MARCH 2024 Monthly Running Challenge

martaindale · March 30

Thanks for getting us set up @AlphaHowls.
I went out to the hill country this weekend. Couldn't be bothered with running this morning but got some weeding done. And a lot of cooking. Planning on a run tomorrow though.

quilteryoyo · March 30

@7lenny7 Glad you made it before the storm. That looks like a pretty place to run. What do you mean by "rollers?" That breakfast looks good too. I'm never eat quite that healthy when I have the free hotel breakfast.

Thanks for setting up April @AlphaHowls !

Enjoy your weekend in the hill country @martaindale.

This morning I did a 2.25 mile wun on the treadmill. Avg pace was 14:03 min/mile. Avg HR was 117 with a max of 133 bpm. This afternoon, I finished bush hogging the big hill I've been working on. Unfortunately, a spring on the DR broke before I was able to do a little separate section that I had intended to mow. But, fortunately, that allowed me time to stroll through the neighbor's field and my woods looking for Spring flowers. My trout lilies are blooming, so I was glad I went today. Flower pictures (and the hill I "mowed" are in the spoiler if you are interested.

Hill I bush hogged.

Creeping phlox

Violet or Johnny Jump Up as we always called them.

Redbud tree

Periwinkle

Trout Lily

Spring Beauty

61.20/85.00 mile goal

7lenny7 · March 30

@quilteryoyo imagine several speed bumps in a row on the trail. Fun on a bike, annoying on a run.

Your landscaping work is impressive and the flowers are beautiful!

quilteryoyo · March 31

Thanks @7lenny7 . I can see how that out be annoying.

TheMrWobbly · March 31

Thanks for setting up April @AlphaHowls

I would get a robot mower for that hill @quilteryoyo , loving that spring has sprung with you.

Offspring no 1 home on Sunday so swapped my long run day and went past my March mileage target. Things didn't go as planned. Went for 20 miles, got a tight calf at miles 15 and couldn't shake it. Thought about @Laurz9191 and called it there and then. Still had a 5 mile walk afterwards. Lovely day for it though.

quilteryoyo · March 31

@TheMrWobbly Sorry you had a niggle that made you cut your run short too, but glad you listened to your body. You got the distance in anyway, since you had to walk home. Great place for a run.

emptydog · March 31

Happy Easter.

Down to the lakefront park early this morning there was a group of about 20 waiting for the sunrise for a sunrise service this Easter. I'm pretty sure that is what they were doing. But the sun was clouded out.

Another month of not making my goal. I really can't use the weather as an excuse. Next month for sure.

3/1 - 1.11 Miles. Lakefront park. 42F, Sunny, Chilly breeze.
3/3 - 3.25 Miles. Lakefront park. 44F, Cloudy.
3/4 - 2.21 Miles. Neighborhood. 59F, Sunny, Spring-like.
3/6 - 1.2 Miles. Lakefront park. 51F, Misty rain.
3/10 - 1.36 Miles. Neighborhood. 26F, Cloudy.
3/12 - 3.13 Miles. Lakefront Park 51F Sunny. Nice day.
3/13 - 3.08 Miles. Lakefront Park 68F Sunny, Warm.
3/14 - 3.24 Miles. Lakefront Park 55F, Sunny. Tough.
3/16 - 3.1 Miles. St. Patrick's 5K, 44F, Sunny.
3/19 - 3.09 Miles. Field House.
3/28 - 1.02 Miles. Neighborhood. 39F, Partly Cloudy.
3/31 - 2.15 Miles. Lakefront Park. 38F, Cloudy.

Good bye, March.

Laurz9191 · March 31

Hi everyone! I just got back from an Easter run in the sun. It finally is fully warm here. First day of the year with just shorts and a t-shirt on. It felt a bit strange but nice

. I ran 10.2km.

My final March total is 241.2km/250km.

daria0919 · March 31

5.3 miles this morning. Forgot to set Strava to start until almost 2 miles in.

Managed to make my March 60 mile goal.
🐇🌸🌺🐇

tarun_yadavA · March 31

tarun_yadavA wrote: »

Morning all.

March... Riiiiighttttt...
Due a rest day (or two!) imminently... and I go on foreign trip #1 towards the end of the month so will lose a couple of days flying and on travels.

With that in mind, gonna go for 130 Miles again.

Hi everyone!
Hello from Atlanta.ran 4.44 (at 10"00)
Made it to 157M for the month. So smashed target. Just the one day I didn't run.

Horrendous 12 1/2 hour drive yesterday. Made it to the game. Missed most of the first quarter not too bad.
Been A LOT of indulging so far.

martaindale · March 31

@TheMrWobbly Smart call to stop when you did. You’re too close to race day to risk a serious injury. And you got the miles in anyway. Great job!

