October 2022 Monthly Running Challenge

eleanorhawkins · October 2022

@tarun_yadavA Brighton trail... started this year, ventures into the South Downs. Longer term goal is the South Downs Way ultra! I was born in Crawley, my dad still lives there, so yeah, much as I dislike the UK in general, the countryside in the south has a special pull for me.

kgirlhart · October 2022

I'm not training for anything right now. The Half Marathon that I have been running has been discontinued. I am hoping to schedule something this fall, but for now I will just say 100 miles for October. Today is a rest day for me so I will have to wait until tomorrow to post mileage. It us a lovely morning and I am hoping for it to be just as nice tomorrow.

kgirlhart · October 2022

Have any of you ever given an old garmin to a family member? My husband's fitbit died and I thought I might let him use my old garmin FR35. Does it need to be reset or just change the user settings and connect to his phone?

Scott6255 · October 2022

@marisap2010 best of luck on your marathon! You are ready! Have fun 😊

18 miles this morning. Ideal weather; started at 57F, 3mph wind, 47F dewpoint. Tried to keep HR under 120, and speed just under 10 min/mi. First half did ok, so decided to run blind for the 2nd half (never looked at my watch). Just went by feel. That went pretty good, pace was faster than the 1st half. Didn't feel like I was dying at the end. Could have gone 20, but probably not 26.2 😏

AlphaHowls · October 2022

10/1 16.41 miles, 1615 days on the run, 797 days HM+ Streak, Running Partner E

martaindale · October 2022

kgirlhart wrote: »

Have any of you ever given an old garmin to a family member? My husband's fitbit died and I thought I might let him use my old garmin FR35. Does it need to be reset or just change the user settings and connect to his phone?

Haven’t actually done this, but as long as you have it disconnected from anything you use for tracking and change the user settings, it seems like it would be ok. IDK but it might be faster just to take it back to factory settings and let him reset it up. That way you don’t miss anything and both of you start getting weird data.

martaindale · October 2022

@shanaber Thanks for setting us up!

Good luck to @marisap2010 today! I have heard nothing but good things about wineglass.

@quilteryoyo You have definitely been missed. We look forward to hearing from you later this month.

@tarun_yadavA It’s cool that you live on the route. After Kipchoge’s amazing Berlin performance, I am excited to see what he does in London. The man is just amazing.

@scott6255 You did great on your 18 miler! Having a good long run is such a big confidence boost!

martaindale · October 2022

Alright y’all, things are getting real this month with this training plan. My plan adds up to 178.5 miles for October, so I’m setting a goal of 180 miles since it’s a nice round number. That’s about 45 miles a week, which is about what the peak weeks were for my HM plan, so I know I can handle the volume but I have never maintained that volume for this long.

October total: 10/180 miles

10/1: 10 miles

On the board this month with my long run. It was an absolutely gorgeous morning. Low 50’s and upper 60’s by the time I was done. And the humidity wasn’t as high as normal either. Just amazing. I went to a greenway trail that is asphalt paved and runs through the woods along a river near my house, super shady, and no roads to cross. It’s a great spot for a long run. There are even a few parks along the trail so you have bathrooms! It totals something like 16 or 18 miles one direction. A lot of the bikers do laps on it for safe, car free bike rides.
Anyway, even though I was slow getting out the door this morning, it was amazingly gorgeous. Took some left over skratch chews and tried a new flavor of gu, mint chocolate. Wow, it’s good! Imagine frosting made from Andes mints. Definitely have to get some more of that one. This was one of those runs that just felt good the whole time. My pace was stable throughout. I even had plenty in the tank for a fast finish last mile and my HR never got out of control. I went back to see what my last couple of 10 milers looked like and today’s average pace was 38 sec/mi faster than my last one and 56 sec/mi faster than the one before that! I wasn’t really aiming for any particular pace, just wanted to see where I landed with better temps as a benchmark for where my fitness was. I am really pleased with where I am right now. This training plan has a target long run pace and without trying I was only 9 secs off that target. If I had been aware of it and aiming for it, I definitely think I could have maintained that pace today no problem.

