January 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
01/01/20 :::: 4.3 :::: 4.3
01/02/20 :::: 4.9 :::: 9.2
01/03/20 :::: 2.1 :::: 11.3
01/04/20 :::: 3.1 :::: 14.5
01/05/20 :::: 7.0 :::: 21.5
01/06/20 :::: 3.8 :::: 25.2
01/07/20 :::: 1.3 :::: 26.5
01/08/20 :::: 2.1 :::: 28.5
01/09/20 :::: 2.0 :::: 30.6
01/10/20 :::: 2.6 :::: 33.2
01/11/20 :::: 7.2 :::: 40.4
01/12/20 :::: 3.2 :::: 43.6
01/13/20 :::: 2.7 :::: 46.3
01/14/20 :::: 2.1 :::: 48.4
01/15/20 :::: 1.3 :::: 49.7
01/16/20 :::: 1.6 :::: 51.2
01/17/20 :::: 1.6 :::: 52.8
01/18/20 :::: 3.8 :::: 56.6
01/19/20 :::: 2.1 :::: 58.8
01/20/20 :::: 3.6 :::: 62.4
01/21/20 :::: 2.0 :::: 64.4
01/22/20 :::: 1.6 :::: 66.0
01/23/20 :::: 1.9 :::: 67.9
01/24/20 :::: 4.2 :::: 72.1
01/25/20 :::: 7.4 :::: 79.5
01/26/20 :::: 2.5 :::: 82.0
01/27/20 :::: 3.9 :::: 85.9
01/28/20 :::: 2.2 :::: 88.1/ 100 mile goal
Tonight's was another treadmill run before my mace class, but I decided to run on the fancy NordicTrack with the big video screen and incline and speed changes with your video workout. I've used it several times but always end up overriding the automatic changes, but this time decided to do the actual run as it came. I picked the "Great Ocean Walk Tempo Run" in Victoria, Australia because that was the first one up and it always takes too long to scroll through and choose. It was much slower than a tempo run - I'm not sure how to adjust the overall speed and still have it adapt (if I adjust it, it seems to just stay at one speed no matter what is happening on the route). The incline changes were fun though. It was a kind of narrow route through some vegetation and I felt like in trail running you had to keep your eyes ahead to see what was coming. I got surprised by a few incline changes if I spaced out for a bit. I felt like it was a fun way to mix it up and my run seemed to go faster than a normal treadmill slog.
Mace class was good and I survived without whacking myself in the knee or any other body parts this time!
I think I'm going to come just short of the mileage goal of 100 for the month, but at least I should complete my goal of running every day in January.
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This week is a cut back week on my schedule. I ran the planned 30-45 minutes (38 ish) at a much slower pace than I have been running lately. It actually felt pretty easy today. I really never thought I would say a run was "easy," but this one was.
The pace was 12:34/mile, so not too bad for me....especially with how it felt. Run was 3 miles. With the warm up and cool down walks, total distance traversed today was 3.75 miles.
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katharmonic wrote: »
Tonight's was another treadmill run before my mace class, but I decided to run on the fancy NordicTrack with the big video screen and incline and speed changes with your video workout. I've used it several times but always end up overriding the automatic changes, but this time decided to do the actual run as it came. I picked the "Great Ocean Walk Tempo Run" in Victoria, Australia because that was the first one up and it always takes too long to scroll through and choose. It was much slower than a tempo run - I'm not sure how to adjust the overall speed and still have it adapt (if I adjust it, it seems to just stay at one speed no matter what is happening on the route). The incline changes were fun though. It was a kind of narrow route through some vegetation and I felt like in trail running you had to keep your eyes ahead to see what was coming. I got surprised by a few incline changes if I spaced out for a bit. I felt like it was a fun way to mix it up and my run seemed to go faster than a normal treadmill slog.
