January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
Options
Replies
-
Jan 9 - 3.2 km
Jan 11 - 3.8 km
Jan 14 - 4 km
Jan 16 - 4 km
Jan 18 - 4 km
Jan 23 - 3.5 km
Total: 22.5 km
Goal: 20 km
9 -
Cutback week easy miles are not going as easily as planned. Yesterday I ran faster than recovery because I was short on time. Today I planned a route with a MONSTER of a hill and ended up with an average HR of 155 or so..... I swear I'm taking the rest of the week easy!
Got done with the run and immediately did my stability strength work: glute bridges, clam shells, single leg balancing stuff, side lunges, etc. I did it all body weight style so really make sure my form is good and the right muscles are activating. I can tell the strength work is helping because my posture is better and running quicker feels easier. Just wish I didn't fall over after 20 seconds doing single-leg balances
January runs:
(12/31: NYE 4 mile race
)
1/1: 8.2 trail miles
1/2: Rest day
1/3: 5 miles
1/4: 6.8 miles
1/5: 6 miles
1/6: 12 miles
1/7: 4 miles
1/8: 9 trail miles
1/9: 5 miles
1/10: Rest day
1/11: 16 miles
1/12: 8 miles
1/13: 6.5 miles
1/14: 5 miles
1/15: 5 miles
1/16: 7.5 miles
1/17: Rest day
1/18: 9 miles
1/19: 6 miles
1/20: 18 miles
1/21: Rest day
1/22: 5.4 miles
1/23 7 miles
January total miles: 151.4
----
2019 Races
March 24: Caesar Rodney Half Marathon (Goal: PR)
April 7: Cherry Blossom 10 Miler (Goal: Sub-75)
April 28: New Jersey Marathon (Goal: BQ)
July 6: Finger Lake Fifties 50k (Goal: Finish)
15 -
What are yall doing today? What color are your socks today? Mine are both grey, one is blue toes/heal, the other green. I dont bother matching my socks as long as they are the same sock.
@Elise4270 Good luck at the doctors! I am wearing the always attractive and super professional knee high polka dots today. My office feels like the arctic circle. Brrrrrr... my hands and feet are freezing! I am also wearing matching grey fingerless office gloves.
13 -
I'm rocking leopard print socks today.
I'm also wearing a Vancouver Canucks jersey in Edmonton because I'm a bit of a real life troll. (For those who follow hockey, the Oilers seem to have imploded rather spectacularly last night all over social media and they fired their GM and it was kind of glorious.)4 -
Kind of jumping in towards the end here, but better late than never!
So, this is my first MFP Running Challenge. I've learned I do best with accountability.
I've posted in the intro thread, but my running goals for January were:
1. Run 3x a week
2. By the end of the month, be running 12 miles a week regularly
I'm currently running about 10 - 11 miles a week, following one of the Garmin 5K preset 5k plans. I'm hoping to reach 40 miles total by the end of the month.
I'm still figuring out my goals for the rest of the year, but I want to run another 10K in less than 60 minutes; my first and last 10K (Feb 2018) was 1:01:58.
Happy to be here, and looking forward to the fitness and fun!17 -
Welcome @kodiakke !
All these socks are making me feel I should go take off my boring black ones and put on something exciting. Like the Harry Potter ones with pompoms on the ankles. But the black ones (cheap 'workout' socks from Primark) are soft and spongy and feel like getting home from work and taking your bra off, so I live in them whenever I'm not running and the fun, pretty and totally outrageous socks all glare at me in jealousy whenever I open my sock drawer.
Just been to Decathlon to hunt down the leggings I think it was @_nikkiwolf_ posted... they only had them in a size XS but I tried a pair and whoa they fit! Snug, but they fit. Got excited about all those pockets, then (thank God!) I decided to pull out my phone in the changing room and try sticking it in the front pocket and bouncing a bit to see whether it would fly around. Erm, there was no way my bog standard sized (or so I thought) Samsung was going to fit in that pocket. Pffffft, disappointing. Went back to the running aisle and found some on offer with a vertical side pocket with a zip that my phone does fit in so grabbed those instead. I'm justifying it by telling my husband they have reflective bits, which the stuff I'm wearing atm doesn't, and as it isn't completely light when I run that is probably important. Sounds legit, right?
