July 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

ereck44 wrote: »

I still need to read about 40 pages of posts. I just learned that @PastorVincent lost his job. I hope that you have a lot of nibbles at a new job by page 78. That truly sucks! Did you have any inkling that the company was going to close its doors?

Went down like this...

Several weeks ago: "We have this and that new plan, and that and this new client we are pursuing and we have secured funding for the project through next year - all is good and the board is happy with our progress."

9:30 that morning was our planning session. We planned out the next 3 months work.
10:00 "The company is closing its doors, Wednesday the 31st we done."

So, yeah, not much warning. I was a little suspicious for reasons, but not enough to have started looking.

Right now I am applying/interviewing like mad. It is exhausting! But something will work out. I am confident of that much. Just gotta do the interview hussel for a bit. I have 4 face-to-face interviews this week to go to still. Which, you know, is EXACTLY what my introverted nature wants to do.

One guy was like "we just want to see how you solve problems, you know to make sure you do not flip tables over or something" so I was like, "But what if that is the correct solution to the problem at hand?" He stumbled around with that proving once again, I am horrible at this interview game.

autumnblade75 wrote: »

PastorVincent wrote: »

One guy was like "we just want to see how you solve problems, you know to make sure you do not flip tables over or something" so I was like, "But what if that is the correct solution to the problem at hand?" He stumbled around with that proving once again, I am horrible at this interview game.

If *I* were the interviewer, I would have asked you to provide an example of a problem that would be solved to any degree of correctness by flipping tables.

Active shooter and you need concealment and distraction.

Thought I'd missed my stretch goal of 200km by about 25. Turns out I can't add.

Running challenge
1 July: Head cold and unhappy about it
2 July: 6.53km
3 July: Yoga + 4.02
4 July: 8.15km
5 July: Rest
6 July: Yoga + 6.66km
7 July: 16.11km
8 July: 6.82km
9 July: Rest
10 July: 9.29km
11 July: 7km
12 July: 10.5km
13 July: Rest
14 July: 18km
15 July: Rest
16 July: 6.54km
17 July: 7.15km
18 July: 7.5km
19 July: 8.38km
20 July: 5.24km + yoga
21 July: 17.19km
22 July: Pilates + Yoga
23 July: 7.11km
24 July: Yoga + Massage
25 July: 8.19km
26 July: Rest
27 July: 16.19km + 5.37km
28 July: 22.48km
29 July: Yoga
30 July: Rest
31 July: 4.41km + yoga

208.83 of 160km for July

I’ve enjoyed reading the race reports from this past weekend (or two as haven’t been good about posting lately). That was quite the race @ContraryMaryMary! @shanaber there were a few Packer players doing the Packer 5k. They introduce the players right before the race. They are alumni though, I’m not really good at remembering the players, but my husband knew who they were.

I ran 4 miles on the trail last Monday and left achilles was doing ok, until about the three mile mark. It was tight, so knew it was going to be that way if I walked or ran so finished up the run as it was an out and back. We walked Lilly (dog) down to the lake on Sat. It’s about a 3 mile round trip, but with decent hills. Everything felt good then and later on the night time camp walk that had some hills. I started to feel the tightness and a little throbbing on Sat night. Decided to test things out tonight with a flat 3 mile run. The Achilles was tight and never really relaxed. I think that caused some tension in other areas as it was an overall tough run for the last mile.

I’m way behind with where I had wanted to be this month, but overdid it earlier with the weekend hilly runs. I’ve been working on heel drops on the stairs and some foam rolling, although been much better about the heel drops. I have time before the half that I was targeting for October, but have another 5k in the race series coming up on the 10th.

7/2 - 3 miles
7/4 - 4 miles
7/6 - 7 miles
7/8 - 4 miles
7/10 - 3 miles
7/12 - 3 miles
7/20 - Packer 5k
7/22 - 4 miles
7/30 - 3 miles

Total - 34 miles/Goal - 60 miles

shanaber wrote: »

@zeesparrow - nothing wrong with a little extra taper. Early on before finding this group I found a '1st HM Taper Plan' on RunnersWorld that I have used ever since for all of my HM's. It is 2 weeks, more than many would say is necessary for a HM, but it works for me. Find what works for you... Could be one or two weeks or none.

I agree (and would be interested to see that taper plan! @shanaber). I used the Hal Higdon novice 1 HM for my first and while I loved most things about it, I a) had to move a day so I wasn't running 3 days in a row, which was way too much for my noob legs, and b) may well have ended up injured because the fact that it had me do my longest run (ever) of 10 miles just a week before the race itself was also way too much for my noob legs. And led to me having to take a month off then start running again from scratch. Textbook too much, too soon.
This time round, I'm going to give the Novice 2 one a go but before even starting it I've already moved that 3rd day and have added an extra taper week between weeks 11 and 12. Hopefully that will make all the difference!

