June 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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I haven't been running for more than a year. Starting over.
Going for 30 this month to start.14 -
It stopped raining. We went for a motorcycle ride. Tomorrow I'll try to write about running
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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
6-17 rest
6-18 7k intervals
6-19 7k easy
6-20 rest
6-21 7k moderate
6-22 11k slow
June Total: 124.5k
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
A repeat of yesterday. Sunny, 60 degrees F, with a nice breeze from the northwest. Another fun day to run.
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 5K5 -
June Running Totals (miles)
6/1 – 5.08 group run
6/2 – 6.30 easy
6/3 – rest day
6/4 – 6.13 easy
6/5 – extra rest day
6/6 – extra rest day
6/7 – scheduled rest day/precautionary DNS
6/8 – 6.30 easy
6/9 – 5.03 warm and humid
6/10 – rest day
6/11 – 5.40 warmup, speed work
6/12 – 4.43 group run
6/13 – extra rest day
6/14 – scheduled rest day
6/15 – 2.17 aborted group run
6/16 – 6.10 warmup + 5K race
6/17 – rest day
6/18 – 7.44 warmup, easy speed work, cool down
6/19 – 4.15 easy
6/20 – 5.16 easy in the rain
6/21 – rest day
6/22 – 10.26 paced run
June running total to date – 73.95
Nominal June mileage goal: 100
Real Goals: Get back to running regularly without injuring myself.
Today's notes – It was a beautiful 61° F (16° C) with a light breeze and sunshine this morning when I went to the group run. Set out with the 8:30 pace group, changed to the 8:00 group when we caught up at the first stoplight. Today, the route was two 5 mile loops. I felt pretty good after the first 5 miles. Absent my recent history, I might have just kept running for a continual 10 mile run. But given my recent history of banging things up and having to take extra rest days, I decided it was better to take a recovery interval while other runners to a rest room break.
I didn't know whether I would be good for 10 miles today, but it turned out I had no problems. Nice weather, good conversation, a congenial pace; it was great. I did have to let a couple people go late when they wanted to finish fast. I could have kept up, but running a 7:15 pace for the last half mile just didn't seem wise.
This is the farthest I've run in a day, capping the farthest I've run in a week, since coming back from the stress fracture. Now I'm beginning to believe I'll be in marathon shape for New York. More immediately, I should have no trouble completing the Shoreline Half next month.
2019 Races:
January 1, 2019 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY) finished in 50:55
January 5, 2019 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) finished in 1:30:48
January 12, 2019 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds 5 Mile) (Spencerport, NY) finished in 33:10
January 26, 2019 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY) 4.9 miles, finished in 32:28
February 2, 2019 USATF XC Championship, Masters 8K (Tallahassee, FL) finished in 32:53
February 9, 2019 Freezeroo #5 (Tom Brannon 8 mile) (Greece, NY) finished in 55:55
February 23, 2019 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY) finished in 28:34
March 16, 2019 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Shamrock 8K) (Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 32:02
March 17, 2019 Shamrock Half Marathon (Virginia Beach, VA) finished in 1:34:21
April 13, 2019 BAA 5K (Boston, MA) DNS - injury
April 15, 2019 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA to Boston, MA) DNS - injury
April 28, 2019 USATF Masters 10K (James Joyce Ramble) (Dedham, MA) canceled registration - injury
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 5K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
May 19, 2019 Lilac Run 10K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
May 25, 2019 Sunset House 5K (Rochester, NY) DNS - injury
June 7, 2019 Charlie McMullen Mile (Pittsford, NY) DNS - precautionary
June 16, 2019 Medved 5K to Cure ALS (Rochester, NY) finished in 20:19
June 29, 2019 A Country Mile at Ganondagan (5-ish mile trail) (Victor, NY)
July 13, 2019 Shoreline Half Marathon (Hamlin, NY)
September 1, 2019 Oak Tree Half Marathon (Geneseo, NY)
November 3, 2019 TCS New York City Marathon (New York, NY)13 -
runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »runnermom419 wrote: »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 miles
June 18 - 6.32 miles
84.02 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 25.98 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 35.98 miles
June 19 - 6 track miles (I hate the indoor track sometimes, but gotta do what you gotta do).
