June 2022 Monthly Running Challenge
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I hope your race went well @7lenny7!
@RunsOnEspresso I've never heard of Picky Bars. I'll have to look into it. From what you guys have described, it sounds like tasty stuff.
Yesterday morning, I did hill repeats before work. It was in the 70s, so it was as comfortable as it was going to get for the day temps wise. This morning's run was a 40 minute recovery run in Z1. I ran 3.03 miles on the track in the gym after my RIPPED class.
Can I vent about people on the track for a moment? There are tons of signs to indicate that the outermost lane is for runners only. Several times, there were groups of people walking across all lanes chatting, as well as single walkers who zig zag across the lanes. It is annoying to have to shout that I'm behind them or weave my way around people.
Tomorrow is 10 miles, so I'll get up early before it is too warm.6 -
@marisap2010 Rant on. I don't know why some people think the rules don't apply to them. You are doing great with your plan. Your recovery run was a great pace.
Just got in another walk today. I did get everything done I really needed to except PACK. I'll do that tomorrow. Since I'm driving, I'm not on a strict schedule. I just want to get to the hotel at the half way point before it gets dark.6 -
Ugh, @marisap2010, people who ignore track rules/are unaware there are track rules are irritating. People who walk across a bunch of lanes completely oblivious to runners lapping them again and again need a smack upside the head.
It was a cracker winter's morning here today - mild and clear. Joined a local running group for 15.5km around a couple of local bays. Stunning views.
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@marisapace People don't think rules apply to them. We don't have many public tracks so I've never had to deal with that.
I just get the walkers that walk two+ across the sidewalk and instead of going single file for the short time I pass them they try to squeeze over 🙄 Or they go to the left, instead of right and I have to swerve across the sidewalk because I always try to stay to the right.0 -
I just have to say that I can't even imagine a "cracker winter's morning" right now. Thank you for the photos CMM!
Have we made it halfway across the pacific yet? Currently at 117 out of 100 mile goal. I should surpass May which was one of my lowest mileage months ever.6 -
13.1 miles this morning. First time in 2 weeks I ran outside! It was a shock to the system 😃. It was grossly hot (81°F and a paltry 3mph wind) 🥵 But it was my fastest HM (actually of any distance) in the past 3 months. It was pretty miserable, but it didn't feel like I was going to die. So I think that's progress 😁
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01.06 5.52km at 8:09/km
02.06 3.00km at 7:46/km
08.06 3.02km at 8:08/km
10.06 3.23km at 8:03/km 10x pace repeats
11.06 4.00km in 8:17/km
12.06 2.10km in 7:37/km
13.06 5.00km in 8:04/km incl. 5 minute fast run
15.06 5.50km in 8:21/km
17.06 4.35km in 7:55/km
20.06 7.21km in 8:19/km
22.06 8.00km in 8:06/km
24.06 4.00km in 7:38/km 12x pace repeats
26.06 5.18km in 8:04/km
Target: 60.11/60.00km - YAY!
Running didn't go quite so well today but that's hardly surprising because I hiked 16km in fairly steep hilly terrain yesterday. And my attempt of loosening my tight leg muscles this morning resulted in lots of bruises in areas needed for running But hey, I REACHED MY GOAL FOR THIS MONTH! 5 days ahead of time. At the hottest and most humid day of the year so far. So lets see if I manage to get in a few more runs.
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Evening everyone! I haven't posted on here in forever!!! So with the pandemic, moving country, doing a second masters degree etc etc I completely fell off the wagon but it is time to get my run back on!
My name is Michelle, I'm 41, from Ireland but moved to Stockholm, Sweden. Mum to 3 sons and 2 step sons. Like I said I just finished a second masters degree so I have my summer free which should give me a chance to get running back into my schedule!
I start a hal higdon plan tomorrow for Dublin marathon in October. If anyone has any tips or tricks for the nutrition part I am completely lost.... I want to lose some weight but I also want to cross the finish line!!!!
Target for the rest of June is 10km!!! (only 2 5kms scheduled!)7 -
Welcome back @Sparx_81. Congrats on the double Masters! You have been busy 😁
Trying to lose weight while marathon training is pretty difficult (from experience and many other runner anecdotal studies). Not saying it can't be done, but in order to fuel enough for all that running, eating in a deficit is hard on the body. So I can't give any specific advice, but best of luck to you!4 -
Congrats to everyone who has met their running goals or had great runs this weekend!
