November 2018 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited November 2018
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    I should get off this couch and:

    1. Get on the TM.
    2. Skip the TM. Get up early and run bike swim or do weights
    3. Fetch more tea and que up another binge worthy show
    4. Uhoh.. maybe hide. Dh just found the empty cookie package and asked if i was cooking cookie dough. I said "what dough?"
    5. Ah! I got it. Go register for that race i said i would.

    Am i the only one that is this freekin lazy?
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
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    PastorVincent wrote: »
    No run today, as planned, but glad it was planned. I doubt I could run anyways. I too am dangerously low on spoons. There needs to be a spoon library where you can borrow some in a pinch. :(

    I ran out of spoons months ago. Otherwise, I'd lend you some.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
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    @_nikkiwolf_ @BruinsGal_91 I wrote a blog about Rock n Roll Vegas and included a mini-rant on people who don't start where they should. There were a couple of women, who started a couple corrals ahead of me, and I overheard them say it would take 4 hours to finish. I assumed they were doing the marathon (all marathoners started in the first color group of corrals). I glanced at their bibs and they were doing the half! They clearly lied about their time to get a blue color bib as 4 hours was the cut off for the half. They should have been in the third color group.

    Also, I passed them within the first quarter mile. They were walking.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
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    2---2.24 intervals
    3---5.24 walk with DD
    4---5.49 walk with DD
    6---2.29 intervals
    11---2.0 tm
    15---2.05 tm
    18--2.0 tm

    21.4/65

    Upcoming Maybe Races

    December 1st Dinosaur Valley Endurance Run. 5 Mile Glen Rose TX
    January 5 BIRR Ultra relay. 50k. Hawaii. For @KeepRunningFatboy
    March 31, 2019 A2A Undecided distance. Ardmore OK
    April 28, 2019 OKC Memorial Marathon (half)
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
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    noblsheep wrote: »
    1118-10.1k total-39.2k, goal-100k

    Finished the 10k race at the Shanghai Marathon yesterday.

    Obligatory bling:
    aii6kdkbfpys.jpg

    WEll done! But I must say I am surprised that there is English on the medal?
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,010 Member
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    noblsheep wrote: »
    1118-10.1k total-39.2k, goal-100k

    Finished the 10k race at the Shanghai Marathon yesterday.

    Obligatory bling:
    aii6kdkbfpys.jpg

    It was very crowed - the clock said 16 minutes had gone by when I arrived at the starting line. I kept elbowing people when they tried to pass me, and tangents were pretty much impossible.

    Atmosphere was great. I kept trying to speed up so I could read what people's t-shirts said :D Weather was great - about 15 degrees C (60F) and raining just a tiny bit. The wind picked up and it started pouring about an hour after I finished, so most of the marathoners I knew either achieved a PB because it was too cold to slow down, or got a DNF.

    Oh and I saw this guy behind me at the finish line.
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    He might need a faster dinosaur.

    I love everything about this (except the DNFs).
  • katharmonic
    katharmonic Posts: 5,720 Member
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    Glad you had a good 10k @noblsheep! Love the dinosaur guy.

    @debrakgoogins great job on finishing up week 5 in the cold. I don't have much advice about the knee other than making sure to do some warming up before running, maybe another layer to keep warm (I wonder if a hand warmer type thing would help too?), but good luck working with your trainer tonight. Maybe strengthening will help your knee too. I've just loved doing more strength/cross-training with a trainer, which was a total surprise to me because I actively hated working out at the gym before.
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
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    11-1 Rest
    11-2 7k intervals
    11-3 7k easy
    11-4 10.5k slow
    11-5 7k recovery
    11-6 Rest
    11-7 7k intervals
    11-8 7k easy
    11-9 Rest
    11-10 7k
    11-11 10.5k slow
    11-12 7k recovery
    11-13 Rest
    11-14 7k intervals
    11-15 7k recovery
    11-16 Rest
    11-17 7k easy
    11-18 10.5k slow
    11-19 7k recovery

    November total: 108.5k
    November goal: 150k

    Gave some thought to making today and Thursday rest days, but cloudy, foggy, and 35 degrees F got me out today for my scheduled recovery run. Will rest tomorrow, and see what the rest of the week brings.

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