April 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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4/1 - REST
4/2 - 5.19 (trail)
4/3 - 3.39
4/4 - 5.38 (trail)
4/5 - 4
4/6 - 10.65
No idea why I stopped short of the 11 I was targeting. Just kind of brain farted and stopped my watch when I finished the loop and assumed I hit my mileage. Ahh well. It was a good run. Colder than I hoped for, but hoping the weather continues to improve this week and we get 60's for the race next weekend.
Holy crap I am running a 25k trail run next week! In fact, this time next week it will be in the books!
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dreamer12151 wrote: »Beginning to think "chaotic" means "normal"! Lots of ups and downs, between work (stressful job, plus I am training, mandatory OT!), my Mum (had a mastectomy a few weeks past, being her support and right hand gal!), playing chauffeur to my son (works until 3 - 10pm, his motorcycle is in the shop), boyfriend (major health scare).....I'm not really sure what end is up lately! lol
One of the "ups" is that I became One Of The Cool Kids...I bought a Garmin 935!!!! I feel all sorts of special now, I do, still getting used to all it has to offer, like a whole, new, beautiful world....
April Goal: 20 miles
4/2 - 2.10 miles
4/4 - 2.27 miles
4/7 - 2.18 miles - 6.55 run, 13.45 to go
Yearly Goal 200 miles: Jan - Mar 53.26 - 6.55= 140.19 miles to go
Sounds like you're kinda busy! Doing great to keep juggling all that! ❤️1 -
15.9 miles
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Date Miles MTD ------- ----- ------- Apr 03 3.7 3.7 Apr 06 3.7 7.4 Apr 07 4.4 11.8
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Wow hadn't checked my time. I ran an 8:46 pace without putting in nearly my best effort.8
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@zerlinna87 Congrats on the 10K!1
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@eponine1984 Still praying for you. Listen to your sister.1
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Also in Poland. It was a beautiful Spring yesterday and today, and I have a 10k race tomorrow. I have shorts laid out and my bib is pinned to a tank top. If I wake up to yucky no-shorts weather, I might just go crazy!2 -
8 mi today—not snowing here but we’re in a rainy stretch, and I got most of the miles in during a little break, so that was nice. I’m still in the midst of work nuttiness with more travel on the horizon, but getting out while I can.
April: 15.1 mi/70 mi goal
@eponine1984 I’m also thinking of you.. I hope things go well this week3 -
Trying for 30 miles this month. I joined PF again. I need the option of exercising at lunch again. I also really need to get back to some weght training even if its only 25 minutes at a time. 70' Friday and snow on Sat. Gotta love kansas!
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I’m so behind in posts, but I wanted to say I’m in for April. I still “run” for time rather than distance and I actually only jog using a treadmill (unless you count when I really do run at speed with my dog which is a free-for-all disorganized, unmeasurable mess of frequent cutting laterally with starting and stopping to sniff something). Anyway, I was basically sedentary in February. A few minutes ago, I finished W5D3 of c25k. In my head it was a bigger thing than it turned out to be.
I love reading what experienced and new runners alike have to say. I might not post often but I root for all of you.7 -
zerlinna87 wrote: »So I think things went pretty well on my 10k today, considering I'm not quite done with my c25k plan. My legs are sore, though. I ran most of it, with a few walking breaks. All of my splits were under 12 minutes, and a couple were under 11. Whoot! I'll update my tracker later.
Yay! Well done!1 -
dreamer12151 wrote: »I became One Of The Cool Kids...I bought a Garmin 935!!!! I feel all sorts of special now, I do, still getting used to all it has to offer, like a whole, new, beautiful world....
@dreamer12151 Hahaha, awesome!! Congratulations on your new data baby!!
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April Goals
Aiming for 200 kms run.
And some cartwheels again
03 Apr – 10.1 km
04 Apr – 10.1 km
06 Apr – 35.2 km
08 Apr – 05.1 km
Total: 60.5 km
Easy 5 km recovery run after Friday's 35 km.
Just lovely.10 -
Race report!
Today dawned cool but sunny. I spent most of the morning at the hotel dithering about what to wear as there were conflicting forecasts differing by about 4C - which would be the difference in shirts for me. Anyway, headed to downtown Jasper around noon, having decided I would duck into a bathroom to swap out middle layers of I was too warm. Hubby and kids were with me but I banished them to find food because the kids were acting hangry.
That was around when I ran into @juliet3455.
Anyway, we corralled up just prior to the start. I decided that my goal was just to have fun, enjoy the experience and the beautiful, and finish before the 3:30 cutoff.
I felt really, really good for the first 10K or so. In fact, Strava tells me that I PR'd for 400m, 5K, 10K and 15K. The last 4K or so were miserable, and I walked a lot because it was almost straight up! Or so it seemed to my tired legs haha.
But I was able to run it in for the last 300m or so which is good enough for me, and I finished at 3:06 and change (time went in one ear and out the other).
