September 2018 Running Challenge
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9/6 - 3.45 miles
I'm finally open for the month! Felt good this morning, like I hadn't missed a week. Plan to keep this up! Lol14 -
I am a newbie here but my friends are challenging me to run/walk a 1/2 marathon in late October so I'll give it a try
Going for 80 miles!!!!10 -
PastorVincent wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »I found out this afternoon that our trip this weekend has to be postponed because the grandpa-in-law is in the hospital (he'll be okay and is still terrible). So that means that my amazing two-laps-around-the-shopping-mall 10K consolation prize is out. And here I was kind of looking forward to it. But because I live in a major metro area, there are plenty alternatives this weekend and I need help picking!
First: The Marathons of Hope 5/10K. Positives: Same distance I'd planned for this week. Supports a good cause. Reasonably inexpensive. Negatives: Can't tell if it's timed or has happened before, will include bikes and dogs and probably small children, maybe not as well supported as it could be? Also 5/10K is not a marathon. Or multiple marathons.
Second: City of Lakes Half Marathon. Positives: Big deal real deal has been happening for decades well organized. According to the results of "can I run a half marathon" on google, I'll probably not die or injure myself if I'm not stupid (longest run is currently 9 miles) and should be okay for the 3:30 cut-off. Shiny medal! Negatives: Twice as expensive, more than twice as far as I'd planned on running this weekend.
Course doesn't matter as they are both running around the same trail system (which I have run around several times). The half just runs a figure-8 around Lake 1 and Lake 2 twice, while I assume the 10K is twice-ish around Lake 1, but I can only assume because the course isn't online. Lake 2 might also be involved, who knows. Either way, I've run the entire course at least twice and Lake 1 several times.
Wait... these are this weekend? ERF.
So the frist race by your description will probably be a mess but distance wise you are more likely to be ready for a 10k right now. The HM sounds like a way better race, and you can probably do it. Honestly, as long as you are okay with walking parts of it, and finishing near the back of the pack, I would say push into the HM because the other race really sounds like it will be a mess. As long as you are realistic about your expected performance and careful not to hurt your self, the worst that can happen is you finish after the cut-off and have a time to beat next year.
It is what i would do in your position at least But no one ever accuses me of being sane.
@MegaMooseEsq I’m with pastor Vincent. The 10k looks a little of a disaster. Too much unknown which to me is the possibility of many things going wrong. The HM sounds a better choice
PLUS:
You sound like your up for the HM in many ways,
-Know the area well ,feel comfortable
-Your body has run it ,and knows what to expect
-Better organized to narrow risks down
-if you’ve done it several times I would say you enjoy it too, that to me is half the battle
-you sound more positive just talking about it
-you know your limitations
-knowing your limits and willing to work with them is important
-if your willing and be fine to walk it when needed or finish walking if you have to, that is key, its the other half of completing your goal.
-ultimately knowing, listening to your body, while having fun.
To me makes a successful finish with walks or not makes a realistic race.
I’ve never done a race to win but yes to have fun and finish. Never been injured and walked away with a finish metal only. But to this day I have no regrets and feel happy I did them.
But
Yes the unknown can get the best of us,
reason for me I have to put all the pros and cons out and outweigh them.
But I’m like that with everything.
It will still be ok if you let it pass if your not comfortable with it. There will be other races.
That’s how I would look at things.
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Group question...
When I was quite young I wanted to be a writer but that got sidetracked when I got a bit older and my grandmother died of cancer - then I wanted to be a doctor. That stuck with me for several years until I finished my second year of university. At which point I realized I really enjoyed my undergraduate program (chemistry) and stuck with it.
If I could do things over I would be a vulcanologist. .
Ooohhh nice one! Lets go to Pompeii. We can dig and study together. @girlinahat can film it 😉4 -
midwesterner85 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »travelling_lots wrote: »@PastorVincent thanks!
I had no idea. I only knew of walking, jogging, intervals and running.
I guess I'm combination at the same time slow and steady but intervals 10 jog,1 min walk till I'm done.
After high school never ran to compete just to enjoy and finish the cardio.
But Wow!
I was having a hard time figuring out the conversations. But I thought different names for things since we live in different areas. Would have never thought there were all these to be done.
It all stems from different goals. If your goal is to win races, then you will do the speed workouts (intervals, fartlek, tempo, etc). If you never want to run more than a 5k, you probably will never do the "long runs" that the marathon runners do. And so on.
Also, people move around. So they might be training for an ultra marathon in the fall, but then take it easy for the winter and then focus on a half marathon in the spring. Or whatever.
