#marchrunclub

[goaldengoats]

Hey look! I got out of bed & ran 6 miles in the rain 👊🏻 Time for some push-ups!

[therunningphysicist]

Lovely, fantastic 10 mile long run today to cap off my highest mileage week yet (post-injury, that is)! Kept the pace real easy and felt strong the whole way through. I’m ready to crush this 10 mile race in two weeks!

[eatrunbehappy]

W11D4 - last long run (half marathon) before the actual marathon. Now I just focus on rest and fuel. Not that I haven't eaten a lot...I ate ALL THE TIME during this marathon training. Today I had a bag of nuts. After dinner. Fuel that body. Fuel it. It works wonders!!! And: March was the months with my highest mileage ever - I ran 306km this month. Three-Hundred-Six. That's a lot for a girl that once felt crushed after 100km a month.

[project-healthy-runner]

☁ Just ran in my new running shoes - It felt like I was flying and I beat my previous 5k time with 1 min and 12 seconds ☁

[ramblings-of-a-reluctant-runner]

Smashed my PB out of the water today on a windy and rainy course☔️Can't believe it! I've been running at 1h 16mins this year! Shaved off 8 mins and 4 mins off my all time PB of 1h 12mins. Had awesome support from running club guys who were marshalling😍 @fatmaninalittlesuit

[run-bravely]

I ran!!! six and a half miles!! At an 8:32 pace!! :D I just decided to go for it and run as fast as I felt was sustainable. It was super fun - I mean it was hard, but it's nice to feel fast. Also, fancy literal double rainbow from work the other day. 🌈🌈

[athleisure-aesthetic]

Mar 20 I don’t know how fitblr girls take these amazing butt selfies but my attempt is pretty moot considering my butt makes an appearance in all possible pictures so it is what it is.  Today I was low key hating on the way my legs and butt looked, so I decided to make them work.  I really should be grateful for what they can do, but you know, it would be nice if I could slim them down a bit so they looked less like tree trunks.  I decided to keep a pair of older sneakers at work, so I literally have no excuse not to work out.  I forgot how much I liked these Nikes though, they’re the ones I ran my first half in!

For my workout, I warmed up with a few minutes uphill on the treadmill, then focused on butt and legs.  I was sweating up a storm, and this pic was even taken before my 1.75 miles to finish out the day.  At the end of my last circuit, my squats felt kind of weak and like not in an exhaustion way - something behind my right knee kept popping (it wasn’t painful, I could just feel it and I was really nervous).  My form was correct, so I wonder what that was exactly…

My recovery miles from yesterday’s long run were a little rough at first, but I settled in as usual after about a mile.  I forgot how boring running on a treadmill is.  I was legitimately so tired after this session, which is probably the first time I’ve been completely wiped in a while so that’s good.

I was starving afterwards and forgot I had some pomegranate vanilla cashews in my lunch box, so I inhaled them immediately.  I was still craving some serious carbs, but instead opted to make my favorite salad, featuring spinach, strawberries, cucumbers, onions, goat cheese, sliced almonds, and poppyseed dressing.  Yuuuuuuum.  Finished the day with some peanut butter cup Halo Top with bananas and chocolate chips, and preparing apple cinnamon overnight oats in a cutie mason jar.  Hooray for meal prep.

Workout: Legs & Butt

3x each Donkey kicks x15 alt. sides Side lunge to curtsy squats x15 alt. sides Single-leg deadlifts w/ 6lb weights x15 alt. sides Dumbbell swings x20 Fire hydrant to booty squeeze x15 alt. sides Glute bridges x15 Sumo squat to calf raises x15 alt. sides Plié squats x15 30s wall sit

1.75 mi 9′48″ min / mi

[fitbethblr]

Woke up early for a 45 minute jog this morning! I'm not usually an early exercise person. It may be nice to not have to stress about fitting it in tonight though. I'll see how I feel today. Maybe it'll be my new thing!

[kcowgill]

3/2/17 2.09 miles It’s Thursday so that means intervals! YTD: 205.52 miles 426 days in a row

I did:

.30 at 6.4mph

.20 at 7.6mph

.28 at 6.4mph

.22 at 7.8mph

.26 at 6.4mph

.24 at 7.9mph

.25 at 6.4mph

.25 at 8.0mph

Quick stretch in the hot tub after.

