April 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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rheddmobile wrote: »@amymoreorless Your race stuff looks great! Our setup is half store bought and half home made. The medal rack wasn’t cheap but has enough room that it should last us a while, and the collage frame was a couple of bucks at Ross with chalkboard paper used to make the chalkboard. Still need to fill in those PRs! Our bibs go in an inexpensive expandable binder with a photo on the front.
I REALLY like this one.2 -
runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »Well, my original goal in March was 80 miles and I ended the month with 101 miles. I'd like to be in for 100 miles again as goal #1 with a stretch goal of 110 miles for goal #2.
We shall see!
April 1 - 5 miles
Miles until Goal # 1 - 95 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 105 miles
April 3 - 3.3 miles. Did some speed work and felt really good.
Miles until Goal #1 - 91.7 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 101.7 miles6 -
@rheddmobile You are right. I'm sure there are now no mice in the basement. Now to evict the snake. I'm glad the park finished the bathrooms. I have a feeling the spiders will find a way in, but hopefully not the skunk. The black widow over the light switch is not good. That could be really dangerous if you couldn't see it. Yikes. The good thing about the runners is that they probably won't remember you the next time you see them.
I love your race stuff display!!
@PastorVincent Love your display too!
I guess, if I ever get any medal, I'll need to figure out something too.
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amymoreorless wrote: »
Monthly Question:
Okay, on a lighter note ... group monthly question. I finally dug my race swag out of a drawer and did something with it. The online race bling display options were CRAZY expensive!!!! I came up with my own $13 hardware store / craft store version. If you participate in this crazy race thing, how do you memorialize your accomplishment? I am looking for cute ideas on the cheap.(saving the money for shoes and stuff)
May have shared this before, but this is the medal rack my daughter made me for Christmas last year. Many of the shorter races I run in don't give out medals for some reason (I could show you a picture of my closet filled with all the racing t-shirts, but nobody wants to see that
). Proudest of the medal on the far right!
_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »Question to everyone: do you still do scheduled speedwork if the weather is miserable?
I too am terrible about doing dedicated speedwork. I can't remember the last time I did a specific speed workout. So, the answer to this question is an undeniable no... but even if (when) I start doing speedwork again, I wouldn't sacrifice injury or absolute misery just because it was scheduled. Do cross-training or something else and live another day to do the speedwork.
Welcome back @zdyb23456, @orphia, @workaholic_nurse
Welcome @runwithbritters (and any other newbies that I missed).
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Did someone mention menopause? I just today realised some weird stuff is going on that explains some other weird stuff!
Has anyone seen @orphia around or have I just been missing her posts?
Hi @Avidkeo
Thanks for thinking of me!
I'm around. Just haven't been posting about running a lot, after devouring everything I could read about it for 3 years, I think I'm up to date.
I don't have any events planned.
Bit evented-out after 4 HM events in 5 weeks in Nov-Dec.
Still doing parkrun every week, and being Run Leader once every 2 weeks for our running club. Got lots of other things going on like my mum leaving town, and my art (won a prize, sold some more art, volunteering at our local gallery, doing social media). In some publicity this week too, for a quit-drinking organisation, and parkrun.
My longest run in January was 30 km.
I did a 22 km run in February.
I did two HM distance runs in March.
Really, really, really just enjoying running for pleasure lately!
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hoshaugh73 wrote: »amymoreorless wrote: »
Monthly Question:
Okay, on a lighter note ... group monthly question. I finally dug my race swag out of a drawer and did something with it. The online race bling display options were CRAZY expensive!!!! I came up with my own $13 hardware store / craft store version. If you participate in this crazy race thing, how do you memorialize your accomplishment? I am looking for cute ideas on the cheap.(saving the money for shoes and stuff)
This post inspired me to look at my basket of swag/medals. I was disappointed to discover my first marathon & 50k medals were missing! When my kids were younger, I use to give them my medals. Hopefully I can find them in their rooms, somewhere. My basket is now organized, and I'm feeling inspired to do something displaywise, besides a basket under my bed!
A friend of mine has used all her race bibs to wallpaper a wall in her laundry room. It's pretty badass!
I had planned on doin this with mine, and even started it before we moved. Then after we moved in to a much nicer home, I figured dh would balk at it. I have one on the wall that is dd’s first and only 5k. She complained the whole way. She was 12. I definitely can get away with the small laundry space. If I put dh’s up too, I bet I’ll get no fuss. I did proudly peel the duathalon bike sticker off my bike and stick it to the garage wall.8 -
Love the medal racks! Mine are a mess, hanging up, but a mess.
4/1 - rest day
4/2 - 4.5 miles + strength training/legs
4/3 - 5 miles
4/4 - strength training / upper
9.5 / 70 miles3 -
Geez people. I’m feeling glad I live where I do. We have one venomous snake, who is only likely to nip a dog on its nose when it gets too inquisitive, otherwise will scuttle away, if you’re really unlucky you’ll get bitten by a false widow spider, and whilst there ARE scorpions who have taken up residency in the sewers, I’ve not heard of anyone being stung. You’re more likely to die from eating dodgy foraged mushrooms than be poisoned by wildlife. Or savaged by a pet dog or crushed by cows – that happens with surprising regularity. Neither are you likely to get shot, however knifing seems to be the ‘in thing’ here.
