June 2018 Running Challenge
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6/4- 3.25
6/5- 3.25
6/6- 4.26
6/7- 2.0
6/8- 4.25
6/18- 3.25
6/19- 2.16
6/21- 2.0
6/22- 3.12
6/25- 2
6/26- 2.62
6/27- 3.42
6/28- 3.75
6/29- 3.12
Total: 42.47/50
Days: 14/20
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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
6/25-1.00mi
6/26-1.00mi
6/27-2.2 (2 hours of aerial yoga)
6/28- 3.91mi (1 hour of aerial yoga)
6/29-(2 hours aerial hammock and aerial hoop)
nothing much to report. i ran. it was humid. dog played in pool.
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No run yesterday due to being really, really tired. Still tired today but I intend to run in the evening regardless.2
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I had to google BG because I didn't know what it was, or if I had it, or if it was contagious, or if I should test for it. I was getting a little worried because after reading about how people here had it, it sounded bad and I thought I could possibly die on one of my runs if I didn't find a cure. Then I saw it was just sciencey math stuff that I would need a sliderule and a test tube to figure out, so I stopped reading, grateful that I would not have to stop running like a neanderthal.9
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LaDispute57 wrote: »I had to google BG because I didn't know what it was, or if I had it, or if it was contagious, or if I should test for it. I was getting a little worried because after reading about how people here had it, it sounded bad and I thought I could possibly die on one of my runs if I didn't find a cure. Then I saw it was just sciencey math stuff that I would need a sliderule and a test tube to figure out, so I stopped reading, grateful that I would not have to stop running like a neanderthal.
Diabetes
BG = Blood Glucose, and those of us with issues have to pay attention to it through various means of testing. @midwesterner has far more problems with it than I, or probably most in this thread, but several of us struggle with it. A "normal" person normally does not even need to think about it. 1 -
Ahh... I just saw this complicated math formula and my eyes kinda glazed over. I never got to the diabetes part. Now it makes sense. I assumed it was the next thing up from heart rate monitors... which even they are too complicated for me and give me more information that I can process...lol... but I can see that running long distances with diabetes could be problematic... especially races with crappy aid stations.1
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I am a very careless aid station eater. I hit them with reckless abandon and discovered you can get really cool stuff off the "hidden menu" if you just ask. Once on a particularly chilly race, I jokingly asked for bourbon and this dude pulled out a flask. I was thrilled.11
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rheddmobile wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »amymoreorless wrote: »I sat down last night and planned my half marathon training. Given the half is 7 weeks out I will be starting on week 6 of the plan (next week) but the mileage is roughly equivalent to before I got sick so I think I'm good.
I would like to not die, haha.
@sarahthes "Not dying"" is my goal for every half and full marathon - LOL
I have that goal even when not in a race!
Fun story, though... I stopped several times during my last race (20K) to test my BG. It dropped to 38 mg/dl by mile 5, I was able to get it up to 49 mg/dl at mile 6 and then it leveled out in the 40's for the rest of the race. When I stopped to test at mile 8, one of the paramedics came up and was talking to me. It was 49 mg/dl again/still at that point and he said that was "very low." I pointed out that I've been much lower and fine before, but that it would definitely slow me down. Then added, "as long as ya'll don't have to come pick me up off the street, I'll be ok with the slow time."
I have been told that "below 70 is low" and "below 50 is very bad" - but I have been in the 30s, and even the 20s and not died. The 20s was NOT FUN and I could not imagine racing like that.
ETA: I should add, that when I got into the 20's I actually collapsed and all that...
I've been less than 20 (not sure exactly what because my meter just says LO below 20) and completely conscious and aware. I've also passed out in the 30's. My observation is that I tolerate lows better when active and alert. The time I know I was 30's and passed out, I was just watching TV. I stood up and felt low at that point - went to test BG, saw the result, and realized I was going to faint. I quickly grabbed some candy and literally folded (i.e. shoved and folded in as I quickly chewed/swallowed) 2 candy bars into my mouth as I headed to bed where I wouldn't hurt myself by falling. It was probably less than 1 min. between when I tested and when I went unconscious. The candy bars later hit my blood stream and I woke up 20-some odd minutes later.
I've been told that the more lows you have the less you are able to feel them. The nervous system loses the ability to respond after a few years.
