The Running Thread - 2018

[flav]

November Miles: Who knows-not too many, probably 60-ish. My Garmin is being super temperamental....it must know I am replacing it with a VA3.

I started training for Boston this week. Also trying a new marathon plan--the BAA level 1. I could probably do more, but really don't want to risk any injuries and I did have the usual wonky random strains this past fall. So we'll give this one a try. Still going to shoot for 4-ish hours. One thing I like about it is that one of the workouts is hill repeats, which I will do indoors on the TM. Won't be able to do the downhills, but I'm okay with that.

And for those of you who are MATH-AVERSE, look away now. Today is my birthday and not only do I move up an age group, I also get a birthday that is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,,20 and 60. The former engineer in me likes that.

Happy 60th Bday and enjoy Boston!

 

[apdebord]

133 November miles, including a new half marathon and 10K PR. The increase in mileage hit me this week and I’m just really tired all the time but can’t sleep. Otherwise I feel really good! Ready to take on December and start my taper on Christmas Eve.

If you guys could send some good running vibes to my husband that’d be awesome. He’s currently running his first “official” 100 miler (Devil Dog Ultra in Triangle, VA); just got the update he passed the 55 mile checkpoint in a little over 12 hours. It’s going to be a dark, cold, wet night for him.

 

[Sleepless Knight]

She’s 9 and it seems we have some difficult choices to make now. For now she is comfortable, but for how long is unknown.

So sorry to hear about your dog. My parents had to put their "puppy" down when he was about 16. He lived a good, full life, but we knew at the end it was time for him to go. That dog celebrated many a win with me. And against my little sister's wishes, I steered clear of him during games. She always said if I held him, I would feel better, but I figured he did not want to be flying in the air to celebrate.

If you guys could send some good running vibes to my husband that’d be awesome. He’s currently running his first “official” 100 miler (Devil Dog Ultra in Triangle, VA); just got the update he passed the 55 mile checkpoint in a little over 12 hours. It’s going to be a dark, cold, wet night for him.

Best of luck to him. That sounds intense.

November totals:

106 miles. That's a new monthly record for me for the year by over 35 miles and also an all time monthly record.
29 hours running.

Found myself really questioning why I signed up to run a marathon as the miles increase, that's for sure. But I keep telling myself it will all be worth it come marathon weekend.

 

[Disney at Heart]

If you guys could send some good running vibes to my husband that’d be awesome. He’s currently running his first “official” 100 miler (Devil Dog Ultra in Triangle, VA); just got the update he passed the 55 mile checkpoint in a little over 12 hours. It’s going to be a dark, cold, wet night for him.

I feel your pain. DH ran the Georgia Death Race and finished up in the night. The checkpoints weren’t reporting, so I didn’t know exactly where he was. I was a nervous wreck all night! That was nothing, though, compared to how he was feeling!

 

[dis_or_dat]

November
Total: 141.81
Avg Pace: 8:27

 

[Professor_Cookie]

November miles-65
Vertical gain-5305 feet

 

[McNs]

November:
Distance 149km - 93mi
Avg pace 5:10 min/km - 8:19 min/mi

I REALLY struggled with running in November after my marathon on October 28th. Still struggling a bit but gradually getting better. I've entered another one in May (Rotorua).

This month, I've taken some inspiration from Rickey Gates, who is busy running every street in San Francisco. I'm not going to replicate that (SF has 1260 miles, Auckland around 4,400 miles) but I'm busy expanding my Strava Heatmap suburb by suburb. I had done a lot anyway particularly in the area I live, but it's nice to have something to work towards!

 

[AFwifelife]

November:
Miles - 121.2 miles
Avg pace - 11:30
Time spent - 23:15:45

 

[Wendy98]

@LSUlakes , sorry to hear about Dixie. I've been there.

November Miles:

total: 190.86
avg. pace: 7:44/mile

I cut back after NYC and I have been taking the pace easier. I am trying to get my bothersome foot under control. I ran all but one day in WDW and by the end of the day, my feet were killing me. The faster paces seem to aggravate it. I am also not highly motivated to run lately. There was a week or so that I felt I was just going through the motions.

