Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end. (RF)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!! For those of you in the north of the US (or south of Canada) fall air is here!!!!!!!! (How are the temps in the UK and France??) For the past week or so all my runs have been in nice cool fall temperatures. Those of you still training in a broiler, we think of you each and every run and will be seriously envious of you during our winter months. Although, some of my best running has been on crisp, sunny days on packed snowmobile trails in the back woods. Right now it is so pleasant not to be overly concerned about dehydration during shorter runs and even the BG seems to be a bit easier to regulate. I'm even leaving the heart rate monitor home once in a while. At the moment I'm recovering from a bit of depletion last week following my long run but am still hoping for a 13.1 this Saturday. Today's pace has picked up a bit and the legs are feeling better. So we'll see how things go.
To paraphrase an old poster: Today is the first day of the rest of your training. It doesn’t matter where you started or how far you’ve come. Today is the day. Your training didn’t start 6 weeks ago. Your training started the last time you hit the road. John “the Penguin” Bingham Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire
I am finding that the transition from the treadmill to the road, to be hard on the legs. While my lungs can handle it my legs are sore, in particular my right leg. I hope that they will catch up in the next few weeks. in the mean time I'll just plod along.
John, Yea I run on cement, but my knees don't bother me, it the large muscles Hams and the rear. The 2 mi rout I run is not flat but has two 30 ft rises and declines. That is the big differance between the treadmill and the road. The thing I am learning is to pace the declines, so that I am rested for the inclines. I have learned that you can not make up on declines for what you loose on the inclines. Best to go into the inclines a little bit stronger. Over all it is the hills that are working those legs and making them sore.