March 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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3/1 = 10.5 miles
3/2 = 12 miles
3/3 = rest day
3/4 = 4 miles
3/5 = rest day
3/6 = 7.5 miles
3/7 = rest day
3/8 = 7.5 miles
3/9 = 13 miles
3/10 = 10 miles
A little bit cooler this morning. Rain this week is supposed to bring the high temps back down into to 60-70s. Yey!
I realized this morning that I have run 30 miles in three days. I should probably take a rest day and sleep in tomorrow morning.
March Goal Miles 150 / Miles to Date = 64.5 miles
Upcoming Races:
4/6 = Wanderlust Half
5/4 = Wisconsin Marathon (Mittens Challenge Part 1)
5/5 = Kalamazoo Marathon (Mittens Challenge Part 2)
6/15 = Fit Foodie 5k8 -
@amymoreorless Well done on your half!!
3-1 Rest
3-2 10.5k easy
3-3 11k slow
3-4 10.5k recovery
3-5 Rest
3-6 7k slow
3-7 10.5k easy
3-8 Rest
3-9 11k easy
3-10 7k recovery
March Total: 67.5k
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
Temperature in the mid forties today, but a brutal wind out of the southwest that was gusting up to about 35 mph.
It was really strange to hear the rain beating on the roof last night.
The time change didn't bother me much -- I just slept an extra hour. Sometimes being old is an advantage.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K
6-1 Freedom 5K
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K5 -
@avidkeo if you haven’t made your mind up yet - buy the mixer.
My Kenwood A700D. Dates from the 1950’s bought off eBay. Still going (probably could do with a new motor and certainly the cable rubber is melting)
And it’s beautiful
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March 9 = 5 milesrunnermom419 wrote: »March 2 = 8 miles
March 3 = 5 miles
March 4 = 3.1 miles
March 6 = 3.6 miles
March 7 = 3.1 miles
Total for month = 22.8
Goal for month = 80
Miles left until goal = 57.2
March 10 = 8 miles
Weekend total = 13 miles
22.8 + 13 = 35.8 miles for month
Goal for month = 80 miles
Miles left until goal = 44.2 miles
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katharmonic wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »@Katharmonic well done! Glad you did no bail. And yes, sliding down the hills is traditional at Spartans.
@PastorVincent you were totally right, it was a blast and the people were awesome. A very good bunch of crazies. Are they usually sliding downhill in the mud or on grass?
Mud, grass, snow, whatever. If it is slippery and steep, side down.
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18 mile workout is DONE! I meant to do it as a progression, but scrapped it in favor of alternating marathon and half-marathon paces because after 3 peak weeks, my legs were just like, "We are NOT running a 7 minute mile, you dummy."
So I did 3 miles to warm up, 4 at MP, 1 easy, 3 at HMP, 1 easy, 2 at MP, 1 easy, 1 at HMP, and 2 to cool down. I took 1 gel, drank 10 oz of water, had one potty stop, and boy, was I tired. But in a good way, not a "I cannot move one more step after my watch hits 18 miles" way. Still a bit anxious about this PR goal at my race in two weeks since I'm struggling to hit my 7:17-7:22 goal pace, but I think a taper and a race environment will push me over the edge.
March miles:
3/1: 10 miles
3/2: Rest day
3/3: 17 miles
3/4: 5 miles
3/5: 6.3 + 3.5 miles
3/6: 8 miles
3/7: Rest day
3/8: 10.5 miles
3/9: 4 miles
3/10: 18 miles
March total: 82.3 miles
2019 Races
March 16: Four Courts Four Miler (Goal: Fun!)
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)
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@katharmonic Spartan/Obstacle Course Races are supposed be be fun and challenging, exactly what you experienced, Well done. You had a snow slide, we setup a water slide at our local OCR in September.
Because we had such a horrific February ( 27km running in Feb) it's like I am back at a building stage.
Since I have now passed February's total run distance March is already a success.
Saturday 11 km with 3 ladies from our little club, It was an interesting run - at the start it was -21C.
