MAY 2025 Monthly Running Challenge

Good morning! It was a little chilly when I headed out for my run this morning - 41F! But, the sun was shining and it was a glorious morning! I ran 6.25 miles. Heading to a graduation luncheon shortly. Hope everyone has a great Saturday!

@tarun_yadavA - Enjoy the lunch celebration. I have no doubt your will reach your peak fitness goals!

Hope the rain stops for a few days for you @John772016. I admire your treadmill dedication.

Running at the lake sounds lovely @chris_in_cal !

dang the spammers are following us right to the message boards now! 🧐😏

I woke up this morning and SWEAR to god, I could not put any weight on my left ankle without angry pain (like a sprain). When my eyes got open enough to accept light and I looked down I would have expected to see an angry swollen sight. Nope. Since this is the 2nd time in a couple months this happened to me I decided that my lower back was more a suspect than the ankle itself and moving around more would help. 4 miles at a slightly less than boyfriend pace but by the time I finished ankle completely normal again. I am starting to suspect that once you get past a certain age, it takes a lot bravery to just "push thru".

hey maybe that is a keyword we used which brought out the spammer?

ANyway 134 miles month to date and 1018 year to date. I feel my mileage will start lagging a little with the higher dew point morning because I don't have enough SWEAT in my body to go further and I always forget to take the saltabs with me.

May total: 73.8/100 miles

YTD: 403.9 miles

5/3: 10 miles

5/4: 3.2 miles

5/5: 3 miles

5/6: 4.1 miles

5/8: 4 miles

5/9: 7 miles

5/10: 2.7 miles

5/11: 4.1 miles

5/12: 3 miles

5/14: 4 miles

5/16: 5 miles

5/17: 3 miles

5/18: 13.1 miles

5/22: 3 miles

5/24: 4.6 miles

I'm camping this long weekend; probably the last time until fall. It's pretty warm this weekend but still nice enough to hang around outside a bit. Because it was last minute, the state parks and national forests were all booked up but I remembered a Houston city park that has camping! The Lake Houston Wilderness Park is a 4800 acre former State Park now operated by the city of Houston. I ran a trail race here a few years ago but only recently learned they have a small campground. It seems to be a well kept secret because less than 2 weeks before memorial Day only a couple of spots were reserved.

I planned a trail run this morning but only a couple minutes into the trail I was swarmed by these biting flies that have only recently become an issue. I have been chased and bitten a few times in the wooded areas near my house too. They aren't horse flies. They kind of look like smaller dirt daubers (not sure those are called the same thing everywhere) and they are persistent! They hurt and leave a large bruising welt if they manage to bite you. They will run with me and latch on if I slow down at all. I really hate these things and predict they will keep me out of the woods for a while. It's just not worth the stress of fighting them off.

Luckily the roads at this park are dirt/gravel and pretty nice to run on because I only packed trail shoes. The flies seem to prefer the woods and aren't an issue in more open areas. Because I hadn't mapped out a road run, I winged it and ended up at 4.6 miles. Figured that was good enough and I'll probably just do the same tomorrow. I want these things to die off and never return. They are ruining trails for me right now. I was covered in bug spray and not even sweating when they got me this morning.

Any of you know what these might be?

May:

01/05 - 0km
02/05 - 11.31km / 7.03 miles
03/05 - 0km
04/05 - 11.67km / 7.25 miles
05/05 - 0km
06/05 - 6.47km / 4.02 miles Treadmill
07/05 - 13.29km / 8.26 miles
08/05 - 5.09km / 3.16 miles Treadmill
09/05 - 0km - Stationary bike ride for 25kms
10/05 - 7.52km / 4.67 miles
11/05 - 10.28km / 6.39 miles
12/05 - 0km
13/05 - 0km - Stationary bike ride for 22kms
14/05 - 0km
15/05 - 13.49km / 8.38 miles
16/05 - 13.08km / 8.13 miles
17/05 - 0km
18/05 - 0km
19/05 - 13.15km / 8.17 miles
20/05 - 8.56km / 5.32 miles
21/05 - 0km
22/05 - 6.68km/ 4.15 miles Treadmill
23/05 - 7.13km / 4.43 miles Treadmill
24/05 - 0km / 0 miles - Stationary bike ride for 40kms

Total = 117.72km / 79.66 miles (Goal - 161Km / 100 miles)

Raining again this morning when I hopped on the stationary bike for a 40K ride. Sun finally broke through for a few hours, so I popped out to get some walking around/grocery shopping done, but man, those wind gusts! The clouds moved back in and feels like we're in the beginning of March with the weather!

