January 2022 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • martaindale
    martaindale Posts: 2,333 Member
    edited January 2022
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    @marisap2010 ,@martaindale and @eleanorhawkins Good luck with your races and clothing. I would just dress warmly and not worry about getting hot...I so much prefer sweating to being cold. LOL

    :D We have opposite preferences for sure! My goal is to dress juuuust enough to not freeze and cool enough not to get sweaty. I prefer to be cold over hot any day!

    @polskagirl01 The polar bear club sounds so interesting! I can’t imagine dunking in that super cold water but I guess it would be easier to do it if you knew there was a jacuzzi on the other side of the dunk!
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,570 Member
    Great job on your races @martaindale and @marisap2010!
    Hope your HM goes well tomorrow @martaindale!
  • marisap2010
    marisap2010 Posts: 909 Member
    Great job on your 5K @martaindale! Good luck on your race tomorrow!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,188 Member
    Great job @marisap2010 and @martaindale and good luck tomorrow!
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    martaindale wrote: »
    Jan total: 54/80 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
    1/15: 3.7 miles

    5k done! It turned out to be pretty perfect weather temps wise. I overdressed a little but it was on purpose and it was the right amount. It was windy and close to 50 F and I knew if I dressed too cool, I would end up running too fast to warm up. My hotel is about 3/4 mile from the start so I took a slow warm-up run there after coffee and a couple mini-muffins from the hotel breakfast. I didn’t need or want to wait around too long outside, so I timed it to get there, have a few minutes to find my corral, use the bathroom one last time and finish my warm-up.
    I love running through downtown! The crowd for the 5k is a lot less than for the marathon/HM but there were still quite a few people along the course. Every now and then you would enter a section where the wind was really blowing! At one point I had the most glorious tailwind ever. It felt like I was being carried down the road. I ran a reasonable pace for a shakeout, 10:26, 10:10, and 9:37 for an average of 10:01. Legs felt good, no weird niggles, and I’m super excited for tomorrow!
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    Great race. Best of luck tomorrow.
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    marisap2010 wrote: »
    My half marathon went well today! It was about 38F at the start, but I wore capris, a long sleeved wicking shirt, and my light Brooks jacket. I ended up taking the jacket off after about 3 miles because the sun decided to break through the clouds. The race went around the inside perimeter Robins Air Force Base, starting and ending at the Museum of Aviation. My goal was to finish faster than I did last year. I ended up finishing 1:40 faster, ending up with a half marathon PR. I was 4/11 for my age group.
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    January miles: 45.25
    Streak days: 15

    Nothing like a PR for the first race of the year. Well done!!!
  • katharmonic
    katharmonic Posts: 5,720 Member
    Great job @martaindale! Sounds like a good 5k and nice warmup for your HM tomorrow! Good luck!

    Awesome PR @marisap2010. That's fantastic! Congrats
  • globalhiker
    globalhiker Posts: 1,732 Member
    marisap2010 wrote: »
    My half marathon went well today! It was about 38F at the start, but I wore capris, a long sleeved wicking shirt, and my light Brooks jacket. I ended up taking the jacket off after about 3 miles because the sun decided to break through the clouds. The race went around the inside perimeter Robins Air Force Base, starting and ending at the Museum of Aviation. My goal was to finish faster than I did last year. I ended up finishing 1:40 faster, ending up with a half marathon PR. I was 4/11 for my age group.
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    January miles: 45.25
    Streak days: 15

    Very happy for you achieving your goal! YAY YOU !
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
    Congratulations @martaindale and @marisap2010 !
    Best wishes today @martaindale and @eleanorhawkins !

  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    37F raining 15 mph winds, sounds like a good football watching day. It might snow later which may change my mind.

    @marisap2010 @martaindale and @eleanorhawkins great races!
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »
    marisap2010 wrote: »
    I know @eleanorhawkins hasn’t posted yet, but I saw her race and photos on Strava, and she’s a beast! Her photos were awesome. Congratulations!!