As we climbed the hill out of the valley we hit a Temperature Inversion zone at about the 2.5 to 3 km mark where we ran into much warmer air ~ -5C. At first you just think that you have finally warmed up to a proper run temperature, than you start venting zippers and realize how warm it is, stripping gear to regulate. Coming back you hit the inversion layer back into the cold so had to quickly get back into the gear. I expect big temp swings on long runs that start early in the morning but not on what I would consider a mid-distance/shorty. There was quite a bit of ice and did have my push off foot break free 5-6 times but no falls. Still a nice day as the sun was shining which helps lift the mood.
We had a really good post run chat/laugh about the first time we experienced "Runners Jelly Legs" where at the end of an event you go to walk back to your hotel and struggle to step up over the curb off the street back to the sidewalk, the 2-3 steps at the Hotel entrance that feels like Mt. Everest. One lady related how she was so beat by the heat she sat/laid down on the grass while waiting for friends and family to finish, then realized she might not be able to get back to her feet. As she said "two handsome medics" helped her back to her feet, with her friends laughing at her.
Sunday - 5.15 km Real Estate run, Very sore lower abdomen, blame that on the ice when my push off would break free yesterday. Took me 2 km to get loose/relax before I felt good. Another chilly run.
Between swimming and running this week - tomorrow will be a rest day.
03/03 7.01 km - 7.00km -133.00km - YTD 88.29km
03/06 6.15 km -13.15km -126.85km - YTD 94.44km
03/09 11.06 km -24.21km -115.79km - YTD 105.50km
03/10 5.15 km -29.36km -110.64km - YTD 110.65km8 -
March miles:
1 - 1.75
2 - 7.5
3 - 2
4 - 1.75
5 - 2.25
6 - 2.75
7 - 5
8 - .5
9 - 4.5 miles in the snow! Run with friends, then brunch with bloody mary's afterwards!
March Total: 28 miles
March Goal: 75 miles
Bridge to Brews 10k (4/14)
Rhody Run 12k (5/19)
Scramble XXIV - 6-Mile Scramble (6/30)12 -
@katharmonic Congratulations on completing the Spartan race!!! I was waiting eagerly to read your race report
Sounds like you had a blast! I didn't know there would be so much sliding instead of running ^^
Out of personal curiosity: how much did you help each other in the team, would it have been much harder on your own? ((cause I won't have a team if I do the Spartan in July that I'm thinking about)).
From your description, you failed 4 obstacles, so you had to do 120 burpees? That's already quite a workout in itself! I just did a mini-workout this evening that was 5 sets of 15 burpees with 90s rest in between. Planning to gradually increase that to 5 sets of 30 burpees, but that number still seems daunting... 4x 30 in the middle of a tough race sound insane
I hope you get some well-earned rest now. You should wear that shirt and medal around all week!
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So, it looks like March is already one third over? How did that happen so fast?
I only went for 5 runs so far. But some strength training / cross training too, so overall it's fine. Still - trying to get in a minimum of four runs instead of three next week would be better!
1.3.19 rest
2.3.19 7km run, fitnessblender lower body
3.3.19 13km run, fitnessblender upper body
4.3.19 indoor climbing, fitnessblender cardio
5.3.19 4km run, fitnessblender upper body
6.3.19 indoor climbing (extra long )
7.3.19 rest
8.3.19 7km run
9.3.19 12km run, fitnessblender upper body
10.3.19 fitnessblender upper + lower body
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I've been a bit quiet of late as my time has been consumed with a new work project. Still running though. And reading all your posts.
I ran the Riverhead Rampage on Saturday. 10k trail run in the beautiful bush. Quite a few steep hills and a couple of incredibly steep ones. Makes for a long run and some pretty high heart rates. Fun though. Beautiful too.
As a bonus, my running team managed to take out first place for fastest average team time, which netted us each a beer glass!
Running challenge
1 Mar: Rest
2 Mar: Rest
3 Mar: Rotorua Off Road Quarter Marathon. 10.7km
4 Mar: Pilates + yoga
5 Mar: Rest
6 Mar: Yoga
7 Mar: 18.8km
8 Mar: Yogalates
9 Mar: Riverhead Rampage, 10k trail event
10 Mar: 10.5km
11 Mar: Pilates
50 of 160km for March16 -
3/3: 3.1Km
4/3: 12.2Km
6/3: 4.0Km
7/3: 6.0km
10/3: 11.2Km
Total: 36.5Km
Total to go: 31.5Km (less than half) 4 -
amirahdaboss wrote: »I’ve got another monthly question, if it counts as one haha.
