January 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

@MobyCarp A well run race as I have come to expect from you!

WTG @amymoreorless !

@7lenny7 Looks like a great run! BTW what time did you say smoking will be done, ?

3 quick miles before work this morning, and in looking at my training calendar I will probably hit my stretch goal of 150 miles this month, but not quite as far as I wanted to get due to the weather. As it warms up here it will be easier for me to just throw on shorts and a tee and head out vs having to dress for the cold. Nevertheless I am happy with my monthly mileage thus far.

RunsOnEspresso wrote: »

Oh, and if you aren't in the FB group: I FINALLY HIT 100 MILES IN A MONTH!

112, 115...who cares, you're still rocking it ma'am!

@amymoreorless congratulations ma'am, you have now become another addition to my 'in permanent awe of' list, as has @RunsOnEspresso - 100 miles in a month, that's like some kind of dream to me (atm in fact I'm fantasizing over being able to do 50 in a month again). @workaholic_nurse watching your mileage on the Run the Year team stats you're now on the list too!
Congrats on another great race to @MobyCarp too, and hugs to @Avidkeo, hope it is something passing and non-important.
Now re the hair discussion, I did exactly that, cut fed up of running with hot sweaty hair sticking to the back of my neck so off it all went about a year ago. I absolutely loved not having to put up with hair touching my neck and it taking like 2 minutes to wash it and not needing to think about styling it or even having to check a mirror before leaving the house (I have really unruly disobedient curly hair, I have to add). The downside is my husband hated it and I've finally got tired of hearing him beg me to let it grow again, so at the moment I'm sporting about 3 inches of frizz that all insists on sticking up and out. I'm kind of hoping he acts up so I can go cut it all off again in anger :-/
I go back to the physio on Wednesday, hopefully she'll give me the ok to start running more again which will coincide with the beginning of week 4 of C25k. OMG I'm going to get to run something really huge like 16 minutesa day again, yay! We went for a walk along the beach this morning and I was hating on everyone I saw running, I'm really not a nice person when I haven't been for a run lol.

1/1: 3
1/3: 2
1/5: 1.5
1/10: 3
1/11: 3
1/12: 3
1/13: 4
1/18: 2.25
1/19: 3.15
1/20: 4.1
1/21: 3
1/24: 3
1/25: 1
1/27: 5

40/40 miles

I met my goal for the month, and I still have a few days left for more! Visited this weekend with the friend who is going to run the half with me in April, so it was nice to discuss our training and such.

Congrats to everyone who raced this weekend!

Way to go, @amymoreorless! I'm so in awe of you guys who can run more in a single day than I can in a week, two weeks, or even a month in the case of our ultra runners.

Oh wow... I should not let myself get that behind on this thread. You would think that 35 days of furlough would mean I would stay totally caught up. But apparently I had even lazier plans than reading stuff on the internet.

I don’t remember when I last updated. But I have been fairly consistent at some sort of workout this month. Hopefully I can keep that up now that I’m back to work. Today’s 3.1 mile wog brings me up to 13.7 wog miles for the month. I’m also counting 10ish miles of powerwalking- because I was walking instead of wogging because the boyfriend wanted to join me... and because he has to eventually pass a pack test this year, and my wogs have been so slow, I imagine the pace was fairly similar. So 23.7 for the month? Best in forevers. But may be it for the month. We aren’t getting too far below zero for temps. But when it’s teens for temps, plus snow, and your weather forecast includes the phrase “winds calming to 60mph later in the day”.... yeah, I crazy, but dont think I’m that crazy yet.

Today’s run was one of those “almost right, but not quite” sort of situations.
Made it 3.1 miles total. I SHOULD have put my yaktrax on. But 1. I apparently thought I suddenly developed proprioception and coordination. (I was wrong.) and 2. I thought I was out before the snowplows had gotten to residential streets, and the roads would be fluffy snow. Instead, I was playing chess (or battle ship?) with snowplows my whole run. And the roads were slick. Like I had several people stop shoveling to look at my crazy butt attempting to run. (In fairness to them, not sure how much of that was my wog-skating and how much is because I apparently try my hardest to not match any 2 articles of brightly colored layers when running in the cold. Although one, on the steepest incline I attempted today, was definitely laughing at my half running half sliding backwards, and called me out on the “nice” weather I was out in. I am already aware my attempts to stay upright are resulting/will continue to result in muscles I don’t remember having, being very vocal the next couple of days.

I almost passed back by my house to collect the traction devices, but I knew if I got back inside, I wouldn’t go back out. So, I kept slipping along.

