On the road again...
Started out with a nice run this morning - quick easy run just under 5 miles. It's really starting to get hot and humid. Not liking summer temps too much right now.
I write. I read. I run. One time, I ran a lot on my 50th birthday.
Paul
Oh and I finished 4th out of 9 women and 19th out of 39 runners Not bad for a road racer (soon to be trail racer)
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
I agree about not liking summer too much right now. I hate the transition to the heat/humidity
Nice job Pam !!!
I can really see that you'd excel in ultras/trail races if that were your focus. When's the next one?
It's definately a transition running in the heat/humidity. I felt a bit frustrated during my runs this weekend. Just had to remind myself that this is TRAINING and running in the heat will better prepare me for the Fall marathons.
Off day today. Back at it tomorrow.
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I love trails, except for not wanting ticks or poison ivy, and not wanting to twist an ankle -- so I have mixed feelings toward them. There is a 50K one coming up that I think I'll do -- it is a three-looper, with aid stations at opposite sides, so it's easy to bail out after any loop or half-loop. I volunteered it last year, which meant waking up at 0400 or something, and not getting back til nightfall, so actually running the 50K would use up less of my day...
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
Runs during transition to the heat and humidity can be VERY frustrating. Heat and humidity makes me nauseous until I get used to it. Enjoy your day off Murph!
Perry I had to get up at 3am and I think I got home around 5 pm. I say run the 50k! I'm thinking of doing some volunteering at some of the trail races in NJ.
Got in a nice 6.2 mile run today. BOY my quads are sore! Running uphill felt awesome but going downhill my legs didn't want to bend. Flat felt great too. Looking forward to a deep tissue massage from dh tonight (well as much as you can for a painful massage lol)
Lots of nice running around here this past week/weekend! You guys all rock.
Look at Bugs with that shiny new HM PR! Way to go, girlfren!
And Paul with his 5k PR. You're right on the distance: it sucks when it's wrong on either side. I mean, how hard is it to measure a 5k??
Pam, that was probably a real smart thing to do when you cut to the 50k. You are so right in that running on those trails takes focus. I love trail running. The marathon/ultra I do here every year is probably 2/3 trail and 1/3 road, and some of the trail parts can be almost like mountain goat trails!
I had some transition to heat running issues this weekend, and we're not even very hot by the standards you guys deal with! Saturday's run ended up being 18.6 miles in temps that were warmer than I was expecting: 71 at the end. I really didn't hydrate well enough or have a good plan for drinking on the run. Paid for it with calf cramps and headache near the end. I was hoping to run 18-20, so happy enough with the distance, just mad that I made such a newbie error on the hydration plan (or lack of it). Sunday's run was 11 hilly miles, water and S-cap before I left, DH brought me water mid-run and I had more immediately after. Much better. I used to be able to run long without water, DH teased me I was like a camel. Well, can't seem to do that anymore so need to be better at planning.
This week is a cutback week, but I'll be picking up the pace on the gardening and such. Looks like a gorgeous week, weather-wise!
(heh, fixed that, Lou)
I must have missed Bugs getting a PR at her half. Awesome.
Pam! Very nice! I am definitely afraid of trail running (train running, Erika? heh). I know I'll turn an ankle.
Erika - no water for 18-20? I couldn't. I remember one warm run I underhydrated and started feeling really sluggish after 15. Never again.
Well we are officially out of home brew in our house. How did I let this happen? Maybe it's the working every weekend thing -- that's going to go on for a few more weeks, too, but I do have to find some time to brew as there are a couple of events which require some of my beer coming up.
Finally got my plan together for the fall marathons, and it looks like 8s every Tuesday and 9s every Thursday for a while. Back to getting up (even) early(ier). Ugh.
MTA:
65°F and humid (95%). I kept my pace but only barely. I was "supposed" to do 10 striders, but ran out of gas after 4. Did 2 more later in the run, but you can't really see them in my pace chart. I guess the striders weren't really much faster than the "GA" pace I was holding. 8 miles @ 8:11/mi
65°F and humid (95%). I kept my pace but only barely. I was "supposed" to do 10 striders, but ran out of gas after 4. Did 2 more later in the run, but you can't really see them in my pace chart. I guess the striders weren't really much faster than the "GA" pace I was holding.
8 miles @ 8:11/mi
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Have a great day everyone!
71F is warm no matter where you live. Way to stick it out for the long run, Erika.
AMEN
Got a 10k run in. I sweat like a pig however the run wasn't too bad. Guess it's time for Mother Nature to turn it up a notch (not that I would be happy with that just seems my luck)
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I'm touching your pants.
Did my hardest workout yet -- ran with a friend who was doing a workout that I thought sounded too hard, but we got through it, and he was ahead of me on every part: 3200, 2400, 1600, 800, each at 5K pace, with 5min rest. mid-80s, and I got both tired and warm. But I was so glad it was a descending pyramid, so it was always a shorter (& therefore psychologically easier) distance next.
Wow, Perry! Awesome run you had.
I ran 6 miles at lunchtime. Temps around 70, lots of little flies out (gnats? seems too early for them) and they were all stuck to my sweaty self when I was done. Ewww. Sort of a progression run
8:29
8:32
8:22
8:08
7:56
and last .5 mile at 7:23 (this felt like all out almost RTYP effort)
then .5 mile up the hill to my office building at 8:59, which sounds easy but it was hard (steep).
Walked about .3 mile trying to cool off; I was all sweaty and very red faced. Temps not bad but this was all in full sun and felt hot. Got to go to my 2 pm meeting still looking like a sweaty mess.