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Another hot and humid day here. I'll probably do a rest day or a few on the TM later. It's time to get serious about prepping for our summer trip. Reading the Milepost doesn't get the bags packed or the house cleaned.
Afternoon. Also a TM run, but not sure of distance, depending on whether I decide on a race (5K) on Monday or not. Sorry, but mid 80s and humid at 7:30am does not give me comfort that I won't have an asthma attack at the race.
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Track meet today. Stumbled the start of the 100 16:33 did ok on the 200 33:88. 1 of 1 in both.
Pad - congratulations on running the race, when others in your age group stayed home. How much of a warm up do you do for those short distances?
D - I thought you didn't like 5ks in any case, much less in summer. I did a 5 mile race last August and it was not fun and it was cooler than Miami.
The lawn got mowed, but that's as far as I went. It's good cross training.
Pad - congratulations on running the race, when others in your age group stayed home. How much of a warm up do you do for those short distances? D - I thought you didn't like 5ks in any case, much less in summer. I did a 5 mile race last August and it was not fun and it was cooler than Miami. The lawn got mowed, but that's as far as I went. It's good cross training.
I probably did a couple of miles before between and after.
I don't do short distances (ever or even often) but sometimes I do have a brain fart, LOL.
PAD is burning down the igloo with those times!
I'm trying a very silly motivational trick that won't do a thing for my training, but if it helps get my mojo back, I'm for it. I haven't made my weekly goal in a while, but now with my adjusted goal, it was within reach this week, although a bit higher than I've done in a while. Still, I got lazy last night and ended up with more miles left for the weekend than I should really run at my current mileage. So, I'm going to run 1 mile a whole bunch of times. I'm thinking that the chance to hit my mileage goal for the week, plus a whole bunch of times that I'll be forcing myself to stop running when I'm still having fun will be a worthwhile experience. So far, I've run 4.7 miles in 4 sessions.
Z - sorry you're having problems with your mojo right now. Is it heat, or the stress of the end of the school year?
Another hot (85) and humid day here. I headed to the rail trail in Shippensburg, thinking it would be shady, but was somewhat disappointed. It was still hot and not as shady as I thought. I ran 10 miles, instead of the 12 I had intended. Although I felt like I was running easy, I needed to slow down more. I ran/walked the second half.
Ginny, that's why I prefer the TM from the get go in anything above 83F. I used to cut runs too often to give me comfort. Nice job!
Ran 6.13 on the TM, including a Tune UP 5K. Moved my LR until tomorrow due to time.
Z, hugs. Sorry about your lack of mojo. Maybe signing up for another race might help?
I think it's that I don't have any races or training plan, and the long hours I'm working with the two jobs is really taking its toll. I just want to veg when I do get home, even though I know that's not good for me.
My silly plan did work, though. I got 19 miles done over the 2 days, even though I have nowhere near the conditioning to do that as two "normal" runs. And in between, I got the house clean too.
Had a nice little 6 miler today. It was warm but not too terrible if I stuck to shady routes. How is everyone today?
Nice job!
18 on the TM with the last 8 @ MP + 10% on the TM this morning. And Pilates 2 hours later. That hurt but left me soreless.
Nice job! 18 on the TM with the last 8 @ MP + 10% on the TM this morning. And Pilates 2 hours later. That hurt but left me soreless.
Soreless? As in you went into it sore and came out feeling better?Nice run!
Yeap. I usually do that the Monday post marathon for the same reason.