I used to have access to fancy dreadmills like that. I always set them to "random hills, with an average incline of 5%" and then controlled my speed myself. Following a real trail was an option like you described by I like to keep it surprising. I am not necessarily right in the head. 5 -
Jan 1 2.5 kms (treadmill)
Jan 2 2.5 kms (treadmill)
Jan 4 2.5 kms (jogged fully instead of walking in between, so yay. And not treadmill)
Jan 5 2.7 kms on the treadmill.
Jan 6 3 kms on the treadmill.
Jan 7 3 kms (treadmill)
Jan 8 3.7 kms road - jogging with a bit of walking, still super happy as overall speed has improved a bit 😊
Jan 9 3kms on treadmill. But my time has improved ever so slightly.
Jan 11 3.5 km treadmill, improved time
Jan 12 4.27 km treadmill
Jan 13 3.2 km treadmill
Jan 14 3.3 km treadmill
Jan 15 3km on the road
Jan 17 4km treadmill
Jan 18 5 km on treadmill
Jan 20 4 km on treadmill
Jan 21 3.7km on the road
Jan 22 5km on treadmill, yay
Jan 23 3km on treadmill
Jan 28 3.13 km on treadmill (sick and resting the past few days without running, did easy strolls whenever I could though)
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I am so doomed y’all.
My husband and I drove out to Stanky Creek to practice for the 8k run next week, which is the next race in our series. We are so not in shape for this! At least nobody fell in the creek today, which believe me is a thing that has happened to both of us in the past.
Stanky Creek isn’t what a real hardcore trail runner would call technical, but it’s about as technical as trails get around here - ditches, creeks, single track between trees with knotty roots, fallen trees across the creek, and loads of mud and up and down. It’s a serious leg workout compared to the flat, even trails we usually run. Imagine playing hopscotch for an hour straight and you’ve just about got it. Plus the trails are poorly marked and we always get lost and end up doing considerably more than 8k. I’m pretty sure the entire second mile we ran took place in some sort of alternate dimension - we ran back and forth checking the gps against the map, eventually struck out in a random direction on something that looked sort of like a trail but wasn’t, and only escaped because a big, pretty Shepherd dog bounced up to us and showed us the way to the right path! Possibly we were fairy led and the dog broke the spell. We never did see the dog’s owner, just heard him calling for his dog from deep in the woods somewhere.
Regardless the second mile was rootier and hillier than the real second mile, and by the time we were back on the right path we were already wiped. Not a good sign! We took longer and longer walk breaks, cursed the mud a lot, cursed the trail marking a lot, did not curse each other but exchanged some words about each other’s navigational skills (my husband used to be a Ranger Pathfinder. Ironic!) and got lost again but figured it out before going too far. We ran the home stretch hard and then realized we had emerged onto the parking lot from a different trail than the actual race trail. Retraced our steps until we figured out where we had gone wrong, thought about doing a second fast finish on the correct trail but decided the mud was really uncalled for and we would rather look at it than run through it since we still remembered it quite well from last year. We did do the creek jump - it’s a steep muddy downhill, then across the creek at the bottom, which is only about ankle deep but just too far for me to comfortably jump, then a steep muddy scramble up the other side.
My Achilles’ tendon started complaining about all the jumping up and down and over things two thirds of the way through, again not a good sign, and my husband was tripsy because his ankle was bugging him. Race day ought to be fun!
We saw a parade of huge whitetail deer, four of them in a row, evenly spaced, charging across the woods. We also saw a big red tailed hawk fly across the parking lot holding some sort of rodent in one talon. A nuthatch squirked at me, and we heard a solitary very cold frog. I’m also pretty sure I heard a snake go through the leaves across the trail in front of us.
