December 2019 Monthly Running Challenge
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@eleanorhawkins Dang! That is such a jogger story! That is scary! Hope you don't get roped in to being a suspect just because you were in the area at that approximate time!!!
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@eleanorhawkins Dang! That is such a jogger story! That is scary! Hope you don't get roped in to being a suspect just because you were in the area at that approximate time!!!
Argh, hadn't even though about that! But they must have killed him in the middle of the night (or killed him somewhere else and then taken him there and thrown the body over the cliff in the middle of the night) because that highway really is busy, and there are a lot of runners/walkers/cyclists use the path who would have heard a gun. There's a bus stop nearby too. Hmmm, there's a guy I follow on Strava who usually runs along there at about 6am. I wonder if I should ask him if he saw the car. On the other hand, I wonder if I should keep well out of it!
ETA oh no, I just went and strava stalked him and he went the other way this morning.
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So gonna miss my run today so that I can have the PLEASURE of having a stranger jam a drill into my teeth. Yay!11
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@eleanorhawkins dang you have all the fun!0
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@greenolivetree - more doctors should be like that surgeon! My husband's just keeps telling him, yeah, you know you need to lose a few pounds. I wish they would just tell hime - lose weight and more than a few pounds! Worse, he knows that he can control his health with diet and exercise but chooses to not do either. It is something I just don't understand....greenolivetree wrote: »@shanaber Yes, my husband is also excited. He has already majorly reduced his insulin and had to call in for instructions on cutting his BP meds because his BP was getting so low. It took a surgeon telling him "You're obese and need an aggresive weight loss plan before I fix your hernia" but his eyes have been opened about calories and the fact that he can control his health conditions through diet and exercise. I think we'll be forever grateful for that surgeon being a little on the rude side and just telling the truth!
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Another 3 miler with the running club tonight. Good steady pace and fractionally faster than last week (despite us getting a little lost! ) Total this month 11.5.6
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Thank you @PastorVincent, @Scott6255, @noblsheep, @polskagirl01, @TheMrWobbly, @Teresa502, @Tramboman, @quilteryoyo, and @kgirlhart. My hand is doing better. Between trying to catch up on work and my cold being a bit worse, I didn't run again today, although I did work out a bit. Taking all your advice to take it easy for a while.
@rheddmobile love that alpaca, great picture of his/her hayseed impression
@eleanorhawkins- so very scary. Hard not to be freaked out by that incident!
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@katharmonic - your Spartan races are so impressive, especially fighting through this last one! Wow!!
@rheddmobile - I found out at agility class on Monday that our trainer and her sister have managed the camels and other animals for several of the large Christmas programs. The sister is still doing it and is driving a camel from where we are in So Ca to Fresno - about 250 miles. 😊 I used to work in a baby zoo that was part of the Oakland zoo. Most of the animals didn't stay there long though, they were moved to the regular zoo once they were big enough. Love the alpaca picture - such a cutie!
@eleanorhawkins - I would be totally freaked out too and would have a really difficult time running in that area again.
I got in a sort little 2 mile walk/run this morning taking it really easy to not make my knee any more cranky. Hoping to get in a few miles tomorrow before PT and strength training (have one right after the other).
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@eleanorhawkins And you really had just made a joke on the nutrition thread about finding a dead body! What an awful coincidence! Some years ago we were driving near my house and noticed a flock of vultures had been there several days and I said, “I wonder who’s dead back there!” Well... it was pro basketball player Lorenzen Wright who had been murdered by his wife, and his body wasn’t found for another two weeks. I guess the cops don’t have sense enough to look for vultures, since the location was within a mile of his house. Anyway, it cured me of making flippant jokes about death. I’m sorry you had a similar experience!2
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Sigh been Mia as I've been just so run down. I actually had a mental health day off work today. I already feel a bit better. And it helps I've got a 3 more days off work.
I've also had shin splints the last few days! Grrrrrr. I did this weird scraping technique to get on top of them and it seems to have helped! Gonna do Parkrun on Saturday. That will test the leg8 -
tell me more @avidkeo, I have a pain in the shin for the last few days and it doesn't seem to be lessening.2
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December goal 100 miles
Upcoming races:
Dec. 14 - CityTrail 5k (#3 of 6)
I have a trail race on Saturday so I did a short-but-fast run around a different park today, am catching my train home in a little bit, and hopefully will be getting some sort of recovery tomorrow.5 -
Also I signed up for the extra holiday virtual 5k put on by the Botanical Gardens, the price was right and the medal matches the ones I already have from the series. Hopefully they won't lose half the results again this time and require multiple emails and messages from me before they send me my medal
I think for the coming year I'm going to focus on a local half marathon challenge, so I'll have to complete at least 5 of the 7 half marathons from my region that are included in the challenge during the calendar year. The half marathon is my favorite race distance, because it's long enough to be a real challenge, but not so long that it trashes my body like a marathon.8 -
@eleanorhawkins How scary!
