July 2018 Running Challenge

girlinahat · July 2018

so, I'm out for the month of August.

Having completely lacked motivation and with only a half-hearted attempt to run, and it being pretty hot for a change here, I've decided to have a month break of even attempting to run.

I figure rather than feel guilty daily for not running, I should just call it quits and accept it's not happening. I'm going to attempt 30 days of yoga in the mornings, but if that doesn't happen I'll just enjoy the extra sleep for a month. I won't be present in the August thread, not even lurking.

It gives me a chance to focus on some other gym/cycling/swimming related activities.

Happy running everyone and see you in September!!! (when I'll need to start retraining for a HM in November!!)

katharmonic · July 2018

@shanaber - loved your race report. Great pictures. It's so beautiful there with the mist/fog. Sounds like you guys made the most of your trip. Congrats to your daughter on an incredible PR, and glad you made it through the long wait for a porta potty. That's pretty terrible.

@girlinahat I hope you have a very good break in August.

PastorVincent · July 2018

@shanaber Well done! And huge kudos to your daughter! 50 minutes off her PR! WOW!!

cburke8909 · July 2018

4 miles this am. took all 31 days but made my goal

BruinsGal_91 · July 2018

Five miles last night, bringing my July total to 42.5 miles. Somewhat less than I was hoping for, so here's to more miles in August.

2018 races completed
1/21/18 Dreamfar 10k (age-group 5/23)
2/10/18 Cupid's Chase 5k (age-group 4/24)
3/10/18 Medway Shamrock Shuffle 5k (age-group 3/25)
4/08/18 Holly Club Hustle 5k (4th overall, 2nd woman, 2nd in age group)
5/13/18 Strivers Mothers' Day 5k (age-group 15/55)
5/19/18 Martha's Vineyard Half Marathon (age-group 24/84)
6/21/18 J P Morgan Corporate Challenge 3.5m
7/14/18 Tonneson and Co. 5k (age-group 4/12)

2018 registered races
8/18/18 Book it! Dedham Library 5k
9/03/18 Martin Richard 8k Run
9/08/18 Louisa May Alcott Orchard House 10k
9/29/18 Stride for Healthy Communities 5k
10/08/18 Reebok Women's 10k
10/28/18 Bill's Pizzeria 5k

MegaMooseEsq · July 2018

Last run of July and it was a pretty good one, if a little painful. I’m aiming to run one 5k-ish distance per week starting off slow and working up to a faster pace than my pre-lifting runs or long run, ideally without needing to walk. From my reading I think this is probably some kind of tempo run? In any case, I managed a 10’12” pace, which is a 5K PR, and not one but TWO full sub-ten minute miles, boom! I did get a gnarly calf cramp when I was pulling away from the water fountain around mile one, but so it goes.

Also, this was my first run in my new Old Navy shorts! Generally speaking they worked out great: love the length, love the feel, and the pockets (two!) were actually big enough to hold a house key, spare buff, and plastic card-holder with my ID and $20, and I completely forgot they were there. One big downside: the plum color I got does NOT hide sweat at all. I noticed this about halfway through my run and shrugged it off, figuring we’re all girls here out on the trail (figuratively), but I was pretty self-conscious walking home through the fully-dressed, not-drenched-in-sweat Muggles on their way to work. I don’t think it’s enough of a downside to negate the upsides, but it’s a bit of a bummer.

ETA: It looks like Old Navy sells the same shorts in black, so I think I'm going to see if I can exchange the pair I didn't wear for a couple of pairs in black. Then I can save the plum for easier, ideally less sweaty runs.

JULY MILES:
7/1 Su - 1:01:09 - 5.43
7/2 Mo - lifted heavy things
7/3 Tu - 0:20:33 - 2.01
7/4 We - 0:32:46 - 3.13
7/5 Th - rest
7/6 Fr - 0:20:19 - 2.01, lifted heavy things
7/7 Sa - rest
7/8 Su - 1:10:32 - 5.84
7/9 Mo - lifted heavy things
7/10 Tu - 0:36:20 - 3.41
7/11 We - 0:22:40 - 2.00
7/12 Th - rest
7/13 Fr - 0:10:45 - 0.89, lifted heavy things
7/14 Sa - 1:12:28 - 6.30
7/15 Su - rest
7/16 Mo - lifted heavy things
7/17 Tu - 0:33:55 - 3.09
7/18 We - 0:19:54 - 1.83
7/19 Th - rest, stretch
7/20 Fr - 0:13:08 - 1.21, lifted heavy things
7/21 Sa - 1:20:25 - 7.02
7/22 Su - rest and stretch
7/23 Mo - 0:23:43 - 2.26
7/24 Tu - rest
7/25 We - 0:19:10 - 1.65, lifted heavy things
7/26 Th - rest and stretch
7/27 Fr - 0:20:32 - 1.81
7/28 Sa - 0:53:18 - 4.83
7/29 Su - rest
7/30 Mo - rest
7/31 Tu - 0:31:35 - 3.09

