Can I really be the first to post? Where is everyone?
17.1 mi this morning in 8:53 avg, faster than I usually run but the last 13.1 was part of a half marathon on base. I tried to keep it slow during the HM as this was just a training run but I think I got carried away.
Have a nice Sat/Sun out there everyone!
rs
I too was wondering why nobody had started the daily thread as yet. Being on the DL makes me reluctant to do so, although I have! Today's report: elliptical followed by TM walking forwards and then backwards. Yawn.
As to my DW she headed down to run with the jogging club today and likely did about 8 miles. The good news is she finally discovered the value of wearing a water belt! You have no idea how I have struggled to get her to try one.
My big news, as usual on my Saturday, is my muffin report. This is my last week of contributions to the jogging club. I am gone the next two weekends and after that they take 10 weeks off while the town's race series takes place. For my grand finally I made chocolate chip banana muffins. They were a huge hit! Many who normally resist eating a whole one told me that after one bite they gave up and wolfed it down. Chocolate and banana how can you go wrong?
I noticed evanflein's comment the other day about having to finish all her runs up a hill to get home. I know Holly S. is in the same boat as am I. Which leads me to wonder how many others here are there? Also, do runners have some sort of masochistic steak that leads them to select homes near the top of hills?
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I've made it to the DL myself for the next few weeks -- no biggie, just letting an irritated nerve in my back calm down -- it's mostly just annoying because it doesn't bother my running, but my ortho is convinced the running is keeping it from recovering. I've been "power walking" instead.
Muffins -- I guess those are off the list of things I can eat for the next few weeks...
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MM#209 / JapanJoyful#803
hey rs,with that kind of training run/race, what are you training for? Put it in ilene`s intrepid if you can.
Of course, I`ve sworn off training until someone gets a job but with the 100-Marathon Joyful Running Club`s marathon for today finishing with a sustained 10 mile ascent up to Hakone and Lake Ashiko along the historic Tokaido Highway no. 1 here in Japan, it might be just the hill work needed to ensure beating timmy at least up the daunting ascent to the Aurora Bridge in Seattle.
Still need the eight hour practice though to ensure DGL`ing (dead glorious last) so none of our guests have to say they were last in the Seattle RnR so I`ll probably walk up most if not all of the ascent of what is, for all intents and purposes, pretty much like the last 14 miles of the Mt. Spokane Run where I saw butterfly wings in 2007
Maybe I`ll aim at 8:;26;32 this time. ;D
"Enjoy yourself. Your younger days never come again." 100yo T. Igarashi to me in geta at top of Mt. Fuji (8/2/87)
15.8 miles on my bike -- lots of hills and lots of red lights so my time was slow but at least i put the time in
3.5 miles run -- sluggish!! just not feeling great and felt the dead legs after biking
now -- need to try on the wetsuit my dh bought me and see how it feels - maybe test it out in our COLD pool....it has short sleeves and short legs so should be interesting ..... what a sweetheart tho isnt he!!
denise
Carolyn
WRFB, sorry you're on the DL - hope your back feels better soon.
I ran a decidedly un-sproinky half marathon this morning. 2:30:09, almost 6 minutes slower than last year, and a PW. I don't think a PW warrants a whole separate RR so I'll just summarize here.
Last year I had a jackrabbit start and a turtle finish, because I carried no fuel and the aid stations just had water. This year I carried Gatorade and gels, but I just didn't have much energy right from the start. So overall, I felt better at the end, but just ran slower and steadier. It's a pretty course, on a bike path along Ten Mile Creek, and high altitude. The start is at 9700 ft and the end is at 9,050 ft. IRC - 50's and sunny. I'll post a race photo later if I got any decent ones.
I hammered down the trail, passing rocks and trees like they were standing still.
8 today, 1:09:11 in the H&H.
Some nice HM's above. Is tramps doing Mt. Washington today?
Walt
Twocat, I have some bananas I need to use up and some dark chocolate chips... how about sharing that recipe? I bet my boys would eat those muffins more than they'd eat the banana bread I was going to make.
And my last two miles to home is uphill about 300 ft. Sometimes I cheat and run past the turn off to my road, do another mile or so out and back on relatively flat ground and walk most of the uphill part. Or call for a ride if I'm really feeling lazy.
Tetsujin, you're such a sweetheart. Not training till someone gets a job, heh. Looking forward to seeing you in Seattle!
Where is everone?
I can see why some of you guys like the morning running, but it's still hard for me to do. I got up and ran my 10 miles this morning while the boys were still in bed, lazy duffs that they are. It wasn't even that early (9 a.m.), but the traffic was almost non-existent, a few other runners and bikers out there on the trail. This is a hilly route and I wanted to take it as slow and easy as needed to not need to stop so much. I've picked up a bad habit of stopping and walking to recover, then starting up again. Need to knock that off! I only did it a few times on this run, making myself slow down rather than stop. Worked pretty well. 8:42 avg pace and that's cool. Then blueberry pancakes for lunch (!) and now we have the whole afternoon to finish planting some flowers and do general "stuff" around the house and yard.
I was surprised to see so few posts this late in the day. I thought surely there must be another Sat thread and this was a duplicate with very little posting on it. Guess not.
I should be running my 12 miles at the Relay for Life right now. I signed up for the 9-11 p.m. slot. But they called it off about 7:30 tonight due to another big storm front moving in that will have lightening and thunder. There has been rain off and on all day, sometimes quite heavy, but the forecast of lightening is when they decided best to vacate the track. Very disappointing for all those involved with some much time, effort and planning to get such a huge event organized.
and I had just loaded up on a double latte to keep me going through the night too.
Now I'll find some time tomorrow to run 12-14 miles.
Tammy
Marathon Maniac #3309
Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way - Run often and run long, but never outrun your Joy of running!
tim - I"m waiting for your tri RR; is it the first since last year"s mile 16 fizzle?
you"ll need your bi/tri talents at the RnR, . . . run/swim/goddesses.
Got another DGL in Saturday's Hakone Marathon at 84 degrees with 30 members of the Japan 100-Marathon Joyful Running Club and became the 803rd member in the oldest 100-Marathon Club in the world in the world (founded 1987 when I was only on number 17 after ten years of trying). .
evan - is midnight sun running the reason so few morning runners?
2cat - keeping those muffins from becoming muffin tops around the waist?