Today’s plan called for 10 miles - 1 mile Z1, 8.5 miles Z2, .5 miles Z3. It was about 73 degrees when I started, so not awful, but definitely humid, and I was drenched when I finished. I saw several baby bunnies while I was out. I am a bit sore this evening, so I soaked in the tub and massaged my legs. Tomorrow’s run may be a bit slower than planned.6 -
Awesome place to run @ContraryMaryMary .
Thanks @marisap2010 .
Great running @Scott6255 .
You're doing great @yirara .
Welcome @Sparkx_15 ! I haven't figured out nutrition for long runs yet, so I am no help there, but plenty of people on here can. Congratulations on your second Master's!
Great run @marisap2010 !
I got a late start driving today due to not getting packed yesterday. Tippy and I got to the hotel around 8, so not enough time to explore the wildlife refuge. After we got situated, we did go out and walk a mile around the many parking lots in 15:50 minutes. Tippy usually won't walk that far with me, but she did great. She was tired though when finished. She'll probably sleep good tonight. Hope I do too. I'm on my phone. Tried to post a picture of Tippy, but can't figure it out. Maybe tomorrow when I get my computer out of the car.
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June Goal: 100 Miles
6/1: 5.51 miles
6/2: 5.04 miles
6/5: 7.10 miles
6/7: 5.51 miles
6/8: 6.01 miles
6/8: 6.32 miles
6/11: 10.02 miles
6/14: 6.25 miles
6/15: 6.02 miles
6/16: 6.30 miles
6/19: 10.02 miles
6/21: 6.30 miles
6/22: 5.60 miles
6/23: 6.25 miles
6/26: 10.25 miles
102.25/100 miles completed for June
I had a really nice 10 mile run this morning. I got up early and got out about 6:15. It was 76°F, but that is cooler than it has been lately. There was a light breeze and enough clouds in the east to filter the sun as it rose. It was a lovely summer morning. I saw a jackrabbit in the cemetery and stopped by to give Lilly some carrots. It was a pretty uneventful run, but it was very enjoyable and I passed my goal for June.
Tomorrow is my mom's birthday, so today. My 4 sisters and I told her we wanted to meet for lunch in Granbury and we surprised her with tickets to see a production of West Side Story. It was really fun and she was totally surprised.
Beautiful photos @ContraryMaryMary
Hope you have a great trip @quilteryoyo. I can only seem to upload photos from my phone if I open a browser and open mfp from there. I can never seem to do it from the app.
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@SummerSkier well it did rain, but the only thing that came off were my socks and shoes at the end of the race. Too many people around to go much further than that, lol!
@quilteryoyo I hope you're having a wonderful time in Florida! I get the 75% pace, along with an overwhelming amount of other data, from a Chrome browser extension called Elevate, which uses access to your Strava or Garmin Connect data. The extension only works with Chrome but they now have a stand-alone desktop app. Unfortunately the don't have a mobile version. Other data I use it for is their Fitness Trend which shows fitness, fatigue & form (much like Strava's "Fitness & Freshness"), Year Progressions (shows cumulative distance or elevation for the year, compares it to previous years and to your annual goal), and 75% cadence. You can find out more here: https://thomaschampagne.github.io/elevate/#/landing
Here's the year progression screen. Each line color represents the different years I want to compare.
Here's the fitness, fatigue and form graph for my current training. My fitness is the orange line, fatigue is the dark line, and the form is blue. I use this to gauge how far I can push my body (by keeping Form line between Optimal and Overload...but closer to opitmal) to maximize fitness during the fitness building process, and to know how much to taper towards race day (by allowing my Form line to go above Neutral and towards Freshness. If this seem confusing, it is! It took a while for me to through this, understand what it was telling me, and figuring out how to use it in my own training. So there's the LONG answer to your questions, lol!
@marisap2010 yes, track walkers can be pretty oblivious to others when they bunch up like that! I don't get it. You see the same thing on paved trails too...they leave no room for others to pass unless they step off the trail, even if you're approaching each other in opposite directions.
Nice photos, @ContraryMaryMary !
