July 2022 Monthly Running Challenge
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July total: 58.6/110 Miles
7/2: 10 miles
7/3: 4 miles
7/4: 5.2 miles
7/5: 5.1 miles
7/6: 6.1 miles
7/7: 3 miles
7/9: 8 miles
7/10: 3.1 miles
7/11: 5.1 miles
7/13: 5 miles
7/14: 4 miles
Another afternoon treadmill run. I am traveling for work right now so using the gym treadmill at my airbnb. I actually took the time to set up some music on my phone and it was really nice. After a couple years of running with nothing, it was a good change of pace and made the treadmill more enjoyable. My view was a quiet parking lot, so not much other entertainment. I tried watching netflix on my ipad the night before but the display sits low on this treadmill and looking slightly down for almost an hour left my neck a little sore the next day. I'll likely use this place for future trips so working all the kinks out for next time. Headed home after work today so I get to run on my own (much nicer) treadmill tonight.
@7lenny7 Singlehandedly decimating the deer fly population!
@Scott6255 Yeah, I just didn't use my watch last night. I think I'm just so used to turning it on that it never occurred to me to not use it. Start running, start watch. And, yes the paces feel faster to me on a treadmill. I did a mile in the middle of my run last night at a 10:00 pace and it felt like I was probably 9:30 for about half a mile before my legs adjusted. Then it felt closer to normal but still not as smooth as that pace feels outside.2 -
GM. Just updating with my tally. I haven't been eating within target
But at least I'm on track with my kms goal.
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Rest day from running today so I did a 30 minute strength workout before work this morning. Tomorrow evening I'm running the Crazy 8s race which is an 8K race that starts at 8:58 pm. It's a very popular race and this year is the USATF Men's 8K Road Championship. The winner gets the title and $5,000. In the past the Kenyans, Ethiopians and other foreign runners have ran and set the world record on this course but this year the race organizers have focused in a different direction. I haven't ran it in several years because I am not much of a night person but I signed up for it this year because it counts towards a series I'm doing with our local track club. The organizers have track and field events for little kids, a 3K run/walk at 7:58, and then the 8K at 8:58. There were about 1500 people who finished the race last year. There is no wave start, everyone lines up wherever they want, and the course is pretty crowded with only street lights so it's easy to step into a pot hole. My only goal is to finish without hurting myself!5
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HahahaGot in 7 treadmill miles after work. It didn't suck.
@martaindale My Garmin and treadmill never line up either. I think you have to use a foot pod if you want it to be closer. I, maybe naively, go with the distance on the treadmill and the calories from my Garmin.
Nice shoes @eleanorhawkins ! I think you got them dirty enough to pass as "not new."
Nice running @marisap2010 .
@kgirlhart Hope you daughter's procedure when well.
I'm trying to catch up on the thread. I'll continue later. Mostly haven't been commenting because of internet issues. I know you are probably tired of hearing about that, but not as tired as I am of having to deal with it.
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@Teresa502 good luck tonight on your Crazy 8 race. Be careful!
I got out for 11 miles this morning. Seems I only get outside on the weekends anymore. It was as hot and miserable as I expected. But got a double-digit run out of it, so that's a win.
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I used my speedy race shoes today for the first time in a long while. Usually I use them for lunch time 2 per sprints but there just hasn't been any opportunity lately. Just also for those in RTW I have to log my miles manually because I am not on STRAVA and have started being lazy and only logging 1 time per week or so with the cum miles so don't think i have started running 40 mile runs recently. I will leave that to the ultra folks here. LOL.6
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July Goal: 110 Miles
7/1: 2.02 miles
7/3: 10.26 miles
7/5: 6.02 miles
7/6: 6.02 miles
7/7: 7.06 miles
7/10: 10.02 miles
7/12: 6.02 miles
7/13: 6.02 miles
7/15: 2.52 miles
55.96/110 miles completed for July
I didn't post yesterday, but I did get a short run in. There is a really nice park across the street from my daughter's apartment complex and I was able to run 2.5 miles before heading home yesterday. I also walked there on Thursday to keep my mile per day streak going.
Everything went well with her procedure except that they have diagnosed her with celiac. Which we were hoping they wouldn't, but expected they would. So if anyone has any gluten free recommendations I know she would be interested.
