June 2018 Running Challenge
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NEW JUNE GOALS, REHAB SMART, 20 hours of activity Work up to 4 minutes of running (50 mpm). Bike all that I can bike.
2---4.05mi, 61min (PT run)
3---2.58mi, 55 min walk
4---3.71mi, 54 min (PT run)
7---3.42 mi, 47 min 5(2-1,2-2)
8---9.35 mi, 43 min road bike
10---55 min brick. 6.04 mi bike, 1.67 mi run 6(2,2)
11---5.55 mi mtn bike, 38 min
12---2.24 mi, 33 min 5(3,3)
386 min/ 17.67
Upcoming Races
July 22 Draper Lake Duathlon
October 14th Spirit of Survival Lawton OK. Quarter Marathon
March 31, 2019 A2A Undecided distance
April 28, 2019OKC Memorial Marathon (half)
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June Running Totals (miles)
6/1 – rest day
6/2 – travel day
6/3 – 14.50 warmup + half marathon
6/4 – rest day
6/5 – extra rest day
6/6 – podiatrist visit
6/7 – PT visit
6/8 – no running
6/9 – no running
6/10 – no running
6/11 – PT visit
6/12 – 2.46 easy
June running total to date – 16.96
Nominal June mileage goal: 160 miles
Real goals: Stay healthy. Survive 4 races scheduled in June, 2 of them outside my comfort zone. Start training toward Wineglass.
Today's notes – The thread has slowed down. I've been gone a week, and there were only 359 new posts. I won't be catching up on back chatter.
Top of the news: I've blown my first real goal for June. Took a planned rest day Monday 6/4. The left Achilles still felt a little iffy on Tuesday 6/5, so I took an extra rest day. At the routine podiatrist visit Wednesday 6/6, I told him I didn't know whether this was something minor that would go away or the start of something major.
He told me it was a partial tear of the Achilles tendon, don't run for a week, here's a prescription for Mobic, and see a physical therapist. Maybe ease back into running after a week if I have no pain, but be ready to stop.
I couldn't stand to read about other people running, so I went AWOL. Used my online time for non-running topics.
The PT visits were the easiest I've ever had. This is the soonest I've caught an injury, so I don't really know how recovery & rehab will go. At yesterday's PT visit, I told her the Achilles didn't hurt at all while walking, even briskly, but it was still a little sore to touch when she massaged it. She said to try to get a couple runs in before I see her again next week.
So the plan today was run an easy 2 miles, stop, and see how the ankle feels tomorrow morning. Ended up going a bit longer because I paced behind a clump of guys warming up slower than I would on my own. When we would normally turn right onto a trail, they turned left. It took me maybe 2 seconds to decide to follow them, processing the facts that it was warm; the trail to the left is softer than the trail to the right; the trail to the left is shadier than the trail to the right; and I'd probably run more than 2 miles, but much of it would be on that soft trail.
Got back to base, and the Achilles felt fine. Got an offer to run an easy 7 miles with a young mid-distance runner (no, really; he runs 800m races); turned it down because I wasn't willing to risk that distance. Maybe I'm all better and it would be fine, but I'm tired of being too optimistic and putting myself back on the couch. Today, hypochondria dominates denial.
In other news, the non-running week included a DNS at the trail half marathon I was a bit worried about. But that's OK; I found out a younger guy from my club won the Masters division of that race, in the first trail race he's ever run. He is much faster than me, and age grades better than I do. Looks like he decided to win the USATF Niagara Masters Runner of the Year title this year. That should be within his ability, if he simply runs enough races. I hope he does.
So, I am unlikely to hit my nominal June mileage goal. I may or may not get to keep my 5K next Sunday. I am hopeful that the week I took off from running was enough rest at the right time, but I am prepared to add more rest to it if the ankle indicates this is necessary.
Long range plan is to "train" for Wineglass much like I trained for Boston; get healthy enough to run, get healthy enough to run the distance, line up and go out conservatively. Time will tell how well this plan works.
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) finished in 42:21
May 26, 2018 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY) finished in 20:12
June 3, 2018 USATF Masters Half Marathon (Ann Arbor, MI) finished in 1:34:42
June 9, 2018 Ontario Summit Trail Half Marathon (Naples, NY) DNS - injury
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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4.15km today. Felt terrible the whole time, couldn't get a steady pace going and had to walk a few times. Oh well it'll be a better run next time.
