February challenge!

[ilanarama]

I haven't actually decided WHAT our February challenge should be, but we're gonna have one!

Comment with your planned mileage and active hours (if you do that) for February.

New participants are welcome! Planned mileage can be in miles or kilometers, just indicate which (I am American and will assume miles if you don't say). Active hours can be a particular type of cross-training you want to push yourself to do (for me it's core work), or total amount of cross-training such as cycling, swimming, Crossfit, martial arts, etc.

When I have an idea of our aggregate goals, I'll come up with some interesting "travel plans"!

Comments

[frayadjacent]

Yay!

Running: 70 kms
Active hours: 6

[silveraspen]

Okay. Here we go again, in an effort to get back on track and into proper training: 40 miles for February.

[semielliptical]

120 miles and 5 hours. It might be a stretch to get to that mileage, but I would like to try!

[ilanarama]

I think I will go head-to-head with you! 120 miles and 5 hours! THROWDOWN!

...just kidding. But I was going to do 120/4, and I decided I will up my core game to match you!

[semielliptical]

It's on!! ;)

5 hours of core is hard-core, go you!

[meri_oddities]

100 miles and 6 CF activity hours.

[alexseanchai]

Here goes again: 10 mi, 10 active hours yogaing.

[raininshadows]

Hi! I am very new to both this community and running in general. I'm aiming for about 18 miles in February, and I don't have any planned active hours.

[ilanarama]

Welcome! We will have a weekly check-in post where you comment with your miles for the week. You are only competing against your own listed goal so it is very low key. I hope you enjoy our miles game!

If you have any general questions about running feel free to post in the community.

[franzi1981]

I'm still getting back into it AND I'm travelling again next week... so I'll keep it low at:

15km running; hopefully a bit more, but we'll see. And 6 activity hours (mostly CF, some bellydancing and walking)

[temve]

Since I'll still be mostly off-plan but have put the annual flu behind me, let's make it 80 miles run and 20 hours of cross-training (cycling/swimming). Looking forward to interesting travel locations :)

[ell]

planned mileage is 130 (I'm actually hoping for a bit more than that, but according to the 10% rule it shouldn't be too much more and my knees are already feeling a bit achy...

Planned hours is the usual around 40 - but i don't know if I should keep listing aikido - i spend a ridiculous time doing it and it is certainly a good workout, I'm just not sure if it counts for these purposes.

Yay challenge! You do the best challenges :-)

[linaelyn]

I say aikido counts! I love hearing about out it, anyway. :-)

[liv]

Yay, thank you for doing this. I really want to get back on track in February after a fairly mixed couple of months. So I'm hoping for 40 km and 30 active hours, we'll see.

[linaelyn]

Thank you SO MUCH for taking on February's challenge.

After taking January off almost entirely, I would like to set my challenge at 40 miles run & 12 hours active time. It still might be a stretch to make that (comparatively modest) goal, but I plan to give it my best try.

[blnchflr]

I have no idea how/if my ankle's going to behave:

50 km, 3 active hours.

[ilanarama]

What's with your ankle? Is it the inner ankle area hurting while you're running? That could be your posterior tibial tendon, which is an indication that you need more pronation support in your shoes. If it's the outer, it's peroneal tendon, which suggests you need a more neutral shoe. I hope your ankle behaves!

[blnchflr]

It's sucky from twisting two years ago in a 10K, and unfortunately throwing money at a sports PT only made it worse.