Running into June: Run week 6/1-6/7/2009

[Susan Otcenas]

Hello all!

Hope everyone had a marvelous weekend! We had absolutely fantabulous weather here all weekend. Warm and sunny.

June is my "9-mile month". All my long run days will be 9 miles. Last night I got online and used gmaps-pedometer to create a 9-mile route based off May's 8-mile route.

It was still 60 degrees when I woke up at 4:50am (!) to go for my long run. I was out the door at 5:10. Even though I know better, I picked a long sleeve shirt instead of a short sleeve shirt. Needless to say, I was saturated by the time I returned home. Not only was it unseasonably warm this morning, it was also muggy, something we rarely get here. But the run went well. I started to feel fatigued around mile 7, and was fairly hungy by the time I finished. Fortunately Jeff had breakfast on the stove for me when I got home.

I did the 9 miles on 200 calories (100 before the run, 100 @ mile 5), as I did with my 7 & 8 mile runs. As I've mentioned before, I simply can not run with anything solid in my stomach. Next week, I may try to have 100 cal at 3 miles and another 100 @ 6 miles to see how that affects my energy levels. At my pace, that's calories every 30-33 minutes, which I hope will do the trick!

Susan

[Jolt]

The usual half-hour neighborhood run, but I went down some random side streets today that I normally don't. Maybe on non-trail-running days I will explore new territory in town.

[OakLeaf]

10 miles, longest loop I've done so far in the hills. SportTracks says 1015 feet of climbing, and there was a pretty good wind too. I managed a 10:52 pace but was pretty tired by the end of it.

My Forerunner 301 is getting really balky about talking to my computer. When are those 310XTs supposed to come out, anyway?

[yellow]

I had a great, fun run this evening.

I only ran once over the weekend on the camping trip...13 miles on singletrack along a lake. It was a really nice, soft trail and we beat the thunder, lightning, and downpour, which made the post-run nap even BETTER!! I took it easy most of the weekend and continued to catch up on calories.

Anyhoo, today I flaked on Crossfit, walked about halfway to work and then took the bus the rest of the way, and decided to run something new after work. I ran a portion of a trail that I run often (up, up, up) but took a spur that I knew was there but hadn't ever been on. It was great...took me to the top of a little mountain overlooking the city, then down a steep singletrack and then back up another little mountain. I didn't stop at all on the way up, which was a little over 1000' climb in about 3.75 miles. As I gazed across the valley from the top I saw a wall of water approaching. The wall was accompanied by some lightning quite far away. Needless to say, I hightailed it back the way I came, most of which was downhill. I love running downhill fast, so it was a kick in the running shorts. I beat the rain! And I felt absolutely fabulous after I finished.

Days like this make me want to just run, run, run and not do anything else. Too bad Utah doesn't have a lottery!

[skhill]

I noticed something today on my run-- back in March and April there were growing flocks for-sale signs going up in the neighborhood every week. But over the past few weeks, the numbers seem to have been decreasing... More "sold"s and fewer new signs.

Grounds for hope for our local economy, maybe!

[roadie gal]

I was planning on a 1 hour trail run, but it started to rain and thunder. OK, Plan B... I got on the treadmill for 42 minutes. Good enough for today. The trails should be great on Thursday.