April 2021 Monthly Running Challenge
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4-1 7k slow
4-2 7k slooooooow
4-3 4k easy
4-4 7k slow
4-5 7k easy
4-6 rest
4-7 7k temperate (between tempo and moderate)
4-8 4k easy
4-9 7k easy
4-10 7k temperate
4-11 7k tempo
4-12 rest
4-13 7k tempo
4-14 4k easy
4-15 6k treadmill
4-16 5k treadmill
4-17 6k treadmill
4-18 7k tempo
4-19 rest
4-20 7k tempo
4-21 6k treadmill
4-22 5k treadmill
4-23 rest
4-24 7k tempo
April Total: 124k
April Goal: 150k
Sunny, low 40s F, and a breeze from the south today. Didn't start well (as usual) but finished well.
Those are some fantastic pictures, @Avidkeo . Glad you and the fam had a great time.
When you pop in here claiming your December 2021 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?
PUT THE FUN BACK IN THE RUN!
Return to a good running weight of 175 lbs (second attempt)
2021 Races:
6/26 Direction Up 5k, Solon, OH
9/18 5k Run and Roll, Aurora, OH5 -
5.3 mile recovery trail run, with 726 feet of Elevation and an average pace of 10:01 min per mile.
Sunny weather, but extremely windy which made it harder.
April cumulative: 90/100 miles - 5,661 feet of Elevation4 -
@Avidkeo Love the pictures. That is a very beautiful place to visit. I'm glad you all had a great time and that you are getting to spend time with your mom too.
@TheMrWobbly Glad to see you are getting back to normal at work and able to get back into a routine. That sounds really stressful. You made me realize that we also haven't heard from @hamsterwheel6 @kirstymn @Faebert and @eleanorhawkins for a while. Hope all is well with you.
@Tramboman Glad your run ended well. How was golf yesterday?
Nice run @sweetdaisy13
Thinking of @Teresa502 this morning as she is trail racing in the rain. Hope you had fun!
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Lunch run to start the day and month off right.
April 1 - 3.14 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to Go- 96.86 miles
Mileage goal for the week - (March 29 - April 4) - 25 miles - 13.15 miles to go
I have been slacking about logging my miles daily.
April 2 - 3.09 miles
April 3 - 3.11 miles - Really great 5K. Feel like I'm getting my speed back.
April 4 - 7.76 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to Go - 82.9 miles
Mileage goal for the week - (March 29 - April 4) - 25 miles - Goal met with a little extra
April 6 - 4.6 miles. Ran in a t-shirt today. Woohoo!!
Total for April - 21.7 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
MIles to go - 78.3 miles
Finals week in college, so things have been crazy and I've been falling behind on just about everything.
April 7 - 4 lunch miles.
Total for April - 25.7 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 74.3 miles
April 9 - 6.03 miles
Total for April - 31.73 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 68.27 miles
Happy Happy Saturday!! Just realized I marked my Friday run wrong...I ran yesterday, not Thursday.
April 10 - 4 miles
Total for April - 35.73 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 64.27 miles
Got the rare opportunity to run with my husband today
April 11 - 8 miles
Total for April - 43.73 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 56.27 miles
5.11 miles to start this great day.
Total for April - 48.84 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 51.16 miles
Easy 5K on my day off...
April 14 - 3.11 miles
Total for April - 51.95 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 48.05 miles
Got my second COVID vaccine dose yesterday and I am sure feeling it today. Glad I got to run yesterday morning because there is no way I'd have been able to run today.
April 15 - 4.98 miles (8K as part of a virtual challenge)
Total for April - 56.93 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 43.07 miles
Felt so good at Saturday's 5K - Made me realize I still have a lot left in me and I am progressing towards another PR.
April 17 - 3.11 miles
April 18 - 3.38 miles
Total for April - 63.42 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 36.58 miles
3.5 miles to celebrate my 35th birthday!
April 19 - 3.5 miles
Total for April - 66.92 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 33.08 miles
I appreciate all the birthday wishes!! Thank you all so much!!! All in all, it was a really good day.
April 21 - 6.2 miles
Total for April - 73.12 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 26.88 miles
Asked my son last night how far I should run today. His first response was "85 miles!!", but decided on 4 after I told him 85 was a little out of my league.
April 22 - 4.43 miles (little extra credit)
Total for April - 77.55 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 22.45 miles
@quilteryoyo - He's 7, so he totally knows 85 miles is a lot of miles to run. I wonder if he was just messing with me, but yes, 4 was the better choice.
@WhatMeRunning - Maybe when they're older I'll venture into the realm of ultra running.
