May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    mari_moulin wrote: »
    I did it!!! 100/100km for May goal achieved!! 🎉🥳😁.


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    Excellent!!!
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    katharmonic wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    I realized this morning that Strava has moved the total miles for the month to their paid version and there's no good way to see it on my free account. I understand some of the fancier features getting moved, but I really didn't think this counted as "premium"-style content. Oh well!
    @janejellyroll can't you see this under Training--> Training calendar. That part is not marked as subscription and I see my total miles and hours for the month there.
    @katharmonic Unfortunately, that doesn't work if you do running and cycling (or hiking, ...). The Training calendar shows me 269km for May, which is running and cycling combined.
    In case someone else has this problem, there's a workaround I read somewhere else: Strava allows you to keep track of bike part mileage separate from the bike in total. So now I edit my bike to add a fake component with installation date May 1st. I can now see that 123 km my "rear wheel" of brand "monthly distance" :wink: has been used for 123 km. So I can figure out that of the 269 total km, 146km are running.
    Unfortunately, that doesn't work anymore if you add hiking, skiing or any other distance-activity...
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,453 Member
    @katharmonic Great job on your HM run and the excellent total for the month! You rock!

    @janejellyroll I was thinking about you this morning. I'm glad you aren't in the midst of the unrest.

    @_nikkiwolf_ Yeah for smashing your goal! Great month!
  • Faebert
    Faebert Posts: 1,588 Member
    Congrats to everyone hitting and in some cases massively exceeding their goals! And biggest of healing hugs to those injured or sick. @Camaramandy648 - thinking of you and hoping for good news tomorrow.

    I am not due to run tomorrow so today was my last run of the month. Wanted to finish it tidily so ran 6.7 miles to round out the month at a neat 80 miles - 20 miles over my target!

    Have a great end to May everyone, and I’ll see you over in June.

    May goal: 60 miles
    May total: 80 miles

    1/5: Strength training
    2/5: 4.2 miles
    3/5: Strength training
    4/5: 4 miles
    5/5: Strength training
    6/5: 5 miles
    7/5: Strength training
    8/5: 4.8 miles
    9/5: Strength training, zoom yoga class
    10/5: 6.23 miles
    11/5: Strength training
    12/5: 5.5 miles
    13/5: Strength training
    14/5: 4.3 miles
    15/5: Strength training
    16/5: 6.2 miles, zoom yoga class
    17/5: Strength training
    18/5: 4.8 miles
    19/5: Strength training
    20/5: 5.4 miles
    21/5: Strength training
    22/5: 5 miles
    23/5: Strength training and zoom yoga
    24/5: 6.3 miles
    25/5: Strength training
    26/5: 5.3 miles
    27/5: Strength training
    28/5: 6.3 miles
    29/5: Strength training
    30/5: 6.7 miles and yoga

    April: 115 m
    March: 76.4 m
    February: 17.8 m
    January: 0
  • _nikkiwolf_
    _nikkiwolf_ Posts: 1,380 Member
    shanaber wrote: »
    @_nikkiwolf_ - I think you could track your running miles separately in Strava in a similar manner as your bike part, assuming you don't already use it to track miles on your shoes. You could set up a 'shoe' for the month and select it for each run and then it would have the total for your running miles each month. Great job hitting and exceeding your goals for the month!
    Actually, I do use Strava to track my running shoe distance, otherwise this would work great.
    But after posting my comment above, it suddenly dawned on me that there might be another option: the Tomtom website. My GPS watch is a Tomtom and syncs to their Mysports in addition to Strava. I didn't find that site very useful, but since I couldn't figure out how to deactivate the sync, I just ignore it. I checked just now, and it turns out they have a "progress" tab where you can see stats filtered by day/month/week/year and activity type.
    It's not 100% accurate for me, since I sometimes forget my watch and use Strava for tracking. But I will try harder to remember charging and using the watch for all runs, now that I know it saves me 5$/month :D

  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,855 Member
    Hoping things settle down in your part of the world @janejellyroll
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,453 Member
    @Faebert Way to crush you monthly goal! Awesome!
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,204 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Today's exercise is brought to you by the SpaceX launch, NCIS New Orleans, and stress.
    Dad decided he would let me take him to the VA ER this morning to get checked out. The ER doctor did some tests: EKG, blood work, chest x-ray and maybe something else. He said that all came back good, but he wanted to keep him overnight for observation and so he can see a cardiologist because the symptoms sounded heart related. Also, his BP was very high when he got there and later found out they had a hard time getting it down...didn't get it under control until around 7pm. At one point it was 196/96. At 7 it was 128/70. So yeah for that.

    Normally when he is in the hospital, mom and I stay with him. That gives me peace of mind because he doesn't hear well, but will act like he does, so doesn't always respond appropriately to questions. Of course, I wasn't allowed to even go past the Triage Room with him today. So had to just come on home when they admitted him. I didn't get home until almost 3pm.

    I was supposed to do a 7 mile run today. That wasn't going to happen, but I needed to do something. So I went down to the basement for a mile walk and a 5K run. I watched the SpaceX launch and was excited to see it went well. It amazes me as to how they get that stage 1 booster to come back and land on a ship in the ocean. After that was over, I turned the TV to NCIS New Orleans.

