Wine and Dine 2015

[Miranda]

Having intervals on my watch is the best... I adore my 220! My phone was always dying on my longer runs because I listen to Pandora and I'm slow so they take a while, and I would leave the screen turned on in RunKeeper most of of the time so I could see the timers and pace. Turning the screen off would have saved the battery more, but then I would have to keep constantly fiddling with it to turn it on to check stuff. Now I just toss the phone in my SPIbelt and let my watch handle the intervals, and now I don't need to carry anything in my hands on shorter runs. I still need my water bottle for medium to long ones, especially in the summer, though. I am going to investigate getting a hydration pack.

 

[RookieLady]

I finished my first training week this morning (I am travelling tomorrow, so I ran Monday, Wednesday, Friday). My husband laughed at me because we are doing the improve your time plan, which means our weekly runs are 45 minutes (which is about 4.5 miles for me). Today's "long" run was three miles. It just so happened that I finished the three right before a very, large uphill. I stopped running and told my husband a schedule is a schedule. He was like, yea right.

 

[RogueKnits]

I finished my first training week this morning (I am travelling tomorrow, so I ran Monday, Wednesday, Friday). My husband laughed at me because we are doing the improve your time plan, which means our weekly runs are 45 minutes (which is about 4.5 miles for me). Today's "long" run was three miles. It just so happened that I finished the three right before a very, large uphill. I stopped running and told my husband a schedule is a schedule. He was like, yea right.

Hahaha! I'm doing the improve your time plan as well, but I decided to just start with a 5 mile long run, since my 45 minute runs are right around 4 miles. Plus, I'm doing the weekly runs with few (eventually no) walk breaks, so 5 miles using my regular intervals will be a breeze.

 

[Dis5150]

Wow, I can't wait till 5 miles will be a breeze, lol! I did my 2nd day of (official) training on the treadmill last night. After reading the Jeff Galloway facebook post that @Ariel484 posted a few pages back for someone else, I tried the :30/:30 intervals and it made a HUGE difference in my running! I was doing 1:00/1:00 and I was so worn out at the end of the run. I was even able to bump up my speed, knowing it was just for 30 seconds. I can't run outside right now due to my schedule and the weather (100+ and HUMID) so I am super grateful for my treadmill. I found it on our local Facebook Swap Shop for $100! It's an older model but it was originally a higher end one, with the auto incline etc. I had been pricing new ones but the only ones I could afford were the ones with the manual incline and what a pain that would be.

 

[Ariel484]

Awesome job @Dis5150!!

 

[RogueKnits]

Wow, I can't wait till 5 miles will be a breeze, lol!

Well, I ran a half a little less than a month ago, so I'm not really starting this training cycle "from scratch". I took 2 weeks off in between because I strained my Achilles in the last mile of the race, and my first run after the break I felt like I was starting from the beginning. But the conditioning came back pretty quickly once my body got the memo that yes, we're still doing this running thing.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

I'm doing the Color Run tomorrow morning, so I'm planning on that being my 3 mile Saturday "long run." If it turns out to not go too well though (with crowds and such), I may do Sunday morning as well.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

I usually don't include a warm-up or cooldown into the time. Not saying that's what you're "supposed" to do, but that's my rule.

Jealous on the Garmin! I really want one. Thinking I might pull the trigger soon so I can have it once the distances get really long.

That's what I've been doing - more than 30 minutes because I feel like the warm-up shouldn't count toward the total time.

I've been thinking about getting one for a little while, so with the training plan officially starting, I decided to go for it.

 

[Miranda]

I have kept up my fitness since Tink, but I don't know if 5 miles will ever be a breeze. Maybe when I lose more weight. I am still about 55 lbs overweight, so I'm sloooow. I have been doing less running since my proof of time race that was back on 6/15, but keeping up my cross training. I do step aerobics one day and spinning/RPM a second day.

Back during Tink training, I had been doing much longer intervals. I started out doing 5:00/1:00, then dropped it to 4:00/1:00 when the runs got a little longer, and then finally to 3:00/1:00. There was some discussion back in April about the new recommendations being to do no more than 0:30 for the walk part, so I decided to really chop it down and do 2:00/0:30 ones... literally like a week or so before Tink when I was tapering. I think that the race may have actually been the first long run that I did with those intervals! But it worked out pretty well and I use that ratio for all my runs now. I'm not gonna lie, though, I occasionally stop early if there are a lot of hills during a particular interval, and do end up walking 0:45-1:00 instead of 0:30. But I try and not stop short too much unless it's quite hilly.