MTD 25.7km/60km9 -
@MobyCarp that was a smart decision on declining the 7 mile run. I am one that ignores the 'smaller' injuries and pain, and just thinks it will go away. I am stupid and am on the couch at some point every year. Well done to recognize it and get it treated. You'll get through this.2
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June Goals:
200 running miles.
IM 70.3 Training
Goals 6/11/18 - 6/17/18:
Run: 45 miles + Swim and Bike
TSS > 650
June Running:
05.28.18 - 06.03.18: Running Miles 41.5 / Weekly TSS 497 / Fitness: 71 CTL
06.04.18 - 06.10.19: Running Miles 46.2 / Weekly TSS 601 / Fitness: 73 CTL
Base 1 : Week 2 of 4
06.11.18 - 3 m. (Swim 900 yrds).
06.12.18 - 8.9 m.
Fall Running Events:
10.14.18 - Lake Tahoe Marathon
10.21.18 - Atlantic City Marathon
11.03.18 - Indianapolis Monumental Marathon
11.10.18 - Tunnel Hill 50 miler
12.08.18 - Tucson Marathon
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When your determined to get up early enough to finish your run before hellish sun / heat / humidity / dew point / cancerous solar UV rays take over the Texas morning:
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skippygirlsmom wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »skippygirlsmom wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »RespectTheKitty wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Does pacing back and forth in a slow elevator because the stupid building you are in LOCKS THE STAIRWELL DOORS count as walking up hill?
Um... isn't that a fire hazard?
Most of the places I've work do this too - you can enter the stairwell on any floor but only exit on the first/ground floor. As I found out when I thought I'd walk from the 14th to 12th floors rather than take an elevator and ended up going down 14 flights in heels.
I didn't think it was a fire hazard as long as you can exit to the stairwell. Entering one floor from another floor at the building I work at is possible but frowned upon because several different state agencies occupy the same building. Protection of data, etc. are the reason given.
Actually it is s fire hazard in the case the fire is below you. All doors should automatically unlock when the fire alarm goes off.
Point. And now that you say that, I remember being told that was supposed to happen during a fire drill once. I understand the other security aspects of it, but I still think it says something about the way we prioritize physical activity that we don't build our buildings in such a way as to encourage more movement.
I agree. By design, our security doors will actually open if you pull on the hard for a fairly short period of time. However, when they open alarms will sound.
In my building, I can take the stairs DOWN from the 5th floor (all though there is a sign on it that says alarm will sound if you do it is lieing), but I can not take them UP because all the entrance doors to the stairs on the first floor are locked. I have no idea why. I have not tried to exit on a level other than mine because there are many other businesses in the building, and some take up complete floors.0 -
amymoreorless wrote: »When your determined to get up early enough to finish your run before hellish sun / heat / humidity / dew point / cancerous solar UV rays take over the Texas morning:
This is something I should do. Last night I slept in my running gear so I would finally go out and run after a week on the couch (stress/food/something something head games). Got in a sore mile because when I don't run my calves tighten up and I get shin splints the next 1-2 runs until I've loosened up again.
I may sleep in running gear again tonight.5 -
@amymoreorless Love the staggered alarms! I had 3 set for months. One on my watch and two on my phone. I gave up and turned off two because i think i got up twice. I just accpted that I'm a hot afternoon runner.3
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The alarms just reminded me to set mine!
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
06/01/18 :::: 1.4 :::: 1.4
06/02/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 1.4
06/03/18 :::: 13.1 :::: 14.5
06/04/18 :::: 0.8 :::: 15.3
06/05/18 :::: 3.6 :::: 18.9
06/06/18 :::: 3.5 :::: 22.4
06/07/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 22.4
06/08/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 22.4
06/09/18 :::: 9.0 :::: 31.4
06/10/18 :::: 6.9 :::: 38.2
06/11/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 41.3
06/12/18 :::: 5.2 :::: 46.5
Marathon group tonight and the workout was hill repeats. If I had known that, I just might have skipped in favor of packing and getting ready for my trip tomorrow. But good thing I didn't know and I went, and I got it done. 30 minutes of hills plus warm-up and cool-down.
Tomorrow I head out to hot and steamy Iowa. Hopefully I'll be reporting back with early morning running. I'm worried about getting my long run in. I'll have to scout out possible shadier options.