Final takeaway? I really enjoyed myself and I'm going to consider signing up for this event again next year, with fingers crossed for an El Nino spring instead of La Nina. I might up one of my end of season runs to half distance, or I might focus on my 10 to 15K distance and do a calorie cut for the rest of the season instead.23 -
RACE REPORT:
This is the second time I have run this race. Here are my times from last year, both were PRs at the time:
2017: 5K: 25:34
2017: 10K: 57:15
We knew from last year that parking would be limited, so we showed up at 7:30 for a 9:00 am start and get good parking places. There was snow on the ground and the weather was reporting a feels like of 17F. Light wind, probably 6MPH. We got our packets and then headed back to the cars to wait in the warmth of the vehicle.
There was a group of us from work. Myself, "D" who I had not met before, "J" who I had met at a prior race, "M" who joins us at many races, and "S" who was another new guy. I was confident I was faster than everyone, but "S" was an unknown.
So we line up for the 5K, and M, ,J, D, and S all fall to the back with my wife (Kristi). Ok, I figure that means S is probably slower also. No big deal, I was used to running along. I line up with the elites as per my normal plan now, maybe 3 or 4 strides from the starting line. The race start is delayed due to one of the handcycles having an issue, but eventually, we get started.
I sprint out of the gate with the elites, putting good distance between the slower pack and my pace. That first 1/8th of a mile or so was at a 6 min pace. That is about my mile pace, so once clear, I slide out of the pack of leaders and slow down to my guessed at race pace of about 7:40 or so.
Chugging along at that pace feeling horrible. I was stiff and every step hurt. It was then I remembered that not only did I miss my runs the last two days, I FORGOT TO WARM UP. Ugh. Rookie mistake for sure! Well nothing to do, but push on. As I passed a half mile "S" comes up and passes me. Interesting. I consider picking up the pace to catch him, but he was doing at least 40s per mile faster, so I let him go.
We come around the bend and there are runners coming from the other direction!!! It is an out and back, and I have not yet hit 3/4ths of a mile! how could they becoming back already! Then notice they do not have race bibs. They were just people out running in the park. Phew.
Around one mile a tall older lady passes me but she is only going a little faster than I am, so I decide to pick up and pace off her. I stayed a good 5-7 strides behind her (my stride is little more than a meter so that is a decent distance) for the rest of the race.
I checked my watch as we came around a bend and it read 2.57miles. I remembered @MobyCarp saying to run the last 200m faster, so I pick up the pace and past my pacer. It was not until later that I realized that 200m is only .25 miles, ops. It worked out though because as I crossed three miles I started to feel warm and loose finally. I drive home through the finish in 23:13 official time! That is over 2 minutes faster than last year.
After crossing the line I am way overheated, so I walk up to the truck, ditch my jacket and grab the sunglasses I forgot and headed back to the starting line. Remembering my plan, I grabbed a banana. No crashing this time! They try to push cookies on me, but I resisted the poison (I can not have wheat). Checked my watch and it was 9:39, not enough time to look for my wife before the 9:45 start, so I line up with the rest of the runners.
Turns out, I had plenty of time because the 10k started late also. Late enough that my wife finished and found me and had time to rest between them. Well again the whole group lined up in the back, and I started with the elite runners. And again "S" passes me about 1/2 mile in.
So I took off out of the gate up a gentle hill and decide to try for around an 8:00 pace. I was cruising along fine but around mile 2 the same lady that past me in the 5k passed me again, this time she said hi. (I talked with her between races briefly). I decided to try and pace her again, but she was pushing into 7:20, so I let her go.
Around mile three I catch "S" and as I come upon him he said, "My legs are dead, but we are almost there, right?" I break the news to him that he is about 1/2 way. He curses, I pick back up my pace and leave him behind knowing that "J" would be coming up not that long after me to check on him.
About this time I catch sight of a neon-green runner and decide to make her my mark to pass. I chased her down for a good two miles when she turned left instead of following the course to the right! Ops, she was not even in the race!
Ah well, I push on to the finish but miss reading my time on the clock. Ops. No big deal, figured I could get it off the chart later. I head back out without stopping to find my wife and run back in with her for her last about mile or mile and a half or so. Her race pace is slower than my recovery pace, but that is okay, I pretended it was recovery anyways.
By this time my fingers are painfully cold despite the warmers. I need come up with a better plan for them. AH well.
So... results...
5k: 23:13 official time, 11th overall, 2nd place age group
10k: 49:05 official time, 11th overall, 2nd place age group
The 10k is a PR for me, and while the 5k is my second fastest time, it really is a PR because the race I got my 5k PR in was a bit short.
In my group "J" and "S" also placed in their age groups, so we had a good collection of medals in our midst.
Bling picture:
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I've been too depressed to read the thread, but it really does make me feel more hopeful reading about everyone's races. Today was supposed to be a race day for me, but since it went from 70s all week to 33 degrees at race time, I'm not as disappointed as I might have been. Trying to get some upper body strength work in since I basically can't even walk, I feel like I have a shot glass full of synovial fluid in my upper calf and no doctor until next Friday. No point in going back to the ER unless something turns black and falls off, they'll just tell me to make a doctor's appointment.8
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