October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

10/1 - rest day, short walk + PT exercises
10/2 - 4.22 km run/walk intervals

4.22/??

First time out with the neighbourhood running group. There were four of us running plus one guy on a bike (one of the organizers - nursing a sore knee).

Maybe a bit too far today as the route we did finished up about 1km from where we started! I had someone who hasn't run in a couple years running with me and matching my slow pace which was nice. I walked back to where we started with her as that's where her car is (and it's about 200m from my back door).

2018 Races: (italics means not registered yet, only pondering)
1/1/18 Resolution Run 5K ~38:00 (no official times)
3/4/18 MEC Road Race #1 10K 1:30:57
3/17/28 St Patrick's Day race 10K 1:24:53
4/7/18 Jasper Half Marathon 3:05:55
4/22/18 MEC Trail Race #1 5Kish 1:00:00? (Or 48:45...)
5/20/18 MEC Trail Race #2 10Kish 1:56:15
6/24/18 MEC Trail Race #3 10Kish 2:03:15
7/1/18 Canada Day 15K 2:03:04
7/28/18 Idaho Peak 10K Trail Race 1:30:16
8/18/18 Edmonton Marathon (Half Marathon) 3:12:something
8/25/18 MEC Trail Race #4 4Kish 39:49
10/7/18 MEC Trail Race #5 5Kish
12/1/18 Santa Shuffle

2019:
1/1/19 Resolution Run
5/5/19 BMO Vancouver Marathon (Half)
8/17/19 Edmonton Marathon

@MegaMooseEsq I am a lot further north than most in this group ( we have had snow already) and we have quite a few local runners who re-purpose Bike Jackets for winter running. The benefit is a longer body on the back ( designed to prevent Tire Splash covering your butt in moisture/mud) Zippered Side vents and a rear vent ( mine is zippered ) . Also they are highly reflective especially if you get the Fluorescent Sunshine Yellow like I have. There are differant versions based on brands, some with thumb loops, Inner and Outer sleeves at the wrist, double Velcro at the wrist etc. Most important is it fits your requirements for the local environment, budget and sporting needs.

SarahRuth42 wrote: »

I have never before seen such an in depth discussion about tights.

@SarahRuth42 Yes we can be a chatty group. My local Running Store calls them tights - usually only a fall & winter clothing item for me. But you should see how we can get sidetracked on a conversation about the perfect hotdog.

9 km Cadillac Ranch Trails tonight.
4.0°C with a very chilly 19kmh WSW wind, Windchill feels like 0.0°C and 33% humidity.
I got a bit of a late start and just about needed the headlamp on the return loop.
My pace was fairly slow as I had my hydration bag with bear spray, orange ribbon in one pocket and yellow ribbon in another pocket - that's right marking a trail for some people who have never been back in this area. Yellow for the Easy routing, orange for the hard way with the long steep relentless hill climb. Yet on Garmin it doesn't look bad until you hoover over it with the mouse and get 22% grade - that makes you work for it up or down.
When you have ran the trails many times you don't even think about the multiple crossing trails but for the Innocent it would be so easy for them to take a wrong turn and run off the edge of a washout cliff or into the steep box canyon with an ugly climb back out. I know I have been in there while scouting trails.

shanaber wrote: »

SarahRuth42 wrote: »

I have never before seen such an in depth discussion about tights.

Ha! I brought it up at the gym tonight when I was there for strength training. Many of the guys had no clue what tights were at all and several women thought of the heavier nylon pantyhose type garment. Those that ran or cycled knew and had their opinion... It turned into quite the discussion! Who know it was a hotly opinionated question 🤣

Possibly because I'm British-born and of a certain age..... to me tights are like pantyhose, but thick wooly ones. That's what we had to wear under our school skirts and so for me that's what tights will always be. The nylon ones (in my mind) are stockings, regardless of whether they require holding up with a suspender belt or not! And anything that is actually a pair of tight trousers (for running or not) are leggings. You can probably imagine the faces I pull when reading about men running in tights lol.

Lovely 3 kilometre slow and easy recovery run this morning. I decided it was just a key in pocket, phone in hand, shoes on feet day and the lack of water bottle, belt for tissues, coins and other 'essentials' was liberating. Locked into a nice easy pace straight away and just about managed to maintain it (well it sped up by about 20 seconds per km according to phone but I'll take it). 19ºC according to the display over a hotel pool I run past, I managed to find the point where I was about to break a sweat but never really did. Just me, the river path and the sunrise. Oh and about a million annoying dogwalkers for some reason, but it felt so good I just about managed to ignore them and keep my pulse down 🤣




2/10: 6km
3/10: 3km
October goal: 90km, stretch goal: 105km. Completed so far: 9km.

12 pages behind and I'm only just posting in October's thread, gaaah!

This month I don't have a distance goal.

October 2018

Goal 1: Melbourne Marathon Sunday October 14
Goal 2: Draw every day for Inktober 2018
Goal 3: Handstand practice every day
Goal 4: 2 new blog posts

Runs:

Oct 02 – 07.0 km
Oct 03 – 07.1 km fartleks

I'm using up all my spare time drawing these days. So happy to be drawing a lot again like I used to!

Still obsessed with running, but now I relax more by being creative rather than scrolling on Facebook.

Gonna reach for the 100 Mile Club again this month even though it will probably take me a couple of months to be at that level.

10/1 - 3 miles
10/2 - 4 miles
10/3 - rest day

7 of 50 miles

Oct Goal: 65 miles

10/02 - 6.28 miles

Total - 6.28 miles