January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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newbie here
Jan 1 : 1.5/30 miles, walking 5.6 (with running subtracted)
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polskagirl01 wrote: »Looking back at 2018 and @KeepRunningFatboypolskagirl01 wrote: »I've played around with some visualization apps, and haven't really come up with anything I'm crazy about. So I'll just present this...
as a reminder of that thing we did to remember one of ours
3rd Row 2nd activity.3 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »Looking back at 2018 and @KeepRunningFatboypolskagirl01 wrote: »I've played around with some visualization apps, and haven't really come up with anything I'm crazy about. Worldwide maps make us look like tiny dots, Flyby with all the runs put together could be zoomed in, but you had to automatically follow the track (not easy when it jumped between continents). I also only have maps for some of the runs, meaning that a number of people are left out however I visualize it. So I'll just present this...
as a reminder of that thing we did to remember one of ours
I'm pretty sure I'm the 3rd one.
Mine is no 4.
Pretty sure I am on the bottom row far left...2 -
Today has been another great running day. I headed out for another hour-long run/walk and ran probably nearly two-thirds of it - about 5km out of 8.25. At the 6km mark I started feeling my calf so, being a good patient, I walked for the next kilometre, then hit a long gentle decline so was able to run again for 800m. Happy with progress, but should probably have a rest day tomorrow.
1 Jan: 8.21km run/walk plus 1056m swim
2 Jan: 8.25km run/walk17 -
01 - 4
January Total: 4 miles
January Goal: 60 miles
Upcoming Races:
Rhody Run 12k (5/19)
I'm stoked to be joining this challenge and wish everyone the best 2019!14 -
0101-5.5k total-5.5k, goal-100k
Nice and easy 5k to kick off the year. Spent the New Year holiday out of town with my girlfriend's family and ended up eating far too much. They live by the sea where seafood costs next to nothing, and if an elder puts food in your plate and urges you to eat it, there is absolutely no way to weasel out of it.
Upcoming races:
04.15 Beijing International Running Festival (HM) (registration not open yet)
05.13 Beijing Tongzhou Half Marathon (registration not open yet)11 -
I like this goals versus resolutions thing, it makes a lot of sense to me.
My 2019 resolution is, as I’ve already mentioned, to consistently run 4 times a week. Even between training plans, just to keep myself going.
My 2019 goal is a 3:42 marathon to get ‘good for age’ qualification for the London Marathon (3:45 is the cut off) and to have taken 1hr off my first marathon time from two years ago.
My second 2019 goal is to run an Ultra, which I’m already signed up for. Just to see what all the fuss is about! No time goals, just for fun.
(56 miles = fun... running has changed me so much in the last five years )12 -
I lost my running mojo the last two weeks, so January is all about getting it back! Currently I can run for 40 minutes non stop on the treadmill, but my outside time sucks massively! So for January my goal is to start, and stick to, the couch to 5k programme. This is on top of my gym programme that I started back in September, so there will be some weeks where one of the programmes has to give a little, but I'm OK with that. After all, any exercise is better than none! Good luck everyone 😊11
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PastorVincent wrote: »So I baked a great cake tonight for dinner (we had company over). It is GF, and very chocolate. I used 100% cocoa so that it be really dark, and of course, added chocolate icing... very much yum. Everyone loved it and all said it was impossible to tell from a "normal cake" and all loved it.
So I looked at the calorie count for the recipe to enter into MFP, and ONE-SIXTEENTH of a cake (really? Who cuts a 9" round cake into 16 pieces?!?!) is 467 calories. Y'all, not saying I ate more than I should have, but I might need to run a marathon tomorrow to get back on track calorie wise...
Wow, that is a lot of calories for a small piece. Sounds like it was worth it though.
I somehow managed to gain 9 lbs over the course of a week and that cake of yours gave me a realization. I had stopped logging, but kept eating my usual foods at home (though portion sizes surely were increased) and kept up my usual exercise routine (25-30 miles/day biking, PPL weight lifting 6 days/wk, mixed with a smidgeon of running). BUT then I thought about the new vegan restaurant we tried twice. There must've been some serious calorie bombs in that food. No online nutritional information available and now I probably know why.6 -
somethingsoright wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »So I baked a great cake tonight for dinner (we had company over). It is GF, and very chocolate. I used 100% cocoa so that it be really dark, and of course, added chocolate icing... very much yum. Everyone loved it and all said it was impossible to tell from a "normal cake" and all loved it.
So I looked at the calorie count for the recipe to enter into MFP, and ONE-SIXTEENTH of a cake (really? Who cuts a 9" round cake into 16 pieces?!?!) is 467 calories. Y'all, not saying I ate more than I should have, but I might need to run a marathon tomorrow to get back on track calorie wise...
Wow, that is a lot of calories for a small piece. Sounds like it was worth it though.*Groan* the first isnt even over and i want cake by the ocean. Thanks @PastorVincent .
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PastorVincent wrote: »somethingsoright wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »So I baked a great cake tonight for dinner (we had company over). It is GF, and very chocolate. I used 100% cocoa so that it be really dark, and of course, added chocolate icing... very much yum. Everyone loved it and all said it was impossible to tell from a "normal cake" and all loved it.
