March 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

janejellyroll · March 2020

@rheddmobile I had the same experience with training for the half -- for me it was great practice in more regularly running in the 8-10 mile range. I needed the motivation to run longer and training for a half provided that.

Camaramandy648 · March 2020

Annnnnddddddddd my hours just got cut.......

I tried to say no thank you earlier but they just called me to say they are not accepting my rejection of their ideas

kimlight2 · March 2020

My goals for 2020 are to stay injury free and healthy. I am also possibly going to try again for my first half marathon.

3/2 - 3.1 miles
3/3 - 3.9 miles
3/4 - 2.6 miles
3/5 - 4.1 miles
3/6 - 2.5 miles
3/9 - 4.0 miles
3/10 - 2.2 miles
3/11 - 3.0 miles
3/12 - 2.5 miles
3/14 - 8 miles total
3/16 - 3.1 miles
3/17 - 2.3 miles

Total- 41.3 miles - 2.6 miles behind for the month.

Had 2 wet rainy runs in the park in a row and less than 12 hours apart. Just not feeling it.

March goal : 80 miles
Plan goal: 86 miles

Allowing some leeway for bad weather and life happening.

Races:
March 14:
St. Malachi 2 mile and 5 mile (Done and Done)
May 16:
Cleveland Marathon Half and 5k
June 13 - 14:
Run and Ride Cedar Point 5k or Quarter Marathon
September 20:
Cleveland Hero's Run 5 miler
December 5:
Santa Hustle Cedar Point 5k

kimlight2 · March 2020

I am working from home for the foreseeable future which is fine except my Mom and son are home too so I keep getting interrupted. My Mom is already stir crazy. She emptied out my son's room and washed the walls down. If nothing else if I stay out of her way my house will be spotless LOL.

With all of the canceled races I am glad I haven't entered my half yet. I have 2 backup races later in the year so we will see.

Tried to go grocery shopping before logging in online this morning but couldn't find everything I needed. Oh well, better luck tomorrow.

Stay safe and healthy everyone.

Avidkeo · March 2020

Hugs everyone! It's so frustrating! Wlno word on cancellations here yet, but we only have 12 cases so far in the whole country. I'm expecting to hear that Parkrun is going to be cancelled but no word on that yet. And no word on the Marathon on the 1st July. Hopefully it will be over by then?

I had a "rest" day yesterday, went and played squash with hubby. Was fantastic till I whacked myself on the shin with the racket!

5k run today. I'm still fighting off an upper respiratory track infection that's hanging around my nose and throat so the run felt a little harder than usual to start. I'm really enjoying this build up.

Eta: I posted too soon

TheMrWobbly · March 2020

Right with you @Camaramandy648

Our big meeting is tomorrow and I will either be offered a 40% pay cut or a box to carry my stuff home. Things always work out in the end so not losing sleep over it.

PastorVincent · March 2020

Sorry @Camaramandy648

PastorVincent · March 2020

So PGH Marathon is dead, dead, dead.

I have the choice of a virtual race or a refund. Ah well. Not like it was a surprise. Not sure what that will do to my coach's plans yet. She mentioned she was excited that we had extra time to work on things so that sounds scary.

ContraryMaryMary · March 2020

PastorVincent wrote: »

So PGH Marathon is dead, dead, dead.

I have the choice of a virtual race or a refund. Ah well. Not like it was a surprise. Not sure what that will do to my coach's plans yet. She mentioned she was excited that we had extra time to work on things so that sounds scary.

My coach is furiously rewriting plans. I see a lot of work in my future!!

quilteryoyo · March 2020

hamsterwheel6 wrote: »

I do like your idea though @rheddmobile We should all pick a date and run whatever distance we are ready for that day, and post our results.

I think that's a great idea!

Today, I did a treadmill run. I went slow, but the first mile and a half or so were horrible. Lead Legs was a thing today. Anyway, it did get better and I managed 4 miles running and an extra mile of warm up and cool down walking.