Inspired by a near faceplant during my run today, what is your most embarrassing running fall story, if you have one?
A couple of winters ago I was running in our neighborhood at night on snow and ice covered roads. I went down a cul-de-sac where two young boys were busy making a snow fort at the end of their driveway. As I turned started to make the turn around the end the road my foot hit a patch of ice and I fell on my *kitten*. Those two boys saw it and started belly laughing at the site. The site of those two young kids laughing made me laugh. I just did my best to keep a normal stride even though my hip was killing me after that.
@HonuNui I always love your scuba photos.
@katharmonic that spartan race sounds like a blast, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I had never given any thought to doing anything like that but now you have me interested, particularly if I found one with SNOW.
@amymoreorless those temps sound aweful! And the pacers had trouble finding the route!?!?! OUch! Hopefully the tacos and mimosas made up for it.
@ContraryMaryMary congrats on the team award! That's a very nice glass for the effort.
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Thank you @juliet3455 and @_nikkiwolf_!
@_nikkiwolf_ I gotta admit I did not do anywhere near the 120 burpees that I was supposed to do. We did them for the first fail and then felt punished enough, so only did a handful for the next ones. It was so exhausting I didn't think I could make it adding all the burpees. Honestly I didn't see many people doing them beyond the first couple of obstacles and no one was policing it. We were in the open class though, and not elite or age group classes. I think if you are in those and eligible for awards they will definitely monitor it and you have to do them. That was my experience, I don't know if it's like that at every race and I'm sure Spartan purists would not approve.
As for the team vs. individual thing, in terms of physical help I didn't really get any assistance from my teammates in doing the obstacles, just a lot of advice and encouragement. The only obstacle I got a little help on was the highest wall, where someone I didn't know offered me their leg to step up on to get started after I didn't make it on a couple of attempts (I apologized for the pain inflicted with my trail treads and weight but she was a tough chick and waved it off). Others on the team did help each other here and there as needed with a boost or a hand. I'm not sure what all happened at the back of the pack where we had some people who really had a harder time with a lot of obstacles but I'm sure the trainers on our team were really helping them.
I personally wouldn't have enjoyed doing it by myself this first time especially, as the encouragement and support was the best part for me, but it would have been totally possible to perform about the same on my own for sure. Volunteers were really helpful and encouraging as well, they gave out lots of tips and especially at some of the toughest ones were cheering and offering advice and lots of "keep going" while you were doing it. They just can't physically help you. I'm sure you could have fun and you can definitely do the obstacles on your own.
@7lenny7 I think you would love this particular one with your love of the snow and challenging trails! MFP monthly challenge team!
@ContraryMaryMary nice award! Congrats!5 -
@elise4270 not sure if it's on Netflix or where, but have you seen the series Dead Like Me? Funny and a bit dark as the characters are dead and work as grim reapers. Highly recommend.2
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Thanks @katharmonic ! I’ll look for it. I started Dark, I like it. I just can’t stay awake for very long. Least the Netflix binge will last longer that way.0
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Thanks to everyone who contributed an embarrassing fall story! Made me feel better about mine and made me smile, except for the ones that resulted in injuries
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I’ve been run/walking lately and have realized that I kind of like it! I may stick to it even when I’m recovered. Today’s run was meh.
March running
3/6: 3.1 miles
3/8: 3.1 miles
3/10: 3.8 miles
Cumulative miles: 10 miles/I have no idea miles4 -
March goal: 80 miles
3/3: 7.43 miles
3/5: 4.65 miles
3/6: 5.33 miles
3/7: 3.12 miles
3/10: 9.01 miles
29.54/80 miles completed
Today's run was awesome! It was perfect running weather. I really didn't want to get up this morning after losing an hour sleep. I always say I will go to bed early on daylight savings time, but I never do. But I was so glad that I got up and went. It was about 52F, not too windy. It was kind of cloudy, but in a pretty way streaked with blue sky as the sun came up. I ran 9 miles and felt like I could go forever. Then when I got home and was getting ready for church it started raining and has been cloudy and colder and rainy all day long. I was so glad I got to see the pretty part of the day. Runs like this are why I love running so much.