My family reunion is this weekend. Luckily we have it at the lake here that is only 6.5 miles from my house. I plan to do my "long run" tomorrow, but it may not be too long. Last night I didn't get to bed until after 1:00 am and I really need to get up early to beat the heat. I would just run out to the lake, but I will want to run pretty early and everyone who is staying out there would probably either be still sleeping or out somewhere fishing so I would rather just do my run and come home and shower before heading out there.
I hope y'all are all doing well. I need to go back and catch up on the thread. I just figured I would go ahead and post thus while I had a minute.
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Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
07/01/22 :::: 1.7 :::: 1.7
07/02/22 :::: 7.1 :::: 8.9
07/03/22 :::: 3.2 :::: 12.0
07/04/22 :::: 0.0:::: 12.0
07/05/22 :::: 3.1 :::: 15.1
07/06/22 :::: 1.8 :::: 16.9
07/07/22 :::: 2.0 :::: 18.9
07/08/22 :::: 0.0 :::: 18.9
07/09/22 :::: 4.0 :::: 22.9
07/10/22 :::: 2.0 :::: 24.9
07/11/22 :::: 1.8 :::: 26.7
07/12/22 :::: 0.0 :::: 26.7
07/13/22 :::: 0.0 :::: 26.7
07/14/22 :::: 0.0 :::: 26.7
07/15/22 :::: 0.0 :::: 26.7
07/16/22 :::: 8.0 :::: 34.7
Well, the miles are not really adding up this month and there are a lot of zeroes there. But finally I put together a longer run today. Actually, I just confirmed my longest since March. So yay?
In better news, some of the 0's are because I went hiking instead. I escaped to the Adirondacks for a few days for some much-needed time in the mountains to clear my head. I rented an adorable little chalet called the "46er chalet" with a view of Whiteface mountain (one of the 46 high peaks I climbed) that I found available and rented last minute on Tuesday morning and was there on Tuesday night. This time, no high peaks hiking. On Wednesday I did a smaller mountain called Bear Den that was not that technically hard (although plenty physically hard after not hiking since November) but had amazing views that made it so worth it. I could see several of the high peaks from the top. Thursday was a rainy and cloudy day and I had work to do so I thoroughly enjoyed a day of just relaxing in the cabin. But that night cleared up and I went out for a while and found they had a live band at the little town lake beach and watched the sunset from there while listening. Friday was my last day and I did a short "hike" which was really just a walk to a place called Cobble Lookout, but again, fantastic views. I had lunch at a place called Forty-Six. So even though I didn't do any of the 46 it was a bit of a themed trip and I relived a lot of the memories of that challenge. And wondered how on earth I managed to do that
A few pics. In at least one you can see my new bright orange trail shoes, which I am really liking. And I got several comments on with their high visibility!
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@katharmonic Very high visibility indeed! Pretty views!!
@Scott6255 I have been missing outside too. Lots of treadmill this week but it is nice being out of the heat.
@kgirlhart Sorry to hear about your daughter's diagnosis. That's a big change to make but there are so many gluten free products now that hopefully it will be less of an ordeal than it once was.3 -
July total: 68.6/110 Miles
7/2: 10 miles
7/3: 4 miles
7/4: 5.2 miles
7/5: 5.1 miles
7/6: 6.1 miles
7/7: 3 miles
7/9: 8 miles
7/10: 3.1 miles
7/11: 5.1 miles
7/13: 5 miles
7/14: 4 miles
7/16: 10 miles
Got up early to get a start on my long run before it got super hot today. It was a decent run. Hot for sure but I felt better during the run than last weekend. I have been pretty wiped out all day afterwards though.
I would say I'll get a good night's sleep but we are going to my kid's climbing team banquet tonight and waking up at 5:00 to go to the airport. It's going to be a long day tomorrow but Hawaii will be at the end of it, and I'm super excited about that!6 -
Sorry I haven't posted for a few days. I've been so drained lately. I talked to a nurse coworker about it, and I think I am going to get some B vitamins to see if that will perk me up.