So, like I said, this "simple" sport has lots of options. Feel free to ask questions about the different things, there are some very smart and nice people in this thread that will be happy to help you out.
Or you could be like me... I've nearly completely given up on being fast. I'll probably never qualify for Boston. But I am building distance and I know I can slowly go a lot of miles. I'm hoping to [slowly] move towards ultras next year or maybe 2020. Technically my first ultra is Nov., but it is the world's shortest ultra (the Route 66 Marathon in Tulsa with the Center of the Universe Detour makes it 26.5 miles).
Or like me where I know I'll never be competitively fast, but need to improve my speed enough (while building mileage as well) so that I can do the races I want without brushing up against cutoffs.
I've literally got a coach who is working to get me capable of running a marathon with a 2:55 halfway cutoff and a 7:00 total time cutoff in the next 11 months.
@sarahthes I’m more like you this way. I know I’ll know I’ll never be competitively fast for two reason my body can’t anymore also because now I’m in only for the enjoyment and the finish not injured.
I still hold my track days very dear and still can visualize all the ribbons and cups for speed. But that was the only enjoyment. A lot of hard work and sacrifices ate through my youth and in high school I promised myself if I’m not having fun while I enjoy life I’m just not doing it. Cheerleading was competitive and fun, sacrifice wasn’t felt. So it was a different story.
University introduced me to long distance intervals and got hooked.
Now if I can jog outside one day at what ever speed checking out nature will be my success and ultimate goal.2 -
September goal: 85 miles
9/2: 7 miles
9/4: 4.5 miles
9/5: 4.5 miles
9/6: 5.5 miles
21.5/85 miles completed
I had another surprisingly good run today. The forecast called for rain. (it has not rained yet today). I woke up pretty early and it was not raining so I figured I would get out the door as quick as I could. I am ok with it starting to rain on me while I am running, but I was pretty sure that if it was pouring when I got up I would not run this morning. The humidity was 96% and the dew point was 74. The temp was only 73F so it was cooler standing on the porch, but the humidity and dew point made it feel hot and sweaty when I was running. But I still had a great run. I was pretty fast (for me) and I got in 5.5 miles which is further than I usually have time for before work. I am ready for a break from this humidity though.
2018 races:
5/19/18: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon - 2:43:59.7. - 2nd place AG
11/10/18: Wags & Whiskers 5K9 -
Today, I read, that the "normal" training pace should be at least 90 seconds slower than the race tempo per Km. It that something you agree on? If I look at my stats at RunKeeper, my fastest Km is 6:55 (very rare! usually, fast is somewhere around 7:20) and my pace overall is more around 7:45per Km, if I don't break for walks. Their solution is that the training must be slowed down even more. When I tried to slow down for the heart rate thingie, I was talking last time, I had a pace of 8:05, which is still only like 45s slower than the fast or 70s for the super fast time.
You read so much on the internet and never know whether it's correct or complete BS. So I try to just finish somehow without overdoing it.
If the web site just says "race tempo," it's glossing over things. Shorter races have faster paces. There are online calculators to give you training paces extrapolated from good race results; even these are more of a starting point to work from as you learn how your own body works. And there have been issues raised with the accuracy of the equivalents for distances greater than a half marathon.
If I put in 6:55 per kilometer as your pace for 1500m, it spits out an easy training range of 9:01 to 9:31 per km, and a marathon pace of 8:11 per kilometer. A couple of things could be going on here.
First, your fastest pace may not actually be your optimized race pace. You may not have trained for racing or worked on race management well enough to produce a true race pace.
Second, there are variations between people. If I put in my PR mile race pace, it spits out an easy training range for me of 8:08 to 8:39 per mile, or 5:30 to 5:23 per km. I know my easy pace tends to be a little faster than that, more like 7:45 to 8:15 per mile. But I wouldn't know this without having done a lot of training at various paces.
Third, the calculations are based on well-trained runners. If you aren't in peak form, it's possible that your conditioning could catch up to where what you're running as an easy pace becomes your true easy, and your other paces get correspondingly faster.
Long story short, the concept of slowing way down for easy runs is good. Finding the actual pace you should slow down to is more of an art than a science.7 -
This months question...
Vet until I found out I'd have to put animals down. I'm not sure if I'd ever get used to that.