    Stress explained in the spoiler.
    Dad called me about 5pm to let me know that they had come in and asked him if his heart stopped did he want them to do CPR or not. He had told them no and wanted to know what I thought about that. And he was crying. I told him I knew that he didn't want to be on machines, but I would have probably told them yes to CPR, but if that didn't work, then he was done. No machines. But, I told him it was his decision. Not mine to make. Boy. Talk about a hard phone call! I just had to get out and get some fresh air. I checked and only needed 1.5 miles to meet my goal, so I went for a nice, fast walk with Tippy into the neighbor's pasture and finished with laps on my driveway. I discovered that it is hard to walk fast, pray, and cry at the same time. But I managed and felt some better after.

    Altogether, I ran 3.1 miles and walked 2.5 miles. I actually did my math correctly, and made my 80 mile goal for the month. Not planning on doing anything tomorrow, but you never know. I may need it.

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    Huge hugs! I hope he is better after a night's stay. As for the hard question, it is so incredibly hard. It's the kind of conversation you need to have with loved ones when it's not life and death. I had that conversation with my In laws a couple of months ago, after my FIL spent a week in hospital. They were both emphatic, DNR. I completely understand and accept their wishes, and if I'm ever there when anything happens, as a heal are worker, I'll find it hard to stand back and let them go, but knowing its what they want will make it easier.

  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    5/1 – 3
    5/2 – 3
    5/3 – 3
    5/4 – 3
    5/5 – 0
    5/6 – 2
    5/7 – 4
    5/8 – 4
    5/9 – 3
    5/10 – 10K Mother’s Day virtual
    5/11 - 2
    5/12 – 3
    5/13 – 2
    5/14 – 5
    5/15 – 4
    5/16 – 5
    5/17 - 5
    5/18 - 2 - it's Skip's birthday so I ran 2.0 in honor of her turning 20
    5/19 – 4
    5/20 - 4
    5/21 - 4
    5/22 - 3
    5/23 - 6
    5/24 - 6
    5/25 – 5
    5/26 – 5
    5/27 – 5
    5/28 – 5
    5/29 - 5
    5/30 - 5

    123 of 50 miles


    Races:
    Mother’s Day Virtual 5K – done
    Retro Run Virtual 5K – done
    Rona on the Run - Virtual for St. Jude benefit - done
    Keep Moving Huntsville - at least one mile a day 1 - 31 May
    The Big Run - June 3
    NEGU virtual run - June - Team NEGU helping support kids with cancer
    Pirate Challenge – 10 weeks mile challenge June - Sept
    Flora-Bama 600K - Virtual race from Huntsville AL to the Florida Alabama state line in Orange Beach
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    edited May 2020
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Today's exercise is brought to you by the SpaceX launch, NCIS New Orleans, and stress.
    Dad decided he would let me take him to the VA ER this morning to get checked out. The ER doctor did some tests: EKG, blood work, chest x-ray and maybe something else. He said that all came back good, but he wanted to keep him overnight for observation and so he can see a cardiologist because the symptoms sounded heart related. Also, his BP was very high when he got there and later found out they had a hard time getting it down...didn't get it under control until around 7pm. At one point it was 196/96. At 7 it was 128/70. So yeah for that.

    Normally when he is in the hospital, mom and I stay with him. That gives me peace of mind because he doesn't hear well, but will act like he does, so doesn't always respond appropriately to questions. Of course, I wasn't allowed to even go past the Triage Room with him today. So had to just come on home when they admitted him. I didn't get home until almost 3pm.

    I was supposed to do a 7 mile run today. That wasn't going to happen, but I needed to do something. So I went down to the basement for a mile walk and a 5K run. I watched the SpaceX launch and was excited to see it went well. It amazes me as to how they get that stage 1 booster to come back and land on a ship in the ocean. After that was over, I turned the TV to NCIS New Orleans.

    Stress explained in the spoiler.
    Dad called me about 5pm to let me know that they had come in and asked him if his heart stopped did he want them to do CPR or not. He had told them no and wanted to know what I thought about that. And he was crying. I told him I knew that he didn't want to be on machines, but I would have probably told them yes to CPR, but if that didn't work, then he was done. No machines. But, I told him it was his decision. Not mine to make. Boy. Talk about a hard phone call! I just had to get out and get some fresh air. I checked and only needed 1.5 miles to meet my goal, so I went for a nice, fast walk with Tippy into the neighbor's pasture and finished with laps on my driveway. I discovered that it is hard to walk fast, pray, and cry at the same time. But I managed and felt some better after.

    Altogether, I ran 3.1 miles and walked 2.5 miles. I actually did my math correctly, and made my 80 mile goal for the month. Not planning on doing anything tomorrow, but you never know. I may need it.

    exercise.png

    Huge hugs! I hope he is better after a night's stay. As for the hard question, it is so incredibly hard. It's the kind of conversation you need to have with loved ones when it's not life and death. I had that conversation with my In laws a couple of months ago, after my FIL spent a week in hospital. They were both emphatic, DNR. I completely understand and accept their wishes, and if I'm ever there when anything happens, as a heal are worker, I'll find it hard to stand back and let them go, but knowing its what they want will make it easier.

