August 2018 Running Challenge
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Ok, now that I have a computer again and not just the stupid app...
8/1/18 2.65 miles
8/2/18 3.1 miles
8/3/18 3.1 miles
8/4/18 10 miles
8/5/18 2.7 miles
8/6/18 blood draw
8/7/18 3.9 miles
8/8/18 3.3 miles
8/9/18 3.05 miles
8/10/18 2.7 miles
Total 34.5 /100-115
Today's mileage should have been a bit higher but my week has caught up to me. It was turtle speedwork today. I started out with a shuffle for my zone 1 warm up. My highest HR was 125. I'm usually on the verge of zone 1 when my warm-up is done. I move into 5 minutes of zone 2. I attempt to pick it up a bit more. I got up to 144, which is a little low for my zone 2. I usually bounce between 145-150.
Now, on to the "hill" repeats. I am supposed to do 30 seconds in zone 5 followed by 1:30 in zone 1. I usually can get to zone 5 for 30 seconds then I walk for 30 seconds and shuffle for a minute.
I never got out of zone 2 today!
My 30 seconds were about a minute or so slower than I usually go and I walked a minute or more then shuffled for maybe 30 seconds until the next repeat started.
But... it's just one run, right? I'll wake up a bit later tomorrow, try to beat the heat, and get back on track!
Running... it's a love/hate relationship no doubt!10 -
What do you guys do for a warm up and how much of a difference do you notice?
On most runs, I walk a couple of hundred metres, then make my first 1-2 kms very slow.
If I'm going to go for it on a run, I'll do 1-2 km easy and some dynamic stretches before the race. That also applies our speed/interval sessions for our running club.3 -
@polskagirl01 Great week!
@katharmonic Hey, a HM is a HM. Tick! Nice you can do an event. We only have one HM event in town per year.
@MaxT370 Glad to see you found this thread!
@RunsOnEspresso The heat will be doing its bit to make your body better at running.
So many of you have terrible heat! That sucks!
Meanwhile today, my hands were so freezing I was trying to run with my hands in my armpits!
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Aug 01 – 10 km
Aug 02 – 06 km
Aug 04 – 05 km parkrun 28:22
Aug 06 – 21 km
Aug 08 – 10 km
Aug 11 – 21 km
Two HMs this week on my holiday at home. That was my aim this week, so yay, job done.10 -
0811-7.1k, total-21.1k, goal-80.5k
Regular old loop. It was hot, I was starving, and everything hurt. So it was just one of those runs...
Re: warm-up @Avidkeo I'm pretty bad at warming up. Sometimes if I run first thing in the morning I do dynamic stretches. Don't usually feel a need for them if I run after work, since I've either just cycled 10km home or had a pretty fast walk from the subway station.
Re: every mile is a bear @RunnerGrl1982 I started running in Nov. 2013. I think it took me a month or so. Even now it's sometimes still hard (today for example), but I think we also get used to the feeling that running is hard, and so get better at pushing through the bearish parts.
Upcoming races:
20181027 Mogan Ultra 30k
20181118 Shanghai Marathon (maybe)4 -
*sigh* taking a DNS today. Ah well. Weather cleared up so at least the others will have a good, if muddy and humid race.11
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Slept in, struggled to get out the door, ran basically around a storm so had all of the humidity and none of the relief of the rain, and stuff hurts (right quad was complaining the loudest, I'm blaming swimming). But even with the shortcut at the end, I still got 14k in. It's a no-work Saturday, so I'm going to go take a nap. Weekly total is within my "consistency" goal range.
On a more positive note: my running buddy has had a habit of not running when I was out of town. So this past week she was on vacation too. I got a video message of her on vacation... running! It was being recorded by someone riding a bike behind her. It totally made my day!
My 2 toenails that had turned black after the marathon in May finally fell off. Might be weird, but I'm pretty proud of this
Upcoming races:
August 18 Chmielakowy Half Marathon (Krasnystaw)
August 26 Kolbudy 10k, Bąkowo (Kashubia)15 -
So for whatever reason today, Endomondo is having a *kitten* and is not transferring my run over. If it decides to later then great and we will adjust cardio. 6.13 miles at just under 13 min mile pace, long slow run for the week. Then .14 mile cool down.