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8.2 more miles tonight
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6/1 - scheduled rest
6/2 - 10.10 km
6/3 - 1.62 km
6/4 - 5.10 km
6/5 - feh
6/6 - 5.44 km
6/7 to 6/11 - Nada
6/12 - 1.89 + 2.01 km
26.16/120 km not gonna make goal this month!
Y'all I flailed so hard last week. Ugh. Today was my first day running since the 5th. Just not a lot of sleep last week, work stress (even though the audit was the smoothest one since we were accredited 18 years ago - I know because I looked back thru all of our previous assessment reports!), too much food, too many excuses.
Anyway, I slept in my running clothes last night and I intend the same for tonight. I also set about 40 alarms. Hopefully once I loosen up I won't be too out of conditioning with a 10K trail race in 2 weeks and then a 15K road race one week later.
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 1:56:15
6/24/18 MEC Trail Race #3 10Kish
7/1/18 Canada Day 15K
7/28/18 Idaho Peak 10K Trail Race
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon (Half Marathon)
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 -
amymoreorless wrote: »When your determined to get up early enough to finish your run before hellish sun / heat / humidity / dew point / cancerous solar UV rays take over the Texas morning:
LOL!!! Looks a lot like mine. West Texas heat and sun to deal with over hear, also known as a few degrees above the pits of hell.3 -
My goal is 3 runs per week minimum with a total monthly goal of 70 miles.
And to keep up with this thread (sort-of)
So somehow I got food poisoning on the night of 6/4 and started vomiting at 4 a.m. on 6/5. It was awful. I slept most of the day and totally lost my appetite. Also missed a week of work.
I decided to go to the gym on Saturday due to wanting to leave quickly if not feeling well. I ran a mile on the treadmill and then strength trained x a half hour. Boy....I really needed that! I decided that day that I would start training in the gym twice a week. The one thing that I hate is the DOMS after lifting weights. Today I am still feeling the effects of my chest and biceps workout.Oh well.
The next day I ran for another 7 miles. Thanks to my fitbit, I can get a little more accuracy on my mileage, I think.
Today was going to be my last workout for a while. Back to the gym for another half hour of lifting. One gets pretty weak when not lifting consistently, and those 10 pound weights felt like boulders. It was supposed to rain but I hit the trail afterward for another 7. The temperature was 79 or 80 degrees with a humidity of 71%. I think @PastorVincent may have something with regard to dew point/humidity. I clearly ran about 3 minutes slower although it felt like the same effort. The only good thing about it being so humid was that I haven't had those hip pains that I had been plagued with.
The last 2 days my appetite had returned. I lost 2 pounds after the illness. (I even received one of those mfp warnings about not eating enough when I could only consume 700 calories). I will be curious to see if I can keep losing weight or regain it again.
6/4....7.07 miles
6/9...1.07 miles
6/10...7.08 miles
6/12...7.19 miles
total= 22.42 miles
Goal is 70 miles.
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PastorVincent wrote: »skippygirlsmom wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »skippygirlsmom wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »RespectTheKitty wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Does pacing back and forth in a slow elevator because the stupid building you are in LOCKS THE STAIRWELL DOORS count as walking up hill?
Um... isn't that a fire hazard?
Most of the places I've work do this too - you can enter the stairwell on any floor but only exit on the first/ground floor. As I found out when I thought I'd walk from the 14th to 12th floors rather than take an elevator and ended up going down 14 flights in heels.
I didn't think it was a fire hazard as long as you can exit to the stairwell. Entering one floor from another floor at the building I work at is possible but frowned upon because several different state agencies occupy the same building. Protection of data, etc. are the reason given.
Actually it is s fire hazard in the case the fire is below you. All doors should automatically unlock when the fire alarm goes off.
Point. And now that you say that, I remember being told that was supposed to happen during a fire drill once. I understand the other security aspects of it, but I still think it says something about the way we prioritize physical activity that we don't build our buildings in such a way as to encourage more movement.
I agree. By design, our security doors will actually open if you pull on the hard for a fairly short period of time. However, when they open alarms will sound.
In my building, I can take the stairs DOWN from the 5th floor (all though there is a sign on it that says alarm will sound if you do it is lieing), but I can not take them UP because all the entrance doors to the stairs on the first floor are locked. I have no idea why. I have not tried to exit on a level other than mine because there are many other businesses in the building, and some take up complete floors.
