April 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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April Goal: 110 miles
4/1: 6.2 miles
4/3: 4.6 miles
4/4: 4.0 miles (intervals)
4/5: 4.2 miles
4/8: 11.5 miles
4/10: 4.3 miles (tempo?)
4/11: 5.1 miles
4/12: 5.5 miles
4/15: 9.0 miles
4/17: 4.5 miles
4/18: 5.0 birthday miles
63.9/110 miles completed
I had a wonderful run this morning. It was a little windy, but overall the weather was perfect. And since it is my birthday I did stop at the bakery and get donuts!
Thanks for the birthday wishes @skippygirlsmom @cburke8908 @teresa502 @PastorVincent @Elise4270 and @lporter229
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Great race report @MobyCarp Again, congratulations. Very tough conditions.
Happy birthday @kgirlhart
Congratulations @Ohhim (if you see this)
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runners are a tough breed.
https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-marathon/2018/04/17/mary-shertenlieb
This lady totally rocks.5 -
Happy birthday @kgirlhart ! I love donuts.0
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »runners are a tough breed.
https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-marathon/2018/04/17/mary-shertenlieb
This lady totally rocks.
Indeed. Given how long she took, she won't be an official finisher; but I bet she gets a medal anyway. She deserves it.
When I saw the weather, I thought it would be interesting to see how it would affect the stats for finishers. It drove the percentage down a little. 2016, sunshine and 60s, 96% finished. 2017, sunshine and 60s, 97% finished. 2018, wind and rain in our faces all day long, only 95.5% finished.
People who make it to the start line at Boston are a tough breed, even among runners. They get there, and only physical inability to continue will keep them from finishing the race.2 -
BruinsGal_91 wrote: »runners are a tough breed.
https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-marathon/2018/04/17/mary-shertenlieb
This lady totally rocks.
Indeed. Given how long she took, she won't be an official finisher; but I bet she gets a medal anyway. She deserves it.
When I saw the weather, I thought it would be interesting to see how it would affect the stats for finishers. It drove the percentage down a little. 2016, sunshine and 60s, 96% finished. 2017, sunshine and 60s, 97% finished. 2018, wind and rain in our faces all day long, only 95.5% finished.
People who make it to the start line at Boston are a tough breed, even among runners. They get there, and only physical inability to continue will keep them from finishing the race.
Dang, now THAT is sisu!2 -
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »runners are a tough breed.
https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-marathon/2018/04/17/mary-shertenlieb
This lady totally rocks.
Now that made me cry!0 -
PastorVincent wrote: »So funny story.
Most of you know I am a published author, well someone read one of my books and in it was a part talking about the hero running through the woods. This woman actually wrote me an email complaining and tell me how unrealistic it was for anyone to run in the woods. She was like "have you ever even tried it? It is impossible!"
So hats off to all our trail runners in this thread. You are doing the impossible!
I run so that Grandma won’t show me what big teeth she has.6 -
Thanks @Stoshew71 and @fitoverfortymom!
What an awesome story @bruins_gal91! My husband was telling me about it, but I hadn't read it yet.0 -
Did an easy-ish 2.5 miles this afternoon. I struggled a little bit in the heat (85 today and 65 yesterday!), so the pace was slower than I planned. Tomorrow I’ll do a longer set of walk/jog intervals, and then my first 5k is Saturday morning! I can’t believe it’s almost here.
April goal: 40 miles
Today: 2.5
Total: 23.59 -
Another slow and easy run for me today, and finally I'm starting to feel normal again. However, I know I'm overdue for some rest, so I'll probably give Friday's long run a pass in lieu of something much shorter (or even skip the run entirely) so that I can get some solid rest over the weekend.
02 - 15.39
03 - 13.55
04 - 15.21
05 - 13.38
06 - 31.56
09 - 15.28
10 - 8.50
11 - 8.36
12 - 8.52
14 - 13.11
16 - 15.24
17 - 13.51
18 - 15.26
Total: 186.87 / 280 miles7 -
greyparks206 wrote: »Did an easy-ish 2.5 miles this afternoon. I struggled a little bit in the heat (85 today and 65 yesterday!), so the pace was slower than I planned. Tomorrow I’ll do a longer set of walk/jog intervals, and then my first 5k is Saturday morning! I can’t believe it’s almost here.
April goal: 40 miles
Today: 2.5
Total: 23.5
woohoo! You'll have a blast. Looking forward to reading your race report.1 -
Semi-easy 5 mile run on the treadmill after work. We didn’t get any snow today, so things are looking good.
Previous total 23.5
4/18- 5 miles
Total: 28.5/74.5 goal
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04/01/18 - 8 Miles - 9:59 Pace
04/02/18 - Rest
04/03/18 - 10 miles - 9:27 Pace
04/04/18 - 10 miles @ 4% grade and 7:43 pace
04/05/18 - 0
04/06/18 - 0
04/07/18 - 11.7 miles - 2 races and a bit more
04/08/18 - 0
04/09/18 - 0
04/10/18 - 12.1 miles @ 9:27 pace
04/11/18 - 12.1 miles @ 9:00 pace
04/12/18 - 11 miles @ 9:00 pace
04/13/18 - 10 miles @ 9:04 pace
04/14/18 - 21 miles @ 9:55 pace
04/15/18 - Rest
04/16/18 - 0
04/17/18 - 8 miles @ 7MPH and 4.5% grade
04/18/18 - 7 miles @ 8:57 pace
Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Sub 4 hours in Pittsburgh 2018!
Official Marathon PR: 4:11:28
Next Races (more as I find them):
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)
Bah. Was planning 10 or so miles but at mile seven I must have stepped wrong cause I felt my knee twist a little. I ran a few more step but it started hurting a little, and I need to do one last long run this weekend, so I decided to stop and hopefully it will get better quickly. Did not bother me to walk on until I got to the stairs. And it is a tiny pain, would have run through it if was not for the timing.
Hopefully will get 10 miles in tomorrow, rest Friday, and long run Saturday - but we will see.5 -
RR is up on the blog. Still not going to post the link.... someone else can if they want to.... Its not that I don't want to share it, I just get annoyed when I get warnings for sharing.4
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »woohoo! You'll have a blast. Looking forward to reading your race report.
Thanks! I’m excited/nervous in equal parts. My only goal is to run the whole thing.
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For anyone interested in @MNLittleFinn's epic effort, you can find the race report here.10
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Braved my first post op run. I ran 15, 1 minute intervals (2.08 miles total). It was..... hard. I couldn't remember how to run and breath, my form was sloppy. I do think I did good on avoiding heal striking like instructed. Hip is grumpy.
I'm starving now...
19.67 miles.16 -
@Elise4270 Yay, that's simply awesome!
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