Me and the daughter yesterday. Today I need an easy treadmill day.
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Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [mistressk]
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Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [Slowman]
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Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [iBot]
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That's sweet
My daughter doesn't run - she bikes
I told her NOT to run; running is weird and makes you do weird things
"It's ok to be weird [encouraged, actually], but running is a very special kind of weird that I don't recommend for you"
"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
My daughter doesn't run - she bikes
I told her NOT to run; running is weird and makes you do weird things
"It's ok to be weird [encouraged, actually], but running is a very special kind of weird that I don't recommend for you"
"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [madMike100]
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madMike100 wrote:
My dog is too lazy to run and my cats are a work in progress. Anyway, I turn 66 3 days from now and at 160 lbs on a 5'4" frame am about 25 lbs overweight (and 15 lbs over the weight that I can run train consistently and not get injured.)
Since I'm crazy, I'm going to shoot for 3 "runs" per day, about 3k each time, to burn about 1,000 (k)cals per day, in the hopes that I can get down to training weight by the end of the period. (In spite of eating lots of my favorite legume (oops, bean): chocolate.) I'm not COMPLETELY untrained, as I tried 15-19 miles per day walking/running at the beginning of October for about 9 days, but got injured on the last day when I did a non-stop 10 mile run. (My resting pulse dropped about 10 beats to 50.) I also did dev's Olympic distance tri. per day in June last year (VERY slowly), and started dropping weight, but crashed near the end of the time and couldn't see a doctor for several months to deal with swelling in the ball of the foot. (The doc couldn't understand how I'd gotten some crap in my foot.)
Best of luck to everybody, and lets have fun. :-)
Reply to Mad Mike.... I did some calculations for you on this. I was interested b/c I am fighting the same battle of the bulge that you are and am the same age as you. So, according to my estimates on all flat ground you would need 60 minutes per day at 8.0 mph to burn 1000 k cals per day. Hopefully for you this is realistic for you; it isn't for me. Right now, 8mph might as well be 800 mph, I can't hang on very long at that pace anymore, although it was no problem at age 60. I have been able to lose 25-30 pounds before, but I have found that without major diet revisions what would have taken 3 months with running, takes a year. Your long distance plan clearly did not work for you. I have to wonder running 21 times a week, when your legs ever recover? The faster your run the more chance of injury. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to dump the weight if the major factor is just running. It comes down to diet I think.
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [Deserwest]
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Unfortunately, it seems impossible to dump the weight if the major factor is just running. It comes down to diet I think.Yep. You can't out-train your diet...really at any age maybe over 30 or so. You have to manage your diet.
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [RandMart]
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RandMart wrote:
I've had a wicked cough lately, and I've been violating my own rule: Cold in the Head: Get out of Bed
Cold in the Chest: Get your Rest
If anyone looks deeper into my Activity, they'll see that ALL my runs so far have been outside - I think the avg temp I've been running in has been about 42*
This means three and a half things:
- I love being outdoors, even when it's chilly
- I'm an idiot for trying to burn out this chest cold
- I haven't been to the gym & used the TM in a while; which ALSO means I haven't been doing the strength training that my body "craves"
"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [Deserwest]
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Thanks for the info/thoughts. You are probably right. (And anyone who can get me back to 8mph is probably halfway to sainthood. ;-)
I would LIKE to be more careful with diet, but my wife cooks very well, and makes a bit of a scene if I either (1) ask for calorie info, or (2) don't eat much, so I'm a bit restrained as far as that goes.
Strangely, my weight shot up at the beginning of this exercise (about 4 lbs in 5 days), but has come most of the way back down since then.
Pulse has adapted to the new "routine" and this morning was down to about 50, the lowest it's been in several months. Legs are now the concern. My goal was to do no worse than 12 minute miles when running outside (sub 11s so far), and at least 6% incline on the treadmill, which I have backed off for the moment, just to get myself into the flow of the project. (I'm trying to do 10 miles/day in 3 sessions.) Currently I'm almost exclusively treadmill since I've felt the knees a bit when running (but no real problems yet,) and I can burn more total calories that way (because of the incline), even at 4mph. I'm also trying to keep effort level low so I'm primarily in the fat-burning range. It's clear,however, that I need to work on the shocks, i.e., I need to (very gently) start bike training again.
