November 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

Hi. I ran my first 10k on the treadmill today. I'm actually still in shock lol

First day starting: Hoping to run 20 miles from this day to the 30th.

No run today. We took the dog on an adventure. We drove 2ish hours, went on a very bumpy road, then hiked about a mile to a little waterfall. We took our time on the hike back and stopped at all the spots along the creek to look and take photos. Doggo loves going in the water. She was happy and slept on the highway portion home.

I took a few cell phone photos but was mostly practicing with my platypod and getting the smooth water look.

@RunsOnEspresso beautiful! Sounds like a lovely day.

@mybumwobbles welcome and great job!

@62Rich you've got this holiday streak! And yeah, I think you're safe to say you'll crush your highest mileage year. Great job - keep it up!

@quilteryoyo glad you gave yourself some rest and hope the twinge is all gone. Good job getting your run in today. Just keeping something consistent, even if it's not a lot at a time, will keep you from losing too much ground. You are very active all around so that's definitely in your favor.

@AlphaHowls I mean, everything about your run streak is impressive but 120 days of a HM or more? You are a fabulous beast! Happiest 50th birthday - boy do you make 50 look good!

@Avidkeo that ride looks lovely. Yay for starting HM training next week!

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
11/01/20 :::: 5.3 :::: 5.3
11/02/20 :::: 3.0 :::: 8.3
11/03/20 :::: 1.8 :::: 10.1
11/04/20 :::: 3.0 :::: 13.1
11/05/20 :::: 3.1 :::: 16.2
11/06/20 :::: 3.1 :::: 19.3
11/07/20 :::: 13.1 :::: 32.4
11/08/20 :::: 3.3 :::: 35.7
11/09/20 :::: 1.5 :::: 37.2
11/10/20 :::: 1.5 :::: 38.7
11/11/20 :::: 3.9 :::: 42.5
11/12/20 :::: 2.0 :::: 44.6
11/13/20 :::: 7.0 :::: 51.6
11/14/20 :::: 3.6 :::: 55.1
11/15/20 :::: 3.1 :::: 58.3
11/16/20 :::: 2.0 :::: 60.2
11/17/20 :::: 2.7 :::: 62.9
11/18/20 :::: 1.6 :::: 64.5
11/19/20 :::: 2.0 :::: 66.5
11/20/20 :::: 3.1 :::: 69.6
11/21/20 :::: 8.0 :::: 77.6
11/22/20 :::: 3.3 :::: 80.9
11/23/20 :::: 3.3 :::: 84.2

OK, this was a tough workout day. I got a text message in the afternoon from my trainer because there was a possibility the gym was going to close. They are shutting things down by zones where Covid rates are increasing. So he planned to move our mace class to tonight in case it shuts down tomorrow. But I also normally have a strength training session on Monday nights so he figured we could do both, which means two hours straight of working out. Plus I hadn't run yet. And he had warned us that something in the mace class this week was "ridiculously hard".

Fortunately I was working at home so I went out in the late afternoon with Stella to get a run in. We did about 2.3 miles, at a fairly good overall pace for her but with the usual frequent stops/starts. Then I had to quickly go and sign and pay for a dishwasher and having it installed - which buying a major appliance right now is not very easy - and then get to the gym for this extravaganza. I got there in time to do just a mile warm-up on the treadmill, which I pushed the pace a little more than I normally do to get that squeezed in. Strength training was mostly upper body - lots of pullups included. Then the mace class. It was indeed challenging and although he promised that was mostly lower body, there was plenty of arms and shoulders involved in swinging the mace. The ridiculously hard part was the last set of 3 exercises we did in 3 rounds of 50 seconds on, 10 off were kneeling chest presses with the mace, these sumo kettlebell high pulls, and then mountain climbers. I've never felt so sure that mountain climbers were going to kill me.

So I'm pretty sure everything will hurt tomorrow. Latest word we got at class though is that the gym is NOT going to close right now because the zip code is not one of the ones in the "orange zone". It certainly could still happen at any moment but as of now they plan to stay open.