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School started yesterday here, can you believe it? So this morning I was dodging school buses; saw one little boy throwing a temper tantrum out there at the bus stop.
I'm rearranging my training schedule for this week-- there's no way I was going to be able to do my long run on the weekend. So today was it. Supposed to be 9 miles, but the heat was really getting to me so I cut it a mile short. Despite all the water I drank before and during the run, I still dropped 3lbs, so stopping early was probably a good idea...
Thank god for air conditioning!
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I wound up blowing off riding last night - the storm wound up missing us, but it was just too hot and too iffy to get excited about such a long drive to where the club meets. So I just did a fairly easy three around the fitness trail after my aerobics class again this morning.
Reminded me again why I hate that trail. :rolleyes: It's got just enough elevation change that the rises are work, but they're so small that I never adjust my posture, and wind up really overworking my quads.
The nice thing about it (as long as you don't have a garden in the area ;)) is the deer. The trail is on the hospital campus, which is fairly large with a lot of green space, and there's a golf course just a couple of blocks away, so there are lots of deer and they're very used to humans. This morning there was a woman sitting out in a wheelchair in front of the nursing home right next to the trail, and a big doe was RIGHT next to her. The doe was there for at least 10 minutes, when I came around the second time. Close by in the woods, lying down, there was a small buck in velvet (I'm guessing her yearling son) and a spotted fawn. :)
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Since I am back to walking instead of running, I guess I can post here. I'm walking 2x a week. Since I've ridden about 140 miles since last Saturday, I am tired. Today was supposed to be a rest day... maybe some yoga and a brief walk. But somehow, I thought it would be cool to walk to the North Bridge. I know it's just under eight miles RT to the town center and this would be a little shorter. It's relatively cool out and partly cloudy, but still a bit humid.
I enjoyed seeing the road from a walker's perspective, rather than from my bike. There's a lot of interesting colonial era homes along this route, that have been restored. So, I got to the National Park visitor center and since I had to go to the bathroom pretty badly, I went to go into the museum; but the door was stuck! I knew it wasn't closed, but I just couldn't open the door. Finally someone came out and I scurried in. I guess the humidity had swollen the door. Then I sat on a bench and ate half a Luna Bar and watched the tourists. Oy, too many pot bellied old guys wearing fanny packs, so I headed out. But, I decided to take slightly different route back, which added about three quarters of a mile. It was getting near lunch time, so I picked up the pace. My hips and groin were feeling it and the last 2 miles weren't so fun, although it totally clouded over and that was good. I counted cyclists and looked at the people driving by in cars. Normally I walk at a 4-4.2 mph pace, but today's walk was about 3.2-3.5. It probably ended up being about 7.3 miles.
Now I am more tired than I should be for a rest day.
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Hi all! I'm out here running as cycling is still a bit too painful.
I'm back up to about 30-35 mpw right now, mostly running but sometimes I just have to hike for a while. And I am way, way slower (which I'm actually kind of enjoying). My back feels fine most of the time when I run, but I am having some challenges with the connective tissue in my legs--working through it (I had a wee little blood clot and the ramifications of that are still kind of giving me grief). I am training for an event in September (Imogene Pass Run), but suspect that I will do a lot of walking at said event. :rolleyes:
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Welcome back Yellow! :)
Well, I said today's 17 would be my make-or-break for whether or not to do the marathon, and I guess I'm in. It was really hot and I took it slow, but I feel pretty much like I ought to feel after 17. :p
The stupid part was that I missed a turn somewhere and wound up way farther from home than I could get back before I ran out of water and energy, so I had to call DH for a ride. D'oh. :rolleyes: I'll figure out where I went wrong, but I won't use the route I planned again anyway. It took me through something that was marked as a road on the map, but it actually seemed like it was a farmer's lane that connected his house and barn to two parallel roads. I didn't see anyone home, but there was a pickup truck parked outside - hope I didn't startle anyone. :o
