March 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

rheddmobile wrote: »

@7lenny7 I can't decide if your race is more awesome or more horrifying! The frozen divots knocking your feet all around sounds like a worse version of the terrain which just flattened me at my half - large stony gravel over sand. It was just exhausting on my hips never landing straight and always sliding, I can't imagine doing that only for miles and miles with wet feet in slush! Also, I am a huge Kody fan!

@rusgolden Congrats on a great race!

@PastorVincent Hope your pull isn't serious, it must be so frustrating to get injured when you weren't even running!

All of this! I ran 2 miles yesterday. Almost didn't, but finally drug my butt outside after 10... which meant sunshine! Should have grabbed my sunglasses to block the reflections off the bright snow, but otherwise it was nice to be in the sun for once.

I have unfortunately not been able to run in March at all yet! Thanks to the knee/hip pain that’s been bothering me for ages and my *kitten* health insurance, it’s gonna be a bit before I’m able to see a physical therapist. So I’m improvising by taking a week off of running and seeing if there’s any improvement. This is my fifth day without a run and I hate it I’m still feeling it so I don’t have a lot of hope that it’s gonna go away on its own. My body knows best, so I’m listening to it. I may end up postponing my half marathon for a few months down the road when I’m feeling more up to it. I’m bummed, but hey, that’s life. I’m gonna adjust my running goal based on how this week goes but I think I’m gonna lower it pretty significantly-probably by half.

7lenny7 wrote: »

Finally, my race report from last weekends race.

@7lenny7 I saved your race report for my Monday morning coffee read, and wow! What a race!! That snow/mud combo would totally do me in; I'm a total baby when my legs are slipping and sliding all over the place. Way to tough it out! Plus Kody sounds like the ultimate trail dog. He's gonna have his own trail community fan club soon!

3/1 = 10.5 miles
3/2 = 12 miles
3/3 = rest day
3/4 = rest day

I slept though my 5 phone alarms this morning. The temp dropped into the 20s last night and my bed was very warm and comfy. I might try to squeeze in a few miles tonight when i get off work? If I can find the motivation... I hate running in the evening after work.

Oh well, at least I had some fun this morning before heading to the morning grind. I got to gross my husband out by pulling off the last dying piece of the toenail I damaged running in Miami. Good times, good times. #relationshipgoals

Happy Monday everyone!

March Goal Miles 150 / Miles to Date = 22.5 miles

Upcoming Races:
3/9 = Zooma Texas Half
4/6 = Wanderlust Half
5/4 = Wisconsin Marathon (Mittens Challenge Part 1)
5/5 = Kalamazoo Marathon (Mittens Challenge Part 2)
6/15 = Fit Foodie 5k

3-1 Rest
3-2 10.5k easy
3-3 11k slow
3-4 10.5k recovery

March Total: 32k
March Goal: 175k

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

Partly cloudy; 16 degrees F; winds light and variable. My calves and my hip flexors were grumbling again today, so I told them that if they ran today, I'd let them rest tomorrow. It was only after the run was finished I told them that tomorrow is a regularly scheduled rest day anyway. Got my 200 mile bib in the Run the Year challenge.

2019 Races:

4-13 Shine the Light 5K
6-1 Freedom 5K
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5k

Finally posting Sat. run 15 miles. It was extremely slow. Paved trail, partly clean, partly ice covered, partly uncleared (so 10" of snow). Some areas slick, some low areas with thin ice and water visible underneath. I went extremely slow on those areas. I did see some wildlife - geese, ducks, eagles, deer.

Morning all. First of all I want to say again I appreciate how much you all listen (read?) to me rambling. I am a talker to solve problems, and typing it all out helps me a lot. I know, I repeat myself, its just so frustrating to be getting back into the swing of things, and be hit by an annoying niggle like this.

This morning I went out for a 6k run with the intention of seeing how I felt at 6k, maybe enxtending it out to 8.

Body had other ideas. I'd had a crap sleep, hubby is sick with man flu so kept waking up, and tossing and turning which woke me up. so much broken sleep. I also did a lower body strength workout yesterday, first in about 2 weeks, and I am a little sore in my hamstrings and glutes. Lower leg felt ok, still a little achey, not worse but not better. I stretched and warmed up, did my rocker squats - they do definitely make a difference. Started running. It just felt like a slog. At 3.5k, I actually stopped and walked a little, picked it up again but at 4k I just wasn't feeling it. stopped and walked home. I did 5.5k in total with walking but grrr. broke out the roller and gave the calves a good roll, there are definitely tender points on the medial leg.

My plan is to stretch and roll for the next 2 weeks, and stick to shorter distances - nothing over 8k. If it doesn't improve by the 16th, Ill go to town and get new shoes. I still kinda think its because I ramped up too fast, I did no running for 2 weeks, and only shorter distances for the month or so before that because I was getting sore knees. I got new shoes, did a couple of short runs then did that 23km run. The following week I did a few short runs then a 10k and its been sore since then, so that really suggests to much too fast, rather than shoes. Or combination of both.

@PastorVincent hows the groin?

3/2/19.....2mi run out of 30 mi. I plan to run longer miles for the next few weeks to get my mileage up. I find it helps if I can get a running program to stick to my goal, but I also have trouble staying motivated.

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