October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

Attempted running again today. Legs very leaden. Severely underfuelled thanks to four days of below maintenance eating. Struggled to run at 6 minute pace. 12k shortened to 10k then 7k then 5.78 in the end. One consolation, at least I seem to be eating more today.

Running challenge
1 Oct: In bed, dying
2 Oct: Recovering from near death
3 Oct 4.6km, realise am still suffering the effects of near-death experience. Yoga too.
4 Oct: 5.78km at a snail's pace

4.6 of 120km for September.


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

I run 10 minutes on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays before I lift. I only hit about 1.1 miles per run but it feels great.

Fast moving here! I’m enjoying reading through some and picking up great advice!

I completed 2.5 miles tonight. I’m hoping for that again on Friday. Saturday I have swim...as in lesson bc at 42 yrs old I realized I wanted to try to learn to swim, again. Those lessons wear me out for the entire day.

On Sunday I hope to try for 2.75 miles. Again, super slow, but it’s getting easier.

4.5/40 completed

Oooh @garygse That looks both frightening and wonderful. I'm assuming you put your leg in it and it rolls on both sides? I'll have to Google. Ouch.

I ate a hot dog (sort of, a chicken/turkey sausage) at lunch and thought of "y'all." We ran out of ketchup! So, I had sauerkraut, relish, and the tiniest bit of cheese.

It's been a week since my surgery, and my liver didn't like the anesthetic; it's irritated, and they don't exactly know what's wrong. I got to be 1 in 10,000 people or something. More test fun, no alcohol for the next month or two, and a low-fat menu (maybe I'll be forced to get my weight moving downward again). I've been feeling sick, but woke up slightly more energetic and my wound is healing nicely (and getting super itchy). I decided to attempt a run. A minute in, I realized it would be a walk/run. Did 2.5-3 min runs with 1 min walk breaks. I hope this bad day was not due to losing fitness so quickly but just because I'm not 100%.

I will set a goal of 25 miles again to make it attainable (knock on wood).
Oct 3: 1.88 / 25 miles

I have nothing for the first question of the month. For the second, having never celebrated Halloween as a child, I have no experience with costumes and the choices seem endless. If I go to a party this year, I'm thinking I'll conjure Richard Simmons. I had a short hairstyle in kindergarten that looked similar, so I think I could pull it off (just trade my dress for a singlet and striped gym shorts and add some pure white tube socks):

10K easy on trails. Today was planned to be 5k but since we intend to run a 5k race on our usual long run day, we swapped days. Very pleasant run despite the heat, the humidity was a little lower. Running near sundown has some surprises - ran right through the middle of an entire herd of deer in the woods - I counted seven and heard more, crashing through the underbrush to either side of us.

Lifted heavy last night and my knee is complaining at me. It seems to like lifting less than running.

@Avidkeo For some reason I do well lifting right before bed - it doesn't wake me up in the same way running does, have a nice protein snack like yogurt, head to bed. From the studies I've read, twice a week per muscle group is about the minimum you want to cut back to, to get the full benefits of strength training. But lifting doesn't have to take all day, if you lift heavy and do full body exercises you can knock out a session in thirty minutes. You could definitely fit an arms workout into a fifteen minute break one day and a legs workout into the same, the next day.

PastorVincent wrote: »

So today, I am out running the river trail. Its pretty flat and is dirt in places, broken asphalt in others, some places sidewalk and at least one section had 2 inches of water covering the trail. But really for the most part it is an easy run.

Its 5-6 miles from where I enter the trail till the end of this branch. Makes for a nice 11 mile out and back run as those in our Strava group can see in today's run.

We I am out there, its warm but not horrid. Code orange for allergies and humid. So I was not trying to push it. But as I come around a bend I see another male runner probably in his early 20s. Without meaning to, I am slowly gaining on him. Looking at my splits I am running about 8:30 or thereabouts.

I catch up to him at one place where the trail crosses a road and we have to stop for traffic. As soon as we get clear to cross, so I cross at a good clip and he passes me. Remembering how I was catching up before him, I figure I am going slow so I pick up the pace to overtake him and he speeds up.