April 24 - 4.59 miles
Total for April - 82.14 miles
April Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 17.86 miles
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Sometimes you just feel like a dumbass. Let me tell you about this morning.
I had a trail race this morning. I got up, had a cup of coffee and some oatmeal, and got ready to go. I was going through my checklist: vest, bib belt, pass, wallet, phone etc and still felt like I was forgetting something.
It's about a 30 minute drive so I head out the door around 6:20 to give me time at the gate & to use the bathroom before I start. Plenty of time.
I turn onto the road that goes into the park and I suddenly realized what I forgot. My mask. I freaking forgot the one required item. 🤦🏼♀️
So I turned around, went home, changed shoes and went out in my neighborhood.
Virtual Saguaro 7k done. No where near a Saguaro but 🤷🏼♀️9 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »Yesterday I was itching to run, but kept it to 1 mile on the treadmill (barefoot!) and did my little routine on the weight machine. I got nominated to do this Strava art challenge, so I planned a route in my neighborhood and did it this morning, for 8.4 km at a very relaxed pace. Actually I walked or stopped at some points to make sure the GPS caught it right. Also paused the watch and went around to another area, then unpaused, just to get a line through an area where I couldn't go (steep embankment, railroad bridge, fenced in houses), and it worked! My quad feels fine now, but lower back hurts and that's where it starts. So I won't push it.I didn't want to do the "force your friends to participate by tagging them" thing, but it could be fun for us to see what kind of designs we can do with our routes. How about a MFP Strava-art Challenge? Use your mapping app, plan a route, run it and post it for us all to see!
Supposed to be the Polish eagle (with a crown, and tongue out) but my husband is making fun of me by saying it has a dog face. 
Sokol Polska.
You're very close - sokol is a falcon, and this is their eagle, so "orzeł polski"
...and then to add to the fun, jastrząb is a hawk, so my [new] town of Jastrzębie-Zdrój translates as "Hawk Spa". Try to pronounce all of those without spraining your tongue!
I behaved and biked today, around 10k, then hiked in the woods with my daughter. My kids have very different hiking styles. This one likes to talk - the whole way, haha. Quad feels fine, but I want it to also feel fine with me running at least 40k/week.It'sgettingpretty in the woods.Re: Strava art. I didn't think I'd find anything either, but after staring at heatmaps and playing with different routes for a while, the eagle just kinda jumped out at me. Then I started looking for ways to improve it, and kept coming back to it until I was happy with it. It was kinda fun
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quilteryoyo wrote: »@Avidkeo Love the pictures. That is a very beautiful place to visit. I'm glad you all had a great time and that you are getting to spend time with your mom too.
@TheMrWobbly Glad to see you are getting back to normal at work and able to get back into a routine. That sounds really stressful. You made me realize that we also haven't heard from @hamsterwheel6 @kirstymn @Faebert and @eleanorhawkins for a while. Hope all is well with you.
@Tramboman Glad your run ended well. How was golf yesterday?
Nice run @sweetdaisy13
Thinking of @Teresa502 this morning as she is trail racing in the rain. Hope you had fun!
Golf is always good.
The losing team buys Diet Pepsi for the winning team.
I've wet my whistle after every match this year and haven't paid yet.5 -
polskagirl01 wrote: »polskagirl01 wrote: »Yesterday I was itching to run, but kept it to 1 mile on the treadmill (barefoot!) and did my little routine on the weight machine. I got nominated to do this Strava art challenge, so I planned a route in my neighborhood and did it this morning, for 8.4 km at a very relaxed pace. Actually I walked or stopped at some points to make sure the GPS caught it right. Also paused the watch and went around to another area, then unpaused, just to get a line through an area where I couldn't go (steep embankment, railroad bridge, fenced in houses), and it worked! My quad feels fine now, but lower back hurts and that's where it starts. So I won't push it.I didn't want to do the "force your friends to participate by tagging them" thing, but it could be fun for us to see what kind of designs we can do with our routes. How about a MFP Strava-art Challenge? Use your mapping app, plan a route, run it and post it for us all to see! Supposed to be the Polish eagle (with a crown, and tongue out) but my husband is making fun of me by saying it has a dog face.
Sokol Polska.
You're very close - sokol is a falcon, and this is their eagle, so "orzeł polski"
...and then to add to the fun, jastrząb is a hawk, so my [new] town of Jastrzębie-Zdrój translates as "Hawk Spa". Try to pronounce all of those without spraining your tongue!
