April 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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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.
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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.
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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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Once again, thanks to everyone for all the well wishes. I lost track, but to the poster that suggested a second or third opinion - my sister is good friends with a gynecological oncologist, among other OB-GYN friends, and he was in complete agreement with the second surgery.
I didn't get a planned run in, but my husband and I took the toddler outside to fly a kite, so I'm calling it speed intervals - the toddler took off, and I'd chase him down. My husband tried unsuccessfully tried to fly the kite.
The plan for tomorrow is to run a virtual 5k with my sister some time in the afternoon. We did one around Halloween and I want to show myself that I can do it again.
Great job to all who raced today!14 -
Great weather today and plenty of sun made for a nice 7.8 km! Some other things have stressed me out today, so I'm glad I got that distance in.
That makes 27 km total for the month, with 73 left to go to reach my goal of 100!5 -
4/1 - rest
4/2 - rest
4/3 - 7.1km
4/4 - 4.8km
4/5 - travel
4/6 - walking
4/7 - 21.7km (bad tangents? Ha...)
33.6/100 km
Just mileage.
2018 Races:
1/1/18 Resolution Run 5K ~38:00 (no official times)
3/4/18 MEC Road Race #1 10K 1:30:57
3/17/28 St Patrick's Day race 10K 1:24:53
4/7/18 Jasper Half Marathon 3:05:55
4/22/18 MEC Trail Race #1 5K
5/20/18 MEC Trail Race #2 10K
6/24/18 MEC Trail Race #3 15K
7/28/18 Idaho Peak 10K Trail Race
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon 10K
9/2/18 MEC Trail Race #4 10K
10/7/18 MEC Trail Race #5 15K6 -
April 2018
04.01.18 - 10 m. / 60 minutes on bike trainer.
04.02.18 - 3.5 m EZ. / Swim
04.05.18 - 10 m.
04.07.18 - 26.2 m.
Upcoming Events:
05.06.18 - Flying Pig Marathon.
05.20.18 - IronMan 70.3 Chattanooga
07.14.18 - IronMan 70.3 Muncie
07.29.18 - IronMan 70.3 Ohio
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Somehow I managed to sleep through parkrun yesterday so I had to drag myself around the streets today. I was tired, had a headache and was seriously not feeling it. But I got out there and managed to run the full distance without stopping to walk. It’s only the third time I’ve ever done it and the first time I’ve done it when I’ve been on my own.
01.04.18 10k (first time ever going over 5)
04.04.18 5.6k
08.04.18 5k
Total 20.6/60
Upcoming races:
22.04.18 The Longhorn Trail 5k9 -
Here's my updated mileage for the weekend. I'm taking a few days off to rest.
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Visiting my folks this weekend as it’s my dads 80th tomorrow.
Snuck in a 5 mile run along the beach. In the rain. Mostly the beach is hard packed wet sand so running conditions ok, but me being me, and as I kept getting splashed, couldn’t help myself and had to throw in a bit of wave jumping like a for year old child.
This is why I run. It’s not for pizza, ice cream or cookies. It’s for dancing in the sea, leaping over rocks, running through the undergrowth or down hillsides arms outstretched pretending to be an aeroplane. It’s what running is for.
And tucked in to a roast dinner with a glass of prosecco as recovery fuelling.12 -
@PastorVincent Awesome running at your races!0
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April goal: have a desire to live and run again on 4/15. Other than that, all bets are off. I might not even post mileage or much the second half of this month.
4/1- 10.9
4/2- REST/travel
4/3- 6.1
4/4- 6.7
4/5- REST
4/6- 5.4
4/7- REST
4/8- 5.9
Total: 36
Today's notes: 1 hour easy run on trail today. Yesterday's rest day was weird. I actually had to check my calendar to see when the last time was that I didn't run on a Saturday.... it was the beginning of September, and I have no clue why I didn't run that day. Other than that, Taper crazies are in full swing, along with the obsessively watching the weather, despite knowing it's all a craps shoot until the actual day.
To everyone who raced this weekend, Great job, you all are inspiring and are amazing, remember that!
2018 races
3/24- END-SURE 50k 6:39:35
4/13- Zumbro Endurance Race 100 Mile
7/28- Minnesota Voyageur 50
9/8- Superior Trail 50 mile
10/20- Wild Duluth 50k
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Yesterday was 9 miles and my longest run since the Bemidji Blue Ox 26k last October. I’m one of the rare freaks who gets hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) on long runs, so in the absence of any specific event training, we keep my long runs under the time where that becomes an issue (90-100 minutes). I’m not very fast, so that’s in the 7-8 mile range. I ended up with higher blood sugar than I would have liked considering that 9 miles is just into the time range where I have issues, but I have another 25 weeks to play mad scientist to try and keep it low enough to make it 26.2 miles.
