning before my race on Saturday instead of it being a Rest day. I have ran the day before a race and as long as I finish 24 hours before race start I seem to be okay. Does anybody run day before race day? Only a 10K.

@HRKinchen - I will be purchasing a -ish shirt in March!

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
Fat Boy 5K - 04/14/2018
BIG EASY BIG HEART 5K 7/21/2018 - ?

MobyCarp · February 2018

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
2/9 – rest day
2/10 – 6.17 partly paced run
2/11 – 6.52 at marathon pace
2/12 – rest day
2/13 – 7.78 easy with hills

February running total to date – 42.82

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 – It was 11º F when I got up this morning. Next time I looked at the thermometer, it was down to 9º F (-13º C). Brrr! Fortunately, it was up around 20 by the time I had to leave the house, and a heat wave all the way up to 32º F = 0º C by the time I got out to run.

Set out to run 5 to 7 miles. Felt really good, as good as I have since last Tuesday. At 2.5 miles, it was decision time; instead of turning to stay on a 4.6 mile loop with options to tack on extra late, I committed to the 7.2 mile loop. By the time I ran 5 miles, the leg was telling me, "Sure, I'm good for another 2 miles!" That was still the case at 6 miles, and I got to thinking about time. So I tacked on a loop of a bit more than a half mile to get back to my driveway at 59:57, and kept running to get an hour in.

I could have run 8 miles today, but an hour was the psychological goal I pointed at. Today I ran for the longest distance and longest duration of any run since I hurt my quad. The leg isn't perfect, but it was close enough to really enjoy running today instead of just being concerned about not damaging myself. I feel good enough to turn this into a 5 day running week, but since I'm running a bit farther each day I think I'll be conservative on the days front and take a rest day tomorrow. Maybe next week I'll back off a bit on the daily distance and go to 5 days. I'll have to see how I do between now and then.

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)

PastorVincent · February 2018

02/01/2018 - 7.2 MPH for 7.2 Miles @ 4% grade
02/02/2018 - Shoe Shopping
02/03/2018 - 17 miles @ 9:50
02/04/2018 - Family trip to DQ instead
02/05/2018 - 10 miles at 10:04 pace
02/06/2018 - Meetings and such
02/07/2018 - 7.5 MPH for 10 miles @ 4% grade
02/08/2018 - Meetings
02/09/2018 - 7.5 MPH for 10 miles @ 4% grade
02/10/2018 - Shoe shopping - again
02/11/2018 - 10 miles @ 9:01 pace
02/12/2018 - 10 miles @ 9:33 pace
02/13/2018 - 10 miles @ 9:22 pace

Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Sub 4 hours in Pittsburgh 2018!

Official Marathon PR: 4:11:28

Next Races (more as I find them):

03/17/18 - Shamrock Shuffle Half Marathon + 5k + 1mile
04/07/18 - Achilles 9.3 Challange (10k and 5k back to back)
05/06/18 - Pittsburgh Marathon - aiming for sub four hours.
05/12/18 - Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Ultra (I must hate myself)

2020 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)

MobyCarp · February 2018

PastorVincent wrote: »

2020 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)

Every time I see this tag line, I think about you being a charity fund raiser. Except that's not the path to Disney World, it's the path to Boston for people who can't BQ on race results. (Alternatively, you might say I have to run a marathon fast to get to Boston because I'm no good at raising funds.)

February 2018 Running Challenge

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