Runner's support and Accountability
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April 16, 2018 at 12:41 pm #73428
@RIDisneyPinGuy! Thank you! We honestly aren’t too concerned! I’ve finished half marathons injured before. So I know I will get through this one just fine! It will be slow and steady! We will be hot for our race, so I wasn’t expecting anything spectacular for pace, even if I had been able to train properly.
April 16, 2018 at 12:48 pm #73429@starbee It seems like so many of us are in the same boat on not getting out as much right now! Nothing wrong with that. It seems to be a busy season in life for so many of us and weather has been all over the place for all of us! How exciting on going through foster care training! I look forward to running around Riverside for sure! It has a beautiful path to run!!! I’m sorry your weather is all over the place! Those winds definitely suck and make things harder! And the stupid allergies!! Ours are horrible here too! I deal with that drainage on all my runs this spring and I swear I spend more time hocking it out than effectively running! Your pace was still amazing!!!!!!! I will be cheering you on for your 10k!!!!!!!! You’ve got this!!!
April 16, 2018 at 4:03 pm #73446Last week I went for a 1-mile run on Thursday and Saturday. I’m still trying to complete a mile on my hilly trail without walking. So far it’s not happening. Even on warm days my lungs have difficulty because, as some of you on here have pointed out, the weather is dreadfully inconsistent.
On Thursday I walked for a total of about 2 minutes over the course of the mile which I finished at 10:00 flat.
On Saturday I walked for about 1 minute and finished at 9:59. So apparently my jog slows to more of a shuffle and not really faster than just walking at the moment.
April 17, 2018 at 5:33 pm #73541@RocketEAR99 Don’t even worry about not hitting that full mile without a walk break yet! It takes time to build up the endurance! I can’t run a mile without walking and I’ve ran the Dopey Challenge! Your one mile pace is awesome though!! Keep it up!!!!
April 17, 2018 at 5:47 pm #73542I will be MIA off D-Cot for a week or so! We head to WDW on a 6am flight tomorrow! Our Dark Side Half Marathon is on Sunday!!!! If you would like to track me during the run, you can sign up for text alerts! It’s super simple to do. Text SWD to 38909. It will prompt you for a bib number. Mine is 2497 (Heather Gutierrez). I believe you get a text when I cross the start line, at the 5k, 10k, 15k and finish. I could be off on those, but I think that’s what it was last year! I am shooting for a realistic 3 hour finish time. We have not gotten our training in and it will likely be hot. And I am stopping for a picture with Ewoks if they are out!!! If I take longer than 3 hours, it will not bother me at all! Just giving myself a goal and seeing if I can hit it! This old lady body hasn’t been very speedy lately. If we are friends on Facebook, I believe I have it set up to post on there for my check-ins on the course as well.
April 18, 2018 at 9:08 am #73595So Saturday was my first day home from Disney and it was a beautiful here in CT! About 70 and sunny so the kids wanted to go for a bike ride. We did. 7 miles! On a new trail system by our house. Sunday came and was my sons first run for his running club at school. What I thought was a 5k.( more on that in a minute) My son wanted me to go and run with him so naturally me being the awesome dad that I am (LOL) decided I would. Now remember that lovely 70 degree Saturday? Polar oposite on sunday. 33 degrees windy and drizzly. Brrrrrrrr. This would not only be my sons first race but my first of the year. I was also excited to try out my Garmin fenix 5 for on its maiden voyage!
Well the race began and off we went. My son was running with his school mates and like any awesome dad would do I left them in the dust! Mile 1 I wanted to quit. Mile 2 I wanted to quit. I saw the mile 3 sign coming up and I felt great! So I began my normal 1/4 mileish sprint to the finish. 3.1 miles came and went. So did 3.2,3.3, and 3.4! Needless to say I ran out of gas. Now I saw the finish line. Turns out this was a 3.5 mile run!!!! Ughhhhhhh. Pretty sure this would have been pertenant info before the run started. 3.5 miles done in 30:27 at a 8:37 pace. My 5k time was 26:38 at an 8:19 pace. even with the extra .4 miles I felt great after. I’m sure the daily average of 20k steps and 10 miles walked in Disney was a great training regiment leading up this. I hope I can keep this motivation up. Cheers
April 18, 2018 at 9:19 am #73596@eeyorepoohfan GOOD LUCK! I will be signing up for text alerts! And I would totally stop for a picture with the Ewoks too!
