June 2018 Running Challenge

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
6/13 – 1.46 easy
6/14 – rest day
6/15 – 3.21 easy
6/16 – rest day
6/17 – 4.53 warmup + short course 5K
6/18 – rest day, PT visit
6/19 – extra rest day
6/20 – 5.96 group run
6/21 – 5.97 warmup + speed work
6/22 – rest day
6/23 – 0.37 aborted group run
6/24 – 3.45 easy with rain

June running total to date – 41.90

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 – It was raining, but Smeagol found my shoes and shoved me out the door anyway about 2 PM. Of course, once I started running it was all good weather.

Felt great. Decide to do a 10K route that went through a quiet neighborhood with nice smooth streets. The breeze was light, the rain was cool, it was 62º F (17º C), and life was good. On the way up a minor incline, my right Achilles developed an ache.

Say what? It's the *left* Achilles that was hurt. So I keep running, thinking it may pass. It doesn't. At 3.06 miles, I admit I need to walk. The short way home will be less than 3 miles, but clearly more than 2.

Get to a point where I'm walking north. It's 62º, I'm wet, and the breeze is from the north. I feel a bit chilly. Look at my wrist for HR, and it's 62. No wonder I'm cold. I'm probably not in severe danger, but I'm not comfortable in shorts and a singlet. So it's time to see if I can run a little more.

Start running, and things are fine for a while. Get my HR back up to where I generate some heat, turn east and have some trees sheltering me from the north breeze . . . and an ache starts building in my left Achilles, just like yesterday morning. I make it about 600m, then slow to a walk. But I'm no longer northbound, and there is cover from the wind for much of the way home. I feel a bit chilly in areas where that cover thins out, but I get past those and on home.

The Achilles don't seem to be any worse now than they were before I ran. Just one of those things, I guess. Take a rest day tomorrow, see my PT, and see what I can do on Tuesday.

One day at a time. Not knowing I can run isn't the best situation, but it's much better than knowing I can't run.

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) short course, 18:04 for ~2.9 miles
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)

Ohh @MobyCarp! Hope you get those achilles sorted soon! I hate no knowing I can run but you are correct that it is better than knowing for sure that you can't!

@girlinahat - not sure if you have decided on a watch but this popped up in my email from Runners World and I thought of you:
https://www.runnersworld.com/gear/a20826961/best-basic-watches-for-runners/?utm_content=2018-06-24&utm_campaign=Rundown&utm_source=runnersworld.com&utm_medium=newsletter&smartcode=YN_0005790937_0001671875&sha1hashlower=6d6a15668106c8b60720ce28e7603710ffd29ce3&md5hash=1e7b1cb15a50278dbe13f37403986656

Rest day today spent running around on the beach at a Vizsla meet up. Picture just for cuteness, there were somewhere around 30+ crazy Vizslas there.

Went on my afternoon run - felt amazing. I got into a really nice rhythm and forgot I was working out. All was well until I checked my phone to find out my tracker wasn't turned on. Oh well. So I trudged home and kicked myself for forgetting to do my usual check to make sure the tracker is working. I was running faster than I have in weeks too! I did map it out later and found that I did a little over 1.5 miles, which is a little short of the 2 I was hoping for, but I'll chalk this run up as a win since it was fun and I was going faster than usual.

June...I'll change my tune...
6/1 rest
6/2 1.87
6/3 rest
6/4 2.00
6/5 rest (damned toe...)
6/6 2.28
6/7 rest (")
6/8 2.25
6/9 rest (" but better....)
6/10 2.75
6/11 rest
6/12 snorkel 3 hours
6/13 toe pain: note to self: walking on sand with a broken toe is a BAD idea.
6/14 decided to
6/15 give my fractured toe a
6/16 4 day "break" (snort....)
6/17 2.81
6/18 2.04
6/19 rest
6/20 3.12
6/21 party
6/22 4.04
6/23 rest
6.24 3.93

Total 27.09


Ticker is my goal for 2018 and progress to date:

Marissaxzxzxz wrote: »

01/06 3.48 miles
05/06 3.09 miles
07/06 3.13 miles
20/06 3.12 miles
21/06 3.18 miles
22/06 3.19 miles
24/06 3.18 miles - that was one hot run!


I was reading the post about the problems with unrulely dogs and their owners. Its drivers I have problems with. Some of the roads are narrow and this is a scenic costal area so the roads are busy in Summer. I always stop and step in until they pass as I know I'll be the loser even if I'm not in the wrong but some don't even both to slow down and whizz past. I'm going to hit the next one with my water bottle to shock them. Maybe if they think they hit me it might make them think next time. The majority are considerate,

I once "slapped" the back of a car as I went past. It was more out of frustration that they had pulled up into the crosswalk without looking, when it was on green for pedestrians and I was entering the intersection, and I had lost my nerve and just about tripped over trying to stop instead of just landing on their hood like I should have done. No reaction at all from the driver. My pace may have increased for a few minutes afterwards, though!

Last Friday I was being a good law abiding resident by walking my bike through a crosswalk. I waited for traffic to stop, then took off pushing my bike across the street. There was a woman coming from the other direction, and she also got off her bike to cross. All of a sudden, I heard the sound of screeching brakes, and the woman screamed. Then I saw the car coming right at me, in the second lane on the other side of the stopped cars. By law, if traffic in one lane stops at a crosswalk, everyone else has to stop as well, but this driver obviously was going too fast and not paying attention. It happened so fast, I literally didnt even react, I just kept going and the car somehow got stopped in time to not hit me. Ugggh. This is why I go the long way to work on my bike, so I am mainly on bike paths and not having to worry about cars.

sarahthes wrote: »

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
6/14 - 9.60 km
6/15 - 6/19 - sick
6/20 - 4.61 hm
6/21 - walk
6/22 - 4.05 km
6/23 - 2.01 km
6/24 - 11.23 km forgot to stop my Garmin so it includes the spray park beside the finish line!

