March 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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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..
sounds like you've gotten some good runs in. Glad that you are feeling better😊0 -
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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