June 2018 Running Challenge
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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.
being from wisconsin and running mostly in milwaukee and door county most of runs conclude with beer. i get carded usually
when i ran in the olympic penninsula, beer again.
it would be nice to have cider
post race beers is mostly my only alcohol until renaissance fair season starts
i know a few races had unofficial stations with beer
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5BeautifulDays wrote: »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.
I assume he is a pet and not actually a trained alert dog?
I have pet cats and once woke up with one of the cats chewing through the tubing on my pump and looking up at me as if to see whether I was ok. It turns out I had gone low while sleeping and this was before I had a pump that would automatically suspend insulin delivery. By chewing through the tubing, he helped my BG stop dropping as much and as quickly. He might have known what he was doing, but there have been similar circumstances where he didn't help me out the same way; so I can't be sure. The other cat has woken me up when I was low and would not have woken without some 'help.'
I live alone, so if I go low while sleeping (I won't feel it while asleep), I just don't wake up. There was once in 2009 where I had a seizure while sleeping and it was a big problem. I was unemployed at the time (just like a lot of people in 2009), so nobody expected me to be anywhere and nobody knew I was missing or that anything was wrong. I clearly woke up at some point and took care of stuff - eating, getting water, I even applied to jobs and stuff at some point during the 2-3 days afterwards. But I had some serious brain interruption. I was very confused at the time and lost most of my memories. Since then, I've recovered a lot of old memories from before but some of my childhood is still pretty blurry. What ultimately happened is that I guess I called my parents (I don't remember doing this even today) and sounded off. My brother was going through my area soon so they asked him to stop in and check on me. He was driving home from vacation with his then-girlfriend (none of us live real close to each other, but they would be going past my city on their way home). This was a long-term relationship and I had met her several times before. When he showed up, I recognized him and introduced myself to her as I thought it was the first time meeting her. Since I was obviously acting like I didn't know things that I should have known, he took me to a couple of doctors. In the end, no doctor could find anything wrong that explained the memory loss (aside from it was obvious I had a seizure based on tongue being chewed up and it was probably from low BG).6 -
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.
The Richmond marathon and half marathon go by a row of frat houses and the college kids always have a keg set up and are handing it out to passer-bys. The Covenant Half Marathon in Knoxville also has an unofficial aid station with beer. I can't drink beer on a good day so I'm quite certain I would barf if I had some while running!2 -
Had a great 5 mile trail run after work yesterday. It was so much cooler running through the trees and in the shade. Only drawback were the horse flies although they did make me want to keep moving so maybe they were a good thing.5
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Hey guys, sorry for falling off the face of the earth for pretty much the entire month of June.
I had a very rough month. I haven't announced it, been keeping from social media, but I am going through a very contested divorce and that explains a lot of my inactivity on here as some days and even weeks get real tough. I am still running, although not as much as I had been. I will post the July Challenge soon as I see that nobody did that yet. Here's what I did in June:
Date Miles today - Miles for June
6/5 6.2 miles - 6.2
6/7 6.5 miles - 12.7
6/9 8 miles - 20.7
6/12 7.5 miles - 28.2
6/14 8.5 miles - 36.7
6/17 8 miles - 44.7
6/19 7.5 miles - 52.2
6/23 8.25 miles - 60.45
6/28 6.5 miles - 66.95
Races this year
Oak Barrel Half Marathon - 4/7/18 -- 1:47:24
Upcoming races:
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Ended the month with 33 miles. Hoping for 50 miles in July 2
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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.
being from wisconsin and running mostly in milwaukee and door county most of runs conclude with beer. i get carded usually
when i ran in the olympic penninsula, beer again.
it would be nice to have cider
post race beers is mostly my only alcohol until renaissance fair season starts
i know a few races had unofficial stations with beer
Celiac cuts into my post race beer so I'd love a cider! (Also from Wisconsin - beer just goes with everything. Cheese too).1 -
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.
The Flying Pig has an unofficial beer mile. I have also been offered mimosas and tequila shots along the course. The Flying Pig is all about the party! (Did I mention there's bacon? This is an official station AND they were smart enough to put it on the only stretch that is an out and back so you get to double up on the bacon)7 -
lporter229 wrote: »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.
The Flying Pig has an unofficial beer mile. I have also been offered mimosas and tequila shots along the course. The Flying Pig is all about the party! (Did I mention there's bacon? This is an official station AND they were smart enough to put it on the only stretch that is an out and back so you get to double up on the bacon)
*adds flying pig to bucket list because... bacon*3 -
I had a very rough month. I haven't announced it, been keeping from social media, but I am going through a very contested divorce and that explains a lot of my inactivity on here as some days and even weeks get real tough. I am still running, although not as much as I had been.