Attorney until I realized I wasn't cut out for that kind of career. I couldnt fathom being prosecutor and sending innocent people to prison. I could do defense but I'd struggle with dealing with those guilty of horrible crimes. Business law? Boring. And I'm far too ethical and moral. I had to take several biz law classes for my biz degree. Enrvironmental? Probably more my speed. But I'd have to fight for animlas and land. Not the companies wanting to destroy the earth. Divorce/Family. Nope. Especially after working in family court. People are horrible to each other. And the poor kids.
Dancer until I realized I will never have a ballet body and was half an inch too short for Rockettes, Vegas and Cruise ships.
If I could do things differently? I'd probably had waited to go to college. I didn't know what I wanted at 18. I wouldnt listen to the "get a business degree because it makes money" and "youd be good at hr" *kitten*. I would have pursued graphic design. Or photography. Or writing. Or maybe some kind of forensics. I want to do everything and that's always been my problem. Too many interests and I am capable of doing everything. I don't have anything that stands out as my favorite or my best.6 -
Monthly group question?
What did you wanna be when you grew up?
And do you have a group question?
Independently wealthy. Like Bruce Wayne, who could do whatever he wanted. (This was before I was old enough to think about the implications of a single male millionaire with teenage boy as his "ward," or about the level of realism in fiction.)
Later, the aspiration moderated to "financially comfortable," then to "financially secure." Took several decades to achieve that, and a lot of Life Happened along the way. I still need to budget, but the budget can include running Boston. No complaints.
Potential future group question: Why did you start running? Why do you run now?10 -
Group question...
When I was quite young I wanted to be a writer but that got sidetracked when I got a bit older and my grandmother died of cancer - then I wanted to be a doctor. That stuck with me for several years until I finished my second year of university. At which point I realized I really enjoyed my undergraduate program (chemistry) and stuck with it.
If I could do things over I would be a vulcanologist. .
Ooohhh nice one! Lets go to Pompeii. We can dig and study together. @girlinahat can film it 😉
ha ha. My undergraduate degree was actually in Archaeology and History of Art, so I can be there in the bush hat cracking the bull whip while you guys keep the Nazis at bay8 -
Hello,
I'm also in again. Currently, I'm not overly happy with my progress, due to several factors. First of all, the instant gratification of the first few weeks is gone and I found "my" pace and comfort zone (well, "comfort" is a strong word here, since I'm still not very fond of running in general but despite that very insignificant fact, this is where I run most of the time. Following my last post in August, I tried to slow down and finally managed to find a tempo with a lower heart rate. Thank you @MobyCarp, @shanaber, and @garygse for your input in the last thread. I still have so much to learn and test.
Today, I read, that the "normal" training pace should be at least 90 seconds slower than the race tempo per Km. It that something you agree on? If I look at my stats at RunKeeper, my fastest Km is 6:55 (very rare! usually, fast is somewhere around 7:20) and my pace overall is more around 7:45per Km, if I don't break for walks. Their solution is that the training must be slowed down even more. When I tried to slow down for the heart rate thingie, I was talking last time, I had a pace of 8:05, which is still only like 45s slower than the fast or 70s for the super fast time.
You read so much on the internet and never know whether it's correct or complete BS. So I try to just finish somehow without overdoing it.
Tomorrow will be my last training before the 5K and I'm both excited and wearily. I'm going to make it and let's see how much the changed situation with a new route, some food (I usually go in the mornings w/o any food intake), an unfamiliar time and lots of people will change my performance. But I'm at the lowest point energy-wise in my cycle and really struggle with 5k. We'll see. I'll let you know on Sunday
Ok, on to my goals this month. I'd love to set it higher but don't see that I'm going to make it. It's a lot of "I should" and "it would be good" but reality still looks not that promising.
Goal September: 50-60Km / Achieved so far: 14,6Km
1. 5 Km (lots of walking though)
2. 5,4 Km
4. 4,2 Km
I'm a big fan of https://www.mcmillanrunning.com/ and their Running Calculator for determining various training pace ranges. Very simple to use. You enter in your goal time for an upcoming race, current fitness time/distance and then hit calculate. It provides a series of pace estimates for races and their is another link that provides training paces for runs based on easy, long, interval, tempo, etc so you can go more by pace (you can ignore HR info provided and just go by feel). As your running/fitness improves (or in my case since I have had an injury I have a fitness decline), you update the data to start making the next round of improvements.2 -
Today, I read, that the "normal" training pace should be at least 90 seconds slower than the race tempo per Km. It that something you agree on? If I look at my stats at RunKeeper, my fastest Km is 6:55 (very rare! usually, fast is somewhere around 7:20) and my pace overall is more around 7:45per Km, if I don't break for walks. Their solution is that the training must be slowed down even more. When I tried to slow down for the heart rate thingie, I was talking last time, I had a pace of 8:05, which is still only like 45s slower than the fast or 70s for the super fast time.