As I mentioned before it’s already squat day again.

Decided to record my bodyweight squat warmups that I usually do as part of loosening up my legs for squatting. My first “official” warmup set is supposed* to be at 40% of my target weight - at 125lbs, that works out to 50lbs. But I figured an EXTRA warmup set of just the bar wouldn’t hurt, so I did that too. The more reps I get into my legs, the better.

I changed the way I record my lunges. It’s really more of a superset, so I just recorded it that way. Left leg, right leg, left side, right side, breathe. Previously I did 2x9=18 reps. Because I decided some days (or weeks? It’s so hard to remember because all my days run together (ha!)) ago that I’d work towards 5x10 for all my “accessory” lifts. Lunge superset included. So as a step (ha!) toward that I did 3x7=21 reps.

Threw in a 1x10 of push, pull roll. This is going to end up being the new normal. Not just the 1x10, but I’m going to build toward 5x10. Every. Day. (but slowly). Since I was only doing the one set, I went DEEP on the ab wheel roll outs, and I went SLOW on the pushups. Maybe a little slower than normal on the bodyweight rows, but I made sure my form was impeccable.

And then to really work my legs, I decided I was going to throw in some weighted leg chambers. If you don’t know what I mean by a leg chamber, the front chamber is kind of like what’s labeled below as yop chagi 2, and the side chamber is kind of like what’s labeled yop chagi 4:

... but my knee’s higher in ‘2′, more tucked in ‘4′, and it’s not one movement. Just... knee straight up, knee straight down. Knee up to the side with a pivot, knee back down. So I started light with a single pound, and a single set of ten, and a single 10 second hold at the end.

I was going to do more solo taekwondo practice after that, but it was already 10:00pm and I was pretty much done for the night.

[katieblooming]

this run was wild from start to finish! I felt slow and heavy from the second I started running, but somehow my average pace stayed around 8:25-ish per mile, so when I realized a 5k pr was in reach, I scrapped my planned 4 miles and just started giving 'er. the light changed with 0.1 miles to go and I kicked as hard as I could. I've never gotten my sprint pace under 6:00 min/mile but I hit 5:52 today. my last pr was in January and somehow I took 25 seconds off it today! I'm not saying chocolate is a good pre-workout, but I'm not saying it isn't, either.

[goaldengoats]

Today’s 10 miles brought to you by my legs on tree lined roads, hills, paved trails & muddy trails

[therunningphysicist]

These four miles almost didn’t happen! After this morning’s gym fiasco, I really just wanted to skip this run or make it up later. But your girl has got some big dreams, and dreams don’t work unless you do!

[eatrunbehappy]

W9D6 - Rest, Rest, Rest with a hint of Murakami and 2000m of swimming 🏊 ...three weeks until the marathon!

[ramblings-of-a-reluctant-runner]

👟 Crash Half Marathon training session 1- Week 1 💦Sweaty intervals at the gym and first ever workout in just a sports bra💪🏼I was majorly self conscious at first but got stuck into my workout and my playlist and felt great 😸🌸Girl Power⚡️ @fatmaninalittlesuit

[run-bravely]

Today was my longest run ever and also one of the most adventurous! Not once but twice I had to take my shoes and socks off and wade through the water because the river is so high. And!!!! Fifteen miles!!!

[athleisure-aesthetic]

Ugh I did the thing again where I was busy all week and forgot to post on here. So here’s a lightning fast recap of my workouts from the past week, if you care at all. I actually think I worked out (ish, except Friday kinda) every day which is a first in a while. Bless.

Tues Mar 21 Abs and shopping. I went home after work to get my car so that I could drive to trainings the next two days, but went out to Target as soon as I got home, cause duh. Stupid idea to try on like real clothes tho, my self-conscious ass was like ohhhhh no way you need to tighten up those saddle bags and that back fat before you get any of this. So. I got a crop sweatshirt and athletic leggings, felt bad about myself but hadn’t had dinner, so I went to Wawa. Woof.