4/1-rest day (unscheduled)
4/2-rest day
4/3-5
4/4-3
4/5-4
4/6-rest day
4/7-9
MTD-21
6/7 days according to plan.2 -
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We're firmly in Spring-mode today, and it seems not many of the runners in our city were ready to run all-out in a 10k in actual warm weather. I started out with what the calculators/charts and my current training said was a reasonable pace group, but not even 4k in knew I wasn't going to be able to hold that pace today. So I let them go and ran by feel, got to the halfway water point, and was soon passed by the next pace group. Not good. So I picked up the pace to get past them, and tried to pick out people ahead of me to try to catch, but the damage was already done. I was slowly catching some of them, but the pace group behind me was slowly catching all of us... shortly after the 6k mark we were passed by two paramedics on a motorbike, then shortly after that saw them attending to a very fit-looking runner laying on the side of the course. The guy wasn't even responding to simple questions, and it started to put doubts in my head about "maybe I should just slow down and try to enjoy this run today". Around the 8k mark I noticed I was having a chafing issue with my shorts (which were always fine last summer but I haven't worn yet this year), so I was running along trying to pull them up away from my inner thighs (sorry TMI). I let the second pace group go. The ambulance went by for the runner I had seen earlier, and when I got to about the 9k, there was another runner down and they were directing a second ambulance back towards where we had come from. It pretty much sucked all of the "want to" right out of me. There was a lady laying about 500 yards from the finish, with her teammates attending to her, and another runner surrounded by paramedics right after the finish line. I crossed the line over a minute slower than I had hoped for, but not really caring, because apparently success today was not needing medical attention. I drank the entire sports drink they handed me in the finish area and headed over to get my bag and delicious soup/bread. As I was sitting there eating it, several more ambulances came and went from the finish area. I like it better when the paramedics stand around looking bored.
So it really wasn't even THAT warm, but I guess it was enough of a change that it affected a lot of people. Yuck. I'll post a pic of my "bling" over in the long-distance runners group
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For those interested and who can remember the web address, I put up a blog post on my gear stuff.... not going to link, since MFP didn't like it last time, and I got a warning.3
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Happy that the weather is still really great where I'm at, motivating me to get outside every day! Today I went for a nice 6.15 km, bringing my total to 33.2 for the month.
A little bit ahead of schedule with 66.8 km to go!2 -
Very interesting run today! I went to a trail shoe demo/trail running workshop with a few women from my running group at a local preservation that we are running a 10k race at next month. We got to try Salomon speed cross shoes, and a local running store rep and the Salomon rep led the run and did some workshopping on trail conditions (mud vs dry, rocky vs dirt), obstacles, going up and down hills, power hiking, etc. It was pretty helpful actually, and I got to meet a bunch of other runners from other local towns (there were probably 15 of us total who showed up). Plus! Stomping through the mud and jumping over logs is fun. AND THEN... there were waffles at the end. All in all, an A+ reason to skip my rest day and run instead
4/1: 7 miles
4/2: 4.1 miles
4/3: 6.7 miles
4/4: Rest day
4/5: Lazy day
4/6: 5.2 miles
4/7: 10 miles
4/8: 4.5 miles trail demo
April miles: 37.5
Goal miles: 100
Upcoming Races:
April 29: New Jersey Marathon 4-person relay
May 20: Watershed 10k trail race
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@PastorVincent - LOL at speeding up for the "last 200m" early. FWIW, 200m is about 0.125 miles. It's halfway around a standard outdoor track, a full circuit of a standard indoor track. The idea is that this is about as far as you can run anaerobically at the end of a race without running out of gas.
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Had a 5k race today. Just a few seconds shy of my personal best, but still good enough for 4th over all and 2nd place female. To say I'm gobsmacked is an understatement.
I'm used to being firmly in the middle of the pack, so it was really weird to find myself in the leading group. The race winner is a 12 year old boy and there was no way on earth I was going to catch up with him. He had youth and enthusiasm on his side. As we approached the finish line, I was still in 4th over all, but I could hear someone catching me up. "Not today, sunshine", I thought as I put my foot down for that final push. I beat him by one second.13
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