But you can access all of those floors via elevator, right? I'm a bit confused about how locking the stairwell does anything for security.1 -
10.1k for me, it's a beautiful day. But the big news is, my husband just went out the door FOR A RUN!!! I of course don't want to appear to excited about it, so played it cool and am shouting the news on this forum instead. He was only gone about 10 minutes and was walking the driveway when I was watching him out the window, but looked pretty tired and unenthused when he got back, but hey, baby steps!
Upcoming races:
6/30 Silesian Highland [trail] Half Marathon
7/16 CityTrail OnTour 5k16 -
Yay! Way to get out there Polskaman015
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polskagirl01 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »skippygirlsmom wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »skippygirlsmom wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »RespectTheKitty wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Does pacing back and forth in a slow elevator because the stupid building you are in LOCKS THE STAIRWELL DOORS count as walking up hill?
Um... isn't that a fire hazard?
Most of the places I've work do this too - you can enter the stairwell on any floor but only exit on the first/ground floor. As I found out when I thought I'd walk from the 14th to 12th floors rather than take an elevator and ended up going down 14 flights in heels.
I didn't think it was a fire hazard as long as you can exit to the stairwell. Entering one floor from another floor at the building I work at is possible but frowned upon because several different state agencies occupy the same building. Protection of data, etc. are the reason given.
Actually it is s fire hazard in the case the fire is below you. All doors should automatically unlock when the fire alarm goes off.
Point. And now that you say that, I remember being told that was supposed to happen during a fire drill once. I understand the other security aspects of it, but I still think it says something about the way we prioritize physical activity that we don't build our buildings in such a way as to encourage more movement.
I agree. By design, our security doors will actually open if you pull on the hard for a fairly short period of time. However, when they open alarms will sound.
In my building, I can take the stairs DOWN from the 5th floor (all though there is a sign on it that says alarm will sound if you do it is lieing), but I can not take them UP because all the entrance doors to the stairs on the first floor are locked. I have no idea why. I have not tried to exit on a level other than mine because there are many other businesses in the building, and some take up complete floors.
But you can access all of those floors via elevator, right? I'm a bit confused about how locking the stairwell does anything for security.
Most of the time there is a card reader that will only allow access to your company’s floor or security at a desk when you get off the elevator. At least that is the case in our buildings. We have card readers on all the stairway doors on one side of the building so if you want to go up the stairs you can go up those. I was a building facility person for years. We have also had floors where you can get off and elevator into a small lobby but glass doors prevented you from hallways. The doors had card readers.
@mobycarp I’m sorry to hear about the test I hope it heals quickly.
@amymoreorless love the alarms
@ereck44 glad you are feeling better. Good poisoning is horrible
Rest day for me today.3 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »skippygirlsmom wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »skippygirlsmom wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »RespectTheKitty wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Does pacing back and forth in a slow elevator because the stupid building you are in LOCKS THE STAIRWELL DOORS count as walking up hill?
Um... isn't that a fire hazard?
Most of the places I've work do this too - you can enter the stairwell on any floor but only exit on the first/ground floor. As I found out when I thought I'd walk from the 14th to 12th floors rather than take an elevator and ended up going down 14 flights in heels.
I didn't think it was a fire hazard as long as you can exit to the stairwell. Entering one floor from another floor at the building I work at is possible but frowned upon because several different state agencies occupy the same building. Protection of data, etc. are the reason given.
Actually it is s fire hazard in the case the fire is below you. All doors should automatically unlock when the fire alarm goes off.
Point. And now that you say that, I remember being told that was supposed to happen during a fire drill once. I understand the other security aspects of it, but I still think it says something about the way we prioritize physical activity that we don't build our buildings in such a way as to encourage more movement.
I agree. By design, our security doors will actually open if you pull on the hard for a fairly short period of time. However, when they open alarms will sound.
In my building, I can take the stairs DOWN from the 5th floor (all though there is a sign on it that says alarm will sound if you do it is lieing), but I can not take them UP because all the entrance doors to the stairs on the first floor are locked. I have no idea why. I have not tried to exit on a level other than mine because there are many other businesses in the building, and some take up complete floors.
But you can access all of those floors via elevator, right? I'm a bit confused about how locking the stairwell does anything for security.
Security Theater. Kind of like most of what you see in airports.2
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