I have been so tired this week. I have managed to keep up my streak of getting at least 1 mile each day. I did a pump class at the gym on Tuesday, and I have been sore, so my 3 miles last night were pretty slow, but they were completed. Ready for the weekend. I want to sleep. 😴
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1212-5.7k total-39.5k goal-120k
Short run this morning just to get back into the swing of things. Weather app said it was -5°C. Interesting how much colder that feels compared to -1 or -2. Anyway I was cold for only about 800 meters before I felt refreshed and comfortable. My left shin yelped at something during the last km, and my brain immediately went to shin splint, but it only did it one time and felt fine post run, so probably just an anomaly.
Nice sunrise this morning (sorry for the blurry, my hands were freezing).
Heading to Shanghai over the weekend and will probably do my long run over there. It looks pretty balmy down south with temps up to 19°C(!) on Sunday. I can't even remember how to dress for that kind of weather...
In other news, they announced the lottery results for the marathon I had originally had my eye on for next spring, and I didn't get in. So I registered for the Wuxi Marathon and the Chengdu Double Heritage Marathon today. Wuxi is also a lottery and I'm not doing very well in those these days. So I signed up for Chengdu as a backup race. I've run both these races before and didn't do very well either time, so I'm feeling a bit yeep! about it right now.
Wuxi was my first full marathon, way back when, and its first half is beautiful. The second half goes through a business district, which was totally deserted on weekends, so not much to see there. Last time I started having stomach pains at around 30km due to eating too much breakfast and the rest of the race was not pretty.
I've also run the Chengdu DH full marathon before (plus the half marathon twice). The first part of the route is awesome, running right by the 2000+ year old irrigation system at Dujiangyan before winding into farmland. The race is timed every year to coincide with the season that rapeseed flowers are in full bloom, so we're running through mile after mile of rolling yellow hills as far as the eye can see. At 28km, the route turns to go up to the gate of Mount Qingcheng, which is the second UNESCO site. I mean, it's awesome, but it's also a very big uphill. And the sharp downhill afterwards kills the quads. The last time I ran that race, I walked the entire 10km after that.
@eleanorhawkins Man that's intense. Hope you feel better soon.7 -
So this on Facebook, and some of y'all be like:
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@PastorVincent I hope that stranger with a drill was nice to you and gave you some good drugs before getting started.
@shanaber Glad you got in a short run. Hope your knee continues to get better.
Wow @rheddmobile ! That's some story. You would think the police would notice to vultures and check it out if they are searching for a potential murder victim. Weird.
@Avidkeo I'm glad your day off helped. Hope you continue to feel better mentally and that your shin splints heal as well. Those can be awfully painful. I overdid it when I first started running 10 years ago and my shin splints were horrible. I couldn't walk up stairs they were so bad.
@polskagirl01 Good luck on your race this weekend and your HM series next year. Sounds intense.
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Did not run Tuesday as my son needed a haircut (badly) and I had already promised to take him to do it, which I promptly remembered while picking up my kids after work. Then dinner, homework, baths, etc. Did not run last night because my daughter had therapy, tutoring, then dinner, baths, etc. My daughter had an assignment too, which is really inappropriate for kids "Define homicide," "Define rape," so this spurred an hours long conversation in which we discussed the definitions of these things according to our state code as well as our moral values. The answers to the questions will probably grant me a call from the school, but I wrote my number on her paper, so that's fine. Needless to say, that took a while... *sigh*
I AM running tonight. I had talked about switching up my training so that I can do more on my long run days, but I have not figured it out, as of this week. It looks like this week I will stick with my regular Saturday Lift and run, run and lift schedule. Maybe after the holidays it will settle down a little bit?7 -
12-1 7k easy
12-2 7k slow + resistance bands
12-3 rest
12-4 7k slow + resistance bands
12-5 rest + yoga
12-6 7k slow + resistance bands
12-7 7k easy + yoga
12-8 rest
12-9 4k easy + resistance bands
12-10 rest + yoga
12-11 7k easy + resistance bands
12-12 7k easy + yoga
December Total: 53k
December Goal: 135k
January Total: 131k
February Total: 159.5k
March Total: 183k
April Total: 126k
May Total: 128k
June Total: 161.5k
July Total: 151k
August Total: 133k
September Total: 135k
October Total: 115k
November Total: 155k
2019 Total through November: 1,578k / 978.36m
Monthly average: 143.45k
Next year when you pop in here claiming your December 2019 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?
Run at least 4 5k races - Completed 8-31.
Get under 30:00 and a PR for 5k - Nope...
Average at least 135k per month, which would put me over 1,000 miles for the year - Completed 12-7.
Run the Year Team: Five for Nineteen - Completed 9-28
Partly cloudy, 20 degrees F again, and a little less wind than yesterday. Seemed like even less oxygen in the air today -- decided my bronchial passages might still be a little inflamed from my cold. For a non-doctor, I'm a superb diagnostician.
@mbaker566 Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag....
2020 goals:
Continue a 5k regimen.
Train better.