57.66/120 km not gonna make goal this month!

It. Was. Hot. And I was even slower than last time as a consequence, not helped by then having out & back sections on single track. Anyway, I pretended my phone was a go pro and recorded some segments and posted it to the MFP Facebook group. It's really wobbly. LOL.

Came away from the race feeling accomplished and happy, and I definitely got in a great workout!

Congrats!!! I love the part about the spray park. I almost always forget to stop my watch at the finish line! I might try to fix that by turning on autopause for shorter races.

I did an almost-7k fartlek run this morning. I was working pretty hard on the fast intervals, but it felt good.
The kids are home for summer vacation! I'm happy about this, but need to now make a healthy lunch they'll eat, and I could also probably use a nap.



Upcoming races:
6/30 Silesian Highland [trail] Half Marathon
7/16 CityTrail OnTour 5k

Not bad due to the fact I wasn't 100% sure I was even going to be able to run this morning! Have to work 1100 - 1500 hours today plus have to help my Mum move later.

Run time: 0733 hours, 75*F, 97% humidity, 73 DP.

6/4 - 1.64 miles
6/6 - 1.55 miles
6/9 - 1.67 miles
6/12 - 1.65 miles
6/15 - 2.01 miles
6/19 - 1.6 miles
6/23 - 1.75 miles
6/25 - 2.02 miles (13.89 total)

@shanaber - love that picture! Too cute!

Big biking weekend for me, 95 miles over two days. Then this morning was leg/glute workout. With the new strength training I'm doing there are these 20 min workouts called accelerators that you are supposed to do (to burn fat). I usually just do a run or cycling whatever speed I feel like doing it because I'm not that worried about burning fat. But this morning I gave it a try on the treadmill. One minute slow, One minute fast for 20 mins. It was so fun I added 7 minutes. I don't know why I thought it was fun but I just loved it. Could have kept going if I didn't have to go to work!

6/1 - strength training - w15-D
6/2 -3.2 miles treadmill
6/3 - 4.3 miles Kansas City
6/4- 5 miles + strength training - in hotel gym so not my usual
6/5 - 5 miles
6/6 - 5 miles +strength training - in hotel gym
6/7 - 5 miles
6/8 - 5 miles
6/9 - travel/REST day
6/10 - 54 miles cycling
6/11 - strength training W16
6/12 - 5 miles
6/13 - strength training and 22 miles cycling
6/14 - 4.5 miles
6/15 - strength training - w17A
6/16 - 3.6 miles
6/17 - 5 miles
6/18 - strength training - w17B
6/19 - 4.5 miles
6/20 - strength training - arms/abs, day 1 of transform app + 7 miles cycling - stopped by weather
6/21 - strength training - Day 2 Transform legs and glutes - + 3 mile run
6/22 - rest day
6/23 - 40 miles cycling and then Day 3 transform Back and Bicep workout
6/24 - 55 miles cycling - not a super fast pace but it was still tough
6/25 - Strength training Day 4 transform legs/glutes and 1.8 miles on treadmill

6/1-1.08mi
6/2-1.08 (5 hours aerial yoga)
6/3-1.08mi
6/4-1.01mi
6/5-1.08mi with 23 flights of stairs.
6/6-6.05mi
6/7-1.5mi
6/8-1.01mi
6/9-3.13mi 37:09 official 36:54 garmin
6/10-1.66mi and 1.08mi speed walk
6/11-1.01mi
6/12-5.36mi
6/13-1.08mi (1 hour aerial yoga)
6/14-1.01mi (1 hour aerial yoga)
6/15-1.01mi (2 hours aerial hammock and aerial hoop)
6/16-1.01mi (3 hours of aerial yoga)
6/17-1.08mi
6/18-1.01mi
6/19-2.01mi
6/20-1.01mi (2 hours aerial yoga)
6/21-1.75(1 hour aerial yoga)
6/22-1.26mi (2 hours aerial hammock/yoga)
6/23-1.03mi (2 hours aerial yoga)
6/24-3.07mi global sports bra day run

the run was fun and there were lots of nice people. i even broke into the tens in the first mile. brought my scaredy dog. they were welcoming but they aren't really a running group and there was lots of bro science.

6/1 – 0
6/2 – 2
6/3 – 2
6/4 – 2
6/5 – 2
6/6 rest day
6/7 – 3 - (week one 11 miles)
6/8 – 2
6/9 – 2
6/10 –rest
6/11 – 3
6/12 - 3
6/13 - rest day
6/14 - 4 long run ☹ - (week two 14 miles)
6/15 - 2 ugh
6/16 - 3.1 Bigfoot 5K
6/17 – 4
6/18 – rest day
6/19 - 4 miles
6/20 - unscheduled rest day
6/21 – 4 - (week 3 17 miles)
6/22 - 3
6/23 - 4 mile warm up and 5K - Runway 5K
6/24 - 4
6/25 - rest day

53 out of 50 miles

Hanging in there! Four miles on trails. Saw a Kite (the bird, not the toy.) Felt good to get muddy!



In other news, the middle toenail on my right foot which has been black since I don't know when finally fell off.