MapMyRun Community - 26/30 Group

Nov

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:13:05 -0500

Hey, isn't this day uno?

Checking In

DogSports — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:12:55 -0500

Hey everyone!

Thought I would check in and see how the 26/30 gang is doing. I am still training for my first marathon, the Portland Marathon on Oct. 5. I completed an 18-mile run last weekend and it felt great. I never imagined myself saying, "I've only got a ten mile run tonight" or "This weekend's run is only 14 miles." Dang, I feel like I've come a long way, if I may say so

FYI, Seattle signed on as a Rock n Roll Marathon city for June. If I get through Portland unscathed, I'm definitely signing up for that one. Oh,and I'm ready for another 26/30 challenge this November...anyone else?

Hope everyone is enjoying the end of summer!

-Ingrid

pasadena marathon 11.16.08

wing — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:48:21 -0500

Is anybody else training for the Pasadena Marathon?

26/31January2008

MarvinF — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:28 -0600

Great to hear from some of you, great that we get to take on this new challenge together in January. This morning I ran w/about 10 people dn the Rose Parade route after walking thru the staging area and seeing the floats up close. What a cool run dn the middle of the boulevard as the crowd awaited the start of the parade. By the time we got to the very end, 5 mi later, the F-14 Jets flew over to signal the start of the parade. Coffee and comradaree followed at Starbucks and then I was fortunate enough to be able to get a ticket to the Rose Bowl Game in the afternoon to see my Trojans beat on the Illini. Tomorrow I continue with a hilly tempo run w/my coach. should be a good butt kicking time for me.

Happy New Year and lets have a great month of working out.

-marvin

vacation running

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:33:57 -0500

hey what's up group.

finished out june with 198.6 miles. next race is the skyline 50k starting out of lake chabot in castro valley. it's vacation time now. this morning's workout was so much what i needed: 6.5 mile beach run, dip in the ocean, few laps in the pool, jacuzzi time, and then back into my pajamas while coffee brews and the kids and mrs sleep in.

December 2007

MarvinF — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:30:53 -0600

Ingrid stay safe and dry. William congrats on your 5K pr, great time!

On Sat I ran the South Pasadean Tiger Run 10k and am Happy to say met my goal to set a new PR, 45:58. I guess real fast guys in my AG (40-44) did not show up for this local race because I also took 1st place in my AG. My previous PR on a flater course was 47:44 and my time in this race last year was 49:11. So I am happy to see much improvements from a year ago. Took Sunday off and after packing my shoes and clothes to work today and planning to run all day, did not. So 2 days off in a row! I've got the RoseBowl Half Mary this Sat so I'll be going out tomorrow with the emphasis this week of 2 longer runs. Flat wore out the running shoes last month. Passed the 400mile mark, so ordered my self a new pair. supposed to rain on this Sat's hilly part trail corse. so i'm not putting any PR expectations on myself. Will go for the PR in either the Jan or April 1/2 mary.

las vegas half marathon 12.2.07

wing — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:44:13 -0600

Hi all,

This week in sin city, I ran the half marathon, with a PR of 2:45:45. Since I'm a slow runner, this is a really good time for me. I've never run 13 miles in under 3 hours before.

It was cool but not windy. The fireworks at the beginning were great as we ran down the Strip. The running Elvi were interesting as were any number of costumed people. I congratulated a few couples who were planning to get married at mile 5.

After the race, we were able to go outlet shopping and see a show in the evening. A good night's rest and my legs were fine.

Wing

Week 4 - Nov 22-30 (9 day week!)

MarvinF — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:28:52 -0600

Happy Thanksgiving! today i and many others here raced the 5k trot. I want to say I had a great race because i had a good fin time. But "racing" a 5k hard is one of the most painful things to do. the hurt is really on for 20 something minutes. did this race 2 years ago at the end of my first Triathlon season(24:27). that was my last 5k. Pr'd earlier that year on a flat fast beach course (23:05). So i put the expectation on myself today that I should be faster/stronger after 2 continuous years of semi-serious multi-sport training and racing and 26/30ing this month. Had goal of 22:15 (7:10/mi) and I was close so happy w/that, but like i said w/lots of pain. Just don't know if this 40 yr old body can go much faster then that. Have i hit the age/speed ceiling? we'll see.

