Happy Groundhog's Day!    For some reason, I have a Sonny and Cher song running through my brain....

Steve, thanks for the recap.  One must have serious snow to have a snow tunnel. 

Mike, nice run and congrats to the GD scoring well! 

Enjoy the retreat, KSA! 

MikeE, kudos to your granddaughter!!!.  Nice run today.

Joe, great to read that you were able to fit in your tempo. How is your new training plan working for you?

 

 

Thanks for asking about the Hanson's plan, Mariposi.   MikeE has much more experience executing the plan than I do.  He could comment with much more content.   Bioguy is also using Hansons and I'd like his take.   For me, I'm wrapping up week 8 of 18 this weekend heading for Boston.   I've been pleasantly surprised by a couple of things.   One, I've managed the six days/week of running with no problem.   I had only been running 4 or, at most, 5 days per week on the Higdon plans I'd been using.  Two, I really like the variety of both distance, style and pace of the runs in each week.  This has been good for the mental aspects of training as well as changing things up on the legs.   I still have to get through some long-ish mid-week tempo runs over the next few weeks which will be interesting given I still work for a living.   But I feel great and am pleased with it so far.

While I keep all my training records here on RA, I also have a paper print out of the plan taped to a mirror in our bedroom.   The 18 weeks works out to two and a half pages of a spreadsheet printout .   I just finished the first page of training...here's a photo of my penciled daily notes through seven weeks of training.

More info than you wanted, sorry!!

Have a quiet morning here, getting the tax return started.   Temps in the 40s this afternoon, will do some 800m repeats with my grandson, then six miles in shorts for me.   On page 2 of the sheet.

Have a greta weekend!

Joe--love your enthusiasm for your plan. Going in confident and healthy is so important.

Carolyn--that's such a Colorado picture! Nice.

This cartoon reminded me of some of the conversations here.

Out for a 10K brisk-walk in unexpectedly chilly temps. "Just" 15F this morning; I thought it was supposed to be warmer. Oh well. Beautiful clear blue sky after sunrise, though.

My Garmin's not let me upload all week. Reset, hard reset, etc.  Nothing. I keep getting a message saying I need to "format the disk before I can use it," which will delete all my data. I did that and the next day I get the same message. Hmmm....

Looking forward (presumably) to hearing from our new governor today. I'll leave it at that.

8 miles on some pretty knarly trails this morning. It isn't called the death loop for nothing!! I survived. And I am very pleased with my overall pace. Of course that downhill road mile at the end helped.  We are having some very spring like weather here.  Made for a pleasant morning run!

Thanks for the great recap Steve!!

Sounds like some of the ouchies are healing!!

Wildchild - that looks like a gorgeous place to run!!

I volunteered at the Fudgcice 5k today instead of running - I was a little nervous about testing out my knee in the frigid cold and have it start hurting half way thru. It was frigid out there at the registration table and finish line, but it was Sole Sister Day at the Fudgcicle so it was a lot of fun seeing everyone!!

At the gym - 15 minutes arc trainer, 2.6 miles run/walk with no pain on the treadmill, 15 minute spin bike then some core work and foam rolling!!

Hopefully this really is just an ITB inflammation/irritation and will keep improving!!

Happy Ground Hog Day!! Bring on Spring!!

Glad you're feeling better, Dave. Sometimes backing off is just what we need (not that some of us are very good at that...).

Probably a good plan for the race today, Deez. Always need more help, right?

Joe, that reminds me of when I first started training for marathons. I used the Higdon plans, started with beginner for my first one and had an excellent experience. Moved up to intermediate, and then just sort of internalized the plans I guess (for lack of a better term). Now, it seems weather, conditions, work, life in general just get in the way of following a formal plan, at least in the winter. For my marathons, I just try to work back from race day, build in a 2 week taper, and figure out the long runs from there. Fill in the weeks with whatever I might need for the particular race, with amount of hills usually being the deciding factor. So, I guess I sort of balance out you and Mike following such detailed plans.

Speaking of which, that means this weekend should include a good downhill run that I'll do today, and a long run of 17-18 tomorrow. That'll have some rolling hills, but doing the first third of last week's long run on that steep downhill pretty much laid me up for most of last week. So this week I'll break them up. Live and learn, right?

Waiting for it to warm up to -5° so will go out early this afternoon. My run will start at the top of Ester Dome, where it might be windy but should be warmer. At least the sun will be shining brightly all day!

Great pics Steve.

Hope the weather doesn't impact your training Joe.

Well after being in Minneapolis for work this week I am now in Nashville for kiddos Invitational Indoor track meet. So I ran outside in shorts and a t-shirt. Oh my. from -52 to 53 (and climbing) in less than 3 days. Wow. So fun to get outdoors.

Enjoy the day.

Cheers.

Great pics, Steve!  The grandkiddo's smile says it all.  And that's alotta snow!

Dave - Happy you're feeling better.

.75 miles this a.m., with about 15 min upper body ST, 4 x 30 sec planks, and (so far) one set of PT exercises and one 2-min set of 4" step ups.  My butt was sore this morning from yesterday's step ups.

The Clam Beach Run runners lucked out today.  The weather was supposed to be horrible, but so far it's been beautiful.

. . . . that's about it for now . . . .