June 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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16.25 miles this morning. Felt easy for about two hours, but the last 37 or so minutes were pretty brutal. 77F, 85% humidity, 20mph. Only had 12 oz of water on me. Tried to ration it, but when it ran out, and the sun came out, that was pretty much the end.
And felt weighted down with soul crushing guilt and regret, because I quit my '2nd job' software development contract. I tried to put up with it for 3 weeks, but each day was worse than the last. The knot in my stomach grew bigger every day, and I just couldn't take the stress any longer. I feel like I committed career suicide 😭. But if I would have stayed, it might have been the other kind. Maybe Home Depot is hiring....
Good job with the run. The career questions never end...whenever I feel guilty for taking a sick day for myself, my mom reminds me that "they are strangers' children and your health is the priority..." so...your health, mental or otherwise, is always the priority.4 -
I've missed so many posts.
The last few days have been a bit crazy. I was sick, then hubby came down with the same cold, then a couple of days later our 5yo got it, and last night miss 3 showed symptoms. So that's been fun.
Had my last day of work, that was emotional. They all put in to give me a gift card towards new running shoes!! Wooo hooo! And my shoes arrived from amazon, a week early! And i didn't have to pay duty. Only thing is they are in our new city and we are still in our old one haha.
This weekend is all about packing. But with hubbies cold turning into man flu (I've been up and about about 2 days after getting it, it's been 4 and he's still too sick to do much. WTH.) the packing process is a bit slow. And today we are supposed to have another open home. Sigh. It all happens at once.
Its going to be a few days before I run again, I've got a horrible chesty cough. And someone packed my running gear.
What ever happens this week, it will all be over by Friday. I can't wait!11 -
Thank you all so much fir the supportive words and experiences! It helps to hear about other 'survivors'. I love this group!😍💓💓
Yeah, every day I would tell my boss it's not good, and getting worse. He said that's ok just do what you can, and if it doesn't work out, that's fine. But when I told him I actually quit, he was very quiet and just said, "Well, Ok"
Scott, my husband still struggles with esophageal scarring caused by gastric reflux during a bad job. He never had a problem with it before or since. A bad job can literally kill you from the inside out! Quitting and looking for something new is scary, but if it wasn’t going to get better, it was the right decision. You can’t find a better job by staying in a bad one.3 -
I did 5.1 miles for my 51 birthday run. Weather was absolutely perfect for a slow run - just about 70 with a nice soft wind and no humidity, sun was out but not direct, just felt like a kindly day.
In fact I felt a little bit like a Disney princess all day, or maybe Saint Francis! It started when I was doing my morning stretching routine on the back patio and six cardinals lined up in a row on our fence, about ten yards away, to watch me. We have a nest in the tree right outside our kitchen window, and this cardinal family watches me eat breakfast every morning, and then I fill the feeder and watch them eat breakfast. If there wasn’t a window, I could reach out and touch them, so they have gotten very accustomed to me. Well, on my birthday, for the first time ever, the children were old enough that the parents brought them to the feeder!
Then we went for a run and on our warm up walk, this happened:
This guy didn’t even seem bothered by us, just kept nibbling. And then when we walked away, we noticed there was a second one just a few feet further down the path. There are scads of bunnies at this park, but we almost never see them on the trails, they mostly hang about in the open meadows.
So then we noticed this tree had some unusual ornamentation:
And while we were standing there, this happened:
At one point, according to my husband, I had six on my hat and two on my shoulder, but they didn’t like him trying to get a picture and most of them flew away.
After our nature encounters we started our run. I was a little concerned because five miles is longer than I’ve gone since my tendon injury, and it was honestly a little sore towards the end of the run, although it never got to the point of what I would call pain. We sprinted the last tenth of a mile and got up to a six minute pace, which is really really fast for me, even sprinting. My leg muscles tired quickly, I think mostly because of lifting the day before, but cardio-wise the run felt really good. And the ankle turns out to be fine afterwards, yay!
I always set six month goals on my birthday. This year’s running goal was to run a sub 60 10k before my birthday, which I did before I was injured. Now my goal is to rehab this ankle solidly while keeping as much fitness as possible.