I'm really excited (yeah, I need to get out more) that I start C25k week 3 tomorrow, so I get to run for 3 whole minutes at a time a couple of times. Whoohoo! It's killing me making myself stick to this easing back into it thing but hey ho, it is what it is. Started lower body strength training again on Monday fo the first time in over a month. The DOMS weren't too bad yesterday but they hit me this morning. Due for another session after tomorrow's run. Don't have any lighter weights than I used on Monday. Friday will definitely be a very restive rest day, methinks!
11 -
-
Not much time to catch up at the moment sorry.. Kids are on holidays still.
Trying to get km's in where I can. Aim is to get 38+ km's each week to hit my goal of 2019km for the year.
I'm raising money walking & running the 2019km for the Cancer Council to help better support cancer patients and their families. I figure if I try and hit 40km per week then I will stay in front. Hope everyone is happy, well and running the distance x
January Km’s
01 – 10.01
02 – strength workout
03 – rest day
04 – 6.39
05 – 26……….Weekly Total 42.4
06 – 6.67
07 – crossfit
08 – 3.02 + bike
09 – rest day
10 – 8.01
11 – 6.57
12 – 1.01 beach walk……….Weekly total 25.28
13 – 6.61 + leg strength
14 – 5
15 – 10.01
16 – 1 + cardio workout
17 – 3.29 + metafit class, Arms, Core & Hamstrings
18 – 13.33 + stairclimber
19 – 4.44……….Weekly total 43.68
20 – 12.03 white rock trail run
21 – 3.11
22 – 3.9
23 – 3.99 – 134.39 Total
12 -
Haha! I love the sock game! Y'all are awesome! But you already knew that
4 -
greenolivetree wrote: »Well I'm 400 posts behind. Oh well
I ran 30 mins three times last week then last night I started the Bridge to 10k program. So that was four 10 min runs with 1 min walk breaks in between. I struggled through the whole thing. Usually at least once a week my whole run is just terrible and I feel like crap. Ha. My HR was higher than it's been despite adding in the walk breaks and the walk breaks honestly just felt pointless. I'm contemplating just adding 5 mins each week to my run instead of doing the walk break thing in the 10k program???
I tried a 10K program that sounds a lot like the one you are doing, with short walk breaks. Each week the runs got a little longer with less breaks, but you were pretty far into the plan before they dropped altogether. I got stuck on that program and tried a different one because I was finding it harder to start running again after a walk break than to just keep going. The one I used is by Active and it's a 5K to 10K trainer. No walk breaks and a mix of paces. It does a long run once a week that builds up to the 10K distance and the other 2 days are some speed/pace work and some recovery runs. I liked the variety a lot and found it much easier to stick with. Also, once I finished it I have been able to just cycle the last 3-4 weeks to give me a plan to follow until my race days.
7 -
midwesterner85 wrote: »I'm thinking of signing up for the Hogeye Marathon in Springdale, AR (4/6/19). Does anyone here know if they have bacon on the course? It seems like they should have it either on the course or at the end (as a minimum). Has anyone done this race and do you know? If not, I might message the RD. I'm really thinking about signing up and that might push me over the edge...
Interesting
If you want bacon, the Flying Pig Marathon on the first Sunday in May has some unofficially from someone that evidently cooks and passes it out every year and I believe others along the course do the same as well. The FP was my first marathon and while I didn’t have any bacon during the race I loved the race theme and the support is fantastic. Highly recommend!
On a whim this past summer, to keep the pig theme going, I signed up for the Hogeye during their early registration period. That said, in the fall, I later registered for another marathon on the same day as a good portion of my running group is running Milwaukee and I initially thought of my dual registration as “weather insurance” if snow/cold up north for race day I would head south and if too hot in AR the I would stay closer to home...but also tempted to see if I can transfer the Hogeye race but haven’t contacted the RD to see if they would accommodate as they don’t talk about it is an option positively or negatively on their website.
If you are talking to the RD perhaps you can inquire about a friend not able to run and would they be willing to accommodate a name switch and what we would have to do. Thinking, I could drop my insurance policy and you can save some money as I paid far less than the current price of you want to run this race.
