July 2020 Monthly Running Challenge
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PastorVincent wrote: »
@eleanorhawkins - Happy run-aversary! Considering how you have been confined to your home for days and days on end, I think you have done extraordinary this year!
TOTALLY!
Ty ty! Garminversary though, not runaversary. Don't even know exactly when that is! The first run I logged on the zombies run app was June 3rd 2018. Think I'd been running a few months by then. My memory is shot to pieces nowdays. I blame age and hormones 😂3 -
eleanorhawkins wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »
@eleanorhawkins - Happy run-aversary! Considering how you have been confined to your home for days and days on end, I think you have done extraordinary this year!
TOTALLY!
Ty ty! Garminversary though, not runaversary. Don't even know exactly when that is! The first run I logged on the zombies run app was June 3rd 2018. Think I'd been running a few months by then. My memory is shot to pieces nowdays. I blame age and hormones 😂
Congrats on the garminversary!
And I am totally with you on the other bit!0 -
Going to say 100 again with 130 stretch...
Might be getting a spin bike, so could be more of that happening instead of running as much..5 -
eleanorhawkins wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »
@eleanorhawkins - Happy run-aversary! Considering how you have been confined to your home for days and days on end, I think you have done extraordinary this year!
TOTALLY!
Ty ty! Garminversary though, not runaversary. Don't even know exactly when that is! The first run I logged on the zombies run app was June 3rd 2018. Think I'd been running a few months by then. My memory is shot to pieces nowdays. I blame age and hormones 😂
So you made me look. The oldest activity I have tracked in Run Keeper was May 2010. a 2 mile run on a track, at 13 min mile pace. I know was running years before that, but before that, I did not really track. My son is 16 now, so I know I have been running for about 16 years.4 -
I have no idea. Let's say 80km and see what happens.4
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I’m going to say 100 miles again because I really do have these lofty plans of completing that Run Across Ga by the end of August, but we all know how well I’ve done with meeting my goals for the last few months. 🤪
@PastorVincent I bet that cat snatched that bunny back up as soon as you left.
I don’t know if I posted about it last year, but there was a hawk who caught a bunny in my neighborhood last year, and it sat on this plot of grass with its wings spread out, I guess trying to intimidate me so I wouldn’t steal its food. Don’t worry, Mr. Hawk, I don’t need you gouging my eyes out...5 -
200 miles for July (minimum)8
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After smashing my goal of 75km last month, I think I'm going to go for 85km in July. I'm eyeing up that 100km (I made 96km in June), but I don't know if the hot weather will hold me back and I'm not currently training for any 10K. We'll see. I can always reassess mid month!
I've just checked my Zombies Run! app. My first run was 26th April 2015, that was the start of the C25K training plan. Blimey, I've been running over 5 years. Am I allowed to call myself a runner yet?! My 'graduation 5K', at the end of week 8 was on 15th June 2015 - 5 years later (bar a day - 14th June 2020), and I ran a stonking 10K. It's progress, but it's very sloooow progress. May be I should look to finally do a half marathon next year.5 -
I'll go with 30 walking miles. Midwife banned me from running due to pelvic pain and a history of preterm births running in my family.
Pretty depressed I can't run but maybe the fresh air will offer a more positive perspective than the back of my eyelids.12 -
AlphaHowls wrote: »200 miles for July (minimum)
That will get you through the first week. What about the other three weeks?
Keep those dew claws up!!!!!7 -
brittanystebbins95 wrote: »I'll go with 30 walking miles. Midwife banned me from running due to pelvic pain and a history of preterm births running in my family.
Pretty depressed I can't run but maybe the fresh air will offer a more positive perspective than the back of my eyelids.
Don't be bummed because you can't run. Be pumped because you can walk!!!!!5 -
@Tramboman wrote: »AlphaHowls wrote: »200 miles for July (minimum)
That will get you through the first week. What about the other three weeks?
Keep those dew claws up!!!!!
HAHAHAH! I am learning! At least I added the 'minimum'
*dew claws up*
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Hi everyone, new to the group. I'm going to shoot for 50 miles this month10
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Welcome @I_Want_A_Donut !0
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I'm just starting out after an injury so will aim for 3 X 5km per week for July.4
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I_Want_A_Donut wrote: »Hi everyone, new to the group. I'm going to shoot for 50 miles this month
Welcome!2 -
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So true.
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PastorVincent wrote: »So running storytime...
I was on the way back from my normal route, plodding along at "are we done yet" level of pace when this black cat comes trotting out holding a bunny in its mouth. It notices me and drops the bunny, and backs off a few steps. The bunny shakes its head and looks around like it was think "how in the world did I get here?" The bunny looked unharmed and I just kept plodding along so not sure how that story ended.
So you cat people, what do you think happened there? This is not a cat I know, just some random black cat and I was still at least a mile from home.
When I was a kid we had a tiny and very chilled tabby cat and a exuberant fox terrier dog. We lived in the country and had a lot of hares in the paddocks. One day the cat appears with a hare in its mouth (the hare is considerably bigger than the cat). He's obviously not hungry otherwise he would have eaten it. Instead he presents it to me as a gift. The hare, while in shock, is unharmed.
I think this is a great opportunity to teach our terrier to hunt hares so, with said hare under one arm and the dog under the other, I take them outside (yes, the cat had brought the bunny inside) and let the dog get a good sniff of the hare before putting them both down. The hare freezes, so I give it a flick with my finger and it takes off, as does the dog in hot pursuit. Within a few minutes the hare has vanished and the dog trots back to me bewildered.
About five minutes later, the cat appears again with the hare in its mouth. So I repeat the process (I'll insert at this point that I was 14 and a country kid who didn't think twice about torturing a 'pest' in this fashion. I doubt I'd do this now). Once again the hare shakes off the dog in a matter of minutes and vanishes.
Once again, the cat appears with the hare in its mouth.
This time, after a prolonged chase of half an hour or more, the dog finally manages to corner the hare under the house and quickly dispatches it with the instinctive killer shake that dogs do. But then, oh boy, was he ever proud of himself. Taking everyone to see his kill - even an hour or so later when my father got home from work. Completely oblivious to the fact the cat could catch the hare in minutes and had done so three time prior to his big kill. So funny to watch him strutting about. The cat simply couldn't care less.
I later got to watch how the cat did it (with a different hare, of course). He simply sat dead still in the garden until the hare hopped to within half and metre, then just grabbed it. None of this mad running about and barking lark.
But yes, when the cat was hungry, he'd happily eat a whole hare. And then, exactly like his wild cousins, would sleep for about three days afterwards. He'd eat it very carefully too, cutting a hole in the skin and eating everything except the bones, which he left inside the bag of skin. No real mess, except for fluff.
Incidentally, the dog never managed to catch another hare.7 -
IDK, just going to put 80 miles and see what happens.
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