Also on my birthday, does anyone remember the Sally push-up challenge from a few months back? I have been slowly but steadily chugging along, increasing my time and decreasing my elevation, and I finished the challenge yesterday. Doing proper good form toe pushups on the floor. This has been a long time coming, and it wasn’t easy - every other day I did as much as I could before collapsing, then gave myself a one minute break, then did more. Initially it took me three one minute rest breaks to get through the whole song, then I got it down to two, then one, then a thirty second break, and yesterday I finally managed the whole thing. My arms felt like noodles!
My birthday challenge last year was to do a ten second handstand. Which I am still working on. I have done it a couple of times, but can’t do it consistently.
Looking forward at new goals, I think I want to switch things up a bit. I have a habit of being enthusiastic about new things for a couple of years and then losing interest. So my goal now is to work on having as much fun as possible while keeping up my running and strength goals. To focus on enjoying doing it, and to make it an enriching part of my whole life, so that I keep doing it because I love it.8 -
Sorry I'm only retaining a little of all these posts but @Scott6255 sorry about the job stress. Sounds like a good move to quit that one, and I wish you the best of luck in finding something great. @Avidkeo good luck with your next few days. I saw something about everyone moving to Spain, and I'm in for that.
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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
06/06/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 19.5
06/07/19 :::: 3.6 :::: 23.2
06/08/19 :::: 5.7 :::: 28.9
06/09/19 :::: 4.9 :::: 33.7
06/10/19 :::: 3.2 :::: 36.9
06/11/19 :::: 2.0 :::: 38.9
06/12/19 :::: 4.5 :::: 43.4
06/13/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 43.4
06/14/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 46.6
06/15/19 :::: 3.7 :::: 50.3
Spartan race #2 completed today - this is my second sprint distance but the other one was a winter sprint in the snow so this was very different. I have to say this one was the most fun yet (I mean, it sure beat 7.5 hours of the grueling beast).
The weather was pretty great. It got up to 80 degrees or so and it was sunny, so I was really worried about the heat being a problem. But quite a bit of the trail was shady and there was a nice breeze every now and then. And of course, the water obstacles cooled us right off. This was my first experience with the water in a Spartan as they did not have that in the winter and at the NJ Beast in April they had closed them before we got there because people were getting hypothermia. I was not really looking forward to getting wet and muddy within the first part of the race, but it was not bad. We had to completely submerge to dunk under a wall, otherwise the muddy water was not that bad. The worst part was then running in soaking wet shoes.
The course was 3.7-ish miles (3.8 I heard officially) and had 22 obstacles. It was steep and rocky so there was a lot of hiking rather than running (again). But I was SO EXCITED that I successfully completed the monkey bars and the rings today! And I came super close to getting the rope climb. I was only a couple of feet from the top but couldn't grip anymore with my feet and then my arms fatigued and I kept slipping. So disappointing. The only other one I failed this time was the spear throw, and it hit the target but bounced off.
We had a bit of a team snafu, so I ended up running with just two people (who I had talked into doing this). We stayed together but were much more streamlined as a small group so finished in a better time. They both loved it and did really well so I think I have some new converts.
I've made a weekend out of it, so tomorrow I'm going back and volunteering on the course - which then gets me free future race!8 -
HI everyone!
I am in for 55 miles again this month.
6/1....4.19 miles (Monon trail)
6/4...6.63 miles ( Monon trail)
6/6...4.24 miles (Monon trail)
6/7...4.24 miles (Monon trail)
6/11...7.76 miles (Monon trail)
6/13....2.02 miles (treadmill)
6/14....4.19 miles (Monon trail)
Total....33.26 miles
Goal....55 miles.
Say, it's tough keeping up with this thread.
I have to work a stretch of days due to having to reconfigure my schedule. So trying to get a short run on the treadmill on those consecutive days that I have to work.
It was cool on Friday and just a pleasure to run on the trail. However I had to quicken my pace quite a bit due to needing to go to the bathroom after running 2.5 miles. Oh well. I am using the 10% rule. I would have run much farther this week, but I like this tool. I think that it is easier to recover if you can build up to longer and longer distances.
As you know, I am a huge horse racing fan. I just read an interesting article about Afleet Alex (2005 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner). This horse loved working out so much that the trainer used to work him 2 x per day. Pretty interesting. He had almost been knocked to his knees during the Preakness and had so much athleticism that he not only recovered but won the race.
So I am considering 2 a days when I get a stretch of days off, which won't be until the end of June.
