March 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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PastorVincent wrote: »Camaramandy648 wrote: »I can’t do the quote thing for each answer here because I’m short on time BUT here is the schedule for the last seven (or is it six now?) long runs until marathon day (April 25!)
This weekend: 12 miles
Fifth weekend (also Portland): 20 miles
Fourth weekend out: 12 miles
Third weekend out: 22 miles
Second weekend out: 12 miles
Last weekend out: 8 miles
I think yeah, only six long runs left!
@enaliba yes! I have never been so my *hope* is to get up earlier than my twin brother and get a few miles in. He is not a runner .... he’s more of a beer, wine, and food guru and he loves his cigarettes (i understand - i used to smoke too). Also I am slow and a 20 mile run would take HOURS. This wouldn’t be a thing but I haven’t seen him in four years and I don’t want to take one second away from spending time with him. So ...
Would it be just absolutely stupid of me to do the 20 mile run THIS weekend or the weekend I get home instead of Portland weekend? I also need a cutback weekend to coincide with the weekend that i have the kids for Spring break, which is actually the weekend i get back.
So can i manipulate the schedule to 20 this weekend, however and as many as I can next weekend, then another cutback, then 22? What is the best way to maneuver this?
Also - @LoveyChar remember everyone said that after they run a marathon they fall into a drifting state until the next thing. You’ll pull yourself back up! And. I want that cookie. I’m still trying the plant based diet to see if it really does help with inflammation etc ..... tomorrow is no-tuna, tuna salad. I’ll letcha know how it goes rotfl
My son is still miserable and i am due back at work tomorrow.
My sister is LOSING HER MIND over coronavirus. I’m not sure I buy into mass hysteria, but my concerns rest with the legitimacy of the issue. There’s a part where we need to do all that we can (wash. Your. Hands.) but also.... i really don’t want to be quarantined.... but also .... people that could die from the virus would be grateful if it were contained. It’s not just me I have to care about.
But also.
I don’t want them to cancel the marathon and I don’t want to have to miss out on Portland.
We shall see.
So are you asking about doing 20 this week, and 12 next? That is a possible option. You need to judge your own body and condition and work from there. It is certainly a reasonable option. As is just skipping the run if you must.
@PastorVincent yes! Does it make sense to do that?
I have to manage my IT Band - but i think if i keep being smart i will be able to manage it!0 -
@Tramboman you are really kicking butt! You are so consistent! I think you are going to exceed your goals and surprise yourself. Any thoughts on what your fourth race will be?0
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3/2 2.28 miles C25K Wk5Day1
3/5 2.8 miles C25K Wk5Day2
3/9 2.9 miles C25K Wk5Day2
3/11 2.4 miles C25K Wk5Day3
I started out feeling very sluggish and my legs were super heavy feeling. I don’t know what that’s about except I have been slightly sick lately. I walked twice on both sections of the runs because of uphill so I will have to repeat this day. I’m not ready for a 5K this weekend anyway, so it’s not bad for me that the 5K was canceled, although I was looking forward to it even though I would have had to walk much of it.
1. Run the days.
2. Loose 20 pounds in 2020.
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@mbaker566 - I am glad the run gave you a little sense of peace. It looks beautiful. I suspect your friends need you too as much as Old Girl and Speed Demon do but it is good that you have them there every day to remind you that they need you and love you.7
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Coming back after a long weekend, so there's no way I can catch up on everything. Nice pre-sunrise run today, but I can tell it is getting warmer because I did see more people today than usual.
3/1: 9m
3/2: 1.75m
3/3: 3.25m
3/4: 6m
3/5: 3.25m
3/6: 5.5m
3/7: 5m
3/9: 1.25m
3/11: 6m7 -
Camaramandy648 wrote: »@Tramboman you are really kicking butt! You are so consistent! I think you are going to exceed your goals and surprise yourself. Any thoughts on what your fourth race will be?
Thank you. That's another benefit of being retired.
I want to do the Solon Days 5k in July.
I also like to schedule about one per month from April to October. Just waiting for the schedule to be finalized.2 -
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Isn't Portland a beer, wine, booze, food guru place? Last time I was there I think we pretty much ate our way through! I love it there and yes there are some gorgeous places to run. I especially like running along the rivers!
@bearly63 - I am a firm believer that pups know when we are in pain or healing and want to help. Either that or they are totally opportunistic when they see us lying around and can get an extra snuggle in! When I had my hand surgery Hobbes had to lie across my lap helping to support my bandaged hand and was oh so gentle when he moved around me. Very unlike his normal crazy self.
@duck_puddle - what is OTS? Overtraining syndrome? Sounds like something more serious.
LOL my pup is broken (she’s known as Demon Spawn...). When I had hand surgery she started gnawing on my split like I was a walking rawhide bone.
And yes-overtraining syndrome. Over a period of months it got to a point where it has gotten my hormones and nervous system a little out of whack. And my period of training ended with a marathon a month ago (so recovery from that event is compounding overall recovery).
So it’s just taking time for all that to get back to “normal”. But little by little it’s getting there. Things like my resting HR (which is typically 55-60) peaked at 84 and after a month of doing almost nothing, it’s down to 69. Still a ways to go but progress.