I check my watch and we are doing a 6 min mile. There is NO way he was running that before. So I back off, back to 8something pace. He takes off.

Within 1/2 mile I caught back up to him, he was turning around and heading back. Dope, probably killed himself to try and prove he was faster than some old fart.

As a woman who can run at a reasonable pace for quite a long while, this happens all the time. Go to pass some guy - any guy, any age, any fitness level - and he'll speed up. Then he runs out of steam and slows so I go to pass him, and, well, you know what happens. This continues until they admit defeat or our paths diverge. It can be really annoying if the trail/path is narrow and passing involves planning and timing. And it's pointless. If I pass someone slower than me I don't think twice about their speed - I may take a guess as to whether they're just starting out/getting back into running, or if they're cross training (rugby players and boxers are easy to spot) or if they're a regular runner on a long/slow run day - however, when this silly game happens I know for a fact they're slower than me and I am not only judging them but laughing at them too.

October....goal/motto tbd

10/1 3.13
10/2 rest
10/3 3.20

Total 6.33

Upcoming races:
Nov. 11, 2018 Las Vegas Rock 'n Roll 10k
January 4, 2019 Hilo to Volcano Ultra 50k Relay. In memory of @keeprunningfatboy

Ticker is my goal for 2018 and progress to date:

ContraryMaryMary wrote: »

PastorVincent wrote: »

So today, I am out running the river trail. Its pretty flat and is dirt in places, broken asphalt in others, some places sidewalk and at least one section had 2 inches of water covering the trail. But really for the most part it is an easy run.

Its 5-6 miles from where I enter the trail till the end of this branch. Makes for a nice 11 mile out and back run as those in our Strava group can see in today's run.

We I am out there, its warm but not horrid. Code orange for allergies and humid. So I was not trying to push it. But as I come around a bend I see another male runner probably in his early 20s. Without meaning to, I am slowly gaining on him. Looking at my splits I am running about 8:30 or thereabouts.

I catch up to him at one place where the trail crosses a road and we have to stop for traffic. As soon as we get clear to cross, so I cross at a good clip and he passes me. Remembering how I was catching up before him, I figure I am going slow so I pick up the pace to overtake him and he speeds up.

I check my watch and we are doing a 6 min mile. There is NO way he was running that before. So I back off, back to 8something pace. He takes off.

Within 1/2 mile I caught back up to him, he was turning around and heading back. Dope, probably killed himself to try and prove he was faster than some old fart.

As a woman who can run at a reasonable pace for quite a long while, this happens all the time. Go to pass some guy - any guy, any age, any fitness level - and he'll speed up. Then he runs out of steam and slows so I go to pass him, and, well, you know what happens. This continues until they admit defeat or our paths diverge. It can be really annoying if the trail/path is narrow and passing involves planning and timing. And it's pointless. If I pass someone slower than me I don't think twice about their speed - I may take a guess as to whether they're just starting out/getting back into running, or if they're cross training (rugby players and boxers are easy to spot) or if they're a regular runner on a long/slow run day - however, when this silly game happens I know for a fact they're slower than me and I am not only judging them but laughing at them too.

I know way too many women that are way faster than me (maybe even you?) for me to do that. The awkwardness for me comes in when I am doing like 9:30 and the woman is doing like 9:35 (or the other way around). Either I speed up and pass her, or slow down and follow her. I do not want to look like some creepy stalker so I usually pick up the pace for a while, knowing I can not maintain it. If the female runner (or male, but not birds. Birds I will try to chase down lol) is going significantly faster, I just let them go. The vast majority of the time I am running 10-15 miles, and that is often way farther than most people. So I will always be slower. Plus I have used up greater than 50% of my life expectancy, so I am slow

Hi everyone! I officially started the C25K program yesterday morning, with my dogs (8 and 2 year old heelers) alongside. I don't have a distance goal for the month, because I think if I did that, I'd push myself to do too much, too fast. Nice to meet you all!