I hope everyone is well, and good luck to those racing this weekend.
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eleanorhawkins wrote: »I desperately want a Garmin too... I hinted like crazy before Mother's Day, and got really excited when a box arrived. It was a mug. When I 'joked' about thinking it was a Garmin my husband told me not to be so *kitten* dumb, like he's spend that much money on a present for me.
My husband and I had a conversation today about "needs vs wants". And I get it, especially being on a tight budget that you can't always have what you want. However, your husband could have done a better job of lessening the blow.
I can't explain men. My husband doesn't buy me gifts for birthday, Christmas, anniversary, etc., but will go to 3 separate stores to find my favorite type of apple. He tries to be thoughtful in other ways.
So excited that you are going to get to see Bon Jovi and hope that you have the time of your life. I am a fan of rock bands from the 70's and 80's and and will drive to neighboring cities to see concerts of artists that we love.
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Goal: 100
June 1: 7 miles
June 2: 7 miles
June 4: 14.58 miles
June 5: 7.8 miles
June 8: 2.3 Miles
June 9: 9.86 Miles
June 11 14.89 miles
June 12 7.6 miles
June 15 6.98 miles (wish Id known i was that close)
Total: 77.98 Miles
Remaining: 22.2 miles
Cruising through June. Going to breeze past 100 miles in the next week5 -
@Avidkeo - hang in there! The end is in sight!!
@rheddmobile - Happy Birthday! Loved the pictures! Especially the moths or whatever they are!
@katharmonic - Congratulations on the Spartan race! Sounds like you have made great progress and are having a lot of fun with it!
I think I overdid it on Thursday so I really felt it yesterday and today. It felt like it was lots of walking and stopping to stretch and a phone call from my brother in the middle just about when I was ready to give up. He has a degenerative bone disorder and was talking about how much he wished he could go for a walk or ride his bike again. Made me so very thankful that I can run, whatever I can run and however slowly. My legs actually felt better after the call and I managed to finish up the last few miles...
Some pictures from along the river...Date........Miles.......Total
06/01......4.31........4.31
06/02......0.00........4.31
06/03......4.36........8.67 - + Agility class
06/04......3.53......12.20
06/05......3.45......15.65 - Global Running Day pledge
06/06......0.00......15.65
06/07......5.42......21.07
06/08......0.00......21.07
06/09......6.57......27.64
06/10......4.63......32.27 - + Agility class
06/11......0.00......32.27
06/12......2.22......34.49
06/13......5.31......39.80
06/14......3.45......43.25
06/15......8.00......51.25
2019 Planned and Completed Races
02/03/19 - Surf City Half Marathon Deferred to 2020
05/11/19 - Santa Barbara Wine Country HM
09/15/19 - Jack and Jill Downhill HM - Boise
11/23/19 - USA Women's HM
02/02/20 - Surf City Half Marathon6 -
Wow, I'm away from the house for one day and I miss pretty much a million posts here. You guys are THE BEST, and yes I would love to see you all in Spain (but don't come in August, it gets freakin' hot and you can't run without tripping over tourists).
First, a few responses:
@Scott6255 I went through something similar 3 years ago. I had landed what on paper was a really great job on a local newspaper and was quickly promoted to editor. Nobody told me beforehand the only reason was nobody else was naive enough to take it... it involved working about 17-18 hours a day and enduring endless abuse from the owners. I still have nightmares about them now. We needed the money, but I eventually realised that my mental health was far more important, so I quit. Best thing I ever did, I now freelance from home for various different clients. Sure, financially things are a lot tighter, but I'm happy and my daughter is happy and that's what is important to me right now.
@noblsheep @MegaMooseEsq @Elise4270 I'm speechless at your generosity. But we must investigate shipping costs!
@shanaber my mother and I have had weirdo magnets for as long as I can remember. Seriously, if there is a weirdo in the house, he will gravitate towards us within seconds! I am relieved to report that the race was big enough for weirdo to not find me last night (or he wasn't there, probably more likely actually!) :-)
Now for a quick race report. As you all know cause I've been going on about it a lot, I was worried about the 1hr15min cut off time for the 10km race as it was my first time racing that distance (I went from 5km to HM last year with nothing in between). I even considered swapping for the 5km (which had a cut off of 45 min, wth? How does that compute?) but my invisible friends on MFP helped me realise that even if I didn't make it nobody would shoot me and life would go on.
