September 2018 Running Challenge
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@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
12/2/2018 Busch Gardens Christmas Town Dash 8K
@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 -
amymoreorless wrote: »
@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 both4 -
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 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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@Elise4270 Sorry. I can relate a little. I was excommunicated once I left the "religion" at 17; I am effectively an orphan. I have had to learn everything the hard way. It's weird how some parents don't want their children to better them. Glad you found a way to go all on your own!
My son will be the first person in my family to graduate from university (knock on wood; he's starting his fourth year). My parents had grade-eight educations. I imagine their religion didn't like education because it was ignorance that kept people around.
I had a friend I always had to help with math, and she often talked about university. I didn't understand how she would possibly be "selected." It's funny to look back at now. My life would have been quite different if only we'd had Google!10 -
@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..
@Elise4270 @RunRachelleRun My mom was told she wasn’t “smart enough” for college as a woman of “god”. It took her many years but she finally went back and fulfilled her dream of getting a college degree and teaching (and teaching young women that they ARE smart enough). My husband was in the same boat. He joined the military instead of going to college because his family told him that’s what “men” did. He now has 2 college degrees.
It is never too late to realize that other people’s expectations of what you should be are bull*kitten*.10 -
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joannedrummond5 wrote: »September 1 - rest day
September 2 - 13 km Club Run
September 3 - 23 km run
September 4 - 23 km run
September 5 - rest day
September 6 - 10 km Hill Repeats
September 7 - 14 km run
September 8 -
September 9 -
September 10 -
September 11 -
September 12 -
September 13 - Rest Day
September 14 - Rest Day
September 15 - Rest Day
September 16 -City To Bay Half
Marathon
September 17 - Holidays
83 km / goal 140 km.3 -
RunRachelleRun wrote: »@Elise4270 Sorry. I can relate a little. I was excommunicated once I left the "religion" at 17; I am effectively an orphan. I have had to learn everything the hard way. It's weird how some parents don't want their children to better them. Glad you found a way to go all on your own!
My son will be the first person in my family to graduate from university (knock on wood; he's starting his fourth year). My parents had grade-eight educations. I imagine their religion didn't like education because it was ignorance that kept people around.
I had a friend I always had to help with math, and she often talked about university. I didn't understand how she would possibly be "selected." It's funny to look back at now. My life would have been quite different if only we'd had Google!
Absolutely. If we'd only have known!
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Question of the month: I always wanted to be a teacher and a mom. I went to college to be a teacher, but was getting scholarships to afford to go. My senior year, my college changed from quarters to semester, so I wasn't able to afford to do my student teaching. That's all I lacked to get my degree.
I wound up joining the Air Force as an officer, since I had my degree. Got another bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and my Master's in Electro Optics, all paid for by the AF. I had a great experience everywhere I went and met my husband while helping to design and launch the original GPS satellites. I took an early retirement and we moved back to where I grew up in TN. Unfortunately, nine years later, my husband passed away from brain cancer. Once I sort-of recovered from that, I decided to get a part-time job and wound up substitute teaching in the local county school system. (Yeah. Teaching!) That did get a little stressful, so I quit that and am now substitute at a local daycare center. Teaching, and have 62 kids I feel are partly mine - the mom in me, since my husband and I didn't have any children of our own.
What would I chose to do if I had it to do all over again? Well, actually, I love the way my life turned out (except for my husband dying way too young). However, I have said if I had another life, I think I would have liked to have been a forensic anthropologist. I love solving mysteries.
Oh, the reason I started running - to be able to get off of anti-depressants after the loss of my husband. And, it worked. Starting over now, after being away from it for a while.11 -
Even though the dew point was the same as yesterday (73F) it felt a lot more stifling this morning. I guess it didn't help that it had rained not too long earlier and the ground was still wet, along with the fact that it seemed like just about every sprinkler system in the area was running. I managed to get my usual nine miles in before meeting up with the group, but the person that I normally end up running the five-mile loop with wasn't around today, and that left the remainder of the group that normally run a slower 3-4 miles. Given the humidity, I was more than happy to go along with that.
02 - 5.40
03 - 18.09
04 - 14.15
05 - 15.67
06 - 12.84
Total: 66.15 / 300 miles5 -
Monthly group question?
What did you wanna be when you grew up?
Today I am a seasoned software developer trying to figure out how to be even moderately rich.
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Morning all, and what a wonderful day! I got a PB on my 5k run this morning - 26:42! I was all set for a downpour but it just occasionally had a few spits. It was mostly still and absolutely beautiful. That was definitely about as good a time as I was going to get this morning, I didn't have much in the tank afterwards. So my official 5k pace is 5:21min/km - I never dreamed I'd be able to do that!
@Elise4270 good question! When I was a kid, I wanted to be a Dr after getting several stitches in my head. As a teen I wanted to be a Radiographer like mum - she started training when I was 13 and used my brother and I study buddies. I was actually working toward this in high-school when I fell into video production and loved it. So for a long time I then wanted to be an Editor for Peter Jackson (gee is my Kiwi showing lol). I did Video Production for around 7 years, then worked in a bank for a bit in NZ then the UK. While in the UK I had a conversation with Hubby about what to do for work when we got back to NZ, and I told him i had always wanted to do Radiography, and he told me to do it. 8 years later, and here I am! I love my job. My future dreams is to complete my PhD in medical imaging (I'm starting masters next year, about 6 weeks off completing my PgDip) and encourage other radiographers to get into research. I LOVE research.
So I guess I'm living my dream?
As for why running, I started as a cheap way to lose weight, and now run for the thrill (I'm with @PastorVincent no runners high here, but a lot of thrill) and am seriously considering training for a Marathon next year, and may start looking at travel and running - come do some races with you fellas!9 -
When I was young I thought about being an architect (I like straight lines ) or a lawyer. I ended up becoming a Software Engineer. Not because I loved it, but because at the height of the tech boom there was a lot of money in it. 4 years of college and get paid really well upon graduating- sign me up. I did it for 16 years, well the last 6 years of it were part time.
Now I’m a stay-at-home to 3 kids and I love it! I don’t regret my career at all - the money I earned afforded us financial freedom, but I don’t think I’ll ever go back. I’m so thankful for a spouse that earns enough so I can run6
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