October 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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@MobyCarp - I feel like I have read that exact run report from you a few times now about runners that go too fast and need to learn to slow down and all that. Your patience to keep repeating the same teaching over and over is remarkable. You sir are a good man for sure.4
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10/01 - 10 miles
10/02 - 0 miles
10/03 - 11 miles
10/04 - 9 miles
10/05 - 0
10/06 - 12? Forgot to start watch *grumble*
10/07 - 0
10/08 - 15.5
10/09 - 0 - had to take Jeep for inspection instead
10/10 - 0 miles - Driving
10/11 - 12.5 in the rain
...stuff happened...
10/18 - 12 miles
10/19 - No run, concert instead
10/20 - 11 miles
Windy, cold, and rainy, but at least a got a few miles in!
Upcoming Races:
Harvest 10 Miler - November 2018
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)
2019 GOAL: Knock a full hour off my 50k time at Glacier Ridge.3 -
Did 3.5 miles in a loop around my neighborhood. Was a little faster than usual. I’ve decided that my favorite temperature to run in is between 50 and 60 degrees.
10/1:4 miles
10/3: 4.4 miles
10/5: 4 miles
10/9: 4.8 miles
10/11: 4 miles
10/12: 2.2 miles
10/13: 4.7 miles
10/15: 1.25 miles
10/17: 5 miles
10/19: 2.8 miles-ish
10/20: 3.5 miles
Cumulative for October: 40.5/60 miles
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amirahdaboss wrote: »Did 3.5 miles in a loop around my neighborhood. Was a little faster than usual. I’ve decided that my favorite temperature to run in is between 50 and 60 degrees.
That is actually the optimum temperature for running, in general for all runners. I think 55 is the exact target, but I am not sure on that memory, just know it is "50s" Well unless you are @Elise4270, then the optimum temperature is more around 12 or 13 degrees, but eh, can never please everyone. 
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This is correct fuel and hydration for a marathon, right? I mean, I'm open to advice here from all of you more experienced runners but I think champagne and fancy dark chocolate bars will serve me well. It seems a bit fussy to carry a champagne flute and have to pop a cork, but should make the last few miles fun!
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PastorVincent wrote: »amirahdaboss wrote: »Did 3.5 miles in a loop around my neighborhood. Was a little faster than usual. I’ve decided that my favorite temperature to run in is between 50 and 60 degrees.
That is actually the optimum temperature for running, in general for all runners. I think 55 is the exact target, but I am not sure on that memory, just know it is "50s" Well unless you are @Elise4270, then the optimum temperature is more around 12 or 13 degrees, but eh, can never please everyone.
It does not get 12-13F here haha!3 -
katharmonic wrote: »
This is correct fuel and hydration for a marathon, right? I mean, I'm open to advice here from all of you more experienced runners but I think champagne and fancy dark chocolate bars will serve me well. It seems a bit fussy to carry a champagne flute and have to pop a cork, but should make the last few miles fun!
Hmm, you might need a second bottle that one looks a bit small to make it.6 -
katharmonic wrote: »This is correct fuel and hydration for a marathon, right? I mean, I'm open to advice here from all of you more experienced runners but I think champagne and fancy dark chocolate bars will serve me well. It seems a bit fussy to carry a champagne flute and have to pop a cork, but should make the last few miles fun!
You're probably gonna need a Garmin Ice Bucket™.
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katharmonic wrote: »
This is correct fuel and hydration for a marathon, right? I mean, I'm open to advice here from all of you more experienced runners but I think champagne and fancy dark chocolate bars will serve me well. It seems a bit fussy to carry a champagne flute and have to pop a cork, but should make the last few miles fun!
Where have you stashed the strawberries??9 -
What the? @7lenny7 has done 42 miles today, running for 12 hours!
https://loopet.dbspatial.com/details.php?bib=22
Respect.
Is @LaDispute57 doing the same event?
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polskagirl01 wrote: »Let's try this on Strava:
Miles for Dennis
https://strava.com/athletes/milesfor_dennis If the link doesn't work, just search for him. "Miles for" is the first name, "Dennis" is the last name
Once you're connected as followers, tag him on the run you dedicated to him (under "edit activity". That's the "add a friend who didn't log" option.) Once we get the notification, one of the administrators can save it as a Dennis run. When we have everyone's runs logged, someone who is good at the fun mapping tools can come up with some visualizations for us This will work for the marathons people are doing in the future as well.
Administrators: How about @Orphia , @Elise4270 , @_nikkiwolf_ , others??? Basically we're accepting friend requests, then when we get notification that someone sent us a run, add it as Dennis' own with the name of the person in the title. I had to save the picture and manually add it to my own run.
@polskagirl01 Thanks so much for doing this!!
Great idea to create a new account!!! @_nikkiwolf_
I've clicked Follow, so please request to follow me back, so I can add/tag Miles for Dennis to my marathon.