ETA:total of 29.84 miles so far this month, all outdoor. YAY! 🕺happy dance for no treadmill😂5 -
8/1 rest
8/2 9miles
8/3 4.22miles
8/4 13.1miles
8/5 rest
8/6 8.5miles
8/7 4miles (treadmill)
8/8 4miles
8/9 9.4miles
8/10 4miles
8/11 13.1miles
Yesterday, I took the kiddos out on their bikes while I ran. It went pretty well! A bit slow, but some sections were a bit fast while others were quite slow. An inadvertent interval run I guess
This morning I decided I would head out early to try to beat the heat. I got out at 6:40... it was 75 and overcast with a bit of a breeze... not horrible, still humid though. I set out to go slow knowing I had a long way to go. At about 7 miles my right hip started complaining. Unusual, haven't ever had pain in my right hip... at 8.5 miles I started walking to try and stretch it out. So I finished the 4.5 miles run/walking. Ugh, worst run in a really long time. At least it's over and now the sun is shining!
ETA, I just added up the mileage on my shoes 439 miles. I guess it's time for new shoes!
3/18/2018 Shamrock half marathon
3/24/2018 Don't Sit on Colon Cancer 5K
5/28/2018 Run to Remember 5K
10/7/2018 Crawlin Crab half marathon
10/13/2018 Joggin for Frogmen 5K
11/18/2018 Norfolk Harbor half marathon7 -
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
08/01/18 :::: 6.3 :::: 6.3
08/02/18 :::: 3.5 :::: 9.9
08/03/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 9.9
08/04/18 :::: 14.3 :::: 24.2
08/05/18 :::: 5.2 :::: 29.4
08/06/18 :::: 3.8 :::: 33.2
08/07/18 :::: 5.0 :::: 38.2
08/08/18 :::: 6.1 :::: 44.3
08/09/18 :::: 14.2 :::: 58.4
08/10/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 58.4
08/11/18 :::: 5.2 :::: 63.6
Nice easy run this morning in much cooler weather. Still a bit sticky but a relief. After I got home I changed into a long sleeve shirt for walking the dog. Kind of a nice change!
I'm off in a little while for my volunteer gig at the relay race. Forecast is looking like pretty good chances of rain, maybe even heavy at times. I stopped and bought a rain poncho and I'm bringing a few clothing options. I'm at the last exchange only 4 miles from the finish, so runners and going to be tired but ready to finish. Hopefully it's not too bad for them.
Thank you @USCBMOM22, @_nikkiwolf_ and @Orphia (and for all the likes as well!) for your congrats on my impromptu half marathon race.6 -
8/1/18 2.65 miles
8/2/18 3.1 miles
8/3/18 3.1 miles
8/4/18 10 miles
8/5/18 2.7 miles
8/6/18 blood draw
8/7/18 3.9 miles
8/8/18 3.3 miles
8/9/18 3.05 miles
8/10/18 2.7 miles
8/11/18 3 miles
Total 37.5 /100-115
I went to bed early and got to sleep in a bit. It was only 77 at 6:15 am! I felt good and I probably went out too fast. I had to stop a few times and stretch my calves as I was getting shin splints. Felt better as soon as I stretched. I worked hard to keep positive thoughts and work on my form.
My 40 minutes ended at 2.88 and normally I'd just round up to 2.9 but this morning I said *kitten* it, I want 3 miles!
12 miles tomorrow. I hope the temp and cloud coverage sticks around or I'll be up super early. And it will be better than yesterday and today!7 -
I have no mojo. Please send some my way.
I think this may be menopausal. But I've always struggled with low energy levels. Usually B vitamins and lots of caffeine help. Nowadays it seems like my B's are placebo's. The caffeine just gives me a dull headache.
Dh went on a run without me. Jokes on him. He thinks its nice out. 75 F, real feel is 86 with 88% humidity. Be nice for about 3 steps.
Will take advice. May just need to give in to another round of hormone pellets. I did eat two slices of pizza two days in a row, and had knock your *kitten* out anesthesia Thursday for dental work. Maybe i can shake it if i quit eating crap food.
I dreamt i met up with @garygse but we were both teenagers at a family like gathering. i wanted to run with him, he said "no" cuz i was too slow, then i punched him in the chest and he laughed at me. Still dreaming, i checked my ranking in a race and was 5th overall. Haha!
Yesterday Taco casa got my order wrong and gave me root beer. Hense the Gary dream. And i wanna be fast like him, i guess.15 -
8/1-8/7 - 7.25/20 mi
8/8 - walk
8/9 - w5d1 c25k 1.75 mi
8/10 - lazy rest day
8/11 - w5d2 c25k 2 mi
My anxiety has been peaking a bit lately as I approach What would’ve been my due date, and yesterday was a bad day. I had trouble sleeping last night, so my husband had already taken the kiddo for a walk when I woke up. I debated just staying in bed and running “later” (or not at all), but the temp was 73F, so I knew I needed to get out.