 

[garneska]

I had an incident during my run this morning that thankfully did not turn into a catastrophe. My fault as I was not paying attention, I was messing with my watch. I was also running a route I am very familiar with. However I ran into a wire pole. It was basically a hard wire that does not move at all that is holding up another big pole. I caught the wire with my shoulder and almost fell completely backwards on my butt. I was able to grab said wire to keep me on my feet. Good thing is I did not fall and I did no damage to my legs. I kept running, I was about mile 3 in a 13 mile run. The bad thing is my shoulder is killing me. It hurts to lift a glass to my mouth. After I got home and showered I iced it. However it is not feeling so good. Am afraid of what color it will turn tomorrow.

 

[cburnett11]

November Miles:
115.76 miles
20:53:52 hours
10:50 pace
16 runs

 

[JulieODC]

64.2 miles in November - still building back and feeling good!

Super quick race reports....

Hopkin10k - scenic course, but serious hills that had me sweating outloud when is turn a bend and see a new one ahead. Finished in 1:00.56 - not a PR, and shy of my goal of getting under 60 min (I’ve hit the goal in longer races, but never in a 10k)....but since I wasn’t training for a time, the hills were crazy, and I’m getting a cold, but I was happy. Bonus points for free chik fil a and beer at the end!

Angel run 5k - family charity race in town, rained the whooole time. Ran with my husband, DD7, and DD3 in her stroller. This was DD7’s first official 5k without a stroller assist - and she did great (just a little encouragement here and there). We finished in 40:37.

Overall a successful running weekend to kick off December! And caps off a totally unplanned 4 races in less than 2 weeks scheduling gaff on my part!

 

[gjramsey]

October Totals
Distance: 123.56 miles
Time: 16:55:43
Avg Pace: 8:13min/mi
Avg HR: 142

The last two weeks were spent road-tripping to Colorado and followed that up with a nasty cold (or something) that kinda killed a couple of weeks of workouts. Actually surprised my HR went down from Oct, since the last several runs, it has been way higher.

I don't think I ever posted I was running this, but today I ran the Rock n Roll San Antonio Half marathon. We headed over to San Antonio yesterday morning and hit the expo. Picked up my bib, and was really surprised to be in corral 6 (last year I was in 1), so not sure what was going on. After getting the bib, the family headed out to Fiesta Texas for some roller coaster action. After the park, headed back to downtown, and walked on the Riverwalk for a while.

So this morning, got into the corrals and noticed that the 1:40 and 1:45 pace groups were in 5, again, why are they so far back? Since there was no corral monitoring at all, I moved up to be in front of the the pace groups at the front of 5, and noticed that almost all the bibs in 4 were marathon bibs, and noticed a 5:00 pace group in 3. WTH. It looks like they had all marathoners in the first 4 corrals, and the half in the 19 corrals behind. Which was a royal screw-up in my mind, and many other half runners felt the same as well as I talked to some during the race. There was no break between the full and the start of the half, so we were all bobbing and weaving around the marathoners. My first mile was around 8:30, and took to around mile 5 to get to runners that were running around the same pace as myself. Meb started about 3 minutes in front of me, and his first 5k was about a 8:35 pace and he finished in 1:39:57, so it looked like even he had issues with the way this was done. I had read he was going to pace a 1:40, but never saw him on the course. bummer.

Since I was illing the week leading up to the race, I had no real goals, except to run a consistent race.

After finally getting to a spot where I could run a decent pace, I think I accomplished it.

1 - 8:32
2 - 7:56
3 - 7:51
4 - 7:46
5 - 7:29
6 - 7:39
7 - 7:36
8 - 7:30
9 - 7:34
10 - 7:34
11 - 7:40
12 - 7:50 (big stinking hill during this mile, hated it last year, still hated it this year)
13 - 7:39

Finished in 1:43:03. Pretty happy with the results and the consistency. I knew I would not be able to pick up the pace too much today, and was over 3 minutes faster than last year. If the race wants to start the marathoners in front of the half, include a decent break between the two groups, or start the race at different times, so the marathoners are more spread out.