MegaMooseEsq · March 2020

Minnesota largely shut down yesterday - take out and delivery only at restaurants, all “public accommodations” are closed (a local paper defined this as anywhere you go to spend money and have fun with other people), k-12 schools close tomorrow, government services (including the courts) are at least rolling back services. My husband’s last work trip scheduled for the month was canceled, as was the race I was thinking to do at the end of May, which doesn’t bode well for the two or three races I was considering in the mean time. So it goes! We live in interesting times.

On the silver-ish lining side, the owner of my gym said that if they had to close, people could come by and check out equipment, so I got one of those big resistance bands and two kettlebells - 16k and 20k. He’s said that all workouts will be posted online and coaches are available for questions and modifications and please please please don’t put your membership on hold if you can possibly afford it if want us to reopen. >.< I really feel for small business owners right now, that’s for sure. I never even went to the new bakery on the corner of my block until yesterday morning, but I really wanted to give them some support.

No run today because carrying those kettlebells into the house made my knee hurt. I’m actually in a moderately good mood right now, no idea why. Knee allowing I’ll definitely run tomorrow!

LoveyChar · March 2020

@Camaramandy648 I am so sorry...

@TheMrWobbly I'm sorry for your daughter. Nothing is worse in the world than knowing your child is suffering. I hope she recovers quickly. About your job, you have an optimistic attitude despite the circumstances. I'm sorry...

This is out of hand at this point. The option for those that choose it could or should be to stay in, order grocery delivery, deny guests to their home and wait this thing out. For the rest of us it's ridiculous. They're talking about making school online the remainder of the school year, which might work out okay. But all extracurriculars are cancelled for the school year along with everything else.

LoveyChar · March 2020

@Camaramandy648 And thank you for the suggestion. I still have to buy the ingredients but I'll let you know how it turns out.

MegaMooseEsq · March 2020

@LoveyChar: I don’t want to get into a whole thing here, but I think you might benefit from reading a bit more about how diseases like this spread. I’m not staying home to keep myself healthy - I’m doing it to help, in my very, very small way, to keep everyone else healthy, and to try and remove as much burden from the healthcare system as I can. That strategy only works if a majority of the population follows it, whether they want to or not. I can’t say that every single decision made by every single governing body is correct, but from what I’ve read, this really is the best way that we know of to get this thing under control.

In any case, let’s keep on subject - running, and adorable pet pictures!

ETA: Sorry for all the edits. It’s been a long week. I think we’re all just doing our best here.

Avidkeo · March 2020

MegaMooseEsq wrote: »

LoveyChar wrote: »

@Camaramandy648 I am so sorry...

@TheMrWobbly I'm sorry for your daughter. Nothing is worse in the world than knowing your child is suffering. I hope she recovers quickly. About your job, you have an optimistic attitude despite the circumstances. I'm sorry...

This is out of hand at this point. The option for those that choose it could or should be to stay in, order grocery delivery, deny guests to their home and wait this thing out. For the rest of us it's ridiculous. They're talking about making school online the remainder of the school year, which might work out okay. But all extracurriculars are cancelled for the school year along with everything else.

I don’t want to get into a whole thing here, but I think you might benefit from reading a bit more about how diseases like this spread. I’m not staying home to keep myself healthy - I’m doing it to help, in my very, very small way, to keep everyone else healthy, and to try and remove as much burden from the healthcare system as I can. That strategy only works if a majority of the population follows it, whether they want to or not. I can’t say that every single decision made by every single governing body is correct, but from what I’ve read, this really is the best way that we know of to get this thing under control.

This x100. Here in NZ our cases jumped from 12 to 20 overnight. So by the weekend that's likely to be 40,then 80,then 160.

The growth in cases is exponential. So within 2 weeks, its not a couple of hundred, it's a couple of thousand, in a country of 5 million.

We only have 220 ventilators in NZ. That's it. Maximum. So as the number increases, the deaths will as well.