First time running 8 minutes non stop in a very very long time, and I just kept telling myself, “you can slow down, you just can’t stop.” It wasn’t as bad as expected and I really think it has to do with the temp - humidity is still sitting around 90% but it was a good 10-15 degrees cooler than my last couple outdoors runs.
August: 11/20 mi21 -
@Elise4270 my guess would be the knock-out gas at the dentist. Especially with dreams like that
If it is menopausal, afraid I can't help you there. Probably just this dang weather. It's been sucking the will, energy, and motivation from me.
Hang in there and it will get better.... eventually.4 -
@Elise4270 my guess would be the knock-out gas at the dentist. Especially with dreams like that
If it is menopausal, afraid I can't help you there. Probably just this dang weather. It's been sucking the will, energy, and motivation from me.
Hang in there and it will get better.... eventually.
Can't or won't? 😁 (Archer reference).
I figured part of it has to be the exhausting heat. Thanks for the support.0 -
@Elise4270 my guess would be the knock-out gas at the dentist. Especially with dreams like that
If it is menopausal, afraid I can't help you there. Probably just this dang weather. It's been sucking the will, energy, and motivation from me.
Hang in there and it will get better.... eventually.
Can't or won't? 😁 (Archer reference).
I figured part of it has to be the exhausting heat. Thanks for the support.
Humidity and heat kills me as a runner. I flippen ran an ULTRA MARATHON and a 9-mile run left me wanting to walk. Do not worry too much, push through it and you will be stronger on the other side. Distance running is like 137% mental game.
And definitely "can't" to the other question, my wife is not there yet and I never will be, so no point of reference!
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I dreamt i met up with @garygse but we were both teenagers at a family like gathering. i wanted to run with him, he said "no" cuz i was too slow, then i punched him in the chest and he laughed at me. Still dreaming, i checked my ranking in a race and was 5th overall. Haha!
Yesterday Taco casa got my order wrong and gave me root beer. Hense the Gary dream. And i wanna be fast like him, i guess.
Seriously though, sounds like you may just need to rest up a little and maybe refuel some? Time for some generous portions of pasta maybe? Dunno. I find caffeine doesn't generally give me energy or pep (or rather it's short-lived at best)...for me it just tends to suppress the ability to sleep, so I still feel tired and worn out, but with the added bonus of not being able to fall asleep or get a good night's rest.
And I'll agree with the others that the heat doesn't help at all, hence why I run at stupid times in the morning.
Oh, and I'll run with anyone. Well, except @MobyCarp...he's just too darned quick and I wouldn't be able to keep up!5 -
Ran for the first time yesterday. Intended on going outside but due to the rain I did so on a treadmill. Lasted for 30 minutes slow jogging. Definitely feel like I don't have the right shoes for this!
I also forgot to note my distance. I can't imagine it was far though lol.10 -
Haha! You guys are great! Thanks @garygse and @PastorVincent . I think you could share some testosterone. But that'd be just wierd and potentionally slightly perverse. Little jealous of the genetic advantages you guys have.
I'll pass on the pasta. Not sure why but it makes me sick. Think I'll get out for a heat run in a bit.
Maybe dh will be down for bbq, but he doesn't seem to love it as much as I do. So on second thought, perhaps I should just put a fatty chuck roast in with some taters.5 -
I have no mojo. Please send some my way.
I think this may be menopausal. But I've always struggled with low energy levels. Usually B vitamins and lots of caffeine help. Nowadays it seems like my B's are placebo's. The caffeine just gives me a dull headache.
Dh went on a run without me. Jokes on him. He thinks its nice out. 75 F, real feel is 86 with 88% humidity. Be nice for about 3 steps.
Will take advice. May just need to give in to another round of hormone pellets. I did eat two slices of pizza two days in a row, and had knock your *kitten* out anesthesia Thursday for dental work. Maybe i can shake it if i quit eating crap food.
I dreamt i met up with @garygse but we were both teenagers at a family like gathering. i wanted to run with him, he said "no" cuz i was too slow, then i punched him in the chest and he laughed at me. Still dreaming, i checked my ranking in a race and was 5th overall. Haha!
Yesterday Taco casa got my order wrong and gave me root beer. Hense the Gary dream. And i wanna be fast like him, i guess.
Different people react differently to anesthesia but it makes me feel bad - off color and not quite with it - for about six weeks. I looked it up because I was starting to get worried and that's not at all unusual. It seems likely even more people have lengthy reactions than anyone is aware, since most would put it down to tiredness, recovering from whatever caused them to need anesthesia in the first place, etc.2
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