September 2021 Monthly Running Challenge
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5 miles this morning. Almost hit by someone backing outof their driveway, like I was already behind the car when they started it and threw in reverse. Without looking apparently.
I need a strobe or disco light or something as I already wear light color, reflective stuff AND a bright AF head lamp. 🤷🏼♀️
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A loud siren, perhaps?RunsOnEspresso wrote: »I need a strobe or disco light or something as I already wear light color, reflective stuff AND a bright AF head lamp. 🤷🏼♀️3 -
@WhatMeRunning Thanks. That means a lot to me.
@katharmonic Thanks for the encouragement. Funny about your secret half marathon. Hugs on the anniversary of your sister's death. I'm sure that is hard every year.
Thanks @Tramboman, @Scott6255 , and @skippygirlsmom ! You're encouragement keeps me going.
Congrats on your 5 mile PR @bradkcrew !
@RunsOnEspresso I'm glad you weren't hit. Did the driver ever see you?
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@quilteryoyo You did it!! I'm so excited for you! And running that distance without the crowd support adds a level of difficulty. You did awesome! All the signs along the trail were a nice touch @Teresa502 . Makes it feel like a "real" race.
Someone else mentioned that first HM often suck. I also had a rough 1st HM. It's a challenge to go that distance and actually feel good doing it. Getting fueling and hydration dialed in takes practice and then when you think you have it figured out, boom, it stops working and you gotta start over.3 -
@RunsOnEspresso that has happened to me a couple times, and even with cars driving FORWARD. When they are close enough, I'll bang on the car and give them a WTF shrug and head shake. Glad you weren't run over!2
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@WhatMeRunning@RunsOnEspresso wrote: »5 miles this morning. Almost hit by someone backing outof their driveway, like I was already behind the car when they started it and threw in reverse. Without looking apparently.
I need a strobe or disco light or something as I already wear light color, reflective stuff AND a bright AF head lamp. 🤷🏼♀️
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Will not do one bit of good. You could sing the star spangled banner at the top of your lungs, decked out in glitter and gold, while whistling dixie and doing the two step and they still will NOT see you.
Whatever is wrong with society, the new cancel culture, all about me and special snowflaked unicorns, I do not know. The new way of driving is to blow through stop signs, speed through school zones, pass school buses, fly out of driveways, forwards and backwards, make angry hand gestures at whoever is in the way, all the while looking at the next tiktok, youtube, instagram star.
I wear bright colors, have nox vest (neon lights), a blinking light, reflectors and most all know me as 'that woman who always run." DAILY! I still get "OMG I did not see you!" or an exasperated look or shrug, or just completely ignored as they whip out the driveway or through the stop sign. Did I mention this is D.A.I.L.Y? I have stood (running in place at the end of driveways as special frosted snowflake unicorns back out, not looking, until they look up and see me at the driver's side window with the look of 'yes, stupid, we almost had to call an ambulance.' The same people, every day.
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September 2 – 8.35
September 5 – 5.02
September 6 – 6.06
September 8 – 5.10
September 9 – 5.22
September 11 – 11.02
September 13 – 5.71
September 14 – 3
September 15 – 5.14
September 17 – 4.65
September 18 – 10.6 + 2.6 with @quilteryoyo
September 19 – 6.30
September 20 – 5.13
Gosh, Monday sure does roll around quickly. Met a friend for my run at 5:00 this morning. About a mile into the run we heard some people talking loudly where usually no one is out. As we ran past, I heard whistles and some comments but we just kept running. Luckily, they were all mouth. We will need to change up our route the next few outings though just be on the cautious side.
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Another little run in the rain - 4 miles, was planned to be a tempo run but slowed down after the first two. We saw a BOBCAT! And not on trails, it was in the middle of the bridge on Wolf River Boulevard! There is a crossing for pedestrians and cycles divided from the road by a cast iron fence, and as we approached the overpass a cyclist was coming towards us with what looked like a cat trotting in front of him. What went through my mind in less than two seconds: “Cat, oh he looks friendly, hi guy are you coming to greet me? He sure moves funny for a cat, more like a big puppy, gosh he has huge paws, and he’s a funny color, is that some sort of Bengal cat or something? Gosh he really is huge, um, look at the tail, his tail is real weird… BOBCAAAATTT!”
