July 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Disappointing but not unexpected news - Spartan has cancelled all remaining races for 2020. .

    Ah man, sorry. Maybe just think of 2020 as a taper... year? :)

  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    7-1 7k slow
    7-2 7k slow
    7-3 7k between slow and easy
    7-4 7k ditto
    7-5 7k closer to easy
    7-6 rest
    7-7 7k slow
    7-8 7k easy
    7-9 7k slow
    7-10 7k slow
    7-11 7k easy
    7-12 7k slow
    7-13 rest
    7-14 7k slow
    7-15 rest
    7-16 7k closer to easy than slow
    7-17 7k closer to moderate than easy
    7-18 7k easy
    7-19 5k easy
    7-20 rest
    7-21 7k slow
    7-22 7k easy
    7-23 7k easy
    7-24 7k easy
    7-25 7k easy
    7-26 7k easy
    7-27 rest
    7-28 7k easy
    7-29 7k easy

    July Total: 168k
    July Goal: 170k

    January Total: 161k
    February Total: 167k
    March Total: 181k
    April Total: 191k
    May Total: 200k
    June Total: 156k

    2020 Total through June: 1056k / 176k per month

    Sunny, mid 60s F, and no wind. Just a nice day for a run.

    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:

    9-19 Race for the Parks 5k, Hudson, OH
    10-11 Haunted Hustle 5k, Aurora, OH
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,408 Member
    @mbaker566 sorry for your DNF, but good call and sounds like you have a good renewed outlook.

    @katharmonic sorry for your Spartan race cancellations for the year. It will be a good thing. You'll come back next year stronger.

    4 miles again this morning. Felt better today. Nothing really hurt, which is rarified air for me 😁 Speaking of air, it was 78F and dew point of 77F! So it was misting the whole time. You could cut the air with a knife.

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  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    7/1 – 0 rest days
    7/2 – 5
    7/3 – 8
    7/4 – 6
    7/5 – 4
    7/6 – 5
    7/7 – 5
    7/8 – 3 with Champ
    7/9 – 2 with Champ
    7/10 – 4 with Champ
    7/11 – 4 mile trail race
    7/12 – 3
    7/13 – 5
    7/14 – 3 with Champ
    7/15 - 3
    7/16 -5
    7/17 – 6
    7/18 – 4
    7/19 – 6
    7/20 – rest day
    7/21 – 5
    7/22 – 5 with Champ
    7/23 – 7
    7/24 – 4
    7/25 – 3
    7/26 – 6
    7/27 – rest day
    7/28 – 5
    7/28 – 3 with Champ and Skip
    7/29 – 4 with Champ

    123 of 110 miles

    @mbaker566 love love love the new hair color. I think we don’t see the benefits of summer running until the Fall and suddenly we are like wow look at me all strong and moving. On a side note, how to you like the fire pit in your picture, I look at it in Home Depot all the time because I love the look of it and wonder how it works, good, so so etc.

    @kathamonic I hate your Spartan race was canceled



    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 - done
    The Big Run - June 3 - done
    NEGU virtual run - June - Team NEGU helping support kids with cancer - done
    Big Foot Wild Thangs Trail Race 5K/10K – June 20 on the trails…all together like a real race - done
    Run 4 on the 4th – Virtual 4 miles on 4th of July - done
    ISS Virtual 5K in July – done
    Jackalope Trail Run 4 miler – done
    Running of the Bulls Virtual 5K
    Skunk Ape 5 miler August 1 trail race in person
    Shooby Doo Virtual 10K
    The Pinhoti Trail Challenge 335 miles virtual – 1 Sept to 31 Dec
    2020 Liberty Road Challenge WWII soldiers journey from St. Mere Eglisde to Bastogne, Belgium – charity virtual run for the WII museum in New Orleans 716 miles team event 4 July – September – our team has finished
    Pirate Challenge – 10 weeks mile challenge June – Sept
    Space Race 400K Challenge 12 weeks running 248.5 miles to the ISS – August to November
    Oak Barrel Half Marathon – October – postponed from April
    Flora-Bama 600K - Virtual race from Huntsville AL to the Florida Alabama state line in Orange Beach 98% there!

  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    @skippygirlsmom i haven't actually used it. it was a floor model i got from Menards. but i like it. it's pretty sturdy.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    @skippygirlsmom i haven't actually used it. it was a floor model i got from Menards. but i like it. it's pretty sturdy.

    I miss Menards LOL
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    @mbaker566 let me know if and when you use it. :)
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    @mbaker566 let me know if and when you use it. :)

    Looks like the one we have. Really needs to not be on the grass even though it has legs. :) We need to get some bricks or something to put ours on.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 4,950 Member
    July Goal: 100 Miles

    7/1: 6.51 miles
    7/2: 6.02 miles
    7/5: 10.10 miles
    7/7: 6.22 miles
    7/8: 6.05 miles
    7/9: 6.08 miles
    7/12: 10.03 miles
    7/14: 6.21 miles
    7/15: 6.02 miles
    7/16: 6.22 miles
    7/19: 10.52 miles
    7/21: 6.02 miles
    7/22: 6.02 miles
    7/23: 6.04 miles
    7/26: 10.52 miles
    7/28: 7.02 miles
    7/29: 6.32 miles

    121.92/100 miles completed for July

    809.75/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders

    I ran 6 miles today and it was a really good run. I managed to get out the door at 5:45. The weather was about the same as yesterday (with feels like temps in the low 80's, cloudy and humid), but for some reason it didn't feel as hard starting out as it did yesterday. I didn't see any skunks today but I did see a deer in the same area where I saw the four deer yesterday. All in all it was a really nice run. I was still pretty slow, but I was a little faster than yesterday, and I have resigned myself to the fact that my runs will be slow until the weather cools down and then they will probably get faster again. Maybe it just felt better since I wasn't as stressed today as I was yesterday. I had my diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound yesterday. There is a node that hasn't changed that we will keep watching and some micro-calcifications, but no biopsy necessary. Just go back in 6 months. That's really what I expected, but it is still stressful and running helps a lot.



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    2020 races:
    11/7/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    edited July 2020
    Thanks @PastorVincent

    We had an above ground pool and I think now that it's gone instead of fixing that spot I might turn it into a fire pit area.



  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 4,950 Member
    Thanks @hamsterwheel6!
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member

    Good news is the best news.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member

    Good news is the best news.

    Yep! Yay!
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,408 Member
    Welcome to the group @xcc670!