@kevaasen I might just ask that question because I'm thinking about signing up anyway. To be honest, another part of the reason to run this is because I am doing a marathon on 4/13 in KS and this would be 2 in 8 days... which would be enough to join the Marathon Maniacs and would also get me 1 state closer to being able to join the 50 states club. Cincinnati is a bit further, but not a bad idea as I don't have OH. But it would not be 2 marathons in short enough time to join the Marathon Maniacs club. I may send you a friend request so we can PM about it.4 -
-
January Running Totals (miles)
1/1 – 10.09 warmup + 7.5 mile race
1/2 – 6.28 easy w/fast finish
1/3 – 6.76 warmup, intervals, cool down
1/4 – rest day
1/5 – 16.65 warmup, Winter Warrior Half
1/6 – 8.09 easy
1/7 – rest day
1/8 – 8.64 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/9 – 11.08 easy
1/10 – 8.25 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/11 – rest day
1/12 – 15.94 warmup, 5 mile race, post-race easy run
1/13 – 12.46 easy with hills
1/14 – rest day
1/15 – 8.19 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/16 – 10.01 easy to MP
1/17 – 9.82 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/18 – rest day
1/19 – 15.12 with snow and wind
1/20 – 8.10 indoor track
1/21 – rest day
1/22 – 8.19 warmup, speed work, cool down
1/23 – 13.16 easy with hills
January running total to date – 176.83
Nominal January mileage goal: 200 miles
Real Goals: Train well toward Boston. Work the January races into the training plan smoothly. Remain uninjured, even if it means cutting back on planned mileage or races.
Yesterday's and Today's notes – It's getting into the busy season of the year. So far, I've kept up with skimming the posts here; haven't been able to reply to all that I'd like to. Major cause of being busy, tax season coinciding with Boston training. That's not going to change until either I quit doing volunteer tax prep for low income people or BAA quits letting me come back to run another Boston Marathon.
Yesterday I had tax training (self employment income) from 1:30 to 3:30, which got in the way of my screen time but worked well with club practice in the evening. Went to club practice, ran my 2 mile warmup. The real speed work was 4x200 at R, 3x600 at R, 4x200 at R, with 200 recovery after the 200s and 400 recovery after the 600s. As discussed with Coach last Thursday, I focused more on form than pace. Results: I ran the R intervals slower than a week earlier, was less beat up, and another club member mentioned my form was better. I'll take that as a win.
Today I have tax training (quality review) from 5 to 8 PM. I wanted to get 13 miles with hills. Physically, I would have liked to start around 3 PM, with maximum recovery time from yesterday's speed work to get the run done in the daylight. Unfortunately, that wouldn't let me get to training by 5. So . . . I slept late like a normal weekday (retirement is great!), then did an abbreviated morning routine like a weekend. That got me out the door just past 10 AM, when the temperature was up to 36° F (+2° C). Wind was supposed to be 11 to 16 mph, but it didn't feel quite that strong. It was from the SSE; an easterly wind component is unusual here.
I went to run 13 miles with hills on a familiar route. Minor issue: Early in the route, for most of mile 2 plus a bit of mile 3, I had to run on sidewalks. Normally those sidewalks are clear. They had been plowed, but there was a layer of snow left. Depending on how I view things, this was either very soft packed snow or very firm slush. It was like running on sand, only colder. The effort level was well above a normal long run, but I slogged through it. Then the rest of the run was normal winter running conditions. I was a bit slower than usual. Part of that was being worn down by the early bad footing, part was having less than optimal recovery time after yesterday's speed work. I chose to regard it as a training exercise in running on tired legs.
Post-run stats showed the familiar fake high HR early, but the HR for miles 3 to 13 being a bit lower than normal for one of my long runs, in the 120s. It didn't feel like I was working less hard, but that's the tired legs speaking.
Other random factoid: Today was the first run for a pair of Peregrine Ice + 7's out of the box. My old Peregrines are over 500 miles, and I can see wear no the surface of the Superfeet insert in one of them. I'd like to make the first run in new shoes something shorter, but that just isn't going to happen for a run that needs trail shoes for the snow and ice. The good news is, everything went as expected with the shoes. I really needed Peregrines instead of Kinvaras on the snowy sidewalk, and either the Ice + model lives up to the hype for no-slip, or there weren't any really slick spots on the roads. There was ice in my driveway before I started, but I didn't really test the shoes on it. By the time I got back, there had been about an hour of light rain and the ice in my driveway had melted.