90.02 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 19.98 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 29.98 miles
June 20 - 3.14 miles
June 21 - Rest Day
June 22 - 4.12 miles
97.28 miles for June
Miles until Goal #1 - 12.72 miles
Miles until Goal #2 - 22.72 miles5 -
A short 9.2 miles this morning. Traveling to Arkansas this weekend. Humidity through the roof! Thought Texas was bad! And the hills around here are mountains compared to the cotton fields at home 😆
Found a decent loop, so did that a few times. At least I got a run in.
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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
06/16/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 50.3
06/17/19 :::: 3.5 :::: 53.8
06/18/19 :::: 2.2 :::: 56.0
06/19/19 :::: 5.0 :::: 61.0
06/20/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 61.0
06/21/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 64.1
06/22/19 :::: 8.0 :::: 72.1/ 100 mile goal
It was an absolutely beautiful morning for a long run - 61 degrees, low humidity, blue sky, and sun. Along with some lovely friends to run with, you can't get much better!
In my rough prediction of miles for the month, I had written down 10 miles for long run today and next week, but I realized that this exceeded my coach's half marathon training plan by quite a bit. I scaled back to the recommended default minimum long run of 90 minutes, which at conversational pace got me 8 miles. This is still more than the training plan for this early in the season, but the plan includes building up to the 90 minutes if you aren't there yet. I have a bit of a hard time not trying to "compete" with myself and where I was last year in training and cumulative miles, but I need to remember I have different goals this year (i.e. not a marathon). It's a work in progress.
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@girlinahat - not at all running related but saw this on FB and thought of you and your little buddies!
https://www.facebook.com/OddCouplesDodo/videos/435052977061101/2 -
June goal 100 miles
Got a new PR today at the half marathon! Strava says PRs at 20k, 10 mile & 15k as well, and the second half supposedly included my 3rd best 10k! So needless to say, the rail-trail proved to be an excellent course. It was such a small race though, I was running alone for most of it. After the turnaround, I realized I wasn't going to podium or change positions with anyone, either, so focused on my pacing plan, and it went really well. At one point I got caught running between a mother deer in front of me, and baby deer behind me. My yelling, clapping & moving over didn't help reunite them, so we all ran together like that for a while until mama deer went off the trail (baby of course went off the other way, but at least I wasn't between them anymore).
The other runners were standing around afterwards kinda snotty-like in a circle, and I overheard them talking about an upcoming 50k and "oh that one will be easy"... So I laughed to myself, talked to one guy who wasn't in their little group, then loaded up on the cookies and left
This was before the race, but empty trail like this was pretty much my view for the morning.
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This week is a post-race recovery and cut back week on my training schedule, so this weekend's 'long run' was a short one (supposed to be 4 miles/6.5km). I decided to fit it in whenever and switched the alarm clock off last night, but was awake by 7.30 this morning so decided I might as well get it out of the way today then I can sleep in tomorrow (if the neighbours decide to let me). Consumed sufficient amounts of coffee to think in sentences and munched on a banana, then finally headed out the door around 8.45. It only took me my 10 minute warm-up walk to realise I'm going to have to forget about running as late as that for a few months. It was already 22ºC (around 72f I think?) by 9am. Ugh. I had been thinking about trying out a new hilly route I've sketched out playing about on Strava, but decided I'd be safer sticking to the river trail which is at least dirt so kinder to the legs and with a few shady areas under trees. But it was hot. There were more other runners out because it was later than I tend to run, and they were all hot, sweaty, semi-naked runners. The bare-chested men made me jealous LOL.
And that brings me to today's rant. Cyclists. Usually when I come back from my runs the weekend cyclist groups are just beginning to gather. Today the *kitten* were out in force. Why do they believe they own the trail and can fly down it side by side, literally pushing runners into the bushes as they pass them? I swear I should have knocked a few of them off their bikes. Wondering what would happen if they met a group coming down in the same direction as me took my mind off the heat for a while at least.
Not much to report about the actual run. My legs felt very heavy for the first couple of minutes but then they warmed up and it was just a nice slow easy (short) long run. Just as I reached the 6.5km I had intended to do, the Happy song popped up on my music. @Shanaber nobody can resist a joyful jog to Happy, right? So I ended up doing 7km instead. Then on my cool down walk home I got 'I'm on top of the world' . Music and running, sorting out minds since the beginning of time (or running, or music)
June goal: 75km. Run so far: 62.26km10 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »June goal 100 miles
Got a new PR today at the half marathon! Strava says PRs at 20k, 10 mile & 15k as well, and the second half supposedly included my 3rd best 10k! So needless to say, the rail-trail proved to be an excellent course. It was such a small race though, I was running alone for most of it. After the turnaround, I realized I wasn't going to podium or change positions with anyone, either, so focused on my pacing plan, and it went really well. At one point I got caught running between a mother deer in front of me, and baby deer behind me. My yelling, clapping & moving over didn't help reunite them, so we all ran together like that for a while until mama deer went off the trail (baby of course went off the other way, but at least I wasn't between them anymore).