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I've nearly finished the list of runners.
@marisap2010 You said you ran for Dennis at 11 am. How long for, and is that GMT on 14 Oct 2018?0 -
@orphia - I am pretty sure @7lenny7 was running a timed race (no specific distance) and @LaDispute57 is running a 50mi ultra. Hoping they are both doing well after all the miles!
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That reminds me...I found a quarter on the path the other day. Now that I know where they've been, I'll probably leave any future finds alone.3k easy for final preparation for tomorrow's 5k race. Now 98.5k for October.
I too tried out the running form hints proffered here. String in my head worked; nips and hips worked; but I could only keep that quarter clenched for a couple of strides before it fell out and had to be replaced.
Best of luck to all the racers this weekend!!
So i suppose I'll have to correct the kids that it's change fallen form runners hind quarters. (I don't know if what they call it is PC, so I'll omit it.) My humor is off. I wrote "shlt" in the log book friday. Cant wait for Monday so i can obliterate it before the boss sees it, if she hadnt already. I dont see it as bad.. but dh says i cant do that... hes probably right.
In December, can we sing "jingle buns"?6 -
Testing to see if I can say "*kitten*".4
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PastorVincent wrote: »polskagirl01 wrote: »I got some stuff at the race today... will post more over in the long distance runners group "bling report" thread
From time to time y'all mention these other threads... I can not really keep up with just this thread! LOL I do not know how you do it!
The others don't move nearly as fast!1 -
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10 miles on the Greenline, plus 3 walking. The running part felt really hard today - for some reason this 10 miles felt harder than the 13.1 last week - averaged 11:20 pace which is usually easy for us, never really out of breath, just very footsore and tired muscles. We got it done though, one more long run between now and our half, hopefully we'll be ready.
It is nice getting to go farther and see new places. We ran behind a church which was having some sort of musical event, and we ran past a restaurant/event venue which was having a wedding - we could see through the big picture windows and see the actual ceremony taking place - and we ran past some people working horses in a round pen. The weather was perfect again.
I continue to be shocked and amazed at my blood sugar after running longer distances. We ran the Greenline until we bumped into a major road and realized we had come out next to our favorite Vietnamese restaurant. So when we got back to our car we just had to drive over there and have a giant bowl of pho. I always ask them to put about half the usual amount of noodles plus extra vegetables, and they always smile and say they will and then the kitchen staff does exactly what they always do. Which is serve the same bowl the same way, no modifications. So usually I leave a giant mess of noodles after eating maybe a quarter of them, as many carbs as I estimate I can handle, and typically I misjudge and wind up with blood glucose levels about 150, which is higher than I like to go. So today I was starving, and I ate the whole bowl. And my glucose afterwards topped out at 102.
By the way, this restaurant has the honor of hosting a uniquely peculiar blues singer. He's a one man band, singing, percussion, guitar, and harmonica, and the first time I heard him I had my back to the stage and I honestly thought four different guys were warming up at the same time. He has the astonishing ability to play like four different people who have never met before and don't agree on what key they're supposed to be in. I love watching new people who have never heard him before as the full realization that this is really happening slowly dawns on their faces. Today a man tipped him, and he said he had been playing there five years. "Wow," said the guy. It was clear he couldn't think of anything else to say.
We had good luck at the REI garage sale this morning. My husband seems to have the same size feet they use for their displays, so he had his pick of dozens of new shoes with nothing wrong with them except no box. He ended up getting some Saucony Peregrines for about sixty bucks. And I got a pair of Salomon crossmax 4's which were a return with the note that the previous owner thought they felt like running in cleats. I agree, they do feel like cleats, so I plan to wear them on overgrown and nasty muddy trails.7 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »Let's try this on Strava:
Miles for Dennis
https://strava.com/athletes/milesfor_dennis If the link doesn't work, just search for him. "Miles for" is the first name, "Dennis" is the last name
Once you're connected as followers, tag him on the run you dedicated to him (under "edit activity". That's the "add a friend who didn't log" option.) Once we get the notification, one of the administrators can save it as a Dennis run. When we have everyone's runs logged, someone who is good at the fun mapping tools can come up with some visualizations for us This will work for the marathons people are doing in the future as well.
Administrators: How about @Orphia , @Elise4270 , @_nikkiwolf_ , others??? Basically we're accepting friend requests, then when we get notification that someone sent us a run, add it as Dennis' own with the name of the person in the title. I had to save the picture and manually add it to my own run.
@polskagirl01 Thanks so much for doing this!! Great idea to create a new account!!! @_nikkiwolf_
I've clicked Follow, so please request to follow me back, so I can add/tag Miles for Dennis to my marathon.
Erk, just had a thought. Not sure whether it would work where we have more than one runner in a slot, or overlapping.
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