So sorry to hear this. I am still slogging through my second divorce so I know what you are going through. It's crazy domestic shlt that caused my frequent disappearances and reincarnations. You'd think as a divorce lawyer I'd be better equipped to deal with it, but truth is I can fix other people's crap, but not my own... lol ... Anyway, take your time and don't feel pressure to run this ship... we can keep the mutinies to a minimum.
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hug to the divorcees.
@RunsOnEspresso @lporter229 i've considered running the flying pig. at the least, doing the patrick cudahy run to baconfest. because bacon2 -
OK, that was a nasty spell of depression the past few days.
I was finally able to get up and run this morning. Well, it was a walk/run, but the run part felt okay. I even tried taking the last half mile at my "old" pace to see what it felt like, and I was able to get through the half mile just fine. Not sure how long I can keep that pace up though. Might try that tomorrow.
@Stoshew71 So sorry to hear about the divorce. Been there, done that, lost my husband and my son. At least my ex lets me see my son every weekend so I don't go through massive withdrawal (and subsequent depression). But I digress. I'm rooting for you to come out of this relatively unscathed and be able to return to running two-a-days.7 -
All this talk about beer at races makes me wish I could drink alcohol. But alas, the psychiatrist said NO ALCOHOL while I'm taking lorazepam, so... feh.
So let's recap. No alcohol. No dairy. Good thing I don't live in Wisconsin. I live just below it, in Illinois, and let me tell you, I MISS Chicago style pizza! I miss pizza in general. I haven't tried the dairy-free cheese yet. My friend whose child is also dairy-free says not to try that until I'm 100% over real cheese, which I'm not. Ben & Jerry's, however, makes a really awesome non-dairy ice cream.
Psychiatrist also suggested no gluten but ack, I don't know if I can do that. I mean, my soulmate is carbs.
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RespectTheKitty wrote: »All this talk about beer at races makes me wish I could drink alcohol. But alas, the psychiatrist said NO ALCOHOL while I'm taking lorazepam, so... feh.
Hmmm... I routinely wash my ativan down with bourbon with no ill effects... but then again I have lots of experience washing things down with bourbon...lol
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@RespectTheKitty
psychiatrist is not a registered dietician so unless he can tell me how carbs relate to lorezepam... but i'm not a dr either
so far, question of my drinking (or lack thereof) has not come up
i've had nondairy cheese. it wasn't horrible. but my brain kept asking what i was eating0 -
LaDispute57 wrote: »RespectTheKitty wrote: »All this talk about beer at races makes me wish I could drink alcohol. But alas, the psychiatrist said NO ALCOHOL while I'm taking lorazepam, so... feh.
Hmmm... I routinely wash my ativan down with bourbon with no ill effects... but then again I have lots of experience washing things down with bourbon...lol
Dude, if you like bourbon then you really need to do this race: http://www.oakbarrelhalf.com/ sponsored by the Jack Daniels Distillery.
Or the Kentucky Derby Half/Full Marathon https://derbyfestivalmarathon.com/ Since Jim Beam is a major sponsor. I have souvenir bottles with my race time engraved from both races.
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Hugs to everyone having a tough summer. Divorce and depression suck.1
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I don't make a habit of drinking beer at 10:30am, but there's nothing quite like a post race beer. Particularly if it's a freebie provided by a sponsor. And even better if you win your age-group and get a coozie as a prize.
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Hey guys, sorry for falling off the face of the earth for pretty much the entire month of June.
I had a very rough month. I haven't announced it, been keeping from social media, but I am going through a very contested divorce and that explains a lot of my inactivity on here as some days and even weeks get real tough.
Condolences. Even if the divorce looks necessary, it will still hurt a lot and be very stressful. Been there, done that, got the house and custody.
Hang in there, and don't make any life-shattering decisions you can avoid until you get through it and the mental fog starts to lift.4 -
RespectTheKitty wrote: »All this talk about beer at races makes me wish I could drink alcohol. But alas, the psychiatrist said NO ALCOHOL while I'm taking lorazepam, so... feh.
So let's recap. No alcohol. No dairy. Good thing I don't live in Wisconsin. I live just below it, in Illinois, and let me tell you, I MISS Chicago style pizza! I miss pizza in general. I haven't tried the dairy-free cheese yet. My friend whose child is also dairy-free says not to try that until I'm 100% over real cheese, which I'm not. Ben & Jerry's, however, makes a really awesome non-dairy ice cream.
