February 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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February miles:
01 - 1.25
02 - 3.5 trail run!
03 - 1.5
February Total: 6.25 mile
February Goal: 75 miles
Rhody Run 12k (5/19)
Scramble XXIV - 6-Mile Scramble (6/30)
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A good start to the month. 10 miles on Saturday, 10 miles on Sunday. Saturday on the streets, Sunday on the trails, both easy pace runs. Both days it was in the mid 30's and both days I overdressed...again. Missing most of the cool down between the end of October and the middle of January really seem to have messed up my ability to dress properly. I should have been in shorts and a single light weight long sleeve shirt.
Saturday's run was meant to be 12 miles. I was continuing my quest to run every road in town but two of the roads I saw on Strava weren't actually roads. I did take one off road detour to a place called Boiling Springs. It's a spot where an underground spring bubbles up in a small pond along a small creek in town. When it's going strong, it looks like boiling water. Saturday it was an occasional burp. I tried to get some video of it but it would quit bubbling while I was filming, then start as soon as I hit stop. Oh well. There's also quick sand around the pond so I had to make sure Kody stayed close. The run felt good and I felt strong, walking less and less with each run.
Pics from Saturday
Today I was supposed to be 8 miles on trails but since I was short 2 miles yesterday I added them on to the run today. Again, overdressed. We ran the what are probably my favorite trails in the metro area. Mostly single track, lot of hills, lots of lakes, lots of fun. With two 10 mile runs in a row, Kody & I were both pretty tired at the end.
Pics from today
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@7lenny7 Laughter is excellent. It means that some enjoyment came out of the situation. And generally makes for good stories later when I get over being cross. And yes, it crossed my mind to see if I could volunteer. I’m going to test the waters with some “suggestions” outside of the race day fray. As I kind of got the impression that they were not particularly into hearing about anything. And I have since visited with someone who was probably the 4th place finisher, but wasn’t recorded as such, (he thinks he was recorded somewhere in the top 20) due to similar issues as to what I had finding the “finish” and figuring out how to get people to actually record him as a finisher. So, it apparently wasn’t just me bringing up the rear and seeing issues, that maybe weren’t significant early on. But, he also mentioned getting brushed off when trying to suggest he may have some comments to make. And he grew up around here and probably knows those people. Which is somewhat disheartening, in what’s it implies for their willingness to listen. So, yes... volunteering definately crossed my mind, with the caveat that I want my time to be put towards good and betterment of the event, even a little bit, not just assisting in perpetrating an equally terrible cluster.9
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01Feb - 1.85 miles (treadmill)
03Feb - 3.85 miles (outside)
04Feb - 1.8 miles (treadmill)
Total to date: 7.5 miles of 40
No running for a day or so now - Zumba tomorrow evening and I normally rest on Wednesdays (this should change when it gets lighter and I can run outside in the evenings).4 -
@midwesterner85 a DNF or DNS is not a badge of shame. If you're going to do three marathon+ races three weekends in a row you have the distinct possibility of a DNS or DNF regardless of how well trained you are, but that shouldn't stop you from going for it if that's what you want. I'd plan on even less than the taper week that @PastorVincent is suggesting though. You're not going to lose any fitness in a week so let your body recover between the races and just go for walks.
Yeah, you were a bit more clear, but I think we are saying the same thing. I would run at least a couple short easy times though. I find if I do not I get stiff and that makes the race less comfortable. But that might just be a me thing.
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A cycling weekend and finally ran this morning. I should not have ridden that long after being off for several weeks. My butt and legs were so sore by the end yesterday. Oh well, it's done.
2/1 - Rest Day
2/2 - 37 miles cycling
2/3 - 48 miles cycling
2.4 - 4.5 miles + TBD
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It seems to be a "thing" in some of the cities here. Less problems with traffic due to road closures, fun with lights and glow sticks, and the night half marathon I did once in Warsaw ended up being great, cool weather after training all summer.@polskagirl01 I don't think I've heard of a road race starting so late. that' my kind of race though. Sounds like you did quite well!
