Three more races

Love the look of those races. I completed a 12K walk (what would that be in miles?) last weekend - it was a chance to walk over the Auckland Harbour Bridge and was part of the Auckland Marathon. Such a feeling of satisfaction and another medal for my cat to bat off the shelf.

I think 12k is about 7.5 miles. I am doing a 6k for Turkey Trot. Today its raining and snowing so I don't know about my training run. I try to go out to the race course and practice on weekends. During the week I practice with resistance training, elliptical, and treadmill. Just a little of everything. When I was training for my first 5k it took me three weekends to finally make it through the whole course. I was doing it in pieces. The final week I tried the big hill that I had to go up from the state capitol to St. Paul Cathedral. There's no escaping the hill. But I made it up the hill just going slow but keeping up the jog. Great thing about a big hill is you get to run down the same hill to the finish line. Then there's all these volunteers with armloads of medals waiting to hand them out. So that was my first medal. Its was the 2018 Twin Cities Marathon 5k race. They had shorter races to get people involved during the marathon weekend. My second race was Halloween Half 5k. Now I am working onTurkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day and Reindeer Run in December. I think the challenge is the cold weather of Minnesota.

You are doing so well and the training is paying off. Hills are great to go down! I love that second when you get to the crest of the hill. I'm enjoying the gym at the moment too. I've found a nearby one that caters for people like me and have no trouble motivating myself to go.

Thx again, you’re a very interesting writer. You really clarify all the facets of these runs. I walk my dog and do stretches while I walk in a beautiful flower garden. I use the benches for push-ups, etc... my beagle gets me up and out often to catch the sunrise. If I do decide to do an organized run, however, I’d have to give you the credit. Not planning one but............

Thanks for the tag! I continue to conduct my "virtual races" - generally by walking 3 - 4 miles at a time, with a goal of 3 walks per week. I use the virtual races from yes.fit (I have no stake in their business). Right now I am doing an Oktoberfest walk through Munich. It is fun to rack up the miles and see the Google street view photos of "where I walked!" As the colder weather sets in here in the midwest, I do more indoor walking workouts with Leslie Sansone's Walk at Home videos (available free on YouTube). Good luck to all!

Hi everyone, yesterday I went practice jogging along the Thanksgiving turkey trot route. It was really cold and windy. But I kept jogging anyway. The wind was blowing my face and ankles. I was wearing a down jacket but perspiration built up so it made me colder. So running in cold windy weather is way different than running in October. So I went to buy under armor cold gear hoodie and jogger pants. I think I need wool socks and mittens too. One thing about running in cold weather is that your body heats up and perspires. So its different than just walking. I am still in bed because I am exhausted from my practice running. I woke up with sore throat. Turkey Trot is a 6k instead of 5k along Shepherd Road in St Paul. The Reindeer Run comes next and that's in December. That will probably be even colder.

All that perspiring probably requires more fluid intake. Hope your sore throat heals quickly. Thx for the outline of runnining in cold weather.

Running in cold weather with cotton fruit of loom sweatpants does not work. The wind blows through and its not that insulating. Running in down jacket can be bad too because perspiration condenses on inside of jacket. Then the wind hits and makes you even colder. I hope the under armor cold gear helps because it's supposed to be insulating and also allows perspiration to evaporate. I didn't talk to anyone about what to wear for cold weather jogging. So I am just trying to figure our what works. I learned that 6k is 3.7 miles. So that is 0.6miles more than 5k. I have to be ready for longer race in cold weather. I tried drinking water that I leave in car but it was so hard to drink because it got too cold. Almost frozen.

I like room temperature water, I don’t know about you but a flask would keep it room temperature and may be easie4 to drink in the cold. At least it wouldn’t get colder.

Is that a hydro flask?