May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

PastorVincent wrote: »

Ringbearer2 wrote: »

Well, I’ve done a potentially ludicrous thing and signed up for a 1000k virtual race across Tennessee between today and the end of August. Getting too big for my britches I guess. Pray for me.

250k a month? I do not know your fitness level, but that is a pretty serious commitment. Just make sure you are up to it, especially given that Tennessee will be nice and warm for most of that time. If that is in the range you know you can do, then go for it! Even if it is a little stretch, maybe more so.

Oh it’s virtual, so most of it will be in my living room in Germany. 😀 My goal is to end up running at least half, with percentages increasing as I improve. My overall fitness is pretty good according to my V02 max and I hike 10-15 miles in rugged terrain (or at least I used to) fairly regularLy so im not too worried about that. Mostly it’s a medium term goal I think could actually be accomplished, given the current variables.

Also, I was born in TN, so there’s that...

@PastorVincent Apparently I can't count. LOL I was going by August being the 8th month and May the 5th, so 8-5 is 3, right? Forgot to be inclusive instead of exclusive.

@Ringbearer2 Cool that you were born in Knoxville. I'm not too far from there. Can't imagine trying to do that challenge in my living room. I hope that means you have a treadmill in there.

Welcome to all the newcomers!

Today's plan called for Speed Play: easy warm up for 10 minutes followed by 3 x 2 minutes hard/2 minutes easy, finish with 5 minute easy. I did laps on the driveway again. It was pretty windy, but otherwise great weather wise. But, I think Garmin was sleeping or something. As many times as I have done these driveway laps, I pretty much know how far the lap and how fast I am going. It started with my warm up walk. Normally one lap is 0.31 miles and takes me 5 minutes. Well, today I had to go a little bit further than one lap to get 0.30 miles and it took 5:30 minutes...3.3 mph. I haven't walked that slowly, when trying to walk fast, in ages. The theme continued during the run and cool down walk too. I checked the track afterwards and there are no gaps like it dropped out or anything. It was just different today. I'm just going with what Garmin said, but am about 99% sure that I went further and faster than what it showed.

Almost forgot to tell you I ordered new shoes today. I ordered the Brooks Launch 6. It's the old style, so they were on sale. Only $65. My current shoes are Brooks Adrenaline GTS. I got them because I had some overpronation, but when I did the test for that today, I don't seem to have it anymore. Is it possible to correct that sort of thing? We'll see. The good thing about Brooks is that you get 90 days to return them. They predict that I will get them next week.

Would like to join in this month!
Will set my goal at 40 miles.
Best wishes!!

Hey guys - guess what? I decided to take on a crazy challenge. The 4 x 4 x 48 challenge where you run 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours. So 48 miles in 48 hours. Why? This guy told me to (link to short video). Main gist: to get outside your comfort zone and strengthen your mind. Spartan training.

My trainer and a friend had been planning to do this for a few weeks and I first said "that's crazy", then was noncommittal, and then I said no I'm not doing it. But they were starting this morning at 9 and I woke up and felt like I should do it. So I ran the the 4 miles at 9 and then texted my trainer and said I'm doing it. And then I regretted it almost immediately

3 out of 12 runs done, 12 out of 48 miles.

Running thoughts:
Run 1, 9 am - Good morning! Lovely day on the trails, a little muddy, I better do roads from here on. I can totally do this. I'm in!
Run 2, 1 pm - OK, we're good, it's a good temp, I still got a few things done today between runs, feeling fine. This is easier than a long run. I can do this.
Run 3, 5 pm - All right, it's still fine, but it's gotten a little chillier and is starting to mist and I'm not super into this. Drove to a new location so the change is good. The misty rain is starting to get a little more intense. OK, now I'm soaked and this is less fun, but I'm done. I hope I can do this.

Next run at 9 pm.