@Butterchop what would be so bad about having to walk? I say go that little bit further, and maybe you'll surprise yourself!
17k for me today. It's like the plan I'm following just knew I'd need a cutback week or something
While out I saw the "kid" who always gets second place to the slightly older, national-record-holding former track star, at all of the local races. I wondered to myself if he's chasing the older guy in his mind while he's training. And will he ever catch him?
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2-1 7k easy
2-2 7k easy
2-3 Rest
2-4 7k easy
February Total: 21k
February 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.
Just a beautiful morning to run - temperature near 40 degrees F and no wind. Had nature's music to entertain me -- geese; a red tailed hawk; robins; cardinals; blue jays; English sparrows; and even a song sparrow.11 -
Nooooo.... I hit "done" before I posted!
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My target for this month is 161kms! Given I'm on week 5 of couch to 5k this is ambitious but I'm in a charity challenge to cover 100 miles in February! (I work in kms but the challenge is in miles so having to translate it to my own lingo! )
2nd Feb - did week 4, 3 and 2 straight after each other so covered 10.44km (150.56 km left)
3rd Feb - same as yesterday (week 4, 3 & 2) so another 10.31km (140.25km left)
Now.... this morning I went out for an early morning but I had a bit of a "wardrobe malfunction"!!! The lovely new "squat proof" leggings I'd bought at the weekend were not "run proof"... I managed just under 1km before I couldn't deal with them falling down anymore so I turned and headed for home! So I did do 1.84km this morning... But most of it was walking along holding my leggings up!
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I'm in with a goal of 50 miles by month end! Taking it easy this month as I'm just coming back from a knee injury.
2/4: 2 miles9 -
Yeah, anytime a post is long, typing it first in Word or Email, or something is good advice.4 -
2/1 - 1.9 miles
2/3 - 3.1 miles (Super Wild Wings Bowl 5k)
What a difference a week makes, especially when it decides to go up to the 40s after spending most of the week in negative digits with wind chills going down to -40. I knocked over 4 minutes off of my 5k from last Sunday to yesterday. It was a great day for a race. The free wings after were definitely a bonus incentive.
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PastorVincent wrote: »
Yeah, anytime a post is long, typing it first in Word or Email, or something is good advice.
I normally do but I was rushing due to kids...
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Got out for 3.3 miles last night. For some reason, I had it in my head that the Super Bowl started at 7pm. So as I'm running I can hear what sounds like football from people's outside TV's and it dawns on me that the game started almost an hour before. Oh well, it's not like my team is playing. I just like to watch, but this year it was such a boring, defense heavy game that I don't feel like I missed much! And yes, outdoor TV's. It was in the 60's and muggy here, so plenty of people outside for the game!
Anyway, I fully intended to run about 2-2.5 miles and mentally plotted a route that ended up being a fair bit longer. Oh well, I will take it super easy today since I kind of overshot yesterday and I don't usually do much consecutive day running. Once I run this evening, I will have run 4 days in a row which is nothing for many of you, but just not my routine.
Also, I ran some crazy splits, like a couple of miles under an 8:00 pace and ended up with a new 5k PR of 25.12! I don't know what was going on last night but I feel like I won't see that pace again anytime soon. The run felt good, I wasn't winded or tired. Don't know but I'll take it!
Edit to add the final results from my race. Official chip time was 29.23. 5th in my age group!! 15/55 female, 30/81 overall. The male turnout for the 5k was super low, only 26 males! They must have all been running the longer distances.
