Morning All!  We're under another winter storm warning for this afternoon and tomorrow; according to my calendar we're supposed to have two more months of Fall 

going to strength train this morning and get a 5-ish mile run in later- all my trails are already snow covered (3-5")- it does provide a pretty nice cushion when running though

qotd: do you use any traction devices in the "winter"- I normally stud any of my shoes I'm going to use in the winter, and when it gets really icy I grab my Microspikes- these are the grippiest traction devices I've ever used and so far seem very durable- this will be my third season and probably 1000 miles or so

Morning mtwarden - so early for so much snow! Is this a sign of what the entire winter will be like for you guys? Ughhh!  I got in a nice trail run yesterday, will take a zero today and possibly tomorrow.  My left knee is bothering me and this is terribly timing with my fun run coming up Saturday.  So I will take it easy this week I guess but I don't want take every day off.  We'll see I guess.

QOTD: I have a pair of generic spikes that fit over my shoes - They do not, however, fit over my hokas so I am in the market for something that does fit over the wide bottom of hokas.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Have a great Monday!

Blech.. snow. While I don't mind a light coating (few inches) unless it gets packed down it gets annoying eventually. Plus there is that cold that goes with it. You westerners can use some snow pack though I suppose.

I believe I will do my 7.5-8 mi road/trail hybrid run at lunchtime. This past weekend I ran 13.5 mi trails on the green lane lake loopie. A decent time for the loop, just over 2:10. One of these days I should leave the dog at home and try to tempo this run. Yesterday, 10.5 hilly trail miles at Coventry Woods. Left the Lady at home as she was a bit sore from Saturday's run. I think she may have some tendinitis that flares up. Anyway, with 2 miles or so to go I came upon a guy with 2 small scotty dogs. One of the Scotty dogs got loose and came at me and I was sure my shins or ankles were going to become scotty dog treats. However I came up with a slick move on the fly that involved a bit of tempo pace and hopping. Just as my foot hit the ground I did a quick hop and kept on trucking. I think it would have made a great video. The dog didn't have much time to latch on and he gave up rather quickly. The owner was all apologetic and I just waved as I hopped on down the trail.

QOTD: I have a pair of Innov8's for the winter. They have some aggressive lugs, and if things get really snowy I will fix up a pair of screw shoes.

5.1 trail miles yesterday.

QOTD I  do the screw shoes and they work quite well. I also have a pair of micro spikes  and I will use if it's more of a deeper snow.

I didn't run yet today..but may.  Need to see what Jamie is doing.   Actually my heel really hurts.  Enough to wake me up last night. 

Maybe I will get something done later today.  I am going to the gym at lunch.

QOTD:  No it doesn't really snow here.  If it does it's gone in a week.

Jamie:  Sounds like we are in the same boat today...although I have no fun run scheduled for this weekend.

DC:  Jamie may take the lead this week....I am going to do what I can to keep him at bay; which means I should run tonight when I get home.

Still struggling with motivation . We did go out Saturday for 5 miles of hills . We are expecting something between 1/2" - 7' of snow tonight depending who is telling it .

QOTD    I just use screws in my shoes

Saturday hill work

Not usually but I have had it at least twice before...it usually just goes away.  I think it's from jumping out of bed on cold feet, because the dogs are excited we sprint down the road which is paved until we hit the trail which begins with a steep hill.  I think the lack of warming up put stress on them.  And I was stacking wood this weekend..I thin pushing the wheel barrow aggravated it.  This too shall pass...and you should be pulling for me.  Us woman need to stick together. 

 

 

Sue, do you normally have heal problems?  I'm not sure if I should be pulling for my former competitor, or for the new competitor who took over for me!!!

 

 

Sometimes it pays to pay attention to your surroundings. While I'm familiar with the paved rails to trails path where I raced a 5K on Saturday, I'd never given much consideration to the park itself where the race started since it appeared largely undeveloped. It's a relatively new park. What I noticed when checking out the finish area on my warm up was what looked like a trail. So today I went back to check it out. It's a series of small loops from 2.5 miles around farmland still being worked (a rather boring section) to a couple smaller loop trails of 1.4 and .75 miles through wetlands, shrubbery, and tall marsh grasses. It's relatively flat and grassy but a nice change from pavement and only 5 minutes away.