He trotted right up to us, paused about ten feet away, looked at us, looked at the woods adjoining the riverbank, turned, and sauntered into the woods and disappeared. Total time less than five seconds I would guess. The cyclist came over the bridge as my husband and I stopped and gaped, and we all three said, “WAS THAT A BOBCAT?” Apparently he ran across the bridge, encountered a bicycle coming towards him, turned and ran back the other way into us.
I have bottle fed a baby bobcat when I worked for the nature preserve and we used to have them at the place where I grew up, but I’ve never been this close to one in the wild! I think this guy was young, he wasn’t much larger than a big domestic cat, and he had a playful bounce to his gait.4 -
AlphaHowls wrote: »
@WhatMeRunning@RunsOnEspresso wrote: »5 miles this morning. Almost hit by someone backing outof their driveway, like I was already behind the car when they started it and threw in reverse. Without looking apparently.
I need a strobe or disco light or something as I already wear light color, reflective stuff AND a bright AF head lamp. 🤷🏼♀️
121/174
Will not do one bit of good. You could sing the star spangled banner at the top of your lungs, decked out in glitter and gold, while whistling dixie and doing the two step and they still will NOT see you.
Whatever is wrong with society, the new cancel culture, all about me and special snowflaked unicorns, I do not know. The new way of driving is to blow through stop signs, speed through school zones, pass school buses, fly out of driveways, forwards and backwards, make angry hand gestures at whoever is in the way, all the while looking at the next tiktok, youtube, instagram star.
I wear bright colors, have nox vest (neon lights), a blinking light, reflectors and most all know me as 'that woman who always run." DAILY! I still get "OMG I did not see you!" or an exasperated look or shrug, or just completely ignored as they whip out the driveway or through the stop sign. Did I mention this is D.A.I.L.Y? I have stood (running in place at the end of driveways as special frosted snowflake unicorns back out, not looking, until they look up and see me at the driver's side window with the look of 'yes, stupid, we almost had to call an ambulance.' The same people, every day.
Yup, I saw another guy this morning fly through a stop sign. I was so glad I was turning or I'd have been hit because he was only looking left. No one making a right ever looks left, right, left. Almost got hit last week by someone doing the same thing. I stepped into street and was able to stop because I'd been watching. He stopped for a car then stepped on it as I started to cross. And that was broad daylight.
And I usually run against traffic, as I'm supposed to. People just don't look for walkers, runners, kids, families only cars. Then they look at you like "whaaaa? People walk/run? I didn't know thats what that cement over there was for. Thought it was for extra parking"4 -
@AlphaHowls - I suppose you're right, it wouldn't help. I've seen traffic whiz in front of emergency vehicles with their lights and sirens blazing. We live on a dead-end street. A small bus comes to pick up my youngest son to take him to a needs-focused school across town. The only traffic (rare) is either people who live on this street or are taking their kids to/from the "regular" school just down the street. At least once every couple weeks someone goes blowing past the stopped bus with red lights flashing and a big red stop sign with flashing red lights on it extended. It's a hefty automatic ticket too (camera's send the before/after pics straight to the police). Yet people still do it all the time. Next door neighbor even did it once.2
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Back from vacation, where I still ran a number of times, though not as much as I hoped... That said, you can't beat running along the rim of the Grand Canyon:
9/1 - 5.1 miles
9/2 - Rest
9/3 - 7.3 miles
9/4 - 4 miles
9/5 - 13.11 miles
9/6 - 5 miles
9/7 - 8 miles
9/8 - 4.5 miles
9/9 - 6.1 miles
9/10 - Travel
9/11 - 7.56 miles
9/12 - Travel
9/13 - 6.3 miles
9/14 - Skipped
9/15 - Travel
9/16 - 6.22 miles
9/17 - 6.7 miles
9/18 - Travel
9/19 - 9.5 miles
9/20 - 5 miles
September To-Date: 94.39 miles
September Goal: 141 miles
Percentage Complete: 66.94%
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AlphaHowls wrote: »I have stood (running in place at the end of driveways as special frosted snowflake unicorns back out, not looking, until they look up and see me at the driver's side window with the look of 'yes, stupid, we almost had to call an ambulance.'
