January 2023 Monthly Running Challenge

Did a little walk with my daughter this afternoon.

January Goal: 100 Miles

1/1: 10.50 miles
1/3: 6.01 miles
1/4: 5.11 miles
1/5: 5.60 miles
1/8: 11.03 miles

38.25/100 miles completed for January

I had a great run today. It was 35°F when I got up, so I waited until it warmed up to 40° before I ran. It was perfect runningq
weather. No wind, cool but not cold. The sun was shining. It was only 53°F by the time I got home, so I was getting warm, bit not too warm. I ran through the cemetery and saw 3 deer. They were so beautiful. It was a lovely morning for a run. I ran 11 miles. It was really nice to just run after a long and stressful week.


@quilteryoyo Congrats on your two year anniversary of the heart surgery. You are really an amazing woman!

Hello all!

Congratulations @martaindale for completing the Dopey challenge. I can't wait to hear about it and how you are feeling now after having completed all of those miles! I hope you have some time (and energy) afterwards for a little vacation before heading back home!

@quilteryoyo I would also like to congratulate you on your 2 year "heartaversery"!

@shanaber About your e-scooter, etc. rant. I also have to agree. Here in Germany it is more of a problem with people leaving/dragging the e-scooters that you rent and leaving them on the middle of the biking, jogging path. As a jogger, this is not so much of an issue, but it is very annoying when I am biking with the kids with the trailer and have to stop, get off the bike and move the scooter to the side, so that I can continue on my way. Also, my friend's 3 year old daughter lost the top half of 2 fingers! due to a faulty design on one of the rentable e-scooters here- so they will always be my enemy.

@tarun_yadavA Congratulations on getting a HM done even if you weren't feeling it and also on everyone else's weekend running/walking escapades .

@Fit2btied2016 Congrats on the new shoes! I have always trusted what was recommended in the running shoe store with the gait analysis and have, as of yet, never regretted my decision. About gyms- I personally also don't enjoy going to the gym, I am much rather outside in nature and love cardio exploring, but lifting, not so much, but I try to make myself go once or twice a week to cross train/lift, which I hope will help me avoid injury. Or, if the weather really sucks.

On Saturday I got a nice 70 minute run at pretty easy pace (10.5 K). I was planning on using Sunday as a rest day, but we had our house full of kids and ended up taking the 6(!) of them to go play soccer. I used about half the time they were playing to go on some easy loops with the smallest kids and was reminded of @AlphaHowls ' crazy loops (although my loops were outside and about the size of a standard track). I had to stop after 3.3 Km when one of the kids started crying. Then we did some cross training monkey bars together and I joined in on the soccer game (adults vs. kids - we weren't allowed to stop playing until the kids won which took awhile because my husband really wanted to win for some reason).

Today I planned to do a long cross training 60 minute indoor row, but I realized after 30 minutes that I just didn't have it in me mentally and physically. I have only been to the gym once since before winter break started and I haven't been lifting enough. It was just a bit too much to jump right into. So I think, I will have to work up to the 60 minutes in the next month as an additional January goal.

Thanks @kgirlhart . Great long run yesterday!

Thanks @Scott6255 !

Thanks @shanaber ! Looks like such a nice walk and a lovely place for it.

Thanks @Fit2btied ! Hope you are feeling better and love the "prank" you played on your hubby.

Thanks @Laurz9191 Sounds like you had a great, fun "rest day" playing with all the kids. Great run on Sat and 30 min of rowing is nothing to sneeze at. You're doing great.

@tarun_yadavA Sorry to hear you are feeling worse. I hope you feel better tomorrow! You may need to see a doctor.

You're doing great @JennieMaeK !

I had planned on doing a longish run today, but got asked to work at daycare, so I went in for 6 hours. I had some errands to run afterwards, so got home later than I had hoped. I went down for a treadmill session when I got home. Since I wanted to be finished before 7, I decided to do half mile warm up walk, ran 1.3 miles (no walking) and then walked half a mile to cool down. I alternated running 2 min at 4.2 mph with 2 min at each of the paces from 4.3 - 4.6 mph. Final average pace was 13:56 min/mile or 4.3 mph. Avg HR was 136 with a max of 148 mph....so not too bad.

Jan 1 – 7.02 miles
Jan 2 – 3
Jan 3 – 5.1
Jan 5 – 3.02
Jan 7 – 8.01
Jan 9 – 5.48
Jan 10 – 4.21

I’m out of town for a couple of days and took advantage of the opportunity to run in a different place. Hope you’re better soon @tarun_yadavA
Happy Heart-a-versary @quilteryoyo!

Thanks @Teresa502 ! Great run and love the murals. Enjoy your time in Richmond.

@eleanorhawkins I'm not sure when I will hear back from the Holter Monitor. I'm hoping for late this week, but it may be next week since it had to go to IL to be read.

@Avidkeo You never know until you try, but "just" completing a HM is a feat in itself, esp. after having such a hard time with CoVID.

Nice to see you check in @Tramboman !

I helped with health screenings for some high school kids today. After I got home, I changed to go down to exercise and sat on the couch to find something on TV to entertain me. I woke up 20 minutes later. Guess I was more tired than I realized. LOL

I did a run/walk of 4/1 minutes at 4.5/3.8 mph. I ran 2.30 miles in 31:38 minutes for an average pace of 13:45 min/mile (4.4 mph). My avg HR was 131 and max was 146 bpm. I also walked a mile total for warm up and cool down.