As far as losing weight only focusing on exercise, I found that when I (VERY slowly) did dev's Olympic distance tri per day in June last year, I lost about 11 lbs from when I started to 2 weeks after the month was over, so it is doable. This time, if I can get my weight down 16 lbs I can get to a weight where I can actually train, instead of schlep. (Then it's another 10 lbs to my OLD racing weight, which is probably unrealistic.)
So, like a lot of things I've done, I'm treating this as a bit of an experiment. Last year I started the challenge in December with 3-a-days for about 12 days before I broke down, but last year was more restrictive, and I started on the day my car was totalled (by an unlicensed driver) while I was driving it, so I was behind the 8-ball from the get-go last year.
Best of luck, keep in touch, and Happy Thanksgiving.
Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).
I would LIKE to be more careful with diet, but my wife cooks very well, and makes a bit of a scene if I either (1) ask for calorie info, or (2) don't eat much, so I'm a bit restrained as far as that goes.
Strangely, my weight shot up at the beginning of this exercise (about 4 lbs in 5 days), but has come most of the way back down since then.
Pulse has adapted to the new "routine" and this morning was down to about 50, the lowest it's been in several months. Legs are now the concern. My goal was to do no worse than 12 minute miles when running outside (sub 11s so far), and at least 6% incline on the treadmill, which I have backed off for the moment, just to get myself into the flow of the project. (I'm trying to do 10 miles/day in 3 sessions.) Currently I'm almost exclusively treadmill since I've felt the knees a bit when running (but no real problems yet,) and I can burn more total calories that way (because of the incline), even at 4mph. I'm also trying to keep effort level low so I'm primarily in the fat-burning range. It's clear,however, that I need to work on the shocks, i.e., I need to (very gently) start bike training again.
As far as losing weight only focusing on exercise, I found that when I (VERY slowly) did dev's Olympic distance tri per day in June last year, I lost about 11 lbs from when I started to 2 weeks after the month was over, so it is doable. This time, if I can get my weight down 16 lbs I can get to a weight where I can actually train, instead of schlep. (Then it's another 10 lbs to my OLD racing weight, which is probably unrealistic.)
So, like a lot of things I've done, I'm treating this as a bit of an experiment. Last year I started the challenge in December with 3-a-days for about 12 days before I broke down, but last year was more restrictive, and I started on the day my car was totalled (by an unlicensed driver) while I was driving it, so I was behind the 8-ball from the get-go last year.
Best of luck, keep in touch, and Happy Thanksgiving.
Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).
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Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [mistressk]
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Oh please keep the doggo pics coming! I may only have kitties at home but I love me some puppers!The shorter distance has allowed me to get her back in the game
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [RandMart]
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Tomorrow begins the Thanksgiving Weekend portion 2022 Screaming Tortise Holiday Running Festival
Thanksgiving Day - Alice's Restaurant Massacree
18:34 out [run time of "Alice's Restaurant"] turn around & come back the same route
Day After Thanksgiving - Black Friday 20K Solo Relay
Starting at 5 or 6AM or so, run four 5Ks, separated by at least 4 hours ... if need be, the final 5K can be done the following day
If I can kick this annoying cough by Friday [which seems reasonable], I can get 2 outdoor runs done in the morning [I'm thinking 6A & 10A] before hitting the TM in the afternoon, I should be able to complete the Black Friday, which - along with Alice's Restaurant Massacree] would count as completing ...
