May 2018 Running Challenge
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Good long run today. Perfect running weather - overcast, cool and windy. It was great until I turned south into the wind and then it felt like I was running through peanut putter. It didn't help that I was in the open river area and not on the more protected trail. My legs and glutes are very tired tonight and my knee is hurting. I tweaked it last week before my 5k and it has been iffy but ok until now. I tore the meniscus several years ago and I suspect I have just irritated it again. Was hoping to get a short little run in tomorrow before all of our family obligations but I am going to wait and see how it feels in the morning.
Date........Miles.......Total
05/01......0.00.......0.00 - + Strength Training
05/02......5.41.......5.41
05/03......0.00.......5.41
05/04......3.88.......9.29
05/05......6.38.....15.67 - 'Cinco de My Oh My Miles' 5k + Dog Beach run
05/06......0.00.....15.67
05/07......5.42.....21.09 - + Agility
05/08......0.00.....21.09 - + Strength Training
05/09......5.14.....26.23
05/10......0.00.....26.23
05/11......8.98.....35.21
My completed and upcoming races. Let me know if you will be running them too.
02/04/18 - Surf City Half Marathon
05/05/18 - Cinco de Miles 5k
07/22/18 - San Francisco 2nd Half Marathon
12/15/18 - San Diego Holiday Half Marathon
02/03/19 - Surf City Half Marathon
05/11/19 - Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon6 -
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Had a really wonderful long run this afternoon. 12.72 km on a beautiful day on my (currently) favorite trail. Now at 83.1 km for the month--
I think I will just officially raise my goal to 150 as I had first intended.
So, to recalibrate here... I have now 66.9 km to go!5 -
Visiting family down in Houston for graduation. Had stomach ache all night long. Thought I was better this morning, but still bothered me a little on the run. Didn't help that it was so hot and humid here (75F and 88% humidity @ 6am). Managed to find a 10 mile route. Actually felt best on the last mile doing strides.2
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5/1/18 2 miles
5/2/18 1.8 miles
5/3/18 1.85 miles
5/4/18 2 miles
5/5/18 2 miles
5/6/18 6 miles
5/7/18 rest
5/8/18 2.35 miles
5/9/18 2.15 miles
5/10/18 2 miles
5/11/18 rest (weights)
5/12/18 2.15 miles
Total 24.3 miles out of 75ish.
I learned that when you put in a workout and use repeats you cannot double tap to get back to your usual Garmin screens. I skipped past 2 of my repeats this way. So I just did them during my 5 minute cool down and then added another 5 minute cool down after workout completed. I need coffee before speed work apparently. I can't get my *kitten* together for it.
I was struggling with breathing this morning and could not push myself for the 1 minute intervals to get to Zone 5. I spent my Z5 time in Z3 or Z4. First 2 repeats weren't bad but the last 3 were a struggle to keep running. I was a bit surprised seeing as in my 5 minute warmup and 5 minute in zone 1 were hard to keep my heart rate down where it needed to be. It was just a tough workout for me. I would guess air quality since I slept well and for like 7.5 hours!
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So, about today’s run...
I decided to go to campus and run because my local park was hosting an event this morning. My goal was to run for about an hour and hope that I was over 4 miles by the end of it. I started off feeling pretty good and did a better job of regulating my pace. I expected campus to be deserted, since it was early on a Saturday morning and graduation was last week. Suddenly, I started noticing more and more runners coming from multiple directions, and then I ran into police officers directing traffic at the next intersection. Turns out I had inadvertently joined in on the middle portion of a race with 10k and 10 mile courses. Oops!
I ventured closer to the center of campus to get out of the way. It was quieter and shadier there. All of a sudden, I looked down and realized I was about 2” away from stepping directly on top of a 3’ rat snake! Eek! I gently prodded him off the sidewalk and continued on my way.