2/1: 1.4 miles
2/2: 3.5 miles
2/3: 3.3 miles
Feb total: 8.2 miles
Feb goal: 40 miles
2019 Races:
Piney Woods Trailfest 5k - 2/2/2019 29.23
Rodeo Run 10k - 2/23/2019 registered
Run Houston! Minute Maid Park 10k - 3/23/2019 registered
Brazos Bend 50 10k - 4/6/2019 registered
Galveston Island Wine Festival Champagne Fun Run 5k - 4/27/2019
Women's Quarter Marathon - 5/2019
El Chupacabra de Houston 10k (night trail run) - 8/2019
TWRC Run WIld Run Free 5k - 9/2019
10 for Texas 10 Miler - 10/2019 registration opens Jan 2019
Wine and Dine half marathon - 11/3/2019
Run the Year 2019 - Team Five for Nineteen14 -
I started the month on Friday by bumping from 40 min run to 48 min run. So I sort of deviated from the Bridge to 10k plan. I'm not really liking how every run just gets longer. It feels like every run is a long run???? So instead of progressing from 40 mins to 45 mins, I made the jump to 48 so I can knock a few min off some other runs.
So as usual I had good intentions for Sunday but once again it just didn't happen. In the past when running 3 days a week, Sun/Tues/Fri worked best for me. I think I need to accept that I'm not the old me and do something else for now. The issue is if I switched to Mon/Wed/Fri, Wednesdays are bad for me and I would HAVE to *gasp* run in the morning.
Oh, I suppose I should set a goal for Feb. I thought my goal would just be to finish the 10k program but I really don't anticipate any issues with reaching the hour running so that doesn't really feel like a goal. I'm not ready to set a miles goal because I try not to think about the miles seeing that I'm running so slow. It would just depress me. And I'm not sure on a time goal yet. So I'm gonna say my goal is just to complete 12 runs in Feb. So 3 a week. That does feel like a challenge seeing that I'm struggling with finding days that work for me. I swear, I don't know how in the world I used to devote so much time to working out!!!
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zeesparrow wrote: »I had 3.5 miles+ scheduled for today. It was wet and dreary, and my heart just wasn't up for it. I took the dogs out for a couple miles walk and then proceeded to clear up some of my clutter around the house. Sunday is our Family Day, though if the kids leave earlier than usual, I might get out tonight for my run. Otherwise, I'll have to brave the forecasted single digits and possible snow tomorrow morning.
The kids DID leave earlier than usual, but my husband and I were so tired I was in bed by 7pm. I set my alarm for 3:45 this morning, up by 3:30 (over 8 hours of sleep-woot) and out the door around 4:30. I told my husband my planned route that would give me anywhere from 2+ to 4 miles, depending on how it went.
It was ~20F and a little windy (feels like ~2F), very cold start but I knew I'd warm up once I started running. We headed into the wind for about half a mile, cross ways another half. Then into the wind and up a hill where I met another runner headed the other direction. The wind wasn't an issue after that. I saw the other runner again when we looped around, crossing the street at the light. She thoughtfully pressed the walk button for me and the timing was perfect so we didn't have to wait. We followed her about half a mile before she headed up a hill and we turned toward home.
I think this idea of running slow is really starting to grow on me! I ran FOUR miles this morning before work.
My longest distance since I started in October, second fastest 5k (out of 3 heh)... and FOUR MILES BEFORE WORK! 16 -
greenolivetree wrote: »I started the month on Friday by bumping from 40 min run to 48 min run. So I sort of deviated from the Bridge to 10k plan. I'm not really liking how every run just gets longer. It feels like every run is a long run???? So instead of progressing from 40 mins to 45 mins, I made the jump to 48 so I can knock a few min off some other runs.
This was something I found I didn't like about some of the plans I looked at. I also tried the C210K and didn't like all the walking breaks. I ended up using an app from active called 5K to 10K trainer. It mixes in recovery runs, pace runs, a little speed work, and a long run once a week. I really liked the variety and it made it easy to recycle the last few weeks of the plan once you finish it just to build a workout schedule and make sure you don't overdo it the week before a race. I will probably just keep using the last month of this app until it's time for me to switch to a HM training plan.7
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