APRIL 2025 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,453 Member

    well apparently not. 🤷‍♀️😂😫😏

  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,286 Member

    April Goal: 140 miles

    4/1: 6.25 miles
    4/2: 6.05 miles
    4/3: 2.51 miles
    4/4: 6.10 miles
    4/6: 10.10 miles
    4/7: 3.52 miles
    4/8: 6.25 miles
    4/9: 6.25 miles
    4/10: 6.26 miles
    4/11: 6.25 miles
    4/13: 11.11 miles
    4/14: 3.12 miles
    4/15: 7.10 miles
    4/16: 7.01 miles
    4/17: 6.25 miles
    4/18: 5.72 miles
    4/20: 13.16 miles
    4/21: 6.25 miles
    4/22: 7.25 miles
    4//23: 7.02 miles

    133.54/140 miles completed for April

    I ran 7 miles this morning. It was another lovely spring morning. We had rain overnight, so there were lots of puddles to jump over.

  • martaindale
    martaindale Posts: 2,462 Member

    @tarun_yadavA I take pics of every snake if I have my phone with me. I can show you some snakes!

    @chris_in_cal Hope everything went well with your procedure.

  • martaindale
    martaindale Posts: 2,462 Member

    April total: 64.4/100 miles

    YTD: 306.6 miles

    4/1: 3.2 miles

    4/2: 1.5 miles

    4/5: 4.2 miles

    4/7: 4 miles

    4/10: 5.1 miles

    4/12: 7 miles

    4/13: 3.2 miles

    4/14: 5.1 miles

    4/15: 4 miles

    4/16: 5.1 miles

    4/18: 3.2 miles

    4/19: 9.3 miles

    4/20: 3.3 miles

    4/22: 3.2 miles

    4/23: 3 miles

    Pre-work run yesterday that I forgot to post. It's pretty humid this week. Also went on a walk with my husband in the afternoon. Felt better then with a drop in the humidity following some storms in the afternoon.

  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 217 Member
    edited April 24

    Glad all went well @chris_in_cal! Hope you have a speedy recovery as well.

    April:

    01/04 - 7.10 km / 4.41 miles Treadmill
    02/04 - 7.27 km / 4.52 miles Treadmill
    03/04 - 10.06 km / 6.25 miles Outside
    04/04 - 0Km / 0 miles - rest day
    05/04 - 8.10Km / 5.03 miles Outside - race day
    06/04 - walking only
    07/04 & 08/04 - 0km / 0 miles
    09/04 - 11.2km / 6.96 miles Treadmill
    10/04 - 6.60km / 4.10 miles Treadmill
    11/04 - 0km / 0 miles
    12/04 - 5.04km / 3.13 miles Treadmill
    13/04 - 13.00km / 8.08 miles Outside
    14/04 - 0km / 0 miles
    15/04 - 5.38km / 3.34 miles Treadmill
    16/04 - 7.68km / 4.77 miles Treadmill
    17/04 - 8.64km / 5.37 miles Outside
    18/04 - 5.38km / 3.34 miles Treadmill
    19/04 - 15.27km / 9.49 miles Outside
    20/04 & 21/04 & 22/04 - 0km / 0 miles
    23/04 - 13.31km / 8.27 miles Outside
    24/04 - 13.13km / 8.16 miles Outside

    Total = 137.16km / 85.22 miles (Goal - 161Km / 100 miles)

    Another great day for a city run in the sun (mostly). Started at 17⁰C, was about 22⁰C when I finished, with a nice breeze keeping me cool throughout. Gotta love T's & shorts weather in April!

  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,852 Member

    I'm glad you didn't have any storm damage @SummerSkier . (At least I assume you didn't since you didn't mention any.) Great running and love the flowers. That passion flower!!

    Great running @kgirlhart ! You should have channeled your inner child and ran through the puddles instead of jumping them. 😉

    @angf0679 I think you need to tape some motivating sayings around your house get out to hepl motivate you to get out and run. One of my favorites is: "The only run you regret is the one you didn't do." - Noel Carroll Nice run today.

    Nice run @martaindale and glad you got in a nice afternoon walk with your husband.

    Glad to see that your procedure went well @chris_in_cal . I hope you recover quickly.