Stanky is theoretically a dirt bike trail and we did see several dirt bikes, as well as two other fools like ourselves, out running practice for the Winter Series. Both looked somewhat lost and dazed.11 -
@rheddmobile Oh...the lovely Stanky Creek. I don't run the WORS, I usually volunteer for it. But this year I have had to work on each race day (3K and 5K) I should be able to make it out to Stanky to watch the creek crossing though. That is generally where I set up to watch the race at. Luckily, the weather looks like the creek won't be too deep this year (fingers crossed)...but the up slope will be muddy and extremely slick (as it always is after 500+ runners run through it), so make sure you get a good seat when you turn into the woods. Let me know your race number and I will try and get a good photo of you going up and down the creek. Temp...as of right now...is looking perfect for race day though, 53 degrees with about 11 mph winds.
As for me, not much changed since last check in. I started a circuit training program today, so that is really just the new news.
Here are my updated totals:
Jan 1: 2.47
Jan 2: 3.28
Jan 3: 3.74
Jan 4: 8.12
Jan 5: 3.13
Jan 6: 5.32
Jan 7: 8.64
Jan 8: 4.80
Jan 9: 5.67
Jan 10: 4.50
Jan 11: 17.58
Jan 12: 1.31
Jan 13: 5.78
Jan 14: 4.76
Jan 15: 4.43
Jan 16: 5.32
Jan 17: 4.16
Jan 18: 7.65
Jan 19: 5.98
Jan 20: 7.56
Jan 21: 4.06
Jan 22: 6.43
Jan 23: 5.86
Jan 24: 4.37
Jan 25: 6.51
Jan 26: 5.57
Jan 27: 6.24
Jan 28: 3.96
Total miles for Jan: 157.58
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rheddmobile wrote: »I am so doomed y’all.
My husband and I drove out to Stanky Creek to practice for the 8k run next week, which is the next race in our series. We are so not in shape for this! At least nobody fell in the creek today, which believe me is a thing that has happened to both of us in the past.
Stanky Creek isn’t what a real hardcore trail runner would call technical, but it’s about as technical as trails get around here - ditches, creeks, single track between trees with knotty roots, fallen trees across the creek, and loads of mud and up and down. It’s a serious leg workout compared to the flat, even trails we usually run. Imagine playing hopscotch for an hour straight and you’ve just about got it. Plus the trails are poorly marked and we always get lost and end up doing considerably more than 8k. I’m pretty sure the entire second mile we ran took place in some sort of alternate dimension - we ran back and forth checking the gps against the map, eventually struck out in a random direction on something that looked sort of like a trail but wasn’t, and only escaped because a big, pretty Shepherd dog bounced up to us and showed us the way to the right path! Possibly we were fairy led and the dog broke the spell. We never did see the dog’s owner, just heard him calling for his dog from deep in the woods somewhere.
Regardless the second mile was rootier and hillier than the real second mile, and by the time we were back on the right path we were already wiped. Not a good sign! We took longer and longer walk breaks, cursed the mud a lot, cursed the trail marking a lot, did not curse each other but exchanged some words about each other’s navigational skills (my husband used to be a Ranger Pathfinder. Ironic!) and got lost again but figured it out before going too far. We ran the home stretch hard and then realized we had emerged onto the parking lot from a different trail than the actual race trail. Retraced our steps until we figured out where we had gone wrong, thought about doing a second fast finish on the correct trail but decided the mud was really uncalled for and we would rather look at it than run through it since we still remembered it quite well from last year. We did do the creek jump - it’s a steep muddy downhill, then across the creek at the bottom, which is only about ankle deep but just too far for me to comfortably jump, then a steep muddy scramble up the other side.
My Achilles’ tendon started complaining about all the jumping up and down and over things two thirds of the way through, again not a good sign, and my husband was tripsy because his ankle was bugging him. Race day ought to be fun!
We saw a parade of huge whitetail deer, four of them in a row, evenly spaced, charging across the woods. We also saw a big red tailed hawk fly across the parking lot holding some sort of rodent in one talon. A nuthatch squirked at me, and we heard a solitary very cold frog. I’m also pretty sure I heard a snake go through the leaves across the trail in front of us.
