JUNE 2024 Monthly Running Challenge

martaindale · June 17

VO2Maxlet wrote: »

I have too many shoes./quote]

No such thing!!

martaindale · June 17

June total: 52.1/100 miles
YTD: 440/1200 miles

6/2: 4.9 miles
6/3: 3.1 miles
6/5: 8 miles
6/7: 6.5 miles
6/8: 2.8 miles
6/10: 6.4 miles
6/11: 3 miles
6/12: 6.5 miles
6/13: 3.3 miles
6/15: 2.6 miles
6/17: 5 miles

I did a treadmill run this morning. I will go outside tomorrow for a long run so I figured I would make it harder than it needs to be today. I have noticed my recovery is much slower following an outdoor run in these conditions.
We are getting some rain this week and I'm on board. Especially if I can get rain in the morning during my runs. I'll take wet over mega hot any day.

quilteryoyo · June 17

@Laurz9191 I hope your knee is okay and the thunderstorms stay away from your race tomorrow evening!

Nice run @emptydog . Is it the misery you are being satisfied with, or the fact that you got it done and the misery is over?

Great job doing a harder TM workout today @martaindale . I hope you get to run in the rain tomorrow.

quilteryoyo · June 17

June 1 - Walk 0.70 miles - Ran 1.40 miles - driveway laps - trimmed trees
June 2 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
June 3 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 1.15 miles - driveway laps - Gym 21:03 - trimmed trees
June 4 - Walk 1.09 miles - Ran 1.66 miles - driveway laps
June 5 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill wun - Gym 45:31 - trimmed trees and fell
June 6 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill - Gym 46:51
June 7 - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 1.75 miles - driveway laps - push mowed at mom's
June 8 - Walk 4.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun - trimmed trees
June 9 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
June 10 - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 1.40 miles - driveway laps - Gym 42:19
June 11 - Walk 1.20 miles - Ran 1.80 miles - driveway laps
June 12 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill - Gym 37:32 - tennis 1h36m31s
June 13 - Walk 0.80 miles - Ran 2.20 miles - driveway wun
June 14 - Walk 2.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway wun - Gym 30:56 min
June 15 - Walk 1.44 miles - Ran 1.56 miles - driveway wun - trimmed trees
June 16 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
June 17 - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 2.25 miles - treadmill - Gym 39:11

40.35/80.0 mile goal

I went to the gym early this morning. It was a pretty good workout, but when I set the deadlift bar down for the last time and stood back up, I got a catch in my back. I was able to finish my workout with no pain, but if I step wrong or when I stand up from sitting, it tries to catch again.

After I got home, I rested about an hour and then got up to do a treadmill workout. I was going to just walk if my back hurt, but turns out it was fine during the walk/run. It's one of those things where I'm worried it is going to hurt with every step, but it only does every once in a while.

Anyway, I walked half a mile for warm up and then did a run/walk of 2/1 min at 4.5-5.2/4.0 mph, then 1/1 min at 4.5, 4.6/4.0 mph and finished out at 4.7 mph. Then I did a cool down walk for 0.75 miles. Avg pace for the run/walk was 13:15 min/mile. Avg HR was 137 with a max of 152 bpm. Pretty close to the effort I've been putting in on the driveway, heartbeat wise anyway.

kgirlhart · June 18

June Goal: 215 Miles

6/2: 11.02 miles
6/3: 3.15 miles
6/4: 6.26 miles
6/5: 1.10 miles
6/6: 6.27 miles
6/7: 6.51 miles
6/9: 10.02 miles
6/10: 3.15 miles
6/11: 5.51 miles
6/13: 6.52 miles
6/14: 6.02 miles
6/17: 10.02 miles

75.55/125 miles completed for June

I didn't run the last 2 days. We had a great family reunion. All of my mom's grandkids were there. We had a gender reveal (boy) and a pregnancy reveal. We celebrated my mom's 80th birthday. It is a couple of weeks early, but since we were all there the grandkids gave her a photo collage they had worked on and we had cake. My sisters and I are having a surprise get together on her actual birthday. She'll really be surprised since she thinks we already celebrated. We didn't have any fights, and though there were a few who had a little more to drink than they needed, no one got out of hand.

I didn't try to run yesterday since my kids were here, so I did my long run today. I didn't get up as early as I should have so it was already 79°F when I headed out. I decided that I would only do 8 miles because it was just so hot and I was feeling a little dehydrated. I did carry water with me, but I needed more. When I got home I grabbed a Gatorade and since I had my watch paused but not stopped I decided to go back out and get 2 more miles. The Gatorade helped and other than running into 20 mph winds at 85°F, the last 2 miles weren't too bad and I was able to get in 10 miles.

