February 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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February goal: 75 miles
2/2: 13.11 miles
2/5: 5.16 miles
2/6: 5.10 miles
2/7: 5.15 miles
2/10: 8.71 miles
2/12: 3.25 miles
40.48/75 miles completed
Today's run was 3.25 miles in the sunshine. I was so glad to see the sun today. I never have as much time as I would like to run during lunch, but it was so nice to run in the sunshine that I didn't mind only having time for 3 miles. I am pretty tired of cloudy weather.
2019 Races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:176 -
greenolivetree wrote: »MegaMooseEsq wrote: »greenolivetree wrote: »Friday I ran 48 min again for my current "long run". From the get-go I could tell my heart rate was back into that stupid high range again and was not going to go well. So I decided to take a 1 min walk break every 12 minutes to try and get a little relief. Didn't do anything Sat/Sun because I seem to have turned into a total lazy bum on weekends. Monday I did a 30 min run and again, high heart rate, even higher than Friday. It's worth noting that during the time that I was making progress on my HR while running my resting HR had gone down and my resting HR is now higher again. So I don't know what's up but I'm feeling discouraged that I haven't actually made any progress in fitness. Maybe I was hydrating better for awhile and need to get back to it?
Liked for your decision to take walking breaks when needed. And we all need to be lazy bums sometimes, so I hope you enjoyed your weekend! How are you measuring your heart rate? Are you sure it's accurate? I am personally of the opinion that hydration is generally overrated unless your workout lasts more than an hour, but I might be in a minority there.
I wear a Fitbit Charge 3 all the time, so that's why I noted my resting HR also went up during the week also, besides the higher HR while running. That's why I was thinking overall dehydration because I have weeks where I do better and weeks where I live off Diet Coke :-p
I don't know about the elevated heart rate if you've got a good baseline for comparison, but I can assure you that Diet Coke is almost entirely water, so if you're drinking it, you're hydrating just fine. Caffeine doesn't actually lead to dehydration. I used to spend a lot of time on the main MFP weight-loss and fitness forums and somehow this became a bugaboo of mine.7 -
Thank you so much for your comments. I read them, put on my sneakers and went out for a run. I ran 5 miles (had my GPS set for 4.5) because my race is a 15K and I feel accomplished that I ran at least half the distance. Pace wasn't great, but wasn't terrible either and my legs actually feel quite rested after not running for a while.
This group is the best! 18 -
lporter229 wrote: »Question for the group RE: Running a 5K race during marathon training. It just dawned on me that I really haven't done this before. But I am signed up for a 5K on Saturday, right in the thick of my marathon training. For those that do this regularly, how do you handle your long run mileage for the weekend? Do you build it around your 5K or do you do it the next day? As luck would have it, I should be running my first of three twenties this weekend. I plan to do a 3 mile warm up before my race, so that will get me at least 6 for Saturday. I could always do another 14 afterwards, but I am not sure how I like that idea, especially because history has proven that I am incapable of taking it easy during a race. On the other hand, I am worried about how I am going to feel on Sunday after a 5K race in the cold. Any thoughts or perils of wisdom?
For what it's worth, I'd do the long run nice and slow, the next day. I push myself too much on a 5k to even think about doing it the same day, and 20 miles is a LOT for me, so I wouldn't do well racing a 5k the day after the long run either. But other people can handle a couple miles of warming up, then running the 5k at a good effort and continuing to run (home or whatever) until they get to the total goal distance. Depends on what your body is used to.1 -
Back at it today with 2.5 easy miles on the treadmill. I wish I'd had more time, as I was feeling pretty darn good, but there's just too much going on this week. Tomorrow will be some kind of light speed work, probably intervals, depending on how I'm feeling when I get to the gym.
13.0/55.0 miles for February so far.7 -
@lporter229, you're a more experienced runner than I am, but to add to the conversation I ran a 5k for a PR attempt last summer while marathon training. I considered it my speedwork for the week, and I did my long run the next day. It worked - I did get a PR, and apparently I survived the long run okay, but I think I was only up to 12-14 miles or so for the long run at that time, not 20.
@7lenny7 and @simcon1 I've definitely suggested the running up/sledding down hill repeat workout to our coach but he seems reluctant. For a good long hill that would be a satisfying reward for making it up there! Although I would request a plowed path for my run up, that looks pretty grueling indeed.
