It's November! The time is now! It's time to start a new Quest!!!
The Quest will run through to the end of the month, with weekly Monday update posts throughout.
What is the Quest?
The aim of the Quest is to help you find a focus or goal that you would like to achieve by the end of the Quest period.
The Quest takes one calendar month. You can at join any point during that time.
I ask that you are a C25K Graduate before joining the Quest. The reason for this is that pre-graduation your week is very much structured according to the C25K programme, and I wouldn't want the Quest to interfere with that.
Most popular goals are:
★ To run three times a week
★ To slowly increase distance
★ To train for a specific race
★ To add Stretch and Strength exercises to your weekly routine
This is a personal challenge, so it's completely up to you! If you want to join, all you have to do is comment below with something like:
I would like to join the Quest, or, count me in! I want to ..............
Every week of November I will put up a new post and we can all chat about how we are doing. It’s going to be awesome!!! 😃
At the end of the Quest, there will be a certificate for you to download and keep!!
Wishing you a happy, healthy, and totally awesome month with lots of running 💥
Millsie-J, Realfoodieclub, Oldfloss, Ju-Ju, and Roseabi xxx
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My quest is to do a hilly long run every week. I have a hilly route and I usually have to stop 3 or 4 times. I want to run it without stopping ! Munch it in fact.
It's definitely psychological for me Bluebird. If I think I can't do a hilly run without stopping, then I can't. If I think I can, then just maybe I can
My friend and I are doing a one month running streak starting today! Some days will be longer as I’m in the process of building to HM, but others will only be 1 mile slow, especially as I’m quite mindful about resting legs. However, I’m looking forward to it!
I would like my November quest to be a slow increase in mileage. I have already started a tad and would like to be up to 5 to 5.5 miles on my long run by the end of the month. 😊
I’m close to 10k (did 9k today 💪) and that’s my real quest, but I’d also like to be slightly less snail-like up my killer parkrun hill. My PB at parkrun is quicker than my normal 5k route, so I’d love to see how I’d do without slowing down so much my dog WALKS next to me! 🐕🐕🐌🐌😅😅
I’m doing a virtual challenge to run along Hadrians Wall - 90 miles. There’s a very nice medal at the end of it. I started on the 24th October. The time scale is 3 months, but I’ve done 15% already and will be running tonight, so I think it will take a lot less time than that, especially as I often run 3- 5 times a week or more (except when lack of sleep is a problem).
I wanted to do another public race, but there’s nothing near enough to me really at the moment.
My quest is to run 10k at least twice more this month.
My first thought after completing my first one was "done it, never doing it again ". But that would be a waste, so now I've committed myself on here, I will crack on!
This November I want to continue to run 3 times a week. Having a break this week due to virus but hope to run again at least by Tues (not rushing it). Also want to run 10k at least 2 more times, have run it twice so far, and continue strength and flex exercises 3 times a week.
I’ve signed up for a 10k my poppy run with UpTheStanley and have raised donations. Once we receive our poppy t-shirts we will plan the run , hopefully before 11 November.
I will be consolidating again over the next month. Two or three runs a week.
I've started a new programme with the goal to run a HM in the new year. The plan involves running 3 days with 2 days of crosstraining each week, so my goal for this month is to do just that! Crosstraining can range from biking, strength training, core work, yoga, snowshoeing if the snow in the forecast sticks around; whatever makes me happy 😊. The plan doesn't have any recovery weeks built in but the weekends I work will make it very hard to actually meet the above goal so I'm allowing myself a recovery week on those weeks. I will work hard to fit in what I can but will not beat myself up on that week for not fitting everything in. This month, my recovery week will be Nov 10-16.
Sounds brilliant!! Looking forward to reading all about it. I particularly like that one of your goals is not to beat yourself up if you miss a workout - excellent xxx
My goal is to run regularly, looking back on last year I did 0 runs in November. I plan to run 2 or 3 times a week whatever the weather. Also continue with my core exercises.
I plan for swimming and strength sessions twice a week each, and I would like to get back into doing parkrun again. Since I can only make one Saturday this month it's in the diary - November 17th!! 😊
I have three 10k races booked for this month so I would like to finish them all and hope to beat my previous 10k race time of 1hr 06mins. Secretly hoping for a sub-one hour 10k but that seems to be pushing it a bit so I won't make that my quest.