    You're doing great @Mari33a .

    Very nice @John772016 .

    Great running, as always, @tarun_yadavA .

  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,852 Member

    1 April - Walk 1.50 miles - Run 3.10 miles - Treadmill - Gym 24m56s - arm day
    2 April - Walk 1.70 miles - Run 2.60 miles - Treadmill - Gym 29m17s - leg day
    3 April - Walk 2.85 miles - Run 0.25 miles - Driveway - Push mow 17m44s
    4 April - Walk 2.50 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill - Gym 23m40s
    5 April - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway (electrician was here all afternoon)
    6 April - Walk 2.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill
    7 April - Walk 0.60 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Treadmill - Gym 27m43s
    8 April - Walk 2.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill - Fasting blood work later in the day
    9 April - Walk 0.60 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Treadmill - Gym 26m27s
    10 April - Walk 0.60 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Treadmill
    11 April - Walk 0.75 miles - Ran 1.50 miles - Treadmill - Gym 24m55s
    12 April - Walk 0.75 miles - Ran 4.25 miles - Treadmill
    13 April - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway laps
    14 April - Walk 0.90 miles - Ran 3.10 miles - Trail run - Gym 27m54s, Lawn 2h40m36s - 3.05 miles
    15 April - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill
    16 April - Walk 0.60 miles - Ran 2.50 miles - Treadmill - Gym 23m53s
    17 April - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway laps - Mowed at mom's
    18 April - Walk 0.65 miles - Ran 2.60 miles - Industrial Road - Gym 26m26s
    19 April - Walk 0.85 miles - Ran 2.25 miles - Driveway laps - Singles tennis 1h42m53s
    20 April - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Driveway laps
    21 April - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 2.40 miles - Driveway laps - Singles tennis 48m11s
    22 April - Walk 1.10 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill - Electrician here all day
    23 April - Walk 1.25 miles - Ran 0.00 miles - Treadmill - Gym 26m49s
    24 April - Walk 0.80 miles - Ran 2.45 miles - Driveway laps

    63.30/80.00 goal

    I got up early enough to get in my run before heading out for the day. I thought about running on the treadmill just because I didn't want to deal with my hills, but it was 61F (15.5C), cloudy, and calm winds, so I did driveway laps. I'm glad I went out. It was a decent run.

    I walked 0.35 miles for warm up and then ran/walked. The first mile was slower than I felt I was going, so after that, I added a couple of fartlek's each lap and ran the last 0.30 miles at a pace as fast as I could maintain. Then, I walked 0.45 miles for cool down. The avg pace for the run was 12:47 min/mile. Avg HR was 136 with a max of 158 bpm. Splits were 13:35, 12:42, 15:03 (0.15 mile - mostly walk up a hill), and 9:50 (0.30 mile).

    I was supposed to go to the gym today, but while running some errands before I got there, my trainer texted me to say that she had messed up her schedule so we cancelled for today. I just went on to work and worked an extra hour. (I just now realized that I could have gone to the gym and worked out on my own. Didn't even think about it this morning. 😂😗)

  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,852 Member
    edited April 24

    Sorry. Accidently saved a blank comment and, apparently, you can't just delete it.

  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,286 Member

    April Goal: 140 miles

    4/1: 6.25 miles
    4/2: 6.05 miles
    4/3: 2.51 miles
    4/4: 6.10 miles
    4/6: 10.10 miles
    4/7: 3.52 miles
    4/8: 6.25 miles
    4/9: 6.25 miles
    4/10: 6.26 miles
    4/11: 6.25 miles
    4/13: 11.11 miles
    4/14: 3.12 miles
    4/15: 7.10 miles
    4/16: 7.01 miles
    4/17: 6.25 miles
    4/18: 5.72 miles
    4/20: 13.16 miles
    4/21: 6.25 miles
    4/22: 7.25 miles
    4/23: 7.02 miles
    4/24: 4.25 miles

    137.79/140 miles completed for April

    We had more rain and thunderstorms last night and this morning, but I was able to get out for a 4-mile run this morning. It stormed overnight and was raining when I got up, but the rain let up for a little bit before more thunderstorms arrived. It was humid, but not too hot, so it was a nice enough run.

