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
3/11 = rest day
3/12 = 3 miles
Well, this concludes my running week. My father fell this weekend and it was “no big deal”.... Tomorrow I am driving him to have surgery to reconstruct his fractured (blow out fracture?!?) eye orbit and nose. My parents 3rd major injury/surgery from falling in 3 years. 😢
Take care of yourself my virtual running friends. You will thank yourself for it later in life.
March Goal Miles 150 / Miles to Date = 67.5 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 5k19 -
@amymoreorless I hope your dad's surgery goes well. Sounds like that would be a painful injury. Prayers for you as you help take care of your parents also. It can be a hard row to hoe.4
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I am in! My goal is simply to run at least 1 mile every day in March. It's the 12th and I haven't missed a day yet, so far so good:)10
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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
3/11 – rest day
3/12 – 15.01 long intervals
March running total to date – 98.83
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 – First outdoor club practice of the season this evening. The training plan called for the toughest workout I've ever tried: 2 miles easy, 4 miles threshold, 5 miles easy, 3 miles threshold, 2 miles easy. Last time this one came up, I crapped out at 15 miles and the second threshold interval came in slow. Today I decided to substitute a slightly less challenging workout: 3 miles easy, 2 x (4 miles marathon pace, 1 mile threshold), 2 miles easy.
Bearing in mind the lessons of past long interval workouts, my plan was to do the bulk of this workout on a triangle of roads that is a bit over a mile, mostly flat, and somewhat sheltered from the wind. Good plan. The first mile was broken up by a rest room break and a stop light, but that left more than 2 miles continually at an easy pace before getting into the meat of the workout. That was enough to get me past the hillier part of the park and onto my target road loop. I slowed myself down several times on the first 3 easy miles, so as to have some contrast between easy and MP and to have the energy to actually run at T pace in mile 13.
This is a workout I've attempted several times, and actually completed only once. Now I can say I completed it twice, and I'm in better shape (or at least, better at holding an intended pace) than the first time. Target range for easy is 7:40 to 8:30. Target pace for MP is 7:20 this cycle. Target pace for T is 6:40 on road, 6:30 on a track. Mile splits were:
E: 8:30, 7:46, 7:45
MP: 7:15, 7:16, 7:16, 7:13
T: 6:30
MP: 7:15, 7:17, 7:13, 7:18
T: 6:30
E: 7:36, 7:52
The last mile was pretty much all uphill to get back to base for the club. I managed a brief conversation with a few other members after I finished, but that's all. I missed the organizational part of the meeting and whatever Coach had to say about transition to outdoor training and preparation for racing in Virginia Beach on Saturday. But I feel pretty good that I not only completed this workout, but I nailed the T pace and felt pretty good afterward. The workout is supposed to simulate tired legs for the late miles of running a marathon, but without running so far that recovery becomes a major time suck. I don't think I really got to the tired legs phenomenon, or at least not to the extent I got there the first time I completed this workout.
I'll just have a short run tomorrow, travel Thursday and Friday. With luck, I'll have time for another short run on Thursday after I stop for the night. Then the grand experiment of running an 8K hard on Saturday, and a half marathon at marathon pace (or perhaps slightly faster) on Sunday. This weekend will tell the tale of how hard I can afford to run the BAA 5K two days before the Boston Marathon.
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)
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Date...........Run.......Walk.........Pushups
03/01........00M.......3.5M........30
03/02........20M.......0.0M........00
03/03........00M.......0.0M........00 *injury*
03/04........06M.......0.0M........00
03/05........04M.......1.0M........00
03/06........00M.......0.0M........25
03/07........11M.......0.0M........00
03/08........16M.......0.0M........00
03/09........09M.......0.0M........00
03/10........09M.......0.0M........00
03/11........00M.......3.5M........00
03/12........07M.......3.5M........00
---MTD: 11.5 miles walking, 73 miles running, and 0KM resting
*sigh* not doing well on my push up plans...
Upcoming Races
Steel Challange 5k - May 2019
Pittsburgh Marathon - May 2019
Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Race - May 2019
2021 - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)
2019 GOAL: Knock a full hour off my 50k time at Glacier Ridge.6 -
Tuesdays are always a full day for me as I work my day job all... well day, then teach at night. But slipped an hour on the dreadmill at 7mph with a 5.5% grade.7
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girlinahat wrote: »Fast forward to today, and I get a package (well two, but the other one I ordered for myself and just had some massage balls in. Fun, but no cigar).
