January 2022 Monthly Running Challenge
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1/3 – 7.02 miles
1/4 – 6.02 miles
1/5 – 5.08 miles
1/6 – 4.03 miles
1/8 – 8.03 miles
1/9 – 4.75 miles
1/10 – 3.10 miles (treadmill)
1/11 – 5.12 miles
I waited until lunch time to run today when the temp was 28F instead of the 13F that it was this morning. Sun was shining and I overdressed in a thick long-sleeved shirt with a jacket over that. I shed my gloves after the first couple of miles and unzipped my jacket and was ok.
Yay for Skip @skippygirlsmom! So glad her professor is supportive. Sorry about your ankle. I hope a rest day is all it needs. You have been running pretty strong on it.
I’m so excited for your HM @martaindale – you have been training so faithfully! @Scott6255 – you could totally run a HM this weekend! Go, go, go!
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Congratulations to your girl @skippygirlsmom - that’s great news! Hope the ankle is ok soon.
@martaindale good luck on the half - I’m sure it will be great.
@Tramboman - just brrr!! I keep having to look up temperature conversions because we are strictly Celsius over here. And every time I do i realise just how cold it is for some of you guys!
Chipped away a little more of the goal this morning. Now over two thirds of the way to goal, so maybe thinking about stretching myself to double it.
1/1: 2.1m
2/1: 2m
3/1: 2.5m
4/1: 2m
5/1: 1m
6/1: 2m
7/1: 2.05m
8/1: 2.7m
9/1: 1.8m
10/1: 2m
11/1: 1.7m
Jan total: 21.8m
Jan target: 30m4 -
Met some girls from running club this evening for a run. They had worked out a hilly loop (about a mile long) and we set out to do it 4 times. But after the 3rd time, one girl looks at her watch and says "we could probably fit in 5" since her goal was 45 minutes. So 5 it was. I like how each one was progressively faster, although I might not have liked it while we were doing that last loop. Good workout.
@Scott6255 I hear you on feeling that pull to go back to marathons. I hope you can get back to running the distances you want very soon!8 -
@Tramboman Thanks for the ice beard picture. That looks soooooo soooooo cold.
Nice running @martaindale . Glad the weather is looking great for your races this weekend.
@skippygirlsmom I'm so sorry your ankle is giving you trouble. That is so weird. I hope it has gotten better today. If not, you may want to go have it checked out. Congratulations to Skip! That is awesome!
Nice running @Teresa502 ! Don't blame you for waiting until it warmed up.
You are doing great @Faebert !
Hahaha @polskagirl01 about the last lap. But, you did great!
I played doubles tennis this morning. The group was really chatty, so I think we talked more than we played, but I did still burn some calories and had a good time. I came home and walked a mile on the treadmill and did my back exercises. As I was typing that, I realized that today is the end of my original streak I started for myself. Only one day that I didn't at least walk a mile the past 365 days...which means today is the anniversary of the day I came home from the hospital. I think I am going to keep it up, at least until I get to the day that I had the stomach flu last year so it will truly be a year streak. Having that goal did "motivate" me to walk or run on days that I really didn't want to. I think it was good for me.8 -
8 miles this evening. Felt pretty good after the first mile.
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January Goal: 100 Miles
1/1: 10.02 miles
1/4: 5.31 miles
1/5: 5.26 miles
1/6: 5.18 miles
1/9: 10.01 miles
1/11: 5.10 miles
40.88/100 miles completed for January
It was cold this morning. 27°F feels like 21°F. I didn't want to get out of bed, and I didn't want to go outside. But I did and I was glad. I was kind of cold the whole run, but I ran pretty fast for me at 9:53 average pace for 5 miles.
Congratulations on your streak @quilteryoyo!
@skippygirlsmom That is so awesome! Way to go Skip! I hope your ankle is better soon.
@Tramboman Nice ice beard!
@martaindale I hope the weather cooperates this weekend!
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@Tramboman I love a good ice beard!
@martaindale Good luck on your half!
We got out to Chuckalissa today and did trails. I say “did” trails because while we did jog the flats we mostly hiked the loop. I have no idea how people run it when it’s truly muddy. It’s been dry for a couple days and was muddy under a thick coating of leaves today and that was okay if you were careful, but there was evidence a single runner had been down the trail some days before us and left tragic skid marks which told the story of his desperate scramble - we kept laughing as we went over gouges in the mud where this guy had clearly slid three feet or more on one foot! It’s really apparent that not many people run there, I haven’t run it in over a month and picked up “local legend” status on Strava based on running it twice in 90 days.