 

[Figment1990]

It's so exciting that traini has "officially" started. I have been working on building a base during May and June but now I get to say, "sorry, I can't [insert whatever someone wants me to do that I don't want to do], I have to stick to my training plan". Haha. It's no excuses time. I do usually end up missing a couple of planned training runs somewhere along the way as life is messy, but it's fun to have things officially start.

This is my third wine and dine and fifth half so I decided to play around with making my own training plan this time. It's still mostly a Galloway 3x a week concept but I'm adding in one additional day of walking (or two depending on how I feel). When training for a race this spring I found that additional miles, even walking, helped my running feel a touch easier. So anyway, 3x of running with one of them speed work until my annual 10k race in September is over, an easy run, and the long run on the weekend. I am running 4.5 this weekend which I haven't done since April. I have found that a slower build up in the beginning keeps me from getting the "too much too soon aches and pains" that used to happen to me. So my long runs were (or will be) 3.75, 4, 4.5, 5, 6, 7, 5, 8, 9.5, 5, 10, 5, 11, 6.2(race), 8, 11, 6, 12, 5, (race). I like to go two or three weeks in a row of increasing my long run distance and then a cut back vs galloways plan. Also since I don't do walk intervals (I basically put walk breaks in where water or fuel breaks would be) I don't like to go up past 13 miles like his plan does and instead just keep my weekly mileage up w that extra walk day. Not sure why I just wrote all that out to you guys but I love training plans almost as much as Disney vacation plans!!!

Oh and as for the "warm up included" question, I typically include my warm up and cool down in my mileage unless I'm training for a short race (like 5k). I figure adrenaline always pushes me thru the end. It messes my average pace, but since I know I'll be stopping at least once for the bathroom, it's ok for me to see my average pace not at a true running pace but more like a race time pace. (Ie if I run 12 min miles but my average pace is more like 12:30 bc of the stop or the warm up).

I am happy to see so many garmin lovers. I bought my garmin when I signed up for my first wine and dine as the whole thing was a big "look what I'm doing for myself for my birthday!" And I love it. I have the 610, which is admittedly much more than I needed but I love to see all the different screens and even see if I can beat my previous times. It's an older model tho and doesn't sync with he garmin connect app without going thru my pc.

Good luck everyone with training! I'm so excited!

 

[Ariel484]

Anyone looking for a Garmin...the 225 just came out, so the remaining 220s are $50 off!

http://www.runningwarehouse.com/Garmin_Forerunner_220/descpage-GMFR220.html

 

[fsupharm77]

I have been running pretty consistently over the past 4 months, but haven't had a consistent plan in place. I am using a plan on the Run Trainer app from Under Armour. I set it to 4 runs a week with the Long runs on Sunday. Modifying it a little bit for my 10 mile race in August; It will be my long run that week, the plan calls for a 1:50 run that day, I finished it in 1:42 last year so I won't quite run that long.

I have spent the last month or so playing around with intervals and have found that over longer distances I really benefit from them. I have settled on 4 minutes run and 30 second walk. I like 3 minutes, then 30 seconds as well, but I couldn't keep an overall pace that I liked. I was enjoying my runs much better in the spring before the dear flies and mosquito's got bad. Three weeks ago they were non existent. We spent 2 weeks in California with 3 nights at DLR and didn't have any problems with bugs but got back home and OMG they are bad. I already miss running out there (other than the heat in Anaheim). I was able to run twice in San Fran and also went for a great run in Monterey. So much better than running in my boring part of Michigan.

Good luck on the training everyone!!

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

I have been running pretty consistently over the past 4 months, but haven't had a consistent plan in place. I am using a plan on the Run Trainer app from Under Armour. I set it to 4 runs a week with the Long runs on Sunday. Modifying it a little bit for my 10 mile race in August; It will be my long run that week, the plan calls for a 1:50 run that day, I finished it in 1:42 last year so I won't quite run that long.

I have spent the last month or so playing around with intervals and have found that over longer distances I really benefit from them. I have settled on 4 minutes run and 30 second walk. I like 3 minutes, then 30 seconds as well, but I couldn't keep an overall pace that I liked. I was enjoying my runs much better in the spring before the dear flies and mosquito's got bad. Three weeks ago they were non existent. We spent 2 weeks in California with 3 nights at DLR and didn't have any problems with bugs but got back home and OMG they are bad. I already miss running out there (other than the heat in Anaheim). I was able to run twice in San Fran and also went for a great run in Monterey. So much better than running in my boring part of Michigan.

Good luck on the training everyone!!