Stanky is theoretically a dirt bike trail and we did see several dirt bikes, as well as two other fools like ourselves, out running practice for the Winter Series. Both looked somewhat lost and dazed.
So the issue with trying to practice for the 8K race is you really need to be able to use the map feature on your watch (if you have it) because it is a zigzag on the three different trail routes that are at Stanky. If you don't know the exact course by heart, then you will get lost. At least come race day, MRTC will have it flagged for you.
And to think...they do an ultra there!3 -
PastorVincent wrote: »
Nope not early. Remember we gots a few a day ahead. And we gotta do the monthly pledge per Stan the Man.0 -
SchweddyGirl wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »I am so doomed y’all.
My husband and I drove out to Stanky Creek to practice for the 8k run next week, which is the next race in our series. We are so not in shape for this! At least nobody fell in the creek today, which believe me is a thing that has happened to both of us in the past.
Stanky Creek isn’t what a real hardcore trail runner would call technical, but it’s about as technical as trails get around here - ditches, creeks, single track between trees with knotty roots, fallen trees across the creek, and loads of mud and up and down. It’s a serious leg workout compared to the flat, even trails we usually run. Imagine playing hopscotch for an hour straight and you’ve just about got it. Plus the trails are poorly marked and we always get lost and end up doing considerably more than 8k. I’m pretty sure the entire second mile we ran took place in some sort of alternate dimension - we ran back and forth checking the gps against the map, eventually struck out in a random direction on something that looked sort of like a trail but wasn’t, and only escaped because a big, pretty Shepherd dog bounced up to us and showed us the way to the right path! Possibly we were fairy led and the dog broke the spell. We never did see the dog’s owner, just heard him calling for his dog from deep in the woods somewhere.
Regardless the second mile was rootier and hillier than the real second mile, and by the time we were back on the right path we were already wiped. Not a good sign! We took longer and longer walk breaks, cursed the mud a lot, cursed the trail marking a lot, did not curse each other but exchanged some words about each other’s navigational skills (my husband used to be a Ranger Pathfinder. Ironic!) and got lost again but figured it out before going too far. We ran the home stretch hard and then realized we had emerged onto the parking lot from a different trail than the actual race trail. Retraced our steps until we figured out where we had gone wrong, thought about doing a second fast finish on the correct trail but decided the mud was really uncalled for and we would rather look at it than run through it since we still remembered it quite well from last year. We did do the creek jump - it’s a steep muddy downhill, then across the creek at the bottom, which is only about ankle deep but just too far for me to comfortably jump, then a steep muddy scramble up the other side.
My Achilles’ tendon started complaining about all the jumping up and down and over things two thirds of the way through, again not a good sign, and my husband was tripsy because his ankle was bugging him. Race day ought to be fun!
We saw a parade of huge whitetail deer, four of them in a row, evenly spaced, charging across the woods. We also saw a big red tailed hawk fly across the parking lot holding some sort of rodent in one talon. A nuthatch squirked at me, and we heard a solitary very cold frog. I’m also pretty sure I heard a snake go through the leaves across the trail in front of us.
Stanky is theoretically a dirt bike trail and we did see several dirt bikes, as well as two other fools like ourselves, out running practice for the Winter Series. Both looked somewhat lost and dazed.
So the issue with trying to practice for the 8K race is you really need to be able to use the map feature on your watch (if you have it) because it is a zigzag on the three different trail routes that are at Stanky. If you don't know the exact course by heart, then you will get lost. At least come race day, MRTC will have it flagged for you.
And to think...they do an ultra there!
Did I know you were in Cordova and forget, or did I never know that? We’re way down south in Riverdale, but I went to high school in Cordova.
We did have a phone with maps, but the image doesn’t really blow up enough to be useful while running, since the trails are very close and the dotted line showing the wrong trail isn’t easy to see on my phone! It seems, looking at an overlay next to our race data from last year, that’s what we did was fall afoul of “April’s turn.” I believe April is the name of the MRTC secretary, and I am guessing she has also been led into fairyland at this exact turn in the trail (which makes me wonder why they don’t mark it!)
