Morning!  At work (bah) but planning a short recovery run tonight.

indi, sorry about your wife's grandmother.

jedi, nice run.

Rollcast, morning!

onemile, yeah, that wind sounds horrible.  I did 18mph headwinds for my PR marathon and I don't wish that on anybody!

mdawg, enjoy the speed training workout.

Cbus, good luck at Columbus!

 

Josh:  What do you think is making the biggest impact for you on the Fitzgerald plan?

 

mdawg - Energy levels to complete my workouts and my energy levels through the day, without a doubt.  I still haven't had a cup of coffee in a few weeks and i don't need my afternoon nap anymore.  I've settled in to about 2900 calories a day, 450g of carbs and 100g of protien

Indi - sorry about your wife's grandma

Docket - Congrats on your next star on the maniacs

Sprinkles - great pic

Cbus - glad you signed up

onemile - good luck at the track tonight

me - Have 6 miles on tap sometime today after it snowed all afternoon yesterday but the sun's out and no wind so might do some extra miles.  Little frustrated with my race this weekend, highs were in the 50's, then two days ago high dropped to 42 and today it says high of 25 <sigh>

Hey all, long time, no post.  I'm not planning to post regularly in the March thread at this point, given that I'm about 35 pages behind, I think I'll wait for the April thread and start again then.  My injury has resolved, but running has still been very sporadic the last two weeks due to some insanity at work and some truly terrible weather as well.  I'm hoping that I'll be able to get back into a better routine this week.  I'm no longer running the half-marathon on April 7th, as it would cost me a few hundred dollars between the ferry and the hotel and it wouldn't be a goal race at this point anyway.  Still plan to run Vancouver, but just as a long run at this point.  Looking now at increasing miles and starting training for a fall marathon in June.  I'm planning on running the Bellingham Bay Marathon on September 29th.

Hope everyone is doing well.

cmb - glad you are on the mend!

Hi all!  Winds in the 20's with gusts in the 30-40s...no thanks!!  Went to the gym planning for 6 easy miles with some strength training.  I hate the TM so I typically hop-off every mile and do upper body and core work, just to break up the monotony.  It also provides some interval type training for my obstacle course races.  Anyway, I wasn't really feeling it anyway and after mile 4, some guy was asking me about races and such and after talking to him for about 10 minutes, I just gave up.  So, 4 miles @ 9:55/mile and some upper body.  Will have a couple miles to make up at some point this week, but not big deal.

Josh:  I think we all occasionally feel like we are losing momentum!  I think you are doing great!

Zoe:  Good to see you back!  Glad your injury is better and you have a solid plan in place.

Cmb:  Happy to see you too! I hope your appointment goes well and you can start PT!

Docket:  Welcome back to work, right?  Enjoy your recovery run.

Jedi:  Nice run this AM!!

Roll:  Congrats to you for getting up at "Indy time"

One and CBus:  Good luck on your strength runs.  I was hurting pretty badly today from mine yesterday, but glad I got it done!

MDawg:  Great 7 on the TM!  I have  friend at Disney right now and she keeps texting me pics of drinks and sun and fun....damn her!

I am sorry you DNFd!  I will tell you yesterday, my 3rd interval was sooooo hard and after that one, I had to take a minute because I truly thought I was going to vomit!  The wind was pretty bad and was a good 15 mph slower yesterday than today so I wouldn't worry too much!

So, I DNFed today's workout. First interval felt great. Second was harder. On the third, I said, forget it, and ended the workout. I just couldnt get on pace. I'm not sure what was wrong. The wind was something else, so maybe that was it. On the way back, there were moments that i had to walk. Or maybe I'm still not fully recovered. I dunno. In any case, tomorrow's a rest day.

 

Sucks, sorry Cbus.  I'm tempted to skip all my intervals this cycle which start next week and just finish my mileage and MP runs strong and get to the starting line healthy.

That's a sensible plan. Flinders recommended something similar for me, and I think I might just do that. At this point, I don't think the benefits outweigh the costs of these workouts.

Indi- Sorry to hear about your loss  That's terrible.

Onemile- those are the good ones- there is one photo wherein I gained 20 pounds- this photo has been removed with that 'this is not me' feature offered by marathonfoto

Mdawg- I try to look like I'm being cute for race photogs but 90% of the time when I do, I wind up looking awful, so I stopped paying attention to them and now the pics have been a little better.  The worst was when I'd try to pick my arms up but had no energy left, so I looked pathetic.

Jedi- Those are some fast intervals.

Cbus- Congrats on the marathon registration! Always fun to hit enter and know you've sold your soul to another 18 weeks of planning!

me- My calves were still too sore to try out today, plus I had a long work day and a volunteer meeting after work, and then I had to go back to work.  Tomorrow I'm doing my short workout, moving the longer one to Thursday so that I can work with my boss's schedule.

Morning guys!

Zoe - glad your injury is better and you have a plan to get back to training.

josh - nice recovery miles. Don't judge your progress based on one or two workouts.

Cbus - sorry the workout didn't go well.

Sprinkles - ha, good idea. I will have to use that feature too!

D - hope Trixie is doing better!

Got in my 11 w/ 2x3 miles at the indoor track last night.  It was feeling way too easy so I just ran it by effort instead. I think my footpod is messed up.  Today is a SRD but I think I might do an easy 3 miles to pad my week a little. I have my tune up half on Sunday and am trying to strike a balance between being rested enough to run well but still have a decent training week.