Hey, Dave!  You running in the morning?

 

I've been inspired but not following through too well.  Most runs have been late evening except on weekends.  I need to start running at work again but I'm missing the athletic center we had at my last job.  No good place to run.  Treadmills are adjacent to a little convenience store so I can have a candy bar after my workout. 

 

Morning will probably work best but so far, I haven't been able to get to bed early enough to make it work.  Stays light late here (western edge of the eastern time zone).  Kids playing until 9.

Shan, if your going to be running more especially multiple runs a day you better up your calories quite a bit. I'm finding it hard keeping up with my eating to support my running. Right when I think I've got it figured out the fire inside me starts burning hotter and I find that I need more *sigh*  Good luck!

Heat KILLS my appetite however I've found something that helps. Either fresh juicy fruit (watermelon/cantelope etc) or a nice frozen coke lol

Wymens Ha!  There has never been a time that I could not out eat my training.  I've done better lately but not by choice.  Bad blood sugar number.  Had a very nice 6-miler this morning.  I feel like I'm almost back to where I was in mid-May before I got hurt.  Hope it continues.  6.07 miles, 56:46, 145 AVG HR,  77% of MHR.  The week gets busy starting tomorrow.

Hey Perry, that's what counts.

P2R, that's funny... being able to out eat your training. I seem to be able to do that, too. My highest mileage months always seem to be the highest weight months...

I got 6 miles in today at lunch. Sort of a progressive pace run, with the first ouchie mile with a downhill trail section to get to the main bike path... 9:14, 9:00, 8:36, 8:00, 7:30, 8:10; then a .6 mile walk back up that hill to my office. After my legs get over the shock of having to run, they do ok.

K: It's only Wed -- I've definitely heard of people taking that long to recover from a long run, much less a long & fast run.

 

 

One of the brilliant moves I made was to decide not to overdo it with shoes, and just bring two active pairs of running shoes, along with two backup old pairs in my trunk. I like to keep two old pairs in my trunk these days, so I always have a clean pair of shoes to change into; I used to keep one pair there, but after several times of changing into it and forgetting to replace it, I decided to up the reserve to two pairs.

 

When I unpacked here, I found that one of my pairs of active shoes was mismatched -- and I don't mean just a little -- it was a right shoe and a left shoe, alright, but one was one of mine, and one was one of my wife's. Oops. No use that "pair" is. So I'm doing a lot of running in "retired" pairs, especially as I keep getting rained on, which takes a pair out of use for a day to get dry.

 

PS: We've been doing more blueberries, strawberries, and grapes this summer -- I find those easy to stuff some into my mouth after a run. Sometimes I feel too tired to handle meat, or just not feeling like eating much of anything -- but the fruit I find pretty easy to stuff into the mouthhole anyway.

Got in one of the best 6 mile runs I've had.  Nothing overly aggressive, but just running by feel and not really checking the Garmin during the run.  Came back and found that I'd run negative splits on every mile.

11:17 / 10:41 / 10:38 / 10:38 / 10:18 / 9:39

No record breaking times there, for sure, but it was easy and fun.  It was also in 100% humidity.  Now I'm hopping in a van and heading up to Ohio on a youth trip until Sunday.  At least I'll have a change of scenery for my scheduled 12 miler on Saturday.