WOW! I haven't posted much but starting the April thread.
10 miles on the road preparing for my big 10 mile trail/adventure run.
Beautiful day. No April Showers or puddles to run thru!
K
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WOW! I haven't posted much but starting the April thread.
10 miles on the road preparing for my big 10 mile trail/adventure run.
Beautiful day. No April Showers or puddles to run thru!
K
Yesterday the supervisor tested me on 1500 meters run. I did a warm um and then I ran against a girl who has been training orienteering for 11 years. At first she started really fast and I couldn't keep up. But only after the first lap she slowed down so I could pass her. My time was 6:25 and hers 6:52. We are both preparing for a military race next week. After the run something happened to me for the first time: I started coughing and the cough continued fo 10-15 min incessantly. Then it calmed down slowly but I felt chest pain during the evening too. I read that the reason is too much air going through the mouth and it cannot be filtered through the nose and throat and the air goes directly to the lungs unfiltered and this causes the cough and mucus. It wasn't pleasant at all and I realized that I put too much effort.
Since I don't run too much (once a week) and I like cycling more, I don't intend to overdo it running just now. I''l keep you informed about the race :)
8 slow km today but the weather was windy and I didn't feel like pushing too much.
April showers and too much puddles to run through today. Skipped my run. :( today
K
Keeping my fingers crossed for NO showers on April 15!!! I've got a streak of good weather going so the law of averages is not in my favor.
Tapering ....
Well, the forecast for the day before is partly sunny and 57 degrees.
The Patriot's Day hoopla is gearing up. Lots of promo for the marathon. Deciding if I'm going to march in the parade while you're running :). I guess I could still march with the military family group, under the guise of mother of a veteran.
The weather people keep saying the "tide has turned," i.e. no more snow or freezing weather, although it is supposed to get down in the 30s and 40s next week, mid week, but only for a couple of days.
Skipped Thursday's run, and only managed 2 miles today, thanks to the sudden arrival of spring allergies. But I'm racing tomorrow anyway; gonna do drugs, as much as I would rather not. It's a cross country 8k, and I've never raced that distance, so it's a guaranteed pr. Seems a good thing to give myself for my birthday! Just praying there aren't many maple or oak trees out there (but there surely will be, alas). Beautiful spring weather here too, a little cooler than usual, with just enough breeze to send the pollen flying...
Well, no PR in today's race. Instead, it was my first DNF. It was hard to run with a respiratory tract full of phlegm. Oh well. Bailed at 4k, at a respectable 22:54, all things considered, but that was enough. If I hadn't preregistered, I probably wouldn't have even tried.
I went on a trail run today; the last time I ran (same trail) was the first week in February, before I got bronchitis. I run even slower on the trail than the road and there's some water bars in the beginning I have to walk/jump over, but I ran pretty much the rest until I got to the steepest part of the 25% grade up to my street. It's about 4 miles total out and back, but that includes the half mile I walk down the street to catch the trail and the 1/8 of a mile from the end of the trail to my house (I actually ran down the dirt on the side of the street here, until I got to my driveway).
Beautiful day, didn't see a soul and I was glad I was not on my bike since the wind was gusting up to 35 mph.
If only we had showers.:(
It snowed again last night, just enough to lightly coat the ice and hide it from view, not enough to completely cover it and make it less slippery. I've enjoyed the skiing, but I'm done with winter!!!
It's warm, at last! And the pollen has either decreased or I've adjusted somewhat. So I got out for a very nice run this morning. Just over 5 miles, at an 8:30 pace. Part of that speed came from nearly getting hit by a driver making an illegal turn. There's no left turn permitted at that intersection and the driver wasn't using a turn signal so I was taken by complete surprise. With the adrenalin flowing the next mile or so was extremely fast!
My first running race EVER was yesterday. I ran 1500 m and became 5th. I had higher hopes but the other girls ran really fast. My time: 6min11sec. After that we had a relay 4х100 m and I ruined my team but I couldn't do anything more: sprints are not my cup of tea. Today we have 800 m individual and 4x400 m relay. :)
Holy moly Anelia, you are FAST! Good luck today!
