MARCH 2025 Monthly Running Challenge

118.9km for the month, so definitely headed in the right direction. The plan was 25km of running a week, and I averaged 26.6. I’ve also done 2-3 Pilates classes each week as per my plan. Skipping has been an almighty fail however, and yoga is patchy but better than my February efforts.

The big achievement is being completely pain free when I run (ignoring the current back/hip niggle as it’s a usual not an injury).

See you all in April!

Finished out the month with a treadmill WUN. Forced to have a few days in a row off because I got really sick but back in the game! I didn't quite make my goal of 75km walking, 10kms running for the month but I'm not mad at 67kms either. See you all in April :)

So much for mileage this month. Think I'll hit 65km. Winter came back this weekend. Wiped out twice, rib held up yay.

01.03 stiff 5km walk
02.03 1.7km 12min 6:59/km - just fast
03.03 3.4km 25min 7:27/km - 15min fast
05.03 4.3km 35min 8:05/km - slow
06.03 5.1km 41min 8:07/km - longer, slow
07.03 3.0km 22min 7:27/km - 9x 20/40s fast/slow
08.03 stiff 6km walk
09.03 5.0km 40min 7:59/km
10.03 3.0km 23min 7:37/km - 600m fast, 400m slow
11.03 strength
12.03 5.0km 39min 7:42/km - was meant to be slow
13.03 3.0km 22min 7:29/km - warmup, 1.61km fast
14.03 strength
15.03 5.0km 40min 7:57/km - really slow
16.03 strength
17.03 3.0km 23min 7:36/km - warmup, 6x20s/60s fast/slow
18.03 strength
19.03 6.0km 48min 7:59/km - slow and steady
20.03 3.2km 24min 7:33/km - warmup, 1.61km fast
21.03 strength
22.03 6.0km 47min 7:49/km - slow
23.03 hike, strength - I'm an idiot day
24.03 4.0km 30min 7:33/km - 8 mini hill repeats
25.03 strength
26.03 6.5km 51min 7:54/km - slow
27.03 strength
28.03 4.0km 30min 7:30/km - warmup, 5, 5, 3min fast
29.03 6.0km 46min 7:44/km - slow
30.03 strength
31.03 4.1km 31min 7:33/km - warmup, 3x800m fast, 200m slow

81.30/80.5km - 0.8km ahead

Yay, got my goal for March! My programme wanted me to run 4x800m fast but I felt very unconfident today and didn't want to end the month with a potential failure. Hence only 3 intervals, which actually went quite well. I'm sure I could have done it.

I'll not delete this list into April because I want to do exercises for 31 days, and I still need to go to 4 April.

March Goal: 125 miles

3/2: 12.04 miles
3/3: 4.05 miles
3/4: 6.26 miles
3/5: 6.02 miles
3/6: 6.07 miles
3/7: 4.02 miles
3/9: 10.52 miles
3/10: 4.02 miles
3/11: 6.25 miles
3/12: 6.05 miles
3/13: 6.02 miles
3/14: 3.35 miles
3/16: 11.25 miles
3/17: 3.26 miles
3/18: 6.04 miles
3/19: 4.02 miles
3/20: 6.26 miles
3/21: 6.26 miles
3/23: 13.26 miles
3/24: 3.52 miles
3/25: 6.04 miles
3/26: 6.52 miles
3/27: 6.10 miles
3/28: 3.55 miles
3/30: 10.04 miles
3/31: 5.12 miles

165.91/125 miles completed for March

It was cool again this morning, 49°F feels like 42°F. It was really nice running weather. I usually run a shorter run on Monday after my long run on Sunday, but today I went ahead and ran 5 miles. It looks like we may have rain/thunderstorms later in the week, so I figured I'd better run while I can, and if it isn't stormy later then I'll just get a few extra miles. Today's run brings me to 165.91 for the month. I wish I had realized I was that close to 166 and I would have made an extra loop in front of the house. Great running this month everyone! I look forward to seeing you all over in the April thread!

@Mari33a Great job in March!

@kgirlhart Funny you mention your wanting to round up your mileage total. That’s what lead me to run 10.2km at the gym today instead of 10 (or less). I figured I should end the month on a round number, since I was so close (I ended with 339km). If I weren’t tapering, I probably would have ran 1 more, but I didn’t want to take it that far ;).