3x each 15 reps straight leg raises 15 reps roll ups leaning camel x 45s bird dogs x 45s 60 reps heal touches plank 35s, 40s, 45s 10 reps assisted push up 40 reps russian twists 8# alternating superman 1 min 15 reps single leg pulses

Wed Mar 22 Run on the trail after this horrific training class in which I was literally the only student for an all day session. And I had to go back the next day 😩 went to Marshall’s before my run to see if I could find any cold weather gear bc I only had my sweatshirt, gloves, wool earwarmers, and thin leggings. Didn’t find any of that, but got those AMAZING NEON PINK LEGGINGS IN THAT ONE PICTURE and some other ones too. You know me, can’t stay away from that athleisure ish.

It was hella freezing and took me so long to warm up once I started on the trail. Fortunately it was so picturesque and my music was bangin so. I survived.

2.78 mi 9'55" min / mi

Thurs Mar 23 6 x 200m sprints on the trail. Bless up, convinced my instructor to finish early bc tbh he was not really all that helpful once I started following the book that was included, so I went to the mall and got some more athleisure (deh), cheap sunglasses, athletic ear warmers for $.50 each, a VERY cute lightweight rain jacket, and (!!!!!) these black leather slip-on sneakers I’ve been looking for for like 6 months. I just caved and got the name brand ones but stILl omg I’m so excited about them I finally found them.

Started the sprints in the cotton leggins I was wearing, then after like maybe 9 or 10 strides I was like oh FUCk no they suddenly lost all their elasticity and I was having to pull them up for my life. So after completely embarrassing myself hoisting those mothereffers up for my first sprint, I jumped in the car and changed into spandex pants, then zoomed back to the trail start and actually did my workout. Good thing my house is only 8 minutes away from that part of the trail.

I think I may have mis-read what my Nike app was telling me to do, but I’m pretty sure it said to do 6 x 200m sprints with 4:45 min in between. So that’s essentially what I did, I sprinted for the 200m and ran / jogged in between. Although the app only recorded the distance for the sprints, I wanna say I did a little more than the day before, since I went further on the trail. I hate that you can’t go back and check what it told you to do; you only see how you actually ran according to the app. Lame af. Though I was proud, I increased my sprint speed at almost every length except the 3rd.

0.77mi 6'59" min / mi (lol can’t believe I actually ran a mile faster than that at one point in my life holy shit)

Fri Mar 24 No real workout here, since I had to leave work early to take the train back to le Nova for Palooza. I scarfed down a Snap pizza (the classic spot) right before the show, and somehow stayed away from the dangers of late night college food. Though I did get all my steps in my showing one of our friends’ home friend around campus, and apparently that little tour counted for a nice brisk walk. Obvi the Snovas killed it, as a great opener for what my friends and I dubbed AcaWeekend. Saturday they’d be competing at ICCA regional semifinals #pitchperfect for the first time ever, which was so exciting. Palooza the day before was just their warmup, but fortunately we got to see two new songs from them. It kinda sucked for them though bc they went first out of the seven groups and the sound guys always need a few groups to warm up before they actually refine the balance, and they just sounded muddled. Womp. Oh well. Everyone knows they’re/we’re the best anyway. Proud alum.

Sat Mar 25 Run in the morning before the day’s festivities. This was a quick workout before most of the humans who stayed in my apartment became humans, a brief mile ish to the waterfront and back. I realized I’d been wearing a blueish shirt and black leggings in literally all of my pics lately so I spiced it up with these fun stripey ones. Lol.

We adventured to brunch, where I had a yummy spinach and goat cheese salad with fig dressing, and wandered around the city for the afternoon before we had to head to semis. I splurged on Hunger Burger at RTM because I told myself that this was my indulgence for the weekend, and I wasn’t going to be drinking anymore for the next few months (it’s not like I do it that often anyway, I just want to try it to see how it helps my training/weight loss, if at all), so I got a specialty thin mint shake. Woops. Honestly, it was so worth it though, and I didn’t even end up eating most of the fries anyway, so it wasn’t the worst I could’ve done.

