On the road again...
I write. I read. I run. One time, I ran a lot on my 50th birthday.
Paul
Dave
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.
I ran a mile and I liked it, liked it, liked it. dgb2n@yahoo.com
Hope now that things are settling down Dave that you'll find your running mojo and get out more! I totally understand the whole not being able to get up early enough for an early morning run. My husband has been dealing with that since he started this job that he's at now. Doesn't help that he has a little over an hour commute each day. Needless to say I'm finding it my job to make sure he gets out for his run. Last night I refused to go out for my run until he got his in.
Got 8 miles in this morning and am looking forward to running maybe a bit longer than 8 tonight. Depends on the weather though. If we get thunder/lightning and hail not sure dh will let me out. Hope it's just rain
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
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It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
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.
Think I'm still recovering from the fast 18 miler on Saturday. Is that possible? I went out to run 5 miles of hills, and quickly knew I did not have a hill workout in me, so I turned it into a somewhat hilly 7 miler. The humidity is killing me a little bit, but I can only be very thankful that we had such low humidity at the beginning of the summer.
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.
3.1 miles, 29:09, 9:16/mi, AHR 132 (68% MHR)
jelly!
Lou, (aka Mr. predawnrunner), MD, USA | Lou's Brews | lking@pobox.com
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.
lou - that was great!!! thanks!!!
TY - nice run!
AP - mmmm fruit!!!!
No run for me this morning. I woke up late and need to get my living room ready for the couch I'm going to get in an hour.