March 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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@workaholic_nurse Glad your injuries were minor and hope you recover soon.1
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March Weekly Miles
GOAL: 140 miles
03/02 - 13.25
03/09 - 29.91
03/16 - 40.53
03/23 -
03/30 -
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TOTAL: 83.69 miles
Had a really good week of runs this past week. The only negative was that a new pair of New Balance shoes of a different model than I have used before, has been causing some blisters on my instep/arch. I'm going to continue to try them on shorter runs to see if it improves and if not I'll have to just have them be my gym shoes and not use for running. I think I have enough life in my Brooks to get me thru the next few weeks to the next HM before I need to purchase another pair.04/21/18 - 4:20:27 - Marathon (My 1st) - Garmin Marathon, Olathe KS
2018 RACES
06/02/18 - 1:10:12 - 7.7 mile - Hospital Hill - Kansas City MO
08/18/18 - 23:04 - 5K (PR) - Gardner KS
10/06/18 - (Rained Out) 5K - Jared Coones Memorial Pumkin Run - Olathe KS
10/20/18 - 1:57:04 Half Marathon - Kansas City Marathon - KC MO
11/22/18 - 27:59 - 5K - Turkey Trot - Overland Park KS (1st race with my son)03/02/19 - 1:53:19 (PR) Liberty Hospital Half Marathon - Liberty MO (Heartland 39.3 Series #1)
2019 RACES
03/30/19 - Jadon's Hope Bug Run 10K - Olathe KS
04/13/19 - Rock the Parkway Half Marathon - Kansas City MO (Heartland 39.3 Series #2)
05/11/19 - Running with the Cows Half Marathon - Bucyrus KS (Heartland 39.3 Series #3)
06/01/19 - Hospital Hill Half Marathon - Kansas City MO
??/??/19 - Garmin OzRun Half Marathon - Virtual Run (Date conflicted with Heartland #2)
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@workaholic_nurse dang! Sorry about the car and the cattle but really glad you’re ok.0
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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
3/13 rest
3/14 funk
3/15 3.00
3/16 2.00
3/17 6.50
Total: 34.48
@workaholic_nurse Owwie! Sorry for the cows, but glad you walked away
@Avidkeo @ContraryMaryMary Hugs to you and your countrymen....our organist played the New Zealand national anthem as his postlude today---there was complete silence in the church for entirety-NOT the usual post-service jabber...
Races:
on the spur of the moment (yesterday afternoon) I decided to sign up/run the Big Island International 10k today...finished, upright, not last. I call it a win!
BIIMA 10k 3/17/19 6.50 (apparently poor tangents!)
Ticker is my goal for 2019 and progress to date:
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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
3/13 rest
3/14 funk
3/15 3.00
3/16 2.00
3/17 6.50
Total: 34.48
@workaholic_nurse Owwie! Sorry for the cows, but glad you walked away
@Avidkeo @ContraryMaryMary Hugs to you and your countrymen....our organist played the New Zealand national anthem as his postlude today---there was complete silence in the church for entirety-NOT the usual post-service jabber...
Races:
on the spur of the moment (yesterday afternoon) I decided to sign up/run the Big Island International 10k today...finished, upright, not last. I call it a win!
BIIMA 10k 3/17/19 6.50 (apparently poor tangents!)
Ticker is my goal for 2019 and progress to date:
Every finish is a win of some kind.1 -
OUCH @workaholic_nurse ! I think you are going to need a little Bondo and duct tape for that car!0
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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
03/13........11M.......3.5M........4x10
03/14........11M.......4.0M........0
03/15........00M.......3.5M........4x10
03/16........00M.......0.0M........00
03/17........11M.......0.0M........00
---MTD: 22.5miles walking, 106 miles running, and 0KM resting
Upcoming Races
Steel Challange 5k - May 2019
Pittsburgh Marathon - May 2019
Glacier Ridge 50k Trail Race - May 2019
202? - Disney World Dopey! (if can raise funds)
2019 GOAL: Knock a full hour off my 50k time at Glacier Ridge.2 -
@MobyCarp great run! I bet many of the people that would have beat you were also thinking about Boston.0
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workaholic_nurse wrote: »Sadly none of the cattle survived. But yes I am extremely grateful to be walking away from the accident.