Nice running, @Scott6255 !
Welcome back, @Sparx_81 ! I agree with @Scott6255 , weight loss during marathon training is tough if you want to have the energy for your long runs. Personally I can (try to) work on weight loss until my mileage gets to 35+ miles/week. After that I want all the food. My best advice is to focus on food quality by avoiding processed carbs, eating a wide variety of good foods, and my big weakness, avoid night snacking.
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June total: 97.8/117 miles
6/1: 4.1 mile
6/2: 3 miles
6/3: 3.2 miles
6/4: 8.2 miles
6/5: 3.2 miles
6/6: 5 miles
6/8: 5 miles
6/9: 3.1 miles
6/10: 4 miles
6/11: 6 miles
6/12: 5.1 miles
6/15: 5 miles
6/16: 3 miles
6/17: 4 miles
6/18: 4.2 miles
6/19: 8 miles
6/21: 5.2 miles
6/22: 4 miles
6/23: 5.5 miles
6/24: 3 miles
6/25: 6 miles
Forgot to log my Saturday run. I got up early and got out before it got too crazy hot. Froze the bladder for my hydration vest and took it slow. Felt decent afterwards so I know I didn't overexert. I was supposed to get up and run Sunday morning too but when the alarm went off at 6:30 I just couldn't drag myself out of bed. Turned off the alarm and ended up sleeping until 8:15! I was in bed before 10 so probably got 10 hours of sleep or so. I really needed it and I felt much better yesterday. I may just count that as a skipped run and move on but I am planning on a run after work tonight. We'll see how the week plays out.4 -
I went ahead and set up July. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10867962/july-2022-monthly-running-challenge/p1?new=13
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Dang it! I had my race report all typed out then accidently clicked on a link and lost it all! Let's try this again...
6/24 - 6.4 hot, sweaty trail miles
6/25 - 13.1 rainy race miles
130 of 160 miles for June.
Friday - I wanted 8+ miles but was late getting started so I cut it short. It was nearly 90F and humid in the forest so I was happy to have it end sooner. My intent was a really easy effort and with a 14:00 pace, I accomplished that. I had a cooler in my car and a cold beer at the end sure tasted great. This run was the first time I used my Salomon Adv Skin 12 hydration vest. Overall it performed well and I think I'll like it more than my Ultimate Direction vest. It has a TON of storage, is compressible so it doesn't bounce very much, and two big zippered pockets in front, and my favorite feature...elastic straps in front to allow me to breath heavy without it feeling constricting. I did have one issue though. The front zippered pockets wrap around to the side a bit, allowing my cell phone to move to my side with a corner poking out into my arm. I had to either lower my arms or hold them farther from my body. Next time I use this I'll try putting a buff in there to prevent the phone from moving around. I also need to do a better job routing the hose. The bite valve was a bit low for me to easily access.
Saturday - RACE DAY! In spite of not getting to bed until after midnight, I woke up easily and ready to go. It hadn't started raining yet but a check of the radar showed this coming in:
The white dot is where I was.
The temps were in the upper 60's. I was planning on walking the 1.3 miles to the start as a warmup, but with the storm I decided to drive there so I wouldn't get caught out in it if it got bad. There were only 43 HM participants so parking was plentiful and check-in was very quick. Still no rain so I was walking around talking to other racers but 30 minutes prior to race time the storm hit and I retreated into my car to wait and watch. Lightning caused the start to be delayed by 15 minutes.
A minute before the start, the rain still coming down hard, I went to the start line. Right away I almost instinctively went to my usual HM effort level, with an HR around 153-156. Normally this would be perfect. I kept this up for 4 miles while I considered trying to maintain this but in the end decided to stick to my plan of not racing it and backed off to an HR in the 142-146 level and my pace increased accordingly.
The first 4 miles wound around a golf course area and residential area, but the limestone bluffs stood tall above us and with some low-hanging wispy clouds it was a pretty sight but I left my phone in my car so no photos. At the 4 mile mark the rain eased up to a light rain and we started into the more rural portion of the race. Unfortunately, while waiting in my car for the race start I forgot about making my last potty break so I had to use the on-course porta-potty at this point, which cost me a couple of minutes. This was also the first water stop. At this point I was regretting not bringing my handheld bottle so I could skip the water stops. Even though it was cool and wet I slammed a couple of glasses at each stop and had to walk about 50 yards for the water to settle before I could start running again. A handheld would have allowed me to take sips along the way and not have to stop or walk those short bits.