Just got my final run of the month in, resulting in a total of 93.79km. Goal was 85km so yeah, I'm happy with that. However, my sensible side is telling me no I can't put my shoes back on and go run another 1.21km just because that number is *kitten* with my brain!

It was a yucky sticky humid run, even though I got out before the sun came up. Really looking forward to summer ending! It was an amusing run because I saw a guy running barefoot who obviously wasn't a local. He happily raced past me up the brick path through the riverside park, then slammed the brakes on when he reached the end of it where there used to be a cycle path over the river bed and down the other side which got washed away in the storms last winter. There is now a path through stones and dirt and duck *kitten* and stagnant puddles and gawd knows what else. Hell I don't like running round that bit in shoes, wouldn't dream of crossing it barefoot! Then there was the guy who runs with his two dogs, one large one small, behind him and a leash between them. They're hysterical, they kind of lead each other and when one decides it wants to stop or go check something out the other pulls it back to running forwards. I always wonder what happens when they both decide they want to stop or go check something out. Admittedly the guy does look back and check on them a lot, and he stops and grabs the leash to cross roads, but either they're very well behaved dogs or he's a bit crazy!

autumnblade75 wrote: »

PastorVincent wrote: »

autumnblade75 wrote: »

PastorVincent wrote: »

One guy was like "we just want to see how you solve problems, you know to make sure you do not flip tables over or something" so I was like, "But what if that is the correct solution to the problem at hand?" He stumbled around with that proving once again, I am horrible at this interview game.

If *I* were the interviewer, I would have asked you to provide an example of a problem that would be solved to any degree of correctness by flipping tables.

Active shooter and you need concealment and distraction.

Looks to me as though you think quick on your feet and have good problem solving skills. A valuable employee that they should feel lucky to have.

Thanks.

We will find out today as I go for my first face-to-face interview with my desired target job and company (no the one with the table flipping, though that might come up again I guess). So far I have only had phone screens. So this will be "fun." - Thing is I know I can excel at any of the jobs that are lined up for interviews right now. The only real task is to be convincing enough they believe it while spying out as much about them as I can. As a deep introvert, the latter is far simpler than the former.

Teresa502 wrote: »

polskagirl01 wrote: »

July goal 100 miles



Almost to goal. I'm in Virginia this week so the altitude is better, humidity is worse, and there are some crazy hills in this area to keep it interesting. I've felt good on my 2 runs here so far.

Welcome to the love state (State tourism and travel slogan is Virginia is for Lovers). Maybe you will love our hills by the time you leave!!

Thanks! I did enjoy it

Yesterday the sun tried to kill me. But I managed to get the math just right so that I met my July goal and not too many steps more. July goal 100 miles



See you in the August thread!

katharmonic wrote: »

Good luck @PastorVincent!

We had a strong storm come through last night so now I have a new clean-up project. I'm sure I can work some strength training in on this:

Last year my whole fence blew over so at least this time it's only one panel. Anyone with a chainsaw want to come over? I have beer!

I have a great electric chainsaw. I'll be over. But I'm beer picky and a light weight. 🥴 So.. one beer.

Best of luck today @PastorVincent !!!! What are you wearing? You let Kristi put it together? How do you smell? No fru fru for an interview. Trim the nails. You got this!!!!!

July 1 – 5.18 miles + 9 miles cycling + 30 min weights
July 2 – 30 min kickboxing + 30 min Pilates
July 3 – 5 miles + 45 min Yoga + 11 miles cycling
July 4 – 4.09 miles – Red, White and Boom race
July 5 – 22 miles cycling
July 6 – 10 miles + SUP
July 7 – rest
July 8 – 5 miles + 30 min weights + 10.3 miles cycling after work
July 9 – 30 min stretching + 30 min lower body weights
July 10 – 5.07 miles + 45 min yoga
July 11 – rest
July 12 – bootcamp
July 13 – 13.1 miles – The Scream
July 14 – rest
July 15 – 4.31 miles
July 16 – 15.8 miles cycling
July 17 – 5.01 miles
July 18 – rest
July 19 – 0.86 mile + bootcamp
July 20 – 34.4 miles cycling
July 21 – active rest (painting walls)
July 22 – 4.31 miles + 30 min weight conditioning
July 23 – rest
July 24 – 6.14 miles
July 25 – 60 min weight conditioning
July 26 – 5.06 miles hilly route + 17.5 miles cycling
July 27 – 7.14 miles
July 28 – active rest
July 29 – 5.04 miles
July 30 – 60 min weight conditioning
July 31 – 5 miles – hill repeats
Total – 90.31 running miles (Goal 110 miles)

Fell shy of my monthly goal but there were only 5 days out of 31 that I didn’t do any physical activity so I feel good about my overall activity for the month. Congratulations to everyone out there moving this month!

Good luck @PastorVincent
Hope your back/leg is doing better @AlphaHowls!