May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • marisap2010
    marisap2010 Posts: 909 Member
    No run last night. I fell asleep sitting on the sofa after dinner, and my husband woke me up around 10:45 to go to bed...I guess I needed the rest.

    Hope to get in some good runs/hikes this weekend, as the weather should be cool and beautiful!
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    marisap2010 wrote: »
    @Avidkeo I haven’t used Runkeeper in years, but it used to give you pace alerts during runs.

    The options she offered did not include RunKeeeper, but for tracking while running RunKeeper has always been for apps. I use my Garmin watch now exclusively but if I did not have it, I would use RunKeeper.

  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    Weekly race report! Wednesday my husband and I ran the 5th race of the Run the 901 challenge, the 10k. We drove down to our usual railroad access road. Passed another couple doing the same thing (wearing the race shirts and clearly running seriously) on our way to our start, which gave us a nice feeling of camaraderie. The road is still blocked, and this time it was blocked at both ends, so we didn’t have to deal with people zooming down from the open end, getting frustrated, and zooming back. It’s still not safe, though. We did nearly get flattened by a giant king cab which had pulled around the traffic barrels to get back there, and we kept having to watch out for a security guard and a cop patrolling in SUVs.

    After last week’s 6 miler I was hopeful I could pull off a sub 1 hour 10k, but then my knee started complaining after my long run and I wasn’t sure I would even be able to run at all. Did a one mile test run and wasn’t hopeful. Gave it two days off, then went out with no expectations whatsoever - I planned to start off running at a sub hour pace and if I ended up walking instead, good enough.

    Somehow my gps got set to kilometers instead of miles. Which led to me trying to do math in my head while running, which is not a thing that works. But in any case, I started off strong (road is also downhill at the start) and finished the first half on pace with a little bit of a buffer. However, by then my leg was complaining. Took a walk break, wasn’t sure I would be able to start running again, tried it, then some sort of endorphin thing happened and the pain went away, and by the last mile or so was back on pace with enough left in the tank for a fast finish. However the walk break had eaten up my buffer and I finished in 1:02:26. Which is 6:15 km pace, which I thought was 10 minute mile pace, which is what I had decided to aim for. It’s not, my mental math was off by a couple of seconds a kilometer. Oh well!

    So, the million dollar question - did I get away with it, or did I end up making my knee worse? Day after and my knee is sore and I wouldn’t want to run on it today, but not any worse than it was after my long run last week. I don’t feel like I’m doing any lasting damage. My already crooked knee with the “weird” meniscus just hates me running on canted roads. Knee injuries are pretty self-limiting, I’ve been advised in the past about this knee that nothing is going to break or fall off, the only danger is that it might be painful. So as long as it’s not painful to run after a rest day, I plan to keep going. Next week’s race is 8 miles and I’m not sure whether I plan to run the whole thing or not.

    We had perfectly beautiful weather for our run, cool and sunny when we started, with a strong breeze. We finished just at dusk and the enormous full moon was shining down the railroad tracks. I tried to take pictures of it but it glared the camera out like trying to photograph the sun. It was pitch black by the time we walked the two and a half miles back to the car, but it was just lovely.
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    Awesome report! Sorry about the knee, that's so annoying! Hope that it keeps playing somewhat nice and doesn't entirely give up...

    Might give the knee a bit long of a rest now that you have the race done and see how it goes.

    Great job though!
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    If I am to offer wise and intelligent advise I would say save your money.

    I would also likely be a hypocrite. ;)

    It's a relief to know im not alone lol
    I'll spend my money on a long sleeve merino top instead.

    Great call @Avidkeo
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    Great race report @rheddmobile and yoyu have great patience with vehicles. I find myself shouting at cars for being on the road when I want to cross it - the audacity of these people driving on normal roads when I'm there :smiley:

    The weather is just not British @Faebert and I was tempted to postpone tomorrow's run but my SO pointed out that if I am not going to run at 20°C I'm not going to run often enough for my target.

    Love how your version of slow @T1DCarnivoreRunner is my version of full pelt and keel over after 5k!

