August 2022 Monthly Running Challenge
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Great run @marisap2010 . AND going 23 min faster than just last month - A-MAZ-ING!
You are amazing @AlphaHowls ! Old barns are one of my favorite things too. They just have so much character - them and old churches. What do they put in the smokey barn? Tobacco? We don't really have that in my area. We just hung it up to dry and then took the leaves off the stalk and packed it up to sale. Those are great pictures. You don't live in TN do you? That road looks like a wonderful place for a run.
@polskagirl01 When I first started running, my goal was to run 30 min without stopping. I found an excellent plan to get me there, but can't seem to find it now. As I recall, as you said, it slowly increased the amount of running and decrease the amount of walk breaks, but it didn't keep increasing them. Just like with distance training, every workout was different and there were cut back weeks which I really liked because they were "easy" and I wasn't sure how that could be. LOL Anyway, I'll try to see if I can find a printed copy that I may have and get a picture for you later this week. I really did like it and it may be too basic for you, but the idea is there and you could modify it for different amounts of time, I would think.
Nice running @scott6255. I preferred the treadmill for my walk today too. Just hot and humid and I didn't want to sweat. LOL
Great running @kgirlhart . Love all the wildlife that you see.
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@quilteryoyo wrote: »You are amazing @AlphaHowls ! Old barns are one of my favorite things too. They just have so much character - them and old churches. What do they put in the smokey barn? Tobacco? We don't really have that in my area. We just hung it up to dry and then took the leaves off the stalk and packed it up to sale. Those are great pictures. You don't live in TN do you? That road looks like a wonderful place for a run.
Smoking barns are prolific here in TN/KY farming area. My family raised tobacco, so I am very familiar with them. Yes, I have lived in TN since 2000, longest place I have stayed really, 22 years now.@marisap2010 wrote: »@AlphaHowls That is insane mileage! I can't believe you might hit 500! I love your pictures.
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Morning all!
Got in a 7k today.
PS: I have been to TN. Only Knoxville. Loved it!!!
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@AlphaHowls I know that I have probably asked you where you live before. I just don't recall it being TN. Not many people in this area grow tobacco anymore. In my younger years, almost everyone did. My brother and I loved to set it out in the spring. Cutting it, not so much. LOL
Another nice run @tarun_yadavA . Knoxville is about 1.5 hours away from where I live. I'm near Greeneville in E. TN - the home of Andrew Johnson, our 17th president. I think it is a really pretty area.4 -
quilteryoyo wrote: »@AlphaHowls I know that I have probably asked you where you live before. I just don't recall it being TN. Not many people in this area grow tobacco anymore. In my younger years, almost everyone did. My brother and I loved to set it out in the spring. Cutting it, not so much. LOL
Another nice run @tarun_yadavA . Knoxville is about 1.5 hours away from where I live. I'm near Greeneville in E. TN - the home of Andrew Johnson, our 17th president. I think it is a really pretty area.
@quilteryoyo wow! It's such a pretty state! Only had 2 nights when I went last year - so spent it with a friend and just hung out downtown. Breweries, whiskies and BBQ. Loved every second of it! Would love to go back again!3 -
My weekend was spent hiking and camping instead of running and this morning I was too exhausted and sore to get up early and run. Our group of five started our hike on Saturday morning getting a shuttle to our starting point. On Saturday, we hiked a little over 11 miles climbing several mountains with our backpacks weighing 30+ pounds loaded with camping gear, cook stoves, food, water, etc. The weather was sunny and beautiful, but it started raining lightly right before we got to our campsite and continued while we set up camp but then stopped and it turned out to be a nice evening. The only night sounds being heard were the tree frogs and the wind blowing through the tree tops. This was the first time I’ve camped on trail, filtered water to drink and hung my food from a tree to keep it safe from any bears. My ankle did great. I wore my boots rather than my Altra hiking shoes for added stability.
Climbing up Round Bald we stopped to enjoy the view of the mountains and the fog in the valley.
Me on the climb up to Little Hump Mountain.
Looking ahead to, you guessed it, Big Hump Mountain
Views from the top
Our camping spot for the night. Only one other camper there. A young man and his dog from Charlotte, NC.
The trail was rocky in various places. This photo is towards the end of the hike.