Anyway this shows what we did wrong:We did the Tour D’esprit 24 hr race last year and having done that, which is mostly pretty even ground, I can’t imagine running Stanky Creek as an ultra. I can’t make it around once without my legs feeling like I did a thousand squats.
The red is us running the race last year, the orange is what we ran today, and the dark orange represents us running back and forth over the same ground trying to figure out where the silly path was!
Note that if you get off on April’s turn, you may never find your way out - it’s a completely closed loop. As far as I could tell there was no turn here at all. There seems to be a little bit of trail we missed completely.2 -
Oh yeah, April Flanagan. I know A LOT of the MRTC board members and really good friends with one of MRTC's volunteer coordinators. I live over near Bert Ferguson Park.
On your map you started out okay, but you took a right on the purple trail when you should have stayed on the white trail, and then towards the end you took a wrong turn on the red connector trail. You could go out there and for the most part just practice the white trail one last time. That is about 80% of the race. Just follow the white markings on the trees.
Like I said, come race day you will have the course flagged. Lane will say what side of you to keep the flags on, I think they usually have them on the left side. It is a very windy course and it is easy to get lost. But they should have course monitors and 8K race arrows at each trail shift to make sure you don't make wrong turns...unless you are Chris Rayder...some how that dude seems to get lost even with a bike escort lol.6 -
February Challenge has been set up. You can find it here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10782619/february-2020-monthly-running-challenge/p1?new=1
Come set your goal for February!5 -
PastorVincent wrote: »
Nope not early. Remember we gots a few a day ahead. And we gotta do the monthly pledge per Stan the Man.
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SchweddyGirl wrote: »Oh yeah, April Flanagan. I know A LOT of the MRTC board members and really good friends with one of MRTC's volunteer coordinators. I live over near Bert Ferguson Park.
On your map you started out okay, but you took a right on the purple trail when you should have stayed on the white trail, and then towards the end you took a wrong turn on the red connector trail. You could go out there and for the most part just practice the white trail one last time. That is about 80% of the race. Just follow the white markings on the trees.
Like I said, come race day you will have the course flagged. Lane will say what side of you to keep the flags on, I think they usually have them on the left side. It is a very windy course and it is easy to get lost. But they should have course monitors and 8K race arrows at each trail shift to make sure you don't make wrong turns...unless you are Chris Rayder...some how that dude seems to get lost even with a bike escort lol.
Well if you’re Chris you can’t just follow the rest of the runners and go where they go!
So is it SchweddyGirl because of the Breakaway Runners?1 -
Elise4270 wrote: »
Where's February? Who's got it? I mean, I got the "can you eat a quarter pounder a 3 days a week" challenge...
Easy tiger, I need all the days I can get right now so February can wait!!!
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TheMrWobbly wrote: »Elise4270 wrote: »
Where's February? Who's got it? I mean, I got the "can you eat a quarter pounder a 3 days a week" challenge...
Easy tiger, I need all the days I can get right now so February can wait!!!
Agreed! It's hard enough keeping up with one of these threads. I vote for one day early, max 1 -
Did 12k this morning, no hurry, felt kinda tired but tried out some new roads and it was a beautiful run.
I'm frustrated with the pool complex, though. They reworked their sale deals and made it sound great, but no matter how much free time they throw in, the price to get in has doubled. We're going to find other family fun day activities. Today kids are roller skating and I'm drinking tea I just need to schedule time to go by myself and use up the rest of my pool membership card money swimming laps.
January goal 100 miles (stretch goal 200 km)
Upcoming races:
Feb. 1 - CityTrail 5k (#5 of 6)6 -
TheMrWobbly wrote: »I love Egypt @marisap2010 which part are you headed for?
We are going to Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel. Top to bottom, pretty much.