    Serious question on pace and HR which keeps coming up. Having finally decide to pay my $30 upgrade I get HR reports and I am apparently running at Z4 race pace around 60% of the time. Honestly my pace almost never varies, I am quite happy running at 9:30-10:30 a mile and this was my pace on all my runs up to 15 miles which is as far as I have gone so far. I tried slowing down though I seem to come back to around 10:00 without trying. Any thoughts?
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    @TheMrWobbly @T1DCarnivoreRunner
    lol, i don't even get that fast
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,450 Member
    @rheddmobile Congratultions on your run! So close to your goal. I'd call that a win. Sounds like a wonderful evening too.

    @dreamer12151 Yeah. I think a doctor's visit about the headaches is a good idea. Hang in there.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    TheMrWobbly wrote: »
    Serious question on pace and HR which keeps coming up. Having finally decide to pay my $30 upgrade I get HR reports and I am apparently running at Z4 race pace around 60% of the time. Honestly my pace almost never varies, I am quite happy running at 9:30-10:30 a mile and this was my pace on all my runs up to 15 miles which is as far as I have gone so far. I tried slowing down though I seem to come back to around 10:00 without trying. Any thoughts?

    First - unless you customized the HR Zones for yourself, they are probably wrong :)

    Second - HR is more closely related to EFFORT than PACE. Weather, road conditions, elevation, slope, your level of recovery, distance, and the like all change the amount of EFFORT needed to hold a given pace on any given run.

    Third - If you can hold a steady state at 10 min/mile without really trying for 15 miles, that is not your race pace for any distance 15 miles or less. :) But it might be for 15 miles and farther.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    marisap2010 wrote: »
    @dreamer12151 I would definitely go to the doctor and have those headaches checked out!

    I missed the post with the headaches in it, but had I read it I would surely agree! Call you doctor.
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    @TheMrWobbly @mbaker566 Ok, fair enough. The targeted pace is for the first week of a 16 week plan (i.e. week 16) to run a 4:00 marathon. Mind you, this is an agressive improvement over my current PR of 4:38 (everything happened perfectly to even do that as I am normally around 5 hrs).

    I was able to do the same run last week with the 2 miles at threshold in zone 5 (HR average 174) at 8:22 pace average. This week, I just couldn't reach the same speed. Part of the discouragement is because I was so much slower this week than last.

    I'm trying to improve to a 4:00 marathon from my current PR and may not be able to do it this year at this point. A BQ for my AG is 3:05. After the cut-backs, I need to be close to 3:00 to actually run Boston. This is probably never going to happen.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,204 Member
    Been watching the news about the young runner.

    As a non American, I'm just gobsmacked. I just don't understand the culture that says "armed citizens" is a good idea, let alone "citizen arrests".

    I'm even more horrified and appalled that the police were not going to do anything until the footage came out.

    I don't know the answer, and it saddens me that one person can think that of another.
  • hamsterwheel6
    hamsterwheel6 Posts: 544 Member
    @shanaber Thanks for the shoe suggestion. I see that REI has them. Hopefully soon I can try them to see how they fit.
  • katharmonic
    katharmonic Posts: 5,720 Member
    @Avidkeo awesome job on your long run!! Well done. It looks beautiful there. I'm jealous of the sun and the view.

    And believe me, as person from the US I'm also horrified by gun culture and the idea of citizen vigilantism. I will never understand it.

    @rheddmobile that's such a statement, isn't it.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    katharmonic wrote: »
    @Avidkeo awesome job on your long run!! Well done. It looks beautiful there. I'm jealous of the sun and the view.

    Ditto! Well done!
  • renydo2
    renydo2 Posts: 2,153 Member
    Kind of a late start - but I’ll see if I can catch up!
    2 miles with the dogs today!
  • hanlonsk
    hanlonsk Posts: 762 Member
    edited May 2020
    @katharmonic sorry my snowy May weather made it clear over your way. Fair warning, since winds are bringing square state weather your way....today was a respite, and I ran in a tank and shorts- but based on the forecast, it is once again a trick- precip is in the forecast for most of the next week, and until Monday temps could create snow. So for you, until Tuesday?

    Got my 2.23 today. My “day off” from work turned into 8 hours of work without a lunch break. So, the significantly underfueled state led to a rather terrible feeing run. The podcast that happened to be lined up for my run was a “behind the bas-tards” (trying to not get kittened here) that was covering yet another awful white supremacist/group....that and the self induced suffer-fest seemed very fitting for #irunwithmaud

    2.23 today = 15.49/50

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    ETA- in this particular instance ... it frustrates me that Strava read the garman info as 2.22- normally I don’t care... but why can’t it match???

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