I was also worried because I usually run first thing in the morning on coffee and a banana and this had a 9.30pm start and we had a family member's daughter's first communion celebration during the day which involved a lot of junk food and cake and candy. I am a nervous driver and the race was in the big city about half an hour from home, which I don't know well, and husband and daughter didn't want to come up and hang about waiting for me that late in the day so I had to drive myself.
I left the party at 7pm, came home, changed, sat down for a while then left just before 8pm. Traffic was ok, only one queue to get into the city, I missed my turning but managed to find my way back from the next one and parked in a gap among a bunch of vehicles full of people wearing race shirts. The ugly bright orange race shirt we were asked to wear had its uses!
Found the way into the stadium where the races started and finished in time to watch the kids races on the track and look for the bathroom. Another first for the list.... I was directed towards a line of porta-potties. Is that a runner's baptism of sorts? Thank God I was wearing my ridiculous looking but absolutely awesome trail running belt with a million pockets and space for 2 water bottles, which had a packet of tissues in one pocket :-)
Still had about half an hour to kill and people were jogging on the track to warm up so I decided to join in. I'd never run on a track before, aren't they nice and bouncy!
When they called us to start lining up I made sure I was close to the back, then moved back again when I saw the 60 minute pacer flag even further behind me. Then we were off (surprisingly on time!) and running down towards the beach. It was comfortably cool and pleasant. I ran for 1km, then started my run-walk intervals which I kept up (except I think I missed a few whistles somewhere along the way and ran through a couple of intervals) until I got back to the turn into the stadium at the end of the second loop. There were probably 5 or 6 people who I kept passing when running and then being passed by when walking for most of the first loop, then once I passed the turn off for the 5km finish things spaced out, but I could still see the 60 min pacer flag not far ahead of me so knew I was doing ok. The beautiful sunset behind the city to my left and the sea to my right had kept me distracted during the first loop but by the second it was dark and the views were getting old, at which point I really appreciated my music to pace myself with. There were guys on bikes checking people were ok, and the same one asked me 3 times during walk intervals how I was doing... "awesome!" I kept replying. The 4th time he passed me he yelled over his shoulder "not asking you anymore, you're awesome, if you stop being awesome flag me down!"
Passed the 9km marker and I was feeling tired but still going strong. I thought about running from there but made myself do a couple more 30 second walk intervals, passed a few people who had pretty much run out of steam. At the corner to turn into the stadium and make a lap of the track to the finish line I turned the timer off and went for it. Passed 3 people on that track which really made my competitive streak happy. Crossed the line all on my own, clock showed 1hr4min50secs as I approached, think I got over before it passed 1.05. Strave made it 9.62km not 10km, but it gave me a ton of PRs so I don't care lol.
I have a terrible habit of not cooling down or stretching properly after races and my legs pay the price. So I left the crowded stadium after grabbing a bottle of water and made myself walk around outside for 10 minutes, then went to my car and did a little stretching before getting in and coming home. The journey was ok, but once I got into our street I realised how tired I was when I couldn't for the life of me remember where I had put the garage door remote or my house keys... Eventually found them in the glove compartment. Got home, showered, went to bed, couldn't get to sleep for ages because I was still buzzing!
Still buzzing this morning :-) Legs feel tired but don't actually hurt, but will be resting them today anyway.
I do love racing, even if I'll never win anything. When can I do it again?
ETA... sorry, it ended up not being quick!
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PastorVincent wrote: »
Depends on what country you go by. In the USA the first day of summer is June 21, but some other countries use different days:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/30/first-day-summer-2019-uk-9738658/
If you're in the UK it is rumoured to start at some point in July or August and last approximately 45 minutes, during which 16 hosepipe bans will be enforced and 784 people will need treatment for heatstroke. Foreigners will be forced to remove a layer.10 -
eleanorhawkins wrote: »Crossed the line all on my own, clock showed 1hr4min50secs as I approached, think I got over before it passed 1.05. Strave made it 9.62km not 10km, but it gave me a ton of PRs so I don't care lol.
I have a terrible habit of not cooling down or stretching properly after races and my legs pay the price. So I left the crowded stadium after grabbing a bottle of water and made myself walk around outside for 10 minutes, then went to my car and did a little stretching before getting in and coming home. The journey was ok, but once I got into our street I realised how tired I was when I couldn't for the life of me remember where I had put the garage door remote or my house keys... Eventually found them in the glove compartment. Got home, showered, went to bed, couldn't get to sleep for ages because I was still buzzing!