25K Holiday Half Ass
Run or walk 25K any time during the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend - Thursday through Sunday. That means you have 96 Hours to complete your race!!! The clock starts with the first step and runs until the last step, unlike the Black Friday 20K Solo Relay where only running time counts
#MakeRunningWeirdAgain
#MakeRunnersWeirdAgain
"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
Thanksgiving Day - Alice's Restaurant Massacree
18:34 out [run time of "Alice's Restaurant"] turn around & come back the same route
Day After Thanksgiving - Black Friday 20K Solo Relay
Starting at 5 or 6AM or so, run four 5Ks, separated by at least 4 hours ... if need be, the final 5K can be done the following day
If I can kick this annoying cough by Friday [which seems reasonable], I can get 2 outdoor runs done in the morning [I'm thinking 6A & 10A] before hitting the TM in the afternoon, I should be able to complete the Black Friday, which - along with Alice's Restaurant Massacree] would count as completing ...
25K Holiday Half Ass
Run or walk 25K any time during the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend - Thursday through Sunday. That means you have 96 Hours to complete your race!!! The clock starts with the first step and runs until the last step, unlike the Black Friday 20K Solo Relay where only running time counts
#MakeRunningWeirdAgain
#MakeRunnersWeirdAgain
"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [RandMart]
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“ This song is called Alice’s restaurant and it’s about Alice, and the restaurant. But Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant-that’s just the name of the song.
And that’s why I call this song Alice’s restaurant…
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”
Love that song-a staple on thanksgiving for me.
Also love the names showing up on the thread and pics of the world and those living in our world -esp the dogs!
Happy thanksgiving all!
And that’s why I call this song Alice’s restaurant…
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”
Love that song-a staple on thanksgiving for me.
Also love the names showing up on the thread and pics of the world and those living in our world -esp the dogs!
Happy thanksgiving all!
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [Slowman]
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Slowman wrote:
twcronin wrote:
I wasn't planning on doing it this year, but bike commuting a few days a week has stopped being viable for lack of light (and impending snow/ice/cold). I figured out a funny, nearly time-neutral alternative of driving quickly to a place where the traffic gets bad, then running the rest of my way to work (~5 miles each way), which gives me a few days a week of doubles. That will let me get well above 50 runs for the 100 days, and maybe close to or over 100! OK, here's my question: Can I count stair running?
I don't have a treadmill but would love to occasionally run indoors for childcare reasons (i.e., someone needs to be home). A possible workaround is to run the flight of basement stairs up and down repeatedly, I did this once last year as a test and posted about it here: https://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=7600790. I'm certainly legitimately running up the stairs and then moving down them as quickly as I can, the overall exertion is high if I push it, averaging near threshold heart rate for run/bike (I calculated for a workout I did last year that I averaged a little under 1000 m/hour VAM). The impact stress of running is certainly there too as a stimulus since I'm doing a lot of descending. Any objections from people to logging 20-min + workouts of this somewhat weird version of exercise (which I'll call "homestair running") in 100/100? I did this once last night and logged it but could easily get rid of it. My watch claimed I was doing sub-10 miles based on its treadmill setting but there's no way that's right based on direct measurement of the distance so I'll just count anything over 20 minutes.
My office building has an ~80 m climb on stairs that I would consider using under desperate circumstances (e.g., icy everywhere outside); I can see more objections to counting this since the most effective gait to do a 3-minute stair climb with (rather than a 3-second stair climb as on a single flight) is actually power hiking rather than running, but I'd love to hear opinions about whether a 20-minute up-and-down workout on those stairs would be countable too in 100/100, and if so what stipulations people would pose.
i see no reason whatsoever that stair running would not qualify. if i run up and down a mountain that qualifies, so, why not running up and down stairs?
I agree on that. When I used to visit my grandparents and they lived a few floors up in a ten story building I would do sets of ten floors and my heart rate would hit 190 when my max was 195. Ten floors in that building at three meters per floor was 30m of vertical and five intervals of 30m up and down was literally my single hardest run all year. They lived in a really congested part of a city and running 20min after 7am was impossible due to the sea of humans so if I slept in it was stairs intervals
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [dtoce]
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Our family as well...simce I was like 2.