Also I really, really need to start doing some strength and stretch exercises. Can't seem to find the mojo to do them but don't want to get injured so that is my other quest - stretch & strength at least once a week.
Fancy pairing up with me on the yoga ju-ju- ? I've gone for 12 sessions over the month, ideally as 3+ a week. My standard practice is only 10 minutes or so, actually following an online class would be the icing on the cake.
With Dexy now on the far side of the Bridge with me , I'm looking for some long-term goals that I can progress towards while we still run together some of the time. Given that I'm committed (and probably should be ) to next year's 10 mile / 16k Great South Run, I've identified 3 things I think I can try to push on a monthly basis:
Increase furthest continuous distance jogged, time irrelevant - eventually aiming for perhaps 20k. So the Great South seems short when it comes ….. furthest to date is 12k.
Increase distance at "race pace" (nmt 6'00"/k, hopefully 5'30"/k), current best 10k in 53'48". Obviously eventually aiming for 10 miles / 16k, and thus the Great South in around 90 mins …..
Increase max distance at "silly pace" (13 kph, 4'36"/k) on the gym treadmill - current best 600 metres . 5k would get me back to my 3 year old Parkrun PB - no chance I suspect.
So my targets for November - 14k, 11k and 750m respectively. Wish me luck …..
Hello again! Count me in, please, I've been away too long.
I have one goal: get out there and running again. So to smarten that up a bit, let's say to run 5k in 39 minutes by 30NOV18. I will also start going to the gym again.
Thank you! Hope you are okay too? I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone again It's good to be back, although I'm leaving the country again tomorrow so no runs this week, mostly because I have a horrendous cold and cough. Bah! Never mind, I'll get straight back on it when I return! x
I’m going for a run streak for November. I’ve found it hard to motivate myself since the dark mornings have set in, so I’m hoping that telling myself I just need to do at least a mile a day will keep me going!
Roseabi count me in too. I am going to master the treadmill in November. Have run 5k about 6 times outside but have had to move inside for week day runs. Tried it twice. Failed twice. What is it about the treadmill!!!!! Looking forward to running outside this weekend before heading back inside next week.
I just completed another 5k this morning, need to get back to regular parkrun to maintain Saturday morning status, plus I’ve rejoined my old running club, I’ll see if I’m 10k ready by January, here’s hoping 🤞🏻
1) Swimming - ideally 7km total towards my ever so close virtual swim completion. I've got back into it really well in October but have been keeping to 0.5km per session (partly just time as I have got quite a bit slower) 7km would mean not only swimming as often as the schedule I have established (first thing Mon-Weds) but pushing a few of those swims longer. Given the other things going on (eg tomorrow's morning session is already off so I can accompany my Dad to radiotherapy), I'll still be well chuffed to get 6km
2) Running - I've been focussing on medals involving longer runs lately. This month is a medal free month (as I have something lined up for December) I'd like to focus on 'more often' so my goal is 8 runs over the month (ideally as 2 runs a week but...)
3) I keep setting goals I am not achieving for yoga. But I don't want to let go of it. So this month let's see what I do with aiming for 12 sessions in total (and again ideally as 3+ sessions a week but...) Perhaps ju-ju- and I need to make a pact?
4) Weight - this needs taking in hand. I got down to a healthy BMI and stayed there for several years but this year has not been so good and last month the rate of increase has become upsetting. I am really not sure what goal to set though... something like never getting above today's weight as well as ending it lower than today (because it swings quite a bit)
5) Last but not least, making a daily entry in the book where I write something I've appreciated that day.
Over September/October I was working on that Cakestand medal with all the little cupcake charms for runs of various lengths, and in October that was combined with doing an overall 20km for the Breastfeeding Network Big Tea Break, part two of a combined event with their Mums' Milk Run in May - two wooden medals, one of which fits round the other (and yes, when I receive part two (soon I hope!) I'll be showing it off)
So it is kind of time to do some runs that don't count for anything in particular.
All runs count for something, but it's extra nice to receive a pretty medal, isn't it!!?? I got an ice cream-shaped one last year for a virtual run - and a donation to Alzheimer's Society 😊
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, I'm looking for some long-term goals that I can progress towards while we still run together some of the time. Given that I'm committed (and probably should be 
. 5k would get me back to my 3 year old Parkrun PB - no chance I suspect.
‘Be Awesome in October’ Quest, Week 2. Feel free to join, or tell us how it’s going 🍁🍂🍁