@katharmonic Congrats on your Spartan race! Sounds like you had a lot of fun.
@ContraryMaryMary Nice beer glass!
@amymoreorless Sounds like a tough race. Congrats on getting it done.
@Elise4270 Have you watched Stranger Things?
2019 races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:17
5/18/19: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon7 -
@katharmonic Awesome race report! You did well, and you reinforced my opinion that I don't really want to do any Spartan events.5
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March Running Totals (miles)
3/1 – rest day
3/2 – 20.05 paced run + solo miles
3/3 – 8.28 easy
3/4 – rest day
3/5 – 10.27 warmup, speed work, cool down
3/6 – 8.75 easy
3/7 – 8.41 warmup, MP run, cool down
3/8 – rest day
3/9 – 15.59 Around the Bay (Irondequoit)
3/10 – 12.47 easy shading to MP
March running total to date – 83.82
Nominal March mileage goal: 200 miles
Real Goals: Train well toward Boston. Cut back before St. Patrick’s Day weekend, run the 8K hard, use the half as a training race. Remain uninjured, even if it means cutting back on planned mileage.
Today's notes – (fixed wrong dates from last report)
Busy day planned. Short night for the stupid time change, up early for church, planned dinner with my daughter in the evening, have to fit the run in during the afternoon. Wanted 11 or 12 miles, and afternoon isn't the best time for me biologically to do that. So I did the best I could.
Came home from church, ate my normal mid-morning snack. Waited for normal gut elimination, start empty. Set out on a familiar 12.5-ish mile route that I use to train hills for Boston.
Temperature was 41° F (5°C) when I started. Forecast was for showers off and on all day, chance increasing later. Temperature was supposed to slowly rise, wind was supposed to be noticeable. No precipitation when I started dressing to run, but raining lightly when I stepped out the door. Had a brief thought that this was similar temperature to the start of Boston 2018, but I was dressed lighter: shorts instead of tights, short sleeve shirt under light jacket instead of long sleeve. Oh, well. The rain isn't supposed to be so hard. I start out.
The first 2 miles, I'm congratulating myself on pace control. Stayed in the easy range, and it felt natural. Then I turned south, a bit into the wind. At least it wasn't raining enough to notice, but wind + cooler temperature encourages me to speed up. I run by heart rate up the series of hills that are the best I've got near home to prepare for Newton. Just past 5 miles, I turn west onto the easy part of the route.
Today, that part wasn't easy. The wind was from the west, the rain picked up, the jacket got soaked and then blown on, and my thighs told me I should have worn tights. Oh, well. It's only 3 miles of this, and I ran 26 miles into the wind and rain last April. By mile 8, I'm having fantasies of how to quit and still get home. No dice; the most reasonable way to get home is to just keep running.
Turn north just past 8 miles. Now it's uphill, but it's a crosswind and I'm mostly sheltered from it. That makes this part easy today. Get up the gentle hill, on to the rolling hills with a couple of steeper downhills to practice for Lower Newton Falls. That turned out to be reasonable. I'm tired, but I know I'm tired because I've been running marathon pace since about 2 miles in, and haven't been able to slow down enough. My body knows slower = colder, and it wants the warmth.
Mile 10, and I just want to run the rest of the way home. I kind of did that, except for a port-a-pot stop late in mile 11. With less than 2 miles to go, you'd think I could just finish; but there you have it. It's the wrong time of day for me to be running that far. Take care of business, put my wet clothes in order, pull my wet gloves on, and run home. Amazingly enough, the stop didn't seem to affect my pace. The last mile plus to get home went about as fast as the miles before the stop.
Heart rate data says I ran easy enough. I'm not so sure I trust it. Splits say I ran 2 miles easy and the rest more or less around marathon pace. On the plus side, I didn't have any issues with cold fingers post-run, in spite of running the last segment in cold wet gloves. I was smart enough to come into the heated house first, before doing anything else in the way of post-run recovery.