@polskagirl01 - Congrats to the kids for starting, finishing and placing in their age groups! That sounds like a tough run up the slag pile/mountain not once but twice! You did great pacing yourself and being able to pass people. Congratulations!
Love the picture of London @tarun_adavA. I have a friend visiting now and have been enjoying her pictures on social media.
Great job on your 16-mile run @marisap2010!
Love the way you give your shoes a marathon send off @AlphaHowls! That scenery is gorgeous and I would love to run there. The smoking barns are an interesting way to cure the tobacco. Like @quilteryoyo, we just hung ours up in the barn and let time cure it.
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Another 16 miles this morning to see what happens. I stayed closer to home so less elevation, basically the local rural HM route with 5x the 'fun' loop in the middle (think up a big hill, down the other side, across a (currently dry) stream, up and over a slightly smaller hill). I had decided to try and do my long run today due to complicated schedules at the end of the week and that possible race on Sunday. Woke up to thunder and lightning, which stayed around most of the day. It started to rain on and off after an hour or so which was heaven! Being Monday my phone kept ringing so there were way too many stops to dig it out, by my pace while moving was quicker than last time, despite having to walk the hills.
Now to see whether my stomach approves. I might have inhaled a chocolate ice cream this afternoon.9 -
@Eleanorhawkins I hope your body doesn't rebel this time!
@Teresa502 I love the hiking pictures. Now I want to go to the mountains.
Speaking of which, my husband did suggest I should go to the mountains today... but I biked for 40 minutes and was already tired. Maybe tomorrow. I did get a bunch of work done.
Oh but I found some interesting stuff on my bike ride...
The bright pink tulle ball must've fallen off of yesterday's harvest festival parade, and the little gnome-girl or whatever appears to have been run over by a car and needs cleaned up, but is kind of fun.5 -
I went ahead and created our challenge for September. You can find it here - https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10872687/september-2022-monthly-running-challenge/p1?new=16
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I am loving all the pictures of the places everyone runs!
@tarun_yadavA - beautiful picture of London. I too like it all lit up after dark.
@AlphaHowls - I am so envious of your beautiful landscape and tree canopied running trail! Fantastic running this month and nice sendoff for your shoes! None of mine have quite that much yet. I think I have one pair with around 600 miles that are still going strong. I am hanging on to them because I don't like the newer model of the same shoe and the model I have is not available anywhere that I have found.
I am not much of a barn aficionado but like @quilteryoyo I love old churches. The ones throughout Europe are just amazing, even in the smallest villages.
@polskagirl01 - I was thinking C2-10K and maybe starting in the middle or so where the intervals are close to what you are currently doing. I keep hoping I will get to where I don't need to walk anymore but right now that isn't happening.
That gnome girl looks like she has a running shoe on. Hopefully she wasn't out for a run when she got run over!
@Teresa502 - what a fantastic hike! So beautiful. How did you like the camping?
@eleanorhawkins - wow you got that long run in and done! Hope your stomach or whatever it was doesn't get angry this time! Maybe the ice cream is just what you needed 😊
All this talk about cheesecake and BBQ has me wanting some (sorry not much of a pizza fan). I think TN BBQ is some of the best anywhere!
Yesterday Hobbes and I went for a short ~3.5 mile walk/hike around a lake with some friends and 2 of their Vizslas. It was fun and the pups had a great time. I took a couple of pictures of the scenery but we didn't take a single picture of the pups.
ETA - PicturesI thought that doing the walk yesterday was the perfect recovery day activity after my SIT run on Saturday. Apparently my legs did not agree. Today is the last day of reasonable temps for the foreseeable future and I really wanted to get in a good run. My legs were not happy, never loosened up and complained the entire time. Even walking the last mile home was an issue. I did however make the 100 mile club again - yay! I have lots to do tomorrow but will fit in a strength session (upper body and core only) and hopefully get a short run on Wednesday to close out the month. We have 'excessive heat' warnings already up and it is supposed to be well over 100F for the next 10 days. Good news though the humidity is finally going down.
For our Run The World team, we are just about at the AZ border. Unfortunately it is going to be brutally hot and dry for the next bit of running across AZ and on to NM as we head over to Dallas. Make sure you are hydrating well!