OMG and hugs. I hit a cow a few years ago, my car looked a little better than yours, but was still written off. Looking at that pic, I am so glad you guys drive on the wrong side of the road! I saw the side all caved in and feared the worst, then remembered you would have been on the other side of the car.
I'm still getting over mine, anytime I see an animal on the road (frequently where I live annoyingly) I get that adrenaline pumping.
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March Goal: Shut up and move
@workaholic_nurse Owwie! Sorry for the cows, but glad you walked away
@Avidkeo @ContraryMaryMary Hugs to you and your countrymen....our organist played the New Zealand national anthem as his postlude today---there was complete silence in the church for entirety-NOT the usual post-service jabber...
That's beautiful, thank you.0 -
Monday for me. I did 6k this morning. As I was doing the final km I was tempted to push it out to 8, but I reminded myself I am easing back into it, and I will do 8k tomorrow as one of my longer runs this week, and this is about building up again. so I stopped at 6. I'm feeling really good again. Though i nearly got myself run over by a logging truck, that wasn't fun. Ill be a little more aware next time.8
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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
3/12: 5.05 miles
3/13: 3.11 miles
3/14: 5.11miles
3/17: 10.06 miles
52.87/80 miles completed
Today's run was awesome. The weather was perfect. I waited until after church, and it was so nice. It would have been a little chilly for me if I had gone earlier, but it was about 60°F with just about 4 mpf east winds. It was such a pretty day that I ran out to the lake and then I had my husband come pick me up at Walmart so I ran a total of 10 miles.
My son and his girlfriend were here this weekend so I got kind of behind on this thread.
@ContraryMaryMary Those pictures are beautiful. Except for the last one. Lol. That one kind of gives me a panic attack.
@workaholic_nurse I'm glad you are ok. That car looks awful.
2019 races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:17
5/18/19: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon6 -
@workaholic_nurse - Oh Wow! I am so glad you walked away from that but I suspect you will be pretty sore in the morning! It is sad about the cows but did the farmer have a reason that they weren't in his field? Growing up in Idaho we had a few (maybe more than a few) times that gates were not secured and cows ended up on the highway, usually at night. It never ended well for the cows and often not for the people in the cars. The farmers also got hit with fines and covering the damage costs.
@MobyCarp - another fantastic race! Love the bling, especially that hat! So where is your picture with Meb?
@kgirlhart - what a beautiful place to run!
@girlinahat - I love that you can ride a train out and then run back! How did it workout with running in the hiking shoes or are they more like trail runners?1 -
@workaholic_nurse I’m so glad you’re ok! And so sorry about the car and the cows.
@ContraryMaryMary What a gorgeous hike/run!
@MobyCarp It seems like you’re in excellent shape for Boston, and that the two races worked really well together!
I got to run my much-anticipated 5K—not new to these but I’ve never tried to race one because I’ve always run them with kids. I was hoping for below 30 min, but ended up with 30:41, but that seems a good number to beat next time! What especially tickled me was that I was 9th out of 50+ women in my age group. It was really fun to try to run fast (I have never really done that, except for a handful of fartleks here and there. My base hasn’t seemed to be enough to do much in the way of speedwork, and I have that novice issue of running too fast, with negative splits every run, so am always trying to focus on slowing down) I felt so great the rest of the day! And my daughter didn’t mind me just taking off, and had a great time too.
I did realize I needed to do more with hills, though—I ended up walking briefly on two. They totally threw me for a loop! There are plenty of hills around, so I just need to bite the bullet.
I was really curious about my splits, though, because of the overall pace and how slow I ended up on those hills. But I could not get my Fitbit Ionic to sync the run! Argh! I was so annoyed—I’d upgraded from a Blaze to have the GPS, and considered switching to a Garmin at that point, but I’d been tracking data for years and was used to the interface, etc. So, since I was just in the window for REI to take it back with no questions, I switched it out for a Garmin yesterday afternoon.
Today was cross training according to the HM plan, and it was a gorgeous bluebird day for some spring snowboarding, so we went for that. But I was so excited to take the Garmin for a spin, so I ran a very easy (unauthorized by the plan) three miles in the sun before we left, which felt great and was beautiful. And now I’m pretty sleepy!