You read so much on the internet and never know whether it's correct or complete BS. So I try to just finish somehow without overdoing it.
If the web site just says "race tempo," it's glossing over things. Shorter races have faster paces. There are online calculators to give you training paces extrapolated from good race results; even these are more of a starting point to work from as you learn how your own body works. And there have been issues raised with the accuracy of the equivalents for distances greater than a half marathon.
If I put in 6:55 per kilometer as your pace for 1500m, it spits out an easy training range of 9:01 to 9:31 per km, and a marathon pace of 8:11 per kilometer. A couple of things could be going on here.
First, your fastest pace may not actually be your optimized race pace. You may not have trained for racing or worked on race management well enough to produce a true race pace.
Second, there are variations between people. If I put in my PR mile race pace, it spits out an easy training range for me of 8:08 to 8:39 per mile, or 5:30 to 5:23 per km. I know my easy pace tends to be a little faster than that, more like 7:45 to 8:15 per mile. But I wouldn't know this without having done a lot of training at various paces.
Third, the calculations are based on well-trained runners. If you aren't in peak form, it's possible that your conditioning could catch up to where what you're running as an easy pace becomes your true easy, and your other paces get correspondingly faster.
Long story short, the concept of slowing way down for easy runs is good. Finding the actual pace you should slow down to is more of an art than a science.
well said and I also like this calculator as well1 -
I kept changing my mind about what I wanted to be. Many of the career ideas I went through would not have been at the time, or are still not possible because I take insulin. Examples range from truck driver to IRS special agent.3
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As far as the monthly question goes. I never really knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. At 50 I still don't. I did always want to be a mom so I guess there is that. And I work as an office manager and for the most part I enjoy the bookkeeping aspects of my job.4
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No run for me today, just a nice slow walk on the treadmill which will not get logged as it was just to warm muscles up for stretching. Foam rolled for about 15 minutes(quads, ITB, and hamstrings). Took some wonderdrug(read ibuprofen) last night and will take some more again tonight. Swelling is down and pain receding, which is good news for PT session tomorrow.
@MegaMooseEsq Run the half! Better organization, trails you are familiar with, and like @PastorVincent said even if you miss the cutoff you will have a time to shoot for next year. Go for the gusto, you can do it!
@RunsOnEspresso YAY on getting back out there!
I wanted to be an astronaut since 1st grade, my math and science grades were great, my eyesight not so much(it disqualified me from being a military pilot). Then when I was 13 my grandfather has some major health issues and I flew out to help my grandmother take care of him. Starting becoming interested in medicine, but I knew at that point that I didn't want to spend as long in school as it takes to become a doctor. Worked with Sports Medicine program throughout high school and was a lifeguard during the summer. College was initially a bust for me, despite having a full ride scholarship for nursing to a fairly nice private school through the ROTC program, 17 years old and first time away from family support network and I crashed. Joined the service as a Fleet Marine Force Corpsman, served my time and got out. Worked as a nursing assistant and ER tech while going to school, at the urging of my wife. Have been a Licensed Practical Nurse for 11 years and in about another 5 will be heading back to get my RN license. The 5 year wait is for me to save enough money to get through school without any student loans.Monthly group question?
What did you wanna be when you grew up?
Not really, most of the questions I would ask are already answered as people when other people ask them throughout the thread.And do you have a group question?
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workaholic_nurse wrote: »@MegaMooseEsq Run the half! Better organization, trails you are familiar with, and like @PastorVincent said even if you miss the cutoff you will have a time to shoot for next year. Go for the gusto, you can do it!
Aw thank you all - I knew y'all would help me put my head on straight.travelling_lots wrote: »@MegaMooseEsq I’m with pastor Vincent. The 10k looks a little of a disaster. Too much unknown which to me is the possibility of many things going wrong. The HM sounds a better choice
PLUS:
You sound like your up for the HM in many ways,
-Know the area well ,feel comfortable
-Your body has run it ,and knows what to expect
-Better organized to narrow risks down
-if you’ve done it several times I would say you enjoy it too, that to me is half the battle
-you sound more positive just talking about it
-you know your limitations
-knowing your limits and willing to work with them is important
-if your willing and be fine to walk it when needed or finish walking if you have to, that is key, its the other half of completing your goal.