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1/1 – 3.17 miles
1/2 – 5.03 miles
1/4 – 10.01 miles
1/5 – 6.56 miles (trail)
1/6 – 4.14 miles
1/8 – 5.01 miles
1/10 – 5.10 miles
1/11 – 13.54 miles
1/13 – 5.33 miles
1/15 – 5.10 miles (track)
1/17 – 4.38 miles
1/19 – 11 miles
1/21 – 1 mile
1/22 – 5.01 miles
1/23 – 5.01 miles
1/25 – 6.21 miles
1/26 – 5.00 miles
1/27 – 4.17 miles
1/29 – 5.17 miles
109.95 miles completed /100 miles goal
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Has anyone tried this?
Run on the dreadmill for at least 10 minutes, step off, then have a friend blindfold you. Try to walk in place, and you'll run forward instead.
src:
https://www.popsci.com/treadmill-running-illusion/0 -
PastorVincent wrote: »@noblsheep I just heard about the corona virus outbreak. Hope all well and it’s contained quickly. Corona iris.. coronavirus sheesh spell correct. It’s not a beer virus or a flower nor eye.
Oh... is @noblsheep anywhere near that? It sounds horrible.
Hey guys. Haven't been on the forum much since no running. A bit of an update:
I'm not anywhere near Wuhan. The timing of the outbreak was rather unfortunate, since it's Spring Festival holiday and half the country is visiting parents/grandparents, and not where they usually are. That goes for me too - I'm with my mother, and since I only expected to be here for 5 days, I have no running gear and the running routes in the city she lives in are rubbish anyway. The government has extended the official nationwide holiday for an extra three days, and then my company is giving us all another week to go towards containing the virus. I'm currently planning on going back to Beijing on Feb 7, which means no running until then. And none of the gyms are open. Oh well. Staying alive and healthy is more important.
On that note, the virus seems to have become less lethal but more contagious during the last couple of days. But people are being cured and getting out of the hospital, so the worst of the panic has passed. It's been.. an interesting experience to see that kind of mass reaction up close - panic buying of face masks and disinfectants, all kinds of rumors flying around online, older generations entirely clueless because they don't use internet. Anyway, right now all is well with me and my family, friends etc. The closest we're getting to dying is from boredom.16 -
@rheddmobile That sounds like an interesting run. I hope you and DH both stay healthy and enjoy the actual race - and don't get lost on race day.
@noblsheep Glad to hear that you and your family and friends are ok AND that they have figured out how to treat it. Stay well.1 -
1-1 8k slow + resistance bands
1-2 7k slow + yoga
1-3 rest + resistance bands
1-4 7k slow + yoga
1-5 8k slow
1-6 7k easy + resistance bands
1-7 rest + yoga
1-8 7k slow + resistance bands
1-9 7k slow + yoga
1-10 rest + resistance bands
1-11 5k slow + yoga
1-12 7k slow
1-13 7k slow + resistance bands
1-14 rest + yoga
1-15 7k easy + resistance bands
1-16 7k easy + yoga
1-17 7k slow + resistance bands
1-18 rest + yoga
1-19 7k slow
1-20 7k slow + resistance bands
1-21 rest + yoga
1-22 7k easy + resistance bands
1-23 7k easy + yoga
1-24 rest + resistance bands
1-25 7k easy + yoga
1-26 7k easy
1-27 7k moderate + resistance bands
1-28 rest + yoga
1-29 7k slow
January Total: 147k
January Goal: 135k
Cloudy, low 30s F, and no wind today. Some light snow fell on top of some freezing rain last night, so the trail was treacherous. Slow with no broken bones sounded like a good combination to me.
Next year when you pop in here claiming your December 2020 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?
Return to a good running weight of 175 lbs
Run at least 4 5k races
Get a 5k PR
Average at least 138k per month, to meet my Run the Year pledge of 1,020 miles
Run the Year Team: Pavement Pounders6 -
Morning all!