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@tarun_yadavA If you do ever come back to TN, let me know. Maybe we could meet up for a run walk or drink.
@Teresa502 I'm glad your ankle held up for the hike. You're views were amazing. Looks like a perfect day for it. Just beautiful skies.
@eleanorhawkins Great job with another 16 miles. If you continue to feel well, you should be able to complete Sunday's race. No pressure here, but you are doing great. I hope your stomach doesn't rebel...after all, you did reward it with ice cream. It should be happy. Right?
@polskagirl01 Nice bike ride and interesting things you found. The little doll is cute. I hope you make it up to the mountains tomorrow.
@shanaber Thanks for setting up next month's challenge. Love the pictures of the lake. I'm sure that Hobbes and the other pups had a great time. Be careful with those excessive heat days and we'll all be sure to hydrate while running in AZ. I need to put my mileage in - I do it manually and haven't taken the time in the last week. Won't be much, but will move us along.
I didn't work today. Mom and I went to town to do our shopping and look at gas heaters. I think we have talked her into getting one so that she doesn't have to bother with putting wood into a wood stove. It was getting hard for her to do last year. We had looked into pellet stoves, but decided she'd still need help to keep that going, so we're going to try a gas one. She's not real comfortable with gas, but this one seems to be really safe and is small but powerful. The guy was supposed to call me this afternoon with a price and possible delivery/install date, but he didn't. I'll have to give him a call tomorrow.
When I got home, I was beat. As I said before, I always am after a trip to town. So weird. Anyway, I rested for a couple of hours, maybe napped a little, then went out and did my planned Fast Finish Run on the driveway. It was 88°F, but there was a slight breeze and it is mostly shady, so thought it would be okay. It felt fine when just standing there. It really wasn't too bad until about 1.5 miles into the run. I stopped for a drink of water and then had a hard time getting going again. I felt like I was fading fast, but did manage to do the last 5 minutes of the run at a 10:48 min/mile average pace. The other 1.8 miles was at 13:38 min/mile pace.
With that and my warm up and cool down walks, I did a total of 3.1 miles today. That brings my monthly total to 65.6 miles/62.0 mile goal....so have exceeded my goal with 2 days left in the month. Haven't done that in a long time.
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Thanks @shanaber for setting up September. Those are really beautiful pics!
Great job getting 16 miles @eleanorhawkins! You are a beast for doing that much after you have been feeling so poorly. Hope you stay healthy!3 -
I've been continuing with the C25K program and my 10 year old has been accompanying me. It started as just me taking kids along so I could get a quick run in and then she decided she really likes it. I got her some decent running shoes so she can baby those feet early.
Saturday, we decided to do a "long" run. We did the C25K thing and then more walking/running intervals for a total of 4.25 miles. I miscalculated a bit on the route -- I didn't want her to do more than a 5K, so oops, but she's feeling great. I guess since she didn't run it all it's probably ok. We went out again this evening for another session, but kept it under 2 miles. My 8 year old came along and she's also been enjoying this! The first time out, she complained, but as we keep going, she keeps asking to come along and the complaining is greatly reduced. Both girls are seeming to take a lot of pride in getting through a run.
We're planning to do a halloween 5K, although I'm not sure if the 8 year old will do it. At some point, I'm going to have to leave them both behind at times so I can train for a half.
I'm so excited to finally have kids that want to run with me! These are #7 and #8 so it took this many to get it right!9 -
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quilteryoyo wrote: »@tarun_yadavA If you do ever come back to TN, let me know. Maybe we could meet up for a run walk or drink.
@Teresa502 I'm glad your ankle held up for the hike. You're views were amazing. Looks like a perfect day for it. Just beautiful skies.
@eleanorhawkins Great job with another 16 miles. If you continue to feel well, you should be able to complete Sunday's race. No pressure here, but you are doing great. I hope your stomach doesn't rebel...after all, you did reward it with ice cream. It should be happy. Right?
@polskagirl01 Nice bike ride and interesting things you found. The little doll is cute. I hope you make it up to the mountains tomorrow.
@shanaber Thanks for setting up next month's challenge. Love the pictures of the lake. I'm sure that Hobbes and the other pups had a great time. Be careful with those excessive heat days and we'll all be sure to hydrate while running in AZ. I need to put my mileage in - I do it manually and haven't taken the time in the last week. Won't be much, but will move us along.