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
02/01/19 :::: 2.3 :::: 2.3
02/02/19 :::: 10.0 :::: 12.3
02/03/19 :::: 4.0 :::: 16.3
02/04/19 :::: 3.8 :::: 20.1
02/05/19 :::: 3.6 :::: 23.7
02/06/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 23.7
02/07/19 :::: 3.3 :::: 27.0
02/08/19 :::: 4.2 :::: 31.2
02/09/19 :::: 10.1 :::: 41.3
02/10/19 :::: 5.5 :::: 46.8
02/11/19 :::: 3.8 :::: 50.6
02/12/19 :::: 4.0 :::: 54.6/ 100 mile goal
Treadmill run in two parts this morning - before and after circuit training. I tried so hard to get to the gym in time to do 3 miles before, but it still did not happen. I told my trainer I had to get one more mile in after class and he says "oh, only about 7 more minutes of running then" What??? He may be more than a bit misinformed about my abilities.
But bonus was that because I made myself get back on the mill, I stuck it out for a total of 4 instead of just 3.
It ended up snowing a few inches and then sleet/freezing rain on top so it was not a great day to be out there. I made it to work before much happened but the drive home from work was a bit challenging. The dog and I decided that a walk was not happening, but we differ on the alternative activities for the evening. I vote for quiet cuddling while she seems to thinks jumping on my (sore) legs and pushing toys at me constantly is the more fun thing to do.
Push-up challenge update - I'm really veering off plan pretty badly, but today was lots of applicable stuff during class. Dead hangs, scap pull-ups, ring push-ups, dips, and barbell rows among other things.9 -
Nice easy 6.4 miles this evening. HR averaged only 118, and pace was not bad. Great weather. Love Texas winter running 😍.
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Feb 01: SKIPPED Long Run
Feb 02: Scheduled Rest Day
Feb 03: SKIPPED Easy Run (Ski Trip)
Feb 04: SKIPPED Speed-work (Ski Trip)
Feb 05: SKIPPED Easy Run (Ski Trip)
Feb 06: Scheduled Rest Day
Feb 07: SKIPPED Pace Run (Ski Trip)
Feb 08: SKIPPED Long Run (Ski Trip)
Feb 09: Scheduled Rest Day
Feb 10: SKIPPED Easy Run
Feb 11: SKIPPED Speed Work
Feb 12: 5.0M @ 9:12/M Easy Run (5.0)
So I planned on skipping 5 runs last week since I was skiing and my hotel was at 8100'. Even walking up stairs with my skis was a challenge. Skiing was great but as someone who skied in New England and Upstate New York growing up, I find the fluffy powder to be challenging.
My run today (the first in 15 days) felt easier than I expected it to be. I originally had a goal of running the 15K at around 8:30/mile to finish in 80 minutes, but I'm finding that neglecting speed-work over the winter has severely impacted my ability to run fast. So I have readjusted my goal time to 88 minutes which is 9:15ish/mile with a reach goal of 85 minutes. But at the end of the day, it's just a race. Hope everyone is having a nice February!14 -
No run today, was planning a tempo/threshold/thingy but company stayed longer than invited so I have to skip today. Ah well.6
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lporter229 wrote: »Question for the group RE: Running a 5K race during marathon training. It just dawned on me that I really haven't done this before. But I am signed up for a 5K on Saturday, right in the thick of my marathon training. For those that do this regularly, how do you handle your long run mileage for the weekend? Do you build it around your 5K or do you do it the next day? As luck would have it, I should be running my first of three twenties this weekend. I plan to do a 3 mile warm up before my race, so that will get me at least 6 for Saturday. I could always do another 14 afterwards, but I am not sure how I like that idea, especially because history has proven that I am incapable of taking it easy during a race. On the other hand, I am worried about how I am going to feel on Sunday after a 5K race in the cold. Any thoughts or perils of wisdom?
I agree with @katharmonic about the 5K. A short race during marathon training takes the place of a speed workout. In this case, I would run a preview of the 5K course as a warmup, then run the 5K as 4800m at interval pace + 200m at rep pace. Tough interval workout, but really just one of many tough interval workouts in a marathon training plan.
Depending on how the rest of my week looks, I might do the long run on a different day, or add a medium long run after the race to add up to about the right number of miles. I wouldn't worry about the recovery periods between warmup and race and between race and medium-long post-race run.