Anyway the weather was beautiful. Blue skies and about 50. The uphills are steep enough that just walking them puts my heart rate into the same zone as a tempo run.
I have a chest x ray on Thursday and a calcium score on Friday so running schedule this week is going to be tricky. Nothing particularly abnormal with my heart itself on my echo but they did see a pleural effusion thus the x ray. Chest x ray at the ER was supposedly clear but they told me a lot of things which turned out not to be true at that ER visit - I wish I could have a real doctor look at the images and tell me if the effusion was there then. Anyway a pleural effusion can be caused by a lot of things, varying from trivial to deadly, so…6 -
@Tramboman thank you for your post. You're an inspiration2
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@tramboman great ice beard!
@quilteryoyo awesome job on your streak! Congratulations!
@rheddmobile best wishes on your tests and I hope you get some good quality answers and solutions.
Kids are complaining of belly-aches so they're staying home. So much for that coffee date I was hoping for, but I am going for a bike ride. I haven't historically done much cycling in winter, or for the past year either, for that matter, but during winter it's been mainly due to cold and road conditions. Except for the ice slick on half of our road (from a farm up the hill), everything looks clear. And I haven't felt as affected by cold lately, so I'm curious about how it will go.5 -
Great pace @kgirlhart ! Wanting to get back to where it is warm will do that for you.
@rheddmobile Glad you were able to get out and "do" the trail and have a good laugh at the skid marks. I hope you get good news from all of your tests.
@polskagirl01 I hope the kids feel better and that you have a nice bike ride. It's interesting that you feel like you aren't as affected by the cold as you used to be. I am the opposite. Seems like I get cold when it's in the 60's.2 -
"Keepin' it sleasy since 1952"
1-1 7k sleasy
1-2 7k sleasy
1-3 rest
1-4 7k sleasy
1-5 4k slow
1-6 4k treadmill
1-7 7k sleasy
1-8 7k slow
1-9 7k sleasy
1-10 rest
1-11 7k slow
1-12 7k sleasy (but a lot closer to easy than slow)
January Total: 64k
January Goal: 140k
Mostly sunny, upper 20s F, and a wind from the southwest. If it weren't for the wind, would have been much nicer. Sun burned off most of the snow from yesterday; there were only a couple of icy spots that required dodging.6 -
quilteryoyo wrote: »
@polskagirl01 I hope the kids feel better and that you have a nice bike ride. It's interesting that you feel like you aren't as affected by the cold as you used to be. I am the opposite. Seems like I get cold when it's in the 60's.
I have a similar thing going on... I seem to be at that 'wonderful' point in a woman's life when she gets hot flashes and night sweats and things and this winter I seem to be the only person not complaining they're cold. When I lost the weight I started feeling the cold a lot more, and I've always adored my duvet and really hot showers in the winter... can't tolerate either of those this year!4 -
skippygirlsmom wrote: »if you look at the one picture of her "costume" she had on leggings and a frozen tank top, not really my idea of costume. But dang she was moving!!
@skippygirlsmom Such an awesome opportunity for Skip! I hope your ankle feels better soon. So weird for it hurt like that out of nowhere.
@polskagirl01 Your running group sounds great, and such a good source of motivation! My cold tolerance has also improved a lot since I started running. But, I tolerate heat worse on the flip side. Can't have it both ways I guess. My husband has gotten very cold intolerant as he ages, and is frequently found under a blanket even in the house with the heater on 68F. It's borderline ridiculous.
@rheddmobile Sending good vibes your way for your upcoming tests. I hope you can get some answers.2 -
Had a whole post typed out and clicked on Save Draft and Poof it is gone... Here goes again with a shorter version.
@skippygirlsmom - That is So exciting for Skip!! Is she wanting to do that as a career? I am sure ESPN will have a spot for her when she finishes college! Hope your ankle feels better and it is just cranky from the football game. Have to say while I have no affinity for either team I was happy to see Georgia do well since it has been so long and besides, their coach was trained by Alabama's. Nick Sabin really is a class act!
