AUGUST 2024 Monthly Running Challenge

tarun_yadavA · August 15

Happy birthday @SummerSkier !!! I hope you have a lovely day!!!

( @quilteryoyo - happy 89th birthday to your Mother too!)

daria0919 · August 15

@SummerSkier

Scott6255 · August 15

Happy Birthday @SummerSkier!! 🎉🎂🎈🥳❤

yirara · August 15

01.08 4.0km 33min 8:11/km - slow
02.08 6.1km 50min 8:15/km - slow
03.08 strength
04.08 5.5km 45min 8:07/km - faster
05.08 5.0km 39min 7:49/km - fast
07.08 6.1km 50min 8:16/km - slow, 10min fast
08.08 5.0km 40min 8:03/km
10.08 5.3km 41min 7:40/km - 3x5min fast,1x2min fast
11.08 3.0km 24min 7:56/km - 9 stride repeats
12.08 3.0km 23min 7:37/km - fast
14.08 6.1km 50min 8:13/km - slow
15.08 7.1km 60min 8:31/km - very slow

total 56.15km

ugh, totally shite. But anyway, got the longest run in in quite a while. And btw, 30C is too warm for running.

@Teresa502 Yes, totally going away. Will be visiting one of the Canary Islands for 2.5 weeks. Hiking, looking at volcanoes, enjoying desert and good food, and just relaxing. Not sure I'll bring my running stuff yet. Will see.

WarmJellyfish · August 15

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@WarmJellyfish I feel ur pain🙈. I did that last year, running down hill hurt for ages. I’m fairly sure it was broke & it still hasn’t returned to same size as other little toe. No pain tho now. [/quote]

Hope it does get better! Hugs

WarmJellyfish · August 15

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Hope the toe is doing better @WarmJellyfish!

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It is! Thank you. Something to be said about running it off

WarmJellyfish · August 15

Scott6255 wrote: »

@WarmJellyfish! Oh shoot. Little toe smashes hurt like heck! Hope it isn't broken.
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Thanks. I don't think so but it is slowly but surely improving!

Mari33a · August 15

02/08 4.08 miles
09/08 4.07 miles
12/08 4.05 miles
13/08 4.07 miles
14/08 5.37 miles (1.19 benchmark run in morning & 4.18 usual evening run)
15/08 3.55 miles

25.19/50 miles

Today my plan asked for 3 miles easy run so did my usual as easy seems to be my normal pace

@SummerSkier Happy Birthday!

quilteryoyo · August 15

@daria0919 I'm glad you are feeling mostly better and got out for a nice walk this morning...well, maybe not nice with all the insects deciding you were breakfast.

@martaindale You do so good to get out and run in all conditions. I'm glad your kid likes their class schedule. I think it is nice that some of the crossing guards will stop traffic for you to run by.

Happy 66th Birthday @SummerSkier ! It's great when you can "overrun" on your day! I'm glad you had a nice celebration at work yesterday and a nice, near perfect, relaxing day today!

Nice running @Teresa502 . I am enjoying these cooler morning temps too.

Thanks @tarun_yadavA !

@yirara Sorry your run was a tough one, but great job on a longer run. Enjoy your vacation! That sounds like a lot of fun!

quilteryoyo · August 15

1 Aug - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill
2 Aug - Walked 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway wun
3 Aug - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 3.41 miles - Treadmill - Push Mowed 20m22s
4 Aug - Walked 1.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill
5 Aug - Walked 1.37 miles - Ran 1.13 miles - Driveway laps
6 Aug - Walked 1.25 miles - Ran 1.25 miles - Treadmill - Gym 29m06s
7 Aug - Walked 2.50 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Mowed 1h30m12s
8 Aug - Walked 1.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Tennis 2h8m26s
9 Aug - Walked 1.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Gym 37m44s
10 Aug - Walked 1.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway - Mowed 1h57m22s
11 Aug - Walked 1.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles
12 Aug - Walked 2.34 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway - Gym 30m47s - Mowed 1h7m20s
13 Aug - Walked 1.55 miles - Ran 1.55 miles - Driveway - Mowed 14m55s
14 Aug - Walked 2.35 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway - Gym 28m32s - Mowed 1h12m
15 Aug - Walked 2.35 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway drill workout - Mowed 1h5m35s

31.05/60.00 goal

I got out this morning for my planned drill workout. It was 10 min warm up wun, cadence and acceleration/glide drills, 10 min cool down wun. I added some to the end to add a little distance. The start was hard because I was coughing with every breath. I'll be so glad when this cough goes away.

After I rested, I did some bush hogging on the hill. I quit a little bit before I planned to...just getting too hot.

Today is mom's 89th birthday. Her two sisters and I are taking her out for dinner later. I thought you might enjoy a couple of pictures of her over the years. She is an amazing women and I hope to be as energetic as she is when I'm 89.