My worry isn't me. It isn't my immediate family. Its my Inlaws, both over 70 and my FIL is tetraplaegic. He spent a week in hospital last year. Its my mum with chronic bronchitis. It's all my patients that I could potentially be affecting.

katharmonic · March 2020

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
03/01/20 :::: 4.1 :::: 4.1
03/02/20 :::: 3.9 :::: 8.0
03/03/20 :::: 3.0 :::: 11.0
03/04/20 :::: 3.3 :::: 14.3
03/05/20 :::: 5.0 :::: 19.4
03/06/20 :::: 3.2 :::: 22.5
03/07/20 :::: 2.3 :::: 24.8
03/08/20 :::: 1.3 :::: 26.1
03/09/20 :::: 4.3 :::: 30.5
03/10/20 :::: 2.0 :::: 32.5
03/11/20 :::: 1.5 :::: 34.0
03/12/20 :::: 1.5 :::: 35.5
03/13/20 :::: 1.5 :::: 37.1
03/14/20 :::: 3.2 :::: 40.3
03/15/20 :::: 7.0 :::: 47.3
03/16/20 :::: 2.2 :::: 49.5
03/17/20 :::: 3.9 :::: 53.4

Day 1 of work from home - mixed results so far. I let myself sleep in a little until the dog got demanding. After breakfast and coffee I decided I should just try to exhaust said dog so I could get my work done. We went on a lovely hike and practiced being a good girl who sits and walks nicely.

Then I worked for several hours, but not super productively. My neighbors' driveway was being replaced so there was lots of loud noise as they dug out and releveled. The dog was not as content as I had hoped and wanted to go in and out multiple times. I don't have a good home office set up so I need to work on that. Anyway I then went out to meet a friend for a safe-distance from each other run. I was so happy to see her, she is someone I truly admire as a person and running mentor and it was so nice to run and talk and catch up. It was lovely to take a break.

Back home to more work. Still working. I am not loving this "spring break" so far.

The next two races I was signed up for are cancelled as well. A couple I was considering are likely cancelled. I've been debating a couple of races in June and July but will likely hold off a bit before committing at this point. So the only remaining thing on my calendar is not until September.

PastorVincent · March 2020

I walked out of a set of chats and went for a run. Needed to unplug. Juggling what to do with a congregation of folks which includes every age from newborn to 90, many healthy, some on chemo, and etc in the face of plague is challenging. I literally told everyone "I am unplugging all technology and going for a run" and left. They knew me well enough to know I meant it too.

Was good. Did 10 miles, was overdressed but did not die and stayed wide of the handful of other people out walking and such. I was on mainly back roads so the only people I saw were walking dogs and such, maybe 4.

When we regrouped later things were much clearer, and we have a plan at least for this week. For a church is it not as simple as "just meet online" or whatever. We have people that need food, and other supplies. People that need rides to medical appointments and such. We might not be "first responders" as some see it, but often we are the ones left when everyone else leaves.

We need to spread love, help the helpless, and still do our part to keep separate. We are far from having all things figured out but old fashioned phone trees are being resurrected at the very least and of course, all services are online. That was the easy part. The rest with God's help we will get worked out.

Thank goodness I went for that run though. Some times you just need to break away from it all and empty your head so ideas can flow back in.

So, my advice this night from my little bunker in the war on disease is: take time to unplug. Turn off the news/phone/etc and read a book, go for a run (if you can), whatever it takes for your mental health. You can not help anyone if you are drowning yourself.

rheddmobile · March 2020

I got in 9 rage miles at Shelby Farms. I say rage miles because it was only planned to be 10k. Didn’t feel like running - or doing anything other than staying in bed in fact - got out there, didn’t feel like stopping. Then the rangers locked us in! I’ve been late getting back from a run before and had to drive past the locked “in” gate but never have they locked the “out” gate too! We weren’t that late, either, and the park was still crowded. People were driving up over the landscaping to get around the gates down by the Fed Ex center. It has rained a lot so there was some serious damage done. We ended up finding a gate that was still open down by Mullins Station but it took us twenty minutes of driving around trying various locked exits.