@rheddmobile - it must have been so funny to track the other runners sliding skid marks. Hopefully they got down the trail and home ok. Hope you don't have to wait too long after your tests to get the results and some answers from the doctors. I am still waiting on mine.
@Tramboman - great ice beard but BRRR so cold! 🥶
On being cold vs being hot... I am on the other side of the hot flashes and night sweats mostly and I get so cold now and it has been worse lately. My doctor writes it off to having lost weight but that was a while ago so who knows. Probably just part of getting older. However that doesn't work for my husband who is a bit older than me (8 years) and he rarely gets cold, wears shorts all the time and turns the heat up for me, but wants to have all the windows open. I go around and close everything in the rooms he is not in and then he opens them again 😂😂
We had a couple of hot (80F) and very windy days and I just didn't feel any motivation to go out even for a walk. Today is cooler and the wind is gone so I will be heading out in a bit!
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Really great photos! I think if it was cold enough to get an ice beard I might have to skip the day. Been trying to keep up with our RTW challenge and am inputting runs and intentional walk distances. I thought we had another high mileage person aside from @AlphaHowls but I am not seeing them in the chart now. I have been taking more rest days which was part of my intention this year but I really DO Not like it. Maybe my heart and body like it tho?
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1/1 – 6.11
1/2 – 6.21
1/4 – 6.31
1/5 – 5.11
1/7 - 7.05
1/8 - 6.32
1/10 - 6.02
1/12 - 6.03
49.16 of 160 miles
@martaindale you’ll do great this weekend, weather sounds good. Ah I didn’t see the cape in the picture, well that’s gotta cause some drag right?! I started to follow her too.
So whatever made my ankle angry the other night went away…probably Bama losing to GA LOL
@Teresa502 the weather has been a killer hasn’t it. You sound like me…hat off, gloves off, jacket opened ha ha
Thanks for the kind words on Skip, I appreciate you all letting me brag on her. @shanaber yes that is what she wants to do. She would love to cover women in particular in sports. Fingers crossed on ESPN. I was actually ok with GA winning, they just played better and deserved to win. We love our Nick Saban here for sure. I’m always amazed when people say they hate them or him. Besides a great coach, he’s honestly a great man, all the players under him talk about how he instills values in them far past football. The downside to them losing is that he and his wife foot the bill for a low income house to be built when they win a championship.
@polskagirl01 great hill workout – good luck on the bike ride, hope the kids are feeling better soon
@quilteryoyo that’s a great streak good for you! How has your back been feeling?
@kgirlhart we seem to have around the same temp a lot. Nice job out in the cold. I find if I just make myself go I’m usually glad I did.
@Tramboman great beard.
@rheddmobile good luck on the tests this week. Do they plan to do anything for the pleural effusion or just tell you about it?
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Hi everyone! I've been around for a while, but usually quiet Now I decided to join the thread as I want to do a HM in April, but not sure how will the training go. Maybe I'll just do a 10k Anyway, I am in for 75 km in January! I know it's not much, but I started late - spent the first week of January skiing
1/7 - 5.7 km
1/8 – 5.8 km
1/10 – 6 km
1/12 – 7.5 km
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Hi everyone! I've been around for a while, but usually quiet Now I decided to join the thread as I want to do a HM in April, but not sure how will the training go. Maybe I'll just do a 10k Anyway, I am in for 75 km in January! I know it's not much, but I started late - spent the first week of January skiing
1/7 - 5.7 km
1/8 – 5.8 km
1/10 – 6 km
1/12 – 7.5 km
Total: 25 km
Great to have you with us!1 -
Welcome @Aine8046!0
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Ran on the treadmill again this morning. Really looking forward to lighter mornings so I can be back outside again. Walking the kids to school and then on to work this week there have been some stunning sunrises. Would have been a treat to run in those.
1/1: 2.1m
2/1: 2m
3/1: 2.5m
4/1: 2m
5/1: 1m
6/1: 2m
7/1: 2.05m
8/1: 2.7m
9/1: 1.8m
10/1: 2m
11/1: 1.7m
12/1: 2.25m
Jan total: 24.1m
Jan target: 30m4 -
Hi @Aine8046 you'll find in our little group here there is no such thing as "not much". We celebrate 1 mile as much as 1,000 miles! Welcome.6
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January Goal: 100 Miles
1/1: 10.02 miles
1/4: 5.31 miles
1/5: 5.26 miles
1/6: 5.18 miles
1/9: 10.01 miles
1/11: 5.10 miles
1/12: 5.12 miles
46/100 miles completed for January
It was another cold 5 miles this morning. Not quite as cold as yesterday. I started out pretty speedy, but then slowed down some. All in all it was a good run.