A canned marathon training plan typically assumes no other races during the training cycle, or has a specific race at a specific time in the cycle as part of the training plan. I've run many races that were too short to be long run training and/or at the wrong part of the training cycle to be part of a canned training plan. They can be worked in, but adjusting the marathon training plan for them is more of an art than a science.5 -
February Running Totals (miles)
2/1 –5.16 course preview
2/2 – 7.29 warmup, commute, 8K XC race
2/3 – 10.81 easy
2/4 – rest day
2/5 – 10.52 warmup, speed work, cool down
2/6 – 8.78 easy
2/7 – 7.59 warmup, speed work, cool down
2/8 – rest day
2/9 – 11.50 warmup, 8 mile race
2/10 – 13.33 MP with hills
2/11 – rest day
2/12 – 8.21 warmup, speed work, cool down
February running total to date – 83.19
Nominal February mileage goal: 190 miles
Real Goals: Train well toward Boston. Work the February races into the training plan smoothly. Remain uninjured, even if it means cutting back on planned mileage or races.
Today's notes – The weather sucked. Forecast called for snow in the morning, then freezing rain*, then rain. The timing of the warming trend did not conform to the forecast. I had to use the snowblower on the driveway, and instead of melting after I cleared it more white stuff accumulated. Shoveled again at 4 PM. Bleah.
Went to club practice on the indoor track. Ran my warmup. Stood around dreading the workout: 2 x 2 miles at T with 1 minute recovery, then 2 x 400 at R with 200 recovery. Tough workout. Wasn't sure I was up to it.
Coach showed up and asked how I felt. Told him I was low on motivation, and it was mostly the snow getting to me. He said chop the workout down to 2 x (2000, 1000) at T, with a lap of easy jog** recovery. Okay, that's about the same distance as 2 x 2 miles at T with a lap of recovery. So I set out to do it. Target for intervals of 1000 and 2000 at T right now is 4:05 and 8:10. Came in way too fast on the first 2000, fast but reasonably close on the other intervals: 7:56, 4:03, 8:05, 4:02. Took the last lap of recovery, and couldn't face 400s at R. Walked a lap. Got some water. Stood around a bit debating whether I was up to 4 x 200 at R.
Coach asked how it went. I said I wasn't sure I was mentally up to running R. No, he says, I'm done. He meant to chop the 400s at R off the end.
This is why I have a coach as well as a plan. I had mostly figured out I needed to tone down the assigned speed workout. There is no way I would have come up with what Coach assigned, but it chopped the workout down to the perfect amount for where I was today. Then he ended my mental self guessing as to whether I was a wimp for not running the 400s or smart for backing off enough.
Ran my 2 mile cool down, stretched, showered, and came home. By the time I got outside, the precipitating had shifted to rain. I didn't have all that far to walk to get to the car, and I didn't have to scrape the windshield. I'll call that a win on the weather front.
*What is called "freezing rain" here is not the freezing rain I remember from where I grew up. Where I grew up, freezing rain was liquid that froze on contact with the ground and created sheets of ice that made travel hazardous. Here, freezing rain is liquid rain drops that freeze before they hit the ground. It's kind of like what I know as "sleet," only smaller particles.
**Yes, he really said "jog." I think that term is used to emphasize that it's supposed to be recovery and the runner should not be working hard.
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) finished in 32:53
February 9, 2019 Freezeroo #5 (Tom Brannon 8 mile) (Greece, NY) finished in 55:55
February 23, 2019 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY)
March 16, 2019 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Shamrock 8K) (Virginia Beach, VA)
March 17, 2019 Shamrock Half Marathon (Virginia Beach, VA)
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)10 -
2/1 = walk the dog
2/2 = rest
2/3 = 8 miles
2/4 = rest
2/5 = 3 miles
2/6 = 3 miles
2/7 = rest
2/8 = 10 miles
2/9 = nada
2/10 = 10 miles with the group
2/11 = nada
2/12 = 3.5 ish miles
Still running (slogging) ... still in a running funk.
My daughter works at a brewery and they are doing a beer 5k thing in a few weeks. I am really excited to spend the time running with my daughter! Not so excited about the running part...
I signed up for a Fit Foodie 5k thing in June. Woot! Running with food! .... still in a running funk.
I don’t even want to post this because I feel like a “stick in the mud” with running right now. Ugh! What is wrong with me! I need to break out of this ick.