I didn't work today. Mom and I went to town to do our shopping and look at gas heaters. I think we have talked her into getting one so that she doesn't have to bother with putting wood into a wood stove. It was getting hard for her to do last year. We had looked into pellet stoves, but decided she'd still need help to keep that going, so we're going to try a gas one. She's not real comfortable with gas, but this one seems to be really safe and is small but powerful. The guy was supposed to call me this afternoon with a price and possible delivery/install date, but he didn't. I'll have to give him a call tomorrow.
When I got home, I was beat. As I said before, I always am after a trip to town. So weird. Anyway, I rested for a couple of hours, maybe napped a little, then went out and did my planned Fast Finish Run on the driveway. It was 88°F, but there was a slight breeze and it is mostly shady, so thought it would be okay. It felt fine when just standing there. It really wasn't too bad until about 1.5 miles into the run. I stopped for a drink of water and then had a hard time getting going again. I felt like I was fading fast, but did manage to do the last 5 minutes of the run at a 10:48 min/mile average pace. The other 1.8 miles was at 13:38 min/mile pace.
With that and my warm up and cool down walks, I did a total of 3.1 miles today. That brings my monthly total to 65.6 miles/62.0 mile goal....so have exceeded my goal with 2 days left in the month. Haven't done that in a long time.
@quilteryoyo hahaha! Love it! Definitely! 😊
PS: Tennessee bbq is great! Went to a place called Calhoun's - don't know if any good or not as per locals but I loved it2 -
Good morning everyone!
Me done!
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05.08 Fri 19°C 3.0km 25min
07.08 Sun 22°C 3.0km 24min
08.08 Mon 25°C 3.6km 32min
10.08 Wed 27°C 4.0km 34min
12.08 Fri 29°C 6.0km 54min
14.08 Sun 31°C 3.0km 27min
16.08 Tue 28°C 4.2km 37min
17.08 Wed 26°C 5.0km 42min
19.08 Fri 23°C 6.0km 51min
20.08 Sat 21°C 5.3km 45min
21.08 Sun 24°C 4.0km 33min
23.08 Tue 26°C 5.3km 51min
24.08 Wed 26°C 6.0km 50min
25.08 Thu 28°C 6.3km 55min
27.08 Sat 21°C 7.0km 62min
29.08 Mon 24°C 4.3km 38min
total: 75.94km
Totally *kitten* run yesterday evening. Arrived on vacation on Sunday, bumped my head yesterday noon, and running just didn't work out at all. And there were two rather steep surprise minihills that I didn't anticipate and that I had to get over again on the way back. But hey, I did run, and I got closer to the magic 80km8 -
I got out this morning for a 5-mile run. Garmin suggested 3x800s or 3x600s – It was dark and I really couldn’t see my watch that well. I convinced myself it was probably 600 so that is what I did after a mile warm up.
@shanaber – Thanks for setting up the September thread. I really loved camping out in the woods but it was a lot of work! We got to camp around 5:30, set up our tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, etc., hiked a short distance to the water source and filtered water, boiled water for dinner, ate quickly, hung our food bags in a tree and bam, it was dark! Congrats on making the 100-mile club this month! Beautiful pictures from your hike.
@quilteryoyo – Good job getting your run in yesterday. I went outside after lunch and thought it was really hot (for us).
@eleanorhawkins – You did great getting 16 miles in! Hope you are feeling good afterwards. Eating ice cream after a long run is a sure fire recipe for me to have tummy issues!
@rps67 – You have 8 children? And time to run? I’m in awe! So glad that your 8 and 10-year old are interested in running. Hopefully the excitement of a 5k race will keep them motivated.
@tarun_yadavA – You can’t visit Knoxville and not go to Calhouns on the river! This time of year, it is really a hoppin’ place to be with the football season getting started.
Sorry about the head bump and rough run @yirara.
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@rps67 Yeah for your progress on C25K and that your daughters are liking running with you.
@tarun_yadavA I have never had the BBQ at Calhoun's, but it is a decent restaurant. Another nice run in the books for you.
@yirara Sorry your run was so horrible, but you did it! I hope you are feeling better today. How did you bump your head?2
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