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Jan total: 50.3/80 miles
1/1: 11 miles
1/3: 5.1 miles
1/4: 6 miles
1/5: 3 miles
1/7: 4.5 miles
1/8: 12.5 miles
1/10: 4.2 miles
1/12: 4 miles
Little bit of speed work yesterday. I went to the waterway after work. I always run faster there than in my neighborhood. I think it's because there are more people around. Plan called for W/U then 3 miles at HM pace. Ended up a fair bit faster than that but the effort felt pretty consistent. I'll take it. Garmin says I PR'd my 5K and mile too. So, definitely faster than intended.
Weather stalking this weekend shows things are holding pretty well. The winds Saturday are 20-30 mph w gusts up to 40mph. Glad it's going to be a bit warmer (upper 50's) and that I'm not racing that one. Sunday still looks great with a cold start (upper 30's) and it probably won't break 50F before I finish. Still got some wind, but 10-20 mph so much better than the day before.
@Faebert My favorite part of morning running is the sunrises. Feels like a great way to start the day.
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"Keepin' it sleasy since 1952"
1-1 7k sleasy
1-2 7k sleasy
1-3 rest
1-4 7k sleasy
1-5 4k slow
1-6 4k treadmill
1-7 7k sleasy
1-8 7k slow
1-9 7k sleasy
1-10 rest
1-11 7k slow
1-12 7k sleasy (but a lot closer to easy than slow)
1-13 rest
January Total: 64k
January Goal: 140k
Scheduled rest day today; had to use some discipline to keep me from going out running.4 -
Looking for tips on coping with lower temperatures than one is used to... for context, my mountain race on Sunday morning reaches 900 metres (3,000-ish feet I think?) which may not be all that much but it's pretty impressive for someone who lives at sea level. Although it isn't at all cold by most of your standards, I figure it's going to feel cold because, again, quite a way up from home (sea level).
So my issue is, I have absolutely no idea what to wear and/or carry in the way of clothing. The only mountain races I've done before it was HOT lol. I don't want to turn up under or overdressed and look like an idiot before we even start (I will do enough of that once we get going, especially as I have a sore leg so will be doing even more walking than usual), but I don't want to end up with hypothermia, nor do I want to end up way too hot or having to carry loads and loads of layers that get stripped off. So basically, no idea.
I asked Evil Coach 2, who replied "well the thing is, the part where you'll feel cold is kilometres 9 to 18 and you'll be very sweaty by then" (so pretty much once we reach the top of the mountain and come down the other side). So I said: "so it's worth taking a long-sleeved top layer to take off and then put back on again?" The reply: "depends on the temperature". HELPFUL LOL. And if I do that, what on earth do I do with my bib, keep stopping to take it off one item of clothing and pin it to another?
I guess the question is totally unanswerable really and I'm just doing the usual pre-race panic and overthink and doubt everything. But, anyone have any awesome ideas to share?
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eleanorhawkins wrote: »Looking for tips on coping with lower temperatures than one is used to... for context, my mountain race on Sunday morning reaches 900 metres (3,000-ish feet I think?) which may not be all that much but it's pretty impressive for someone who lives at sea level. Although it isn't at all cold by most of your standards, I figure it's going to feel cold because, again, quite a way up from home (sea level).
So my issue is, I have absolutely no idea what to wear and/or carry in the way of clothing. The only mountain races I've done before it was HOT lol. I don't want to turn up under or overdressed and look like an idiot before we even start (I will do enough of that once we get going, especially as I have a sore leg so will be doing even more walking than usual), but I don't want to end up with hypothermia, nor do I want to end up way too hot or having to carry loads and loads of layers that get stripped off. So basically, no idea.