Since I'm a recent type 2 I can still really feel it if I go under 80 - under 70 and I feel bad. I can't imagine racing at 38, I would be on the ground! But I don't normally have lows since I'm not on meds anymore. I do carry Smarties in my pocket for emergency glucose.
Hypoglycemic unawareness is fairly common for type 1's eventually. I've been a type 1 for 23 years and still feel most (not all) lows. The 38 I didn't feel, but I don't normally when running. My CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) alerted me I was dropping fast. CGM's are not real-time because they use interstitial fluid... this lags about 10-20 min. behind BG. So when it alerted me that I was dropping fast, it thought I was 120's. The 120's did not prompt me to do a blood test; it was that I was falling fast. I don't remember what the CGM said when I tested at 49 the 1st time (mile 6), but I remember that the CGM was showing 48 at mile 8 when the blood meter was 49. Seeing how I was consistent / BG was stable instead of changing up/down quickly (blood glucose of 49 at both mile 6 and mile 8), it makes sense that the CGM matched closely to BG. If you consider those 2 miles were not exactly fast (IDK... maybe 20-25 min.) and the CGM trends roughly 10-20 min. behind BG, it makes sense that it matched pretty close to the meter. I started around 160's and was down to 38 BG / 120's SG (Sensor Glucose using interstitial fluid from the CGM) at mile 5 because SG lags behind BG and I had been dropping fast during those first 5 miles.
In short, the CGM alerted me to a potential low in that case even though I didn't exactly feel low. CGM technology helps some diabetics when we don't feel lows. Some diabetics with hypoglycemic unawareness have diabetic alert dogs. These dogs are service animals specifically trained for a particular patient to identify hypoglycemia. My understanding is something in our sweat / body odor changes that dogs are capable of smelling.2 -
LaDispute57 wrote: »I am a very careless aid station eater. I hit them with reckless abandon and discovered you can get really cool stuff off the "hidden menu" if you just ask. Once on a particularly chilly race, I jokingly asked for bourbon and this dude pulled out a flask. I was thrilled.
i lucked out and got a bit of whiskey once2 -
@midwesterner85 Looks like the dogs can detect ketones for highs but the article I found just said 'unique smell' for lows.
Apparently some can be trained to dial 911! (On a special phone.)0 -
6/1/2018 rest
6/2/2018 2.65 miles
6/3/2018 9.05 miles
6/4/2018 rest
6/5/2018 3 miles
6/6/2018 2.1 miles
6/7/2018 2.5 miles
6/8/2018 2 miles
6/9/2018 2.15 miles
6/10/2018 2 miles
6/11/2018 rest
6/12/2018 poor planning
6/13/2018 poor planning
6/14/2018 2.4 miles
6/15/2018 2.75 miles
6/16/2018 2.5 miles
6/17/2018 10 miles
6/18/2018 rest
6/19/2018 4 miles
6/20/2018 2.9 miles
6/21/2018 2.8 miles
6/22/2018 3 miles
6/23/2018 2.6 miles
6/24/2018 unplanned rest
6/25/2018 rest
6/26/2018 3.4 miles
6/27/2018 2.55 miles
6/28/2018 2.5 miles
6/29/2018 2.75 miles
6/30/2018
Total 69.6 miles
Races
October 6 Estrella Cactus 5k
November 10 Rock n Roll Vegas 5k
November 11 Rock n Roll Vegas Marathon (4:45 goal/5 hour time limit)
November 17 Desert Marigold 6k
December 1 Saguaro 7k
Potential Races
September 29 Maple Leaf Half Marathon (Wisconsin)
October 14 Brew HaHa Halloween 5k
November 22 Strut Your Stuffing 5k
December 2 Hot Chocolate 15k
December 8 12k's of Christmas
December 22 Caribbean Christmas Half & 5k
May 2 Grandad Half Marathon (Wisconsin)
I have a problem. I apparently want to race every weekend in December.
Some "hill"/speed work this morning. I pushed myself and despite tired legs my last 30 seconds was 6:53 per mile pace. Now if only I could do that naturally and not feel like I'm dying when I finish. Lol7 -
@midwesterner85 Looks like the dogs can detect ketones for highs but the article I found just said 'unique smell' for lows.
Apparently some can be trained to dial 911! (On a special phone.)
