davemunger Member

Congratulations!

As a 25-year-old you could possibly have done this. For a 39-year-old it's almost certainly going to require a lot more miles and effort.

Good luck this month...for those of you who missed your goal last month, I missed both September and October but hit my goal in November, so you can do it too!

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I'm sneaky that way too...

9.5 -- sneaky wild!

Updated the spreadsheet image. Personally I'm having a good month -- PRd in a 12k and hit 10k and 8k PRs in the same race! Looks like lots of folks are still on target to reach their goals -- great job, everyone!

What kind of mileage are you running? Are you just doing easy runs, or are you doing speed work as well? If you have a GPS watch you can set it to alert you when you are going too fast. It's also possible you are running an appropriate pace and could actually do much better than 7:40 for a half. I'd suggest entering a 5k,…

Be sure to check out the Long Distance Runners group! Lots of great advice there: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/94-long-distance-runners

Ah, now I see how to do it -- thanks! You choose the race as your PR, then you can edit the time on the PR itself.

Separate issue: On Garmin Connect you can specify a given run as your "PR," but it will only give you the time for the entire run. Since I got my 10K PR as part of a 12K it won't count it for me. Again, really more of an annoyance than anything since I know my "real" PR, but still!

Yeah, good point. It's really a matter of the rules you make up for yourself. But sometimes if you tell someone your PR they might look it up...Depending on who it is, it's probably better to avoid embarrassment!

It looks like it was a pretty small race so there may not have been many race photographers. I think the data we have already is plenty to disqualify her. People don't just go from running a 4-hour marathon to sub-3-hours in 6 months. It doesn't happen. No one has ever run a half marathon as fast as her second half, and…

But you were running at a faster pace than you could sustain. The reason people run intervals is to run for a longer time than they could otherwise at a given pace. So you burn more than what you would if you just ran for 15 minutes in a row at a slower pace. But I believe all of this is dwarfed by the amount MFP…

Again, speaking from relative ignorance, I'd say you actually sustain the elevated HR into the walking portion, so if anything it probably underestimates a bit (but that is from MFP's already-elevated burns). I take 30% off of the MFP estimate for workouts.

Or just log it as two separate workouts. Say you went for 30 minutes. Log 15 minutes of walking and 15 minutes of running.

Looked her up on Athlinks. She most recently completed the Talladega Half Marathon in 2:19 and the Chickamauga Chase 15k in 1:42. I don't think she's a sub-3-hour marathoner. She has no times on her record that suggest she can do it. Her other marathons are all 4+ hours.

Thanks. You just ruined my evening. Even worse:

Depends on the year. I weighed between 170 and 195. Got up to 245 before gradually working my way down to 185. Would like to get back down to about 175 (I'm 6'1")

This is a scientifically-generated, ranked list of halloween candies. It's nearly perfect, imho!

The November challenge is now ready here: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10014106/dont-be-a-turkey-join-the-november-2014-challenge

Damn!

Speaking in broad generalizations, women who are equally good at shorter distances are better than men at longer distances. There is a woman in our running group who can run about a 20:30 5k -- pretty fast, but my PR beats her by more than 2 minutes. But she has run a 3:15 marathon, 7 minutes faster than me!

That's a nice one...definitely seems to capture the gender difference I've observed. It's still 10 minutes on the optimistic side for me though...

Well, so far the responses here seem to bear that out.

Interesting. I'm a little surprised it doesn't ask your gender, because I have found that the traditional calculators are more accurate for women than men.

Hey, if you prefer the treadmill, then go for it. But you'll find you do better in races if you do at least some of your runs outside. If you are bored running by yourself, I suggest finding a running group and run with them once or twice a week. It's fun! Some of the groups even meet for coffee and / or beer afterwards.

Yeah, it's really about getting in shape to do longer workouts. I run around 60 miles per week, plus do some riding and strength training. That's about 10 hours of working out per week. I average about 1,000 calories per day.

Yes, I got this notification. But bookmarking, which had been working, seems to be broken again. sigh.