 

[tidefan]

November Totals

113.2 miles
11:13 avg pace

Hoping my ankle/achilles holds up to January...

 

[TheHamm]

1. Food court area?
2. A child pooping could happen at any park
3. Don’t go to shanghai Disneyland

DYING
from the popcorn I just snorted out my nose laughing at your truthful statement.

November
30 miles
half of last month's milage. And little hope December will be better. Reflection: (1) The NB shoes give me an arch blister at all distance >6 miles and 2 miles in thicker socks. I intend to purchase new shoes and likely revert to the Adrenalines despite the sole wearing away in 200ish miles. (2) I ran more per day on business trips than on vacation, but slept more on vacation. I thought it would be easier to get at least a 5K in regularly, but I was so exhausted it did not happen. his leads to some concern as I was already concerned I would be getting zero miles over the week of Christmas. This leads me into my make up answers of the day.

When do I feel ready for a race? I felt ready to run my first half in early Nov as I made it to 10 miles which was a mental hurdle for me, and I felt fine for the remainder of the day. I am going to keep telling myself this until Marathon weekend. I did 10 miles and was fine throughout and then carried a 40lb kid for 2 miles that evening and was fine. I can finish 13.1, but I might not feel as fine given the lack of training in Nov & Dec. Muscle up, Buttercup. I'm not skipping time with my kids over the holiday, and I am going to the race, so my option is toe the line and see what happens, right?

I'm staying at POP. Because my husband is amazing and booked it when prices dropped in the summer, which is part of why I signed up- pushed me to the edge I wanted to look over, really.

Funny Park Moment:
(1) I observed [I think this was the QOTD criteria] someone bust out a can opener and a can of peaches in MK, and proceed to slurp it down.
(2) experienced [maybe not the question] My family hosted an exchange student in high school, and I went on the YFU trip to WDW as host families were welcome. I was the only American under 40. I stuck with my Japanese friend, which was a poor choice for many reasons. Day 1 at Epcot. she and the rest of the Japanese students (they all hung together, made all the plans and I really was left out) decided on Teppan Edo. As there were no Japanese restaurants in the Flint, MI area this was my first experience eating Japanese food, so I thought I should let them order for me. BAD CHOICE. I cannot imagine what the bystanders thought. I painfully sucked down the extra wasabi rolls, uncooked meat of dubious origin, and sake ordered by someone not in our group- one of the entertained bystanders. In hindsight, this is more entertaining as I have spent lots of time for work in Japan with dorky Japanese engineers who think it is entertaining I will try any food once. My tip: raw horse is fine, anything fermented until slimy (okra, yamaimu, natto) is one and done. Also slightly entertaining that I got alcohol while underage, but refused alcohol at the Japan pavillion at F&W last year because i did not have my ID (failure of paying for everything by magic band?).

 

[CDKG]

November Miles: 149.2
2018 Miles: 1,122

What!?! In January I ran 62.1 miles and now I'm running almost 150 miles a month? And...feeling good doing it! Only three weeks and two 20 mile runs separate me from taper time. We are so close!

 

[rteetz]

DYING
from the popcorn I just snorted out my nose laughing at your truthful statement.

I only speak the truth

 

[Miranda]

I don't get the Shanghai Disneyland reference

 

[Capang]

I don't get the Shanghai Disneyland reference

It's kind of a thing there, people just "go" wherever.

 

[DustyWA]

November totals:

Distance: 180.8 miles
Duration: 26:33:19 hours
Avg Pace: 8:49
Avg HR: 144

Month's highlights was running my first full marathon. Still doing my two week recovery, but legs are feeling fine and I'm itching to get back to running. Plan for this month is mostly easy miles as I build my mileage back up before next month's Dopey.