So far taper is going well. I am supposed to take tomorrow off. I just realised that I unintentionally broke my monthly mileage record :). March was stressful and I had a ton of stuff going on, but it ended up still being quite good for running for me.

339/300km for March!

March Running

March 4 - 4km
March 11 - 3km
March 13 - 4km
March 15 - 6km
March 17 - 4km
March 18 - 4km
March 20 - 4km
March 22 - 7km
March 25 - 3km
March 31 - 4km

Total: 43 km  😃

I got out the door finally again. I did a lot of binge eating last week and not running. I kept coming up with excuses. Since I couldn't get my computer working at work and on the system, I went for a run. It felt so good!!!

The last time I ran this much in one month was May 2024 when I did 54km in one month.

With running 4km a day for 3 days a week (5km on Easter Monday as I will be off that day), and building my Saturday runs by 1km a day (8km this Saturday), my goal for next month is 180km. Lets see if I can do it!

Didn't make the goal, but I feel good and think I recovered well.

12/31 days running
16.6 miles total

3/1 -1.13 miles (Treadmill)
3/3 -1.11 miles
3/5 -1.11 miles
3/9 -1.18 miles
3/13 -1.2 miles
3/15 -1.18 miles
3/17 -1.1 miles
3/20 -1.06 miles
3/23 -2.13 miles at 14'00"
3/27 -1.2 miles
3/28 -2.88 miles at 13'41"
3/31 -1.33 miles

1 March - Walk 0.75 miles - Ran 4.00 miles Treadmill
2 March - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles Treadmill
3 March - Walk 1.75 miles - Ran 2.50 miles Treadmill and driveway laps - Gym 25m30s
4 March - Walk 1.90 miles - Ran 3.10 miles Treadmill - Gym 26m55s
5 March - Walk 0.60 miles - Ran 2.50 miles Treadmill - Gym 26m45s
6 March - Walk 2.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles Treadmill
7 March - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 2.50 miles Treadmill - Gym 30m58s
8 March - Walk 2.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway laps - Doubles League Tennis 1h16m42s
9 March - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway laps
10 March - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Driveway laps - Gym 27m21s
11 March - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 3.25 miles - Driveway laps and road - Gym 28m32s
12 March - Walk 0.60 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Driveway laps
13 March - Walk 1.00 miles - Ran 3.25 miles - Driveway laps and road
14 March - Walk 0.64 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Driveway laps and road - Gym 26m55s
15 March - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill - Doubles League Tennis 1h26m53s
16 March - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill
17 March - Walk 1.26 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Treadmill - Gym 26m48s
18 March - Walk 0.54 miles - Ran 2.56 miles - Driveway laps and road
19 March - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 1.00 miles - Driveway laps - Gym 23m44s
20 March - Walk 2.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill
21 March - Walk 2.50 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill - Gym 31m10s
22 March - Walk 0.50 miles - Ran 1.75 miles - Treadmill
23 March - Walk 2.00 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill
24 March - Walk 1.75 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Treadmill - Gym 20m6s plus (forgot to turn on my watch)
25 March - Walk 0.60 miles - Ran 2.90 miles - Treadmill
26 March - Walk 1.50 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill - Gym 27m31s
27 March - Walk 0.50 miles - Ran 2.77 miles - Treadmill (estimate on the run)
28 March - Walk 0.80 miles - Ran 2.83 miles - Paved Trail - Gym 29m24s
29 March - Walk 1.50 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - League doubles tennis 1h24m4s
30 March - Walk 1.50 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway laps
31 March - Walk 0.50 miles - Ran 1.85 miles - Treadmill

88.00/80.00 miles

Funny about the talk about evening up the mileage. I was a bit short on time, so figured out before I got started how much I wanted to run. I had hoped to make it to 90 miles this month, but with the time constraints, I knew I wouldn't have time for 4.35 miles. I didn't want to end with 89 miles, because I would feel like I could have gone that extra mile. But, stopping at a total of 88 miles seemed okay. 😂

The run was a run/walk of 2/1 min at paces of 4.5-6.0/4.0 mph. Avg pace was 12:22 min/mile. Avg HR was 122 with a max of 150 bpm.

I also had 8h59m19s of other exercise this month - tennis and gym workouts.