No run yesterday. Bleh. It was freezing rain in the evening and we had errands. When we got home it was still raining so the kids, the dog, and myself snuggled on the couch to watch Kindergarten Cop. I forgot how much I love this movie. My kids have never seen it and I am LOVING explaining the outfits, the humor, the bad cinematography, the silly one-line jokes that aren't actually that funny (if you're an adult anyway). We didn't get to finish the movie because bedtime, but we'll finish it tonight.
The other reason I didn't run yesterday is because my day started out HORRIFICALLY - bad enough that I didn't even feel like posting about it. There was a scenario where I was doing my hair for work, my daughter was asking me something about who knows what, and my son was saying "WHERE ARE MY SOCKS?!" Of course, all of this is happening when we have to leave the house in five minutes - and the dog is just standing there smiling. I felt the flat iron slipping out of my hair and I instinctively gripped it around the barrel so that it would not fall - I held on for way too long. It was set to 400 degrees.
It was at that moment that I knew I would not be running ....
So tonight - we have therapy and tutoring - probably running tomorrow - maybe.12 -
These things are like buses @Camaramandy648 nothing for ages and then several in quick succession. Hopefully the last 'incident' in the queue for a while!
@marisap2010
Fantastic!!! We did the same thing a few years ago using Luxor as a base. The best thing we did was the sunrise balloon ride over the Nile valley - highly recommended!!We are going to Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel. Top to bottom, pretty much.3 -
@noblsheep so glad to hear you're ok! I guess staying healthy is more important than running, but not being able to run sucks, I feel your pain. I guess make the most of the extra free time with family and stave off boredom by catching up on something else you enjoy and rarely have time for.
I had a 9.15am meeting this morning, something I usually manage to avoid. My husband woke me up at 6. I think he had other intentions, but I went "thanks darling, this is great, I'll have time to get my run in, shower and have breakfast before my meeting!" and hit the road! His face was a picture :-D
Out the door before 7. It's been a while since I've done more than the first few minutes of a run in the dark. I started out too fast for what was supposed to be an easy run, but after the first kilometre I decided that as I was running about 1min/km faster than my minimum target HM pace (!!!) and didn't feel like I was dying I would make it a speedwork day even though my plan didn't call for one this week. I have to move my long run forward next week, so not doing speedwork close to that is convenient.
So it was quiet, I was running my run intervals pretty hard for me, could hear myself breathing over my music and storyline. I was glad of my little walk intervals for recovery. Galloway method speedwork is basically intense fartleks. When I reached my turnaround point I was surprised at how little time had passed compared to my usual times on that route, that's how quickly I was running.
As the river park flooded last week and is still covered in mud and debris I took a loop round round the back of the mall. At 7.45am it was pretty dark and there was NOBODY out there. By the way, I play the Zombie Run! app. As I came up the ramp to the bridge to cross the river, there was a really loud growling in my left ear. I was getting attacked by a zombie in the app, but I swear my brain decided I was getting attacked by a large dog irl. I have never jumped so high or felt my heart race so hard. Now I know what people mean when they say they jumped out of their skin.
Anyway, when I finished my run I hit stop on my watch, expecting (for those of you who don't follow all my ramblings on Strava, I have nicknamed it Garmeen short for Garmin the drama queen, cause it often claims my HR is high and demands I spend a week recovering even from easy runs) it to say something along the lines of "call an ambulance then get in bed for a month", only to read 'Recovery 3 hours'. Wth? 3 hours? I almost died of fright back there, I must have been in at least zone 16! Looked at the workout, it says I was in zone 1 for 30 minutes, zone 2 for 11 and zone 3 for 1. I can only assume it thought we were still in bed and hadn't had its coffee! That also led it to claim I'd only burned 183 calories on a 4 mile run at 5k race pace. Umm yeah, no way José I'm eating the extra nachos today no matter what it says!