The only thing about the Garmin is that the calorie import was so different today—I’m going to have to keep an eye on it. Garmin was more generous with calories than MFP—that was the same with Fitbit—but I never got a negative calorie adjustment for over 14K steps like I did today! (And I’ve found the Fitbit + MFP system super accurate and helpful for losing 1 lb/week, eating all exercise calories) But all in all, I like the way it looks and works better overall. I ended up getting a Forerunner—the touchscreens on both the Blaze and Ionic were bothersome (so much rain and dampness here!), and I like the buttons & other features much better. So far so good.
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
3/14 4 mi
3/16 3.1 mi (5K PR!)
3/17 3 mi + cross (snowboarding)
March total: 34.1 mi
Races:
3/16 Kirkland Shamrock Run 5K
5/6 Vancouver BMO Half Marathon?5 -
Wow @workaholic_nurse those are ALL the injuries you have from that? Very very lucky. Sorry about the car, but good to have you still with us.0
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@girlinahat - I love that you can ride a train out and then run back! How did it workout with running in the hiking shoes or are they more like trail runners?
They were the inov-8 roclite 325 they’re very lightweight hiking mid-boots. So not quite Trail runners. Easy enough to run in due to them weighing little more than a normal pair of running shoes though. I’m not really a heavy boot fan, and prefer to strengthen my own ankles rather than have so-called ‘ankle support’ in a boot.0 -
Haven't been online all that much recently, way too much work and life and not enough free time for anything (except exercise and overeating!). Yesterday was the 2nd on the local race series, 5km (supposedly, although my app registered 4.89). It was the first time I'd run that far in one go since my injury in December, so I was perfectly happy with my time of 31:04.
Not so happy with my husband, who had agreed to walk it with our daughter then spent the rest of the day bitching and picking fights over everything out of frustration that he had had to walk it all when he felt (note he's overweight and does not run regularly, only when he decided to come to races with me) he could have run more and not come in almost last. **sigh**
This leaves me with two things to consider. The third and final race in the series is a 7km. It was scheduled for the 28th of April, but then the government here decided to call elections for that day, so it's been moved forward to the 31st of March, just 2 weeks away. My easy gradual training plan would have had me ready for a 7km on 28/04. For 31/03 it calls for 5.6km, so just under a mile less than the race. So, considering his lordship's bitching, if my daughter wants to do it for the T-shirt (you have to finish all 3 in the series to get that) I am going to have to walk it with her and let him run (then I will feel justified in bitching myself when he passes out after a couple of miles or DNF or ends up walking even slower than us!). My quandry is, is it fair to try and force her to do some sort of run/walk combination in the hopes she can complete the whole thing that way and I won't come in dead last, or should I just write this one off, walk for my T-shirt and refuse to take them to races with me from now on?
Oh the joys of families.
Anyway, well on track for goal with 24km run of 40, also keeping up with my 2 x total body and 1 x upper body strength workouts each week. Stretching is not as regular as I would like, but that is always first to go out the window when time constrictions appear.
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runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »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 miles
March 14 - 3.13 miles
43.94 + 3.13 = 47.07 miles for the month
Goal for the month = 80 miles
Miles left until goal = 32.93 Miles
March 16 - 3.1 miles
47.07 + 3.1 = 50.17 miles for the month
Goal for the month = 80 miles
Miles left until goal = 29.83 miles
March 17 - 11 miles
50.17 + 11 = 61.17 miles for the month
Goal #1 for the month = 80 miles
Miles left until goal = 18.83 miles
Oops....I may have to up that goal a bit.
March 18 - 5 miles
61.17 + 5 = 66.17 miles for the month
Goal #1 for the month = 80 miles
Miles left until goal = 13.83 miles1 -
@Mobycarp great race! So awesome that you had Meb to pace you, and you can actually say you past Meb Keflezighi in a race!
@HonuNui congrats on your 10K. That is impressive that you just wake up, sign up, and run a race.
@simcon1 way to go on your first 5K race! Just over :30 is a great time!
@eleanorhawkins congrats on you 5K as well. I think you should ask your daughter what she wants to do (not necessarily force her to do a run/walk). Somehow running and family are always seem to cause an argument in my house too. Hope you can work it out.1 -
Races:
on the spur of the moment (yesterday afternoon) I decided to sign up/run the Big Island International 10k today...finished, upright, not last. I call it a win!
BIIMA 10k 3/17/19 6.50 (apparently poor tangents!)
Hah! Well done
That is the best way to do it. No pre-race jitters and doubts if there is no time between sign up and race. 
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