So, anyway, part of my rage was that I guess this is going to be my last run at the park. Just too many people, big families walking side by side and it wasn’t even slightly possible to maintain a safe distance when passing on the trails. It’s far enough from home that I also need to pee and the bathrooms were crowded with women shoulder to shoulder. I guess parks are one of the few things left open and the kids are home so everyone is headed to the parks. Since I have a seven percent chance of dying if I get Coronavirus I can’t play around with it. Some people were completely disregarding personal space, others were going out of their way trying to open a pull door using only their elbows (does not work), and one older lady had a mask around her neck but wasn’t wearing it.

Once we got out onto the Greenline it was okay, mostly bicycles. The casual park goers won’t walk that far. So possibly we can find a place to park on the Greenline (we have parked at Starbucks before) and avoid the park altogether. That just leaves needing a restroom. Again, Starbucks works, but I think they have gone to driveup only. There are too many people around to just crouch in the bushes.

Parking lot full as we drove up, never seen it like this except on weekends:

As runs go it was pretty good. We saw the usual herds of deer. Deer are starting to shed their winter coats! Mockingbirds are starting to sing in the trees lining the Greenline. We also saw a leprechaun on the drive down there! A little girl and her dad had dressed up and were standing in their front yard with a sign for rush hour traffic. I was going the wrong direction to see the sign but they made me smile.

Incidentally there really wasn’t any rush hour traffic, even though we drove through the main drag of the traffic corridor at just after 5 pm. A lot of people must be working from home.

quilteryoyo · March 2020

Love the pet pictures. I'm going to have to find a cute one of my Tippy and post it.

@PastorVincent I'm glad to hear that your church is working on plans to make sure those in need aren't forgotten during this time. Also glad you were able to get out and clear your head. Being a pastor is hard. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

@rheddmobile That is a LOT of people in the park. Too bad a lot of them weren't trying to maintain their distance from each other. AND, so weird about the park gates being locked. With the damage, I would guess they will reconsider that decision in the future.

LoveyChar · March 2020

I have heard absolutely nothing about my Marathon at the beginning of June and I'm hoping I do not. I did purchase insurance on the race, though, even though I am not sure if I would need it under the current circumstances, assuming money would just be refunded anyway.

TheMrWobbly · March 2020

Many things are changing and many things will change in the current climate. Things will be tougher than normal which you may consider a sacrifice on your part. We are being asked to be sensible, look after each other and tough it out for a period of time. All for what? Well, so a few million people across the globe don't die - kind of worth it. I expect my situation to get a lot tougher as I work in travel, it won't change the fact I have an amazing family, great friends and reasonably good health. I'm going to stick with those things whatever else changes and make the most of what we do have. It really is, could be, and has been, a lot worse for many so keep smiling people! At the very least it makes others wonder what you've been up to! 😊

mbaker566 · March 2020

can't contribute to the running but you know i'm always down for the pet pics.
still have to work both jobs. allergies are bothering me so people are trying to avoid me. someone in my small city was diagnosed so i'm monitoring my symptoms. there are only so many places to shop and socialize.

this little guy should be going to his forever home friday

oh i just saw they cancelled Barkley's

Tramboman · March 2020

3-1 7k moderate
3-2 7k thresholdish + resistance bands
3-3 7k moderate
3-4 rest
3-5 11k slow
3-6 7k moderate
3-7 7k easy
3-8 7k threshold
3-9 11k easy
3-10 rest
3-11 7k moderate
3-12 7k moderate
3-13 11k slow
3-14 7k moderate
3-15 8k slow
3-16 7k easy
3-17 rest
3-18 7k slow

March Total: 118k
March Goal: 170k

January Total: 161k
February Total: 167k

2020 Total through February: 328k

Cloudy and upper 30s F today. Knees were hurting even before I started the run. Weren't too bad when I finished.

Stay well, everyone, and take care or yourselves and others as best as you are able.

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
Stretch goal: If I can average 169k per month, I can run 2020K in 2020

Run the Year Team: Pavement Pounders

2020 races:
4-25 Shine the Light 5k, Twinsburg, OH
5-23 Race for the Parks 5k, Hudson OH
6-20 Freedom Run 5k, Aurora, OH

janejellyroll · March 2020

I'm feeling grateful for my outdoor running habit today, as they closed all the common areas in my apartment yesterday -- including the gym. I wasn't surprised, as I heard from people in other apartment buildings that this was already happening for them.