This was in the package
All I saw through my smiling eyes was just the one word on the cover. So thank you Fairy Godmother Mary Poppins for believing in me to believe in myself. You really are the kindest person in the world.
Hey that is awesome!2 -
@PastorVincent Here's a thought on the pushups: I currently do 3 sets of 72 pushups every day. But I didn't set out to do this any more than I set out to run marathons. I built up to it gradually, starting from 20 pushups with my shins resting on a Swiss ball at at time when I had a foot injury and couldn't run or support myself in the normal pushup position. Even that was building on residual strength from when I was a weight lifter; in high school I could do no more than 10 pushups on my best day.
How about if, instead of doing 30 pushups, waiting a week, doing 25 pushups, etc., you just pick some time of day that works for your schedule and do 5 pushups? Then after a week of doing 5, start doing 6. It's like building up to long runs; you don't start from being someone who walks 5 miles but doesn't run and go immediately to running a 5K. You build up to it, in increments that don't set you back physically or mentally.8 -
Did c25k with my friend again!
March running
3/6: 3.1 miles
3/8: 3.1 miles
3/10: 3.8 miles
3/11: 1 mile
3/12: 1 mile
Cumulative miles: 12 miles/I have no idea miles8 -
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
10 - 0
11 - 2
12 - 7.25 mile trail run. It rained all day and made for some muddy trails when I got out there after work!
March Total: 37.25 miles
March Goal: 75 miles
Bridge to Brews 10k (4/14)
Rhody Run 12k (5/19)
Scramble XXIV - 6-Mile Scramble (6/30)7 -
March Goal: Shut up and move
3/1 Went to my first ever St. David's Day Party
3/2 3.13
3/3 stuff
3/4 4.00
3/5 rest
3/6 3.00
3/7 snorkel 3.5 hours
3/8 3.35
3/9 3.00
3/10 rest
3/11 3.00
3/12 3.50
Total: 22.98
Ticker is my goal for 2019 and progress to date:
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I had another sunny day for cross training on Sunday, a little warmer (at least until the sun went down!) on our bike ride. And then in the dark of yesterday morning I realized why taking the kids biking for 25 miles on the first day of DST was not such a hot idea—oof. Poor little guy, especially!
Today I ran at a 10:00 pace for 4 mi for the first time since last year, so that felt great!
March goal: 60 miles
3/2 6 mi
3/3 cross (easy bike ~10 mi)
3/5 4 mi
3/7 4 mi TM
3/9 6 mi
3/10 cross (bike 25 mi w/kids)
3/12 4 mi
March total: 24 mi
Races:
3/16 Kirkland Shamrock Run 5K
5/6 Vancouver BMO Half Marathon?10 -
Speedwork adding up to 3 running miles.
Wonder of wonders the Apple support guy got my iPad backup to work, so I got my photos and stuff back! It has been a stressful couple of days, though. And computer problems are not over - mom’s router got struck by lightning so I need to get out to her place and install the replacement. This is also the week my group of high school friends return to town every year to get together and attend the local SF con, so I’m trying to juggle going out with different people on top of everything else. I count today as a win, though, I told my friend to meet me after I finished my run. It feels very novel having the confidence to set limits instead of letting other people push me into doing what they want to do. It also secretly feels great being the one member of the old gang who’s in shape.
Still having nice weather. Yesterday was heavy deadlifts so today’s “speedwork” felt more like slowwork. I was pleased to find out that my intervals were faster than they felt - was aiming for 8 and they were coming in about 7:30, which is new for me. Working on recovering at an easy run, and having something left in the tank for the last interval.
I did something dumb to my ankle putting my foot wrong while doing lunges and it’s sore - from the location of the pain I believe the problem is stressing the superior perineal retinaculum, which is a little strip behind your ankle that holds your tendons in place. Apparently they don’t ever really heal without surgery, so hopefully it’s just stressed and not actually torn. I don’t feel it while running and my ankle doesn’t pop (which would be a bad sign since it would mean the tendon is moving around) so I’m going to carry on and keep an eye on it.
Oh! And I saw a beaver today! It was washing its face on the banks of the runoff reservoir next to the trail. We have beavers here but I almost never see them, just the marks they leave on the trees. I took a picture but it just looks like a large brown lump.11 -
@lporter229 Hope you can get out ( defer) your Jury Duty. Obviously this is a pre-planned/pre paid Family Vacation
that you can't cancel without great Financial burden.
Therefore you would not be able to concentrate properly to be an effective Jurist.
or show up in very ratty "Garden Clothes" that are dirty and mature.
