April 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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Happy birthday @elise4270! Eat all the carbs!2
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amirahdaboss wrote: »Happy birthday @elise4270! Eat all the carbs!
Cake for breakfast!!! Thanks!
ETA wow, so many wishes! Thanks @shanaber , @katharmonic haha!, @eleanorhawkins , @Scott6255 , @PastorVincent , @ddmom0811 , @Tramboman , @KatieJane83 haha!, @mbaker566
@martaindale howdy fellow “dieter”!
Two of my three kids wished me happy bday. Dh didn’t forget. I got cake. No almond silk for my coffee this morning-but the milk in it reminds me of Hawaii (I put cream in all my kona coffee). Where’s @RunsOnEspresso ? Can’t believe I just realized she’s be awol.
THANKS AGAIN ALL. Much love!8 -
4-1 Rest
4-2 7k easy
April Total: 7k
April Goal: 150k
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 and cool today. Overdressed a little, but not by a whole lot. Earned my 300 mile bib as part of Run the Year today.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K (Registered)
6-1 Freedom 5K (Will be off the schedule due to another commitment)
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K9 -
4/1 R=2.25 miles W=1.7 miles
4/2 R=0.0 miles W=1.65 miles
I was supposed to play tennis this morning, but the organizer had unexpected company, so it was cancelled. I'm sort of glad because my left calf was feeling a little weird last night. It was "hurting" at the place where I tore the muscle a few years back while playing tennis. It really needed a rest from pounding today. So, I took a nice walk instead.
Edited: Is anyone else having trouble with the ticker? What it is posting is NOT what the ticker says when I copy the URL. Then, it later seems to magically change to be correct. As of this typing, it is still wrong and not showing the added 1.65 miles.3 -
@7lenny7 - I missed that you were having Achilles pain! I had to go back to the March thread to see what happened. Hope it is nothing serious!
@shanaber yes, I was foolish last week, adding hill repeats to my long run. I got too cocky I guess.
On the bright side, it gives me more time to finish our tax returns and get our boat ready for the water.5 -
April goal: 85 miles
4/2: 5.07 miles
5.07/85 miles completed
I'm on the boards for April with 5.07 miles. I always hate when the 1st falls on a rest day, it makes me feel like I'm behind. But today's run was really good. I was a little slow getting out the door. I know I'll be complaining about the heat soon enough, but it was cold again today and it just took me longer to get going and to decide on what to wear. I ended up wearing long pants, sleeves and a jacket and that was actually good. I did take my jacket off about 2/3 of the way into the run, but kept the sleeves on the whole time. At least when it is hot you just throw on shorts and a tank top and go. I haven't really been doing any speed work lately. I'm kind of nervous about doing it in the dark so when I run early mornings I don't usually do speed work. But I did try to focus on starting out slower and running the end of the run faster. My first mile was the slowest and miles 4 and 5 were both under 10 min/mile so I felt really good about it. Plus I did a Zombie's Run supply run and turned on the zombie chases so that was a little bit of speed work. Then I came home and did some yoga which was a really good after run yoga session.
Happy Birthday @Elise4270!
2019 races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:17
5/18/19: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon8 -
01/04 1.73 miles
02/04 3.42 miles
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Date...........Run.......Walk.........Pushups
04/01........00M.......1.0M........00
04/02........07M.......0.0M........00
---MTD: 1.0 miles walking, 7 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.6 -
April Goals: Run 100+ miles, stay healthy & keep up with marathon training plan.
4/1 - 5.7 km dirt track (5x700@5kP w/350 recovery)
4/2 - 32.2 km run
The run today felt good, nothing exciting to report there. But later I was driving past my much-loved natural area (the one that's under dispute, where I ran those circles last week) and part of it was on fire. Fire department & police were on the scene, but the smoke looked to be coming from a large area around where I ran into the boars last week. It's an awfully dry and windy day for it to be a controlled burn to get rid of brush, but who knows
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Today I got to run 1.13 miles home from the gym. It was a little less than I’d hoped and unfortunately my hamstring was a little bit grumpy again, but it was something, and something is better than nothing. My headphones were almost out of batteries so I left them in my bag and spent some time thinking instead - crazy, right? But it helped, and I think I might be on track to get myself back in the game. And either way, I’m on the board for April!