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: 6m
3/12: 3m
3/13: 3.5m
3/14: 6m
3/15: 11m
3/16: 2.25m
3/17: 3m
3/18: 6m

hamsterwheel6 · March 2020

Went out for the usual 10k today, ended up doing almost 8 miles at a good pace too - 3 of those miles at 9:45ish!. Felt good, and I had more time today since I'm going to be working from home...My job is not the easiest to do from home though. But it is what it is.
So glad our parks and green ways still open. There were not any more out today than usual, which is great for the situation we are in. @rheddmobile It has to be tough I'm sure.

Hang in there everyone...we can all get through this, sacrifice and help keep others safe. I'm in the high risk category, but even if I weren't we all do what we have to for the common good.

Much love to all

kgirlhart · March 2020

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
3/12: 5.25 miles
3/14: 9.05 miles
3/16: 5.55 miles
3/17: 5.35 miles
3/18: 5.02 miles

71.14/90 miles completed for March

270.23/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders

I got up and ran 5 miles this morning. I kind of didn't want to get up and get going, but I'm glad I did. We had thunderstorms all night and I have one dog that really hates thunder. She barked and whined a lot and kept me up. The other two were fine, but Pup was not happy. So it was a rough night. But when I got up this morning it had stopped raining so I decided to go ahead and run. There is a chance of thunderstorms again tonight and also in the morning so I figured it would be better to run today and take tomorrow as a rest day.

All in all the run was good. It was 63°F feels like 64°F with 100% humidity. I think that this was the first run of the year where the feels like temp was higher than the actual temp. It was nice to run in shorts and a tank top, but the humidity was brutal and I'm ready to be done with rain for a while. The rain had stopped by the time I ran, but there was lots of water on the road and sidewalks. I splashed through several small puddles and then on the way home there was one place where the road was covered in water and there was no going around. I knew there would be water there and I ran through the middle part of the road where it is usually the shallowest, but I was still surprised that the water was up to my ankles and my shoes were completely soaked. Luckily that was only about .25 miles from home and it wasn't cold.

Here is a picture of the culprit who kept me up last night. Yesterday was her birthday and she is 10 years old.

2020 races:
5/16/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon 🤞

janejellyroll · March 2020

@kgirlhart What an adorable birthday girl! I hope today is thunder-free for her.

kgirlhart · March 2020

janejellyroll wrote: »

@kgirlhart What an adorable birthday girl! I hope today is thunder-free for her.

Thanks! Me too!

RunsOnEspresso · March 2020

I'm thankful to be working from home for my health and others health. I will most likely end up with the virus as DH works in sales and they are asking why they can't get more people in.

Target will be open an hour earlier for the elderly and those with health conditions. How do they know who falls under the health conditions? I look like a healthy, youngish person but I'm high risk with my asthma. And even though they believe non-active celiac doesn't make you immunocompromised they warned that celiac does make people more susceptible to pneumonia (been there, done that, don't want it again) and vaccines (flu, shingles) may not work as well. GREAT.

janejellyroll · March 2020

RunsOnEspresso wrote: »

I'm thankful to be working from home for my health and others health. I will most likely end up with the virus as DH works in sales and they are asking why they can't get more people in.

Target will be open an hour earlier for the elderly and those with health conditions. How do they know who falls under the health conditions? I look like a healthy, youngish person but I'm high risk with my asthma. And even though they believe non-active celiac doesn't make you immunocompromised they warned that celiac does make people more susceptible to pneumonia (been there, done that, don't want it again) and vaccines (flu, shingles) may not work as well. GREAT.

My understanding is that nobody is going to be asked to "prove" their vulnerable status. They're simply asking non-vulnerable guests to plan their shopping around this planned time for other guests. Note: I work for Target, but have nothing to do with the stores or this policy. This is just based on the public information I've read about the policy and is my personal opinion.

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