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March Goal: 90 Miles
3/1: 7.62 miles
3/2: 5.05 miles
3/3: 5.02 miles
3/5: 5.05 miles
3/8: 7.60 miles
3/10: 5.32 miles
3/11: 5.26 miles
40.92/90 miles completed for March
240/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders
Today's run was an easy 5.26 miles. It was a great run. The weather was nice at 63°F. It was humid, but there was enough wind to cool things off but not so much to be difficult to run in so it wasn't too bad. I really enjoyed the run. It was uneventful, but one of those runs where I just got lost in my thoughts and enjoyed my own company for a while.
@emmamcgarity My HM PR is 2:15 (my official PR for that race was 2:12, but the course was only 12.78 miles but I kept running until I hit 13.1 as did several others). So I am hoping to get around 2:12 this time. 2:10 would be awesome but under 2:15 will be a PR. I am trying to keep in mind that the last PR was in February and this will be in May so the weather may affect my pace some.
@mbaker566 Looks like a beautiful run. I'm glad you choose to stay.
2020 races:
5/16/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon7 -
got our run in
I wasn't going to take speed demon but i put on my running belt and she started crying. so we went. the plan called for hills so i went to a local park. hills but not nearly as bad as remember. sunday will be worse. by at least double.
she wanted to go fast. she cried whenever i stopped for a picture. we saw deer. the deer were very curious about speed demon. we stopped at a few small waterfalls. and sunset. it was a beautiful run. it helped some, the physical struggle, working thru some of the empathy of someone who feels he has nothing left but to stand in front of a train rather than hurt their family again. i know that pain.
i told my friend at dinner the other night, i couldn't do that because someone would take my Old Girl, there might be fights over her...but no one could take Speed Demon being a recovering feral. no one i know could deal with her. so even on my darkest days, i have to stay. I stay and run in those that can't like my friends who didn't have any fight left for them.
Looks like a beautiful run in all the ways.
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@mbaker566 I'm sorry about your friend, very sad.0
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20 hour fast and I won't be able to get a long run in with little man wanting out of stroller but it will be a good run, nonetheless. I'm excited to mow grass tonight, more good cardio. I love mowing the grass, maybe I'm weird. Hope that everyone has a great day ❣️4
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3/1: 10 miles
3/2: 3 miles
3/3: 5 miles
3/4-3/6: In bed with flu
3/7: 2.25 miles
3/8: 3 miles
3/9: 3 miles
3/10: Total body strength- 35 minutes
3/11: 4 miles
Catching up on all the conversations. This board is prolific! So as of today my half marathon is still on with 17 days to go. If they do have to, I hope they postpone instead of cancel. Not only was this my first half in a while, it is supposed to be my mom’s very first 5k, just shy of her 70th birthday.
Dusted off the double running stroller. My kids have just about outgrown it but I’m preparing for the probably inevitable fact their schools will close and I’ll have to figure out what to do with them for a few weeks. I’m thinking lots of runs and walks where we don’t touch anything..4 -
mandabeth34 wrote: »3/1: 10 miles
3/2: 3 miles
3/3: 5 miles
3/4-3/6: In bed with flu
3/7: 2.25 miles
3/8: 3 miles
3/9: 3 miles
3/10: Total body strength- 35 minutes
3/11: 4 miles
Catching up on all the conversations. This board is prolific! So as of today my half marathon is still on with 17 days to go. If they do have to, I hope they postpone instead of cancel. Not only was this my first half in a while, it is supposed to be my mom’s very first 5k, just shy of her 70th birthday.
Dusted off the double running stroller. My kids have just about outgrown it but I’m preparing for the probably inevitable fact their schools will close and I’ll have to figure out what to do with them for a few weeks. I’m thinking lots of runs and walks where we don’t touch anything..
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Duck_Puddle wrote: »Isn't Portland a beer, wine, booze, food guru place? Last time I was there I think we pretty much ate our way through! I love it there and yes there are some gorgeous places to run. I especially like running along the rivers!
@bearly63 - I am a firm believer that pups know when we are in pain or healing and want to help. Either that or they are totally opportunistic when they see us lying around and can get an extra snuggle in! When I had my hand surgery Hobbes had to lie across my lap helping to support my bandaged hand and was oh so gentle when he moved around me. Very unlike his normal crazy self.
@duck_puddle - what is OTS? Overtraining syndrome? Sounds like something more serious.
LOL my pup is broken (she’s known as Demon Spawn...). When I had hand surgery she started gnawing on my split like I was a walking rawhide bone.
And yes-overtraining syndrome. Over a period of months it got to a point where it has gotten my hormones and nervous system a little out of whack. And my period of training ended with a marathon a month ago (so recovery from that event is compounding overall recovery).
So it’s just taking time for all that to get back to “normal”. But little by little it’s getting there. Things like my resting HR (which is typically 55-60) peaked at 84 and after a month of doing almost nothing, it’s down to 69. Still a ways to go but progress.
