Runner's support and Accountability

Hi there, I’m starbee I used to be a runner once, anyone remember me?

I did not intend to take such a long break from running after Dopey. I always intended to take the rest of January off and maybe even February. I had a pretty consistent weekly running routine for 3 years before I poured my heart and soul into 9 months of training for Dopey. I thought it was time for a break. I also wanted to focus on conditioning and strength training, as all my time went into Dopey and that all fell by the wayside. I need to get more strength and tone and lose some weight.

Right as the weather started getting better (I only run outside), and I got into a good gym routine, COVID punched us all in the gut. I lost all motivation for pretty much everything. I have been walking my dogs, but since gyms closed my workouts stopped and I never got back into running either. My local running store recently organized a challenge for the month of May – 31 miles in 31 days. You can walk it, hike it, run it, complete it however you’d like, but the goal is 31 miles in 31 days and as an additional challenge, everyone is competing against everyone else and the stats are shared. There will be awards/prizes for the “most committed” and “most miles achieved” among other awards to encourage you to go above and beyond the 31 miles. This was just what I needed so I signed up! And did I mention you get a t-shirt? I’m aiming for a minimum of 1 mile a day starting Friday it won’t all be running, but I’m looking forward to getting back out there!

So I wasn’t going to run for 3 weeks to heal my self diagnosed stress fracture but I’ve been doing so much resistance work that my legs are killing me.
(Last time doc told me to stop doing leg work as well as stopping running but I couldn’t cut all that out this time. it’s bad enough I’m stuck in the house for 23 hours a day)
Anyway, my legs felt like they needed to run. I’m so tight from the resistance work, I needed to go out for a quick run to open them up.
Was planning on doing 1 mile. I ran 2. Felt so good to be out there! My legs feel better too. Now I feel like I can wait out the remainder of the 3 weeks and I’ll be in good shape.
So Tuesday is my first real run day back.
Looking forward to it
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@missingwdw it’s good to see you were able to do something without pain! I hope you were able to go out for another today!

@missingwdw not even worried about endurance. That will come back later. As long as you have no pain, that’s the best thing!

@kcboston get the hell back on this thread!
I so miss your posts about running and the hilarious gif’s you would include!
Pleeeeeeease!!!!!

missingWDW wrote:

@kcboston get the hell back on this thread!
I so miss your posts about running and the hilarious gif’s you would include!
Pleeeeeeease!!!!!

I SECOND THE MOTION

I am so behind at sharing my return to running as a reminder for those just joining, I signed up for a challenge to complete 31 miles in 31 days during the month of May. It doesn’t matter how you get those miles in (e.g. 1 mile a day, three 10 mile runs, a mix of running and walking) the only rule is you have to be on your feet – no cycling. My aim was at least 1 mile per day so I was doing something every day whether that be running or walking. That quickly went out the window thanks to the ridiculous storms we’ve been having but I’ve still been staying active as best I can and I’m on track to complete 31 miles this month

Also I’ve been having some technical difficulties tracking my runs. It seems that after a recent update that Fitbit no longer breaks down your splits, or is that just an issue I’m having? My first run after Dopey did not completely sync for some reason, it said I ran 3 miles but had 0 steps so I have no idea what happened there. We have to use Strava for the May challenge so I’ve switched to using that after the Fitbit issues but that isn’t great either because it doesn’t show my progress in the same way. For example it will say 2.9 miles then 3.0 miles whereas Fitbit would say 2.93 miles etc and give you a more accurate distance so you know just how close you are to completing the next mile. But at least I have my splits!