I will never sit Jury Duty since I directly work/support law enforcement so would always be considered a potential witness or biased to the prosecution, no prosecuter would want me on a jury as it could create a potential mistrial to be declared.katharmonic wrote: »Here's a couple of them
@katharmonic Great Photo's but it's not fair - the pail's in our OCR/Spartan (or what ever you wish to call it) had no lids and no handles so it was a challenge to carry with out some gloves. If you spilled/dropped the pail it was Bur-pee time or grab another pail and try again.2 -
0313-10.6k total-19.6k, goal-100k
Had an extra hour on my hands this morning and spent it on a 10k easy run. Easily the best decision I've made all week. It was a brilliant day, blindingly sunny and mildly cold. Forgot my gloves but stepped out the door and realized I didn't really need them.
Started out slow and sluggish. Didn't feel better until the 4km mark, but then started steadily feeling better. By 7km I felt like I was flying - the sun is shining! the flowers are blooming! I'm even using my glutes!
The apricot(?) trees were in full bloom, and for a few weeks my regular running route will look a bit surreal, until the leaves start sprouting and it goes back to looking like my normal route.
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I need to get more regular!
Going to concentrate on run commuting on a regular basis, so that will get my mileage up.
March 1st: 10 miles
March 8th: 7 miles
March 11th: 2 miles
March 13th: 4 miles
Total: 23 miles
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PastorVincent wrote: »_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »
@7lenny7 I am confused every single time I hear that advice. Usually for me a cold involves a sore throat. Is that above or below the neck?
Sometimes I like running despite a cold, if it clears my nose. Other times I already need to sit down on the stairs leading from my sixth-floor-apartment outside to take a break before I even start running. In those cases once I reach the ground floor I usually decide I'm better off getting in the elevator to ride back up instead of going outside and starting to run.
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I am simple minded I guess. If I can run and not feel worse, I do. Often I feel better.
Well I woke up today with chills to go with the runny nose so I didn't run! Figured I need to conserve the energy to deal with kids! The joys of being a stay at home parent, no time off when you're ill!4 -
rheddmobile wrote: »Wonder of wonders the Apple support guy got my iPad backup to work, so I got my photos and stuff back! It has been a stressful couple of days, though. And computer problems are not over - mom’s router got struck by lightning so I need to get out to her place and install the replacement.
This would be a very good time to BACK THOSE PICTURES UP. You can use iCloud, Dropbox, or another respectable online service for it. Just do it. And do it TODAY. 2 -
@PastorVincent Here's a thought on the pushups: I currently do 3 sets of 72 pushups every day. But I didn't set out to do this any more than I set out to run marathons. I built up to it gradually, starting from 20 pushups with my shins resting on a Swiss ball at at time when I had a foot injury and couldn't run or support myself in the normal pushup position. Even that was building on residual strength from when I was a weight lifter; in high school I could do no more than 10 pushups on my best day.
How about if, instead of doing 30 pushups, waiting a week, doing 25 pushups, etc., you just pick some time of day that works for your schedule and do 5 pushups? Then after a week of doing 5, start doing 6. It's like building up to long runs; you don't start from being someone who walks 5 miles but doesn't run and go immediately to running a 5K. You build up to it, in increments that don't set you back physically or mentally.
When I was training to become a black belt, I used to be able to 100. It was required for the test actually. I had to do 100 in 2 minutes.
Today, I could do 10-20 with ease. 40-50 is probably my push too hard and get hurt level right now. My problem is the mental block of actually wanting to do it. I need to do something upper body, and push-ups are where I was hoping to start.
It like knowing you should eat veggies, but grabbing for potato chips anyways.
I did 4 sets of 10 after reading your post cause it reminded me. Normally I do 1 set to near failure. My hope is 3 days a week, 30ish pushups until it becomes a habit. The might get one of them pull-up bar things.3 -
juliet3455 wrote: »@katharmonic Great Photo's but it's not fair - the pail's in our OCR/Spartan (or what ever you wish to call it) had no lids and no handles so it was a challenge to carry with out some gloves. If you spilled/dropped the pail it was Bur-pee time or grab another pail and try again.
@juliet3455 That would definitely be harder! I was expecting to have to fill the bucket with rocks and then carry it but they were pre-filled with the lids on. I think the winter spartan is a bit different because all the videos I saw definitely involved scooping up rocks and I don't think there were lids. On the sandbag carry, one guy's sandbag totally leaked out a ton of sand and he had to get another and start over. He seemed pretty annoyed.0 -
So... my Sunday run went great, and then I sat on the couch cross-legged watching Legally Blonde that night and tweaked my knee. Just a little bit. A weird discomfort, felt like it needed to pop. It was still there when I got up on Monday morning, but it felt better by the time I got off work and met a friend to run. But about a mile in the run, I knew I'd have to cut it short (from 5 to 3) because my knee was feeling angry.