I think this is her second or third grade picture.

Before she married my dad, when she worked at a local diner.

Tuesday night at a friends house. She made homemade strawberry shortcake for mom's birthday. Yum.

SummerSkier · August 15

Your Mom is truly amazing. I am making homemade strawberry shortcake tonight also as that happens to be my Bday cake of choice. However mine is probably not as high cal as the one you pictured @quilteryoyo A thought. Maybe you cough is from the pollen from all the mowing?!

I swear I had a strange sort of sore throat but not really for several weeks and it was just NQR but not sick. The other night I woke up pouring with sweat so I am convinced some sort of bug worked it's way out finally.

Thank you everyone for the bday wishes.

I broke a toe in 2016 (or stubbed it bad enough I could not wear closed shoes) and I was not able to run for a long while. I ended up too heavy for my liking and started on Memorial day with C25K and MFP (again). Glad yours is not too bad.

I think we should take bets on @tarun_yadavA making 200 plus miles this month. That will motivate him. I love to streak and it's only when I can tell I have exceeded my cardio and am just hurting myself that I can make myself NOT do a run and try not to get my HR up there.

I think for vacay I would take my running shoes along now anyway just to be able to see the sights a little faster. But of course hiking is fun too. ANd I would have a slow pace stopping to take photos I bet.

SummerSkier · August 15

Oh BTW - our RTY team!!! Totally killing it!
I don't care how much or how little we are ALL making it happen. and somehow altho 10K would not fit on the bib they managed to make this one work.

Scott6255 · August 15

@quilteryoyo happy birthday to your mom! She is a spit-fire! I too hope I'm that active at 89. My mother in-law is 92 and still mowed her lawn, works, and bowls 2-3 nights a week. That generation was made of some other kind of stuff!

daria0919 · August 15

Scott6255 wrote: »

@quilteryoyo happy birthday to your mom! She is a spit-fire! I too hope I'm that active at 89. My mother in-law is 92 and still mowed her lawn, works, and bowls 2-3 nights a week. That generation was made of some other kind of stuff!

Yes @Scott6255 a lot less processed food, less hazards like pollution and chemicals, etc…. My paternal grandmother lived to 99 in the “old county” of Ukraine

Happy B’day to your mom @quilteryoyo!!

daria0919 · August 15

SummerSkier wrote: »

Oh BTW - our RTY team!!! Totally killing it!
I don't care how much or how little we are ALL making it happen. and somehow altho 10K would not fit on the bib they managed to make this one work.

I saw that - was going to post the “flub” @SummerSkier for the 10000, well, here it is anyway:

Great job Team!!! 🎉🎉. We ROCK!!

quilteryoyo · August 16

Thanks @SummerSkier . It could be from the mowing. I just want it to stop.

What's NQR? I did the same thing last week - woke up a couple of times soaked in sweat. It's weird. Our team is doing great. I guess it is the extra space that a zero takes up. So funny.

Thanks @Scott6255 . Glad your MIL is in good health and active at her age too. It was a different time they grew up in.

Thanks @daria0919 .

ContraryMaryMary · August 16

I’ve been sitting all day working and my brain has gone numb. Going for a run would be the logical solution, but with 10k scheduled for tomorrow and 16k for Sunday, running today would wreck my weekend. Also, I think I’d die. I’m guessing the only way I could run streak is by doing one or two kilometres very slowly on my rest days.

You’ll get there @scott6255, training works, you’ve just gotta stick with it through the ick!

And @Laurz9191, you’re smashing your training.

I am always blown away with how you get out in the heat @martiandale. I don’t know if I’d last as a runner living in those temps and humidity. And I know all about the school run traffic – I only have one school to contend with but it’s a rural road with no footpath and an 80kph speed limit. Early or late drop off is fine, but 8:30, utter chaos.

Happy birthday @summerskier, I hope you’ve had a fabulous day.

tarun_yadavA · August 16

Morning all.
Got in 7.56 at 10"05.

@SummerSkier on 108 miles with 14 days to go... I should do it

Laurz9191 · August 16

Hi everyone,

Easy recovery 8.2km this morning. I was thinking about taking the day off, but all this talk of streaking, and I figured, if I just take it slow... I'm glad I went out. It was grand and it felt so easy in comparison to yesterday's run

131.4/270km.

I am hoping to get out for a long run this weekend. Fingers crossed that I can convince myself to roll out of bed and out the door for a 3+ hour run.

quilteryoyo · August 16

@ContraryMaryMary Maybe you could get out for a brisk walk on your rest days.

You're doing great @tarun_yadavA ! I say you can do it too.

Nice recovery run @Laurz9191 . Good luck with your long run tomorrow.

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