I got more rain than forecast. Instead of rising, the temperature managed to fall to 40° F by the time I got home. So I was actually running in colder weather than I did at Boston, and some of the rain in the hard part felt a little like sleet on my thighs.
Got the Sunday tired legs workout done. The workout is supposed to help prepare for races; today, a race helped prepare me for the workout. If I hadn't run Boston in the nor'easter, I don't know whether I would have been mentally tough enough to run the full route today. But how could I wimp out, when I know I've run twice as far in worse conditions when I wasn't as fit physically?
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) finished in 28:34
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)
April 28, 2019 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble) (Dedham, MA)
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 5K (Rochester, NY)
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY)
May 25, 2019 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY)
June 7, 2019 Charlie McMullen Mile (Pittsford, NY)
June 16, 2019 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY)
June 29, 2019 A Country Mile at Ganondagan (5-ish mile trail) (Victor, NY)
November 3, 2019 TCS New York City Marathon (New York, NY)11 -
With this week over, it's now been 8 weeks since I've been able to run after surgery and to say I was thrilled with my progress is an understatement. I'm way ahead of where I expected to be.
Saturday:
18.6 trail miles for Kody & I at my favorite metro area park. I went out with the intention of getting 20 miles but after 4 hours I think both Kody & I were done. I was going to do a 1.4 O&B just to get to 20 but I had to remind myself that I'm still in post-surgery rebuilding mode and pushing it isn't in my best interest. Even with a short distance I was very happy with the run. The percentage of walking I do on these trail runs continues to decrease and the amount of hills I'm able to run continue to increase. The trail conditions were really good. The trail was mostly packed snow with some sections of irregular ankle twisting snow. My pace was 10:44, which I'm VERY happy with. The forecast originally called for 12+ inches of snow starting late morning and I was hoping to out on the trail when it started but the front shifted, came through later in the day, and it was warmer. End result is that it started sprinkling about 3 miles away from the end and started pouring as I was doing my post-run stretches. Yes, it was a good time to finish.
Sunday:
Today's run was pretty *kitten*. Literally.
28F and sunny, but with 20mph winds. Depending on the wind direction, or if I was sheltered from the wind, it was either really warm or biting cold. After our 6 inches of wet, heavy snow, the sidewalks were mostly slushy slop and the roads were either clean and dry, or ankle deep puddles of snow melt. Even though it was below freezing, the road salt created super-cold slushy puddles. For the first few miles I tried to avoid the slush but after that I like the kid in me out and intentional splashed through every puddle I came across. My feet were cold and wet, but I was happy. I ended up with 9.2 slow, easy recovery miles.
And that *kitten* run...about half way through the run Kody stopped to poop. I picked it up and with no garbage can around, was carrying the bag. Soon I decided to tie up the bag to the side of my running belt, which I've done many times before. About 2 blocks from my house I'm at a red light, waiting. A car pulls up and the passenger gives me an odd look. I look down and...OMG...the bag burst! I had dog crap dripping down my tights. I cleaned up what I could with handfuls of snow and continued home. In the garage I stripped naked and put everything in the washing machine. Other than that, it was a good but tough, slow run.
Those two runs give me 43.2 miles for the week, my highest non-race weekly total in nearly TWO YEARS. Yes, I'm happy with how rebuilding is going.
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That wet heavy snow we got last night sure made things beautiful. This was our backyard today
Unfortunately we're running out of places to put the snow. My snowblower is having a hard time getting snow over the pile at the end of our driveway.
Mid 40's and 1.5 inches of rain in the forecast this weeks means lots more cold puddles to run through.
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@kgirlhart Yes! I have seen Stranger Things. I may re-watch it too! I keep calling this kitten we have “Dart”, he’s like the pet devil dog!