2019 Races:
January 1, 2019 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY) finished in 50:55
January 5, 2019 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) finished in 1:30:48
January 12, 2019 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds 5 Mile) (Spencerport, NY) finished in 33:10
January 26, 2019 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY)
February 2, 2019 USATF XC Championship, Masters 8K (Tallahassee, FL)
February 9, 2019 Freezeroo #5 (Tom Brannon 8 mile) (Greece, NY)
February 23, 2019 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY)
April 13, 2019 BAA 5K (Boston, MA)
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA)
November 3, 2019 TCS New York City Marathon (New York, NY)
12 -
@sarahthes when I first saw the Oilers news this morning I thought it was fake. Then I thought it took them this long to finally fire him?! 😂
And now I'm gonna cry about our game tonight because OEL was injured last night and I love that Swede. Actually I think all of our defensemen are injured 🤷🏼♀️
(but at least we jumped the Oilers in points last night... maybe that was the final straw 🤣)3 -
January goal: 75 miles
1/1: 3.11 miles
1/4: 4.6 miles
1/5: 4.21 miles
1/6: 8.02 miles
1/8: 3.11 miles
1/9: 3.15 miles
1/10: 3.15 miles
1/13: 9.01 miles
1/15: 3.15 miles
1/16: 3.11 miles
1/17: 5.03 miles
1/20: 10.02 miles
1/22: 5.02 miles
1/23: 3.27 miles
67.96/75 miles completed
I ran 3.27 miles at lunch today. I was pretty quick for me too. Strava said it was my 3rd fastest 5K and it was my fastest non-race 5k. I'm always a little disappointed when I run at lunch because I really only have time for 3 miles, but it was nice to be able to run fast (the cold weather helped there too). I can run farther if I run before work, but it was 27F feels like 20F when I got up this morning and that is just too cold for me. But 43F feels like 37F was ok when it was sunny out.
10 -
midwesterner85 wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »I'm thinking of signing up for the Hogeye Marathon in Springdale, AR (4/6/19). Does anyone here know if they have bacon on the course? It seems like they should have it either on the course or at the end (as a minimum). Has anyone done this race and do you know? If not, I might message the RD. I'm really thinking about signing up and that might push me over the edge...
Interesting
If you want bacon, the Flying Pig Marathon on the first Sunday in May has some unofficially from someone that evidently cooks and passes it out every year and I believe others along the course do the same as well. The FP was my first marathon and while I didn’t have any bacon during the race I loved the race theme and the support is fantastic. Highly recommend!
On a whim this past summer, to keep the pig theme going, I signed up for the Hogeye during their early registration period. That said, in the fall, I later registered for another marathon on the same day as a good portion of my running group is running Milwaukee and I initially thought of my dual registration as “weather insurance” if snow/cold up north for race day I would head south and if too hot in AR the I would stay closer to home...but also tempted to see if I can transfer the Hogeye race but haven’t contacted the RD to see if they would accommodate as they don’t talk about it is an option positively or negatively on their website.
If you are talking to the RD perhaps you can inquire about a friend not able to run and would they be willing to accommodate a name switch and what we would have to do. Thinking, I could drop my insurance policy and you can save some money as I paid far less than the current price of you want to run this race.
@kevaasen I might just ask that question because I'm thinking about signing up anyway. To be honest, another part of the reason to run this is because I am doing a marathon on 4/13 in KS and this would be 2 in 8 days... which would be enough to join the Marathon Maniacs and would also get me 1 state closer to being able to join the 50 states club. Cincinnati is a bit further, but not a bad idea as I don't have OH. But it would not be 2 marathons in short enough time to join the Marathon Maniacs club. I may send you a friend request so we can PM about it.
Ok. If you do just let me know. 2 marathons in a week is adventurous. Haven’t PM on here so if I don’t respond right away it is because I have no clue where it might reside in the app.1 -
1.1.19: 10.5 @ 9:31/M (10.5) Long Run
1.2.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.3.19: 4.5 @ 8:39/M (15) Pace Run
1.4.19: 5.0 @ 9:18/M (20) Easy Run
1.5.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.6.19: 5.0 @ 9:38/M (25) Easy Run
1.7.19: 4.5 @ 8:29/M (29.5) Fartlek Run
1.8.19: 10.3 @ 9:40/M (39.8) Long Run
1.9.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.10.19: SKIPPED Pace Run (tummy ache)
1.11.19: 5.0 @ 8:57/M (44.8) Medium Run
1.12.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.13.19: 4.0 @ 9:15/M (48.8) Easy Run
1.14.19: SKIPPED Speedwork
1.15.19: 4.0 @ 9:06/M (52.8) Easy Run
1.16.19: Scheduled Rest Day
1.17.19: 4.0 @ 8:30/M (56.8) Pace Run
1.18.19: 3.5 @ 8:45/M (60.3) Long Run cut short due to snow.