Turkey trot 5k in the AM. Then the family all comes here for the day.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Turkey trot 5k in the AM. Then the family all comes here for the day.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [devashish_paul]
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Rule #9 for this years 100/100 says... 9. You can go as slow as you want provided both feet leave the ground on every stride.
If you can get both feet off the ground running up a stairwell, and running down a stairwell, all I can say is that you are one incredible athlete.
If you can get both feet off the ground running up a stairwell, and running down a stairwell, all I can say is that you are one incredible athlete.
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [Deserwest]
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Deserwest wrote:
Rule #9 for this years 100/100 says... 9. You can go as slow as you want provided both feet leave the ground on every stride. If you can get both feet off the ground running up a stairwell, and running down a stairwell, all I can say is that you are one incredible athlete.
Yeah, that is the idea. Stair running is a different animal from stair climbing (walking). Straight up stair running is the hardest single workout I have done to raise cardio (maybe othen than racing 200 butterfly in swimming).
I got my C19 booster yesterday so will minimally back off doing anything today and probably tomorrow and keep heart rate low for the next 5 days.
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [devashish_paul]
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turkey trot 5k today by my run club. 20:26. My feet were numb the first mile, not sure if it was the cold or riding a fixie 10 miles to the race. disappointed I swam later in the day a 1k in under 18 min which is a fast time for me.
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [synthetic]
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Great job with your race!!
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [dtoce]
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It was a rainy turkey trot here in Dallas. Given that I'm 3 weeks into regular running, I'm calling this a baseline.
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Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [mistressk]
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Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [NMGal]
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This is my first post on this thread
To follow on the theme of running companions. This is Frankie (our regular neighbourhood visitor). This pic is taken from the riverbank trail behind my house.
Frankie is not a very good running companion, but whenever I run into him, I definitely pick up the pace. Normally, I give him a wide berth.
The neighbours all think that it is time for Frankie to nap for a few months.
On other topics, I really would like to thank Dev and Dan for putting on this challenge. I think that this is the perfect time frame (Nov through Feb). When I look back all of my banner running years have been when I have laid down a solid winter base
A little bit about me. I started running cross country in my first year of high school. That was 60 years ago. I'm 74 now. My last tri was Ironman Canada (the first year that it was held in Whistler). In last year's 100/100, I did 52 runs in about as many days and then came down with Covid. I had complications (blood clots in the lungs) Recovery was gradual as lung function returned to normal. I went from walking to powerwalk to run walk to full running and then another two months to be back to where I was in last year's 100/100 challenge. Since June I have been averaging 165 miles per month (265 km in the Great White North) I have been blessed to have had an extended injury free running period (except for Covid)
Hobbies - in the last couple of years I have been street running (as in the "Run Every Street in Your City") type of challenge. I'm now running neighbouring municipalities (currently the City of Vancouver)
Cheers
Ron "CapilanoEagle"
Chocolate ... it's not just for breakfast anymore
To follow on the theme of running companions. This is Frankie (our regular neighbourhood visitor). This pic is taken from the riverbank trail behind my house.
Frankie is not a very good running companion, but whenever I run into him, I definitely pick up the pace. Normally, I give him a wide berth.
The neighbours all think that it is time for Frankie to nap for a few months.
On other topics, I really would like to thank Dev and Dan for putting on this challenge. I think that this is the perfect time frame (Nov through Feb). When I look back all of my banner running years have been when I have laid down a solid winter base
A little bit about me. I started running cross country in my first year of high school. That was 60 years ago. I'm 74 now. My last tri was Ironman Canada (the first year that it was held in Whistler). In last year's 100/100, I did 52 runs in about as many days and then came down with Covid. I had complications (blood clots in the lungs) Recovery was gradual as lung function returned to normal. I went from walking to powerwalk to run walk to full running and then another two months to be back to where I was in last year's 100/100 challenge. Since June I have been averaging 165 miles per month (265 km in the Great White North) I have been blessed to have had an extended injury free running period (except for Covid)
Hobbies - in the last couple of years I have been street running (as in the "Run Every Street in Your City") type of challenge. I'm now running neighbouring municipalities (currently the City of Vancouver)
Cheers
Ron "CapilanoEagle"
Chocolate ... it's not just for breakfast anymore
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Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [CapilanoEagle]
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Love Frankie!