4-13 Shine the Light 5K - 31:12 chip time; First Place male 65 and older
6-30 Strides for Starfish 5K - 31:34 chip time; 31/77 overall; second male 65 and older (no official category)
7-27 Solon Home Days 5K - 31:11 chip time; 95/141 overall; 4/6 age group (male)
8-31 Race for Freedom 5k - 31:39 chip time; 32:00 Garmin time; Third Place male 60 and older
10-13 Haunted Hustle 5k - 31:22 chip time; 47/74 overall; First Place male 60 and older6 -
got my butt out last night.
speed demon really didn't want to go. so i took my old girl.
it was about 14f. i wore a buff over my face. it felt like i was wearing one of those elevation training masks.
my feet were hitting flat. my knees and shins were a little irritated. i got a weird tricep cramp.
my peroneal tendonitis is a little touchy today.
overall, today i feel ok running wise
myalgia is being a pain.
probably should refill my prescription that helps me manage it
selfie and old girl
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@mbaker566 yay, well done! Now go do it again. Not today? Ok, maybe tomorrow.
I thought about forcing myself to run along what has now been christened in my brain as 'crime scene route' but decided I didn't need to confront the demon quite that quickly and just going for a run would be sufficient. Bog-standard 5km run done, nothing to report except it was very windy which made my cap keep blowing off, which pissed me off.
Then I went to see the physio, who massaged my legs and commented that they were 'very good' today. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Also made me think that it's taken a year but I'm finally recovered and I think I'm doing a good job of maintaining where I want to be. Now I need to decide whether running a trail HM on Feb 28, a road HM on March 22 and then doing a week-long hiking holiday covering around 120km at Easter is sensible or even feasible. The second two are already booked and paid for, I need to make my mind up about the trail race.
My daughter is struggling a LOT this month (end of term exams, anxiety, general teenage stuff, etc etc etc) and damn it hurts to watch. I'm desperately searching for ways to help her deal with the stress. So wish she'd run with me. Argh.
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@eleanorhawkins wow that is like a scene right out of a movie. So glad for you though that you didn't have to witness the worst! I understand about teenagers - just know I hear you.
@mbaker good for you! Get those meds!
@PastorVincent LOL..for real. in my office where everyone heard me. Hahaha The meme - not the drill part. That part sucks.
@katharmonic You are amazing. That is all.
Good luck to all the racers and to the upcoming racers! I need to start planning mine soon.
53.1 miles so far in Dec, so on track for my goal of 100 hopefully.
We have had weird weather, but normal for NC. One day 70 (I ran in tshirt and capris) the next 40. Today's run was 31F feels like 25 (tights, and long sleeve and vest and gloves and hat..lol)
What a difference.
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December Goal: 100 Miles
12/1: 10.05 miles
12/3: 6.25 miles
12/4: 6.05 miles
12/5: 6.25 miles
12/8: 10.10 miles
12/9: 6.05 miles
12/11: 6.10 miles
12/12: 6.30 miles
57.15/100 miles completed
Today's run was 6.3 miles. It was another beautiful morning for a run. The full moon was so bright and just gorgeous. It was still pretty cold at 34°F and since it was a little windier than yesterday the feels like temp was still around 27°F. But the wind didn't seem too bad and it was so lovely with the moonlight. I wore the same thing as yesterday but I ended up taking the sleeves off mid run. I really like the sleeves because if I'd been wearing a long sleeved shirt it would have been more of a hassle to take my jacket off since I also had the light vest on, but pulling the sleeves off was really easy.
Good luck on your race Saturday @polskagirl01!
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
10/5/19: Old Rip 5K - PR 27:27, 1st AG
11/9/19: Wags and Whiskers 5K -2nd AG, 4th Woman, 5K PR - 26:36
2020 races:
5/16/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon5 -
I am really excited! I got drawn in a race lottery for the first time ever. I never ever get drawn for any race, but my luck has changed... I will run Chicago again next year! (This year, I did for charity.)17
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@T1DCarnivoreRunner That's awesome! Congratulations!1
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T1DCarnivoreRunner wrote: »I am really excited! I got drawn in a race lottery for the first time ever. I never ever get drawn for any race, but my luck has changed... I will run Chicago again next year! (This year, I did for charity.)
Congrats man!0 -
T1DCarnivoreRunner wrote: »I am really excited! I got drawn in a race lottery for the first time ever. I never ever get drawn for any race, but my luck has changed... I will run Chicago again next year! (This year, I did for charity.)
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TheMrWobbly wrote: »tell me more @avidkeo, I have a pain in the shin for the last few days and it doesn't seem to be lessening.
I'll link the YouTube video.
I admit I was a complete skeptic the first time, which was in Fab this year. At that poi t I'd been suffering posterior shin splints for about 2-3 weeks I think. Came across this video after trying EVERYTHING else, and thought I'd give it ago. Based on my comments on the video, it worked amazing - worth reading the comments.
So when I had shin splints for 3 days at the beginning of this week, I had another look at the video and tried the technique. Basically did the same thing I did last time. And today I'm pain free. Have not yet run on it but running was never an issue, it was mostly painful with walking.
https://youtu.be/jlzSG8axviA 2 -
T1DCarnivoreRunner wrote: »I am really excited! I got drawn in a race lottery for the first time ever. I never ever get drawn for any race, but my luck has changed... I will run Chicago again next year! (This year, I did for charity.)
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YAY! Congratulations! @T1DCarnivoreRunner1
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