Still buzzing this morning :-) Legs feel tired but don't actually hurt, but will be resting them today anyway.
I do love racing, even if I'll never win anything. When can I do it again?
ETA... sorry, it ended up not being quick!
Well done!!! W00T! you rocked it!
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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)
6/7 – 5.0 miles
6/8 – 11.25 miles
6/9 – 1 mile
6/10 – 4.65 miles
6/11 – 1.20 miles
6/12 - 4.64 miles + yoga
6/13 – 1.61 miles
6/14 – 1.11 miles + 40 minutes strength training
6/14 – 3.1 miles + 11 miles hiking
I ended up walking my 5K yesterday morning. Since my friend was having back problems our pace wasn’t even a fast walk, but we finished it. After that we headed out to the Sand Caves and White Rocks in Lee County, Virginia. It was a hot and tough climb to the top but the caves were cool. After we explored there we went on up the trail to the white rocks where the views were breathtaking.8 -
@eleanorhawkins awesome job on your 1st 10K! Great race report.
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PastorVincent wrote: »eleanorhawkins wrote: »Crossed the line all on my own, clock showed 1hr4min50secs as I approached, think I got over before it passed 1.05. Strave made it 9.62km not 10km, but it gave me a ton of PRs so I don't care lol.
I have a terrible habit of not cooling down or stretching properly after races and my legs pay the price. So I left the crowded stadium after grabbing a bottle of water and made myself walk around outside for 10 minutes, then went to my car and did a little stretching before getting in and coming home. The journey was ok, but once I got into our street I realised how tired I was when I couldn't for the life of me remember where I had put the garage door remote or my house keys... Eventually found them in the glove compartment. Got home, showered, went to bed, couldn't get to sleep for ages because I was still buzzing!
Still buzzing this morning :-) Legs feel tired but don't actually hurt, but will be resting them today anyway.
I do love racing, even if I'll never win anything. When can I do it again?
ETA... sorry, it ended up not being quick!
Well done!!! W00T! you rocked it!
Told you so!!!!!!!!!1 -
6-1 7.5k slow
6-2 11k easy
6-3 rest
6-4 7k moderate
6-5 7k easy
6-6 rest
6-7 7k slow
6-8 9k slow
6-9 7k easy
6-10 rest
6-11 7k intervals
6-12 7k moderate
6-13 rest
6-14 7k easy
6-15 7k moderate
6-16 9k slow
June Total: 92.5k
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
Drizzly and 70 degrees F this morning. Hip and knees were a little grumbly today, so I decided to actually take my own advice and cut the run a little short.
2019 Races:
4-13 Shine the Light 5K - 31:12 chip time; First Place male 65 and older
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K
7-27 Solon Home Days 5K4 -
@Scott6255 @PastorVincent thanks!
@Tramboman yes, you did, my inner teenager refused to believe you lol2 -
Skipped two runs last week because I didn't feel well at all. Never got sick, but I was tired, my legs felt heavy, and had no desire to go out and run. So I gave myself a pass for a few days and will pick up where I left off this week. I have a 5K race on Saturday and a 10K on July 4th. I'm hoping whatever funk I'm in passes quickly. Heading out for 5.5Ms once I finish typing this then leaving for another work trip this afternoon. Is it normal to sometimes just get to a point where you need a few days off despite not being injured or sick?
Played golf with my Dad yesterday for Father's Day since I have to leave this afternoon. Happy Father's Day to all the Daddies out there. Enjoy your day!7 -
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runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »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
June 6 - 7 miles after work to help clear my head
29 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 81 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 91 miles
June 8 - 3.1 miles (5K with hubby, he got a new PR)
June 9 - 14 miles
46.1 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 63.9 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 73.9 miles
June 11 - 4 miles
June 12 - 6.2 miles
56.3 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 53.7 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 63.7 miles
March 14 - 7.11 miles
63.41 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 46.59 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 56.59 miles
Oh my...I think I'm overly tired. March 14 should be June 14.
June 15 - 6.14 miles
June 16 - 8.15 miles
77.7 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 32.30 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 42.30 miles4
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