September 2018 Running Challenge

Heat and humidity have returned. BAH. Was supposed to run 10 miles this morning, but could barely manage 7 outside, did 2 more on the treadmill. Sometimes I'm surprised someone doesn't stop and offer to call 911. With my red hair and light complexion, I am quite the sight when I get heated. My left heel is barking at me a little - which scares the bejeebers out of me. I lost all of 2017 to PF and do not want a repeat of that. I did my heel/foot stretches and will take it easy for a few days.

June goal - 44/44
July goal - 52/52
August goal - 55/57 miles
Sept goal - 47/60 miles

Sept. 30 - Wineglass Half Marathon; Corning, NY
October 7 - Viking Dash Half Marathon; Toledo, OH

I had looked on the garmin website for a replacement band, but the FR35 showed that they did not have replacement bands for that model. It did say to contact customer service so I did and they are sending me a replacement band for free. Hopefully the glue will hold until I get it and surely if it is coming from Garmin it will be the correct band.

mbaker566 wrote: »

is the same plan @eleanorhawkins ?
i google hal higdon novice 1 metric

Almost, it's the half but there is a similar pdf! Thanks, I had never thought to google it, d'oh, went straight to the website lol.

This weekend I got to run 5.16 miles while visiting my husband’s terrible grandparents in Overland Park, Kansas. On Friday morning I ran a very sticky (dew point around 71) forty minutes along a bike/walking path following a creek not too far from the hotel. It was a little bit of a slog but mostly it felt good to get out there after a long night of driving, and I'm on track for the month, although not quite as far ahead as I'd hoped. The extra calories were definitely welcome over the weekend of diner food, fast food, and Chinese takeout. Woof.

Saturday morning we had planned to meet the terrible grandparents earlier than we had on Friday so I decided to suck it up and give the hotel fitness room a try, possibly the first time in my life I’ve ever run on a treadmill. It was fine. Better than not running, I guess, or spending 20 minutes in direct sun walking to and from the running path like I’d done on Friday. It seemed super loud and it took a long time to figure out a comfortable pace, but it did the job. After 20 minutes I decided that was enough and lifted weights for a bit instead, so I got a nice all-around workout in.

The visit itself was fine - I'm 3 for 3 on the terrible grandparents being on their best behavior around me. It's funny how stressed out my husband and his parents were about our visit and then everything went fine. My husband and I had fun in the car coming up with the rules for a card game about changing the subject when your terrible elderly relatives bring up politics/religion/etc - we're gonna Kickstarter that *kitten* and make a million dollars. And we actually got to hear some great stories about their international travel - he was an engineer for the air force during the cold war and they did a lot of mission work after he retired.

The stickiest part of the visit came on Saturday morning when terrible grandma invited us to church on Sunday and for some completely unknown reason my husband said he'd be happy to go, apparently forgetting that we'd agreed to be on the road early so we could get home mid-afternoon. I told him in the car that if he felt like he needed to go that was fine, but that I was staying in the hotel and working instead of yet another day of being "shown off". Slightly-less-terrible-than-grandma grandpa actually got us out of that one later that evening by insisting we'd need to be on the road before church even started at 10 AM and terrible grandma backed down.

This morning I decided that sleeping in was called for, so I took an extra rest day, although I'm thinking about lifting this evening. It’s going to be a very busy week but I’m still hoping to get a good 20-24 miles of running in. I haven’t figured out when I’m going to do my long run, as I’m going to be at a walking puzzle event most of the day on Saturday, but hopefully I’ll figure it out. I’m giving blood Wednesday afternoon and I need to build in a little recovery time there, too. Two of my best friends just had a baby and my mom needs groceries, plus I've got dentist and eye exams scheduled this week, so it's going to be a busy few days. Again, woof.

Loved reading about everyone’s weekends, especially @rheddmobile’s story about the stroller lady. I read the “passing on the left” bit to my husband and he cracked up. So sorry to hear about your diagnosis, @RunRachelleRun, but I’m glad that you caught it when you did. Good luck with everything and I hope you’re still able to enjoy your trip!