At semis, there were literally so many good groups and we were all like oh shit how are they going to stack up?? But Snovas SLAYED even better than they did last time and ENDED UP IN THIRD PLACE WHICH IS THE CRAZIEST BEST HONOR WE’VE EVER GOTTEN AND IT’S JUST SO COOL!!!!! A cappella is the shit, guys, I swear. I’m so proud of those kiddos, and they get to submit a wildcard video for a chance at Finals in NYC which is like legitimately insane. They’re somewhere in the top 18-27 groups in the country right now, and coming from a school where we legit don’t have music majors and a joke of a music activities staff / support, this coulD NOT be cooler. They murdered it. And so did all the other groups at semis, like damn. We weren’t even sure anything was gonna happen for them, but they clearly did some things right. Ugh so obvi we celebrated when we got back to Philly, going to a few bars and ending up at Frankford, where we got some amazing soft pretzels and other snacks. Best day ever.

1.26 mi 9'21" min / mi

1.32 mi 10'03" min / mi

Sun Mar 26 Long ish run and relaxing. Got up and was worried about the weather forecast for Monday because I was supposed to be doing my long run for next week then, and it was going to be torrentially downpouring all day, so I was hoping to switch my days because the weather was decent enough that I could’ve done it on Sunday. But then I updated my app and A, it changed my schedule for this week anyway, and B, I remember I could’ve moved it anyway if I wanted to. So instead I went and did that 5K Sunday challenge thing that it introduced. And I ran back from there, so it actually was closer to the 5 miles I had wanted to do anyway. So ya.

I felt a little subconscious in these leggings because, though they are a spectacularly bright and amazing color, they also show my cellulite on the back of my legs… but I thought, fuck it, people will see me, and if they give me a look, I’ll just push harder and show them that cellulite means nothing if you’re fast and capable and strong. So. I used it to empower me, I guess.

Spent the rest of the day relaxing and watching ICCA videos, still hyped up on the Snovas victory. Legit it’s still coming to me in waves, it’s actually incredible.

3.11 mi 9'41" min / mi

1.53 mi 9'44" min /mi

Mon Mar 27 Full body circuit and a benchmark run. Work is starting to bore me so much lol on Monday I think I may have done approximately 2 work related things all day, otherwise I was just distracted. I decided to do a NTC workout and then my benchmark, so I chose Body Flexor 2.0, which worked a lot of different areas and was pretty fun. Then I ran on the treadmill for my benchmark for the first time, which was weird knowing my exact speed at certain times and being able to force myself to a certain pace. If I have to do it that way again, next time I’ll just cover the numbers and just focus on how it feels to push hard. The picture up there is me literally dying because of how sweaty I was. Plus fun leggings from Marshall’s.

1.54 mi 9'49" min / mi

Tues Mar 28 Abs / some arms, plus 20 minutes on the elliptical. I was an idiot today, and not only forgot a hair tie after my shower, but I left my phone at home, which I realized too late in the elevator on the way to work. Nice. So I had to go without both all day, though Kelly let me borrow a hair tie so I could work out thank GoD cause I was looking at using a legit rubber band, which would’ve been awful. The moves I chose for abs today ended up also working my arms a lot, which was nice to combo them. Because I didn’t have my phone, I just kind of had to make up my elliptical workout, which was meh but whatever. Next time I’ll be prepared. That’s definitely not my favorite type of cardio anyway.

Tonight I made these AMAZING baked zucchini fries, I probably could’ve eaten like 90 million in one sitting they were so crunchy and good. My sweet potato fries didn’t turn out so good (I actually burned the shit out of them, but I’m going to attempt to eat them tomorrow for lunch anyway 🙃) but I’m happy I’m trying new things in the kitchen, even if it’s taking me like 3 hours each time lolol.

I’m down a few pounds from last week, though, which is kind of nice! A little affirmation after working hard every day.

3x each 15 reps dumbbell side bends alt. sides 8# 15 reps twisting core stabilizers alt. sides 8# 15 reps bow extensions alt. sides 8# 15 reps woodchops 8# 10 reps windmills 5# 40 reps russian twists 8# 30 s plank 7 reps full extension inch worms 15 reps in-&-outs

Wooooof I’m going to try to post more often now that I’m all caught up. Lol it may last for a day but you know. #Goals.