Unofficial Time: 22:34, PR by 31 seconds. Hard race, pain in front of both shins, some cramping first 1/2 on rt side. felt like crap the first mile, hurting, slowed in mile 2, fast last mile (dn hill) just end this thing! Splits: 715, 731, 639, 106 (640pace)

next year need to have a race strtegy of how to properly pace the 1.25mi uphill start. stupid me thought i'd equal split the race for some reason.

Congratulations to Bruce (3rd ag) and Sue (1st ag)!!! in a big 1000+ field

was nice to race with so many of my 26/30 comrads

Week 3 Nov 15-21

MarvinF — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:55:55 -0600

Welcome to week 3. I hope everyone is doing well, holding up, if a bit beat or feeling any pain please take it easy. Notice the new events I posted that I encourage all of you to participate in if you can esp the fun Holiday Run event on the 25th. The others are various races that some people in the group are doing that I know of. Please feel free to list your event(s) even if out of our town.

Day 15: RoseBowl long run w/group 8.0 mi 1:14:15

Week 2 Nov 8-14

MarvinF — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:12:48 -0600

Its week 2! since you will see this post at the top for the whole week, I'll use the space the remind...1) Please send me pictures of you, or your favoraite trail or route, or anything remotely related to your 26/30 experience. I challenge all of us to take a camera or phone out on one of our shorter runs this week and take some pics. 2) It was sugested to me, so I will unofficially declare that there will be a unofficial 26/30 group race on Thanksgiving Day, The Run For The Hungry 5k in La Canada. http://www.runforthehungry.com/ Even if you do not race come on out that morning and cheer for your friends. There are already some of you signed up. Who are you? Let us know so that we can join you and get some 26/30 group mojo going at the race. Lastly tell us (and promote) about your race(s) you have coming up as well. I know there are races locally on Dec 1,2 and 8 that some of us are doing. Post them on the Event section for everybody to see. There will probably be some 26/30 banter that continues into Dec-Jan as people report on how they are doing and/or how races went. thats all, now go run!

Week 1 Nov 1-7

susan_owen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:27:01 -0500

Shorter version of kick off run at 7 am tomorrow!

Meet at the Brookside Golf Club house, be ready to run at 7 am!

We'll do one lap around the Rose Bowl (3 miles/5k), then join the 10k people for breakfast at the club house.

Cheers,

Sue

Week 2 Nov 8 - 14

Cyclingmaniac — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:55:49 -0600

I'm 8 out of 8 runs for November and at 30.76 Miles. I'd love to break through 100 Mile level for the first time which well within the realm of possibility. This is GREAT training for the Inaugural Rose Bowl Half-Marathon in December. THANKS to all for putting this challenge together!

Rich

Cyclingmaniac2004@Yahoo.com

Welcome to The 26/30 Challenge

MarvinF — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:35:34 -0500

Congratulations on stepping up to the challenge! We will all attempt to successfully run 26 times in the next 30 days, November 1-30. This is not a contest or a race. This is a group that will encourage and support each other in achieving this goal. We will be acountable to each other, hence creating new power in our motivation to get out that door and run.

This will be a forum of sharing fitness/running ideas, questions, knowledge, struggles, challenges, victories, acomplishments and a unique way of getting to know each other better.

TBD are any cool/fun events we may want to wrap aound this. Ideas so far are; a kick off group run the morning of Nov 1 followed by breakfast, a ending event of some kind, and 1 or 2 designated group races. We have time so please please post your ideas of how you think this could be made even more cool, motivating and fun for all of us.

There are some of us in this group who do not know each other yet (which I think is especially cool) so insert picture, FIRST NAME and a tidbit of yourself in your "My Profile" above and in your opening posts share more and provide links to personal blogs, facebooks, websites or whatever.