Total: 58.87/50 miles

Races!
July 4: Red, White and Boom! 5K Chip time: 0:32:20
August 25: The Glo Run Night Race 5K
September 8th, 9th, 15th, or 16th: MN Brewery Running Series 5K-ish fun run
October 6: Twin Cities Marathon Weekend 5K

mbaker566 · July 2018

7/1-1.01mi
7/2-1.04mi
7/3-1.04mi
7/4-2.02mi
7/5-3.12mi
7/6-1.01mi(2 hours of aerial hammock and hoop)
7/7-1.01mi(2 hours of aerial yoga)
7/8-1.01mi(walked 5 miles at the renaissance faire)
7/9-1.01mi
7/10-1.5mi
7/11- 2.2mi (2 hours of aerial yoga)
7/12-1.04mi (1 hour aerial yoga)
7/13- 1.01mi (2 hours of aerial hammock and hoop)
7/14- 2.07mi (3.5 hours of aerial yoga)
7/15- 2.00mi
7/16- 1.01mi
7/17- 1.01mi
7/18- 6.15mi(2 hours of aerial yoga)
7/19- 1.01mi(1 hour aerial yoga)
7/20- 1.01mi
7/21- 1.01mi
7/22- 1.01mi
7/23- 1.20mi
7/24- 4.56mi
7/25- 2.23mi (1 hour aerial yoga)
7/26- 1.1mi(1 hour aerial yoga)
7/27- 1.01 mi (2 hours of aerial hammock and hoop)
7/28- 1.01mi (2 hours of aerial yoga)
7/29- 5.28mi
7/30- 1.01mi

needed to give my body a break from sunday. so i did some food to celebrate harry potter's birthday-today
body was pretty dead. i think i might make some pasta with ground venison to help refuel. that's a thing right?

and butterbeer
idk if a run will happen tonight. the lawn needs mowing and my parents are coming to keep working on the remodel

mbaker566 · July 2018

Scott6255 wrote: »

This morning would have been a great day to run, low 70's and low humidity. But somehow I got in the middle of an ant hill this past weekend, and I have dozens of ant bites on the top, bottom, in between my toes and it actually hurts to walk. So I am taking the last day of July off. But happy with my consistency of running every other day in July, beating my distance goal with 116 miles (36 miles over goal, matching my PR for monthly miles). Will take this extra rest day, and look forward to tomorrow (August already?!!). Tomorrow morning it is supposed to be even cooler than today with temps below 70F! I can't remember last time it did that. But I know it won't last long, so want to take advantage of that.
See you all in the August Challenge!

i accidentally stood on a red ant hill. they swarmed me. i stripped off my pants in the middle of the yard (mowing my lawn) and was swatting at my leg, mumbling curses. i'm sure the neighbors thought i was crazy.

@girlinahat one trail marathan hands out handy wipes in the registration bag. a friend who like me does shorter distances asked what those were for. well...

@shanaber great report

congrats on everyone who made their goals. good work for all who tried but missed.

workaholic_nurse · July 2018

@girlinahat we'll see you in September ma'am, enjoy August.

ETA: Is the August challenge up yet and I just am not seeing it or did I miss a link in thread?

RunsOnEspresso · July 2018

*kitten*. I need more coffee. I was all over the August group then realized (like 3 pages in) that it was 2017. Oi with the poodles already. Sorry to anyone I quoted thinking it was this years thread.

Scott6255 · July 2018

@girlinahat have a good, restful August. We will see you back here in September with a new mojo and ready to tackle that HM training.
@workaholic_nurse the August Running Challenge hasn't been born yet. Hopefully soon....

5BeautifulDays · July 2018

@AprilRN10 "running til you aren't mad anymore!" I love it. And can't tell you how many people's lives may have been saved by me doing the exact same thing, lol

@shanaber What a great race report--the pictures are awesome! Sorry about the lack of facilities--that's just crazy. Congrats to your daughter on her wild new PR!