I behaved and biked today, around 10k, then hiked in the woods with my daughter. My kids have very different hiking styles. This one likes to talk - the whole way, haha. Quad feels fine, but I want it to also feel fine with me running at least 40k/week.It'sgettingpretty in the woods.Re: Strava art. I didn't think I'd find anything either, but after staring at heatmaps and playing with different routes for a while, the eagle just kinda jumped out at me. Then I started looking for ways to improve it, and kept coming back to it until I was happy with it. It was kinda fun
Since I only speak about 5 words of Polish, I was harkening back to my misspent youth.
We had two Polish Falcon establishments in Erie: Third Street Falcons and Nineteenth Street Falcons. Neither establishment carded for age, so it was possible I consumed some alcoholic beverages before attaining the legal age for drinking in Pennsylvania, which was 21.5 -
Great to see you back @TheMrWobbly! Sounds like you have had a rough couple of months. Just ease back into it and you'll be back to your old self in no time.
Yeah @RunsOnEspresso that's frustrating when your mind just flakes out on you. But great job doing the race virtually!
14 miles this morning (well afternoon I guess). Longest run of the year so far. And unfortunately it felt like it. Had to take several walk breaks, and it was quite warm and windy. But got it done.
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Welcome @GatorLally!
Love the pics from your holiday @Avidkeo!
Good to see you back after a stressful few months @MrWobbly
April 1 – 5.11 miles
April 2 – 8.07 miles
April 3 – Hiking (9.52 miles – 4135 elevation gain)
April 4 – Walk (1.37 miles)
April 5 – Strength Training; Exercise Bike (10 miles); Hiking (2.38 miles – 434 elevation gain)
April 6 – 5.15 miles
April 7 – Strength Training; Exercise Bike (8 miles); Hiking (7.7 miles – 1390 elevation gain)
April 8 – 5.15 miles
April 9 – Exercise Bike (10 miles); Biking (5.11 miles); Strength Training
April 10 – 8.03 miles
April 11 – 4.22 miles; Hiking (5 miles)
April 12 – 5.18 miles; Hiking (4 miles)
April 13 – Strength Training; Exercise Bike (14 miles); Hiking (2.12 miles)
April 14 – Nothing
April 15 – Nothing
April 16 – Hiking (12.09 miles – 3387 elevation gain)
April 17 – 3.15 miles
April 18 – 7.04 miles; Walk (1.20 miles); Hiking (3.6 miles)
April 19 – Strength; Stretch; Exercise Bike (14 miles)
April 20 – 5.14 miles
April 21 – Cardio & Core; Exercise Bike (11 miles)
April 22 – 3.13 miles; Walk (1 mile)
April 23 – 3.40 miles; Strength
April 24 – 3.78 miles
Today’s Run the Tunnel race was held at a local state park. The route was part pavement through the campground and then went into the woods on trails. It started a light rain about 30 minutes before the start. It was in the mid-40s so a little chilly. Luckily the parking lot was right beside the start area so I waited with a friend in her car until about 5 minutes before the start. It was a small turnout. There were 46 finishers. It’s a tough race so the field has never been huge. I think last time we had it in 2019 there were 66 finishers. There were two sets of stone steps to climb on the trail part and they were slippery. I took it gingerly on the wet pavement going downhill also because I was afraid it would be slick. I managed to stay upright the entire time. My finish time was over 2 minutes slower than the same race in 2019 but I placed 3rd in my age group! (Never mind there were only three of us in my age group.) All the runners were very supportive of each other and it was great to see everyone out running.
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@TheMrWobbly welcome back. Hope the knee behaves2
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polskagirl01 wrote: »polskagirl01 wrote: »Yesterday I was itching to run, but kept it to 1 mile on the treadmill (barefoot!) and did my little routine on the weight machine. I got nominated to do this Strava art challenge, so I planned a route in my neighborhood and did it this morning, for 8.4 km at a very relaxed pace. Actually I walked or stopped at some points to make sure the GPS caught it right. Also paused the watch and went around to another area, then unpaused, just to get a line through an area where I couldn't go (steep embankment, railroad bridge, fenced in houses), and it worked! My quad feels fine now, but lower back hurts and that's where it starts. So I won't push it.I didn't want to do the "force your friends to participate by tagging them" thing, but it could be fun for us to see what kind of designs we can do with our routes. How about a MFP Strava-art Challenge? Use your mapping app, plan a route, run it and post it for us all to see! Supposed to be the Polish eagle (with a crown, and tongue out) but my husband is making fun of me by saying it has a dog face.
Sokol Polska.
