Mornin' everyone.
Saturday’s sagacious workouts:
Holly (4.1 miles in 63° temps, then weights & core)
C-R (8 morning miles with streak intact at 106 days)
Tramps (EZ 4 miles on overcast morning)
Tomwhite (40 min pool running with letters)
Rochrunner (4 miles in shorts and T after the rain left)
Fatozzig (40 min of core and ST followed by ice, baby)
Spacityrunner (6.2 hot and sweaty early morning trail miles [7:30 is early?] with the running group, and with hillage and massive humiditage)
RunnerKSA (15K + 1.1 mi warm up - 1st place AG. Daughter Kmays had 5K PR)
dg. (Wanted to stop, but slogged through 7 sucky serpentine sloping miles)
BerthaSlayer (22 miles heading into cutback weeks)
Pfriese (5K in 22:42 for 1st place AG, plus 4 mile warm-up and 3 mile cool-down for 10+ total)
Marj (2.5 mile free race with popsicles - did OK)
Twocat (16 miles with 7 at MP)
CMDan (5 trail miles with 4 squirrels, 1 rabbit, bunches of dogs, lots o’ humans, and a scary 2’ snake)
Mike (10 miles)
Stumpy (5 miles ‘round the lake, barely off pace, with a runner pushing a rototiller, and a gaggle of moms and strollers)
Evanflein (7.1 post-poop picking-up miles with windage)
Mariposai (lead-legged 6 miles after 5 hours of upcoming race logistics)
Jay (7.3 RW miles)
Holly gotta watch that little slipper scavenger. We had a cat that would drag anything (vegetables, shirts&hellip wrapped in plastic under the bed.
C-R, congrats on DD getting accepted at Purdue, and sorry about the bills.
Tomwhite, travel well to Knoxville.
Nice run on tired legs, Rochrunner.
Sounds like a good day, Spacityrunner.
Excellent racing, RunnerKSA, and congrats to the boss too.
Excellent racing on your part too, Pfriese.
Marj - those skinny runners will be around for another day or two. I’m jealous of a vino run.
Twocat, you have to learn to power nap - 20 minutes of hardcore sleep and done. It leaves you refreshed, but not so rested that you can't sleep later. How do you get the rolling papers around the salmon so you can smoke it?
Quite the wildlife sightings, Dan.
Nice encouragement for Holly, Mike, but it seems it didn’t work. Better hurry on those marathons, and sign up for the relay.
Stumpy, your sighting of a runner with a rototiller may be a first. Was he churning up the trail?
Mariposai, you are right in that RDs spend hours and hours and hours sweating out the details, trying to make sure everything is perfect. But it sure is nice when everything goes well!
Yesterday, which was a sunny and just slightly cool day, DW and our dear niece (DN) hiked at top top of Mt. Agamenticus in York, ME. At the top we could see snow-capped Mt. Washington to the NW, and the ocean to the East- spectacular. Then we went to Oguinquit, ME, where we walked the Marginal Way, which is a walkway between some spectacular residential properties and the top of the rocky shore of the ocean. We stopped for lunch at a spot with an ocean view on Long Sands Beach in York and stopped long enough at the famous Nubble lighthouse to snap a couple of shots before heading home. We all worked together on dinner which included plank-grilled salmon with corn relish, asparagus with balsamic glaze, and roasted Japanese sweet potatoes with grated parmesan cheese. Yum!
I went 9.4 EZ RW miles in 55° temps at sunrise this morning. There was tons of traffic on the roads because of people heading to various spots on the beach for their Easter sunrise services. I had a headwind for most of miles 3-7, which made me work a little harder, which was OK. Good workout.
I won't be posting tomorrow morning: I'm working in the start corals for the Boston Marathon, and I have to be out the door at 4am to avoid getting stuck in traffic near the start in Hopkinton. So YOYO (you're on your own) tomorrow.
Have a greta Sunday!
Jay
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
3.5 miles on tired legs. Happy Easter.
Out there running since dinosaurs roamed the earth
Jay - all those folks I saw this morning will thank you. I ran 6 on the Charles - lots of wheel chairs (both types) and runners - I heard spanish, german, french and of course some english as they all flew by me - and going at ez pace on their last day. the runners came in gaggles of 20 as well as 1 or 2. only saw one elite kenyan or ethophian woman who flew by in a blur
love that part of maine!
marj
Good morning, all.
Jay--Sounds like a great hike and a nice day. Growing up in the Mt. Washington valley, we measured the coming of Spring by the "Number 7" on the mountain. The snow in Tuckerman's Ravine is the last to melt and it eventually forms a prominent "7" on the mountain, meaning Spring is here.
Marj--that sounds neat. I do like the buzz around Boston.
13 miles for me this warm morning.
I went to bed too late, didn't get enough sleep, and had nightmares featuring this guy:
We're staying calm, though. It's early yet.
Be safe. Be kind.
Love the weekend buzz here also. We've been wearing our BAA gear and getting friendly waves.
While Marj was out running and enjoying the ambience I did 40 minutes of indoor cycling (not ready yet to bike outdoors) interspersed with a few short outdoor walks to enjoy the warm temps. Will do more this afternoon. Ran the last 2 days-short ones. Hope to run along Beacon Street tomorrow am before the marathoners come by and then will spectate (route is a short block from home).
Thanks for the daily start with recap.
Today, 10 miles around town. Legs were slow to get moving, but when it started raining about 5 miles in, my pace picked up. I really like running in a light rain.
Paul
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Marathon Maniac #957
Happy Easter!