The other runners were standing around afterwards kinda snotty-like in a circle, and I overheard them talking about an upcoming 50k and "oh that one will be easy"... So I laughed to myself, talked to one guy who wasn't in their little group, then loaded up on the cookies and left
This was before the race, but empty trail like this was pretty much my view for the morning.
Congratulations on a great race!!!1 -
I was thinking about running, but less than a couple minutes standing in my driveway I was cooked. I think I will wait till the evening0
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I got a walk with dh. I guess you can call it a walk. A lumbering walk might be more accurate. 2.2 miles in just barely under 50 minutes. Way faster than the last walk. DH went with me so I tried to keep up.
Starting out I'd thought I'd do 4 miles. 10 minutes in I regretted not stay home and studying or cleaning the house. I see the doc in 10 days, so think I'll put a pin in the walking til then.
Dh wants to try this new burger joint. Nothing fancy about it, no waygu, Kobe or bison. Just Angus. Meh... Sure why not. No regular exercise and a Whopper... My clothes aren't already too tight.
Run on, you two leggers.11 -
@dpwellman wrote: »I haven't been running for more than a year. Starting over.
Going for 30 this month to start.
Groovy! Another TN Runner!
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Congratulations on the PRs @polskagirl01!1
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polskagirl01 wrote: »June goal 100 miles
Got a new PR today at the half marathon! Strava says PRs at 20k, 10 mile & 15k as well, and the second half supposedly included my 3rd best 10k! So needless to say, the rail-trail proved to be an excellent course. It was such a small race though, I was running alone for most of it. After the turnaround, I realized I wasn't going to podium or change positions with anyone, either, so focused on my pacing plan, and it went really well. At one point I got caught running between a mother deer in front of me, and baby deer behind me. My yelling, clapping & moving over didn't help reunite them, so we all ran together like that for a while until mama deer went off the trail (baby of course went off the other way, but at least I wasn't between them anymore).
The other runners were standing around afterwards kinda snotty-like in a circle, and I overheard them talking about an upcoming 50k and "oh that one will be easy"... So I laughed to myself, talked to one guy who wasn't in their little group, then loaded up on the cookies and left
This was before the race, but empty trail like this was pretty much my view for the morning.
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Congratulations @polskagirl01 on your PR and a great race!
@eleanorhawkins - you are absolutely right! Can't resist running to Happy!
Maybe that is a good mid-month question... What is your favorite running song assuming you run with music?1 -
@polskagirl01 congratulations on your PR! Well run! Even with the deer joining in.
Maybe that is a good mid-month question... What is your favorite running song assuming you run with music?
The songs I love to run to change all the time, but I always have a lot of 80s music on my playlist. "Come on Eileen" is one of my favorites to run to because of the section where it gets faster and faster. I'm also a big fan of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go" mix because I like the beat and the extended version is 9 minutes long. That eats up a chunk of time if I'm trying to motivate myself by running for one more song or two more songs, etc.
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Maybe that is a good mid-month question... What is your favorite running song assuming you run with music?
Great question! Some of my favorites are: Queen - "Don't Stop Me Now ", Rush - "Tom Sawyer ", Deep Purple- "Highway Star", Iron Maiden- "Run to the Hills " and Devo - "Whip It".
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Definitely not running related....
"Mama I got snake bit."
The swelling is down so it not super noticable. He's on pain meds so he not acting like he's snake bit. I did enjoy him before the pain meds, when he's hurt and super lovey.
He was chasing a leopard frog this morning in the bushes and found a pygmy rattlesnake. It took me a minute to figure out that rattling wasn't him laying on a frog. I thought he got away unscathed, but it was obvious hours later that it got him in the throat. We never "caught" the snake. So I'm going to trim the bushes where the frogs can't get to comfy and invite the snakes for a bush party.
http://www.oksnakes.org/western-pygmy-rattlesnake.html
Really glad we don't have to bury Beary.
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