Interesting about the hormones. I have always only heard of OTS affecting muscles, tendons and the like. I had an issue a year or so ago that was not so much related to overtraining as it was from stress; work stress and stress from not eating enough to support all my activities. My cortisol levels dropped to near 0 and stayed there. I resolved the work stress by retiring and have been carefully eating more.
So make sure you are eating well too!5 -
@skippygirlsmom here it is!2
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@skippygirlsmom i tried, but @eleanorhawkins beat me to it. Lol. Welcome back!1
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yay @skippygirlsmom!1
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Update: All the schools have been shut down, it's crazy in the stores... half marathon has officially been postponed to a date they aren't announcing yet. Looks like everyone has officially lost their mind. Party-at-home time!
@mbaker566 running really helped me a few years ago in dealing with the suicide-death of a friend of mine. She had been a mentor to me through dark times in my life, so it was particularly difficult to find out that she had fallen prey to the very same lying voices that she had helped me defeat. So for me, music, running, prayer, talking to a friend, diving into a sewing project... and the passage of time, have helped. It's never going to not hurt, but it changes over time, hard to explain although I'm sure others have better words for it. One thing that gives me strength is this fierce stubbornness that I see in myself, and I see in some of her daughter's social media posts, is this idea that "that *kitten* isn't going to work on me; I'm sticking around; I'm going to fight and I'm going to get the most out of this life". It initially came out during the anger stage of grief when I was mad at what she had done to her family. But now it's more of a peaceful thought. Wow, I'm rambling... and not sure the internet with strangers is the best place for these thoughts, but if it helps someone, so be it.13 -
Morning all.
Downloaded the Hal Higgdon app last night. I guess I'm officially training for a marathon... I'm going to get my run streak to 90 days, cause I've enjoyed doing it, then I will follow the plan. I know rest is vital, especially when doing those distances. I'm contemplating swimming on those rest days as an active rest.
I've already looked ahead to my longest runs, and I think im free all those weekends, of if not can do in the days around it, hopefully.
Will see how it goes. Is 4hrs OK for a marathon? I had to pick an approximate time, and so I doubled my HM time, though I'm definitely in better condition now than I was before the HM. There is no official cut off time for the marathon, though the marshals finish after 4.5 hrs.
So this morning I ran 5k, then did a strength training. Now work.
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March - goal 160k
Mar 1 - 4k
Mar 2 - 8. 1k
Mar 3 - 2.5k
Mar 4 - 8k
Mar 5 - 5k
Mar 6 - 6.5k
Mar 7 - 14.1k
Mar 8 - 5.1k
Mar 9 - 8k
Mar 10 - 5k
Mar 11 - 8k
Mar 12 - 5k
total 79.2k
Run streak - 83 days7 -
@Avidkeo I think four hours is a good time for a marathon.1
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I ran in 100+ degrees of heat last summer almost every single day. It's hot, hot, hot here already and getting hotter and I am not looking forward to the heat.4
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@Avidkeo I can get the online calculators to line up and predict all of my other race distances, but the marathon predictions are off by almost 40 minutes. I think they assume you're perfectly trained or something.
https://runsmartproject.com/calculator/3 -
@Avidkeo yay, you go girl! I'm impressed (and secretly a little envious lol). Re: swimming.... I started going once a week (usually). I am a bad, slow swimmer but I find it useful for low intensity resistance cardio. It also seems to really help get the knots out of my calf muscles. BUT I often feel it in my quads, it gives them a good workout.
Marathon times... I'll be looking for one with a 7hr cut-off when I eventually get brave enough for that level of commitment.
@polskagirl01 really really sucks about your race. And school. And general mass hysteria. They closed the schools in Madrid and a couple of other places today for 2 weeks, and as soon as they announced that on Monday all the supermarkets were out of milk and chicken within hours. Makes more sense than toilet paper though I guess.
If they do cancel mine I will probably run the HM distance, but not at race pace. Then, I dunno. We have a hiking holiday in the north booked for Easter week. We're not sure what to do about that, the idea of flying isn't very appealing right now. We might drive up. Depends how things play out over the next week or so.
I'm also signed up for a 5k this Sunday and a 7k on April 19th, which are part of a local series. No word about them yet.
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@Avidkeo 4.5 hours seems really hardcore for a cutoff! A lot of fit women and even slower men run five hour marathons.2
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polskagirl01 wrote: »@Avidkeo I can get the online calculators to line up and predict all of my other race distances, but the marathon predictions are off by almost 40 minutes. I think they assume you're perfectly trained or something.
https://runsmartproject.com/calculator/
The race predictions for me are off no matter what calculator I use. My PR is 4:38 and some think I can go as fast as 3:23!1 -
@Avidkeo i saw somewhere (Can’t remember where) that whatever prediction you have, add 20 minutes for your first marathon.
I find McMillan to be pretty close for me - and the 20 minute addition for my first was also pretty much dead on.
My Garmin thinks I should have finished both marathons almost 90 minutes faster than I did (it also thinks the rest of my races should be rerun faster than my fastest ever mile ever recorded at a max HR 20 beats over what It “should” be. So I’m unsure why Garmin thinks I’m dogging it so badly in races. It knows how fast (slow) I am. And it’s LT estimate is pretty much dead on. So...???
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