Funniest of all, just after my zombie scare I came across a guy with two small dogs off their leashes. The chihuahua decided it wanted to attack me and chased me for a moment trying to bite my ankles. I was so wound I just stopped and yelled at it "WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?", made it squeal and run away. The owner was in hysterics. He's lucky I didn't kick the bloody thing and send it flying! Don't get me wrong, I like dogs but not loose dogs that chase runners, no matter how small they may be. Or ones on extendible leads that try to trip runners up, come to that.
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January Goal: 100 Miles
1/1: 6.41 miles
1/2: 6.10 miles
1/5: 4.55 miles
1/7: 3.55 miles
1/8: 6.10 miles
1/9: 6.02 miles
1/12: 10.03 miles
1/14: 6.11 miles
1/15: 6.22 miles
1/16: 6.21 miles
1/19: 9.31 miles
1/22: 5.75 miles
1/23: 6.03 miles
1/26: 10.4 miles
1/28: 6.22 miles
1/29: 6.05 miles
105.06/100 miles completed for January
105.06/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders
I ran 6 miles this morning. That put me over my goal for January. It ended up being a pretty nice run. At the beginning of the run I really thought it was going to suck. I had planned to run at lunch today since the weather was calling for 35°F feels like 24°F with 20 mph winds gusting up to 35. I'm not a big fan of wind or cold and so I thought I would just wait until lunchtime when it was supposed to be mostly cloudy with only 8-10 mph winds and 40°F. I don't have as much time to run at lunch as I do in the morning, but I was close to my goal and not really training for anything specific so I figured it wouldn't hurt me to just run 3 miles today. But I woke up around 3 am to use the bathroom and never got back to sleep. After a couple of hours of tossing and turning I decided to go ahead and get up. When I looked at my weather app it was 40°F feels like 34° with 8 mph winds. I didn't hear any wind gusting and it seemed nice enough plus the lunchtime forecast looked to be about the same so I decided I would go ahead and run. I had washed my flipbelt yesterday and it was still wet so I had to carry my phone in my pants pocket. I thought that would really annoy me, but it actually didn't. I wore some new tights I got for Christmas and the phone fit nicely in the side pocket without banging around on my leg. The first mile or so was kind of iffy. My left contact kept bothering me. I couldn't decide if I had something in my eye or maybe I had a small tear in the contact but it was really annoying me. Eventually though I guess I got used to it and once I settled into the run it was pretty pleasant. I did realize when I got home that I had put the contact in upside down (or inside out?) and that was the problem. So even though I thought it wouldn't be a great run it turned out to be really good. My pace wasn't exceptional, but not bad for a windy run. I got to my goal and I got my 100 mile badge on RTY. And I will be able to enjoy my lunch break without having to rush to get home and changed and run and shower and change again. I am kind of tired now though since I slept so poorly. Maybe I'll nap at lunchtime.
2020 races:
5/16/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon11 -
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@katharmonic I had a free week at a gym that had that kind of fancy treadmill and I really enjoyed it. I felt the runs went faster too, but I'm not sure if that sensation would continue if I was using it all the time.
@rheddmobile I love the way you write about your runs! When I read your posts, I'm always wishing I was running (even if I've already run that day).
1/1: 1.5m
1/2: 3m
1/3: 2m
1/4: 3m
1/5: 3.5m
1/6: 2.5m
1/7: 3.25m
1/8: 4m
1/9: 3m
1/10: 2.25m
1/11: 3m
1/12: 5.75m
1/13: .75m
1/16: 3.5m
1/17: 3.5m
1/18: 5m
1/19: 6m
1/20: 2.25m
1/21: 3.5m
1/22: 5m
1/23: 3.5m
1/24: 2m
1/25: 3m
1/26: 7.75m
1/27: 8m
1/28: 4m
1/29: 3m
My plan today was to run six miles and reach my goal of 100 for the month, but I just couldn't get myself motivated this morning and wound up sitting on the couch reading reddit for a big chunk of my planned running time. So . . . just three miles today. But there's two more days in the month!9
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