OCTOBER 2023 Monthly Running Challenge

Teresa502 · October 2023

Oct 1 – 8.16 miles
Oct 2 – 5.42 miles
Oct 4 – 4.79 miles
Oct 6 – 6.02 miles
Oct 9 – 4.10 miles
Oct 10 – 5.15 miles
Oct 12 – 5.21 miles
Oct 13 – 8.16 miles
Oct 15 – 8.75 miles
Oct 16 – 5.01 miles
Oct 17 – 3.24 miles
Oct 19 – 5.04 miles
Oct 21 – 10.02 miles
79.08 miles/ Goal 100 miles

First double digit run for me since March! Temp was 42F when I started but the sun was out and it warmed up nicely. I drove to a town about an hour from me where I went to college for my associate’s degree and then worked at the college for 3 years. I never go in that direction any more so it was great to see the town and all the changes/sameness. They have a greenbelt which is 3 miles in length. I ran it a couple of times and around the streets some to make it to 10 miles.

Congratulations @Scott6255! You had an awesome pace! You were so close to placing!

Your dinner sounds wonderful @martaindale. I hope your garden does good. Our growing season has pretty much ended for the year. I’m going to miss the fresh tomatoes most of all.

Welcome @SamIAmOH!

@SummerSkier – It’s so frustrating when we eat the right things and our bodies still betray us. My cholesterol tends to run too high for my liking also. That’s a lot of steps for the day!

Glad you are feeling better @yirara.

AlphaHowls · October 2023

Race Start, me and running partner A

Race Report! The good, the bad, the ugly!

Race Day! I felt good, running partner 'released me' to give it my all. She felt I could push and get PR.
I have never pushed like this run. I have never run this fast. I thought my fuel and things seemed to be on point. My legs started to feel weird by mile 6ish. Not really sure, but they just kept moving and I felt like I could not get control of them. I felt top heavy and felt like I was leaning. I had to keep pep talking myself to slow down, breathe, stay straight. By mile 11, not really sure who was running, my legs just did not want to be under my control. I had to 'right' myself quite a bit. Best described as 'jelly legs.' I began to really struggle to stay straight and upright. I was weaving here and there. I could hear the crowd as I got close, "Don't stop! You are almost there!" It was not pretty, but I was not in pain, I just did not have control of my legs or upper body. I was fighting to make the finish line. About 50ish feet, I was mostly bent over and did go down on on all fours. I could hear the crowd, telling me to push through, almost there, you can do it. I could see the line. I got up and wobbled my way, fighting every inch. I actually kept going through the finish, hearing someone yell to the 'medal handers' to leave me alone until I could get control. One lady ran and grabbed water and as I veered past her, she gave it to me. The weird, I felt fine, just not in control of my body, complete jelly.
I could hear the crowd, but it was my spirit inside that screamed at me to get up and get through that finish line.
Not that I feel humiliated or ashamed, but yeah...
I do not have any other pictures yet as they have not posted race photos. I really do not want to see them, due to what I might see.

Finisher Medal

I do not have my place medal. This race had some hiccups and some poor planning on behalf of the race presenters left me a little miffed. They also did not have waffles. They had 'run out'. No chocolate milk, I really did not see much support and I admit I looked hard at the emergency call boxes on the sides.

Race Results:

Me Age 52
36th Overall (out of 162)
8th Place Gender (out of 86)
1st place Age (50-54) (out of 11)
1:55:57
Over all Pace 08:51

Running Partner A Age 50
83rd Overall (out of 162)
33rd Place Gender (out of 86)
5th place Age (50-54) (out of 11)
2:14:46
Over all pace 10:17

Mileage so far this month

10/1 18.41 miles, 1980 days on the run, 1162 days HM+ Streak, County Line and back
10/2 29.3 miles County Line, kept going, and back
10/3 18.17 miles
10/4 18.2 miles
10/5 18.3 miles, Running Partner A
10/6 18.41 miles, high fog
10/7 18.57 miles, Running Partner A, Excellent Air Quality, 43°F start
10/8 18.24 miles, County Line and around 40°F - 46°F I am cold!
10/9 18.66 miles
10/10 18.37 miles
10/11 18.35 miles, 1990 days on the run, 1172 days HM+ Streak
10/12 18.42 miles
10/13 18.34 miles, County Line and back, 117 lbs, 19.7% body fat, 18.9 BMI
10/14 18.19 miles, Running Partner A
10/15 18.35 miles, wander hither and yon
10/16 19.34 miles
10/17 18.5 miles. Running Partner A
10/18 18.25 miles
10/19 18.13 miles, Running Partner A, Fitbit obliterated my data @2h38m
10/20 18.51 miles
10/21 14.82 total miles
2000 days on the run
1182 days HM+ Streak
Hoptown Half Marathon

Scott6255 · October 2023

@AlphaHowls you showed how tough, dedicated, and determined you are. Way to push through! Congrats on your AG win. You are such an inspiration!

chris_in_cal · October 2023

SummerSkier wrote: »

I hope my Dr doesn't want to start Statins.

