June 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

PastorVincent · June 2019

KatieJane83 wrote: »

@PastorVincent yeah yeah, I still need to get through this evening's zumba class too!

All I am seeing is excuses

katharmonic · June 2019

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
06/01/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
06/02/19 :::: 13.2 :::: 13.2
06/03/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 13.2
06/04/19 :::: 1.3 :::: 14.5
06/05/19 :::: 5.0 :::: 19.5

Tonight was the opening night for the summer marathon/half marathon training group. As it was pouring rain when I left my house I was not looking forward to it, but the minute by minute forecast was suggesting it was going to stop. And incredibly it did! By the time I got out of the car at the track it was only a light mist. Of course it was then super humid, but at least not an active thunderstorm.

We typically have had just a base run to "get to know each other" on the first night so I was expecting that, but instead it was an "easy" ladder workout. 1-2-3-3-2-1 minute intervals hard with 90-second recovery in between. Which is easier than the typical ladder for this group for sure, but not the nice little jog I was envisioning.

I was glad to be back on the softer track and it was good to see some of the team I haven't run with in a while. I don't know if I'm mentally ready for the harder workouts again, but after this past weekend's race I know I definitely need them if I want to do better in longer races.

I pledged 3 miles for the MFP group for global running day before I knew what the workout would be, so I ended up exceeding that.

Oh, edited to add - I got a decent smiling race photo!

GregInORL · June 2019

Goal: 100
June 1: 7 miles
June 2: 7 miles
June 4: 14.58 miles
June 5: 7.8 miles
Total: 36.4 Miles
Remaining: 63.6 miles

mbaker566 · June 2019

shanaber wrote: »

I set up a team for us on the Global Running page if anyone wants to join in - MFP Running Challenge is the team name!

Pledged one. Ran one. My fastest mile ever

noblsheep · June 2019

0605-06-10k total-15k, goal-80k

In Japan on vacation. Yesterday I went for a walk/hike/wog through the hills outside Takayama, an interesting town in mid-Japan. Took an established path that wound through temples and graveyards, eventually ending up in some castle ruins on top of a small mountain.

Reviews from tripadvisor said it would take half a day, three or four hours at least. I finished the whole route in all of 90 minutes, and that included getting lost, taking pictures, and stopping for ice coffee and a conversation with two tiny little grandmas at a convenience store.

Must say I am increasingly disgusted with the average fitness levels of people. [/rant]

Pics for anyone interested.

Then a quickish 5km this morning around Nagoya castle, for the simple reason that there are no traffic lights along the moat. But the view wasn't bad.

31 degrees and grilling sunshine. Need to get up earlier..

runnermom419 · June 2019

runnermom419 wrote: »

Well, I am late to the game this month.

The last two months, I've been able to get 110 miles, so I'd like to set my first goal to 110 miles and my stretch goal at 120 miles. Marathon training is in full swing; I gotta get on the ball.

June 1 - 6 miles
June 2 - 10 miles
June 4 - 3 miles

19 miles for June

Miles until Goal #1 - 91miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 101 miles

June 5 - 3 miles of speed work

22 miles for June

Miles until Goal #1 - 88 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 98 miles

Tramboman · June 2019

6-1 7.5k slow
6-2 11k easy
6-3 rest
6-4 7k moderate
6-5 7k easy
6-6 rest

June Total: 32.5k
June Goal: 150k

January Total: 131k
February Total: 159.5k
March Total: 183k
April Total: 126k
May Total: 128k

Monthly average: 145.5k

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 today.

2019 Races:

4-13 Shine the Light 5K - 31:12 chip time; First Place male 65 and older
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K

Teresa502 · June 2019

6/1 - 8.0 miles
6/2 – 2.0 miles + lower body PIYO
6/3 – 5.0 miles + yoga
6/4 – 1.2 miles TM + upper body PIYO
6/5 – 5.0 miles + yoga
6/6 – 1.1 miles TM + PIYO Sweat (20 minutes)

The PIYO workout I attempted this morning used many of the same muscles as those used in power yoga yesterday morning and I just wasn’t feeling it. I did 20 minutes of the 35 minute routine before I called it quits. Rain is in the forecast for this evening so I got my minimum mile in on the treadmill for the running streak.

shanaber · June 2019

@noblsheep - what a beautiful place to hike even if it was too short. I would love to have that view when I go for a run! Enjoy your vacation there!

kgirlhart · June 2019

June goal: 90 miles

6/2: 8.51 miles
6/4: 5.52 miles
6/5: 5.26 miles
6/6: 5.51 miles

24.8/90 miles completed

Today's run was a lovely 5.51 mile run. It was so nice today. It was only 64F. It was humid, but not as bad as it has been and the cooler temperature made it much more comfortable. We got rain overnight, so there was lots of water on the roads and a few overturned trash carts, but it was already light when I ran and it was just a pretty morning. I felt really good too, like I could just run forever. I love it when I have a run like that.