You're very close - sokol is a falcon, and this is their eagle, so "orzeł polski"
...and then to add to the fun, jastrząb is a hawk, so my [new] town of Jastrzębie-Zdrój translates as "Hawk Spa". Try to pronounce all of those without spraining your tongue!
I behaved and biked today, around 10k, then hiked in the woods with my daughter. My kids have very different hiking styles. This one likes to talk - the whole way, haha. Quad feels fine, but I want it to also feel fine with me running at least 40k/week.It'sgettingpretty in the woods.Re: Strava art. I didn't think I'd find anything either, but after staring at heatmaps and playing with different routes for a while, the eagle just kinda jumped out at me. Then I started looking for ways to improve it, and kept coming back to it until I was happy with it. It was kinda fun
Since I only speak about 5 words of Polish, I was harkening back to my misspent youth.
We had two Polish Falcon establishments in Erie: Third Street Falcons and Nineteenth Street Falcons. Neither establishment carded for age, so it was possible I consumed some alcoholic beverages before attaining the legal age for drinking in Pennsylvania, which was 21.
Since you said those years were misspent, I won't ask what your other 4 words are
And the legal drinking age here is lower, I think 18 but apparently much younger if the child is drinking at home... but I also just read that it's illegal to drink outside in public (I mean you can't even legally eat in public right now because of mask regulations, and bars are closed anyway, but apparently it was illegal before as well) and now I'm confused because I'm sure I've seen it happening and the rules seem contradictory to me. 3 -
@pfeiferlindsey Hahaha He was probably messing with you!
Oh no @RunsOnEspresso ! Sorry you didn't get to run the race in person.
@polskagirl01 Nice bike ride and hike. I almost missed the duck in the first picture. It is getting green and pretty.
@Tramboman Wow. Great job on the golfing!
@Scott6255 Congratulations on your longest run for the year. There's no shame in having to take walk breaks. As long as you are moving forward, you are making progress.
@Teresa502 Glad you stayed upright during your race. Having to be careful on the wet pavement and stone affected your pace, I'm sure. Congrats on your AG placement!
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Date.......Run............ Walk
4/1...... 0.00............ 2.25 - Treadmill
4/2.......2.25.............1.00 - Treadmill - easy
4/3.......0.00.............2.00 - Field and driveway
4/4......3.00..............1.00 - Driveway laps
4/5......0.00..............1.00 - driveway laps with Tippy and mowed the lawn for 1:46:49 (2.43 miles of walking)
4/6......2.70..............1.00 - Fast Finish Run 1 - on the road
4/7......0.00..............1.00 - Driveway laps with Tippy and mowed my mom's lawn (1:11:20)
4/8......2.25..............1.00 - Foundation run (easy pace) and warm up and cool down walks - driveway laps
4/9......2.50..............1.00 - Speed Play Run plus warm up and cool down walks
4/10....0.00..............1.00 - Walk on the driveway today
4/11....4.50..............1.00 - Treadmill session today - longest run post surgery - slow
4/12....0.00..............1.00 - Driveway walk then mowed my lawn
4/13....2.50..............1.00 - Treadmill Fast Finish Run and warm up/cool down walks
4/14....0.00..............1.00 - Driveway laps and then helped mom mow her lawn
4/15....0.00..............2.00 - Driveway laps
4/16....2.50..............1.00 - Treadmill - Speed Play Run and warm up/cool down walks
4/17....0.00..............1.00 - Driveway laps
4/18....5.00..............2.00 - Treadmill
4/19....0.00..............1.00 - Driveway laps
4/20....3.10..............2.00 - Treadmill
4/21....0.00..............2.00 - Treadmill
4/22....2.25..............1.00 - Treadmill - Foundation Run - slow, easy pace
4/23....2.50..............1.00 - Treadmill - Speed Play Run and warm up/cool down walks
4/24....6.00..............1.00 - Treadmill - easy pace long run and warm up/cool down walks
69.30/80 miles
I had planned to just walk today, but started thinking about my schedule tomorrow and how much I didn't want to get up early enough to run in the morning before church, nor did I want to wait until 4 pm to run. Since those were my only choices for tomorrow, I decided to get my long run in this afternoon instead. Farthest I've run since surgery! I think that was close to my limit today, even though it was really slow.6 -
@rheddmobile The Run The World Group is almost to Memphis. See you tomorrow, probably.1
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Date :::: Miles
04/01/21 :::: 0.0
04/02/21 :::: 3.0
04/03/21 :::: 5.5
04/04/21 :::: 3.3
04/05/21 :::: 0.0
04/06/21 :::: 3.1
04/07/21 :::: 3.1
04/08/21 :::: 3.1
04/09/21 :::: 0.0
04/10/21 :::: 9.0
04/11/21 :::: 4.4
04/12/21 :::: 3.3
04/13/21 :::: 2.4
04/14/21 :::: 2.6
04/15/21 :::: 3.4
04/16/21 :::: 3.1
04/17/21 :::: 3.6
04/18/21 :::: 13.2
04/19/21 :::: 2.0
04/20/21 :::: 2.2
04/21/21 :::: 0.00
04/22/21 :::: 0.00
04/23/21 :::: 0.00
04/24/21 :::: 4.01
Hi all - so sorry not to catch up with you all at the moment. I read through some quickly.