4/1 Rest
4/2 Strength class, ran/walked 1.13 miles
April Mileage: 1.13/10 miles
2019 Races! (bold registered)
January 26: Securian 10K, St. Paul, MN Chip time: 1:05:07
February 16: Half Fast 10K DNS
March 23: Hot Dash 5K, Mpls, MN Chip time: 0:28:39 (*PR!)
April: Local 10K?
May 19: Women Run the Cities 10K, Mpls, MN
June 12: ESTRS French 5K, Plymouth, MN
June 29 Lift Bridge 10Mi, Bayport MN
July 27: St. Croix Crossing Half, Houlton, WI to Stillwater, MN OR
August 3-4: Beat the Blerch Half Marathon, Carnation, WA
September 2: MDRA Victory Labor Day 5K, MPLS, MN
September 8: Sioux Falls Half Marathon, Sioux Falls, SD
October 5: TCM 10K OR
October 6: TCM 10Mi, St. Paul, MN
October 12: Bemidji Blue Ox 26K, Bemidji, MN
November 28: Turkey Trot St. Paul 10K, St. Paul, MN
December 14: Reindeer Run 10K, MPLS, MN9 -
This!PastorVincent wrote: »AS FOR THE DIET QUESTION
In general, I tell people that ask me, "Try to eat natural foods, avoid sugar and additives, and eat a variety. Drink water, herbal tea, and other zero calorie drinks when you can." I fall in the camp that for most people, it is their lack of activity that is the biggest factor in their health, and less so their diet.
I think people do try to over complicate weight loss, but at the end of the day it is "technically" simple. The difficulty comes from our emotions, mental state, hormones, our economy (I can buy a big bag of chips and a box of fish fingers or I can buy a bunch of bananas) etc etc etc. How your parents dealth with food can be a huge influence too, I was always taught to finish my plate, regardless of how full I was, I'm still trying to stop when I'm full....
Medication also can play a part but only to a certain degree. I just had my implanon removed and I dropped about 2kg within the week! I had also noticed my taste had changed and my appetite had gone up with it! But that could just be a placebo effect?
It's a case of finding what works for you and sticking with that. At the age of 37 and still 25kg over weight I still haven't found my solution, but I will!
Another big thing is an inability to cook from scratch anymore! Every meal has to come in a box with instructions, we are sold this concept of being "time poor" despite also "binge watching" Netflix and having a load of gadgets in the house designed to save time. Our lives are simplified so much that they are now more complicated than ever!
In essence the equation of weightloss,
calories in < calories out = weight loss,
is simple. Putting that equation into practice is the difficulty!
so much this. especially the highlighted points.
When I first started losing weight this time around the only change I made was to finish eating when ever I felt satisfied. I lost 10kg (22lb) doing that. then I had to change things up a bit as I adapted.
and as for the implant. I was getting a raging appetite everytime I got my period, and I was getting my period every 2 weeks for 11 months!!! I finally took it out and those symptoms stopped immediately. Dropped about 6kg since then - that was september.
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I had one of those good runs where I went further than I expected, sort of.