SEPTEMBER MILES:
9/1 Sa - recovery day
9/2 Su - 1:48:13 - 9.01
9/3 Mo - lifted heavy things, but not too heavy
9/4 Tu - 0:55:04 - 5.15 tempo
9/5 We - lifted heavy things, but not too heavy
9/6 Th - rest
9/7 Fr - 0:45:10 - 4.12 steady
9/8 Sa - rest
9/9 Su - 2:27:30 - 13.23 City of Lakes Half Marathon
9/10 Mo - rest
9/11 Tu - 0:20:01 - 1.95, lifted heavy things
9/12 We - 1:07:22 - 6.22
9/13 Th - lifted heavy things
9/14 Fr - 0:40:00 - 3.76
9/15 Sa - 0:20:00 - 1.40 (treadmill), lifted heavy things
9/16 Su - rest

September Total: 44.84/85 miles
Marathon miles: 6/26

Races!
July 4: Red, White and Boom! 5K Chip time: 0:32:20
August 25: Glo Run Night Race 5K Chip time: 0:30:40
September 8: Helen Gold 10K DNS - trip postponed
September 9: City of Lakes Half Marathon Net time: 2:28:25
October 6: Twin Cities Marathon Weekend 5 or 10K
October 21: Mankato Half Marathon

I managed to get. Get 6k in this morning. I was a bit slower than usual but hey, I did it. I am learning it takes me about 3 days to get back to pace after 5 days off. I'm pretty confident I'll be good for another 6 tomorrow so will rest then do a long one Friday morning. Then rest Sat and race Sunday! I'm getting excited! It's my first race in 7 years!

Hi guys,
It’s been awhile since I posted anything. I’ve been having issues with my back and also moving my right arm. They did an ultrasound seems there is a tear in the muscle of the extensor and flexor so has been ugly couple of weeks.

I changed physiotherapists and now it’s two sessions a week and tons of home exercises to do. I’m not complaining but I did react in the beginning to a bunch of them. But the body is coming along nice now. I finally see progress.

The running on the treadmill I’m not ready.

Seems it’s going to be another two months before I can consider that.
That’s ok I have walking and hiking I can do. Like this sun past I did 16 km. oh I felt such freedom.
Was feeling like a caged animal these past weeks in pain, alone and upset at the world for everything that I was going through.

I was reading what everyone was posting but to sore to post replies. Too many posts to catch up on. So, ill just continue from here.

Welcome to the new members.

@RunRachelleRun I’m sorry to hear what your going through. It’s horrible I’ve gone through it many years ago. I used to live in the Turks and Caicos and was so tiny size wise I snorkelled and dove in a bikini. I walked around a lot in my bikini top that was a big factor.
My spot/mole on my back was removed, my face got scrapped and dealt with as well Left no scars on my face. Years have gone by nothing has come back or given complications. Mine were caught in time.

For my back I was told to wear tight woven shirts spf shirts are a waste of money that with washes is not the same. So don’t trust them.
For the face high spf 1oz to Cover your face people always under apply spf. You must reapply every 2 hours they say I was told every hour.
Plus buy a tiley hat with the green rim underneath that will help bounce Sun rays from your face that come from cement or snow reflexion.

The surgery done on my face that’s a *kitten* for pain. The back it’s just a sting from the needles for numbing. It actually sounds more scary than what it is. It’s been 11 years for me with no reoccurrence or complications.

It’s hard, it’s scary and the unknown makes it even worse.

Take a deep breath you’ll be fine. Medical care have come a long way in the past 11 years.

About your holiday? If the doctor didn’t say “ cancel” don’t. Tell him about your trip if he clears you to fly. Go!

Have fun, relax life is short and stressful enough to let your fears take over.

