Checking in, October 19th

[blnchflr]

4 out of 5 voted for fortnightly posts; let me know if you're interested in taking turns posting these :o)

So, how is training going? What are your immediate/current goals? Any longer-term goals you're working towards?

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[blnchflr]

My immediate goal for this week is to go running 3 times. My #1 obstacle is getting going at all, because I'm a lazy bum, who's never been into sports.

Outside that, my current goals are (still) to:

1. Go running 3 times a week every week.
2. Run 5.5 k in 35 mins. Currently I'm at 38 mins (6:55 min/km).

Looong-term goals are to:

1. Participate in a ½-marathon (alternating running and walking), finishing in 2h 35m or less.
2. Run 10 k in 1 hour or less.

Considering my laziness, I'm not really sure how realistic those are :oD

[lyras]

We actually sound like we're pretty similar in terms of where we're at/times we're aiming for! Unfortunately, I'm just getting over pneumonia, so god knows when I'll actually be able to run again. :(

Good luck with your goals!

[blnchflr]

I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one who isn't already running marathons/½-marathons regularly :oD

Ack, pneumonia sounds not good - hope you're all better soon!

[coverallthebasses]

At the moment I'm training for a 30ish mile bike around Manhattan on Nov 7 so while I'm still trying to work out at least 3 times a week a lot more of that focus is going into getting comfortable on the exercise bike. I've also been recently experiencing a lot of pain in my left foot whenever I run (but only when I run) so I've been trying to figure that out. I'd like to get it looked at but I'm not sure how I can do that for not very much money.

[ilanarama]

Yesterday I ran my fall goal half-marathon; my goal time was 1:42, with a fallback goal of anything under 1:44:19 (my previous PR) and a magic pixie dust goal of 1:40, and I hit my goal pretty much bang on with a 1:41:44. I'll be posting a race report to my own journal sometime today or tomorrow.

My next goals are:

1) A decent time in the Rim Rock Marathon in 4 weeks - this is hard to quantify because it's a mountain race with serious elevation gain and loss.

2) A spring half-marathon time under 1:40.

3) Boston Marathon, goal time somewhere around 3:30.

Next summer I would like to run a 50K and maybe a 50-miler in the fall. Maybe.

I'll happily take turns with you in posting these!

[gnomad]

Current goal: RUN MOAR. In any form that happens to take. There was one week where I just sort of stopped and then never started back up again.

Long term goal: RUN EVEN MOAR. And faster. And by faster I mean...move my shuffle up to a proper jog.

[blnchflr]

Good luck with the bike race, and hope you figure out what's up with your foot :o/

[blnchflr]

I do that, too - I seem to constantly just be getting into a god rythm, and then something happens to break it, and I get just out of shape enough that it sucks to start again. Or I never get in shape to begin with. Anyways, here's to running MOAR :o)

[blnchflr]

And here's me dreaming of running a ½-marathon in two hours 35 mins! 1:41:44 is impressive, congrats!

Gah, 50 k, not to think of 50 miles - I'll never get there :o)

It'd be great to have someone to take turns with - I guess when I post I can't at this point let the comments sit there without replying to them, but I don't want the posts to be a me/commenters thing. Ideally I'd like for everyone to cheer each other on, but if people just want a place to post their current goals, and aren't bothered about encouragement, that's fine, too, and I'll try and let go of the "leave no comment behind" mentality for these posts :oD

So, you got Nov 2nd?

[ilanarama]

Sure, I can post then.

And if you had run this race and finished in 2:35, you would still have finished ahead of more than 300 people. And that doesn't even count the people who finished after the course cut-off at 3:30.

[ilanarama]

If you RUN MOAR you will get faster. I promise! It's like magic!

[gnomad]

Without even trying? *is suspicious of this voodoo of which you speak*

[ilanarama]

The more you do something, the better you get at it. Not voodoo at all!

[blnchflr]

I'm talking about running a ½-marathon in 2:35 in FLAT Denmark - I doubt I'd be able to make the cut-off, *g*.

[cyphomandra]

Great times! The Boston Marathon sounds amazing - is this the first time you're running in it?

[cyphomandra]

Hello everyone! Nice to hear how things are going with you all.

My immediate goal is my second half-marathon in one week's time, in which I would like to not be slower than I was last year (2 hours 4 min). I've been under a lot of pressure with work and haven't really put the hours into running that I wanted, plus had some problems with calf pain, so going under two hours may have to wait for a local half-marathon in the new year. I did a very slow 10k race six weeks ago (4 minutes over my last time) for no apparent reason, which made me wonder if I'd just completely stalled, but managed an 18k training run three weeks ago at 6 min per k so am hopefully reasonable for stamina.

My main problem at the moment is the fact that the race is in the city I used to live in, and scheduling catch-ups with everyone and the race itself is creating conflicts!

[ilanarama]

Thank you - and yes, this will be my first Boston. I actually used to live in the area and would go watch the race, but at the time I wasn't a runner. It's just such a cool historical race, and a great event, and because they have qualification standards it's quite prestigious.

Good luck in your half marathon! I also suffer from calf pain and can recommend 1) stretching by standing on steps and alternately going on your toes and letting your heels drop below the step, 2) writing the alphabet with your feet when you are just sitting around (like, at the computer :-) and 3) icing.

[blnchflr]

Wow, around 2 hours for a half-marathon, I'm envious (I know, if I just ran more, I could possibly one day do it, too - I'm envious of your discipline, then :o) !). Good luck with it!

[cyphomandra]

Thanks for the tips! I had been doing the calf raise thing earlier in the year but completely forgot about it. And I am working on the alphabet now :)

I have looked at the Boston qualification standards and would have to be much, much older or much, much faster to ever get near them - go you!