I know that look. I too have given that look.
My favorite almost got hit by a car story happened at the only busy intersection I frequently run through. It is a 4 way stop with 2 lanes plus a turn from each direction. Most people are good about watching as this intersection sees a ton of runners, bikers, dog walkers, etc. But this one morning, this lady pulls up to the intersection after I was a couple steps into the crosswalk. She never looked over. I try to make eye contact so I know they see me. Realizing she probably wouldn't see me, I slowed way down and as she started to roll out into the intersection and got level with me I said "Mornin' " really loud. Her window was rolled down and she jumped so high and apologized profusely. I think I scared the crap out of her. Maybe she'll at least pay attention there in the future.
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@teresa502 That's scary. Sounds like a safe move to mix it up a bit for a while.
@rheddmobile Wow! Another scary encounter! I can't imaging running into an actual bobcat and having it get that close.
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In Memphis I know of two cyclists hit and killed by people making right turns in the past year. It’s a problem. One was at Shelby Farms in the marked bike lane.RunsOnEspresso wrote: »AlphaHowls wrote: »
@WhatMeRunning@RunsOnEspresso wrote: »5 miles this morning. Almost hit by someone backing outof their driveway, like I was already behind the car when they started it and threw in reverse. Without looking apparently.
I need a strobe or disco light or something as I already wear light color, reflective stuff AND a bright AF head lamp. 🤷🏼♀️
121/174
Will not do one bit of good. You could sing the star spangled banner at the top of your lungs, decked out in glitter and gold, while whistling dixie and doing the two step and they still will NOT see you.
Whatever is wrong with society, the new cancel culture, all about me and special snowflaked unicorns, I do not know. The new way of driving is to blow through stop signs, speed through school zones, pass school buses, fly out of driveways, forwards and backwards, make angry hand gestures at whoever is in the way, all the while looking at the next tiktok, youtube, instagram star.
I wear bright colors, have nox vest (neon lights), a blinking light, reflectors and most all know me as 'that woman who always run." DAILY! I still get "OMG I did not see you!" or an exasperated look or shrug, or just completely ignored as they whip out the driveway or through the stop sign. Did I mention this is D.A.I.L.Y? I have stood (running in place at the end of driveways as special frosted snowflake unicorns back out, not looking, until they look up and see me at the driver's side window with the look of 'yes, stupid, we almost had to call an ambulance.' The same people, every day.
Yup, I saw another guy this morning fly through a stop sign. I was so glad I was turning or I'd have been hit because he was only looking left. No one making a right ever looks left, right, left. Almost got hit last week by someone doing the same thing. I stepped into street and was able to stop because I'd been watching. He stopped for a car then stepped on it as I started to cross. And that was broad daylight.
And I usually run against traffic, as I'm supposed to. People just don't look for walkers, runners, kids, families only cars. Then they look at you like "whaaaa? People walk/run? I didn't know thats what that cement over there was for. Thought it was for extra parking"
Here we are one of the most dangerous cities for pedestrian deaths. I don’t expect people to see me or avoid me, I leap out of the way when a car approaches. I once had to run jump on some stranger’s porch when a car swerved completely off the street and into a yard and almost hit me. This is why we try to run at parks and not roads.