We were now entering the rural portion. First along the bluff then turning toward the lake and running along, but still above, the lake. It was beautiful, just like my training runs on the course the prior weekend.
This was also about the time I started running with a guy about my age and chatting with him. He said he was there to run with his daughter in her first HM. I found it interesting, then, that he spent the next 30+ minutes chatting with me when his daughter was behind us and slipping further back as the race went on. Eventually he broke off and went back to run with his daughter but later, with a little over 2 miles to go, he raced past me, by himself, on the way to the finish. I guess if I were in that position I'd want to either run the entire race with my daughter, or race it and see her at the end, not a mixture of both. He ended up finishing 7 minutes ahead of his daughter.
About half way through the race the rain tapered off, first to a light rain, then a misty rain, then done. At 10 miles the sun tried to poke through the clouds, raising the temp and and the humidity, but it was never miserable. I was still soaking wet and the breeze off the lake cooled me down. My effort was still steady though at a couple of water stops I probably walked longer than I should have.
With 2 miles to go I approached the final, and biggest, hill on the course. I could feel a blister building on the ball of my foot and was tempted to walk up the hill. There was no one in front of me close enough to chase down, and no one behind me close enough to catch up, so it wouldn't affect the standings, but I kept running. Once the hill was behind me it was all downhill or flat so I increased the pace a bit to the finish at the same effort I started with.
My finish time was 2:03:36. My slowest time in 4 half marathons but just the effort I was looking for from myself. Had I not had to waste two minutes taking a potty break I probably would have pushed to break the 2 hour mark. I finished right in the middle of the pack...19th out of 43 overall, 15/30 in the men's division. It was a nice race and a nice course. I'd definitely run it again. Perhaps trail running gives me a different perspective but at 360 feet of elevation gain over the 13.1 miles, I thought the course was extremely flat, yet afterwards I was talking to a couple of other runners who were complaining about all the hills. I'm not sure you'd find many HM courses flatter than this one!
I did make one big mistake. I knew the course had 3 miles of gravel road and not wanting any gravel grit to get in between my sock and ankle, I grabbed a pair of mini-crew running socks. What I didn't consider is that they were heavily cushioned and in the rain, they held a lot of water. My feet pruned up and by mile 8 I could start feeling a blister develop right on the ball of my foot. ARGGHH!!! At the end of the race my foot was really sore and I couldn't wait to get my socks & shoes off. It didn't develop into a full on squishy blister but it was bad enough to make me hobble about for the rest of the day. I did wear my new Kinvara shoes but I don't blame the shoes at all, and in fact I think the shoes felt great throughout the run. I look forward to running in the rain with these shoes with better socks to see how they feel.
I fully expected this to take a while to heal up and planned to take a break from running until my race this Saturday but today I barely feel the blister at all. Still, I have a few other niggles and aches so I think I'll just do a short walk or bike ride tonight and tomorrow before I run Wednesday & Thursday. I'm planning on using my new Salomon hydration vest on my 50K and want more experience with it before then.
We get a shirt too but they didn't have them at race time yet so will send them out separately.
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01.06 5.52km at 8:09/km
02.06 3.00km at 7:46/km
08.06 3.02km at 8:08/km
10.06 3.23km at 8:03/km 10x pace repeats
11.06 4.00km in 8:17/km
12.06 2.10km in 7:37/km
13.06 5.00km in 8:04/km incl. 5 minute fast run
15.06 5.50km in 8:21/km
17.06 4.35km in 7:55/km
20.06 7.21km in 8:19/km
22.06 8.00km in 8:06/km
24.06 4.00km in 7:38/km 12x pace repeats
26.06 5.18km in 8:04/km
27.06 5.01km in 7:53/km incl. 7 minute fast run
This one was better than the run with faster interval from 13.06. And interestingly, my HR was very low today, during the slow part of the run about 15bpm lower than normal, and still somewhat lower during the fast interval. I think I'm getting somewhere.
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@7lenny7 Great job on your HM! Good tip on the cushioned socks in rainy conditions.1