Nor do you have any regular pelvic exams or any such nastiness – smear tests every three years for women, and a bend over and cough massage of your testicles for men. Birth control is mostly free if you know where to go, but sanitary towels aren’t. That’s a good reason for having an implant….. No cost for seeing the GP or accessing most hospital services, but you can’t just ‘ask for a full blood panel’, and waiting for referral to a specialist takes longer than Brexit (I lie. It’s actually FAR quicker than that). We do have to pay for each prescription, but it’s reassuring to know that if I fall off a Scottish mountain, I don’t have to pay diddly squat for a helicopter evac.
It’s not all glory however – there’s many things you guys around the world talk about that I’m jealous of, and certainly right now we as a country seem to be trying to see how badly we can screw ourselves up ‘because it’s the will of the people’. Do you have nettles in the States? I almost introduced nettles into Japan when I lived there as I didn’t think it fair that walkers didn’t get to experience nettles, but then, earthquakes.
I ramble. I haven’t run this week and it’s Thursday. This 12 mile run is looking less likely, but I reckon I can get some reasonable distance in the next couple of days in.
Race displays. You don’t want to see how my medals are ‘displayed on top of a cupboard. Disrespectful. Bibs? They’ve been in the bin since the races finished.
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This is mine... I will never be the fastest and hopefully never the slowest (though I’d be ok with it as long as I’m out there). I’m just a really good OK runner
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What’s a nettle @girlinahat ? Sounds like what we call a sticker or burr (I think the native okies have another name for them). ETA found it “sandbur “.
Thorny seeds off plants and grasses that poke and cling to everything? We have several here. Some as large as a few centimeters (the rough cockelbur) and the small grass stickers that you don’t dare go barefooted around. Then the annoying little one that hitch-hike on your socks and never some off in the wash and manage to weave themselves in to the sock fabric permanently.
And don’t forget spear grass. An all time favorite for kids at recess.2 -
oh wow I'd completely forgotten about nettles! @Elise4270 they're plants with leaves that sting like kitten!
Another one for my list of reasons not to return to the UK more than strictly necessary.
Especially now we have Easter eggs in Spain :-D
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Wait, what, you don't have nettles in the US?
Their sting feels kind of like an instant sunburn, with an itchy rash as a bonus.
I got burned so many times as a kid... Still do as an adult, because they seem to like growing near geocaches
But from what I heard they aren't as bad as poison ivy, so I guess I shouldn't complain about them too much ^^
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Amazing how much I missed getting up and out early to run...
@zdyb23456 Awesome pic! and I absolutely my TRX class!
@Orphia YAY for pleasure running!
@Scott6255 thank you!
@_nikkiwolf_ speed work for me is usually intervals when I need to get the distance in but not a lot of time available, so I can do indoors on the dreadmill or outdoors in the park. While I prefer outdoors, getting it done is usually not an issue whatever the weather.
@amymoreorless my medals are in whatever box they got put in when we moved...Haven't really kept that great a track of them. I still wear race shirts from as long ago as 2005 so I guess that counts.
4/1 Elliptical /TRX class
4/2 6.17 miles
4/3 2.19 miles outdoors/1 treadmill mile/35 minutes total body circuit training
4/4 6.27 miles
Upcoming races:
Lake Hartwell Dam Run 10k on 5/4
D-Day 10k @ Mount Currahee in Toccoa, GA on 6/1
Rainsville Freedom Fest 10k in Rainsville, AL on 6/306 -
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4-1 Rest
4-2 7k easy
4-3 7k easy
4-4 rest
April Total: 14k
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
Scheduled rest day.
We do have nettles here in the northeastern US; they mostly grow in low, swampy areas. Messed with them once; learned to never mess with them again.
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 5K6 -
3 easy miles this AM!
Total: 11/100mi
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eleanorhawkins wrote: »oh wow I'd completely forgotten about nettles! @Elise4270 they're plants with leaves that sting like kitten!
Another one for my list of reasons not to return to the UK more than strictly necessary.
Especially now we have Easter eggs in Spain :-D
Hmmm, I can’t think of any... guess I’m going to have to google them. Interesting. We definitely have poison ivy, poison sumac, and poison oak. Although i had a botany class which taught poison oak and ivy were the same plant. They just adapted to ivy or tree-like, sun or shade Okie dokie.3 -
@elise4270 - no, not burrs - we have stuff like that, like goosegrass you throw at your friends so they walk around with it stuck to them, or little seedheads that animals get stuck.
no, nettles - (latin name urtica dioica) are about a metre high, some with little white flowers, usually in the hedgerows and rough ground. Touch them even lightly and you'll know about it - you'll get stung and come out with tiny little white welts. the sting lasts for ages. That's why most people wear long leggings to run off road.
nettle tea is very good for you - high in vitamin C I hear, and nettle soup is nice, but first catch your nettle. 3 -
4/1 5miles, 30 TRX routine
4/2 5.86miles (tempo intervals)
4/3 rest
4/4 7.25miles (6miles, 6 strides)
Today’s run was a dumpster fire! I set out at what felt fairly good and my heart rate skyrocketed to 170-180 - yikes! I slowed down and had to take walk breaks to keep my heart rate in the 160s. Not sure what is going on, but hopefully it is just a fluke.
Strava emailed me my March stats: 148miles
Pretty happy considering the first 2 weeks were tapering for the Shamrock and the last 2 weeks were starting a new training plan.9 -
@girlinahat ya we have a few plants that are rather prickly. One fits that description and produces small purple flowers, some do have white. Almost like a milk-weed, but prickly-er. I dont know that they sting as bad though. You can grab them low, cuss a little and pull them up. You can keep them! Haaha!0
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