Don’t forget to post a photo of your trip

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
09/01/18 :::: 18.2 :::: 18.2
09/02/18 :::: 5.4 :::: 23.6
09/03/18 :::: 6.3 :::: 29.9
09/04/18 :::: 2.1 :::: 32.0
09/05/18 :::: 6.5 :::: 38.5
09/06/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 38.5
09/07/18 :::: 1.7 :::: 40.2
09/08/18 :::: 13.3 :::: 53.5
09/09/18 :::: 5.0 :::: 58.5
09/10/18 :::: 5.0 :::: 63.5
09/11/18 :::: 3.3 :::: 66.8
09/12/18 :::: 7.2 :::: 74.0
09/13/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 74.0
09/14/18 :::: 5.2 :::: 79.2
09/15/18 :::: 19.1 :::: 98.2
09/16/18 :::: 5.3 :::: 103.5
09/17/18 :::: 4.5 :::: 108.0

I managed to run outside before my circuit training session today. It felt a little cooler to me before I started but definitely still sticky out there. Quite a bit of leg work in today's session too so now I'm feeling a bit wobbly.

Thanks @shanaber and @quilteryoyo and @baggles36 - I joked with my husband on the ride home that I think his family is reverse-gaslighting me because I keep having these perfectly fine visits with his grandparents and everyone else keeps assuring me that they really are terrible (his aunt called 3-4 times leading up to and during the trip to make sure everyone was going okay). I think the grandparents have decided I'm their best chance for great-grandkids before they die and they don't want to do anything to alienate me. It was an odd weekend for sure, but that's families for you.

Speedy run this morning. I started fast and got faster - in fact my final kilometre was sub-5 minutes! I finally feel I'm fully recovered from my dose of the flu. Thank goodness!

Running challenge
1 Sept: yoga
2 Sept: 9.22
3 Sept: yoga
4 Sept: 7.02km
5 Sept: yoga, then 4.76km with Fartleks *snigger*
6 Sept: 11.73km
7 Sept: rest
8 Sept: yoga
9 Sept: Xterra Trail Run, 13.58km
10 Sept: yoga
11 Sept: 6.34
12 Sept: yoga, then 4.91km with 9x100m sprints
13 Sept: cake
14 Sept: 10.77
15 Sept: yoga
16 Sept: 11.53 + 5.75
17 Sept: yoga
18 Sept: 7.0

92.61 of 160km for September.


Upcoming events
29 October, Auckland Half
17 November, Xterra Trail Challenge Waihi 20.5km

5 trail miles at the lake, hot but otherwise lovely. Going for my stretch goal of 50 miles.

So, this is odd... I got the link today to the finish line video for my 5k. Looked at myself, usually I look like a shambling zombie by the end of a race but this time I looked almost perky, that was nice. What's odd is that I looked up my AG winners out of curiosity and my AG was won by a tall, athletic young man visibly wearing the bib number of the AG winner for the female 50-54 winner.

Also, the female masters winner is slowly walking a dog, and clearly her 23 minute time is her walking the mile walk, not running the 5k. And the second place finisher in the AG is also a walker with not a hair out of place. It's theoretically possible that both of these women ran like hell for the first 2.8 miles and then slowed to a casual walk when they turned the corner in view of the finish camera, but it seems damned unlikely. The course was set up so the mile walk started 15 minutes after the 5k and has the same start and finish, with the middle cut out.

I reported the man. The woman whose bib it was has run a couple of other local races and ordinarily runs 13 minute miles. It seems weird that anyone would deliberately cheat on a charity 5k, so maybe she gave her bib to her son or something without realizing he would win the AG. If he just ran with her bib that would be one thing, but he actually took the award away from the next person...

9/02 - 8.5 hot humid miles
09/03 - 10 miles
09/04 - Back to the car shop - yay
09/05 - 8.5 humid miles
09/06 - 8 humid miles
09/07 - 9 humid miles
09/08 - Storming
09/09 - Storming
09/10 - 13.1 miles
09/11 - 8 miles
09/12 - Date Night - No Run
09/13 - Forget what happened
09/14 - 16 miles
09/15 - 10 miles
09/16 - 9 miles
09/17 - 8 miles

Another slow humid run.

Upcoming Races:

Steel Challange 5k - May 2019
Pittsburgh Marathon - May 2019
Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Race - May 2019

--More as I find them - need to find a nice trail race

2021 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)