The area that I run in is really boring as well. I really need to find some good trails and/or take advantage of having the Lake Michigan lakefront. The only downside to the lakefront is it gets crowded on nice days.

 

[fsupharm77]

The area that I run in is really boring as well. I really need to find some good trails and/or take advantage of having the Lake Michigan lakefront. The only downside to the lakefront is it gets crowded on nice days.

I am about 20 minutes outside of Flint and don't live in a SubDivision. I usually run from my house to our County fairgrounds about a mile down the road and run the horse trails they have back there. It is the best place for me to run, just gets boring after running it many times. That and the bugs are bad back there right now. I would love to be able to run over by Lake Michigan, guess I should move to the west side of Michigan

 

[Figment1990]

I have been running pretty consistently over the past 4 months, but haven't had a consistent plan in place. I am using a plan on the Run Trainer app from Under Armour. I set it to 4 runs a week with the Long runs on Sunday. Modifying it a little bit for my 10 mile race in August; It will be my long run that week, the plan calls for a 1:50 run that day, I finished it in 1:42 last year so I won't quite run that long.

I have spent the last month or so playing around with intervals and have found that over longer distances I really benefit from them. I have settled on 4 minutes run and 30 second walk. I like 3 minutes, then 30 seconds as well, but I couldn't keep an overall pace that I liked. I was enjoying my runs much better in the spring before the dear flies and mosquito's got bad. Three weeks ago they were non existent. We spent 2 weeks in California with 3 nights at DLR and didn't have any problems with bugs but got back home and OMG they are bad. I already miss running out there (other than the heat in Anaheim). I was able to run twice in San Fran and also went for a great run in Monterey. So much better than running in my boring part of Michigan.

Good luck on the training everyone!!

I know what you mean about coming home from running elsewhere. In June I got to run along the beach (not on the beach because my ankles and feet can't deal with that but on a boardwalk along it) and it was so cool to run someplace different from my usual. I'm lucky that I can usually choose between running in our neighborhood (hilly and not very big so good for shorter runs), at our local school track, or a crushed limestone trail next to a creek. I prefer the trail in the morning because in the evenings like you, bugs... Off I go to that trail now actually- hope everyone has a good run this weekend!

 

[Miranda]

I run the same route a lot for my 30 min weekday runs, but I can plan a number of different routes leaving from my house. We live fairly close to town and there are a lot of roads I can use to create different routes for the longer ones. I do get tired of running the same stuff all the time, though.

 

[drlaurafsu]

Looking forward to running on the Magic! Love running on Deck 4... But glad we don't have any super long runs in the plan yet. Not sure it would be as much fun doing 10-12 miles! That would be a lot of laps!!

 

[fsupharm77]

Looking forward to running on the Magic! Love running on Deck 4... But glad we don't have any super long runs in the plan yet. Not sure it would be as much fun doing 10-12 miles! That would be a lot of laps!!

I was on the carnival pride last year in April and ran the track on the sports deck, very windy coming around the front, plus I had trouble remembering how many laps I was on. Thankfully I wasnt in training mode I wad just looking to not put on any weight while cruising.

 

[Miranda]

I was on the carnival pride last year in April and ran the track on the sports deck, very windy coming around the front, plus I had trouble remembering how many laps I was on. Thankfully I wasnt in training mode I wad just looking to not put on any weight while cruising.

I had to do the first 3 months of Tink training indoors and I got tired of the treadmill and did the indoor track at my gym a few times (17 laps == 1 mile)... that was such a pain to remember how many laps! I remember I filed a feature request with RunKeeper after the first one to put some sort of lap counter mode into the app where you could tap a button to keep track of how many you were on. There's GPS mode, which I was using and it did not really work at all to run in small loops like that, and manual mode, which is just a stopwatch timer, but I wanted to know how far I'd gone.

 

[MissLiss279]

I had to do the first 3 months of Tink training indoors and I got tired of the treadmill and did the indoor track at my gym a few times (17 laps == 1 mile)... that was such a pain to remember how many laps! I remember I filed a feature request with RunKeeper after the first one to put some sort of lap counter mode into the app where you could tap a button to keep track of how many you were on. There's GPS mode, which I was using and it did not really work at all to run in small loops like that, and manual mode, which is just a stopwatch timer, but I wanted to know how far I'd gone.

When I run at the indoor track, I use an app, Tap-a-Lap, to keep track of laps. It will also give you your pace after each lap, how many laps you have done, and how many laps are left. When I first started to run, I used Runkeeper and I could upload the run from Tap-a-Lap to Runkeeper; however, I haven't used that feature in quite a while, so I don't remember how well it worked.