October 2022 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,875 Member
    10/2 – 7.07 miles
    10/3 – 5.01 miles
    10/5 – 5.6 miles
    10/16 – 5.4 miles
    10/17 – 5.56 miles
    10/19 – 5.04 miles
    10/21 – 5.01 miles
    10/24 – 5.28 miles
    10/25 – 3.04 miles
    10/26 – 7.16 miles
    10/27 – 5.12 miles
    Total – 59.29 miles

    An easy 5 miles with a friend before work this morning. Temp was about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday at 46F. Feeling really tired this morning for some reason. Is it Friday yet?
  • martaindale
    martaindale Posts: 2,333 Member
    @Scott6255 I hope whatever it is passes quickly. The flu has started making its rounds here and several if the kids on the climbing team have been out this week. So far my kid has dodged it and I just got my flu shot. Really don’t want to get sick right now! Your perfect weather range and mine very closely match. I can enjoy a little colder but ideal temps fit nicely in the that window.

    @Teresa502 This week is taking forever for me too. So tired!!
  • martaindale
    martaindale Posts: 2,333 Member
    October total: 148.6/180 miles

    10/1: 10 miles
    10/2: 6.1 miles
    10/3: 6.2 miles
    10/4: 5.1 miles
    10/5: 7 miles
    10/7: 6.6 miles
    10/10: 5.9 miles
    10/11: 3 miles
    10/12: 7 miles
    10/13: 6 miles
    10/14: 10 miles
    10/16: 6.5 miles
    10/17: 6.1 miles
    10/19: 10 miles
    10/20: 6 miles
    10/21: 5 miles
    10/22: 15 miles
    10/24: 6.6 miles
    10/25: 5.5 miles
    10/26: 10 miles
    10/27: 5 miles

    Recovery miles this morning. Beautiful upper 40’s! Love this time of year!
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,986 Member
    martaindale wrote: »
    yirara wrote: »
    Yay, got my goal, and this was also the fastest run in quite a while.

    Funnily I tend to run faster when my glycogen stores in my legs are depleted because I tend to fall forward, and kind of compensate by running faster.

    Congrats on hitting your goal! That idea of falling forward is one you hear come up when coaches talk about running form. Hinging forward just a little or some will say slightly pushing your chest forward. It redistributes your weight and makes your gait more efficient as you are using momentum to help you along. That is one adjustment I made to my own posture when I worked on correcting my overstriding.

    @scott6255 Loving this nice weather!!

    Oh interesting! I never heard of this. For me it's usually a sign that my energy is depleted and I don't have enough strength to keep on running properly. It's this odd idea: oh no, upper body hinges forward: better get my legs underneath it again :D
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,571 Member
    Just to clarify @yirara, the lean is from your ankles, not your waist. Leaning from the waist puts additional strain on the back and hamstrings, and can cause lower back pain. Imagine that your body is a straight line; it can lean, but at no point should it be bent along that line.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,986 Member
    Scott6255 wrote: »
    Just to clarify @yirara, the lean is from your ankles, not your waist. Leaning from the waist puts additional strain on the back and hamstrings, and can cause lower back pain. Imagine that your body is a straight line; it can lean, but at no point should it be bent along that line.

    Ah ok. No, when I run out of energy I lose my good posture and kind of look like a questionmark. I'm hypermobile, mind and don't get injured from something like that. No problem.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,986 Member
    edited October 2022
    03.10 Mon 13°C 4.1km 36min
    05.10 Wed 17°C 6.2km 55min
    07.10 Fri 13°C 5.2km 45min
    08.10 Sat 12°C 10.4km 92min
    10.10 Mon 14°C 3.6km 30min
    12.10 Wed 10°C 5.2km 44min
    14.10 Fri 14°C 5.3km 48min
    15.10 Sat 16°C 4.2km 34min
    16.10 Sun 15°C 7.2km 63min
    17.10 Mon 20°C 3.6km 30min
    19.10 Wed 10°C 5.5km 45min
    21.10 Fri 14°C 5.5km 46min
    22.10 Sat 14°C 8.0km 68min
    24.10 Mon 16°C 4.1km 34min
    26.10 Wed 18°C 6.2km 50min
    28.10 Fri 19°C 5.3km 45min

    total: 89.56/80.5km (16.5km ahead)

    Hmm... had this accident where I flew over an obstacle on 12.10. My rib still hurts, and tonight it was particularly bad. Maybe I should get it checked out. Thus running didn't go to well, but it was still fairly ok. Adjusted hr zones in Garmin and now it gave me a tempo run instead of a base run, and it felt like a temporun to me. Good.
  • martaindale
    martaindale Posts: 2,333 Member
    Scott6255 wrote: »
    Just to clarify @yirara, the lean is from your ankles, not your waist. Leaning from the waist puts additional strain on the back and hamstrings, and can cause lower back pain. Imagine that your body is a straight line; it can lean, but at no point should it be bent along that line.

    Yes, thanks for clarifying that @Scott6255. My description wasn't the clearest. The way I have heard it described that clicked the easiest for me was pushing my chest barely forward, like leading with your chest. It forces your body into that slightly forward lean and made it easier for me to get my feet under my body instead of reaching forward with my feet.
  • tarun_yadavA
    tarun_yadavA Posts: 1,411 Member
    martaindale wrote: »
    Here is the November thread. @tarun_yadavA and all the rest of y'all.
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10876797/november-2022-monthly-running-challenge/p1?new=1

    @martaindale Thanks Sarah!!! 😊
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  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,197 Member
    My MIL is currently doing C25k with a goal of running her first 5k later this year. One thing she did to modify the C25k program that I thought was really clever was adding in walking to get to the 5k distance after her workout. She was already pretty active and walked regularly but has never really run. Even if she wasn’t ready to up the running mileage, she still felt like she needed more time on her feet. So we mapped out a 5k route and she follows it for her workout then walks out the rest. She has found it really motivating because she has a visual benchmark of improvement with how much farther she gets along the route with each week.

    that is a REALLY cool idea. When I was doing the program back in 2017 to jumpstart my running again I absolutely KNEW that I was not fast enough to really be doing 5K on the workout. I am not sure anyone is? thank you for sharing!
  • marisap2010
    marisap2010 Posts: 909 Member
    I started a Hal Higdon half training plan today to potentially run the Museum of Aviation half in mid-January. Today's run was 3 miles easy. It is overcast and cool here, so it felt pretty good while I was out.

    @Fit2btied2016 If you are shooting for a 5k race, I would try to stick with a plan that is made for 5ks. A 10k plan might push you a bit harder than you want too early. Since your race isn't until March, you have enough time to complete a 5k plan and then probably start (and maybe finish) a 10k plan after.

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