@7lenny7 When I worked in a prison, we had a neighborhood right next to it (although I have no idea why anyone would want to live 500 ft from a prison), and as long as you respected the guard line signs and didn't cross or loiter, security wouldn't mess with you.
I did not run Thursday due to said tiredness, but I did hill repeats yesterday. @7lenny7, your 30 hill repeats make me feel like a wimp! My plan called for 5 min Z1, 5 min Z2, then 8x (1 min uphill Z5, 2 min down Z1), 5 min Z1. Those uphills were rough. I could go for about 40-45 sec running and then had to power walk the rest of the way for each repeat.
Today, I made up Thursday's run (5 min Z1, 35 min Z2, 5 min Z1) and did today's 45 min recovery Z1 run, which ended up mostly being walking to keep my HR in Z1. I ended up with 6.1 miles.
Trying to go to bed now so I can get up early and get in my 14 miler before it gets too warm. I also have a lot to do tomorrow, so I need to get it out of the way early.
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Don't think I've checked in for a few days (though perimenopausal brain fog means I may well have and just forgotten all about it lol).
We signed up for a sunset hike in a village about 45 minutes away yesterday evening, so I moved my long run forward to Friday instead. Ran up to the village halfway up the mountain behind us, then back down and added a hilly loop on the end to add some more elevation. Ended up being 19km with 588 metres, but all on roads or hard-packed dirt tracks so not easy but not technically tough at all. It was a good run, possibly partly due to the fact that I remembered to freeze a pack of water the night before. Nothing like running up a mountain with 2 kilos of ice on your back at 7am :-)
Then not long after I got home our trail group's chat started going crazy... 'there's smoke in the mountains'. Fire started around noon on Friday and is still raging... over 2000 hectares of pine forest gone. The entire area I had my recent adventure in, and all the other side of 'our mountain' have burned, and it's still going. It's sickening to hear the planes and helicopters constantly going back and forth picking up water to drop on it.
So, off we went for the hike yesterday. It was nice, we set out at 7.30 pm so it was still pretty hot but we hiked up to an old watch tower/beacon and there was a lovely breeze up there. Amazing views, including over the valley to the burning mountains :-(
We hung out there until after dark to see the stars come out, then hiked back down by torchlight. Then we drove home watching the flames in 7 or 8 different places. Awful.
By the time we got home, removed a baby swallow (we have a nest in the apartment block's inner courtyard and the silly things are just learning to fly and get lost), showered etc. it was 1 am, which is like 3 hours past my bedtime! I was still awake by 7.30 so got up and out for a 4k shake-out run. My legs don't like me at all today... mileage increase plus elevation increase plus a hike (more elevation in there!). I'm feeling good though, in fact I left my husband in bed muttering about me having "too much bloody energy". Also, I wore the Cascadias again today and they were fine, no rubbing or blisters. Whether it was the vaseline I stuck on my ankle, the heel lock lacing, the folded-down socks that effectively gave me a double layer over the place they rubbed or just the fact that it was a short, flat run, I don't know, but I'll take it!
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@7lenny7 That's a pretty trail you found that went through the prison. I would have been glad to be past that part too. I'm not a big fan of raspberries, but glad you found some you could snack on as you ran. Love that the young softball players were cheering you on up the hill. Great job on clearing the trail. I have never heard of deer fly tape. Looks like it works really well. We have those here and just call them biting flies. They do hurt when they get you! Sorry about the miserable weather preventing you from getting in your 17 miles. But, in my book 8.6 is pretty darn good in those conditions!
Hahaha @Scott6255 re thinking you had run further than you did on Friday. I hate it when that happens.
@Teresa502 I wondered if you ran the Crazy 8's when I saw it on the news. The winners were pretty speedy in my book. I didn't realize it was as big of a race as it is until I saw the reports this year. I hope you enjoyed it and didn't hurt yourself. I did NOT see you on the news, so I guess that is good. 4 -
@eleanorhawkins I'm so sorry to hear about the fires. I hope they are able to put them out quickly before much more burns. You are awesome with all of the runs/hikes you have done!