Like fluoride in the brave new world I think we'll have statins and Ozempic in our drinking water.

Do what's right for you, but that whole take statins for life thing is a hard pill to swallow.

Teresa502 · October 2023

Congratulations on doing so well @AlphaHowls but how scary to feel so out of control. You really left it all out there! It’s a shame the organizers weren’t organized. I can’t imagine them running out food when you finished in the top quarter of all the participants. Hopefully, they will take notes and do better next year.

daria0919 · October 2023

Scott6255 wrote: »

Peachtree Classic 15K
Weather was a perfect 50°F and 5mph wind. Told myself if the 1st mile is 8:30 pace or under I would try and race it, otherwise I would just take it easy. First mile clocked in exactly at 8:30. So I guess we're doing this... my brother stuck with me the whole time. With all the hills I started struggling at about 5 miles. I thought Mike would just start pulling away, but I somehow found a way to keep up with him. After that second mile we kept a 7:40 pace or faster. Just before the 9 miles mark I decided to just go for it. There were two huge hills at the finish which were pure evil. Ended up with a 7:43 pace 1:12:45 finish time.
42 of 348 overall.
4th of 21 Age group (there are a LOT of fast old guys here).
Overall I'm happy with my performance, but a little bummed not placing.
Tomorrow's 10 mile race is going to just be a slow sightseeing tour I think 😁

Sounds AMAZING to me @Scott6255!
Way to go!

Enjoy tomorrow’s race!!

daria0919 · October 2023

Congrats @AlphaHowls !! You’re AMAZING! Sounds like a great race to me! Way to push through!!

quilteryoyo · October 2023

Excellent race @Scott6255 ! Great job on keeping up with your brother and going for it at the end. I hope you enjoy your race tomorrow.

Congratulations @yirara ! You did great to double your distance of continuous running! Slowing up is the way to get there.

Great double digit run @Teresa502 ! Sounds like you enjoyed your trip down memory lane.

Wow @AlphaHowls ! It sounds like you put it all out there. Amazing pace! Congratulations on your Ist place AG win! Feeling so much like "jelly" must have been scary. Glad you made it and are okay. Your running partner did great too. Like @Teresa502 said, I'm surprised they were already out of food when you finished so soon. Hopefully they will do better next year.

quilteryoyo · October 2023

10/1: 2.00 mile walk - driveway laps
10/2: 1.00 mile walk - 2.85 miles ran - driveway Fast Finish Run
10/3: 1.00 mile walk - Push mowed at mom's almost an hour
10/4: 2.00 mile walk - driveway
10/5: 1.00 mile walk - 2.50 miles ran - Hill Repeats
10/6: 2.00 mile walk - treadmill
10/7: 1.00 mile walk - 4.25 mile run - treadmill - Failed at the 9 mile scheduled run
10/8: 1.00 mile walk - plus a stroll with a new neighbor and doubles tennis
10/9: 1.00 mile walk - 2.25 mile run - treadmill - Fast Finish
10/10: 1.00 mile walk - 2.00 miles run - driveway laps - Foundation Run
10/11: 1.00 mile walk - treadmill plus 2 hours of doubles tennis
10/12: 2.00 mile walk - driveway laps
10/13:2:00 mile walk - driveway laps plus mowing, leaves, and hauling dirt for 2h49m10s
10/14: 1.00 mile walk - 3.15 mile run - driveway laps
10/15: 2.00 mile walk - treadmill
10/16: 1.00 mile walk - 1.60 mile run - treadmill
10/17: 1.00 mile walk - 2.10 mile run - treadmill
10/18: 2.00 mile walk - driveway laps
10/19 1.00 mile walk - 3.00 mile run - Short intervals - driveway laps, plus sawed and hauled wood
10/20 1.00 miles walk - 1.5 miles run - Recovery run - driveway laps
10/21 2.09 miles walk - 2.41 miles run - easy longer driveway run - singles tennis earlier

56.70/90 mile goal

Yesterday, I cut my recovery run short because I was running behind schedule. I ran before work, so didn't have time for the planned 30 min. It wasn't too bad.

