I sort of have a floating SRD this week, which I took today. I have a 50 mile run planned for tomorrow night, so I take the front end of this week as a mini taper for that. I can tell that the actual taper toward the middle of October is going to be rough. Right now, my legs are itching to run. This past weekend was a light weekend with no long run. The weekend before was back to back 20's, and the weekend before that was a fast 50K run, which seems like a year ago. I have high hopes for tomorrow night. If it goes well, I will finish out the last couple of long runs feeling good, which is important. It should go well; I feel pretty fit right now. I have tons of miles in the bank over the past three months, good miles. I just have to take it slow and easy tomorrow night.

QOTD: I guess I miss John the most. I just learned a lot from him, and although I did have an opportunity where I conveyed that to him, it would be nice for him to see that in practice.

I also hope Marie is doing well. I know she was in a really bad situation. Has anyone heard from her?

SRD today. Taking this as a step back week, even though my mileage is still limited right now. Last week was a lot of running / walking since we tend to run our way through national Parks (Badlands, Devils Tower, etc.)

Gatsby - glad you are healing as expected.

QOTD:  +1 on John and Marie. John and I shared a lot of messaging back and forth before he died, and he never let it known that the end was a close as it was. That doesn't surprise me.

Also remember someone named Mandy who used to post. 

On the RA absentees, how's Jonferg and Moon doing.

strength training yesterday evening- week two of the Wendler program, slightly bastardized by me

going to try and get 3-4 miles with Tiny E this evening

qotd: I enjoyed posts from all the above mentioned, maybe some day a few of them will reappear

Where do you run a 50 miler by yourself? Or will you not be by yourself? Loops? Out n back?

Just curious.  I think I would struggle to do that mileage by myself.

I sort of have a floating SRD this week, which I took today. I have a 50 mile run planned for tomorrow night, so I take the front end of this week as a mini taper for that. I can tell that the actual taper toward the middle of October is going to be rough. Right now, my legs are itching to run. This past weekend was a light weekend with no long run. The weekend before was back to back 20's, and the weekend before that was a fast 50K run, which seems like a year ago. I have high hopes for tomorrow night. If it goes well, I will finish out the last couple of long runs feeling good, which is important. It should go well; I feel pretty fit right now. I have tons of miles in the bank over the past three months, good miles. I just have to take it slow and easy tomorrow night.

 

 

QOTD: I guess I miss John the most. I just learned a lot from him, and although I did have an opportunity where I conveyed that to him, it would be nice for him to see that in practice.

 

I also hope Marie is doing well. I know she was in a really bad situation. Has anyone heard from her?

 

I have a 2.83 mile loop through the woods around my house. I wish it was 5 miles out and five miles back. Or better yet, 25 out and 25 back. Actually, one way to do the loop is an even 3 miles. However, to get an even 3, you have to do a little .0425 mile off shoot to the stop sign at the end of the gravel road, outbound and inbound to make up the .17 mile for an even 3 in one loop. With 2.83 mile loops, you have to do 18 loops and end up with 50.94 miles. I may do 17 and a short cut for 49.11 or so. The 3 mile even loop is 16 loops with the shortcut at the end. The little .0425 section pisses me off so bad that I just don't even bother with it. I fully understand how irrational and completely crazy it sounds for me to just totally lose it over that little distance, but I just can't get past it. Running to that stop sign makes me want to destroy things. It burns my guts. I hate little out and backs. And the craziest part of that is that the "loop" itself is really an out and back. I have absolutely no problem running the entire thing that many times, but that little section just sends me into a rage. I have no idea why. I just accept it and avoid it. Also, I run with music on those long solo runs like that. I love music, so that helps. However, there are a few songs (and I never know which ones it will be) that totally piss me off when they come on in the playlist. God forbid "that song" ever come on when I have a visual on that stop sign. On a good note, it is convenient to make it back to the house every 30 minutes or so. And, it is hilly enough that I can practice walking ups and running downs.

I was reading this thinking how crazy, and then I remembered I ran 81 times around a 1.543 miles course this year. 

Good luck with your long run. That's a long enough by yourself that you might start seeing things (like clowns, gnomes, etc.).

Have  mentioned the new deck makes the bedroom very dark...so hard to get up.  I slept through 3 alarms and 6 text messages.  So no run but I am playing hooky from work in the afternoon so I run 6 later today in this beautiful sunny and 70s weather.

qotd: Cgerber, trudgingalong, scrapster, a girl name Andy ...on RA Northern Harrier, that Missoula girl, Kelly, Jonferg, I love you guys but it would be nice to have a little more activity.

 

I was reading this thinking how crazy, and then I remembered I ran 81 times around a 1.543 miles course this year. 

 

Nothing crazy about that. I ran 125 laps around a 400m track for one of my 50K races.