Other things I learned, besides wear the dam yaktrax... I’m still struggling with layers, as my layers were procured when I was 20-30lbs lighter. I actually did halfway decent, with two noteable exceptions. 1. Need ball cap and earmuff instead of stocking hat. But with my hair short and no ponytail to hold ball cap on, stocking hat seems easier... but it gets soooo hot. 2. Due to my extra fluff... I need to layer with longer shirts. Belly rolls escaping due to too small shirts rising up, in 20degree weather is not fun.

Regarding things I actually retained long enough to comment after my rapid reading attempt to catch up:

Regarding hair convos. I cut my waist length hair off to a pixie about a year ago. I do not regret it, except for like the above ball cap issue. And short money times (like furlough) when I could easily ignore needing a haircut with long hair, and I’m fighting a mop head now that I’m being a cheapskate with short hair.

@mobycarp being a former staff member for a homeless shelter- your volunteer occupation is very much appreciated.

Socks.... I actually wasn’t wearing any while catching up... but I threw back on the pair I ran in today because they are the only socks I have ever been given that came with a story, or maybe an ancestry??And I’m really enjoying this fun socks game.

Farm to feet socks- like you find out where the wool came from, and then can follow supply chain clear to your feet. (I almost made a run in the cold mistake here too, started with my usual lowcuts and then went “Wait, snow and bare ankles=bad, and changed to these.)

Also, while I’m trying to figure out this “spoiler” thing (if I failed, you will know)... and we are talking about elephant socks and the like... my sister in law got me deadlift socks for Christmas . P.S. I’m loving seeing more on this thread develop a lifting problem, also.


Yes, the deadlift socks ARE neon pink... with unicorns ..... AND NARWHALS!!! .... And they are amazing.

And just like that I made my goal - yay.

Running challenge
1 Jan: 8.21 run/walk + 960m swim
2 Jan: 8.25 run/walk
3 Jan: 5km walk
4 Jan: 5.51 run/walk + 1200m swim
5 Jan: rest
6 Jan: 1440m swim + massage
7 Jan: 1800m swim +yoga
8 Jan: 6.5km run/walk
9 Jan: 8km run (!) +yoga
10 Jan: 12m swim followed by 4km run
11 Jan: 8km run (6km run, then 400m walk uphill as calf was talking to me, then final 2km run home)
12 Jan: yoga
13 Jan: 6.5km
14 Jan: yoga
15 Jan: 6.6km
16 Jan: 10km
17 Jan: rest
18 Jan: rest
19 Jan: yoga
20 Jan: holiday
21 Jan: holiday
22 Jan: holiday
23 Jan: holiday
24 Jan: 3.9km (still on holiday)
25 Jan: 7.1km
26 Jan: yoga
27 Jan: 8.1km
28 Jan: 10.06km

104.73 of 100km for January


Upcoming events
Feb 24, Albany Lakes Summer Series 10k
Mar 3, Rotorua Off Road Quarter Marathon
Mar 9, Riverhead Rampage, 10k
Mar 24, Albany Lakes Summer Series 10k
Apr 21, Auckland Run Series 10k
May 11, St Clair Vineyard Half Marathon
Jun 2, Auckland Run Series 10k
Jun 23, Auckland Run Series 10k
Jun 30, Xterra Trail Run, Waiuku Forest, 12km
Jul 14, Auckland Run Series 10k
Jul 21 Xterra Trail Run, Totara Park, 12km
Aug 4, Auckland Run Series Half
Aug 24, Mount Maunganui Half Marathon
Oct 20, Auckland Half Marathon

katharmonic wrote: »

@louubelle and @martaindale I so relate to the scheduling around how many times I need to wash my hair. Sometimes when I have an evening workout I don't wash it and work out in the morning again the next day to get two for one. It's kind of gross (but I do usually take a shower, just not washing my hair) but I can't be bothered to constantly deal with my hair. Boy have I become more relaxed about what I consider acceptable for hair styling since I started running.

I'm with @katharmonic on the hair thing. I use shampoo and conditioner once a week after my long run, and just wet my long hair in water in a bath every day, towel dry it, then put it in a high bun. Neither my husband nor any of my blunt family, friends, or acquaintances have ever made the slightest of comments that anything seems wrong.

People spend so much money on shampoo to remove oil, then they use conditioner to add oil, I just don't buy into that (except once a week), so long as you're using water to rinse out dirt.