-ultimately knowing, listening to your body, while having fun.
To me makes a successful finish with walks or not makes a realistic race.
I’ve never done a race to win but yes to have fun and finish. Never been injured and walked away with a finish metal only. But to this day I have no regrets and feel happy I did them.
But
Yes the unknown can get the best of us,
reason for me I have to put all the pros and cons out and outweigh them.
But I’m like that with everything.
It will still be ok if you let it pass if your not comfortable with it. There will be other races.
That’s how I would look at things.
Thank you for all of this. I think you hit on everything I needed to hear. I don't think that I have anything against smaller races, but I don't want to put my time and money and effort into something that isn't going to be well organized. Off-the-cuff just isn't my jam and thinking about it stresses me out. As for the half, it does look like fun and you're both right - the worst that could happen is I miss the cutoff and have something extra to work toward for the half in October.
Well, the worst that could happen is I get hurt, but 1) I don't think I'm stupidly overreaching given how much I've been running the last several weeks, and 2) I could get hurt, oh, I don't know, trimming the sunflowers in the front yard by sticking my thumb in front of the flipping pruning shears, just to pick a totally random example that didn't happen a half hour ago or anything.
Signed up for Sunday!8 -
September goal: 100 miles
9/1: rest
9/2: 6 miles of random hotel parking lots
9/3: rest
9/4: 7 miles
9/5: 3.5 miles
9/6: 5 miles
21.5 of 100 done
UPCOMING RACES
September 7th - 5k Glow Run
COMPLETED RACES
January - Frosty 5k
February - Run for the Chocolate 5k
March - Penguin in the Park 5k
April - Lake Sara Dam 5k
May - Run Through the Jungle 5k
June - French Fried 5k
July - Firecracker 5k
August - Happy Birthday to Me virtual 10k3 -
And do you have a group question?
Independently wealthy. Like Bruce Wayne, who
Potential future group question: Why did you start running? Why do you run now?
Well Batman.... I'm not sure why i took up running. I was in grad school. Life was chaotic. Divorced. Struggling (could have used some of Bruce Wayne's resources). Seemed all the people i knew of that ran, had their lives together. So i thought why not. And out of a relationship it was a great way to be out and unavailable.
Why do i keep running? Eh, this Silly Group i know keeps running and I don't wanna be left out of the fun.
Love your question btw.7 -
Sep 6: 1.94 miles C25K Week 3 Day 3
MTD: 5.8 / 25 miles
@sarahthes I'm the same. My last half was exactly 3 hours. There is one I'd like to do, but the cut-off is 3 hours, and it sounds like it will take ten minutes for those at the back to cross the start, so I won't do it until I know I can finish in 2:50.
I am loving reading all the answers to this month's question! I was born into a fanatic religious household (basically, a cult), and I was told I could be a hairdresser or a house cleaner. I was good at math, and it was suggested I could possibly be a bookkeeper but my family didn't know anyone in this field, so it was unknown how to become one. All education was discouraged.
As a girl, I wanted to be a teacher and painter/artist. I believed you had to be selected for university (the way athletes are scouted for sports teams), and I didn't learn that anyone could go until I was just about to graduate high school.
As an adult, I believe I would have loved to do scientific research.
I ended up with an education and career as an editor, but it's something I'm good at and fell into rather than a dream job.8 -
When I was six I wanted to be a fireman (I pre-date the term 'firefighter').
Then I wanted to be a librarian. A perfect job for an INTJ, but my circumstances changed and I ended up with a business degree. I've worked for the same company for 30+ years in a variety of roles (IT, marketing, accountancy, business development, you name it, I've worked there), and in two countries (three if you count the brief IT stint in India).
I'm now at the stage where I'm looking at retirement rather than my next career move.
Did a 10k run on the treadmill last night bringing my September running total to 11.2 miles. Looking forward to my 10k this weekend where hopefully it will be a bit cooler than it was on Monday.
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)
8/18/18 Book it! Dedham Library 5k (age-group 2/8) - For Dennis
9/03/18 Martin Richard 8k Run (age-group 55/167)
2018 registered races
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 5k10 -
@RunRachelleRun Wow, thats kind of a sad situation. Education wasn't ever anything we were encouraged to pursue. We were expected to be dumb, "thats okay you're a failure" kind of thing (from my mother, ken was absent. Nope was not allowed to call him "dad", unless you wanted an *kitten* whoopin') .
