quick post -- my garmin wouldnt turn on ..........gggggggggrrrrrrrrrrr have to deal with it later as i need to get ready to visit my son

 

 

8miles total   ran 15 min then did 5 sets 1 min fast 2 min easy   followed by 4 min easy then another 5 sets of 1 min fast 2 min easy and ran home .......... did this on an out and back run that i've measured  before ........ so weird not having my garmin

Good Afternoon All ---- Boy, some really good runs posted today. Byll, I guess with my simple mind I would lose track of 22 repeats and recoveries, and it would drive me nuts. I'm like Erika I guess, because I like my workouts less complicated (especially first thing in the morning)....but good job ---- I tried to post my run last night, but couldn't get on here at RA. This would be my first real test to see if my calf is well enough to run on....tests like this are always scary, huh? ----I got in 8 miles at 8:47 ave pace, and my calf behaved just fine....I was giddy like Steve too ----- My plan for a while is to Cycle on Tues - Thurs - and long on Sat's (100 miles or more). Then run on Mon - Weds - Fri - and long on Sun's. I will do this until I know my calf is truely healed, then get back to running all the time again ----- I really don't know about my Fall Marathon, as I would really have to cram in a lot of miles in a short period of time. Hence making injury more likely again....I don't want that. ----Thanks Carolyn: My shoulder and ribs are still very sore, but not as much though. Monday was the worse day, then each day I feel a little better. The road rash is a different story and it about kills me to move around, but I will just have to tough that out for a while. On my run last night it was uncomfortable with both my shoulder / ribs and road rash, but I just try and not think about it....as I have a fairly high tolerence of pain (as everyone rolls their eyes, I know LOL) -----Hope everyone has a great day! -----TimBo

On my run home last night, I was feeling a little time pressure to get home before DS2 had his soccer tryouts. Needn't have worried as DH showed up and took him. But it got me thinking... how the hell do you guys get up and run 11, 12, 13+ miles before work? I start thinking ok, to be at work by 7:45, I have to leave by 7:25 or so, it takes me at least 1 hr 15 mins to get myself and the boys out of the house (dealing with inevitable last minute stuff, etc), and it would take me at least 2 hours 15 min or so to do a 12-13 mile run with getting ready, warm up, cool down, etc. So now you have me getting up at 4 a.m.... and this would be after DS2 just got home from soccer tryouts at 9:30 p.m. and needed dinner (not an unusual time for things to get done at our house). Getting ready for the next day, checking mail, cleaning up, etc, etc, takes another couple hours. I'm not getting to bed till 10 or 10:30 at the absolute earliest. Most nights it's a lot later. And that's not with doing anything much in the evening like a meeting, late games, etc.

 

How the hell do you guys do it? I feel like an idiot for not being able to wrap my head around it!

Erika - I got in 13 miles today only because I went into work late.  But still, we're almost always in bed by 9:30, so those early wake-ups aren't so hard to deal with.  (The kids are still young enough that their soccer stuff is done by 8pm or thereabouts.  The high schoolers go later, I know.)  I generally get up at 5am, unless I want to get in more miles than usual, don't have to be at work until 8:30 (leave the house at 8:15).  DH wakes the kids at 6:30 before he leaves for work, so my job is to make sure they eat, dress, and make it to their buses, so as long as I get back by 7am I'm fine, and really, I could do another mile or 2 on the TM then if I really want to crunch my getting-ready time.

Perch, yippee!     hey.   what were the shorts you got that were so good at wicking?

 

 

dg... here's the women's version:

http://www.runningwarehouse.com/descpageWRA-AWCMFS.html

I don't know if anyone caught the article in the August 31st issue of Sports Illustrated, but there was a great story about Arthur Webb, a 67 year-old retired guy from Santa Rosa, California who has run 12 Badwater Ultramarathons. The first paragraph drew me in right away:

 

"It's been a month now, and the top of Arthur Webb's right big toe remains a sunken rectangle of pale, wrinkled skin. Not that he's upset, considering that Webb is the one who yanked the toenail off with a pair of pliers in the first place. It's something he does to both big toes every year, just after he squeezes his feet into a pair of too-small shoes and runs 15 miles to loosen the nails. Otherwise, then tend to crack and bleed as the toes swell like tiny, overinflated balloons during the Badwater Ultramarathon, the grueling 135-mile race through Death Valley that Webb has run for the past 12 summers."

 

Webb is a retired postal worker and does the ultramarathon to inspire kids from dysfunctional families. Unbelievable...

tetsujin209

 

Spareribs you need a new team!  Here is what typically happens during the relay with my team.

 

1.  Arrive the night before in a panic wondering if we will miss dinner.  Eat, take lots of pictures, head to the condo, take lots of pictures, unpack, keep taking pictures.

2.  Get up the next day.  Start van decoration.  take pictures, keep decorating.

3.  Go for breakfast or lunch depending on which vehicle you are in.  Find out some thought they would save some money by not buying the food vouchers.  Tough on them.  Go eat.  Take more pictures.  Listen to the cheapskates grumble about being hungry.  Take pictures of them anyway.

4.  Start race.  I have always been in the first van.  Our second van heads back to the condo to pack, decorate some more, take more pictures, and then go off to the VTA and eat.

5.  While in vehicle get assigned a job.  Drive, navigate, runner spotting and support (means find the whatever the person wanted and then run out to get it to them at the designated points), picture taking, prepare to run next, and of course run.  Notice all six people have a job!

6.  Get lost between at least one VTA while off.  Panic that we will be late.  Start yelling to go in all sorts of random directions.  Finally, ask somebody where to go.  On about the third try find somebody that actually directs you the right way.

7.  Get two hours of sleep if you are lucky.

 

I do not know about your HTC team but my RTB team keeps me pretty busy the whole time!  It is my favorite race of the year.  This year they will borrow my Garmin since I cannot be there to lend it myself.  Alas, this will nix the getting lost part so perhaps this year will prove less entertaining.