Today, I played singles tennis with a friend at noon. We had planned on earlier, but waited for it to warm up a little. It was nearly perfect weather, had it not been for the breeze. (59F - 15C).

After I got home, I did a longish run on the driveway. After 0.35 miles of warm up walk, I did a run/walk of 0.3/0.15 miles. The average pace for the runs was 12:05 min/mile. I was pretty pleased with that since I wasn't pushing the pace at all. The fastest segment was the last one, when I did push it, at 11:13 min/mile.

tarun_yadavA · October 2023

Hello everyone!

@Scott6255 - amazing pace!
@AlphaHowls - well done on pulling through... And great sub-02hr finish too! 💪

kgirlhart · October 2023

@Scott6255 That was a great pace and a great job on your race. I hope tomorrow's race goes well.

@AlphaHowls Congratulations on your AG win. That sounds scary, but you did a great job pushing through. I would have been so disappointed about the lack of waffles.

eleanorhawkins · October 2023

@Scott6255 awesome race. You and the 'old guys' all rock!
@AlphaHowls wow, awesome race too, congrats! I would guess the jelly feeling was just because you were pushing harder than you're used to, but listen to your body for a few days and make sure. Hate it when organisers are so disorganised.

tarun_yadavA · October 2023

Morning all
Got in 4.5M (09"23) this morning.
Total to 81 for the month (goal of 70).
Probably won't get to run now... Early starts/long drives and a lot of sight seeing.
Going:
Haridwar (picturesque 'holy city' by the River Ganges);
Amritsar (Golden Temple, India-Pakistan border and gate closing ceremony);
Jaipur;
Ranthambore national park - for Tiger safari (one we're all excited about).

(Wife a little salty about missing out Taj Mahal; whilst eldest, the teen, a bit salty about not being able to watch a Cricket game in the stadium).

Some food p0rn pics

KFC India

Got the biryani bucket, and a fusion 'Tandoori Zinger' burger. Youngest loved it. Wants to eat it every day now 🙈

From last night... Speciality of Delhi... Butter chicken and Naan

quilteryoyo · October 2023

Great run @tarun_yadavA ! Love the food pictures. I think the KFC things are interesting. I wonder what Colonel Sanders would say about that.

I would be excited about the tiger safari too. Enjoy your time with family.

tarun_yadavA · October 2023

Thank you lol @quilteryoyo

SummerSkier · October 2023

Totally impressed with our racing team yesterday. wow 🌟🌟🌟🌟

@Scott6255 - you were flying and you ARE in a rough age group but wow. 4th is nothing to sneeze at and you had a PB.. (and your HR was not even over 140's~!! which I know for you is really high but still shows how much effort you put in)

@AlphaHowls - that's a little scary about the jelly legs but you were going so much faster than usual for you. Congratulations on your finish and win! Hope all is back to normal this morning. I can see you may be incorporating some much faster paces in your runs for the future so your body gets used to is. How was your heart rate?

@tarun_yadavA sounds like you just can't please everyone but you have a great adventure planned and even if you are not running you will be busy and getting a lot of walking in I imagine. Have a great vacation and looking forward to the safari pictures!🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅

@quilteryoyo I have decided you are a triathlete for ALL you do in Tennis and RUnning and HARD WORK! and how you fit it all in amazes me. Have you decided yet on the race in Dec? Edit to say that my LDL to HDL ratio is pretty good 3.1 (less than 5 is green( and my Dr doesn't push meds on me at all but I am just disappointed that my total is still high at 236 but it is down from 239 last year even if that's probably not a significant #. I mean not scary high but still. I was reading and it looks like that is also just another aging thing that happens to. My fasting blood sugar was green this time whereas the past few years it has been just a touch over the 100 mark. So improvements overall. But it just really goes to show that all the weight loss and exercise and eating right doesn't mean you will be perfect (genetics I guess )

Laurz9191 · October 2023

@Scott6255 and @AlphaHowls It sounds like you each had very intense races and really preformed to your best! @scott6255 You did awesome even if it was 4th and not 3rd in your age group! You were so fast! You never know who else you’ll be racing against!

@AlphaHowls If you didn’t have control of legs and upper body it sounds like your mind carried you through that finish line. That’s awesome! I hope your legs aren’t too jelly-like today. Great time too! You mentioned wanting to PR. Was it a PR for you? I am crossing my fingers for you that it was! And running out of waffles 🧇 at a waffle race. That sounds pretty sad for all the runners who didn’t get one.

