Mornin' everyone.
Friday’s fabulous workouts:
BerthaSlayer (1 rest day cute little TM mile)
RunnerKSA (2.2 TM miles before work)
Dave (4.03 miles up the ridge in the park in 38° with light rain)
Rochrunner (2 morning TM miles)
Pfriese (7 EZ morning miles around town)
Claire (screaming, clapping, yelling, stomping and eating a ton at the track meet)
Holly (1250 pool yards + core work)
Tet (barely-damp morning 5 miles)
Mike (8 miles - just under 100)
dg. (5.33 miles in 34° temps with lots ‘o hillage, windage, and a delicious downhillage)
Twocat (6 morning miles)
Evanflein (4.1 TM miles [icky outside] with water stops)
I’m short on time this morning, but it has been interesting reading about the ongoing injury recovering, running, training, race-prepping, life-living, and other things going on in everyone’s lives.
I volunteered at a fund-raiser art show for 4 hours last evening - great turn-out and, fortunately, a lot of work for me processing credit cards at the ‘purchases’ table. But I didn’t get home till late, and it was too late to eat, so I just went to bed.
I slept in a bit and read a bit this morning, and am now enjoying a cuppa coffee and a light breakfast before I head out in about 10 minutes for another racewalking training session.
Have a greta Saturday!
Jay
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
Thanks, Coastwalker for the great summary. I did a little bit more on the treadmill after work yesterday to decompress from the week. It was also our 33rd wedding anniversary. After all the travel lately, we were very happy to stay home, eat a salad and cake, and watch TV.
3.1 miles this morning and a total of 26.2 so far for the week. I think that is telling me I better get out there tomorrow for my 2 1/2 hour run.....
Out there running since dinosaurs roamed the earth
Hey all. Back in the USA. Travel day yesterday but managed to keep the streak alive.
9 chilly miles this morning at 6am since I couldn't sleep.
Good to be home with family.
"He conquers who endures" - Persius "Every workout should have a purpose. Every purpose should link back to achieving a training objective." - Spaniel
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Only Jay can sleep in, read a bit, have coffee and breakfast, and still post at 7:07 AM.
Happy (belated) anniversary, KSA. 33 is serious time.
Tet's training regularly. Dave's "lazy attitude" has disappeared. What is going on around here?
2cat--I only have Garmin synching issues; it records fine. After several days on strike, it synched fine this morning, too. It seems utterly random.
7.8 on the trails this morning. Back into nippy 30s this morning and sunny; perfect running weather. At one point, a beautiful owl swooped overhead, landed on a branch up ahead, and just watched me trot on by. Don't see those very often.
Be safe. Be kind.
Labrat
8.5 round the hood.
6 sets of 5 pull-ups, a set each time I passed the playground.
Was a nice break from the pollen in Nuremburg, my system is already rebelling against the return to stupid high pollen counts.
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
5K Specialist
4.75 trail miles. Hilly, wooded, and technical.
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)
In addition to random Garmin sync issues I have various other issues with computers. I think it is the start of the robot take over.
Today for me:
- Slept in until 7:30
- Went to the park and ran/walked for an hour. Legs were dead from the last few days of working out.
- Vacuumed and mopped the house
- Did some laundry
- Dropped a load of cardboard off at the recycle center
- Did some grocery shopping
Now I am free to do anything I darn well feel like doing for the rest of the weekend. The sun is shining. I think it is time to get out the zero gravity chair, a book or two, and relax on the porch.
Marathon Maniac #957
Howdy folks!
Our dinner with friends last night was lovely. We went to a Jazz Bistro with an authentic speakeasy upstairs - great music and food and elegant décor. Not a place we could afford often, but for special occasions we will be back. One thing annoyed me, though. I only ate about half my meal, and had them bag up the other half, but when I got home later and opened the box, they had given me someone else's leftovers.
DD has a lacrosse game at 3. This is a varsity game, so she won't get as much playing time as when she plays the JV games (they are using her on both teams) but I am looking forward to watching. I never realized what a fun sport lacrosse is to watch.
2.2 miles for me this morning with some striders.
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."
Hello all.
A very pretty Saturday here for 8 miles on the river trails.
Paul
Paul's blog
A sunny but cool morning. Did 5 miles on the Charles with a tail wind and took the T home from downtown Boston while Marj drove to northern Ma to watch GD1 in a dance program competition.
Last evening we joined another couple for a mutual anniversary dinner (Spanish tapas). We've known them for years and never knew they were anniversary twins. Of course (like KSA) they celebrated their 30+ years while we're relative newlyweds🥂.
I think it is the start of the robot take over.
MM#5991
Absolutely beautiful day today so today's 6 turned into 8.3 miles that I ran with my friend. Nice easy relaxed pace.
Lori
*it's Bertha or me. My money is on me.*
**"There is no growth in the comfort zone and no comfort in the growth zone".---- Sandy**
I have a question for the group. I have a marathon in Cork Ireland I plan to run on June 4. But, I would like to get another state done this spring. Looking at my travel schedule the only weekend I can do between when I think I will be ready to run a full marathon and June 4 is May 13/14. Should I just pick a race for that weekend that amounts to nothing more than a training run and try to run fast in Cork. Or try for a fast race time in the May race and then just run easy in Cork. Options in the US are a fast course in S.D., a hilly course in KY or a trail race (hard pack surface they claim) in ID. The go for it race time destination would be S.D.. The other two would be cruising runs.
Oh yes running. It is nice out here so I decided to get my 22 miler for this training cycle out of the way today. In the end it was 22 with 7 at (hoped for!) MP.
Live like you are dying not like you are afraid to die.
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Twocat - I would aim at the May race as the goal race, with Cork being one to enjoy the experience. Of course, if the weather turns out to be awful for the May race, you could switch up your plan at the last minute.
Hi peeps. …. (coming out of lurker mode to post a race report). The Chilly Cheeks 10 mile is in the books. This was the slowest race I have ever ran and I was actually dead last. The director said that last year they had about 400 runners. This year there were 154 signed up. My friend and her DH decided to drive over themselves since she had been sick and didn’t know if she’d even want to run. At the race we saw another gal from town, actually we all go to the same church.
The race started at 8 and we got there around 7 to pick up our bibs and get ready. Yesterday I bought a $3 zip sweatshirt for a throwaway but was able to leave it in the car since it was 49°. The route was an out and back, all on the bike trail along the river, then up past the penitentiary and to the airport. We started out going north with a south wind, 10-14mph. Within the first mile I was running all alone but close to a trio of women running my speed. The first few miles were faster, of course, but just past the falls there was a big hill with switchbacks to get to the top. Uff da is all I can say, that really did me in. At the turn at mile 5 it was into the wind from there to the finish. You’d think I’d be used to the wind, but not after that hill. I did get a lot of encouragement from the runners I met on their way back. Back at the park they had a Chilly Feed, cookies, fruit. I don’t know if they were handing out anything for awards (I was eating cookies and not paying attention). I think I would have heard my name called though. I earned 2nd in my age group for all my hard work.
RACE SUMMARY: 154 Finished (46 Men, 108 Women)
Time 2:13:34
Pace 13:22
Overall 154/154
AG 2/2
“Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell, and rose again.” — Adrienne Rich