2019 races:
2/2/19: Catch the Groundhog Half Marathon - PR 2:15:17
5/18/19: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon - Cancelled due to weather

kgirlhart · June 2019

@noblsheep I'm jealous of your vacation. Partly because it looks so beautiful, and party because my son is living in Japan and I really want to go visit him.

Lazy_Bones_85 · June 2019

@Shanaber @Elise4270 Thank you for the well wishes for my kitty!

Took my kitty in for a teeth cleaning yesterday and decided to play golf with the other half to pass the time- the vet is about 30 minutes away in traffic and the golf course is just 2 miles down the road. So I dropped her off at 8:30 and then played 18. I'm not a good golfer- I only play maybe 5-10 times a year, but it was a good day despite shooting 116. It was humid but cloudy so it never got oppressively hot. Finished up and then went to lunch as my kitty was still in recovery. Picked her up at 4:00 and came home, got her settled- she was still quite "drunk" acting and her back legs didn't want to go where her front legs were going. Since my other half was home, I decided it was OK to head out for a 3.5M run. Wednesdays are usually rest days, but I took Sunday as a rest day since I raced on Saturday and felt good enough to run but I kept it short since I'll run M-F this week and 5 days in a row usually takes it toll on me.

Today is supposed to be a pace run but I don't really see me being able to get my speed up today since I'm a little sore from golf yesterday and I want to be able to complete a 85 minute long run tomorrow so I'm just going to get in 4.5 miles at a moderate pace instead of really pushing myself.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Scott6255 · June 2019

6.25 miles this morning. Felt easier today, despite being :30/mi faster. HR was virtually the same as Monday. Maybe the extra rest day helped.

eleanorhawkins · June 2019

Summer has definitely arrived here. I spent at least 5 minutes this morning trying to scrub the grubby line off the middle of my thighs before it dawned on me that oh, I'm getting a tan line from my running shorts. D'oh.
In other running related news, I got overexcited and went 11km on my long run on Tuesday instead of the 10km I was planning, and instead of taking the river trail I made up a route along the seafront promenade and then back round the back of town so it was all pavement and included some hills towards the end. Knees felt really heavy afterwards and yesterday, and although they loosened up nicely after a couple of gentle miles this morning they started out as stiff as hell. Luckily I was due to see the evil twin physio this morning anyway for a massage. She got a kind of twinkle in her eye when I mentioned the knee/heaviness thing and oh boy did she go to town on them. One leg was the bottom of my quad (usual suspect) but the other she spent about 20 minutes really digging into the outside of my knee area and has left it very red and swollen (but admittedly feeling better than it did).
I'm praying this is just my legs getting used to it again as I increase the mileage. I'm praying that 5 miles isn't really as far as my legs will ever let me run without kicking up a fuss. I guess only time will tell.
Anyway, no more long runs until my 10km race on the evening of Saturday 15th, will make myself stick to 3 miles at a time max.
After that I'll see how the legs are feeling and either go back to the 15km plan I was doing or stick to my current mileage for a while before I start the HM plan in August.

June goal: 75km. Run so far: 19.46km

Mari33a · June 2019

01/06 3.13 miles
02/06 1.37 miles
06/06 2.11 miles

@Avidkeo - My steak went down the swanny, Monday and Tuesday and even still we had a storm with lots of heavy rain and wind so didn't get out. Yesterday my husband took me for an unexpected dinner and & cos I'd messed up my streak I had no motivation to get a mile in afterwards. But reading ur post this morning I thought hell or high water I'm getting out there this evening, so what if I missed a few day, there's plenty more left in the month!

Avidkeo · June 2019

Mari33a wrote: »

01/06 3.13 miles
02/06 1.37 miles
06/06 2.11 miles

@Avidkeo - My steak went down the swanny, Monday and Tuesday and even still we had a storm with lots of heavy rain and wind so didn't get out. Yesterday my husband took me for an unexpected dinner and & cos I'd messed up my streak I had no motivation to get a mile in afterwards. But reading ur post this morning I thought hell or high water I'm getting out there this evening, so what if I missed a few day, there's plenty more left in the month!

Went down the swanny?? Lol love it.
Good on you for keeping motivation, just gotta get back to it! Yesterday I split my 3k into two walks, a 1.7k walk at around 3pm,then straight after dinner, while there was still a bit of light I went and did 1.3.

@eleanorhawkins yay on the run! 11 miles is amazing! Sux about the knee, hopefully it's just temporary. How are the shoes? Not sue a new pair are you? I've done 500k in mine. They are still holding up ok but I know I'll need another pair in the next month or so. Waiting on them to wing over from the states!

