October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

@Orphia - my time slot is correct - thanks for all the hard work. Beautiful and meaningful idea.

This is rather morbid - but I have this secret thought that someday when I'm gone, my grandkids will look at my map and my medals and recreate a couple runs together in my memory. I love the idea that I just might inspire another generation to be active. My mom was a huge baseball fan (Tigers). For the first few years after she died several of us would meet at different ballparks across the country to watch the Tigers play. Every time I'd beat myself up wondering why we didn't do that while she was alive.

I think I've become a whiner instead of a runner. I ran 5 miles Monday - it felt glorious and I could have gone further if not for the "to-do" list. Got up early to run yesterday but just walked the dog instead. This morning I just couldn't muster the energy to get dressed and go. Seems like my excuses are out-numbering my desire right now. And I really want to train hard for Sedona. Schedule is a bit overwhelming right now so a good run would definitely help. I just hate that at 6:00 am it's still dark. Love the cool weather - not loving the dark.

June goal - 44/44
July goal - 52/52
August goal - 55/57 miles
Sept goal - 72/60 miles
Oct goal - 25/60 miles

Sept. 30 - Wineglass Half Marathon; Corning, NY
October 7 - Viking Dash Half Marathon; Toledo, OH
February 2 - Sedona Half

juliet3455 wrote: »

@Orphia Well everyone knows that I had a " Time Zone Translation Error " ( dufus moment ) but I did put in a HM distance for Dennis - really wanted to get the 26.2 km for the symbolic 26.2 but ran out of gas. Not sure how you would want to portray it - but as you can tell I am fine poking a little fun at myself and feel free to poke a little fun at me in the blog or post to MFP HQ.
As others have said A big thanks to @Elise4270 and @Orphia

_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »

@Orphia that's really great of you that you want to create a summary from everyone's runs!
The Strava activity: https://www.strava.com/activities/1903790230
I don't know if everyone tracked their run with Strava or Garmin- if yes, maybe we could combine the gpx files into a world map?

@_nikkiwolf_ What a brilliant idea. My strava link https://www.strava.com/activities/1901261929

I sent a query to Strava about this concept. After reviewing the options in Strava a Group would not work as it would load all runs from our Strava profiles, when we only want a very specific subset.

@_nikkiwolf_ @Orphia I sent the request into Strava with the link to nikki's data she provided and my data with the hope that Strava would have a solution. I looked at the Group's and Event's options they had but didn't think either would work as they would grab all the data for an individual which meant some false extra data from adjacent days activities. Like the MFP group where it shows a summary for the whole week - There might be a way to put a narrow time zone window or just link the individual files that I didn't see.

"Strava ticket #1183613 Combine multiple Strava Activities from all over the world for a single event"

@polskagirl01 That was a great post of the Map and Medals for the 50 states.
I noticed the one medal with the Canadian maple Leaf on the Ribbon.

garygse wrote: »

@7lenny7 Runalyze has me at 49, and Garmin has me at 54-56, which goes to show that algorithms can only really be used to determine a trend at best.

Interestingly, in between my initial post and now, the results arrived in an email...looks like my LT is 170 bpm. I've also got a nice breakdown of the calories per hour for each HR (from 135-190 in increments of 5), along with fat per hour and carbs per hour. It feels like information overload, but in terms of recovery it will tell me how many carbs I need to be taking in to replenish the glycogen that was used during a given run.

There's also another sheet that gives me better HR zones to plug in to Garmin so that I can train a little more effectively. Overall, while the test wasn't exactly cheap (it was an early birthday present to myself) I think it's money relatively well spent.

Very cool @garygse was curious on your Runalyze VO2 max number. With this new test and other collectible data, it is clearly showing that you well on your way to qualifying for Boston when you run your race. ( Personally, I think you could run it next week and nail it, but I get your desire to run several more unofficial ones )

Within the last couple months I uploaded all of my runs to Runalyze and at least for me based on my inputs, and their calculated monthly VO2 avg for 2 months leading up to my Marathon pretty much nailed my first marathon time of 3:47 (VO2 of 40.6) and individual/specific workouts could produce higher scores which aligned to HM times, etc. My CTL post injury is nearly previous levels, however my VO2 also dropped significantly and trending back up, hoping with time I will get back to past levels and exceed as I run more/longer and start throwing some speed/workouts into the equation.

For everyone else. Keep your eyes out at local universities for low/no cost testing for tests such as these. Many schools with master students in these types of programs will conduct tests such as these and you are helping them in facilitation of learning, etc. This week I learned of a body composition and VO2 Max test and secured a spot in early December for free.