April 18, 2018 at 9:24 am #73597I really need to catch a break. It seems I am on a streak of terrible runs. My plan was always to run Tuesday and Thursday this week to avoid back to back days of running and give myself a little recovery time before the 10K. Well, yesterday happened to be 82* and I don’t run well in the heat. It’s been a long time since the weather has been that hot when I’ve been running. I tried to get out there anyway, it was cloudy with 20 mph winds so I thought maybe it wouldn’t feel as hot as it was. The plan was to try for 4 miles but failing that to run 3 miles so I could keep up my endurance of running that distance. I made it 2 miles. I was so, so mad at myself. I just couldn’t do it. I was so hot, my head hurt, the winds made me super out of breath, my calves hurt, I could hear my heart beating in my ears and my chest felt like it was going to explode. Just terrible. On top of that my great pace of around 10’40” was gone, I ran those 2 miles in over 23 minutes for a 12 minute mile pace second guessing the 10K at this point.
Anyone got any tips for running in the heat? I have NEVER done that bad in the cold! It’s been a long, long time since I performed that badly
April 18, 2018 at 9:28 am #73598Good luck!! I’m so bummed I missed this race by a week. You’ll do great.
I will be MIA off D-Cot for a week or so! We head to WDW on a 6am flight tomorrow! Our Dark Side Half Marathon is on Sunday!!!! If you would like to track me during the run, you can sign up for text alerts! It’s super simple to do. Text SWD to 38909. It will prompt you for a bib number. Mine is 2497 (Heather Gutierrez). I believe you get a text when I cross the start line, at the 5k, 10k, 15k and finish. I could be off on those, but I think that’s what it was last year! I am shooting for a realistic 3 hour finish time. We have not gotten our training in and it will likely be hot. And I am stopping for a picture with Ewoks if they are out!!! If I take longer than 3 hours, it will not bother me at all! Just giving myself a goal and seeing if I can hit it! This old lady body hasn’t been very speedy lately. If we are friends on Facebook, I believe I have it set up to post on there for my check-ins on the course as well.
April 19, 2018 at 12:40 pm #73727@Jloosh78 Way to go on your unexpectedly longer run! Your pace is one I aspire to!
April 19, 2018 at 12:50 pm #73728@starbee First I’m glad you tried on that run.
Second, don’t second guess that 10K. You should go for it!
Third, running in the heat last weekend threw me off too. I was surprised at how much more difficult it was, so it’s definitely not just you.
I don’t have too much to say about running in the heat other than that it takes time to get used to it for me. My first hot run is always rough. I just have to keep at it and it gets better. But with the inconsistent weather we’ve been having, it’s hot, then cold, then reasonable, then cold again, etc. Basically until temps get more consistent, almost every run is rough if it’s either warmer than the 50s or colder than the 50s. When it gets hot like that sporadically I just run either a shorter distance, or I do a paced work-out where I don’t run for more than 30 seconds per minute (and on average usually closer to 20-25 seconds per minute). When it gets hot to stay hot, I definitely do paced work-outs or short runs for a couple weeks to get acclimated. Other than that I try to hydrate with a bottle of water about 2 hours before I plan to run. Hope this helps in some way! Keep at itApril 19, 2018 at 12:58 pm #73729Yesterday Christy and I went for a paced workout on the trail while it was sunny and 55ish. I decided to take a break for a couple runs from trying to run a straight mile on my trail without walking in hopes that paced workouts will help build back some endurance. To my surprise I have gotten faster on my pacing! And I think Christy is starting to build back some of the endurance she lost over Winter as she’s struggling less to keep up with me. It won’t be long before she gets faster than me again
In 30 minutes, we went 2.51 miles for an average pace of 11:58/mile. That is an all-time fastest pace for our paced workouts!
April 19, 2018 at 2:08 pm #73735@rocketear99 That does help for sure! Thank you! we’ve been the same with the up and down weather. It’s still been pretty cold lately so that was a real shock to the system! I will keep at it and get more practice running in the heat whenever it’s summer. I think Oklahoma has decided to skip Spring this year. It was just such bad timing with the 10K coming up, really discouraging. The friend I’m running it with too is always nagging me “You should be doing this, yes you can run that distance you just don’t want to” but he runs marathons. Saturday’s forecast for the race is 50s which is perfect running weather – but it’s supposed to rain
April 20, 2018 at 9:52 am #73809
RIDisneyPinGuy182 XP@Starbee, stick with it… Don’t second-guess that 10k. If need be take a short break. Try a couple days of bike-riding, stairs, hiking, whatever. A solid hour of cardio is a solid hour of cardio, and it gives you the opportunity to get out of your head. You’ve got this!
April 20, 2018 at 8:40 pm #73891@RIDisneyPinGuy Thanks pal!
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