In just over an hour, I did 4.5 miles! Not bad at all considering the obstacles I encountered and the fact that it was already 85 degrees by the time I finished at 8:45 am. My next 5k is in one week. I’m much more confident this time than last month. I know I can easily cover the distance now, so I can be a little less tentative with my pace. I’m planning to run three days next week and to try to keep my legs happy and ready to “race” (I’m still to slow to really call it that) next Saturday. It means I’ll still be way off my goal this month, but I’m okay with that.
April goal: 40.0 miles
Today: 4.5 miles
Total so far: 12.0 miles9 -
@greyparks206 It's still a race! You don't need to be competitive for placement. I know I consider myself to be competing against myself!4
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5/1 - rest
5/2 - 2.38 km
5/3 - 6.23 km
5/4 - cake
5/5 - meetings
5/6 - 4.18 km
5/7 - 5.15 km
5/8 - life conspired against me
5/9 - 6.4 km
5/10 - 3.0 km
5/11 - rest day, walk
5/12 - 10.11 km, after which there will be 6 year olds and shouting
37.45/115 km
Edited to add what I actually did, which was find some trails close to home! I think it was an abandoned campground but not sure.
2018 Races: (italics means not registered yet, only pondering)
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 5Kish 1:00:00? (Or 48:45...)
5/20/18 MEC Trail Race #2 10Kish
6/24/18 MEC Trail Race #3 10Kish
7/1/18 Canada Day 5K or 15K?
7/28/18 Idaho Peak 10K Trail Race
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon 10K
8/25/18 MEC Trail Race #4 10Kish
10/7/18 MEC Trail Race #5 15Kish
10/22/18 Heartbeat Run 10K
12/1/18 Santa Shuffle8 -
It’s Saturday so that means parkrun. Another PB today by 24 seconds
05.05.18 5k PB
09.05.18 7.9k
12.05.18 5k PB
Total 17.9/60
2018 races:
01.04.18 Tractor 10k 1:20.02 (my first 10k)
22.04.18 The Longhorn Trail 5k 39.02 (my first trail race)
07.07.18 7@Severn
August 18 Corporate 5k Challenge
October 18 Green Leek 10k
04.11.18 Rockingham 10k7 -
I had to get back home to make a doctor appointment for my sad, sick, strep-throat kiddo so I just did a "quick" one-mile jog this morning. I wasn't able to go quite the whole mile without a short break in the middle to catch my breath, but I guess I ran it about a minute-per-mile faster than I normally do. I'm not sure which is better to work on at this point, pace or distance. I did all this "preliminary" working out on a treadmill the last time I tried to get myself in running shape and I'm not a great judge of how fast I'm going, other than how my breathing feels. I was definitely breathing hard, lol...I sounded like an asthmatic freight train!
Anyway, this makes mile 5.5 out of 10 (14 miles walk/run) for the month
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5/1 6miles
5/2 9.92miles
5/3 6miles
5/4 12miles
5/5 6miles
5/6 rest
5/7 6.5miles
5/8 6miles
5/9 7miles
5/10 8miles
5/11 5miles
5/12 14.11miles!
Yesterday, I did 5 miles as fast as I could because I had to be back at my daughter's school for her poetry cafe. I had a small window between dropping her off in the morning and getting back in time, about 1hr and 10minutes. I did the 5 miles, showered, and made it back with 5 minutes to spare! Phew!
This morning I was dreading my long run of 14 miles because I knew it was going to be hot... I decided to head out first thing and made it out there a little after 8 am. It was over 70 and sunny already. Oh man it was HOT! I took 40oz of water and at 10 miles I stopped at a 7-11 and added ice to my camelbak. I finished, but I was SLOW. Just over 10 minute miles, but I was happy I didn't stop to walk at all. So glad I'm done with that! Time to enjoy the rest of the weekend!! (And catch up on the thread. I'm terribly behind!)
Happy mother's day to all the moms out there!
