August 2021 Monthly Running Challenge
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@Tramboman Glad your hip pain eased up at the end of your run today. Nice running.
@Teresa502 The cooler weather was definitely a treat today. I hope you day tomorrow isn't as stressful as you expect it to be.
@skippygirlsmom Jelly beans.
That is a big, steep hill @martaindale ! I'd be walking that one for sure. Love the pictures of the deer and sunrise.
Sounds, and looks like, a nice fun day @polskagirl01 ! Not sure I would enjoy a cold water swim though.
@katharmonic That sounds like a really tough workout. Great job on getting it done. I didn't think you were supposed to run max speed on intervals. Maybe I'm doing them wrong. I always run at a speed that I feel I couldn't maintain for much longer...well, sometimes I do that, but I never sprint them. The only sprinting I do is at the end of a run, if I can, and when I'm doing hill repeats. 3 -
1 Aug - 0.00 Run 1.0 Walk - driveway laps, barely beat the heavy downpour
2 Aug - 3.30 Run 1.0 Walk - Tempo run - 2 hours mowing the lawn
3 Aug - 2.50 Run 1.0 Walk - Recovery Run on the driveway - Weed eat at mom's in the afternoon
4 Aug - 6.20 Run 1.0 Walk - Birthday run on the driveway - played singles tennis earlier
12.00/100 miles running 4.0/31 miles walking
I got up this morning to a cool wet world. It was 64°F in August. Crazy. I had plans to play tennis with a friend this morning. It didn't look like that was going to happen, but there were only spotty showers, so my tennis buddy and I decided to go to the courts and see how they looked. When we got there, it was a lot drier than at my house. There were some puddles that we were able to squeegee out, warmed up making sure we didn't run on the wet spots, and then played a couple of sets. I won 6-3, and 6-1. I thought I was going to win the first on 6-2, for my birthday, but I put too much pressure on myself at 5-2 and lost the next game. It was fun and much closer than the scores show.
When I got home, it was drizzling again, but still only 64°F. I thought about doing my run on the treadmill, but those temperatures were calling me to run outside. I didn't want my neighbors to think I was crazy, so I did my birthday run on the driveway. Turns out, even with 100% humidity, it was a great run. I think that is my new favorite weather for a run. I ran at what felt like a fairly easy pace, walking most of the biggest hill. My goal was to keep my HR in Zones 2 and 3. I succeeded with only 1:53 minutes above Zone 3. Elevation gain was 1,842 feet. My pace averaged 13:42 min/mile. That's more than 1 min/mile faster than yesterday. Still slow, but I'll take it for a driveway easy paced run. @Scott6255 FYI my warm up and cool down walks were both 56% in Zone 2 and around 40% in Zone 2.
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August Goal: 75 Miles
8/1: 6.50 miles
8/3: 5.16 miles
8/4: 4.67 miles
16.33/75 miles completed for August
The weather was really nice again today. It was 68°F when I got out there. The plan for today was a tempo run. I'm not sure if I hit the paces exactly, but I started slow then gradually sped up to a quick pace and then gradually slowed down. I think I did alright. Hal said 2.9 miles in 30 minutes at 10:18 min/mi and my actual run was 3.4 miles in 34 minutes at 9:52 min/mi. I did run an extra 1.2 miles after the workout. I guess I am so used to running for about an hour that these shorter distances just leave me feeling like I need a little more. Tomorrow will be hill repeats, so we'll see how that goes. I've never really done hill work before. Luckily none of my hills are like yours @Martindale.
Happy Birthday @quilteryoyo!
2021 Races:
4/24/21: Run For The Children 10K PR 55:46:28.
11/6/21: Run For 57th AHC Half Marathon
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Happy birthday @quilteryoyo!!!!!🎈🎉🎂💐1
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Happy birthday @quilteryoyo! Way to get out there and take advantage of a cooler day in august, if a little wet. Do your neighbors not know you are crazy by now
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You are right, long intervals wouldn't really be done at max speed. Coach always tells us to run them at the hardest effort we can maintain for the duration of the interval and the number of intervals remaining. So max effort for the interval rather than max speed. I probably did not give my max effort last night and my pace was certainly not what it would usually be, but I did more than I expected given my still tired legs.6 -
8-1 7k measy (between moderate and easy)
8-2 rest
8-3 7k measy
8-4 7k easy
8-5 rest
August Total: 21k
August Goal: 150k
Golf today instead of running.
Happy birthday, @quilteryoyo !!!
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 31:48 chip; 31:59 Garmin; 53d overall; 2d male 65 and over
7/17 Run of the Ox 5k, Mantua, OH 32:19 Garmin; 44th overall; 3d place male 60 and over
9/18 5k Run and Roll, Aurora, OH4 -
Happy birthday @quilteryoyo 🥳
Oh, and @martaindale that hill is crazy! You are so lucky (haha) to have that nearby. I would have to conquer it (some sort of defect). I have a lot of hills here (odd for Kansas) but nothing that looks like that.4 -
Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone.
Glad you had nice weather too @kgirlhart. Nice run. Hope you enjoy the hill repeats. I always feel so accomplished when I do those.