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [NMGal]
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Run with my friday morning group and 2 other participants in this challenge (we are on far right in group photo). We have a ... *special* coffee after in the winter time :)
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [RandMart]
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Results/recap
Thanksgiving Weekend portion 2022 Screaming Tortise Holiday Running Festival
Thanksgiving Day - Alice's Restaurant Massacree
18:34 out [run time of "Alice's Restaurant"] turn around & come back the same route
Ran out to the winery & back, it's a little lumpy for the first/last mile, but that didn't hamper me much as I cruised in with 4.4 miles in 37-minutes & change
https://amaltheacellars.com/
Day After Thanksgiving - Black Friday 20K Solo Relay
Starting at 5 or 6AM or so, run four 5Ks, separated by at least 4 hours ... if need be, the final 5K can be done the following day
If I can kick this annoying cough by Friday ...
Nope, still lingering, but improving; still it seemed #illadvisedracing to push it all day long, especially in a chilly drizzle, so I got my daily 5K in and said "that's enough" - just as well, as there was confusion about our Home Care Aide coming in for MIL [she'd didn't], so D'Kid & I binged Wednesday, instead
On Saturday, however, I felt well enough to do the AM run, THEN a bonus in the afternoon, with today's 5K, I completed ..
25K Holiday Half Ass
Run or walk 25K any time during the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend - Thursday through Sunday. That means you have 96 Hours to complete your race!!! The clock starts with the first step and runs until the last step, unlike the Black Friday 20K Solo Relay where only running time counts
... at about 73 hours?
#MakeRunningWeirdAgain
#MakeRunnersWeirdAgain
"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
Thanksgiving Weekend portion 2022 Screaming Tortise Holiday Running Festival
Thanksgiving Day - Alice's Restaurant Massacree
18:34 out [run time of "Alice's Restaurant"] turn around & come back the same route
Ran out to the winery & back, it's a little lumpy for the first/last mile, but that didn't hamper me much as I cruised in with 4.4 miles in 37-minutes & change
https://amaltheacellars.com/
Day After Thanksgiving - Black Friday 20K Solo Relay
Starting at 5 or 6AM or so, run four 5Ks, separated by at least 4 hours ... if need be, the final 5K can be done the following day
If I can kick this annoying cough by Friday ...
Nope, still lingering, but improving; still it seemed #illadvisedracing to push it all day long, especially in a chilly drizzle, so I got my daily 5K in and said "that's enough" - just as well, as there was confusion about our Home Care Aide coming in for MIL [she'd didn't], so D'Kid & I binged Wednesday, instead
On Saturday, however, I felt well enough to do the AM run, THEN a bonus in the afternoon, with today's 5K, I completed ..
25K Holiday Half Ass
Run or walk 25K any time during the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend - Thursday through Sunday. That means you have 96 Hours to complete your race!!! The clock starts with the first step and runs until the last step, unlike the Black Friday 20K Solo Relay where only running time counts
... at about 73 hours?
#MakeRunningWeirdAgain
#MakeRunnersWeirdAgain
"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [RandMart]
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Need to get my Strava sync updating again.
Churning out *some* mileage. Ran my fastest 5K in three years (thanks, Saucony Endorphin Pro!). Just getting consistency in.
Now if only my swim would show up...
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Churning out *some* mileage. Ran my fastest 5K in three years (thanks, Saucony Endorphin Pro!). Just getting consistency in.
Now if only my swim would show up...
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Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [rrheisler]
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yesterday did 8 miles running, today just 1. I guess the algorithm doesnt spill the days over from yesterday into today (day 13, and it say I only have 12 runs). Or if I at least 3 tomorrow and it spills into today..... or we have to manually adjust?
Re: Official Slowtwitch 16th Annual 100/100 Run Challenge (2022/23) Thread [synthetic]
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