February Goal Miles = 120 / Miles to Date = 37.516 -
5.3 miles treadmill tonight
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Feburary Goal: Just keep trying
2/1: Lots of
2/2: party
2/3: prep
2/4: and recovery
2/5: 4.00
2/6 1.25
2/7 snorkel fail
2/8 4.02
2/9 rest
2/10 3.25
2/11 zip
2/12 3.25
Total: 15.77
Ticker is my goal for 2019 and progress to date:
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0213-6k total-40.7k, goal-80k
Wimped out of running yesterday because it was snowing. (It snows maybe twice a year here. Us weakly Beijingers have neither the gear nor gumption to deal with that.) Ran the shorter work-out of the week because I overslept. Ah well. More snow in the forecast for tomorrow.
@MegaMooseEsq All the talk about hand warmers and pockets struck me as really weird, until I finally put my finger on it - do y'all not have the kind of warming pads that stick to your clothes?5 -
2/11 - 27.2 km run
2/12 - 1225 m swim + 7.3 km bike (w/8-year-old kid)
2/13 - 13 km run + weights & core
It wasn't easy running today, but eventually something kicked on and it got better I like when that happens.
I also stopped counting minutes of my "other cardio" because I've already hit goal (twice) and figure I'm doing fine in that department.
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0213-6k total-40.7k, goal-80k
Wimped out of running yesterday because it was snowing. (It snows maybe twice a year here. Us weakly Beijingers have neither the gear nor gumption to deal with that.) Ran the shorter work-out of the week because I overslept. Ah well. More snow in the forecast for tomorrow.
@MegaMooseEsq All the talk about hand warmers and pockets struck me as really weird, until I finally put my finger on it - do y'all not have the kind of warming pads that stick to your clothes?
I have ones that stick to my feet.
But never had a need to look for other body parts 2 -
BettyM1017 wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »BettyM1017 wrote: »14miles / 50 miles
Hmmmm....I need to pick it up a bit if I'm going to make my goal this month.
Nah, just run like 25 miles today and you will be well on your way
Lol!! Sure! Wait...No. Just No.
I should say, not yet. It is my goal to be able to run a full marathon by next year. I have a plan. Hopefully my old body will follow it!
lol this is kinda my strategy, I have done next to no running the last week (see shoe drama earlier in thread) but now I have new shoes, I'm picking up my old plan (5k per day, 5 days a week) and doing a 20k run/walk this weekend - its for charity though. No idea how much I'm going to run, hopefully half of it. But will see, its been a month since I've done anything greater than about 6k for various reasons.
So further to that, took the new shoes for a 5k this morning. No knee pains (yay!). They felt great. I "noticed" my posterior tibial tendon, not enough to say it hurt, but enough to say I noticed it. So Ill be keeping an eye on that, but by the end of Saturday I'll know for sure. I'm quietly confident because in the past when Ive had issues with that, it wasn't hurting when running, only when walking after. so will see. I just so sensitive about it because that issue stopped me running for almost a month.
Glad your'e doing better!! Which shoes did you get?2 -
MegaMooseEsq wrote: »Lazy_Bones_1985 wrote: »I feel like I've fallen off the horse. I planned on missing 5 runs last week due to a ski trip. However, I returned on Friday and haven't gotten back out there and I have a race on Sunday morning. It's so hard for me to get back in the groove when I miss a few runs even for a valid reason. How do you break that habit of sort of "falling apart"?
Pick a goal that's ridiculously, laughably easy for you, and do it at the first possible opportunity. Say two laps around the block before your shower in the morning. Ten minutes on the treadmill after work. Chances are once you're out there, you'll be up to do more, but if not, then no big deal! Then do it again the next day, and the next, and so on.
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PastorVincent wrote: »0213-6k total-40.7k, goal-80k
Wimped out of running yesterday because it was snowing. (It snows maybe twice a year here. Us weakly Beijingers have neither the gear nor gumption to deal with that.) Ran the shorter work-out of the week because I overslept. Ah well. More snow in the forecast for tomorrow.
@MegaMooseEsq All the talk about hand warmers and pockets struck me as really weird, until I finally put my finger on it - do y'all not have the kind of warming pads that stick to your clothes?
I have ones that stick to my feet.
But never had a need to look for other body parts
I have some of those somewhere. TBH, I have a whole bunch of Hot Hands that I need to throw out because they are expired. I bought a bunch several years ago and barely used any. But I also tend to overdress usually.0
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