September 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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September Goal: 100 Miles

9/1: 6.22 miles
9/2: 5.05 miles
9/3: 6.06 miles
9/6: 10.11 miles
9/7: 6.25 miles

33.69/100 miles completed for September

978.92/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders

6.25/26.2 miles completed for the @PastorVincent vs. Boston Memorial Challenge

6 miles this morning to start the @PastorVincent Boston challenge. I decided to go ahead and run this morning.  I have the day off and it was pretty nice at ~73°F. There may be rain later in the week which is ok, but we rarely get rain without lighting and since this is the week of the Boston challenge I didn't want to miss any runs. Plus running a 10K is one of my favorite things to do on a day off. 😁 I hope everyone who has the day off is enjoying it and hope everyone else is having a great day too!

Congrats on a great run @quilteryoyo!

Beautiful sunrise @Faebert!

@Teresa502 That's a beautiful dog. I'm glad he was friendly and just wanted to join you.






2020 races:
11/7/20: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon

@rheddmobile I'm late but thank you for setting up the challenge.

Sadly I'm still out. Calf is still niggly and annoying. Longest I'm able to walk is only a couple of km. I think its going to be October before I'm doing anything.

Love you all.

Took my bike out this morning with the intention of doing the 14km I would need to complete the marathon distance for this week, as my running plan calls for 28km and change. I thought I remembered a way round the back lanes which would be pleasant and make for a circular route, but got a bit confused by a hill I didn't remember being there 20 years ago, which is when I last went round there on horseback. Half way up the hill I couldn't see the lane I was looking for, so turned around and after heading down a couple of dead ends and having to turn round I finally found my way back to the river trail. Just going home would have left me a few km short, so I decided to just go ahead and do the whole trail. Ended up being just under 21km when I was nearing home, so I went round the block to make it a HM distance. Legs are on fire now! Not sure I'll be up for doing tomorrow's 4 mile run at the race pace Hal calls for. I'm sure @PastorVincent would really approve of me disobeying Hal :-)

Started off my Virtual Boston Marathon for @PastorVincent with almost 10 miles on trails yesterday, 5.5 running miles and the rest walking. Made it a little bit of a special occasion by wearing the singlet I usually wear to races and my lucky headband. I had forgotten it was Labor Day, man there were a lot more people on the trails than usual. Didn’t have a mask myself because it’s usually not that crowded. Most were good about passing at a distance but those trails are true singlefoot in places and not everyone was making an effort. You know when someone goes by and you can smell their laundry detergent, aftershave, and hair conditioner and you think, “Yeah if I’m breathing all of that, you are too close!” So now I’m freaking out just a little and reminding myself that outside transmission is rare. We’re still getting about 200 cases a day in the county.

Still a really nice run! Knee is holding up over gradually increasing distances. It was a little too warm to be perfect running weather but very nice walking weather. We go through this field of fragrant purple flowers which I can’t identify - it’s not lavender - maybe some variety of sage? I am terrible with plant id. Since there were so many people we took some lesser used trails, including one which was mainly roots! So many roots. It feels good to be up to slightly more technical trails.

Virtually that puts me in the middle of historic Natick!