Morning trailers!  just got back from PT, and I'm starved and tired.  It's a good workout and stuff that I wouldn't consistently do on my own.  But still not the same as running.    And today is one of those days my family really needs me to go for a run...

Good luck racers!

I will do something after work, not sure what yet.

QOTD: How often do you push yourself beyond your comfort zone in training or racing? And how do you determine where that zone is?

Not enough. I plan to do some of that this year once I start a focused training effort for Pinhoti in late April.

I usually don't know if I pushed beyond it until after the run. I hope to be able to recognize the effort level in the moment and push beyond, accordingly at least once a week.

Great run this morning, upper 20's, no wind to speak of, freshly packed snow and a bright moon to see by, no headlamp needed. I took both dogs this morning, the old dog keeps my pace down to less than a 10 minute miles any faster and he lags behind. We did 6

QOTD: I use to push myself quite hard a couple times a week and for the most part I would get away with it but lately I ve been more like a fragile flower and the slightest stress causes me problems. If I knew then what I know now I would of just took the entire month of January and most of February off.

I'm going to do about 12 hours tonight/tomorrow.  Unfortunately they will be in the air..... flying from London to Tokyo.

I did do a pretty stout 5 miler through Hyde Park this morning. Seems like all I do on these trips is eat, run and go to meetings. I get to spend next week in Yokohama, but I'm thinking about taking the train to Kamakura to run a few trails they have there on Sunday If my jet lag isn't too bad. Get in some Zen Running I guess.

Have a nice weekend everybody!

qotd: some times I'll push the miles doing B2Bs or push the pace like this morning.

I wish my weekly mileage would allow for a lazy day... That's the price for slacking (again).

Heading out for 10+ in the sunshine. The heat wave has found its second wind again, with temps in the upper 50's (yesterday, I ran in the teens with 30+mph winds) before we are bound for another blizzard over the weekend again. However, I don't think it's coming - the last two forecasted snowstorms did not dump a single snowflake here, so we might luck out again, I hope!

QOTD: Not much right now, due to a lack of motivation. Where's that switch in my head to crank it up a notch?

I used to run hard and long at least once a week, now I can barely get myself to slog out the minimum miles. But usually, my long runs are quite fast, for me there's no such thing as an "easy long run". Now I just need to do more of these...

Edit: I determine "hard" by the exhaustion during/after the run, and by pace on some known trails that I run often (so that I have set benchmarks). I don't get much soreness, even if I run hard, so that is not indicator.

Ran last night again despite having a bit of a fever. Nice five miles at a decent pace. Felt better.

QOTD: Probably like my cycling. Easy days not quite easy enough, hard days not hard enough. I have been trying to build a base so not racing every hill like I used to ... also just a bit burned out on that

evening  strength training tonight

qotd: not too much, if i look back at my injury history it usually coincides w/ pushing it- the fact of the matter is pushing it much isn't going to put me on any podiums- I started running late and enjoy it, but I'll never be a front of the pack finisher; so I'll take it a little slower and just soak it in