Psychiatrist also suggested no gluten but ack, I don't know if I can do that. I mean, my soulmate is carbs.
The brand dayia or something is probably the best fake cheese I've had. If I couldn't do dairy that would probably be what I would try to eat.0 -
@BruinsGal_91 what’s a ‘coozie’? My brain can’t create an object for it.
(Reminds me of my first day in Japan where my Aussie housematebhappily told me she’d put a fresh doona on my bed....)0 -
Hey @Stoshew71 sorry about your troubles, but good to know you’re still here.0
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girlinahat wrote: »@BruinsGal_91 what’s a ‘coozie’? My brain can’t create an object for it.
(Reminds me of my first day in Japan where my Aussie housematebhappily told me she’d put a fresh doona on my bed....)
Where I live, a "coozie" is a device (often foam) that is shaped and sized to slide a soda/bear can into it so that the can and contents better maintains its temperature.
ETA: It's the pink thing in her photo.0 -
I’m liking the sound of some of these races. One day I mightt do the marathon de Medoc.....
@RespectTheKitty - I tried cashew cheese once. Hmmm. Doesn’t exactly have the same attributes as cheese cheese.
@midwesterner85 I’m scared of my dad not being around for my mum in case she has a low. I’ve been on the end of the phone before realising she’s low but knowing she’s just eaten and spending the next twenty minutes listening as the carbs kick in.0 -
midwesterner85 wrote: »girlinahat wrote: »@BruinsGal_91 what’s a ‘coozie’? My brain can’t create an object for it.
(Reminds me of my first day in Japan where my Aussie housematebhappily told me she’d put a fresh doona on my bed....)
Where I live, a "coozie" is a device (often foam) that is shaped and sized to slide a soda/bear can into it so that the can and contents better maintains its temperature.
ETA: It's the pink thing in her photo.
https://www.google.com/search?q=coozie&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLitjz0vnbAhUCKKwKHeeHBdYQ_AUICygC&biw=1920&bih=9600 -
Thanks all for the well wishes. "This too will pass!"3
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Ah thanks @midwesterner85 and @Stoshew71
I wish we couldn’t just google the answers to things. It stifles conversations!!!
Everyone knows us Brits drink warm
Beer so we don’t need any of those things 5 -
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
06/13/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 46.5
06/14/18 :::: 10.0 :::: 56.5
06/15/18 :::: 3.2 :::: 59.7
06/16/18 :::: 4.9 :::: 64.6
06/17/18 :::: 3.3 :::: 67.9
06/18/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 71.0
06/19/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 74.2
06/20/18 :::: 6.6 :::: 80.8
06/21/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 80.8
06/22/18 :::: 2.7 :::: 83.5
06/23/18 :::: 10.3 :::: 93.8
06/24/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 96.9
06/25/18 :::: 2.7 :::: 99.7
06/26/18 :::: 5.5 :::: 105.2
06/27/18 :::: 6.3 :::: 111.4
06/28/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 114.5
06/29/18 :::: 0.5 :::: 115.0/ 110 miles total
Today was really an off day for running, but I ran a warm-up before my circuit training this morning and I'm counting it! I might need that half mile for my weekly/monthly total self-satisfaction I really ran another half mile too because we did a few laps during the workout. But I didn't record it on Garmin so did it really happen?
Weighing whether I can talk myself into starting my run at 6 am tomorrow, or just take my chances with the heat at 7. I am not a 6 am person.
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Half marathon tomorrow in the middle of nowhere... not sure what I've gotten myself into I just hope I don't get lost and can finish safely and in a timely fashion. Oh, and mostly to have fun!
Went for a little run today, basically from our hotel to a track, with a playground right next to it. The kids ran with me to the playground... first I realized the sidewalk we wanted to take was actually under construction and an entire crew of male construction workers were staring at us, so we went around through a grassy area, past an older gentleman who looked very concerned, and then informed me that there were "children running after me". "Yes," I responded, to which he looked confused and then asked, "are they yours?" "Yes," I again replied, and kept running, now past him and almost to the playground. Kids played and I ran in a few circles, but really just didn't feel good and made it a short run. We then went and spent the day at the zoo and walked over 12k, which seems like a lot for little legs. I need to try to get some sleep though.
I did skim through the thread, though - there was some interesting stuff in there!9
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