Knee still felt bad on Tuesday when I woke up, so I took yesterday off entirely. Iced it, took ibuprofen, applied knee stabilization KT tape to get my knee tracking properly again (here's a great youtube video on how to do that). Immediately with the KT tape I felt a difference, so much so that I was tempted to run but held off. I left it on all day and overnight and then peeled it off this morning (all the edges were peeling back a ton anyway). I'll ice it a bit and taken an ibuprofen again, but the knee feels 10x better than Monday. No weird need-to-pop sensation, just about 10% achy likely from being mildly off-track for a day and a half.
Going to try to get my miles back on track for the week. It's a cutback/taper week anyway, so nothing crazy! Just an hour or so of mileage to get in before I work at 2 pm.
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
3/11: 3 miles
3/12: Rest day
March total: 85.3 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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runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »
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
March 11 - 3.14 miles
35.8 + 3.14 = 38.94 miles for the month
Goal for month = 80 miles
Miles left until goal = 41.06 miles
March 13 - 5 miles
38.94 + 5 = 43.94 miles for the month
Goal for the month = 80 miles
Miles left until goal = 36.06 miles6 -
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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
3-11 8.5k slow
3-12 Rest
3-13 7k slow
March Total: 83k
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.
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Another poor run today. Didn't sleep well; had a little bit of a sore throat and the sniffles; but warmed up well.
Had to stop for a bathroom break halfway through and it was all downhill from there. Warmer weather is coming -- maybe that will perk me up some.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K
6-1 Freedom 5K
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K8 -
i haz a funk. i didn't realize i did until i snapped on a friend today for being a friend
i don't have time for a funk. i have a marathon on the 6th.
speed demon is starting to give me dirty looks18 -
Yesterday I got to run 2.35 to and partly home from the gym. It was a mess! The temperature has been a hair above freezing for a few days now and it was raining, so the sidewalks were a patchwork of clear, ice, and puddle. It was great, but next time I’m bringing a change of socks and wearing a hat with a visor.
I think I’ve figured out the best path to and from the gym to avoid the worst of the puddles, but I won’t be breaking any speed records for a while. That said, I’m feeling good about hitting my super modest goal for the month. Time for a stretch goal!
3/1 Fr - Strength class
3/2 Sa - Shoveled
3/3 Su - Rest
3/4 Mo - Strength class, ran/walked 1.86 miles
3/5 Tu - Rest
3/6 We - Strength class, ran/walked 1.66 miles
3/7 Th - Rest
3/8 Fr - Strength class, ran 3.14 miles
3/9 Sa - Shoveled
3/10 Su - Rest
3/11 Mo - Shoveled
3/12 Tu - Strength class, ran/walked 2.35 miles
March Mileage: 9.01/10 (stretch goal 35 miles).6 -
So... Sunday I didn't run cause of birthdays. I ran Monday instead, because the forecast called for 3+ inches of snow that night/the next morning. This morning, I planned to run my normal Tuesday morning run. I woke up to 2-3" of fresh snow...
We had clear roads before this! 
Channeling @7lenny7 we geared up and headed out for what should have been a very easy run. 40 minutes and 2.78 miles later, I was pooped. Even my girl was tired when we got home. Got it done though!My pups: ~9 year old Jackson on the left and ~3 year old Kira on the right.
A lovely morning for a run. I stopped to take this picture, so the dogs were off to the side.
The forecast calls for mid-50's F by the weekend. Weird winter.14 -
zeesparrow wrote: »So... Sunday I didn't run cause of birthdays. I ran Monday instead, because the forecast called for 3+ inches of snow that night/the next morning. This morning, I planned to run my normal Tuesday morning run. I woke up to 2-3" of fresh snow... We had clear roads before this!
Channeling @7lenny7 we geared up and headed out for what should have been a very easy run. 40 minutes and 2.78 miles later, I was pooped. Even my girl was tired when we got home. Got it done though!My pups: ~9 year old Jackson on the left and ~3 year old Kira on the right.
A lovely morning for a run. I stopped to take this picture, so the dogs were off to the side.
The forecast calls for mid-50's F by the weekend. Weird winter.
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"Really warm" = 39 degrees F
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Question for the group - What is the difference between Strides and Sprints?4
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