Oakleaf, have a great run at Boston!
If we had your bib #, we could follow you!
Good luck, Oakleaf!
Thanks!! I'm going to be slow but I'm super excited! Weather looks perfect.
I'll PM my number to anyone who wants to follow me :) - not that I'm all that careful about privacy on here, but would rather not have it out here for the spambots.
I would love to follow you! I am so glad you are doing this, how exciting!
On Sunday I did an improvised running race after my bike race. Both were very amateur: the bike ride was 3 km in the park alleys and I was the only woman. The run was only 1 km and my competitor was an older lady who is an ex pro and now she runs veteran track races. I became second and in fact: last in my age group (over 30) but I am very happy because the lady was really fast, I was very tired from the days racing, biking, running and racing again and I also got an award: a very soft and teenage-like sweatshirt: Attachment 16141
oooooh, Oakleaf is ALMOST THERE!!! (according to the tracker)
Oak, check in when you can, please.
I just read the news too. I hope everybody is safe!
OMG I just saw the news....hopefully Oak can check in here soon :eek: Really hoping what I read online is a hoax...
we are okay. but.it is bad, not a hoax. thinking of the victims and their families.
So sad...so glad you and your DH are safe! I was really hoping that what I read was a hoax but figured it probably wasn't...
I know it's the least important thing in the world, but I need another marathoner to tell me I've earned the right to wear my shirt and the jacket I bought. Or not.
I am not a marathoner, but I did do six double centuries. And I understand not wanting to wear something you think you haven't earned. I bought the jersey for the double century I most wanted to complete and I only got 130 miles in. The jersey sat in my drawer for six years, until last year when a friend of mine finished the ride and I gave it to him. I never wore it. But I proudly wear the Triple Crown jacket some dear friends gave me, even though I'll never do another double! :p
I think you have earned the right. You would have finished if this horrible event had not occurred. And you worked so hard though so much adversity to get there and do it.
Veronica
I did complete the boston marathon many years ago in my student days. I absolutely think you have the right to proudly wear your shirt and jacket! This is very different from not finishing due to fatigue. You completed the event until the course was closed. And I am so happy that you and your family are safe, as that is what is really important!!! My daughter was there too, but at mile 18 when the blasts hit, so also safe, but I also was anxious till she texted me from a battery depleted phone. I really liked your post on the other thread. It is good to hear how folks can rally around for each other in these situations.
I'm not a runner, let alone a marathoner, but I think you can. You were, what, half a mile away? and you would have finished had this not happened. Given all you went through to get there, wear it, and wear it proudly.Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
This^^^^.Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
What they said... I am far from a runner but it isnt like you stopped by choice...
I read this at the NYTimes website this morning: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us...osions.html?hp
"But many runners, clad in the blue and gold jackets given to this year’s marathoners, made pilgrimages to the blockade on Boylston Street, pausing to take pictures with their cellphones. Others came wearing jacket from previous marathons — the symbol of accomplishment had, apparently, turned into a sign of solidarity."
SO wear that jacket, in pride, in solidarity with others for surviving this terrifying experience.
Yes, to what Trisk said, but also yes, to "just wear it." You earned it, no matter what, with all the training, rehabbing, nutrition, and running until they stopped the race. And running at a very respectable pace, too.
Plus, just going to the exhibition hall to get the shirt and jacket was kind of a marathon itself.
All the local running clubs came together this morning for a Boston memorial run, well over 200 people at 7 am in 34F weather. I didn't make it, as I was preregistered to race my nearby high school's 5k. Pretty good turnout for that too, although quite a few fast runners who usually do this race were at the memorial run. 24:55, about 30 seconds slower than I'd hoped, but good enough to win my age group. Think I was 4th or 5th overall among women. I didn't push to the finish line the way I could have, as there was no one close enough to catch and a pretty stiff headwind. Still, the 3rd mile was my fastest, even though I'm doubting the mile markers were quite right...