VO2Maxlet · June 18

@SummerSkier those look sick! Color is everything. I'm a firm believer that black shoes are equivalent to 5 pound ankle sandbags. The lighter the color, the faster you go.

@daria0919 I used to be the same with my garmin. My hand would go numb, I would wake up in the middle of the night, literally throw it at the door, and go back to sleep. Now I just notch it down two buttons and let it hang loose. I sleep on the wall side, so there's a lot of "dents" in the wall from me slamming my wrist when I turn. At least I think those are what they are from. The watch itself is fine, the wall not so much.

I'm about to graduate from the Garmin Half-Marathon training plan and currently planning out the Marathon training plan. Runalyze says I need to ramp up my weekly mileage to 45 miles for a grand total of 180 miles a month. This is gonna be difficult considering I do 40 miles a month average.

Current marathon shape: 10%
Current prognosis is a 5:07:24 finish time
Potential is a 3:34:16 finish time which is close to my realistically desired time of 8:33:33 min/mile

chris_in_cal · June 18

Neighborhood 1Mile (at 12"37 pace). streak day 48

It was nice to run as the day was cooling. I sat at my computer for nearly 12 hours today, while working.

I don't think that's working for me. My little dodad has a setting where it will buzz once an hour to remind me to get up and move around. Sounds like a thing for me.

chris_in_cal · June 18

tarun_yadavA wrote: »

@chris_in_cal haha. Thanks.

Lend a hand mate, are we club loyalist for The Addicks (Charlton Athletic) or The O's (Leyton Orient.)

Uneducated Americans need to know.

henridw2095 · June 18

Catching up after 10 days traveling in Europe. I was more jet lagged and tired than I had hoped to be.

Runs:
🏃🏼‍♀️June 2: 2.74 miles
🏃🏼‍♀️June 4: 2.75 miles
🏃‍♀️June 6: 3.28 miles
—travel
🏃🏼‍♀️June 12: 2 miles in treadmill in hotel
🏃🏼‍♀️June 17: 2.49 miles in CPH
—travel
June miles: 13.26/30 mile goal

tarun_yadavA · June 18

chris_in_cal wrote: »

tarun_yadavA wrote: »

@chris_in_cal haha. Thanks.

Lend a hand mate, are we club loyalist for The Addicks (Charlton Athletic) or The O's (Leyton Orient.)

Uneducated Americans need to know.

@chris_in_cal hahaha. Love it!

Does San Diego have a MLS team? (I could Google of course). I know LA have Galaxy

tarun_yadavA · June 18

Morning all.
6.24M at 09"58.
100m up for June!

chris_in_cal · June 18

tarun_yadavA wrote: »

Does San Diego have a MLS team?

Conceptually. A billionaire British-Egyptian businessman and former politician Mohamed Mansour bought rights to create a new team here. An expansion team. A placeholder name, creatively, called the San Diego Football Club, until further notice.

martaindale · June 18

June total: 58.2/100 miles
YTD: 446.1/1200 miles

6/2: 4.9 miles
6/3: 3.1 miles
6/5: 8 miles
6/7: 6.5 miles
6/8: 2.8 miles
6/10: 6.4 miles
6/11: 3 miles
6/12: 6.5 miles
6/13: 3.3 miles
6/15: 2.6 miles
6/17: 5 miles
6/18: 6.1 miles

I switched some runs around to shorten today's by a couple of miles. It's summer. Conditions suck. Copy paste until October. But, I did it and didn't feel terrible.

My friend and I are registering for a Disney race this morning and those are serious registration processes. Be at your computer logged in and ready to go 15 mins ahead of time. Seriously. And then...the site crashed. Of course. So now I'm refreshing and watching the "we're working on it message" pop up every few minutes. I'm held captive to the computer until this is done. Hopefully it's not 3 hours like when I registered for Dopey. I've got a lot to do today!

Teresa502 · June 18

martaindale wrote: »

My friend and I are registering for a Disney race this morning and those are serious registration processes. Be at your computer logged in and ready to go 15 mins ahead of time. Seriously. And then...the site crashed. Of course. So now I'm refreshing and watching the "we're working on it message" pop up every few minutes. I'm held captive to the computer until this is done. Hopefully it's not 3 hours like when I registered for Dopey. I've got a lot to do today!

Did you succeed?

Laurz9191 · June 18

Hi everyone!

The race today went really well! The thunderstorm came through about 2.5 hours prior, so by the time the start gun went off the streets had dried again. Everyone was relieved that the races could take place as planned and for once it was easy to find the kids after the kid races (usually this is a big issue). The humidity was over 80%, so it was a bit tough as no one is at all acclimated due to the weather we’ve been having.