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@rheddmobile - Your bobcat encounter is wild! It also reminds me of my Sunday morning walk where I went just about 10-15 feet from a coyote, my second coyote encounter on that walk actually. The first encounter was when I was coming up the path out of the woods onto a street with the coyote coming down that street on the sidewalk on the other side of the road. The way the path was going we met up at about the same point in the road, going opposite directions, and it just kept going down the other way. But that was not the close encounter. A couple miles later as I was going along the perimeter of a park, I saw a coyote cross into the park along a walkway on the edge of some woods. As I continued along I saw it quickly walking down into a field where it was probably looking for breakfast of some sort. When it finally noticed me it reversed and went straight back out the way it came in, which was exactly where I was closing in! As it realized we were close to crossing paths it hid behind a large decorative stone just a few feet off of the walkway at the entrance, right where I was about to turn into. Since we were already so close and it was clearly trying to avoid me I just kept going ahead past the rock and never saw it, but as I walked past I could hear movement behind me but still never saw anything as I turned my head to keep my peripheral vision on it. They are so good at staying hidden when they want to! It was just a short jump away, the closest I think I've ever been to one.
That had to be an amazing place to get to run @johnisrunning
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@johnisrunning, I visited the Grand Canyon a number of years ago, 2006, shortly after I had started running. I ran ONE TIME while I was there and the altitude killed me. My lungs burned for a couple of days after. You appear to be a bit more experienced than I was at the time. How did you handle the altitude? Did you notice any differences in your perceived effort for equivalent paces?3
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CarsonSurfs wrote: »@johnisrunning, I visited the Grand Canyon a number of years ago, 2006, shortly after I had started running. I ran ONE TIME while I was there and the altitude killed me. My lungs burned for a couple of days after. You appear to be a bit more experienced than I was at the time. How did you handle the altitude? Did you notice any differences in your perceived effort for equivalent paces?
I am an experienced runner of about 9 years, but I live at sea level so yes, the altitude was a remarkable adjustment. I ran twice while I was there (Thursday and Friday). The Thursday run was about normal for pace and heart rate, adjusting for the fact that half of it was uphill and then I turned around and the other half was downhill. The Friday run, on the same trail in the same weather was much harder, as I clearly did not recover as well as I would have normally.
While the paces were not too out of the ordinary, my Garmin clearly knew something was up about my oxygen intake at altitude; my watch's VO2-max estimate plummeted while I was there and has completely rebounded in the two runs since I've been back.9 -
Great job @quilteryoyo !!!!!!!2
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@quilteryoyo Well done on running your Half Marathon 🎉2
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Thanks @martaindale It's good to know that a lot of people had "bad" experiences doing their first HM.
@AlphaHowls At least you know which houses to look out for when running.
@Teresa502 I'm glad you weren't alone. Stay safe out there.
Nice run @rheddmobile ! I like you thought processes re the bobcat. Glad he was just wanting to get away from the crazy humans out exercising in the rain.
That would be a cool place to run @johnisrunning !
Thanks @polskagirl01 and @sweetdaisy13 !
I worked today and it was raining when I got home, so did a treadmill mile today, at 3.9 mph.
Monthly mileage in the spoiler.1 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps
2 Sept - 3.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Mixed interval run in the morning on the rural road
3 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Treadmill at 9:44 pm, after my Aunt's visitation and funeral - also played tennis that morning
4 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps in the evening, after my Aunt's burial that morning
5 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps after church and before lunch
6 Sept - 12.0 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - PR for distance
7 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Treadmill at 8:20 pm after work and weed eating mom's lawn
8 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps after 2 hours of doubles tennis
9 Sept - 3.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps - Fartleks during the middle mile
10 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps after work - also played doubles tennis for nearly 2 hours
11 Sept - 10.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps
12 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps after church and before lunch
13 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps after mowing
14 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps
15 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps before church
16 Sept - 3.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Fartleks during mile 2 on the driveway
17 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - Driveway laps - tennis this morning
18 Sept - 13.12 miles Ran - 0.5 mile Walk - Tweetsie Trail FIRST EVER HM
19 Sept - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - driveway laps after church, before lunch
20 Setp - 0.00 miles Ran - 1.0 mile Walk - treadmill walk after work
44.12 miles Ran - 19.50 mile Walked - No goal set for this month6
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