Max Domi (nhl player) has a service dog for his type 1. During games he uses a meter but his dog will wake him if he's getting too low. The Coyotes had a video about it a while back. I think his dog is at some games as well.2 -
@midwesterner85 Looks like the dogs can detect ketones for highs but the article I found just said 'unique smell' for lows.
Apparently some can be trained to dial 911! (On a special phone.)
I eat very low carb, so always have ketones. Even humans can often smell ketone breath, but there is also a huge difference between levels of ketones with ketosis (safe level resulting from diet) and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA is a deadly level of ketones and comes with other hormone, mineral, and electrolyte imbalances).
If one is testing BG even once or twice per day (I test around 6-10 times daily), they should recognize a high before it is too late. Low BG / hypoglycemia is a more immediate problem. With a high BG / hyperglycemia and DKA, I may not feel great over the next several hours, but I'm not going to die for another day or 2 (maybe even 3-5 days). The threshold for an emergency situation takes time to build. Even when I have had an insulin delivery problem overnight and woke up high after several hours of no insulin, I've still been able to fix it throughout the next day without professional medical care.1 -
Kind of a weird run this morning but I ran, so boo yah! It was very humid and a high dew point (70) and my AirPods weren't working and I was wearing shorter shorts than usual that pinched my thighs a bit, but I decided to go three miles around the lake anyhow. Three miles was a weird block earlier in the month and now apparently it's my short run? /shrug. I'm reevaluating my routes to include longer cool down walks and avoid running on the sidewalk but I still need to figure out an easy shorter run, something I can do in a half hour from door to door. I was running about 30 minutes today but tacked another 20 minutes or so of walking on either end.
I managed an okay average pace but once again went out fast my first mile (tied PR) and had to walk part of the second and third. But still, a run is a run! Hopefully my husband can fix the headphone problem tonight as I'm hoping to get another five miles in tomorrow and maybe a couple Sunday since I've had extra rest this week. That said, I'm freaking falling asleep at my keyboard right now, so maybe I still need rest. Less than a week to my very first race!
JUNE MILES:
6/1 Fr - 0:26:41 - 2.40
6/2 Sa - 0:54:37 - 4.73
6/3 Su - rest
6/4 Mo - lifted heavy things
6/5 Tu - 0:32:23 - 3.00
6/6 We - 0:22:47 - 2.11
6/7 Th - 0:11:16 - 0.96 warm up run, lifted heavy things
6/8 Fr - 2.01
6/9 Sa - 0:21:35 - 1.54 - (fun run), 0:32:07 - 3.00
6/10 Su - rest
6/11 Mo - lifted heavy things
6/12 Tu - 0:27:29 - 2.57
6/13 We - rest
6/14 Th - 0:25:52 - 2.27
6/15 Fr - lifted heavy things
6/16 Sa - weather mandated rest
6/17 Su - lifted heavy things
6/18 Mo - 0:32:41 - 3.01
6/19 Tu - 0:59:00 - 5.11
6/20 We - rest
6/21 Th - 1.00 warm-up run, lifted heavy things
6/22 Fr - 0:22:39 - 2.00
6/23 Sa - sightseeing in Portland!
6/24 Su - 0:35:59 - 3.48
6/25 Mo - sightseeing in Vancouver!
6/26 Tu - 0:32:30 - 3.02
6/27 We - rest/travel
6/28 Th - rest
6/29 Fr - 0:32:38 - 3.01
Total Ran: 45.22 miles
June Goal: 60 miles
Races!
July 4: Red, White and Boom! 5K
October 6: Twin Cities Marathon Weekend 5K8 -
LaDispute57 wrote: »I am a very careless aid station eater. I hit them with reckless abandon and discovered you can get really cool stuff off the "hidden menu" if you just ask. Once on a particularly chilly race, I jokingly asked for bourbon and this dude pulled out a flask. I was thrilled.
i lucked out and got a bit of whiskey once
the race series I have been doing has a 'Lovestation' aid station somewhere along the line. Beer, cider and homemade spirits are available.
I am somewhat concerned because I'll be doing a mostly self-navigated race with another organiser in November. If I'm lucky there'll be water. Hmmm, might take the hip flask......1 -
@girlinahat How long is your self-navigated race? And does that mean you are essentially self-supported or does that also mean the course is not marked very well? I ran a 50k a couple of years ago where property owners claimed the trail ran across their property... a few of them brandished rifles and took down/moved trail markers to dissuade runners... more than once, that race became a bit "self-navigated".1
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midwesterner85 wrote: »Some diabetics with hypoglycemic unawareness have diabetic alert dogs. These dogs are service animals specifically trained for a particular patient to identify hypoglycemia. My understanding is something in our sweat / body odor changes that dogs are capable of smelling.
