September 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,455 Member
    @MegaMooseEsq Great race report. Glad your dad and SM were able to see you race. It's easier to be supportive when you have first hand knowledge of what is going on. Good luck on your HM this weekend.

    @katharmonic When I run on the treadmill, I always take the treadmills word for the distance and not my Garmin. I don't have a foot pod and I know that the Garmin is way off, based on the time and distance it shows. I just use it to get a more accurate calorie burn count, as I know my treadmill way overestimates that.
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,455 Member
    edited September 2019
    @PastorVincent Interesting sculpture. When I first saw the picture, I thought it was some sort of off satellite. Glad you have a place for your lunch walks that is out of the weather. Love your recent pictures above too.

    @dcolander No one will laugh. This is a great group.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    @PastorVincent Interesting sculpture. When I first saw the picture, I thought it was some sort of off satellite. Glad you have a place for your lunch walks that is out of the weather. Love your recent pictures above too.

    Thanks. I need to go back to that statue and take a picture of the plaque because I can not recall what it says! 🙄
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    monthly question #2 weight loss goal by December? And how do you plan on making that happen?

    I'm at 215 pounds right now (Sailing causes wait gain) and my goal is to get to 200 by December. How? By finally sticking to the plan!

    Actually the way this summer has been, I'm happy it's "only" 215.
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    edited September 2019
    Oh, I tried to post my goal and a summary of my summer but MFP decided it needs to approve the post. Hopefully it gets posted.

    Nevermind, I see it now.
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    Tramboman wrote: »
    kirstymn wrote: »
    @Teresa502 The Scotland pics are gorgeous!

    @Avidkeo Yay for Spring! Good luck with the move on Friday

    @shanaber My worst trip was probably to Mykonos, Greece. We came back to our hotel room after a day out and found we'd been robbed. When we complained to management we were accused of telling lies to get the staff in trouble. They confiscated our passports and made us wait in some dodgy office for hours. We finally managed to convince them to give our passports back after enduring hours of verbal abuse. Once we had our passports we ran out of there and straight to a pay phone to call the police. The police told us we were in the wrong and we should go back to the hotel and pay for anything we still owed! We hung up that phone and ran as fast as we could straight to the ferry and took the first boat off that island!

    @ContraryMaryMary I hope you feel better soon

    @PastorVincent As I've gotten older I'm less of a fan of real camping too! Glamping is basically a cabin made out to look like a tent - the important part is you get a real bed!
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    @polskagirl01 WTG on the hill repeats! Also, you're awesome for picking up rubbish on your run :)

    @Elise4270 I hope your day gets better. I find baking soda and some white vinegar and a little dish soap can be good for scrubbing/cleaning things like that

    That's Glamping with a capital G!!!

    And here I thought I was stepping it up with my camping set. This is how I've camped the night before my last two trail races:

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/W1PujzU9ey13BmBs6
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    @Avidkeo congrats on the job! I tend to be skeptic too. I want science & studies, not anecdotes and promises. I want to understand the physiological reasons it works. On the other had, when I started taking glucosamine for my knee it was not backed by studies, but through personal testing over a long time, I've come to believe it helps. I agree that benefits could be the result of the placebo affect, or massaging for topicals. After my 50K on the 18th of May, assuming equal pain in my quads, I plan on rubbing CBD cream on one quad and regular cream on the other to see if I notice a difference. While it is unregulated, reputable manufacturers do submit their products for independent testing.

    Oh let me know how it goes - for science! I think one reason I'm a skeptic about it working is that the chances of the oil oenetrating the layers of the skin, to get deep enough to the muscle to work... That's not how skin works. So I'm very curious how it goes. Eta did a bit of reading and from what I can see most of the CBD creams also have a lot of menthol so have the same effect as non CBD creams designed for sore muscles. Does this one have menthol or similar? Either way hope it works!

    Dragging this back from the May thread... @Avidkeo my experience has been that CBD cream did nothing for me but make my skin soft and smooth. I used it on one quad after my 50K, and a regular cream on the other quad. No difference. More importantly, unless I can understand just how this oil is supposed to travel through skin, fat, blood, etc, and somehow get to where I want it, it just doesn't make sense that it would work topically.

    The CBD pills did have an effect on me. I slept so much deeper! I'd like to take them every night but at $1 per pill for the cheapest I could find...no.

    My experiment with CBD is over.
  • username301
    username301 Posts: 247 Member
    Nice slow run with youngest, 5km now done at 6/1.

    Goals September:
    13 Runs................................3 run
    71km....................................16km
    5km PB.................................Done 1 Sep
    6km PB.................................Done 1 Sep
    7km.......................................x
    Child to do 5km...................Done 5 Sep
    Child to do r/w of 10/1m....x
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    Tramboman wrote: »
    kirstymn wrote: »
    @Teresa502 The Scotland pics are gorgeous!

    @Avidkeo Yay for Spring! Good luck with the move on Friday

    @shanaber My worst trip was probably to Mykonos, Greece. We came back to our hotel room after a day out and found we'd been robbed. When we complained to management we were accused of telling lies to get the staff in trouble. They confiscated our passports and made us wait in some dodgy office for hours. We finally managed to convince them to give our passports back after enduring hours of verbal abuse. Once we had our passports we ran out of there and straight to a pay phone to call the police. The police told us we were in the wrong and we should go back to the hotel and pay for anything we still owed! We hung up that phone and ran as fast as we could straight to the ferry and took the first boat off that island!