Hahaha @katharmonic You're right. My neighbor's probably already know I am crazy. Thanks for your explanation too. Makes sense now. I have days that I don't give the effort I should. Sounds like you did great. You don't want to push too hard on tired legs.
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8 miles this morning. Still having a 'cool' front in August (75F,80% humidity) 😁 Legs felt lighter today, was able to lift my knees up easier.
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08/01: Walked 1 mile
08/02: 50 Minutes Cycle Fusion (spin meets bootcamp) 2.75 treadmill miles
08/03: N/A 12 hour shift
08/04: 3 miles
Ended up getting a few miles in later last night. It was a busy day! The weather is just about perfect for the moment. It’ll be blazing again next week though. I intended to run, but my daughter wanted to come along. She’s working her way off an inhaler because she wants to join the military, and she’s not up for running much yet, but she does want to join my sister and I for the Wine and Dine HM at Disney next year. She starts allergy shots weekly starting next month in the hopes to fully move away from her inhaler.7 -
pfeiferlindsey wrote: »pfeiferlindsey wrote: »I am in for 100 miles this month. Hoping it will be easier than July (only ended up with a bit over 90). But, can I just say...AUGUST ALREADY?!?!? Where has the summer gone??
Aug. 1 - 3.11 miles
Aug. 2 - 4 miles
Total for August - 7.11 miles
August Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 92.89 miles.
Aug. 4 - 5 miles
Total for Aug. 12.11 miles
Aug. Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 87.89 miles
Aug. 5 - 5.15 miles
Total for Aug. - 17.26 miles
Aug. Goal - 100 miles
Miles to go - 82.74 miles4 -
Starting August off ok. Planning on aiming for 300 miles this month. Marathon training for fall races is 💯 in gear 👍🏻5
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Starting August off ok. Planning on aiming for 300 miles this month. Marathon training for fall races is 💯 in gear 👍🏻
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Starting August off ok. Planning on aiming for 300 miles this month. Marathon training for fall races is 💯 in gear 👍🏻
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Aug Total: 3 miles
8/4: 3 miles
On the board for August, finally. This week I am working early, so I have to run in the evening. It is just so hot. The humidity is better (usually in the 60-70% range) at that time but temps are still pushing low 90's even if I wait until 7 or so. I am really trying to slow down even more. Last night went ok. I drank a lot more water than I usually do for a 3 mile run and really tried to run at a lower effort. I see a lot fewer people out now than I do the rest of the year.
We are picking my daughter up from camp on Saturday morning. She's been there for 2 weeks and while I'll be happy to have her home, it has been a nice break just me and my husband at home.
Re: the hill. I ran that hill and then decided it will be a good hill repeat workout but definitely will avoid it for most of my runs. It's just too much. There are plenty of other hills around that are at least not that steep.
@quilteryoyo Happy Birthday!!
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Almost 10k run for me today - 5.5 to the sea, then 4+ on the harder sand where the waves were coming in, to the beach I put into husband's GPS to drive to. It was beautiful, the whole way (maybe somewhat alarming 1.5k from our meeting point when I realized I was going through a nude beach and was concerned that I had sent my family to the wrong place 😆 - fortunately it was a "normal" beach again by the end). I however, was struggling [again] and wondering if I should drop from that 25k mountain race in 9 days, because running has just felt so hard lately. But when I type out my reasons, it doesn't seem like enough to actually drop. If I can power-hike the whole thing, I should still be within the cutoff. And I love the mountains. I'm probably just tired. It's been a stressful/busy time for me lately.
But back to beautiful...
Not sure why it switched the order of the pictures.12 -
@polskagirl01 Such a beautiful place to run. I totally feel you on the tired/stressful front. If you can hike and still make the cutoff, I say go for it! You may surprise yourself on race day (you're probably better prepared than you feel right now) and you can always enjoy a nice cut-back week after the race to let your body and mind recover from life afterwards.5
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@polskagirl01 you should give your race a go. It’s a fun opportunity to try and see what your capable of on race day 👍🏻👍🏻3
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@polskagirl01 when you mentioned the nude beach, then had pics in the spoiler I was like 😳6
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Okay I’m starting on getting my act together. I’ve decided to ditch the app I was using for training called 10K runner. So I purchased a training program on the app Final Surge of Jeff Galloway’s 10K training. It will have me trained in time for my 10K race in Phoenix on 10/31. Yesterday was either a rest day or cross training. I chose cross trading with walking. Today was an easy run which included 6 minutes of cadence drills and 4 minutes of acceleration/gliders. It was the total minutes of 30.
August totals:
Running Walking
8/1 6.23. 0
8/2 Rest
8/3 Rest
8/4 0 6.24
8/5 2.31. 0
Total Running 8.54 miles Total walking 6.24 miles
8.54/50 miles I have 41.46 miles left to go for August.
So I’m happy I’m using Jeff Galloway’s program. I like his run/walk/run method. So the weather here in Yuma has been hot. Normally it’s been 90 to 93 degrees at 3:00 am in the morning to run. That’s when it’s at its coolest. Tomorrow is a cross training day so I will walk another 6.2 miles. Thanks to all who are supporting me and even have friended with me. You guys are a total inspiration to me.
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