Sunday long run today - just the local 11.5km loop but it felt longer today, mainly because my hips/back were talking to me. Good to get it done, and now for a lazy afternoon with my book (and probably some yoga too!).

Morning all

Got in 9.36M at 10'08

Hi everyone!

@tarun_yadavA Happy belated birthday!!

@kgirlhart Congrats on the new job! I am really happy for you! I hope you really enjoy the rest of your off-time before you start!

Today I had my 2x half marathon of the month. I was able to arrange for my 5 year old to sleep at a friend’s house to make it possible. It was quite a dramatic morning though, as my older kids, who were set to race a 2km right before my race didn’t tell me that they were given their racing bibs at school along with school running shirts. To make the story short, we got to the racing venue (a 15 minute bike ride from my house) 15 minutes before the gun. Oops. Luckily there were 2x 2km races, as the primary schools were spit into 2 groups due to there being so many kids. I was able to get the numbers bring them to the kids, watch them race, then jump on the line right after. How’s that for adrenaline:)!

I didn’t mention before, but all this time it was raining and windy! I really wanted to call it in and not even start, but I did start and I finished the race with very wet feet! It rained for about the first hour. It was very tiring and it wasn’t my best time but I am definitely satisfied with my performance. The best part was the sprint. I had asked the guy behind me which direction to go in the last 200 meters, as there were 2 possibilities. He told me and then proceeded to coach me into sprinting faster. I really did and only because he was making it fun and telling me I needed to finish before him, so I should hurry :).

The course was ca. 250 meters short!!! So I ran a few laps around the field afterwards to make it an “official” HM day.

171.5/270km for May.

May Goal: 140 miles

5/1: 7.15 miles
5/2: 6.25 miles
5/4: 13.21 miles
5/5: 5.20 miles
5/6: 6.25 miles
5/7: 7.25 miles
5/8: 4.55 miles
5/9: 6.20 miles
5/10: 11.11 miles
5/12: 7.25 miles
5/13: 6.05 miles
5/14: 7.02 miles
5/15: 7.05 miles
5/16: 7.04 miles
5/18: 11.25 miles
5/19: 7.02 miles
5/20: 3.52 miles
5/21: 7.26 miles
5/22: 7.26 miles
5/23: 7.27 miles
5/25: 11.26 miles

156.42/140 completed for May

Thanks @martaindale , @daria0919, @quilteryoyo and @Laurz9191 . And great job on the HM!

I ran 11.25 miles today. It was hot and it was windy, but I enjoyed it.

Happy Monday everyone.

Pilates today followed by a 20 minute shake out.

Happy runnings everyone,

143 of 175km so far.

Did a little trail run yesterday. Beautiful day, no clouds. Tripped 3 times. Crashed once 🙄😂, no lasting damage. Did strain the right hamstring a bit from saving one of the other tripped. One trip was being distracted by a really cute snowshoe hare, complete with mukluks . It jumped like 2feet up to clear some brush. Even though I have a pet bunny, till today, it never fascinates me they can just boing from stationary up to a couch.

@martaindale sorry about the insects. We don't have them as bad here but I tend to use 30% deet to keep everything off. The worse are the horse flies. Their bites bleed!

@quilteryoyo the cuties are adorable!

@Laurz9191 congrats on the HM!

@chris_in_cal I know what you mean. I follow one local trail racer here and his idea of a training run is sometimes 42km/3000m (26.2mi/10000ft), but when you're trainng for a 100miler….

It's a bank holiday in the US, our unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day.

I didn't log my run yesterday…so does it count? :)

Here it is anyway, on Sunday I ran 1.39M at 14'21