    Geez @quilteryoyo hugs! I was with my mom when she signed my dad’s dnr and it sucked. It sounds like they were pressuring your dad at a time of stress, not cool! That is one major reason this whole not letting family be with someone in the hospital is a problem, a sick person needs an advocate who cares. My dad told me no machines too, but I am glad that cpr was allowed because when his heart valve blew he lived 8 good years after that, perfectly able. Just make sure he understands his options, it’s not between just letting him die when a defibrillator would easily give him his whole life back, and being stuck on a vent forever!
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    Okay, I realize this is a minor concern when people are losing their lives and buildings are being set on fire, but as someone who was out at 11 pm running last night it concerns me that Nashville just down the road a piece now has a 10 pm curfew. I was watching our local protests live and they were peaceful. Praying for everyone involved. It’s too hot to be under martial law y’all. I remember the riots here when I was a child and not getting to play outside.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,204 Member
    @ContraryMaryMary wooo hoooo Well done! Sorry about the chaffe!
  • katharmonic
    katharmonic Posts: 5,720 Member
    @quilteryoyo, I'm glad your dad's blood pressure was stabilized. What tough conversations for him and for you. Hugs to you. Hope he will be home soon. Good job getting a run in and managing some stress.
    Faebert wrote: »
    Praying that the June thread brings lots of news of health, wellness and peace along with all the awesome running. X

    I will second this sentiment. I hope everyone has a good last day of May and that June will bring us all some much-needed peace and hope.
  • marisap2010
    marisap2010 Posts: 909 Member
    @quilteryoyo I hope things with your dad go well. I know that was a tough convo.

    @ContraryMaryMary Great job!

    Four miles yesterday, bringing my total to 53/50 miles for the month. Hoping to get out in a bit for a couple more miles to finish up the month. It is getting so hot during the day that I am contemplating getting up to run before work from here forward. I’m really not feeling it though...
    My gym does open up tomorrow, so maybe I can run on the indoor track a few evenings a week.
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    5-1 7k moderate
    5-2 7k easy
    5-3 11k easy
    5-4 rest
    5-5 7k moderate
    5-6 7k moderate
    5-7 7k moderate
    5-8 7k easy
    5-9 11k slow
    5-10 7k moderate
    5-11 rest
    5-12 7k moderate
    5-13 7k moderate
    5-14 7k thresholdy
    5-15 7k easy
    5-16 11k slow
    5-17 7k moderate
    5-18 rest
    5-19 7k moderate
    5-20 7k easy
    5-21 6k moderateish
    5-22 7k easyish
    5-23 7k moderate
    5-24 7k easyish
    5-25 7k easy
    5-26 7k easyish
    5-27 7k moderate
    5-28 7k moderate
    5-29 7k easy
    5-30 rest
    5-31 7k moderate

    May Total: 200k
    May Goal: 170k

    January Total: 161k
    February Total: 167k
    March Total: 181k
    April Total: 191k

    2020 Total through April: 700k

    Sunny and 50 degrees F today. Breeze kept changing direction so it could blow in my face. But it was a lot more pleasant than sweating at 70 degrees F.

    @quilteryoyo I hope things go well with your dad.

    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:

    6-20 Freedom Run 5k, Aurora, OH
    9-19 Race for the Parks 5k, Hudson, OH
    10-11 Haunted Hustle 5k, Aurora, OH
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    @quilteryoyo sounds like a stressful day well managed. That’s a hard decision to make when the circumstance is real. Many hugs and prayers to you and your family, especially your dad.
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    Okay, I realize this is a minor concern when people are losing their lives and buildings are being set on fire, but as someone who was out at 11 pm running last night it concerns me that Nashville just down the road a piece now has a 10 pm curfew. I was watching our local protests live and they were peaceful. Praying for everyone involved. It’s too hot to be under martial law y’all. I remember the riots here when I was a child and not getting to play outside.

    Dh told me about this and I just had a flash back to Rodney King, “can’t we all just get along”. I don’t know the details, right or wrong. Hopes and prayers that the voices make changes for the benefit for all of us.
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    @quilteryoyo - I am so sorry about your dad. Has he and/or your mom given you the written permission to speak with his caregivers? I have it for our friend and was able to let the doctor know what she was unable to express for herself. She also doesn't like to ask for help so wouldn't tell them what she needed (like they gave her lotion and she couldn't open it) or that she couldn't hear or understand what the doctor was telling her. So I would basically explain all that to the nurse or doctor and they would put it in the chart.

    We had mostly peaceful protests in a neighboring town here too. It is a largely immigrant community with many lovely small restaurants and shops. It also has a wonderful large arts district. People on Twitter were begging the protesters who turned to throwing rocks, bottles and setting off fireworks at the police to not destroy the small businesses. 😢 My first thought was that I doubt they are following Twitter ATM. @elise4270 - I also flashed back to Rodney King.

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