Our useless dog "alerts" to both highs and lows by barking at my son and acting like he is a burglar. He also is terrified of the smell of insulin. We can keep him out of an area by putting a sharps box of used bd needles nearby.
He's cute though. Both of them, actually.
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LaDispute57 wrote: »I am a very careless aid station eater. I hit them with reckless abandon and discovered you can get really cool stuff off the "hidden menu" if you just ask. Once on a particularly chilly race, I jokingly asked for bourbon and this dude pulled out a flask. I was thrilled.
i lucked out and got a bit of whiskey once
Early on the Boston course, still in the town of Hopkinton, you run past a bar or tavern or something and people have plastic cups with beer held out just like a water station. Boston Irish, I guess. I don't do alcohol, so I can't vouch for the quality of the beer; maybe Sam Adams, since that's a sponsor.
I don't know the legal age for drinking in Massachusetts, but they don't let you run the marathon unless you're at least 18 years old on race day. EDIT TO ADD: They do card you for beer at the pre-race pasta dinner.3 -
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
6/25 – rest day, PT visit
6/26 – 5.14 warmup + easy speed work
6/27 – rest day
6/28 – 4.25 warmup, time trial, cool down
6/29 – rest day
June running total to date – 51.29
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 – Planned rest day today. Yesterday evening was the 2 mile time trial for the training program I pace for.
As I typically do, I went to the program's kickoff meeting. Ran an easy mile warmup to the time trial site, and acted as a rabbit for the program participants. Yes, even not knowing whether my Achilles would act up. It amuses me to be a 62 year old wounded rabbit, and still able to get the job done.
Dew point was 66º F (19º C), actual temperature in the low 80s. Got the delusion that maybe some trainees would be fast this session, and went out harder than I needed to; time for the first of 4 laps was 3:03, and the laps are just a little longer than a half mile. Slowed down after that, but spent too much energy to hold a true 5K race pace. Ended up running the 2 miles (2.03 by Garmin, I suspect certified 2 for the course) in 12:53. Ran hard enough that I stopped and walked, instead of turning around and running the lap retro to cheer folks still running. Probably should have just taken 13:30 or so to run 2 miles and left enough in the tank to keep running. The point is to use an all out 2 mile effort to calculate what long slow pace the trainees belong in; and I don't need the calibration. I could have run less hard and still been an effective rabbit.
Ran an easy mile back to the store, cooled down, listened to the new trainees ask questions. Came home, stretched, and the Achilles felt just a little wonky; so I iced it down. It feels totally normal this morning.
Thought for the day: The podiatrist mentioned ice as part of a list of usual things to do. I haven't been doing it much. Maybe I should just ice the ankle after every run for a while. Can't hurt.
Tomorrow is Charlie's Old Goat Trail race. I haven't trained for trails, but I don't need to run it hard. The idea is to just go out, have fun, and let the results be whatever they are. The outlook is that I'll be able to run 5 miles of trail tomorrow, and I'm happy with that.
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)
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Goal is 30 miles by the 30th.
June 18- Easy 3 miles 35:10
June 19- 3.2 miles 38:20 Took it easy- HIIT class tonight.
June 20- Another easy 3 miles in 36:00 as I am sore from my knees to my neck from last nights HIIT class
June 21- 4.65 Miles 47:12 Hill intervals
June 22- Upper body strength. No run
June 23- 3.95 miles 45:00 Intervals at race pace 400m;800m;1200m;1600m;800m; 3 min recoveries
June 24- “long run” 5.5 miles 60:00
June 25- Easy 3.25 miles 37:45
June 26- HIIT class 60 minutes. No run
June 27- 3 miles 50:00 My quads and butt are completed shredded after last night’s HIIT class. Tried to run but could only manage a walk. Stairs are unbearable
June 28 - Still very sore. Took a rest day
June 29 - 3.25 miles 37:45 Feeling better but butt
is still feeling the split squat jumps from Tuesday’s HIIT.
Total: 30 goal + 2.80 2
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