I got a nice fall run in this morning. The leaves are changing and the weather was nice and mild. I got stung by a wasp yesterday right in a vein on top of my hand and my hand is sooooo swollen it bothered me the whole run. I hope the swelling goes away soon. Pictures of today’s fall colors in the spoiler.

Today 9.5km. 112.5/160km for October.

Scott6255 · October 2023

@tarun_yadavA nice run and the food looks really good! Thanks for that.

Thanks everyone for the race kudos. Today's race wasn't so great. Most (and largest, longest, steepest) hills I have ever had in a race. And after yesterday it was overwhelming. But I raced as hard as I could, and managed to get a PR for 10 miles. Just over 8 minute pace. Official results:
8:03 pace
9 out of 90 M60-64
493 of 3407 overall

Looking forward to a rest day after 7 days in a row.
But Garmin bumped my VO2 up to 60 after 2 hard days of running 😁

AlphaHowls · October 2023

@SummerSkier

AlphaHowls - that's a little scary about the jelly legs but you were going so much faster than usual for you. Congratulations on your finish and win! Hope all is back to normal this morning. I can see you may be incorporating some much faster paces in your runs for the future so your body gets used to is. How was your heart rate?

Average seems good, peak was 190, extra at the end was me trying to get my legs and body in control by just walking till I saw my running partner come in.

I am not at my 'normal' today. I have ended my half marathon +distance streak at 1182 days 10/21/2023. Not disappointed, but sort of. I love distance. I am not a racer, but wanted to do my best yesterday. My mother told me the night before as I put her to bed, "do your best!"

I got myself out of bed this morning, slow and sore, but made the 1 mile to keep my overall run streak.

10/22 1.49 miles, 2001 days on the run

My heartfelt thank you for the comments. It is soothing the little beast inside of me.

I have talked to a few people (runners) and read here and there, but still do not know what really was happening. I thought it was 'the wall' that I have read and heard about, but from what I am reading/hearing, I would not have gotten up. It could have been glycogen depletion and just never pushing that hard before.

@Laurz9191
PR/PB I decided that it is all of the above. My hard drive on my computer failed about 2 years ago and I lost all the data I had. For this particular race, it is PR/PB. I have not been under 2 hours in a long time.
So, I went digging and found some data. Looks like about 50 seconds difference from 2017 and a much younger me.

October 15, 2016
Go Commando Half Marathon
Time: 2:07:58
3rd Place age group (age 45)
100 (overall place)
36 (sex place)
9:45 pace

October 21, 2017
GO COMMANDO HALF MARATHON
1:55:10
1st place age group (Age 46)

September 15, 2018
Valor Run - Half Marathon
2nd Place FEMALE AGE GROUP AGE: 40 - 49
44 Overall Place
12 Gender Place
Chip Time 1:58:38
Pace 9:04

September 28, 2019
Ran injured, hip was killing me, groin was pulled
Hoptown Half Marathon
106 of 356
Gender Place 39 of 214
F 45-49 6 of 32
Time: 2:10:12
Pace: 09:56 min/mile

2020 COVID shut down and I opted not to be there.

Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021
Race Place 37/175
Gender Place 17/95
2nd Place F50-54
Race Pace 9:46
Race Time 2:08:02

October 21, 2022
Hoptown Half Marathon
60 out of 205
2:00:25
Gender Place 19 out of 110 females
2nd Place F50-54

October 21, 2023
Age 52
36th Overall (out of 162)
8th Place Gender (out of 86)
1st place Age (50-54) (out of 11)
1:55:57
Over all Pace 08:51

yirara · October 2023

Good evening, everyone

01.10 Sun x°C 0.0km 00min 0:00/km horizontal rain
02.10 Mon x°C 0.0km 00min 0:00/km not at home
03.10 Tue x°C 0.0km 00min 0:00/km horizontal rain
04.10 Wed 15°C 4.0km 34min 8:25/km
08.10 Sun 15°C 3.1km 25min 8:15/km
Reflux from hell
17.10 Tue 8°C 1.2km 10min 8:14/km
18.10 Wed 10°C 2.0km 17min 8:27/km
21.10 Sat 14°C 3.5km 30min 8:36/km
22.10 Sun 13°C 1.6km 13min 8:19/km

15.30km/80.5km

Started running too fast and hence didn't get far. Doesn't matter. I was outside and ran a mile.

OCTOBER 2023 Monthly Running Challenge

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