I'm excited to have you all aboard! SO LETS RUN!!!

Godspeed, Marvin

No Passport Needed

MannyEscalante — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:08:04 -0600

I checked with government officials and they assured me that no passport is needed to travel east of the 605 freeway. In fact they do not even consider this an international border!

I've been good about running and would love company. Let me know if you want to visit us out here.

Manny E.

manny@cruciblefitness.com

909.241.4032

Tuesday Night and Thursday Night Runs @ Rose Bowl (6:30 PM)

Cyclingmaniac — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:41:42 -0600

For those who want to join in, I will be running the Rose Bowl on Tuesday and Thursday nights for month of November. I'm going to start at 6:30 PM. 1 loop or longer around the Rose Bowl from the Aquatic Center. This is a go at your own pace. The distance is about 3.5 miles. Goal is to work up to 2 loops or 3 loops depending upon progress.

I'm slow, so if there are other slow runners, don't hesitate to join. We can push each other!

Rich (aka Cyclingmaniac)

Week 1: Nov 1 - 7

Cyclingmaniac — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:21:03 -0500

I didn't make it out to the Inaugural Runs, but ran all the same. Due to my commute, I usually run in the mornings at the office gym on the treadmill. For variety, I will be adding a Tuesday and Thursday night run around the Rose Bowl if anyone want to join me......WARNING - I'm slow....I get there.....I'm getting faster, but still slow!

26/30 concept - consistency

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:24:03 -0500

What’s up everybody? I’m looking at this challenge as a way to create consistency as I build my base for the season ahead. I had been increasing my daily run mileage while increasing the number of rest days per week. For November, I’m going to switch it up a little, drop some per run mileage and focus my effort on getting out 6 days a week. I’m also going to give myself some flexibility to run mid-day or evening instead of strictly morning (which running less per run miles allows). Does it sound like I’m on the right track? Is consistency a main objective here?

Week minus 1 - Oct 25-31

MarvinF — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:55:49 -0500

Hey gang, i hope your running life is strong and healthy. We're 8 days out, so lets start the shraring of how we are all doing leading up to Nov 1.

*Oh look MMR has just reorganized the forum comments. they are in crono order now the latest 10. This is much easier for us to read, comment and see the latest. So that we can easily read the whole corno string of run reports and realated messages as they surpass 10 comments, I will start a discussion topic at the beginning of each Running Week beginning w/Nov 1-7 then Nov 8-14. so that we can click that discussion topic only and see all the messages from that week. ok?

Feel free to continue inviting people and please identify your self w/at least your first name if you haven'e done so. I'm so exciited to be running w/18 friends, some whom i don't even know yet! See the kick off event on Nov 1 hope you can join us.

10/24 run report: was going to run a new trail climb today called Clamshell in Monrovia w/PTC friend and coach, Rich, but we canceled just now because of the bad air from the fires. trying to do 5 runs this week, been doing 4per. BTW I long run, 6-8mi, tomorrow with some in this group (Sue, David) the same Rosebowl route listed for Nov 1 , run with us!

Homewalk 5K Run/Walk 11/17

Jessmancan — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:01:14 -0500

Hi everyone,

I think it's cool that we're all in this together for next month. If I may shamelessly plug my work sponsored run through the United Way, there's a 5K run/walk on 11/17 that if you sign up under my organization, it will only be $10. Money is raised for the homeless. Let me know by 11/3.

http://www.unitedwayla.org/involved/homewalk/Pages/default.aspx

Let me know if you want to go @ jchang33@yahoo.com so I can put your name down under my work.

Thanks,

Jesse

Well, here we go.....

CA-3Athlete — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:56:21 -0500

Hi everyone. It's great to be part of this group. Thanks Marvin. I look forward to being held accountable to keep running on a regular basis. Now I just need help in putting down and stepping away from all of the Almond Roca and candy I have been eating. ~~~David