1.19:18: Scheduled Rest Day
1.20.19: SKIPPED Easy Run
1.21.19: SKIPPED Speedwork
1.22.19: 5.0 @ 9:14/M (65.3) Easy Run
1.23.19: Scheduled Rest Day
Skipped Sunday and Monday's run because I was visiting family (not an excuse) and didn't want to run on the treadmill (that's the real reason). I really wanted to skip yesterday's run and started just walking in the park. But then I called myself a lazy bum, got my head on straight and ran an easy 5 miler because I have a 15K race in 3.5 weeks.
Also stepped on the scale this morning and decided I want/need to lose 15lbs. Last month that number was 12 so instead of eating at a small deficit to lose 2-3lbs in the month, I decided to use "training" as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted and obviously ate at a small surplus. My clothes are tight and my tummy hurts when I have to button my pants. So time to get serious about that. I hope everyone is enjoying their week!
9 -
OSUbuckeye906 wrote: »Hello MRCers! I know it's been awhile, but I wanted to pop in and ask a random question...does anybody have experience with popping/snapping hip syndrome? I'm not sure if that's what I have, but I've noticed for the last few years that sometimes my right hip will click or pop. It will always do this when I am lying flat on my back with my right leg extended straight upward and I slowly lower it to the floor. It's not painful, however I've had a lot of minor (and a few larger) injuries on my right side the past few years due to weak hips and I am wondering if the two are likely related.
I had something similar on my left side. When I told my massage therapist about it, he really dug into the upper part of my IT band and in the front groin area and it helped immensely. I try to mimic what he did almost every night before I go to sleep and knock on "bone", I have seen a huge decrease in hip tightness and sounds.2 -
midwesterner85 wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »I'm thinking of signing up for the Hogeye Marathon in Springdale, AR (4/6/19). Does anyone here know if they have bacon on the course? It seems like they should have it either on the course or at the end (as a minimum). Has anyone done this race and do you know? If not, I might message the RD. I'm really thinking about signing up and that might push me over the edge...
Interesting
If you want bacon, the Flying Pig Marathon on the first Sunday in May has some unofficially from someone that evidently cooks and passes it out every year and I believe others along the course do the same as well. The FP was my first marathon and while I didn’t have any bacon during the race I loved the race theme and the support is fantastic. Highly recommend!
On a whim this past summer, to keep the pig theme going, I signed up for the Hogeye during their early registration period. That said, in the fall, I later registered for another marathon on the same day as a good portion of my running group is running Milwaukee and I initially thought of my dual registration as “weather insurance” if snow/cold up north for race day I would head south and if too hot in AR the I would stay closer to home...but also tempted to see if I can transfer the Hogeye race but haven’t contacted the RD to see if they would accommodate as they don’t talk about it is an option positively or negatively on their website.
If you are talking to the RD perhaps you can inquire about a friend not able to run and would they be willing to accommodate a name switch and what we would have to do. Thinking, I could drop my insurance policy and you can save some money as I paid far less than the current price of you want to run this race.
@kevaasen I might just ask that question because I'm thinking about signing up anyway. To be honest, another part of the reason to run this is because I am doing a marathon on 4/13 in KS and this would be 2 in 8 days... which would be enough to join the Marathon Maniacs and would also get me 1 state closer to being able to join the 50 states club. Cincinnati is a bit further, but not a bad idea as I don't have OH. But it would not be 2 marathons in short enough time to join the Marathon Maniacs club. I may send you a friend request so we can PM about it.
Ok. If you do just let me know. 2 marathons in a week is adventurous. Haven’t PM on here so if I don’t respond right away it is because I have no clue where it might reside in the app.
It's not on the forum side, it would be on the user side (where you log food and such). There is a glitch apparently and you won't see my PM unless we are friends anyway. That's why I would send a friend request.1
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 391.4K Introduce Yourself
- 43.5K Getting Started
- 259.7K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.6K Food and Nutrition
- 47.3K Recipes
- 232.3K Fitness and Exercise
- 391 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.4K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 152.7K Motivation and Support
- 7.8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.2K MyFitnessPal Information
- 22 News and Announcements
- 922 Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.3K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions