JULY 2024 Monthly Running Challenge

Scott6255 · July 8

@martaindale glad Beryl isn't powerful and hope your power stays on. My daughter is in Houston too and her work is also delayed until 10am.

@henridw2095 yes, I still ran when I tested positive for Covid in 2020. I didn't really feel any symptoms so if that is your case, I think you will be fine. Just take it slow.

Welcome @AmunahSki. Great strategy. You are off to a good start.

I too tried a slow run this morning. Phone said 100% rain in the next hour, so I hurried to get ready so I could run in the rain. It barely sprinkled and I think I ran between the rain drops.

I only managed to do about 45s/mi slower than usual, and Garmin called me unproductive. Oh well.

martaindale · July 8

henridw2095 wrote: »

Odd question: Has anyone tried running while still testing positive for covid? I am on day four after testing positive, but taking Paxlovid and feeling quite good. I do feel horrible sitting around at home though. I will probably go on a lonely walk today and see how that goes. My test is still insanely positive and I’m thinking of resuming my early morning runs (nobody around to infect) in a day or two, even if still positive.

I know there are people here who ran through COVID. I didn't. My major concern was long COVID and one of the only risk factors I could control was not pushing activity while still sick. I took slooooow walks every day just to get out of the house and because I felt antsy just sitting in my bedroom. One walk was only half a mile because I felt fatigued to a degree that made me feel like I was pushing too hard.

I would say, start with slow walks. Get moving a little and see how you do. Watch your HR. Listen to your body.

When I started running I did very short intervals and didn't immediately go back to 5-6 days a week or long runs. Some would probably say I was too cautious but I had lingering symptoms for about 2-3 weeks after I was over the acute illness. It took a little over a month for everything to completely feel normal again and for my fitness to rebound.

BeverlyW1108 · July 8

,July 8,2024
Wow! I'm just now checking in for July and ya'll are running like crazy! I love to see this!!!
We are staying at 8500ft elevation in Colorado for July and August to avoid the southern Heat.
It takes me a long time to get acclimated and we are planning to run a little less and hike a little more.
@henridw2095 I would listen to your body. I haven't had covid but sometimes when I have a "bug" I've found that running helps me mentally.

June ran 56.2 miles - just getting back from my broken humerus.
July 7.6 miles running to date, 4.2 miles hiking to date.

I hope everyone has a fun filled running day!!!

chris_in_cal · July 8

martaindale wrote: »

I had lingering symptoms for about 2-3 weeks after I was over the acute illness. It took a little over a month for everything to completely feel normal again and for my fitness to rebound.

My friend caught COVID last week on a Vegas trip. It's surely virulent again.

This was my recovery timeline too. I'm sensitive, sure, I stopped feeling horrible after a couple of days, but three weeks later I could still identify small lingering symptoms. From week 3 to week 8 I was eagle-eyed for any small lingering long symptoms and fortunately I did not have any.

For your body you don't need to anything more than moving around a little. For you mind you gotta get through it somehow just don't make your health worse. Get well soon @henridw2095

quilteryoyo · July 8

@Scott6255 Sorry you weren't able to run in the rain today. Sounds like you did a great job of dodging the raindrops. I hope you don't get too much bad weather from Beryl.

@henridw2095 I have had it 3 times. Each time I had very mild symptoms. I did walk and wun while I had it, but didn't push too hard and stopped when I needed to. I think if you listen to your body and don't overdo, you should be okay. I hope you start feeling better soon.

Teresa502 · July 8

July 1 – 5.01 miles
July 3 – 5.10 miles
July 4 – 3.60 miles
July 6 – 7.02 miles
July 8 – 4.51 miles

Total 25.24 miles/ Goal 100 miles

I’m way behind on posting but I did go back and finish reading/liking the June posts and am finally caught up with July. My June goal was to run 60 miles and I ran 70.48 miles. For July, I’m setting my goal at 100 miles. I was very happy to see that @Scott6255 has returned!!! I’m definitely in the morning run camp. When I’m working in the office, I get up at 4:00 am to get it done before work. When at home, I don’t have the drive time to factor in so depending on my work calendar, I typically get up around 5:30 and out the door by 6:00 am. I don’t worry about getting in front of my computer screen with wet hair and no make-up when I don’t have any co-workers to scare!

On my mile 2 this morning, I met this young lady walking up the road. I knew she belonged to the neighbors who lived at the bottom of the hill so I slowed to a walk and drove her back down that way. When I returned, they were putting her back in her fenced lot. I always worry about a driver not seeing the wayward livestock in time to avoid a nasty collision.

@chris_in_cal – Congratulations on beating your previous time in your 5K race!

@martaindale – Hope you child is healing and soon 100% and that Beryl doesn’t leave much damage in its wake.

I enjoyed your vacation pics @ContraryMaryMary. Sorry for the wintery mix you are now having.

Thanks for sharing your trip too @tarun_yadavA!

Cute great-nieces and pretty fireworks pictures @quilteryoyo.

Hope you are feeling better @henridw2095. One of my travel mates came down with COVID after our cruise. I guess one out of six isn’t too bad considering we were flying and cruising with a lot of people. I think its important that you move (take walks) to prevent blood clots but I'm wary of pushing too much in fear it might trigger long COVID.

Well done on your 5K @emptydog! Having fun is my top priority in any race!

ThatCookieGurl · July 8

July 1st - 8th : 14.5 out of 83 complete.

chris_in_cal · July 8

5:00 a.m. Club

There is a cute article in the news today about the magic of getting up early and exercising.
https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jul/08/the-cult-of-5am-is-rising-at-dawn-the-secret-of-health-and-happiness

One part is a little funny, and cruel.

Why is this so hard? I put the question to Russell Foster, head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at Oxford University. But he wants to know why I would want to sign up for the 5am club in the first place. To say he is scathing about the fetishisation of the early start would be an understatement. “There’s nothing intrinsically important about getting up at 5am. It’s just the ghastly smugness of the early start. Benjamin Franklin was the one who started it all when he said, ‘Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise’ and it’s been going on ever since. It goes back to the Protestant work ethic – work is good and if you can’t or won’t work, that is, by definition, bad. Not sleeping is seen as worthy and productive.”

In sum it can work very well for some people, and work poorly for others, and there is no intrinsic value in where someone lands in all that.

yirara · July 8

01.07 3.0km 25min 8:20/km - 10x very short interval
04.07 5.7km 50min 8:49/km - run/walk
05.07 3.6km 30min 8:21/km - slow
07.07 4.1km 35min 8:29/km - slow
08.07 3.0km 26min 8:32/km - stride repeats

total 19.42km

Not a good run, but I did go out

martaindale · July 8

July total: 33.3/100 miles
YTD: 523.1/1200 miles

7/1: 3 miles
7/3: 6.5 miles
7/4: 7.5 miles
7/5: 3.1 miles
7/6: 8 miles
7/8: 5.2 miles

I’m estimating the mileage for today and will update it if I am able to recover the actual info. I did a treadmill run as the winds were getting pretty intense by the time I woke up. I was basically done with my run; we had slowed to a walk and the trainer was wrapping up as the power went out for good. So, I’m taking an educated guess.

Beryl has moved north and the sun is shining. There are so many downed branches and bits of tree debris everywhere but we didn’t have any damage. Luckily work cancelled for today once it became clear the storm would be on top of us for most of the day and the number of power outages started rising.

Over 2.3 million people in the Houston area are without power, including us. Luckily it’s not hot today, currently only 77F and we’re headed into evening. Tomorrow the high is 90F and it will be sunny and very muggy in the wake of all the rain. It’s actually unusual for us to lose power during storms. Our power lines are buried so when we lose power it’s usually because something happened closer to the source, not within the neighborhood. I’m hoping that means ours will be quick to return as they work through the problems.

chris_in_cal · July 8

martaindale wrote: »

Over 2.3 million people in the Houston area are without power, including us. Luckily it’s not hot today, currently only 77F

That's a tragedy, I am happy to hear you avoided the worst of it.

And as you are famously a stat-head, sorry you lost your treadmill data.

steviebee888 · July 9

@chris_in_cal & @tarun_yadavA Thank you for the link. I could not find this group. Thanks again.

@shanaber I ran/walked the She Power 10K in-person. I believe they had a virtual option. What I am curious about is why they got rid of the Half Marathon option? It was only a 5K or a 10K.

Team, as I mentioned in June, my mileage goal for July is 50 miles. Thus far for July, I have accomplished 11.25/50 through running/walking.

Everyone, have a wonderful night! Talk with you soon!

Scott6255 · July 9

@martaindale sorry for your loss power, but glad no damage. My daughter's power was out when she woke up at 6:30am, and just turned back on at 7pm.

quilteryoyo · July 9

I was wondering about you this morning @Teresa502 . I'm glad that you are back and didn't get CoVID. Great run this morning. I love the cow picture. At least she was on the side of the road. I worry about them getting hit by a car too. I'm glad you were able to get her headed back home and the owners were putting her back up. Do have to run back up that hill? It looks like a killer.

@yirara Getting out and getting it done when you really aren't feeling it is a win! Good job.

@martaindale I'm glad you got your run mostly done before the power went out. Very happy to hear that you didn't have any damage. I hope your power comes back on soon.

@Scott6255 I'm glad your daughter is okay and now has power again.

quilteryoyo · July 9

1 July - Walked 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - driveway wun - trimmed trees for 2h52m44s
2 July - Walked 1.15 miles - Ran 1.00 miles - driveway wun - built fence around the garden earlier
3 July - Walked 2.35 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill wun
4 July - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 3.00 miles - driveway laps
5 July - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
6 July - Walked 0.75 miles - Ran 1.50 miles - treadmill
7 July - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - treadmill
8 July - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 2.00 miles - driveway laps - doubles tennis for 1h29m54s

17.75/60.00 goal

I got up and did a driveway run before heading out for the day. I walked 0.5 miles, did a run/walk of 2/1 min x 8 (pre my plan), then ran when I felt like it and walked some to get to 2 miles, then walked 0.5 miles for cool down. The last run up Cardiac Crest was tough, but i did it. Avg pace for the wun was 13:36 min/mile. Avg HR was 128 with a max of 150 bpm.

I worked at daycare for 6 hours - 2 and 3 year olds. They were really good today and sweet.

After work, I played indoor doubles tennis. We were well matched today and had great points. My partner and I won 7-5 and 6-1.

ContraryMaryMary · July 9

Quick (but not fast) 5k today.

jem302 · July 9

Lots of walking today, and a 5km run once it cooled down. My pace is steadily increasing and I’m so pleased to see it!

kgirlhart · July 9

July Goal: 130 Miles

7/1: 4.02 miles
7/2: 6.02 miles
7/3: 6.02 miles
7/4: 6.26 miles
7/7: 11.27 miles
7/7: 3.30 miles

36.89/130 miles completed for July

I ran 3.3 miles this morning. It rained overnight and a little this morning when I was heading into work, but it wasn't raining when I ran. It was humid, but not too miserable. That's all we got from Beryl up here. We did get close to an inch of rain which. @martaindale I'm glad you didn't have any significant damage and hope your power is restored soon. @scott6255 Glad your daughter is ok too.

chris_in_cal · July 9

Neighborhood 1.33 Mile (at 14"00 pace). Streak day 69 days

Easy Monday run.

tarun_yadavA · July 9

Morning all.
Back! Got in 4.0M at 10"03. Real struggle.

@chris_in_cal will check out the Guardian article.
And kudos on the 69
(Stop giggling at the back children! 🤣 )

@quilteryoyo well done on the Doubles win!
Should start tuning into Wimbledon....

@martaindale hope you ate all the ice-cream before it defrosted.

henridw2095 · July 9

I hope things are better for everyone who’s dealing with Beryl’s aftermath, stay safe!

Thanks for all the views on running with Covid. I am also scared of long covid and made the call to not run and allow myself to recover. I tried working from home and realized I’m not entirely asymptomatic (I fizzled after a few hours due to fatigue and still have mild respiratory symptoms). I will try walking a bit this morning.

SummerSkier · July 9

It's interesting how this stupid illness effects different folks. My boss was back at work yesterday and looking fine - no coughing etc. He told me he tested neg Sun evening. On the other hand another co worker is home sick and has been feeling like crap for days. And it's strange but it's almost like people want to keep it all hush hush. It's OK to say someone is out sick but NOT ok to say it's Covid. Altho at this point with all the spiking it's not hard to figure. I just come out and ask people. Which means I am avoiding large meetings for a while at work. It never seemed to be an issue to say you were out with the flu. 🤷‍♀️

Got a 5 miler in yesterday but really slow. And then ate like crap yesterday evening so my run today will probably be rough too. We got NOT a drop of rain in Austin as Beryl was avoiding I35 just like all good Texans and stayed east. Houston did get slammed. Hope you guys recover and get power back quickly. It was nice to have a northerly breeze but we will be back to hot and dry again.

Tennis this afternoon.

I have to say reading everyone's updates here is replacing my newsfeed fix even tho it is harder to comment individually.

I will probably go back to strava in a few weeks as I think my stalker will have given up by then and honestly I think they were only logging on to strava to check on me. It's probably actually good hearted but I just was tired of it.

I always hate to see all the tree damage.

Mari33a · July 9

01/07 3.57 miles
08/07 3.75 miles

7.32/50 miles

Only fitted in 2nd run of the month last night. Lots of social thing going on with family but hope can knuckle down and catch up on runs and backlog of work for the next 2 weeks.

Beryl doesn't sound much fun!

Teresa502 · July 9

chris_in_cal wrote: »

In sum it can work very well for some people, and work poorly for others, and there is no intrinsic value in where someone lands in all that.

I agree. Some people are naturally early to bed, early to rise. Others are night owls. Nothing is wrong with being either. We are who we are so just embrace it and do your own thing!

quilteryoyo · July 9

@ContraryMaryMary I understand. You did great.

@jem302 Great running. Glad you are seeing progress. That is great motivation to keep going.

Nice running @kgirlhart. I'm glad you didn't have significant winds.

You're doing great @chris_in_cal .

You did great to get out and run when it was a struggle @tarun_yadavA . I should watch Wimbledon, but I haven't watched much tennis in years. I don't even know who the big players are now.

@henridw2095 Fatigue will hit you when you least expect it. I hope the walk energizes you and you start to feel more like yourself every day.

@SummerSkier It is interesting how people still feel it is a taboo to mention that they have CoVID. I hope you can avoid getting it from the workplace. I know you said you needed rain, so I'm sorry that missed you, but glad you didn't get hit hard with Beryl. Great job on the run and I hope you enjoy your tennis later.

@mari333a It is hard some days to find the time to do everything you want. Great job on the two runs. You've got this.

Teresa502 · July 9

July 1 – 5.01 miles
July 3 – 5.10 miles
July 4 – 3.60 miles
July 6 – 7.02 miles
July 8 – 4.51 miles
July 9 – 3.01 miles

Total 28.25 miles/ Goal 100 miles

Garmin told me to take a rest day today but I was already dressed and out the door so I did a slow and easy 3 miler. Doesn’t it know I have a mileage goal to make? Temp was 72F and another beautiful dawn with the sun coming up.

@quilteryoyo – I wish I could say that I run up that hill. Unfortunately, I can’t make it all the way without taking walk breaks. But I do make it up eventually…at least I have so far! You had quite a busy day yesterday!

@martaindale – I hope the power is quickly restored to everyone. We mostly loose power in the winter due to ice and snow on the lines but in the winter we can use alternative heat and pack food in ice. I think it’s more of a danger in the summer with these extreme hot temperatures. Glad your daughter is ok @Scott6255.

Welcome home @tarun_yadavA! Leave it to you to be concerned about the waste of ice cream!

@SummerSkier – It is strange that being sick with COVID is hush-hush. When all this first started in 2020, we were told that if we washed our hands and kept them off our face, that we would not catch it. Therefore, I think people automatically think that others will judge them as being unclean or careless in not wearing a mask. Just my theory.

WarmJellyfish · July 9

Just discovered this. Awesome thread.

Goal for July: 150km

So far:
Jul 3 - 9.1km
Jul 4 - 5.2km
Jul 5 - 4.1 km
Jul 7 - 14.1km

Total so far 32.5km

noblsheep · July 9

Another 4.8km speed up run tonight. Halfway through, the whole running thing suddenly... made more sense. It was like my body woke up and was like, oh we're running now? why didn't you say so?

I should've known I'm turning back into a runner when I woke up this morning and wanted to buy new shoes.

@Scott6255 congrats on dodging all the raindrops!

chris_in_cal wrote: »

ghastly smugness

LMAO

@martaindale hope things go back to normal soon!
@WarmJellyfish welcome to the club, it gets crazy fun around here.

Scott6255 · July 9

@Teresa502 I completely agree with your Covid shaming theory.
@summerskier my bad. I'll try not to stalk you that much when you re-join Strava

AlphaHowls · July 9

7/1 13.33 miles County Line and back
7/2 14.33 miles, Running Partner A! 6 miles with me
7/3 16.48 miles
7/4 13.41 miles, Running Partner A! 6 miles with me
7/5 15.35 miles, Crazy Laps! Storms, No sleep/fireworks/Mom panic attack, family leaving out
7/6 16.21 miles, Running Partner A!
7/7 14.24 miles, 2260 days on the run
7/8 14.56 miles
7/9 15.15 miles MFP since 2015, 9 years

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