3/18/2018 Shamrock half marathon
3/24/2018 Don't Sit on Colon Cancer 5K
5/28/2018 Run to Remember 5K
10/7/2018 Crawlin Crab half marathon
10/13/2018 Joggin for Frogmen 5K
11/18/2018 Norfolk Harbor half marathon3 -
@sarahthes If Friday the 13th has taught me anything it is to stay away from abandoned camp grounds...1
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May Running Totals (miles)
5/1 – 5.69 warm up + speed work
5/2 – 6.21 group run
5/3 – 7.08 warm up + speed work
5/4 – rest day
5/5 – 15.02 group run + solo miles
5/6 – 5.01 trails & grass
5/7 – rest day
5/8 – 6.11 MP with hills
5/9 – 7.07 group run without group
5/10 – 6.38 warmup + speed work
5/11 – rest day
5/12 – 11.76 group run + solo miles
May running total to date – 70.33
Nominal May mileage goal: 180 miles
Real goals: Stay healthy. Build base. Maybe run some trails. Have fun.
Today's notes – Still in the interim between pacing sessions, so I ran with the group from a competing running store. There were 3 of us for an 8:00 pace; the pacer barely spoke, and the young guy didn't say a word. To be fair, I wasn't terribly talkative either.
Forecast was for temperatures in the mid to upper 40s, with showers or light rain. We got light rain to start, so I wore a jacket. The planned routes were 5 + 7 miles, for 12 total; after the first 5 (about 5.25) the other two people quit. So I set out to run the second loop on my own. It featured a road I hadn't run before, but I was thinking I could just run the familiar Riverway Trail and add some distance.
Well. About 7 miles in, I began to feel a bit of intestinal distress. By the time I got to the road I hadn't run, it was an easy decision to take the unfamiliar but shorter route back to the store. I missed some fine points of the planned route, since I didn't have a pacer to show me and I left the tic sheet in my pocket rather than have it out to become illegible in the rain. Ended up getting back to the store at 11 and three quarters of a mile. If the rest room had been another quarter mile further away, I would have got 12 miles; bu there was no way I was running around to get 12 miles before stopping when I was at the store!
I'm thinking I'm a wuss. Not even 12 miles, and I'm pretty wiped out. Take care of the gut issue, stretch, feel better; but don't feel up to running another segment. Later, it hit me: In March, my doctor had told me to go get a Shingles vaccination, but wait till after Boston. "After Boston" turned out to happen yesterday on my rest day. Got a sore arm, like someone punched me real hard, but that's expected. And maybe, just maybe, my energy level wasn't everything it could be a day after the vaccination.
I'll go with that. I have a half marathon to run on June 3, and it wouldn't do for me to think of 13 miles as a challenging distance.
2018 races:
February 17, 2018 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) finished in 54:48
February 24, 2018 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) finished in 28:46
March 17, 2018 USATF Masters 8K (Shamrock 8K, Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 31:55
March 24, 2018 Spring Forward 15K (Mendon, NY) ran at MP, finished in 1:10:47
April 16, 2018 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA) finished in 3:28:43
April 29, 2018 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble, Dedham, MA) finished in 41:33
May 20, 2018 Lilac 10K (Rochester, NY)
May 26, 2018 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY)
June 3, 2018 USATF Masters Half Marathon (Ann Arbor, MI)
June 9, 2018 Ontario Summit Trail Half Marathon (Naples, NY)
June 17, 2018 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY)
June 30, 2018 Charlie's Old Goat Trail Run 5 mile (Victor, NY)
July 28, 2018 Battle at Bristol 10K (Naples, NY)
September 30, 2018 Wineglass Marathon (Bath, NY)
November 11, 2018 Syracuse Half Marathon (Syracuse, NY)
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MAY GOALS, REHAB SMART, 10 hours of activity for the month. Work up to 3 minutes of running and 10mpw.
4---30 minutes stationary bike.