@tarun_yadavA 12+ hours is a brutal drive. Hope y’all had fun at the game. I think basketball is way better in person that on TV.

@quilteryoyo Your wildflowers are looking fabulous. I love wildflower season! We are in the midst of a peak bloom here as well and it makes the drive to and from the hill country totally lovely.

martaindale · March 31

March total: 80.3 miles
YTD: 281.5/1200 miles

3/2: 4.1 miles
3/4: 4.1 miles
3/5: 6.4 miles
3/7: 3 miles
3/9: 4.5 miles
3/11: 3 miles
3/12: 6 miles
3/14: 4.5 miles
3/15: 3 miles
3/17: 8.1 miles
3/18: 4 miles
3/19: 3.3 miles
3/22: 3 miles
3/24: 8.9 miles
3/27: 6.4 miles
3/28: 3 miles
3/31: 5 miles

Went out to run the hills this morning. My day of weeding yesterday left my hamstrings tired this morning and my hips are a bit sore. It made the run harder than I thought it would be. It was very humid but cloudy with a little mist and some breeze, which helped keep it bearable.
I have more weeding on deck today. Gotta get it under control and we have people coming to the house next weekend for the eclipse so I want it to look nice. We planted some wildflowers a couple of years ago and this year we have a few bluebonnets coming up and a smattering of some others I don’t know the names of. Hopefully they’ll continue to propagate and we’ll have fields of flowers in a few more years.

AlphaHowls · March 31

477.18 miles for March 2024

3/1 14.17 miles, Crazy Laps! Cold drizzle
3/2 18.52 miles, Running Partner A, High Fog
3/3 27.26 miles, not planned or intended, just kept going
3/4 16.54 miles, 2135 days on the run
3/5 15.48 miles
3/6 15.48 miles, North wind, fog, mist
3/7 16.17 miles, Running Partner A
3/8 15.51 miles, Crazy Laps! Cold drizzle
3/9 18.64 miles, 2140 days on the run, Running Partner A & E
3/10 15.38 miles, Crazy Laps!
3/11 15.32 miles
3/12 15.5 miles, Running Partner A
3/13 7.16 miles, Crazy Laps! Stress
3/14 15.24 miles, Running Partner A
3/15 16.34 miles
3/16 16.47 miles, Running Partner A, low, wispy fog
3/17 16.27 miles
3/18 13.53 miles, Crazy Laps!
3/19 7.37 miles, 2150 days on the run, Crazy Laps! Stress
3/20 14.61 miles
3/21 14.56 miles
3/22 14.66 miles
3/23 15.39 miles County Line and Back
3/24 14.4 miles, 3 miles OTR, rest Crazy Laps!
3/25 13.42 miles, wind advisory!
3/26 15.16 miles, Running Partner A
3/27 14.52 miles
3/28 15.6 miles, Running Partner A
3/29 16.49 miles, 2160 days on the run
3/30 16.48 miles, Running Partner A, County Line and back
3/31 15.54 miles, County Line for Easter Sunrise

Medical and Emotional TMI

So, I ended up having to do a bone scan and got the results back. I have osteoporosis.
-2.9 hip
-4.5 low back
I spent the week researching the medications and there is not a single one I can take. I met with the doctor on Friday to 'discuss treatment.' I spent the week in a funk because of all the negative things I was reading. My treatment comes down to add one more calcium to my regimen and pray I do not throw a kidney stone. I had a Vitamin D blood level test to see if I am low.

Just a heavy emotional drain this week, treading water. Demons trying to latch on, beating them off with Jesus. So much going on, too much to post. I want to move on to April.

quilteryoyo · March 31

@emptydog It was cloudy here this morning too, so no sunrise to see. You had some great runs this month. No worries about not meeting your goal. Next month!

Great running @Laurz9191 . You were really close to your goal. That's wonderful with your injury earlier in the month keeping you from running for several days!

@daria0919 Great running. Congrats on making your goal. Don't you just hate it when you forget to turn on the technology! What did we do before it existed?

Congrats on the mileage for the month @tarun_yadavA ! That's amazing. It's so hard to drive over 12 hours. I used to do it easily. Now 6 hours kicks my butt. Glad you made most of the game. Looks like you and son enjoyed it.

Thanks @martaindale ! Spring is my favorite season of the year, mostly because of the wildflowers. Great running for the month. I hope your flowers propagate well. Be careful with the weeding though. Don't want to hurt your hamstrings to the point of injury. I'm sure your friends won't even notice the weeds.

Amazing running @AlphaHowls . I'm surprised about your diagnosis since you do run so much. I know that helps to stave it off. Mom took Fosamax for a while, but it really bothered her, so she quit. Her last bone scan showed not a whole lot of change. I hope yours is stable with the addition of Vitamin D and Calcium. Prayers and hugs for you.