I finished up July with another 3 miles on the neighborhood trails. I didn't quite hit 60, but I'm sure I *ran* at least 45-50 miles of it, so I'm content. I'm hoping for a similar August, although I go back to work (preschool teacher) on the 24th, so I'm going to need to work out how I'll be getting my runs in once my schedule changes. I do think I have a plan...run short distances around the neighborhood on Tuesdays and Thursdays (when I don't go in until 9:30) and either run in the evening or on a treadmill in the afternoon on Mondays/Wednesdays, and Fridays until it cools down enough to do afternoon trail runs. Long run on the weekend.

skippygirlsmom · July 2018

7/1 - 5
7/2 - 0
7/3 - 5
7/4 - 3
7/6 - 3
7/7 - 3
7/8 - 4
7/9 - 0
7/10 - 5
7/11 - 0
7/12 - 3
7/13 - 2
7/14 - 4
7/15 - 3
7/16 - 0
7/17 - 0
7/18 - 2
7/19 - 0
7/20 - 0
7/21 - 4
7/22 - 3 miles biking with Skip
7/23 – 3
7/24 – 3
7/25 – 0 rest day – I hate running on garbage day yuck
7/26 – 0 unschedule rest day
7/27 – 3
7/28 - 3
7/29 – 4
7/30 – 0 rest day
7/32 - 1.5 miles

63 of 60 miles

Skip's private coach, who devastated us the other day by telling us she was moving out to the West coast, told me to stop playing around and run FAST to get my speed back up. So this morning I did a FAST as I can 1.5 miles at 11:27 pace. She's right I'm killing myself, I was a 10 min pace HM runner, what am I doing! So I'll throw some of those days in starting in August. We have so many come one come all speed work nights around here I need to start going to those.

Off to read some the posts.

mustb60 · July 2018

July Running Challenge
Goal: 40 km
Done: 64.3/40 km

31/7/18 Run 4 km
30/7/18 Run 2.3 km
27/7/18 Run 1 km
25/7/18 Run 5.2 km
24/7/18 SL B walk 5 km
23/7/18 Run 4.5 km
22/7/18 SL A
21/7/18 Run 3.2 km
20/7/18 Run 6 km
17/7/18 walk 11 km SL B
15/7/18 Run 6 km
14/7/18 Rest day
13/7/18 Run 3.4 km SL A
12/7/18 Run 6.3 km
11/7/18 Run 5 km SL B
10/7/18 Rest Day
9/7/18 Run 5 km SL A
8/7/18 Run 2 km Walk 4 km
7/7/18 Walk 3 km SL B
5/7/18 Run 2.5 km Walk 6 km
4/7/18 Run 2 km Walk 7 km SL A
3/7/18 Run 4 km Walk 9 km
2/7/18 Run 2 km Walk 5 km
1/7/18 Walk 7 km

AlphaHowls · July 2018

7/1 13.54 miles
7/2 20.08 miles
7/3 16.51 miles
7/4 20.38 miles
7/5 2.07 miles
7/6 15.36 miles
7/7 16.66 miles
7/8 16.03 miles
7/9 16.43 miles
7/10 18.27 miles

7/11 13.06 miles
7/12 10.4 miles
7/13 22.08 miles
7/14 22.07 miles
7/15 13.59 miles
7/16 17.41 miles
7/17 10.4 miles
7/18 18.46 miles
7/19 16.25 miles
7/20 15.21 miles

7/21 16.38 miles
7/22 15.31 miles
7/23 22.06 miles
7/24 15.34 miles
7/25 17.01 miles
7/26 13.15 miles
7/27 17.06 miles
7/28 20.52 miles
7/29 15.44 miles
7/30 20.23 miles
7/31 15.37 miles

502.13 miles for July 2018

92 days on the run streak
2353.42 miles for 2018

katharmonic · July 2018

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
07/01/18 :::: 3.1 :::: 3.1
07/02/18 :::: 5.5 :::: 8.6
07/03/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 11.5
07/04/18 :::: 5.6 :::: 17.1
07/05/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 17.1
07/06/18 :::: 2.0 :::: 19.2
07/07/18 :::: 3.8 :::: 22.9
07/08/18 :::: 9.4 :::: 32.4
07/09/18 :::: 4.1 :::: 36.4
07/10/18 :::: 3.8 :::: 40.3
07/11/18 :::: 6.6 :::: 46.8
07/12/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 46.8
07/13/18 :::: 4.0 :::: 50.9
07/14/18 :::: 14.2 :::: 65.1
07/15/18 :::: 4.9 :::: 70.0
07/16/18 :::: 3.8 :::: 73.8
07/17/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 76.8
07/18/18 :::: 4.8 :::: 81.7
07/19/18 :::: 4.1 :::: 85.8
07/20/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 85.8
07/21/18 :::: 12.1 :::: 97.9
07/22/18 :::: 4.1 :::: 101.9
07/23/18 :::: 4.1 :::: 106.0
07/24/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 109.0
07/25/18 :::: 7.5 :::: 116.5
07/26/18 :::: 4.0 :::: 120.5
07/27/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 120.5
07/28/18 :::: 4.1 :::: 124.5
07/29/18 :::: 12.3 :::: 136.8
07/30/18 :::: 3.7 :::: 140.6
07/31/18 :::: 4.1 :::: 144.7/ goal 130 miles (111%)

Wrapped up the month with this morning's run. Should have gone out earlier, but I walked the dog first and then figured while I was already mildly sweaty, why not just do it instead of waiting until this evening. My pace started out really slow and got progressively better, mostly because I just wanted to get it done with.