    @ContraryMaryMary I hope you feel better soon

    @PastorVincent As I've gotten older I'm less of a fan of real camping too! Glamping is basically a cabin made out to look like a tent - the important part is you get a real bed!
    9l6xba3g534k.jpg
    cea9q556b805.jpg

    @polskagirl01 WTG on the hill repeats! Also, you're awesome for picking up rubbish on your run :)

    @Elise4270 I hope your day gets better. I find baking soda and some white vinegar and a little dish soap can be good for scrubbing/cleaning things like that

    That's Glamping with a capital G!!!

    And here I thought I was stepping it up with my camping set. This is how I've camped the night before my last two trail races:

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/W1PujzU9ey13BmBs6

    In a couple-few years, I hope to replace my SUV with something like a Jeep Gladiator. If I do that, I very well might try camping again the way you have it there. There are some dark sky sites I would like to visit once I finish rebuilding my astrophoto setup.

    BUT NO MORE TENT CAMPING ON THE GROUND. #donewiththatgame

    To date, I have NEVER been camping when it has not rained. Most times a torrential downpour. More than once flooded out. And yes been camping many times, though it has been a decade or more since my last time.

    I considered a camper, but, eh, that seems like a lot of money, work, and effort for a weekend or 2 a year. Yours might work as a compromise.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    I was volunteer photographer for 4 races this summer. Got some great shots!

    Cool. How did you get that gig? I am looking for more day time photo practice and something like that would be good I think.
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,554 Member
    Yay, welcome back @7lenny7!
    Looks like you had a fun and busy summer 😊
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    I was volunteer photographer for 4 races this summer. Got some great shots!

    Cool. How did you get that gig? I am looking for more day time photo practice and something like that would be good I think.

    I signed up to volunteer at the race and where they asked for any special qualifications, I told them I do sport photography and gave them a link to my soccer photos. I also told them I have a pick up so I did haul equipment during some of the race. This was my second year doing it.

    If that's something you want to do, find a local race and look at their website and facebook page to see what they've had in the past. Some races are flush with photographers, some have nothing. Most would be thrilled to have someone shooting if they don't currently, but that's not always the case.

    There's a race next month on my "home" trails. Marathon, 50K, 50M, 100k and 100M. I can't run it but I wanted to volunteer with my camera. I thought it would be a shoo-in since past years showed single photographer taking them and quite honestly, not very good. I was turned down because they said they already had one. Surprised, I looked back at their site and realized that the photographer they had was selling his photos (low-rez was free), and he is the race director's husband. Then it all made sense...
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    One of the races I shot had a flooded section of trail where the water was about 2.5 feet deep, which I knew about because I had run the 5K course the day before. Most of the time I was set up there shooting. Here are the photos:
    https://flic.kr/s/aHsmFRvrRT

    here are all my photos from the past two years:
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/lehnherr/collections/72157698507918322/

  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    I was volunteer photographer for 4 races this summer. Got some great shots!

    Cool. How did you get that gig? I am looking for more day time photo practice and something like that would be good I think.

    I signed up to volunteer at the race and where they asked for any special qualifications, I told them I do sport photography and gave them a link to my soccer photos. I also told them I have a pick up so I did haul equipment during some of the race. This was my second year doing it.

    If that's something you want to do, find a local race and look at their website and facebook page to see what they've had in the past. Some races are flush with photographers, some have nothing. Most would be thrilled to have someone shooting if they don't currently, but that's not always the case.

    There's a race next month on my "home" trails. Marathon, 50K, 50M, 100k and 100M. I can't run it but I wanted to volunteer with my camera. I thought it would be a shoo-in since past years showed single photographer taking them and quite honestly, not very good. I was turned down because they said they already had one. Surprised, I looked back at their site and realized that the photographer they had was selling his photos (low-rez was free), and he is the race director's husband. Then it all made sense...

    Yeah, I will have to find some small local one and just crash it shooting and build a portfolio I guess first. Who do you use to host/sell the photos?
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    edited September 2019
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    Yeah, I will have to find some small local one and just crash it shooting and build a portfolio I guess first. Who do you use to host/sell the photos?

    I use Flickr.com to host the photos because it's cheap and unlimited space. I don't sell them, I make them available to the racers and the race director for free.

    I posted links to my galleries but MFP is holding on to the post pending approval.
    If you go to my Flickr link above you can work your way to my page, then my albums, and see all of my trail photos.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    7lenny7 wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    Yeah, I will have to find some small local one and just crash it shooting and build a portfolio I guess first. Who do you use to host/sell the photos?

    I use Flickr.com to host the photos because it's cheap and unlimited space. I don't sell them, I make them available to the racers and the race director for free.

    I posted links to my galleries but MFP is holding on to the post pending approval.
    If you go to my Flickr link above you can work your way to my page, then my albums, and see all of my trail photos.

    Ah, I have the handful of photos I take seriously on Deviant Art cause I can put the full resolution on there. Not looked at Flikr in a very long time.

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