So I looked at the calorie count for the recipe to enter into MFP, and ONE-SIXTEENTH of a cake (really? Who cuts a 9" round cake into 16 pieces?!?!) is 467 calories. Y'all, not saying I ate more than I should have, but I might need to run a marathon tomorrow to get back on track calorie wise...
Wow, that is a lot of calories for a small piece. Sounds like it was worth it though.*Groan* the first isnt even over and i want cake by the ocean. Thanks @PastorVincent .
Seriously tempted to woo this post :-p
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That cake looks SO good!
Well, 2019 has not started the way I would have like it to - I can't shake this cold so I'm going to rest up for a few more days before I attempt gym or running which means zero miles logged for a few more days.
I rushed back after the last few times I was ill and it did me no favours so going to try and recover properly this time before getting back in to it.9 -
I'm going to give this a go and try and run 40km/25miles this month. I've hardly done any running over the last 2yrs and have a 10k lined up in May. I would like to complete it in under an hour, ideally around 55mins
Posting here will help me commit to my goals13 -
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eleanorhawkins wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »somethingsoright wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »So I baked a great cake tonight for dinner (we had company over). It is GF, and very chocolate. I used 100% cocoa so that it be really dark, and of course, added chocolate icing... very much yum. Everyone loved it and all said it was impossible to tell from a "normal cake" and all loved it.
So I looked at the calorie count for the recipe to enter into MFP, and ONE-SIXTEENTH of a cake (really? Who cuts a 9" round cake into 16 pieces?!?!) is 467 calories. Y'all, not saying I ate more than I should have, but I might need to run a marathon tomorrow to get back on track calorie wise...
Wow, that is a lot of calories for a small piece. Sounds like it was worth it though.*Groan* the first isnt even over and i want cake by the ocean. Thanks @PastorVincent .
Seriously tempted to woo this post :-p
I love that someone "hug" it. I mean i know cake it is good, but hugging it is not the same as eating it:)5 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »Looking back at 2018 and @KeepRunningFatboypolskagirl01 wrote: »I've played around with some visualization apps, and haven't really come up with anything I'm crazy about. Worldwide maps make us look like tiny dots, Flyby with all the runs put together could be zoomed in, but you had to automatically follow the track (not easy when it jumped between continents). I also only have maps for some of the runs, meaning that a number of people are left out however I visualize it. So I'll just present this...
as a reminder of that thing we did to remember one of ours
Mine is 2nd row center.5 -
somethingsoright wrote: »
I somehow managed to gain 9 lbs over the course of a week and that cake of yours gave me a realization. I had stopped logging, but kept eating my usual foods at home (though portion sizes surely were increased) and kept up my usual exercise routine (25-30 miles/day biking, PPL weight lifting 6 days/wk, mixed with a smidgeon of running). BUT then I thought about the new vegan restaurant we tried twice. There must've been some serious calorie bombs in that food. No online nutritional information available and now I probably know why.
I had the same problem. A vegan place around me, that I loved eating at (although I am not vegan or vegetarian, i just was looking for healthier optioned foods and trying somethig new) has recorded their food as being 800+ calories. Most vegan establishments will not post calories because they want people to focus on living healthier lifestyles and eating healthy foods (which i later realized it was about hiding the hidden calories, overkilling curtain high caloric items to have the meals taste better) and have it not be about calorie counting, but when you load a salad up with beans and oil...for the sake of calorie counting.. it can be a bomb to the system like any other establishment. Even just adding one too many avocados can be an overkill. Sodium tends to be another overkill in vegetarian items, especially if it contains soy bean.3 -
1-1 Rest
1-2 7k intervals
January Total: 7k
January Goal: 100k
Next year when you pop in here claiming your December 2019 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?
Run at least 4 5k races.
Get under 30:00 and a PR for 5k.
Average at least 135k per month, which would put me over 1,000 miles for the year.
Run the Year Team: Five for Nineteen
Interval training today: warmup; followed by 5 sets of five minutes hard/90 seconds easy; followed by cooldown for the remainder of the 7k. Didn't run the hard intervals particularly well (fighting a head cold and a little hamstring niggle), but ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED the easy segments.
@PastorVincent I'll be glad to drive over and take care of whatever cake happens to be left.5 -
@PastorVincent I'll be glad to drive over and take care of whatever cake happens to be left.
So it is around 110 calories per mile of running (give or take based on weight/gender/etc)... which means you would only have to run a 50k to make up for what is currently left. So if you fly into PIT, that means you will not need a rental car. You can run to my house, back to the airport, then back to my house, eat the cake, then back to the airport and still have enough calories left for a 5 mile cool down jog.
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PastorVincent wrote: »@PastorVincent I'll be glad to drive over and take care of whatever cake happens to be left.
So it is around 110 calories per mile of running (give or take based on weight/gender/etc)... which means you would only have to run a 50k to make up for what is currently left. So if you fly into PIT, that means you will not need a rental car. You can run to my house, back to the airport, then back to my house, eat the cake, then back to the airport and still have enough calories left for a 5 mile cool down jog.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 loved that breakdown
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