Check-in & January mileage challenge

[blnchflr]

If you're not participating in the January mileage challenge, you are still very much encouraged to check in :)

January mileage challenge - post updated mileage in the comments:

cadenzamuse: 20 miles. Status: 5.1 mile = 25.5 %
ell: 100 miles. Status: 71 miles = 71 %
gnomad: ??? miles. Status: 15.1 miles = ??? %
ilanarama: 200 miles. Status: 133 miles = 66,5 %
nanila: 20 km. Status: 4 km = 20 %
semielliptical: 40 miles. Status: 26 miles = 65 %
silveraspen: 40 miles. Status: 13.5 miles = 33.6 %
blnchflr: 50 km. Status: 46.4 km = 92.7 %
temve: 100 miles. Status: 71 miles = 71 %

Comments

[blnchflr]

Good week with 15 km, which is not bad for me. 92.7 %! Which just means I set my goal too low, but I couldn't have predicted at the beginning of the month that I'd be able to get so many kms in, there'd be so many fair-weather days, no cold/flu so far, etc.

I also bested my January mileages in 2012 and 2013 - my goal in 2014 is to best at least the average of 2012/2013 every month.

[ell]

go you! Great mileage last week :-)

[ilanarama]

Go you! Think you can keep that up for next month? (This may be more than an academic question... :-)

[ell]

We are at 71 miles so far - right on schedule. Last week was 28 miles (but I think we reported before we ran last Monday or something...anyway, I have the spreadsheet and it's right as far as I can tell.

Unfortunately, Tem've is sick today so none of us ran. I'm hoping I don't catch it as well. It involves a lot of trips to the bathroom and not being able to keep anything down :-(

[blnchflr]

I love you guys' mileage, it's so easy to compute the percentage of :D !

Sorry to hear about sickness, though, hope Tem've is up and at 'em soon, and you don't catch it :/

[ilanarama]

Get better / don't catch it! (As appropriate :-)

[cadenzamuse]

Let's see. I ran/walked 1.25 mi last Tuesday, and then I ran 0.6 mi testing shoes on Friday (0.1 mi run on a treadmill per pair of shoes adds up fast), then I ran 1.25 mi in my NEW SHOES!!!! on Saturday, without stopping.

So that adds up to 3.1 more mi, for a total of 5.1 mi. :)

[blnchflr]

Yaay. I hope you will continue to progress slowly, and not try to cram the rest of the miles in the last week :)

[cadenzamuse]

Thank you. And me too! No cramming here, promise.

[gnomad]

Only ran once last week (4 miles) as it was a recovery week. That was probably for the best as I spent most of the week exhausted.

[ilanarama]

Oof. What were you exhausted from?

[gnomad]

It's unclear. My hope is that the exhaustion is merely from the 3 previous weeks of training & coming back from a *ahem* slightly extended off season. At the beginning of December I was basically doing nothing but running short, short runs (like, easy aimless 30 minute jogs) 2-3 days a week and being a slug. Then, starting on the 23rd, I bounced right back into swim/bike/run/yoga for 5.5-6 hours a week and growing.

I also have a theory that it's nutrition related. Starting training again always gives me nutritional whiplash and it takes me a few weeks to figure out how not to accidentally starve myself. It doesn't matter how many times I've come back to training and have had to change how it eat. It catches me by surprise every. single. time. And every single time I have to remember to eat ALL of the Hobbit meals and not just second breakfast.

[blnchflr]

I have a day off tomorrow, which means I get to have SECOND BREAKFAST \o/ (I can't quite bring myself to eat second breakfast in front of my colleagues, so it only happens when I'm home).

My silliness aside, I hope your recovery week has done you good!

[ilanarama]

I have 46 miles last week, and 7.3 today, though last week I reported some of those miles, so the total for the month is up to 133.

I have been trail running! It has been awesome! But slow, and so, not as many miles.

[blnchflr]

Trail running, *envious sigh*.

Speaking of slow (of course your slow is my superfast): I've been trying out Maffetone on some of my recent runs. I realized in regards to heartrate, I run ALL my runs as tempo or worse. So that's not awesome. But not the season for superslow shuffling - I sweat, but don't really warm up, so I'm just wet and cold. Will pick it up again hen the weather warms…

[ilanarama]

I like Maffetone's basic idea that one should run most runs slowly, but I think his age-based calculations are such bad approximations to any individual that they're not useful. Better to actually test your max HR (the highest legit rate you hit in a 5K race plus a few beats is the one I use - there are also hill and treadmill protocols but I've never been able to get my HR that high outside a race) and then use that to derive your 'easy HR pace'.

[blnchflr]

MAF and easy HR pace calculate to pretty much the same for me, so same difference. But that HR for me means I have to run so slow, I'm not actually running, but shuffling; and I just can't stay warm enough shuffling in these temperatures. But everything I'm reading in running forums tells me lots of people start out like this, too, when trying Maffetone - i.e. to begin with, they have to stop and walk to keep their heart rate down, it's so slow going. But each of them have found it greatly improved their running/endurance, so I'm definitely going to put more easy runs into my schedule.

[semielliptical]

11 more miles, so 26 total. I had hoped I might do more but I think I'm still on track for my goal.

[blnchflr]

u cn doit :)