Today, I did my normal walk between church and lunch at mom's. I walked 1.80 miles to make my total for the month 63.0. Way short of my goal of 85 miles, but I'm not real sad about that since I also had 17 hours of other exercise (tennis, DR mowing).

It's hard to believe March is over already. See you in the April thread.

shanaber · March 31

@quilteryoyo - love your wildflower pictures. So pretty! Hope you can get the part you need quickly.
@7lenny7 - seems like you roadtrip to GA is going well so far especially finding great places to run!
@TheMrWobbly - whether running or walking and running time on your feet is important training too and you got that done. Also getting to enjoy a lovely day makes it a win/win, Hope your calf is ok.
@Laurz9191 - Yay for a warm run in shorts and a t-shirt!
@daria0919 - congrats for making your 60mi goal! Great job!
@tarun_yadavA - don't know how I missed that you ended your streak - it was a great one!
Love the pictures from the game. Your son looks like he is really enjoying himself too. Is he looking at colleges while you are here? Also just saying the Golden Road brewery is just up the way from my house. It is a great place with good food too.
@martaindale - I planted a bunch of wildflower seeds too but have no sprouts at all yet. They may have all drowned though in all the rain we have had recently.
@AlphaHowls - beautiful sunrise picture! I am sorry about the diagnosis. I would not have expected it either, like @quilteryoyo said, with all the running and training you do. I do hope they can find a way to stabilize it without any of the medications.

I held off posting here to see if I could get out today but it has been raining all day just like yesterday. I am glad I got out Friday for a short, very slow, walk that got over my goal. Managed 32.25 out of 30 miles for the month.

kgirlhart · April 1

March Goal: 130 Miles

3/1: 3.55 miles
3/3: 10.25 miles
3/4: 3.35 miles
3/5: 7.02 miles
3/6: 7.04 miles
3/8: 6.26 miles
3/10: 11.02 miles
3/11: 3.20 miles
3/12: 6.26 miles
3/13: 6.02 miles
3/14: 7.02 miles
3/17: 11.02 miles
3/19: 6.02 miles
3/20: 6.02 miles
3/21: 6.02 miles
3/22: 3.51 miles
3/24: 10.10 miles
3/25: 3.32 miles
3/26: 6.04 miles
3/27: 6.04 miles
3/28: 6.02 miles
3/31: 11.11 miles

146.22/130 miles completed for March

It was cloudy here today, so not really pretty for the Easter sunrise services. But it was a nice morning for running. I ran 11 miles to finish up March with 146 miles. It was warm this morning, about 68° - 70°F, but not too bad. I did wear shorts and a tank top. And there are starting to be more wildflowers and I finally saw some bluebonnets.

Teresa502 · April 1

March 2 – 7.38 miles
March 3 – 3.02 miles
March 4 – 5.03 miles
March 5 – 5.10 miles
March 11 – 5 miles
March 13 – 5.12 miles
March 14 – 3.20 miles (am) + 2.01 miles (pm - trail)
March 15 – 5.18 miles
March 17 – 9.06 miles (trail)
March 19 – 5.01 miles
March 20 – 5.90 miles (birthday run!)
March 23 – 4.37 miles
March 25 – 5.26 miles
March 27 – 5.18 miles
March 28 – 4.42 miles
March 29 – 5.01 miles
March 30 – 4.20 miles
Total 89.55/100 mile goal

I fell 10.5 miles short of my March goal due to the cancellation of my 25K race due to the storms and flooding in Charleston. Onward to April!

7lenny7 · April 1

9 miles on a trail near my BIL's place south of Nashville. It was like a city park and had plenty of elevation and lots of technical trail. It was only 73F but even that mild heat made it tough.

After Easter dinner we went for a drive. Here's the entrance to Lazerus Lake's place. My BIL lives just 5 miles away

Next stop, Alabama to run the Pinhoti Trail before meeting my brother for camping and fishing.

quilteryoyo · April 2

Thanks @shanaber . Congrats on making your monthly goal!

Nice running @kgirlhart . Glad you saw bluebonnets.

You did great @Teresa502 . A long race cancellation threw the wrench in your plans.

What a nice place for a run @7lenny7 ! Enjoy your run and camping and fishing.

7lenny7 · April 3

I started the month off Monday with a 10 mile trail run on the Pinhoti Trail in NW Alabama. It's such a great trail with some decent elevation as well. 2200 feet on this run. I started from this same trailhead last year but this year went SW instead of NE. The trail had several river crossings, a couple of which required a wet foot crossing so I got to run with wet feet most of the time.

The trail was marked for an upcoming trail race, the Southern States 200. I looked it up and saw that you get 100 hours to go 200 miles. At that pace I might be able to finish. Hmmmm......

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