I expressed an interest in college and was met with "hell no, when your 18, you are out and dont have the money for college". Duh, because you drink/smoke it all. And i had no idea financial aid existed. College was for the more fortunate. So i dropped out and moved the heck out, by marrying too young.
Of course, once i made it to college and got a job, i was "too good to for them". So, not welcome in the old circle of folks that made different choices..9 -
9/1 = Walk in Park with dogs and husband instead of running.
9/2 = 16 miles
9/3 = 5 mile walk with dog
9/4 = rest day
9/5 = 12 miles
9/6 = 5 mile hike with dog
Decided to play hooky from work this morning and get lost in the woods with the pup instead. I practically had the hiking trail to myself - only saw one other person.
I did learn something new today. Mizuno running shoes are definitely NOT hiking shoes. The soles of my hiking boots fell apart last time I went so I wore an old pair of running shoes instead. The trail was very rocky and rugged. The parts of the Mizuno’s sole that survived being shredded now has no tread. RIP running shoes.
Oh, and here is a picture of the cutest (and most tired) pup ever.
September goal miles = 175 / 28 miles-to-date
Upcoming Races:
10/27 = Hill Country Halloween Half Marathon
11/22 = Georgetown Turkey Trot
1/26/19 = Miami Tropical 5K
1/27/19 = Miami Marathon
3/10/19 = ZOOMA half (potentially)12 -
9/1 16.7 miles
9/2 rest
9/3 5 miles treadmill
9/4 9.21 miles
9/5 rest
9/6 10 miles
10 miles this morning. Just hot. Really, really hot. Tried to plan my route to run in the shade as much as possible. I ran past Sam's Club and the thought occurred to me - "Would it be weird to run laps around the store?" The air conditioning felt wonderful as I ran past the open doors
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 marathon
12/2/2018 Busch Gardens Christmas Town Dash 8K10 -
Long story short, the concept of slowing way down for easy runs is good. Finding the actual pace you should slow down to is more of an art than a science.
Thank you for your answer. So this is definitely not something I have to consider yet while trying to build up a basic endurance/form. But good to know that there is something to it and I can keep it in mind for some point later in my career.
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I'm a big fan of https://www.mcmillanrunning.com/ and their Running Calculator for determining various training pace ranges. Very simple to use. You enter in your goal time for an upcoming race, current fitness time/distance and then hit calculate. It provides a series of pace estimates for races and their is another link that provides training paces for runs based on easy, long, interval, tempo, etc so you can go more by pace (you can ignore HR info provided and just go by feel). As your running/fitness improves (or in my case since I have had an injury I have a fitness decline), you update the data to start making the next round of improvements.
Thanks for the link. It looks a bit confusing at the first glance but I'll check it out as soon as I have a bit time. I guess I'm way too new to actually think too much about speed and longer distances yet. I still need to get the basics done. I only was surprised by the article today and intrigued whether or not that is common knowledge or some niche guru with some odd ideas
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9/1 16.7 miles
9/2 rest
9/3 5 miles treadmill
9/4 9.21 miles
9/5 rest
9/6 10 miles
10 miles this morning. Just hot. Really, really hot. Tried to plan my route to run in the shade as much as possible. I ran past Sam's Club and the thought occurred to me - "Would it be weird to run laps around the store?" The air conditioning felt wonderful as I ran past the open doors
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 marathon
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@zdyb23456 I plan my regular long run route to pass a gas station with a walk-in beer cooler. Not for the beer - lol. For the amazing experience of stepping in a frozen walk-in beer cooler when you have been running a million miles in the billion degree heat.6 -
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@zdyb23456 I plan my regular long run route to pass a gas station with a walk-in beer cooler. Not for the beer - lol. For the amazing experience of stepping in a frozen walk-in beer cooler when you have been running a million miles in the billion degree heat.
Mine would be for both
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9/1 16.7 miles
9/2 rest
9/3 5 miles treadmill
9/4 9.21 miles
9/5 rest
9/6 10 miles
10 miles this morning. Just hot. Really, really hot. Tried to plan my route to run in the shade as much as possible. I ran past Sam's Club and the thought occurred to me - "Would it be weird to run laps around the store?" The air conditioning felt wonderful as I ran past the open doors
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10/7/2018 Crawlin Crab half marathon
10/13/2018 Joggin for Frogmen 5K
11/18/2018 Norfolk Harbor half marathon
12/2/2018 Busch Gardens Christmas Town Dash 8K
I was eating breakfast at the mall a few weeks ago and wondered if I could do my long runs in there and dodge the mall walkers 😂6 -
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goal 20
today total 4.55
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