No big dinner planned at our house. My SD's wife is out of town visiting her daughter, so he is having lunch with his neighbors, DS is having dinner with his GF's family, and DD spent the night at her best friend's house and will be home later, so DH and I decided to have a quiet day doing home chores and such and forego the big holiday meal.
I knew my legs would be tired still from the marathon, but that pace bunny has gotten a little ahead of me. Time to start gaining ground on her.
11 miles for me in a very windy 67-69 degrees.
Life is a headlong rush into the unknown. We can hunker down and hope nothing hits us or we can stand tall, lean into the wind and say, "Bring it on, darlin', and don't be stingy with the jalapenos."
Labrat
7 x 1200 VO2 max intervals
With the warmup and cool down was 12 and change again.
This is one HARD effort to keep it going.
But we run hard efforts to make them easy.
Only to turn up the intensity and make them hard again.
Sort of an endless loop.
5K 20:23 (Vdot 48.7) 9/9/17
10K 44:06 (Vdot 46.3) 3/11/17
HM 1:33:48 (Vdot 48.6) 11/11/17
FM 4:13:43 (Vdot 35.4) 3/4/18
Is this possibly a record for number of RA acronyms in one paragraph? But I'm having a brain freeze on what "SD" is.
Today was the ghost of Easters past for me due to the weather being mostly warm and sunny. My brother and I still reminisce about our Easters in Cincinnati, when it was guaranteed to be one of the first really nice days of Spring, and then there we would be stuck inside wearing our best dress-up clothes, then traveling to church for an extra-long service, followed in the afternoon by a long drive in a non-air-conditioned car with the windows rolled up so as not to muss my mother's hair-do, only to arrive for a long sit-down meal at a stuffy restaurant without a kid's menu...
Yeah, it was sort of like that for me today, so I didn't get a run in, but hope to make up for it tomorrow morning.
Have a good week ahead, y'all!
Doug, runnin' cycling in Rochester, MI
"Think blue, count two, and look for a red shoe"
5K Specialist
4.4 miles today. Did the first 3.1 at a sub-8 pace and took it easy for the final 1.3 at around an 8:45 pace.
Personal Bests:
800M - 2:38 (5/28/13) | 1 Mile -5:54 (5/28/13) | 3K - 11:55 (12/29/12) | 2M - 13:00 (12/1/12) | 5K - 20:00 (4/12/13) | 13.1M - 1:37:24 (2/3/13)
Is this possibly a record for number of RA acronyms in one paragraph? But I'm having a brain freeze on what "SD" is. Today was the ghost of Easters past for me due to the weather being mostly warm and sunny. My brother and I still reminisce about our Easters in Cincinnati, when it was guaranteed to be one of the first really nice days of Spring, and then there we would be stuck inside wearing our best dress-up clothes, then traveling to church for an extra-long service, followed in the afternoon by a long drive in a non-air-conditioned car with the windows rolled up so as not to muss my mother's hair-do, only to arrive for a long sit-down meal at a stuffy restaurant without a kid's menu... Yeah, it was sort of like that for me today, so I didn't get a run in, but hope to make up for it tomorrow morning. Have a good week ahead, y'all!
SD I believe is Step-daughter, but I could be wrong.
SD in Holly's case is Step-dad, and she could've thrown in an extra one there by saying her SD's DW was out of town, but she didn't.
Lori, I meant to say yesterday that was a helluva run. 22 miles is like peak mileage for most, and your marathon is late May. Enjoy your cutback weeks, you've earned them!
Doug, that cracked me up. I remember days like that, not so much Easter here since it's sort of a shoulder season for us. We could be warm and sunny and it could be cold and snowy. Today was cold, windy and sunny so a step back from our past week of nice conditions.
Got out this afternoon for 14.1 miles, headed west to run with the wind, which was a very good call. Felt pretty good with the wind to my back, but any time I turned so it was at the side or in my face, brrrr! Got it done though, several stops here and there which I hope to reduce as I get more fit and regain endurance, but it is what it is for now. A little over 44 for the week, so gained a couple on that damn pace bunny.
Trails are hard!
SD=step dad.
Guess the 5 at pace yesterday was harder than I thought. Today's 10 turned out to be 9.33, only because I need to complete the third lake loop to make it home. Of course the fact that it was 75 when I finished up did not help. That's about 35 too high for my taste. Hope this week feels better. But I did catch up with the pace bunny a bit. appropriate day for it, I guess.
Nice touristing day, Jay. We visited Nubble this past summer. Neat place.
I'm a Bruins fan first, then an anybody but Montreal fan.
Cat--that sounds hard with very little likelihood of getting much less hard.
Need a fast half for late fall. Then I need to actually train for it.
3 miles. at sunset. hot and buggy. Yep. JTWILI.
Trails Rock!
Great running yesterday, Lori! You deserve the cutback weeks.
I'm still as to why someone would be running with a rototiller . . . but then maybe that was his point.
We went to church last night - lots of Easter lilies, and I imagine today's two services were even more packed.
Nothing special was on our agenda for the day. My butt hurt yesterday from my obviously over zealous workout, so I toed the line today. We did, however, get up early and The Hub beat the weather to get the front and back yards mowed, while I got the bathroom cleaned, sheets changed on the bed, laundry started, dishwasher unloaded, kitchen floor swept, and breakfast started - all before 9:00 a.m. Did some grocery shopping, and once we got back I tackled the cupboards in the extra bathroom (our only storage/linen "closets") and boxed up a bunch of stuff for a rummage sale my legal professionals group is having in a couple of weeks. Felt good to finally get rid of crap and hope somebody else considers it treasures.
Tomorrow I will try another core/ST workout and try to be more mindful of not doing too much.
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