July Challenge: Journey so far and check-in #3

[blnchflr]

Leave your current mileage and active hours in the comments :)

Week 2:
ell: 65.5/130 miles, 9/20 hours
franzi1981: 19.7/25 km 2/0 hours
ilanarama: 12.6/70 miles
linaelyn: 0/25 miles, 8/35 hours
liv: 11/40 km, 10.5/25 hours
meri_oddities: 84/120 miles, 3/8 hours
ridicully: 25/75 km, 3/25 hours
semielliptical: 42/85 miles, 2.5/8 hours
blnchflr: 27/50 km, 1.5/2 hours
temve: 29.5/70 miles, 19/20 hours

Together we've travelled 475.1 miles or 764.4 km in July, or 43.9 % of our collective goal!



From Schleswig or close enough, we passed by Kiel and through Neumünster, then excitingly through the second-biggest city in Germany: Hamburg, running though the Elbtunnel - "Achtung, achtung, hier spricht die Polizei! Hallo, hallo, det er politiet!" (at least they used to say that back in the day; haven't been through in years).

From Hamburg we continued south as decided by the poll, running by Lüneburger Heide for a bit, through Hannover and Hildesheim, and stopping for the week in the small town of Rhüden.

Not as long a run as week 1, as we had a couple of people out of commission, but we're still 0.5 % ahead of our goal, so go us!!

Comments

[liv]

24 km of 40 (61%), 14½ active hours of 25 (58%).

[linaelyn]

Way to go, being so high on your percentages at this point!

[liv]

Thank you for leaving a bunch of encouraging comments! I have definitely picked up since the first half of the month. Ideally I should be at 70-75% by the end of week 3, but hey, at least I'm running at all, that's the main thing.

[semielliptical]

I have completed 71 miles and 3.5 hours so far.

[linaelyn]

WOOT!!! Go you!

[semielliptical]

Thanks! I have been fortunate that we've had pretty goo weather for running, not too many very hot days.

[franzi1981]

29.3 km and I'm totally going to count some of all that walking I did this weekend in NYC, so 6 active hours.

[linaelyn]

Walking in NYC should count extra, for the stutter-steps and walking-around-obstacles bits. :-) Cool that you're getting some traveling in!

[ilanarama]

I am back in commission with another 20.4 miles, putting me at an even 33 (well, it says 33.04 but I'm rounding). Go us!

[linaelyn]

Glad to see you're back in commission!

[meri_oddities]

127 miles so far and 4 other activity.

[linaelyn]

You... are amazing. Just amazing.

[temve]

41 miles and 26.75 hours of other activity (oops, triathlon plan again...). Also, Lüneburger Heidi! XD

[linaelyn]

WOW, active hours FOR THE WIN!!! Good luck with the tri-planning. :-)

[linaelyn]

I'm back from the back-of-beyond, and I feel like I've been beaten with rubber hoses and my skin is peeling on my ears and my feet are blistered and my hipbones are bruise-purple and my knee is decidedly wonky and OH GOLLYGEEWHILIKERS IT WAS THE BEST WEEKLONG BACKPACKING TRIP EVER IN THE HISTORY OF EVER. And my teenage daughter loved it, and is totally hooked on backpacking, which is the best part of all.

Totals or the month:
Running distance: 16.5 miles
Active hours: 43 hours... conservatively.

Not sure I'm going to manage to make the running miles this month, with the way my knee is feeling. However, I will endeavor to blast past the expected active hours by making it up in swimming time.

[ilanarama]

Yay, what fun! Part of my not-running was also backpacking. How especially faboo that you could hook your kid on it.

Do you use poles? I wish I'd discovered them earlier - what a godsend for the knees.

[linaelyn]

I have never used poles, and I really should give them a try, given that my knees are unlikely to get any younger. :-) Thanks for the nudge, you're the third person to tell me this since I got back, and 3 is my internal, mental tipping point. :-)

[ell]

You are *my* hero.

[ell]

First week of a new job absolutely destroyed my running plan this week, I only managed 2 of 6 planned runs (but at least one was my long run) bringing me up to 82 miles for the month and 21:30 of other active hours (including 7.2 km swum and 200 km biked) so I guess that's something.

I'm feeling a bit like a failure anyway, so if someone here could just pat me on the virtual head and tell me I'm doing ok, it would be much appreciated.

[blnchflr]

Congrats on new job - new job on its own spells non-failure :)

[ell]

:) thank you

[linaelyn]

New Job? WOW! That's HUGE! To manage any runs at ALL in that kind of week is OFFICIALLY AMAZING.

You do realize intellectually that your healthy activities, active hours & running time are in the crazycakes upper reaches of not-normal, right? That most humans in our mutual age-contingent get upset at having to park the car at the back of the lot because it means they have to walk a couple hundred yards to get to the groceries, and back home to the sofa & tv? YOU ARE DOING ASTOUNDINGLY WELL.

[ell]

intellectually, i do know this, but that doesn't seem to matter to the feeling part of my brain.

as for the job, it's just a job and it's temporary, but it's the first time i've been out of the house for a full-time job since i've been here - all the other work i've done has been telework to the us from home. it turns out that i don't have the spoons to work (did i mention it's in a foreign language?) with other people and have any left over for me and Tem. at the very least, this has really brought home to us that i really do need some sort of intervention because it turns out that when i thought i was just lying around being a waste of humanity, it turns out that i was actually gathering spoons up for the other hours of the day where i could then appear mostly normal and not crazy.

[linaelyn]

It is so wonderful that we have the metaphor of spoons to help us understand these things. :-) Having the challenges of your general level of spoons, on top of New Job, and Not-your-Native-Language, WOW. You are doing well just to keep your head above water.

There have definitely been times in my own life when it was Work-and-nothing-left-for-home, both as the stressed worker, and as the partner of the stressed one. And the first month(s?) of a new job are often that way.

[linaelyn]

I just went back to your post about core conditioning, and referenced it for my exercise plan for August. You are my hero, you know this? You are.

[ell]

♥

[temve]

*pat* You're doing more than OK. You're doing amazing, handling all the things you do! <3

[linaelyn]

And it's great that she has you there as a support. *hugs* Thanks.

[ridicully]

Nothing on either front for me. Next week will be better I hope.

[linaelyn]

The doldrums of summer are tough, sometimes. Tomorrow is another day! I don't know if you know this, but I look up to you and your trail running, immensely. Thanks for being part of the community, here.

[blnchflr]

42,9 km/2,5 h.