Edited for a trail pic

quilteryoyo · October 2022

@eleanorhawkins I think being able to sleep in on the weekends is a great reason to do your long runs on Friday. Also nice that you are self employed and can set your own hours. I need to go back and see what happened during your race. Glad you survived and your knees and shoulders aren't too bad today.

@polskagirl01 Complain away. That's what we are here for. You are doing great.

Good luck on your marathon @marisap2010 . Look forward to hearing how you did.

Cool that you live on the London Marathon course @tarun_yadavA . Great job on your runs too.

Can't help you out on the Garmin @kgirlhart . I usually don't get a new one until mine quits working.

Nice run @Scott6255 . That's a speedy pace for such a low HR. I'm in Zone 4 or 5 at that pace. LOL

@martaindale Sounds like you had a really great run today. Congratulations on such a great increase in your pace! Love the picture. Such a pretty trail.

Thanks everyone for your kind words. I do need to go back and at least skim the last couple of weeks from Sept to see what I missed. Hopefully I can do that tomorrow. I was extremely busy in September. I have a second part time job - helping conduct health screenings in all of the local county schools. I did that several days and some of those I went into help at daycare after I left the school. We also had my mom's new gas heater installed, tank set up, gas delivered, and heater set up and turned on. She loves it and it is working great to keep her old farmhouse warm. Seems like there were other things too. Anyway, there just weren't enough hours in the day to get everything done.

I did manage to keep up my mile streak at least and get in some longer runs. The longest was 7 miles. I fell woefully short of my goal for Sept though. I had hoped to reach 90 miles total of running and fast walking, but ended the month at 66.72 miles. I still have 10 weeks before my 10 mile race in FL, so I think, if I can figure out how to get in my long runs, I'll still be okay. We shall see.

Looking at the plan and expecting that I won't run all of those days and things will happen, I am setting my goal for Sept for about 80% of the running I should do if I followed the plan exactly. LOL So, my goal is to run 58 miles and walk 22, for a total of 80 miles.

I started off today with not being able to do the long run that I had hoped because time got away from me. I have had 2 or 3 boxes of clothes that I was planning to get rid of, but mom wanted to see if she could wear/wanted any of them first. She decided about 11 am that today would be a good day for her to come up and try them on. Had I ran first, that wouldn't have been an issue, but I didn't. So, I brought her up here. While she looked through them and tried them on, I vacuumed and did laundry. She decided to keep about a third of them. I'm glad she found so much that she liked and those boxes are out of my house. LOL But, by the time she was done, and I finished the vacuuming, it was already 3:30. I had other things that I needed to get done today, so I just went down and ran 35 minutes on the treadmill.

October: 3.50/80 mile goal

1 Oct - Ran 2.50 miles, Walked 1.00 mile - treadmill

tarun_yadavA · October 2022

Morning all. Happy Sunday. Got a 5 in!

quilteryoyo · October 2022

Great run this morning @tarun_yadavA . If that picture of the race is from your home, there are a lot of people still going strong at 10 miles in.

SummerSkier · October 2022

I don't see a lot of folks smiling tho. Is the course very flat or are there some hills somewhere?

tarun_yadavA · October 2022

SummerSkier wrote: »

I don't see a lot of folks smiling tho. Is the course very flat or are there some hills somewhere?

@SummerSkier London is a v.flat marathon.

