Barking Mad To Run
Scotty - if you want to do 5 days, you might try doing two days run, one day off, two days run, one day off, etc. It would mean a rotating schedule, with each week different. Two weeks out of three would be 5 days, and one would be four. Only problem is with your races, which may not fit into the two days on part. Damaris - enjoy your torture tonight. Z - have fun with the social run. How are the kids doing with their runs? Obie - enjoy your rest. Maybe do a walk to loosen up the muscles? HM - sorry about the sore knees. My dad had to give up singing with his group because it was too hard to stand for so long (he has a back injury dating back to WWII). I hope chorus goes better for you. Jack - enjoy the rest. Is your wife feeling nervous about her first marathon? Have fun with your movies and carb loading. PAD - good job on the 4.5. That bunny is fast, hard to catch sometimes. AFM - I intend to do a few miles later, but no idea when or where.
Scotty - if you want to do 5 days, you might try doing two days run, one day off, two days run, one day off, etc. It would mean a rotating schedule, with each week different. Two weeks out of three would be 5 days, and one would be four. Only problem is with your races, which may not fit into the two days on part.
Damaris - enjoy your torture tonight.
Z - have fun with the social run. How are the kids doing with their runs?
Obie - enjoy your rest. Maybe do a walk to loosen up the muscles?
HM - sorry about the sore knees. My dad had to give up singing with his group because it was too hard to stand for so long (he has a back injury dating back to WWII). I hope chorus goes better for you.
Jack - enjoy the rest. Is your wife feeling nervous about her first marathon? Have fun with your movies and carb loading.
PAD - good job on the 4.5. That bunny is fast, hard to catch sometimes.
AFM - I intend to do a few miles later, but no idea when or where.
Ginny, do what I do sometimes...just go out the door of your house, make a turn on the spur of the moment and just start running. Don't even think about where you're going...just turn down a road when you feel like it. You never know where you end up and sometimes get to see some really 'unique' things along the way. I sometimes go to the park nearby me and do this 'adventuring' run on the trails there in the park, with no laid out plan our course. It can be a lot of fun! It's even more fun when you go do it somewhere you've never been before and don't know any of the routes. When I travel, I love going out my hotel door and just getting myself lost in strange territory on a run and then having to find my way back again.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
After a hard gym workout yesterday. I opted to chase the bunny today with 4.5 easy rather than intervals, giving me 300.1 for the year and 599.9 to go.
Poor bunny, always being chased. He's probably a basket case by now....
Hi Pens. SRD for me after a six mile run and DD track banquet last night. Today I am carb load shopping for DW and me, going to get DD from swim practice, and tonight I plan on giving my DVR a workout. DW has her parent volunteer dinner that she does every year so I am going to catch up on the few shows that I watch. The kids can fend for themselves. Have a good day. It's almost Friday...
Hi Pens.
SRD for me after a six mile run and DD track banquet last night. Today I am carb load shopping for DW and me, going to get DD from swim practice, and tonight I plan on giving my DVR a workout. DW has her parent volunteer dinner that she does every year so I am going to catch up on the few shows that I watch. The kids can fend for themselves.
Have a good day. It's almost Friday...
Carb load shopping?
Careful.....
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Scotty: Thanks for the tip! LOL!!!
Return To Racing
3.1 for us. Last mile at 10:16 with DW holding my water bottle in front of me like a carrot (mean Bunny). Even broke a sweat at 48DP. Now ready for a 6 miler sometime this weekend.
Keep runnin' Scotty !!!
Scotty - that is more or less what I do. I don't have a lot of options, because I live a few miles outside of town and there are only a few small residential neighborhoods nearby where I can run - otherwise it's long winding rural roads with few intersections - but I do mix up the streets as much as possible. I often go out not knowing whether my run will be 3, 4, 5, 8 or more miles. I don't much like driving to town to run, though it's flatter and there are more streets there, because it's a small town with a few nice neighborhoods, but many not so nice ones. It makes a change though, so sometimes I'll run into town and meet my husband at the library or ice cream stand.
In any case, today DH dropped me off after a visit to the grocery and library at the top of the hill and I ran home, making 4.8 miles. It was only 72, but the humidity was high so it felt like 80. Not much for some of you, but I was not handling it well, so I didn't stretch it out as much as usual. I should have brought water, but figured it wasn't necessary for a short run. I kept wishing one of the storm clouds in the distance would pass my way and drop a few raindrops, but they all went elsewhere.