Over night the wind was awful. It woke me up a couple of times sounding like it was going to lift the house up! At 520 when my alarm I was tempted to stay in bed but I wanted to come here and tell you all a how bad *kitten* I am going out, doing 5k while dodging mini tornadoes. Not to be. I hit a calm in the storm. It rained about 1 minute at the beginning ofy run, then stopped. Slight breeze from time to time, until I got home when it kicked off with heavy rain and wind again.

So I'm kinda bad *kitten* for getting out I guess bahaha.

And I had an amusing thought on my run that @PastorVincent could help with. I want a "get up and embrace the suck" alarm. Fancy doing some voice recording bahaha. Hmmm that does mean waking up to your voice every morning though...

eleanorhawkins · June 2019

Avidkeo wrote: »

@eleanorhawkins yay on the run! 11 miles is amazing! Sux about the knee, hopefully it's just temporary. How are the shoes? Not sue a new pair are you? I've done 500k in mine. They are still holding up ok but I know I'll need another pair in the next month or so. Waiting on them to wing over from the states!

Over night the wind was awful. It woke me up a couple of times sounding like it was going to lift the house up! At 520 when my alarm I was tempted to stay in bed but I wanted to come here and tell you all a how bad *kitten* I am going out, doing 5k while dodging mini tornadoes. Not to be. I hit a calm in the storm. It rained about 1 minute at the beginning ofy run, then stopped. Slight breeze from time to time, until I got home when it kicked off with heavy rain and wind again.

So I'm kinda bad *kitten* for getting out I guess bahaha.

And I had an amusing thought on my run that @PastorVincent could help with. I want a "get up and embrace the suck" alarm. Fancy doing some voice recording bahaha. Hmmm that does mean waking up to your voice every morning though...

@Avidkeo ha! kilometres, not miles. Shoes, I have wondered about shoes but it shouldn't be... I have 2 pairs I rotate, they've both been in use since September so quite a few months but I've only run around 750km so less than 400km on each pair. I was intending to get new ones in the July sales, but guess it might be time to start looking for a new pair and seeing if that makes a difference.

KatieJane83 · June 2019

PastorVincent wrote: »

KatieJane83 wrote: »

Just saw this on the site of a trail race I was looking at and I'm dying

Seems very reasonable. Which race?

It's the Mountain Madness 50k, but I am NOT looking at the 50k distance! Lol. There's 25k and 7 mile options as well and I'm looking at the 7 mile one - I'm trying to do more trail running but I've only ever done 2 trail races - a 4 miler and a 5k.

https://sites.google.com/site/njtrailseries/mountainmadness

Here's another funny snippet -

KatieJane83 · June 2019

So, I just had a "well DUH" facepalm moment, lol. All day I've been thinking that I'll be doing my run today. I was annoyed b/c I couldn't do it on my lunch break since I had an appt to get to, and it's a high of 86°F & sunny today, blech. It finally only just dawned on me that my company has a half day tomorrow, tomorrow was going to be a rest day, it will only be a high of 80° & cloudy, and I can get my run done in the early afternoon instead of starting it after 6pm.

#winning

Now I'm really excited to get home from work tonight and straight into pj's!

I do think I'm going to walk a lap or two around my building right now though, just to get a little movement in.

Avidkeo · June 2019

eleanorhawkins wrote: »

Avidkeo wrote: »

@eleanorhawkins yay on the run! 11 miles is amazing! Sux about the knee, hopefully it's just temporary. How are the shoes? Not sue a new pair are you? I've done 500k in mine. They are still holding up ok but I know I'll need another pair in the next month or so. Waiting on them to wing over from the states!

Over night the wind was awful. It woke me up a couple of times sounding like it was going to lift the house up! At 520 when my alarm I was tempted to stay in bed but I wanted to come here and tell you all a how bad *kitten* I am going out, doing 5k while dodging mini tornadoes. Not to be. I hit a calm in the storm. It rained about 1 minute at the beginning ofy run, then stopped. Slight breeze from time to time, until I got home when it kicked off with heavy rain and wind again.

So I'm kinda bad *kitten* for getting out I guess bahaha.

And I had an amusing thought on my run that @PastorVincent could help with. I want a "get up and embrace the suck" alarm. Fancy doing some voice recording bahaha. Hmmm that does mean waking up to your voice every morning though...

@Avidkeo ha! kilometres, not miles. Shoes, I have wondered about shoes but it shouldn't be... I have 2 pairs I rotate, they've both been in use since September so quite a few months but I've only run around 750km so less than 400km on each pair. I was intending to get new ones in the July sales, but guess it might be time to start looking for a new pair and seeing if that makes a difference.

Oops, well even 11km is AWESOME!!! and the shoes might be a red herring. I just automatically jump to shoes because for me, sore knees is my queue for a new pair. My current pair are holding up really well atm! last one only lasted 500k before I HAD to get a new pair.

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