Last night I was preparing for 9k. this morning when the alarm went off I just couldn't face doing that far. So I went out, aiming for at least 3, but maybe more, depending how I felt. because I KNEW if I didn't run at all I'd really regret it. Well I did 6. and a comfortable 6. Happy with that. The whole way I was mentally adding to figure out how to get to 150k for the month. I worked out that if I only run 5 days a week, I need to do 7km every run. plus an extra 10k at some point. As I'm actually planning on running 6 days a week, then I've got a bit of wiggle room.
see how this goes. I'm comfortable doing 7k per run as I've been building up to having 7k as my short run for the last couple of weeks. but any sign of too much, I will let it go.8 -
Happy birthday @Elise42702
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Butterchop wrote: »Happy birthday @Elise4270
Thanks teammate ! More cake and I got to clip clop around Walmart with dh today. It was horrible. But I got out.5 -
Well, I almost wussed out. Kind of sickly. But usually the first symptom of sickly with me is I’m stuffed up and can’t breath. That is not currently the case. So, I figured I would try following that neck up vs neck down advice for a change. It was snails pace, and not even half of what energetic me had on the schedule earlier in the week, but I ran.
2.12 today = 3.32/40
This sounds terrible, but I can’t remember the last time I even made it to the 2nd day of the month still looking like I was on pace for my goal. Even really low and lonely goals. So, only day two and I’m already claiming progress!13 -
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
04/01/19 :::: 3.8 :::: 3.8
04/02/19 :::: 2.7 :::: 6.5
Squeezed in a treadmill run early before circuit training again, despite very poor sleeping last night. Circuit training was a lot of upper body work - and I made it 26 bars on the monkey bars (last week 17)! Just 4 short of the whole way across (I think - it was close). I totally lost grip at the end. I was very excited though.
Just to add to the stress for today, a campus-wide computer outage happened at about 3:15 pm. I have no idea when I had last saved the document I was working on for my big project, but I think it was pretty shortly before that so I'm hopeful I didn't lose much. I would have needed to leave soon after anyway but it was not good for my mental health to sit and worry, so I took off immediately and got my car washed, the dog let out and fed, and then headed to the airport to pick up our interviewee. I heard the outage was still happening at 5:00 so I'm glad I left. The good part of the whole day was a really good dinner at this nice Thai restaurant downtown and some great wine to go with it - because they were out of the particular wine we ordered they gave us a more expensive wine for the same price and it was fab.
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3/1 = rest/dying from weekend overload day
3/2 = 3 struggle/sore recovery miles
I am 130 posts behind. I already feel like I have failed... lol
I feel like I am in uncharted territory with training. How do I even taper? And when? I briefly considered doing a double 20 mile training run next weekend but my double 18s talked me out if it. I am completely in over my head. I am going to kill my middle aged body. Ugh... so much doubt...
April goal miles ? / Miles to Date = 3 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 5k10 -
Happy birthday @Elise4270!
I'm on the board for the month with just over 3.3 miles. My husband ran with me again. I was struggling a bit at first, for various reasons, and stopped to stretch after about half a mile. After a while he said something about it being "so slow!" ... not complaining or meaning anything bad about it, just that it was hard for him to run that speed. But I felt kind of pathetic, stopped to walk and whined that I might as well just give up. I'm not going to be able to do any of the races. Whine whine. I decided I might as well finish this run. I picked up the pace quite a bit but then had to stop and walk so I could breathe. Great. From that point I ran my own pace, told him to just go ahead but he stayed with me and didn't say anything else about the pace from that point. We picked up a bit for the last quarter mile or so, finishing kinda strong but not wiped out.
I'm not sure how I feel about my race on Sunday.
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amymoreorless wrote: »3/1 = rest/dying from weekend overload day
3/2 = 3 struggle/sore recovery miles
I am 130 posts behind. I already feel like I have failed... lol
I feel like I am in uncharted territory with training. How do I even taper? And when? I briefly considered doing a double 20 mile training run next weekend but my double 18s talked me out if it. I am completely in over my head. I am going to kill my middle aged body. Ugh... so much doubt...
April goal miles ? / Miles to Date = 3 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 5k
The taper is typically started TWO WEEKS before a marathon (shorter races need less). So you have a little time yet but listen to your body. If you need more time to recover from our double 18, take it.7
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