I thought I was about as fit as I was last year, which proved to be a pretty spot on assessment. I bested my last year’s time by 7 seconds and was 3rd in my age group (however it seems like there weren’t many people in my age group in the race). So looking at the overall women’s results I was 70/418. I do think there is still room for improvement, as I just started integrating speed work into some of my runs. My knee didn’t bother me at all before, after, or during the race, so I’m thinking I will be fine for a long-ish easy run tomorrow morning.

124/200km for June.

quilteryoyo · June 18

That sounds like a fun weekend @kgirlhart . Nice family picture. Great job getting in 10 miles!

@VO2Maxlet That sounds like a huge jump in mileage. Be really careful that you don't hurt yourself with such a big increase.

Nice job with the streak @chris_in_cal ! I think getting up every hour and walking around is a great idea. Twelve hours in front of the computer is way too long.

@henridw2095 Nice running while traveling. Glad you made it home safely and hope you had a great time.

Nice running @tarun_yadavA .

@martaindale Great running and I hope you were able to register for the race and it didn't take too long for the site to come back up.

Great race @laurz9191. Congrats on your age group placement and being in the top 20% of women overall is great in my book. Glad your knee held out.

quilteryoyo · June 18

June 1 - Walk 0.70 miles - Ran 1.40 miles - driveway laps - trimmed trees
June 2 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
June 3 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 1.15 miles - driveway laps - Gym 21:03 - trimmed trees
June 4 - Walk 1.09 miles - Ran 1.66 miles - driveway laps
June 5 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill wun - Gym 45:31 - trimmed trees and fell
June 6 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill - Gym 46:51
June 7 - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 1.75 miles - driveway laps - push mowed at mom's
June 8 - Walk 4.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway laps wun - trimmed trees
June 9 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
June 10 - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 1.40 miles - driveway laps - Gym 42:19
June 11 - Walk 1.20 miles - Ran 1.80 miles - driveway laps
June 12 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill - Gym 37:32 - tennis 1h36m31s
June 13 - Walk 0.80 miles - Ran 2.20 miles - driveway wun
June 14 - Walk 2.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway wun - Gym 30:56 min
June 15 - Walk 1.44 miles - Ran 1.56 miles - driveway wun - trimmed trees
June 16 - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
June 17 - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 2.25 miles - treadmill - Gym 39:11
June 18 - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway wun - 89°F

42.35/80.0 mile goal

I worked this morning at the daycare. I got to leave at lunch. I was falling asleep on the way home, so took a nap after eating a bite. When I got up, it was 89°F (26.7°C), but I wasn't in the mood to run on the treadmill. I just felt like I needed some fresh air, so did a driveway wun. There was a steady breeze and it was mostly shady, so not real horrible. Garmin says the humidity was only 49%, so that helped too.

I only ran a little bit of the shady spots and walked the rest. Avg pace was 15:27 min/mile. Avg HR was 121 with a max of 138 bpm. Pretty sweaty when I finished though.

VO2Maxlet · June 19

@quilteryoyo that's my worry too. I've heard the rule of thumb is no more than 10-12% per month.

After some naive calculations, it'll take me ~8 weeks to do this. Achieve both the mileage and the long run. I'd need to ramp up the mileage by 12% each week. That would leave me with 8 weeks to train tempos. My initial strategy was just to do intervals every other week for the first 8 weeks. Long runs increasing each week until I hit that 18 mile long run. My only issue is, I don't know what's medically feasible. My recovery time according to my PT is pretty high compared to her other clients, but they're mainly powerlifters and way bigger than me, so I don't think it would be sound if I just went off that anecdotal observation. I do have a therapist who might be able to help here, but I don't see him for a bit.

Every time I look at my injuries it's so depressing. Almost two months wasted that I could've used to ramp up my mileage without fear. The first few months were used to just get me up to running physique again.

@Laurz9191 nice job cutting off seconds! Every bit counts!

@martaindale hope you were able to sign up! Sounds like a lot of people were in the same boat as you

VO2Maxlet · June 19

Happy with my run today. Average was 153. Max was 169.

I usually walk for my warm-up/cool down but I decided to jog instead to prepare for the mileage ramp up. Got my cadence in the average of 177.

kgirlhart · June 19

June Goal: 215 Miles

6/2: 11.02 miles
6/3: 3.15 miles
6/4: 6.26 miles
6/5: 1.10 miles
6/6: 6.27 miles
6/7: 6.51 miles
6/9: 10.02 miles
6/10: 3.15 miles
6/11: 5.51 miles
6/13: 6.52 miles
6/14: 6.02 miles
6/17: 10.02 miles
6/18: 4.02 miles

79.57/125 miles completed for June

I did not want to get up this morning and I had a hard time getting going. I did get out, but only had time for 4 miles. There isn't really much to say about it. It was hot and windy.

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