  • tarun_yadavA
    tarun_yadavA Posts: 1,532 Member

    Lovely pics @WarmJellyfish

  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,312 Member

    @quilteryoyo I would have to do them at the office as well! This is on my favorite that I used to have up

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  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,453 Member

    TGIF! No possums in the garage today. It was really foggy this morning. and warm. That just seemed to really just drain the energy out of me. But I prevailed and got an 8 in since I am off work today. Up to 844 for the year but I don't think I will make 900 this month. I finally managed to drift down to my weight goal so hopefully now I can slowly ramp back up on cals and energize myself to do more. When I started in Jan I thought I would finish up before the end of Feb and did not expect it to take 16 weeks but I think slow and steady was the way to go as I think I was able to improve my fitness and stick with the program by not putting too big a deficit out there. I really do like the TDEE chart but of course it does not account for activity level. But you can customize how many weeks it uses to calculate so if for some timeframe you are less active it can be accounted for that way.

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,439 Member

    01.04 strength
    02.04 7.0km 55min 7:51/km - slow
    03.04 strength deloading
    04.04 5.0km 37min 7:28/km - warmup, 4x800m fast, 200m slow
    05.04 strength
    06.04 6.1km 47min 7:44/km - slow
    07.04 4.0km 30min 7:27/km - warmup, 2.41km fast
    08.04 strength
    09.04 8.0km 62min 7:43/km - slow
    10.04 5.0km 37min 7:26/km - warmup, 15min fast
    11.04 strength
    12.04 5.1km 40min 7:48/km - just shite
    13.04 dancing like crazy at concert
    14.04 mostly travel day
    15.04 swimming
    16.04 3.0km 24min 7:52/km - just slow
    17.04 strength
    18.04 7.0km 54min 7:43/km - slow
    19.04 5.1km 39min 7:33/km - 5x 200m sprint/400m slow
    20.04 strength
    21.04 7.0km 53min 7:34/km - slow, yet fastest 7k ever
    23.04 5.0km 37min 7:22/km - fast, 5k trial
    24.04 strength
    25.04 10.3km 81min 7:50/km - slow and totally *kitten*

    77.74/81km - 10.2km ahead

    Well, I'm certainly obstinate. For today until Sunday there's a Garmin badge for a 10k run, and for some reason this motivates me. Running didn't go well today: my chest muscles cramped up and hence I could not breathe in a relaxed way. Just about managed 5km, then walked briefly, then another shorter run etc. Somehow got to 10km with a total of 6 minutes walking; how I got the 63 steps up to my flat is a different story though. It wasn't pretty 😅 But yeah: got 10km, and it was also the fastest 10k on my garmin account.

  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,286 Member

    April Goal: 140 miles

    4/1: 6.25 miles
    4/2: 6.05 miles
    4/3: 2.51 miles
    4/4: 6.10 miles
    4/6: 10.10 miles
    4/7: 3.52 miles
    4/8: 6.25 miles
    4/9: 6.25 miles
    4/10: 6.26 miles
    4/11: 6.25 miles
    4/13: 11.11 miles
    4/14: 3.12 miles
    4/15: 7.10 miles
    4/16: 7.01 miles
    4/17: 6.25 miles
    4/18: 5.72 miles
    4/20: 13.16 miles
    4/21: 6.25 miles
    4/22: 7.25 miles
    4/23: 7.02 miles
    4/24: 4.25 miles
    4/25: 6.02 miles

    143.81/140 miles completed for April

    I did an interval run this morning. It was pretty humid, but otherwise nice. The run was 6 miles. I was pretty happy with it until I saw @yirara's post and realized that I would have gotten the Garmin badge if I had gone .2 miles further. 😐️🙄Oh well, I still hit my goal for the month, and I can get the Garmin badge on Sunday. I'm sure all of my non-runner friends will think I'm nuts, but I think the interval runs are fun.

    @SummerSkier I'm glad the possum was gone today. I had one in the crawlspace under my house a while back. They are cute from a distance, but kind of creepy looking up close and it is really weird to see them play "possum". My nephew is a cop, and one time he was called to a residence to get a possum out of someone's bed.

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