    Thanks! It was horrible, awesome, epic, I'm never doing it again until I sign up for another on a few days time lol. You all know how it goes.
    Luckily all I cared about was finishing within the 4 and a half hours allowed, which I did, chip time was 4:09.32. I would have done it in 4:03.28, which is what it shows for the 3 women I was hanging out with at km19, but (sorry for tmi) I was at the point where my bladder would literally burst if I tried to hold it any longer so I had to go visit a bush. First time I've ever been able to pee on the trails, so a different kind of PR :-). Then I missed a turn and it took me a few minutes to notice I hadn't seen a marker for a while, so had to retrace my steps up the damn mountainside. Argh!
    I took it easy, took photos and enjoyed the scenery, and I showed those antennas at the top who is boss (albeit slow boss) 😂 The only disappointing thing is there were no finisher medals because of covid restrictions. But I love the shirt and buff and I will definitely be showing them off!
    Think I'll be hobbling for a few days.

    Congrats!!!!!
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    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
    1/13 - 6.02
    1/14 - 6.03
    1/15 - 6.03

    67.24 of 160 miles

    Forgot to post my run yesterday.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    edited January 2022
    I see @martaindale finished her half on Strava! Way to go both the 5k and half, great job!

    @eleanorhawkins Considering the more than 5k elevation change that isn’t all that slow! Great job!

    @marisap2010 Congrats on your PR!

    It’s cold here and although the roads are mostly clear, all the trees are dripping from the ice thawing, so I plan to lift heavy today and run tomorrow when hopefully it will be a tad warmer. Still waiting on test results, finding it hard to stay motivated!

    BTW I think I figured out who is feeding the white raccoon. I was out back last night listening to the still before the storm and noticed a soft raccoon-like whistling from the other side of the fence. A little quiet spying revealed the neighbor’s daughter trying to lure raccoons. She’s about 10 and very shy, I know her mom and brother pretty well but she and I haven’t spoken, just waved.
  • polskagirl01
    polskagirl01 Posts: 2,024 Member
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Awesome race @eleanorhawkins ! And congrats on that PR. :wink: You'll have to post some of your pictures for us. You did great! Looks like if they could give you a shirt and buff they could give you a medal. What did CoVID have to do with that?
    Races can put the medals in the race packets before the race, or hand them to you after the race while wearing a mask and gloved hands outside (not putting them on you), or lay them out on a table for you to pick up (next to the water & sports drink, for example). They can also require masks for everyone in the finish area, which is awful when you're trying to catch your breath but makes more sense to me than eliminating medals. But it looks like you had an awesome day even without getting a medal for it.
  • eleanorhawkins
    eleanorhawkins Posts: 1,659 Member
    @quilteryoyo ikr? Ok, the shirt and buff came in a bag when we collected our bibs, so they didn't have to hand them to sweaty runners who may or may not have done as they were told and put their masks back on at the finish line. But other races have had them on a table and you grabbed your own. And there were stalls with volunteers giving out beer and sandwiches. Dumb but nvm, it is what it is.
  • eleanorhawkins
    eleanorhawkins Posts: 1,659 Member
    polskagirl01 wrote: »
    quilteryoyo wrote: »
    Awesome race @eleanorhawkins ! And congrats on that PR. :wink: You'll have to post some of your pictures for us. You did great! Looks like if they could give you a shirt and buff they could give you a medal. What did CoVID have to do with that?
    Races can put the medals in the race packets before the race, or hand them to you after the race while wearing a mask and gloved hands outside (not putting them on you), or lay them out on a table for you to pick up (next to the water & sports drink, for example). They can also require masks for everyone in the finish area, which is awful when you're trying to catch your breath but makes more sense to me than eliminating medals. But it looks like you had an awesome day even without getting a medal for it.

    Yes, we had masks for the first 500 metres, going through aid stations and as soon as we reached the finish line. They're still obligatory outdoors here, at least in theory, apart from during individual sports.
    The road HM I ran in November put the medals in the goodie bags with the bibs etc. The mountain race in September had them on a table. The one in October had children putting them on us. Each race is different.


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