Really happy with how this month of training went in general. This was my highest mileage month so far, and I exceeded my goal. I have upped my base runs from a minimum of 3 miles to more consistently 4 miles. I got in my longest run ever (14.2 miles) as a bit of a fluke, but will shortly need to be back up there and beyond. My new shoes seem to have all but eliminated my ankle soreness, although there is still the blister issue to resolve.

I'll need to do some calculations to set a goal for August. Things are going to start getting very real!

shanaber · July 2018

I haven't seen Stan (@Stoshew71) here for a while and know he has been busy taking care of some personal business so I went a head and created the August discussion - hopefully I did it correctly and in the right place.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10685375/august-2018-running-challenge/p1?new=1

dreamer12151 · July 2018

Had PLANNED to run yesterday. Fobbed it off in the morning, brought my stuff to run after work. Massive storms, so 3rd plan was the dread-mill. End of work, schlepped all my stuff back home without running. This morning, 0420am alarm went off, knowing I still had 2.57 miles left on my goal for the month, and had another internal battle of wits with myself which I either won or lost, depending on how you look at it.

FINALLY dragged my sorry self out of bed, dressed & got out, 30 mins later that I like. Took a different route, and realized about 1/2 way though that it was the longer route, and I was going to be cutting close on time, good thing all my food was prepped for the work day!

But, at least I was able to make the monthly goal, as nominal as it was.

July goal: 20 miles

7/2 - 1.62
7/4 - 1.70
7/5 - 2.10
7/9 - 2.00
7/10 - 2.01
7/12 - 2.15
7/14 - 2.03
7/23 - 1.63
7/27 - 2.20
7/31 - 2.72 - 20.16 done - GOAL MET!
_______________________
8/25/2018 - Ft Desoto Bridge Run 5K

ariceroni · July 2018

July 2018 Running
07/01: 4.11 mile easy run + 2 hours biking
07/02: 30 min XT
07/03: 9.25 miles- 1.6 wu; 2x2M(15:09, 15:12)/2’ rest; 2x1M(7:22, 7:23)/1’ rest; 1.6 cd
07/04: 45 min XT
07/05: 4.02 mile easy run
07/06: 18.03 mile long run
07/07: off, rest/travel day
07/08: 9.76 mile trail run
07/09: 4.01 mile trail run
07/10: off, sick with the flu

07/11: 4.06 mile trail run
07/12: 9.01 mile trail run
07/13: 10.02 mile trail run
07/14: off, rest/travel day
07/15: 18.02 mile long run
07/16: off, rest day
07/17 (am): 7.01 mile easy run
07/17 (pm): 2.01 mile easy run
07/18: 45 min XT
07/19: 7.21 miles- 7x1' pickups @ ~7:00 pace
07/20: 4.01 mile easy run
07/21: off, rest day
07/22: 12.01 miles- 10x1' pickups @ 5K pace + 45 min XT + core
07/23: 60 min XT + strength training
07/24: 9.02 miles- 2 wu; 4@MP; 3 cd
07/25: 6.01 mile easy run + core
07/26: 11.02 miles- 3 wu; 4x(1M@HMP/400e); 3 cd
07/27: 90 min XT
07/28: 4.02 mile easy run
07/29: 20.02 mile long run
07/30: 75 min XT + strength training
07/31: 6.04 mile easy run
Total: 182.71 miles

Cut my run short today at 6 miles instead of the 9 I had planned. I mentioned a few posts back that the top of my foot has been bothering me a bit for the last ~1.5 weeks. It hasn't been hurting when I walk or run on it, just feels tight for the first 2-3 miles of a run. Pretty much the rest of the time though I have a persistent ache/burning sensation in the top of my foot. It's also a little tender if I press along th 3rd metatarsal. I spent last week treating it with ice/NSAIDs while still continuing to train, but it doesn't seem to be getting better. But also isn't getting worse. I guess I don't really know what to do, if it is better to take a week off to see if it heals up, or just continue with my training since it doesn't really bother me to run on it. Anyways, if anyone has dealt with something similar or has some advice, I posted about it in the group here

Upcoming Races
10/07: Chicago Marathon
11/04: Hot Chocolate 5K
11/25: Space Coast Half Marathon

Gary_Z · July 2018

finished! I know it's a small goal compared to some of you beasts out there, but I did it.
7/31/18 2.1 miles, 9:13/mile

July 2018 Running Challenge

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