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
1/24 – 3.81 warmup, aborted speed work
1/25 – rest day
1/26 – 8.59 warmup + 4.9 mile race
1/27 – 10.46 easy on indoor track


January running total to date – 199.69

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.

Today's notes – January isn't even over, and winter has got me beat down mentally. More snow this morning. I drove over it to get to church, didn't get the driveway shoveled till about 2 PM. Totally wimped out on running in the afternoon with temperature at 23° F (-5° C) and 24 mph wind. Then I didn't want to run in the dark when the wind was a more reasonable 12-13 mph and the temperature down in the upper teens, because what driver is looking for an idiot out running in the dark in January when it's cold and windy even for January?

So I went to run on the indoor track. The nice fieldhouse track was occupied by a bunch of intramural soccer games, so it was of to the hard upper track. The sign says 8 laps to the mile. Coach says that track is just a little longer than 200m, go one pole on the inner rail short to run 200m. That works out to a little over a mile for 8 laps. *shrug* I don't know, I counted 8 laps as a mile for purposes of deciding how far to run.

The plan assignment today was 8 to 14 miles. I was thinking 8 to 12, ended up running 10 Garmin laps of 8 track laps each. Garmin estimated that as 10.46 miles by cadence, with the later laps being estimated as longer than the earlier laps. Close enough for tracking training mileage.

If I'd realized I was sitting at 189.xx miles for the month, I might have run 11 miles. Then again, 10 miles was physiologically a good place for me to stop today. I'll break 200 on Tuesday anyway.

In other news, the email confirming I've been accepted into the TCS New York City marathon came today. I was going to get in even if I had to pay Marathon Tours for a guaranteed entry, but I like the bragging rights of being able to say I got into New York as a time qualifier.

Rest day tomorrow. I may be adding races to my 2019 calendar, since the list of 2019 RROY races was released last night at the banquet. Just have to figure out which ones I definitely want to run, and which ones I want to decide about later.

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) 4.9 miles, finished in 32:28
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)

6 miles tonight, on flat trail. I was hoping to run in a snow storm but it came later than initially forecast and I didn't want to wait any longer, so I head out and started around a quarter past 5. The temp was the same as yesterday, so I dressed the same, but failed to take into account stronger wind. I was a bit cold on the first half but that head wind turned into a tail wind and the last half was fine.

We finally did start getting snow for the last mile but by then it was dark and I didn't have a headlamp so I didn't enjoy it as much as I would have otherwise.

I felt like I was running fast relatively to my other runs since starting back up but it turns out it was actually my slowest run. No big deal...I loved the run, I loved the trail, and I had a great time.

This run put me over 100 for the first time since March and I'll pass my goal on my next run.



2019 Races

02/23/2019 - Psycho Wyco 20M w/ Kody - Kansas City, KS
04/13/2019 - Zumbro Endurance Run - Theilman, MN - Volunteer/Pace
04/27/2019 - Tillamook Burn 50M - Tillamook Forest, OR
05/18/2019 - Superior Spring 50K - Lutsen, MN
06/22/2019 - Dan Patch 5K Pace - Savage, MN
<or>
06/22/2019 - Circle of Life 10K - Lake City, MN
07/04/2019 - Red Wing 5K - Red Wing, MN (tentative)
07/13/2019 - Eugene Curnow Trail Marathon - Carlton, MN
07/27/2019 - Wabasha River Run 10K - Wabasha, MN
09/14/2019 - Outrun Homelessness 5K - Savage, MN
09/21/2019 - Surly Loppet Trail HM
10/12/2019 - Big Woods Run Trail HM - Nerstrand, MN
10/20/2019 - Surf the Murph (50k or 50M)
<or>
10/26/2019 - Kansas Rails to Trails 100K
12/07/2019 - Alternate Chili 10M - KCK

01 - 4
02 - 1.25
03 - 4.25
04 - 2
05 - 4.5
06 - 1.75
07 - 2.25
08 - 3.75
09 - 2
10 - 3
11 - 2
12 - 1.5
13 - 9.25
14 thru 21- Vacation, didn't track milage.
22 - 0
23 - 1.75
24 - 4.5 miles
25 - .75
26 - 0
27 - 2.5 miles, plus a 15 mile bike ride.

January Total: 51 miles
January Goal: 60 miles

Scramble XXIV - 6-Mile Scramble (6/30)

Ok I'll play along. I'm actually just stalling at getting out the door to run in the cold. These socks were part of a race packet... except there was a problem with the supplier and everyone got a size smaller than they ordered. They're a little tight, but okay. I've been wearing them a lot in the cold.