I had some busy days and then flew down to Florida yesterday morning to spend a few days with my mom. I missed a few days of running because wednesday and thursday were SNOWY and cold and then traveling. But got out this morning and ran on the beach. The sand was very hard packed so it was not too bad, but still my feet are kind of sore. Not sure if it's from that or all the walking around on the beach barefoot, probably the latter.
I'm hoping to run again the tomorrow and maybe Monday before I head back but it's supposed to rain tomorrow.7 -
I’m not sure five cocktails is the correct number for pre-run fueling on a long run. Started later than planned (which was still better than hubby expected) and was running ok, if a smidge slow, but was feeling it a bit at 6km, recovered by 11km, started to finally feel good about 14km.
Shattered now. Serves me right for trying to have a social life 😂12 -
April Goal: 100 Miles
4/1: 5.51 miles
4/2: 1.41 miles
4/4: 9.02 miles
4/5: 2.02 miles
4/6: 5.53 miles
4/10: 3.14 miles
4/11: 8.25 miles
4/12: 2.12 miles
4/13: 5.11 miles
4/16: 3.14 miles
4/18: 5.3 miles
4/20: 4.02 miles
4/21: 6.02 miles
4/24: 6.26 miles
66.85/100 miles completed for April
RACE REPORT:
Today was the Run For The Children 10K. It was my first time to run an official 10K race. I have run a few 5K races and a few Half Marathons and I run the 10K distance a lot, but I was excited to get to finally run a 10K race. My best time for a 10K was 58:50, so my goal was 57 minutes.
I planned out what I would wear and tried to go to bed early. I didn't get to bed as early as I wanted, but I didn't stay up too late and slept OK. I got up and got ready. It was 55°F which seems perfect, but there were 14 mph NNW winds and it was cloudy so it seemed pretty chilly. I still wore the shorts and tank top I had planned on and wore my jacket but planned to take it off when I ran.
The race was in a town 30 miles away so we headed out. It was easy to find the race and I went to pick up my packet. But the lady checking me in couldn't find it. She was looking around and I asked if she needed my registration email but she said no she remembered writing my name on the back of the bib. But she decided to just give me a new one. This wasn't helping my nerves, but she was really nice so I took the new bib and the swag bag and headed to the bathroom. When I was headed back (after pinning on my bib) she came running up to me with my original bib. So I swapped them out repinned the bib.
While we were waiting to start I kept debating about whether I should keep my jacket on or not. I repinned my bib on my jacket, but then I decided I would get hot and at the last minute I took off the jacket and put the bib back on my shirt. I'm pretty sure my husband thought I was nuts.
We lined up and the horn sounded. I started off and felt pretty good. By the first mile I was glad I didn't wear my jacket. There was one girl ahead of me and as I passed her I could tell she was already breathing hard. Another woman was kind of beside me but they both dropped behind me. Then between the second and third mile a woman passed me and I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to catch her. My number one goal was 57 minutes so I didn't want to waste energy chasing her. Then a couple of women started pulling up beside me. One of them was a woman who beat me in the first two 5Ks that we ran against each other in. But I finally beat her and I wasn't going to let her beat me again. Knowing that she was right behind me really helped me push through. I was starting to get tired, but then I started passing some people who were walking the 5K. That was kind of motivating. Plus at the point where we rejoined the 5K route I knew that there was only about a mile to go. I was pretty excited coming to the finish because I knew I would get my PR and also that there was only one woman ahead of me. So I was 1st in my AG and 2nd Female plus I got my PR. My official chip time was 55:46:28 with an average pace of 8.56. I was really pleased with that. And my husband got a race picture of me running with both feet off the ground.
I am having trouble loading pictures, so I will try to post some later. And I need to catch up on the thread.
2021 Races:
4/24/21: Run For The Children 10K
11/6/21: Run For 57th AHC Half Marathon
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