London and Berlin tend to be the ones that the Kenyan/Ethiopian super runners tend to get their personal records

martaindale · October 2022

October total: 16.1/180 miles

10/1: 10 miles
10/2: 6.1 miles

Recovery miles this morning. Leg fatigue from the long run yesterday kept me slow for the first mile but the cool temps made it easy to get going too quickly once I was warmed up. Took a couple miles to get back to a true easy pace. Really trying to keep my easy runs easy as the weather improves.

kgirlhart · October 2022

October Goal: 100 Miles

10/2 - 13.13 miles

13.13/100 miles completed for October

The weather was just perfect this morning. It was 52°F and the dew point was 43° when I headed out. It was a lovely morning. The sun was shining and there was a light breeze. It was my idea of perfect running weather. I was feeling good so I decided to run a Half Marathon. I haven't run that distance in a long time and I enjoyed it so much! It wasn't a race so I wasn't running fast. But I did have an average pace of 11:01 which is a little faster than my summer easy pace. It felt like fall is on the way. I saw several monarch butterflies. October is when they make their migration to Mexico. It didn't seem like we saw many last year so I was happy to be seeing them already.

@martaindale Great job with your pace!

@quilteryoyo You are the busiest lady I know. Great job on keeping up with your streak.

@tarun_yadavA How fun to be on the London Marathon route.

Teresa502 · October 2022

10/2 – 7.07 miles

My goal for October is to run when I can. I’m not setting a mileage or time goal for the month. I have a lot of out of town commitments and I’m hoping you all will let me hang with you anyway. Just reading your running adventures makes me want to get out there. Case in point – today. It’s drizzly and 55F. A good day to stay inside, eat chocolate chip cookies and nap. But I came here and saw picture of the London marathon, thought of our friend @marisap2010 out there running the Wineglass, of @eleanorhawkins tapering, @Scott6255’s 18 miles yesterday, and on and on! (Just because I didn’t mention your name doesn’t mean I’m not equally impressed by you - as usual I'm just short on time!) Anyway, I headed to our local park and ran 7 miles mostly on the trail. I did one small out and back down a street just for a change – the trail loop is only 1 mile long.

jane_76 · October 2022

Hi there: I used to run 5 km 3+/week several years back, but I'm starting all over again with significant weight gain in the interim. I am struggling with connecting with the right groups by looking through the different groups/discussions, and I wondered if anyone here knows of a C25K group for those starting up again? Looking forward to joining your group when I'm back in the groove again. Thanks in advance for any help!

quilteryoyo · October 2022

October: 3.50/80 mile goal

1 Oct - Ran 2.50 miles, Walked 1.00 mile - treadmill
2 Oct - Walked 1.00 mile - treadmill

I walked my mile on the treadmill today after church, lunch with mom, taking a nap, and going to a neighbor's for homemade ice-cream and home made strawberry cobbler to celebrate his 93rd birthday. After all that food, I just couldn't run. LOL

On Friday, when I was getting ready to leave my mom's house, I looked up and saw this beautiful rainbow. This was hurricane Ian remnants coming in - just got light rain here. It was bright and lasted I would guess at least 30 minutes. I've never seen one last that long.

Over mom's roof. What I first saw.

It was double on this one side.

The other end of the rainbow.

Nice recovery run @martaindale !

Thanks @kgirlhart . I'm glad you had such nice weather to run and could run a HM distance, just for fun. That's an excellent average pace.

@Teresa502 Of course you can hang out here. I agree that having a group like this is a great inspiration. It sounds like you had a wonderful run, once you took that first step and got outside.

@jane_76 You are very welcome to hang out here while you are "getting your groove again." This group is supportive, regardless of your level of running. Many of us have had to "start over" again, so we can empathize.

Scott6255 · October 2022

Welcome @jane_76! You can hang with us anytime.

Did an easy 5 mile treadmill recovery run while watching the 2nd half of the cowboy game 😏

jane_76 · October 2022

@quilteryoyo and @Scott6255 - thanks for the kind welcome. Happy to find out that newbies can find a home here, too. My mileage will be very minimal initially and subject to how my knee responds after an injury earlier this year. Trying to ease myself back into it - rushing my return earlier this year led to the knee injury. Looking forward to the day that I can run a feel-good 5 km again!

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