This morning's run was my 14 mile long run. I signed up for a virtual half last fall and then never did it (I've done live halfs but didn't want to double count races), so I decided that this run could be that half (plus a little more). I finally can hang up the medal and wear the shirt. They have been sitting in the race bag since I received it because I didn't feel right doing anything with them until I actually "ran it." The temps were in the 70s during the entire run, but there were zero clouds in the sky, so even though it wasn't super hot, the sun was right on me for half of the run. I did two seven mile loops around my neighborhood and some businesses by my house.
I'm not sure why I can't get pictures to post straight instead of sideways. They won't post period from my phone and only sideways from my computer.
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Great running @Scott6255 and @SummerSkier .
@kgirlhart That is a really pretty park. I'm glad your daughter's procedure went well, but sorry about the celiac diagnosis. I can't help with recipes. I hope your family reunion is going well.
@katharmonic Sounds like you had a really nice get away! Love the shoes and the views.
@martaindale Great run. Enjoy Hawaii!!!
Nice running @marisap2010 .
@eleanorhawkins You are doing great. So sorry about the fires. I hope they get them under control soon. Glad that your shoes are fitting better.
@marisap2010 Nice job on your 14 miles and getting your Virtual HM done. I love the medal and shirt.
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I haven't posted my activities lately, mostly because every time I sit down at the computer, the internet goes out. I AM REALLY getting tired of that. I think it may be partly because of the modem....may be bad. I'll try to give them a call next week and see. The last time I called, the lady said that could be the issue because she assured me that my line was "stable." Yeah. Right.
Anyway, I have not been following the plan. A little girl at daycare had on a shirt that sums up how I have felt about said plan this week. A picture is under the spoiler.
I have managed to run 8.25 miles and walk 4.45 fast miles total for the week. That brings my total miles for the month to 25.70/70.00 mile goal. Fingers crossed that I can do more next week. At least I am keeping my streak going.6 -
I have been away a bit but I have read through and am caught up finally! SO much great running going on and some awesome shoe porn!
@AlphaHowls - I looked at Zak Brockman and went a head and accepted him into the Strava group. He is definitely a runner.
Welcome @tarun_yadavA!
@Teresa502 - hope you had fun at the Crazy 8 race and that it all went well.
@7lenny7 - that deer fly tape is interesting. We had horseflies in Idaho - I wonder if they are the same/similar. The hill repeats are intense! But it looks like a great place to run!
@katharmonic - sounds like you had a great get away. Beautiful pictures and I love the bright orange shoes!
@kgirlhart - I believe @RunsOnEspresso has celiac too. I am not sure if she is checking/reading the posts here but you could definitely reach out to her. I will mention it to her too when I see her back posting workouts etc. She is/was off camping for a few days.
@marisap2010 - I have that same shirt 😁. Great job getting the virtual half in and done!
@eleanorhawkins - I am so sorry about the fires. From what I have seen on the news here it is a problem all across Europe. Interestingly we have had a pretty quiet season so far. They are saying though that it has been so dry that in many areas the brush hasn't grown much so there isn't much to burn. There is a forecast for thunder and lightening storms in the mountains here in the next few days so hoping it holds.
We were away for a few days in San Francisco for our anniversary which is why I haven't posted. I took running clothes with me and totally intended to run but never even took the clothes out. So I didn't run for five days. We did do a lot of walking though so I wasn't a complete slug the entire time. I have run 5 out of 6 days since we got home and the one day off I did strength training. Today I wanted to just get Hobbes out for a walk because it was going to be so hot the next few days. Much to my surprise a storm came in and it was cloudy and cool and felt like it was going to rain. Of course I had my running shoes on (just in case) so I figured we should just run what we could. It was lovely for the 1st half of the run and then the sun broke through the clouds and it got hot and steamy and it never actually rained. We ran a bit on the way home but Hobbes just doesn't deal with the heat well anymore so we walked most of the last mile.
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So July hasn't exactly gone as planned!!!!!! Because of all my running, cycling, gardening and lack of stretching (I know I know....) i developed overly tight hip flexors!!!!! Guess better now than closer to actual races!!!
Hubby was also off work and kids off school so I just spent time with them.... but now I'm back..... again!!!
Can I ask what everyones best tips are for avoiding hip flexor problems?! I've started with some yoga today to try to improve my flexibility but I know i need to start stretching after runs/ cycles!!!3 -
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