I asked Evil Coach 2, who replied "well the thing is, the part where you'll feel cold is kilometres 9 to 18 and you'll be very sweaty by then" (so pretty much once we reach the top of the mountain and come down the other side). So I said: "so it's worth taking a long-sleeved top layer to take off and then put back on again?" The reply: "depends on the temperature". HELPFUL LOL. And if I do that, what on earth do I do with my bib, keep stopping to take it off one item of clothing and pin it to another?
I guess the question is totally unanswerable really and I'm just doing the usual pre-race panic and overthink and doubt everything. But, anyone have any awesome ideas to share?
I recently got something I have found very useful - it’s a packable jacket by brooks that really does back into a tiny, featherweight backpack. Just enough weight to cut the chill during a walk break and a tiny bit of rain protection (it’s not really waterproof, just water resistant.)
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@eleanorhawkins I was going to suggest a windbreaker as well. They pack down small and will help a surprising amount, especially if you are exercising. I pack one all the time for hikes because it's usually not as windy at the base but it can get chilly as you move up the mountain. It's usually the perfect amount of warmth.1
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martaindale wrote: »@eleanorhawkins I was going to suggest a windbreaker as well. They pack down small and will help a surprising amount, especially if you are exercising. I pack one all the time for hikes because it's usually not as windy at the base but it can get chilly as you move up the mountain. It's usually the perfect amount of warmth.
Yeah windbreakers are compulsory kit, along with water bottles/cups. Strangely this time an emergency blanket thing isn't, although it was in the one I ran at and after sunset in early September, but as it's in my pack it's staying.
I had one sensible-sounding response from a guy in our club chat: t-shirt, sleeves, windbreaker, buff round neck and another buff for head. I don't have sleeves. Wonder if my husband will notice if I get sleeves. I seem to spend so much on stuff for this 'simple and inexpensive sport'.
Other replies from club include: High heels. Ski jacket. 5 litres of water and a Spanish omelette sandwich. Windbreaker with a hood to use as a parachute on the way down. And my favourite: flask of brandy then you won't feel the cold. These guys are so helpful4 -
1/3 – 7.02 miles
1/4 – 6.02 miles
1/5 – 5.08 miles
1/6 – 4.03 miles
1/8 – 8.03 miles
1/9 – 4.75 miles
1/10 – 3.10 miles (treadmill)
1/11 – 5.12 miles
1/13 – 5.03 miles
I got up and dressed early this morning but just couldn’t push myself out into the cold darkness for a run. Snuggling with the kitty on the couch won out. So I ended up going to a lunch time run. Even the cows were enjoying lunch. @eleanorhawkins – Sorry about the sore leg. I would also suggest a light jacket. Even if you don’t take a pack, you can tie it around your waist (fold it over several times so that it doesn’t flop in the wind so much). I would pin my bib to my shirt and if you start out wearing the jacket, just have it unzipped so that the timing mat will pick it up (if it is chip timed) and then you can zip the jacket back up after you get started. Chances are you will be plenty warm by the time you finish and will not have the jacket on then. @kgirlhart wears sleeves a lot - they are easily removable and stowable in a waist pack if you have any of those.
@quilteryoyo – You are amazing! How many other people can start a run or walk streak the day they get out of the hospital and keep it up for over a year? I know your doctor wishes all his patients had that drive.
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eleanorhawkins wrote: »martaindale wrote: »@eleanorhawkins I was going to suggest a windbreaker as well. They pack down small and will help a surprising amount, especially if you are exercising. I pack one all the time for hikes because it's usually not as windy at the base but it can get chilly as you move up the mountain. It's usually the perfect amount of warmth.
Yeah windbreakers are compulsory kit, along with water bottles/cups. Strangely this time an emergency blanket thing isn't, although it was in the one I ran at and after sunset in early September, but as it's in my pack it's staying.
I had one sensible-sounding response from a guy in our club chat: t-shirt, sleeves, windbreaker, buff round neck and another buff for head. I don't have sleeves. Wonder if my husband will notice if I get sleeves. I seem to spend so much on stuff for this 'simple and inexpensive sport'.
Other replies from club include: High heels. Ski jacket. 5 litres of water and a Spanish omelette sandwich. Windbreaker with a hood to use as a parachute on the way down. And my favourite: flask of brandy then you won't feel the cold. These guys are so helpful
I've seen people use knee socks for sleeves! The buff is a great suggestion. I find that if I have something covering my ears I can manage the cold much better.
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