4---68 minutes, 3.46 miles walk
5---30 minutes bike, 7.25 miles
5---22 minutes, 1.70 miles PT run 15(1,1)
7---20 minutes, 1.44 miles (2,2)
8---30 minutes, 2.14 miles 7(2,2)
11---30 min mtn bike, 4.29
12---30 min 2.35 miles PT run (2,2 ish)
12---30 min bike, 6.61 miles
12---80 min walk, 4.5 miles
370 minutes/15.59 miles
Upcoming Races
October 14th Spirit of Survival Lawton OK. Quarter Marathon
March 31, 2019 A2A Undecided distance
April 28, 2019OKC Memorial Marathon (half)5 -
@weat0043 There were too many birds singing for it to feel creepy. Now had they all stopped...4
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Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
05/01/18 :::: 3.5 :::: 3.5
05/02/18 :::: 2.6 :::: 6.1
05/03/18 :::: 2.5 :::: 8.7
05/04/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 8.7
05/05/18 :::: 7.5 :::: 16.2
05/06/18 :::: 2.6 :::: 18.8
05/07/18 :::: 3.8 :::: 22.5
05/08/18 :::: 3.3 :::: 25.9
05/09/18 :::: 3.2 :::: 29.1
05/10/18 :::: 2.0 :::: 31.1
05/11/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 31.1
05/12/18 :::: 12.0 :::: 43.0
Right to Run 19K today in Seneca Falls, NY - the home of the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848 and the beginning of the women's suffrage movement. It is a 19k for the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in 1920 (heard someone talking about the big event they will have in 2020 to celebrate 100 years - that should be cool).
The day started out better than I expected as it was not pouring rain when we left and I got hopeful. It did start raining though as we got close to Seneca Falls and was a bit of a downpour when we parked. We waited in the car and it let up quite a bit. I wore a fabulous red plastic rain poncho to start. It was mostly just light rain at that point. We had the opportunity to meet and take a picture with Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston marathon with a numbered entry. So cool!
Things settled into a light mist, so it was not too bad. Only around 45 degrees though so I kept my gloves on the whole race. I ditched my poncho about mile 2. The course was nice, mostly flat with a few rolling hills. One gravel road which was not so nice to run on and one cross-country part where we had to run on grass. There was an uphill on a trail through a park that was probably the toughest. A quiet, country scenery for much of it - and for a while a goat ran with us! Her name was Maia (according to the people yelling for her to come back) and she was quite a good pace goat. She went about a half mile before deciding she was bored of it. We ran along the lake a bit and through the campus of New York Chiropractic College. We ended up by the river and downtown Seneca Falls. Very picturesque little place with such great history.
I ran the whole thing with my friend/former coach and our goal was to just keep a decent pace but not really race it all out. I finished in 2:07:55, which was a 10:50 pace. Not bad, especially as we did make one pit stop. After we were done, my friend went out to get another hour in (she's got a marathon coming up) and I got some food and then got a free treatment from the Chiropractic College students. That felt awesome. It was mostly a massage and working some knots in my shoulders and upper back. After I was done with that I had cooled down so much and was freezing so I changed into dry clothes the best I could from my drop bag. My fingers were white from Raynaud's and my gloves were damp so it was kind of miserable. Finally my friend was finished (she's such a good person, she went back on the course to find someone who could use a buddy to run them in, and ran back with one of the last runners). We grabbed some more snacks, cruised the vendors who were packing up, hopped our shuttle bus and headed home. I'm still trying to fully warm up, but overall it was a good race and good day.
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10 km Run/Walk with a friend from our little local running club- Moira - Cadillac Ranch Trails giving me 40km for the month. A few very wet spots and one that was not passible. Still a nice bit of Trail work to prep for Montain Madness and Emperor's Challenge. Fell way behind this week due to the simple fact that by Wednesday I had 48 hrs in the books at work and finished with 64 hrs total on Friday night. So I missed every semi-organized event/run all week and fell behind on this group. I am sure there are some well deserved likes and awesome workouts that occurred.
Mothers day tomorrow and my great niece's and nephew's are dancing in the local Ukrainian Dance club year end finale - somehow I became the un-official photographer for the family and associated friends.
05/02 21.23 km -21.23km - 118.77 km
05/05 9.00 km -30.23km - 109.77 km
05/12 10.00 km -40.23km - 099.77 km - YTD 350.42km Cadillac Ranch Trail- lower bench = Berry patch trail6 -
I'm not dead! I'm surely alive!
Race report in a bit, right now all I can say is I'M NOT DEAD
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