ETA wow @7lenny7 that sure is pretty!2 -
u]March Running[/u]
03/01: 11.07 mile long run
03/02: 3.50 mile recovery run
03/03: 4.50 mile easy run
03/05: 5.01 mile easy run
03/06: 4.01 mile easy run
03/07: 7.03 miles - 5 tempo
03/09: 4.01 mile easy run
03/10: 9.05 mile long run - 4x1M repeats
Total: 48.18 miles
Run notes:
Have a few days of running to catch up on here. Thursday was my last "workout" run before my 10 mile race - 7 miles total with 5 around goal race pace. I was supposed to start tapering then, and just do my long run today nice and easy. Buuut then I realized my thesis defense is exactly one month away from today
, which reeeeeeally stressed me out lol so I kind of took things a little harder/faster than I should have 
- ended up throwing in 4x1 mile repeats at a comfortably hard pace. From here on out, I really DO need to take it easy and attempt some sort of a taper if I'm going to have any hopes of hitting my goal at the Excalibur 10 Miler next weekend.
Registered races:
- Excalibur 10 Miler (3/17)
- Wintrust Lakefront 5K (4/13)
- Ravenswood Run 5K (4/28)
- Space Coast Half Marathon (12/01)7 -
@katharmonic Way to go! Sounds like you did yourself proud!
@ContraryMaryMary Nice team award!
@amymoreorless Great job despite the challenging weather!
8 miles easy on the Greenway for me and my husband. Today has been a day. My mom called and woke me up way too early this morning with computer problems, flipped on my iPad while waiting for her to call back, iPad wouldn't power on and my backup doesn't work, so basically the past three years of my life are gone, including almost all my photos and my diabetes data. Appointment tomorrow with the Apple dudes but not hopeful. Spent so much time fiddling with problems that I ended up getting about four hours sleep. My husband, who is a great guy mostly but also an epic whiner, says, "Surely you're not going to run today! No one expects you to run the same day your house burns down!" And I say, "It's even more necessary to run when your house burns down." Which, yeah, I sound like Yoda to myself, but it's true, the run was a thousand times more helpful than anything else we could have done.
Absolutely glorious day. Stepped outside to do my morning stretches, took a breath and said to myself, what is that smell... it's... springtime! Ran in a racerback. Light wind, partial clouds just enough to keep everything comfortable, just one of those days when it feels like the air is caressing you. We haven't run this far on pavement in a while and my feet and knees feel a little beat up after the fact, but pace felt good and flowing at the time. I had something happen that has never happened to me before, a guy asked if he could use me as a pacer. I told him we were probably going too slow for him and he said he was trying to learn to slow down while adding mileage. So we ran partway with some dude! Who is hoping to do better on his upcoming half than his previous one where he went out too fast and ended up walking. I have been there, dude. He normally does about 9 minute miles and was looking for something slower, we have been doing a shade under 10 on our easy road runs. It made me feel cool to have a guy approach me and ask what my mile pace was, as if I looked like I knew what I was doing or something!8 -
girlinahat wrote: »@avidkeo if you haven’t made your mind up yet - buy the mixer.
My Kenwood A700D. Dates from the 1950’s bought off eBay. Still going (probably could do with a new motor and certainly the cable rubber is melting)
And it’s beautiful
Its BEAUTIFUL!!!0 -
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Afternoon. Been a hectic day for me.
This morning I went for 5.5k easy run, that I actually took easy! My HR never went above 165 I was only just in zone 4, I even spend 10 minutes in zone 3! I felt like I could run for a lot longer, but as I'm easing in after my injury I'm sticking to the 10% rule. Last week I did all 5k runs, this week, I'll do 5.5. Ill throw in a longer run on Wednesday and Friday - 6 and 7, as long as my leg holds out.
Talking about the leg - no, I'm not complaining for a change hahaha - I came across this video of a guy saying "this will solve your shin splints", so I watched, with a firmly skeptical mind. Basically he did a myofascial release, I think. he took an object like a scraper, and scraped the muscle. I thought well I'm trying massage and stretching and its not really improving things. what do I have to lose. So I got some oil, and a cake server (the only scraper like object I owned lol) and tried it. I was almost pain free the next day. so I did it again morning and night. and that's it. pain free. And no pain at all on or after my run today (definitely not my shoes then, thank god) I googled a bit more and found the myofascial release thingy - chiropractors use it apparently. I think its more like a deep tissue massage using an implement rather than hands.
Now I'm a sckeptic. It may be a co-incidence. I was still stretching, rolling and had a couple of days rest. that may have been it. but maybe not. Unsure. Anyone else done anything like this? tried something that looks or sounds unlikely and turned out to maybe be of benefit?4
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