Bummed that they ran out of small tshirts. Why don't race organizers realize that runners are much thinner than the general population, and order accordingly? On the other hand, I have way too many race shirts, and this one was ugly.
It's only really been since yesterday that I could walk, seeing as my recovery was less than ideal, but I wanted to do a little memorial run too. So I just jogged one km each for Martin Richard, Lu Lingzi, Krystle Campbell and Sean Collier (plus a little farther for the wounded).
I did the best I could for blue and yellow, with the hi-viz yellow top I'd packed in case it was warm for my last tapering run, and the blue headband I raced in. And I wore the "Fearless" bracelet I got from Kathrine Switzer at the expo, which has been on my wrist every day this week.
I am so ready to go home.
Just caught the Boston Marathon conversation in this thread. Oak, I'm not a marathoner but I feel very strongly that this year's Boston marathoners especially earned the right to wear the shirt and jacket, regardless of where they were in the race when it was ended.Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
The pictures of the medal hand-out in the following days after the race were pretty amazing. No question on the jacket - you earned the trip there and you were so close to the finish, I'm sure you ended up covering the physical distance one way or another and in your heart you covered so much more.
I was traveling the beginning of last week so I ran while I was gone (usually I alternate bike/run days), but when I got back I still did my "Run for Boston" run - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater - and bike. ;) This weekend I did 12 after a 3 hour ride, which I felt during the uphills on today's bike commute but things are feeling pretty good.
Also, adidas is selling t-shirts, 100% of profit goes to One Fund Boston: http://www.adidas.com/us/boston-tribute-tee/_/N-1z125b0 (of course, you can just donate to One Fund Boston, but the t-shirt isn't bad - and the first big label one I've seen where they aren't making money on them. ;))
We got home late yesterday afternoon, and I don't think I've ever needed a run so much in my life as I did today.
I did 7.6 today - longest I've ever run this soon after a marathon - at nearly the pace I raced at, in weather 25° hotter and much more humid, which if I needed any more proof I didn't give it everything on Monday, there it is. Racing too conservatively is a perennial problem of mine, and the fact that my training had been so conservative really contributed to that. I think I'm still haunted more than I realize by the memory of blowing up in a mile race as an anorexic 12-year-old, having refused the pre-race lunch the rest of the team ate.
But. If I'd laid everything I had on the line on Monday, it might have been *literally* everything. I might have been right there. And DH ... some guardian angel was watching him. You were right, he *should* have been at the finish line waiting for me, and if the bombing hadn't happened, I'd be giving him holy h#ll for having gone straight to the family meeting area instead. As it was, that's where he was, well out of danger and out of view. (And I did get to see him cheering me on in Wellesley, in a more innocent time. :( )
I did wear the jacket this weekend. Partly as an invitation to exchange sympathy with anyone who felt moved to give or receive it - including the Boston-based flight attendant on the last leg of my trip yesterday, and the man who came up to me in a restaurant in Austin to tell me, in a heavy German accent, that as a fellow runner, he too had been touched by what happened. And I wore it as a message to random strangers that my tolerance for mean behavior, rudeness, or general BS towards me or anyone else was exactly zero.
+1 on the pictures of the medal hand-out. The BAA has been amazing through all of this. I'm getting emails and Facebook posts every day on topics as wide ranging as how to pick up gear bags (I didn't check any), when final results will be released, and resources for dealing with PTSD. I'm so impressed with them and with the whole town of Boston.
Like.
I had been tracking you, and I surprised myself with my (poor) math ability and figured out that you were at about mile 25.5 when the first bomb exploded.
And because of that, I thought you had been going the perfect pace.
Things are getting back to normal here. I am going into Boston both Friday night and Sunday for the first time since I went to the expo with you. It should be interesting.
A couple friends are doing marathons today-- Louisville and Nashville. I'm excited for them, but also find myself more worried than usual for them. Not that I think anything will happen, but... And one of them has a goal time of 4:10, too. That's what she's been aiming for throughout her training, but now that time has more meaning.