Running into daylight savings time - 11/01-11/7/09

[Urlea]

SJCzar- Congrats on the 26.2!!! Somehow missed your report earlier. Sounds like you had a lot of fun.

Oak- Happy Birthday & great run!

I ran the 6miles home from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class tonight. It was such a beautiful day I knew night running would be great & it was! My layering was perfect, the VFFs rocked & it just felt like I was made to run. Gotta love runs like that! One thing I had forgotten over the summer was what it is like to get chilled once you are done running in the cooler fall weather. I definitely needed the hot shower.

In other news, my weekend trail running crew is growing! Looks like next weekend we will add 2 more warriors. We are planning to go super early & get a chance to use the headlamps again, not to mention hopefully avoid getting shot by people deer hunting. Don't worry I wear orange. I'm excited, but navigating trails in the dark is an adjustment. A necessary one though I'm sure.

[colby]

I survived Sunday's marathon and actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

The weather was perfect - mid 40s and mostly sunny. It was an out and back route and there was some wind on the way back but nothing too bad.

I didn't make my under 5 hour goal that I had in mind but I'm ok with that. The rail to trail surface was much kinder on the body but also seemed to be harder to keep up the pace that I would have needed to maintain. I did walk through the aid stations (I'm just too uncoordinated to drink and run), and took a few 15 second walk breaks in the last 5 miles, but otherwise I kept plodding along. At about the 5 mile mark I started running with a 60 year old guy who does 6-8 marathons a year. I probably slowed my pace by at least 45 seconds to a minute per mile to run with him but it was well worth it. We talked the whole time and he shared lots of good stories with me. The 10+ miles that we spent together went by much quicker than had I been on my own and really added to the whole experience for me.

I would say you did better than survived - you pretty much ran the whole way, and aren't really sore. Congrats!! It makes a HUGE difference to find a running buddy, even if they are running slower. It really passes the time.

Today, intervals. 8 x 1 min at OMG pace with 2 min "rest" at "goal pace" (to make your goal pace feel slow, I imagine ). Tomorrow, easy run. Sunday... 20 miles. I get hungry just thinking about it. This week the HUNGER set in with a vengeance - I have been hungry all the time, it's difficult making up the deficit of the 2000 calories burned on the long run. It'll be like this for another 2 weeks, I'm sure.

[katluvr]

First things first:
Happy Birthday Oak! I know this is a BIG milestone year--and I hope it is a GREAT year for you!

So I ran 4 miles last night after work. Temps in the low 70's now. It was a very nice run. I felt good. I felt "fast". (My version of fast). So 4 miles, 45:30 min. NOt bad. Now keep in mind I had a personal trainer workout that AM. I was not feeling tight or sore yet. It is those darn lunges.

I had to run 4 again today and needed to do it in the AM. I really hate runs in less that 12 hours. I did not sleep that well. Go up and I felt the tightness setting in. I also knew I was tired. So this was a "quantity" run not a "quality" run. It was slow. I did not feel smooth...my gait felt jerky". So 2 minutes longer this AM. So it was slow and I felt slow. The worst part was that when I got home everything was so tight I almost could not sit down or bend over to get my shoes off. I had to move very slowly to get things to start stretching out. So took my warm shower and then stretched.

I am moving a bit slow and walking like an old lady. So more stretching tonight!!!

Colby, difficulty making up teh 2000 cal deficit from the long run? Never my problem. I wish I could lose some weight w/ all this running. I decided not to the weight loss challenge, but try and eat "descent", not big splurges and hopefully as I increase my mileage I'll get some weight off.
Now that I say that I DID indulge in a gingerbread panera bagel this AM after my run. YUM!

4 miles Sat and 7 on Sunday is the plan.

K

[Crankin]

Set out to run 4 and ended up doing 3, with a few 30 second walk breaks. Just didn't feel it today. I have to find a way to be able to run 3 days a week and ride, too. Well, once I start riding on the trainer, that won't be as hard.
I was excited to wear the new Jacket Bluetree sold to me; it was 42 out and very windy, with gusts to 20 or so. I thought the wind stopper stuff would be great, but I was sweating, even with just a very micro weight base layer under the jacket. The good thing is, it has pit zips, so those opened up, then I unzipped the collar, and ended up taking off my headband. But, it's perfectly shaped for running and will be a great addition for really cold rides.
Off to stretch. I'll get this running thing down, eventually.

[indigoiis]

5.25 last night, 3.5 today, all downtown.

It's funny - I'm finding myself jogging in neighborhoods one might think of as "bad" but they are just neglected. I like discovering this town. I went by a man at a bus stop and he said first something in Spanish, and then "hey, I like to see a beautiful woman taking a jog!"

It made me smile. Call me vain.

[OakLeaf]

Thanks for the birthday wishes.

I'm taking the day off. Tomorrow I'm going to get my butt thrashed on the bici. Hopefully someone I can hang with will show up for this ride.

[Susan Otcenas]

Today's training plan called for a 45 minute run with 6 x :30 sprints at 85-90% effort. That, plus the fact that it was pouring rain, meant that I covered more distance than I usually do in that amount of time.

I *really* considered bagging the workout when I saw how crappy it was outside, but I decided to just go do it and I'm so glad I did. I would have felt like crap if I'd skipped it.

Susan

[Becky]

It's funny - I'm finding myself jogging in neighborhoods one might think of as "bad" but they are just neglected. I like discovering this town. I went by a man at a bus stop and he said first something in Spanish, and then "hey, I like to see a beautiful woman taking a jog!"

It made me smile. Call me vain.

I love stories like this, and no, I don't think you're vain at all DH and I commute through similar neighborhoods , and we've found people there to be friendly and respectful, even more so than the "nice" neighborhoods. One guy waved us down at a red light and yelled, "Damn! I just saw y'all over in New Castle (about 10 miles away)- y'all are hard core!"

[Jolt]

Yesterday's run was about an hour on the trail near my friend's house. It was pretty good, except I found out I need to get something blaze orange to wear--I saw two guys hunting near the trail (it's in a state park) and got a little nervous since I wasn't wearing anything particularly high-visibility (I don't think electric blue counts as hi-viz!).

[indigoiis]

Okay, I broke down and bought a pair of VFF classics, and a pair of injini coolmax socks.
I tried them on and noticed with great dismay that my extremely short toes are hard to get into the glove part.
I mean, my toes are wee. Wee little nubbins.

I thought should I cut the socks and sew them up smaller?
Otherwise there is a LOT of extra fabric bunching up into the long toes of the VFFs, and as that is actually okay (it fills the toe up) it's really hard to get everything lined up in there.

I'll work on it.
Plan on doing a short trail run with them tomorrow...

[skhill]

I feel safer running in "bad" neighborhoods than good ones-- there's always folks around, maybe that's it...

Today, 8.3 miles, trying out a new route over to my brother's house and back. I went past 2 universities, 2 hospitals, 2 starbucks, and 2 dunkin' donuts! Somehow, I've suddenly gotten faster; I averaged 9:20/mile, and it felt like I was going slow (heck, with that headwind for the first 3 miles, I *know* I was going slow). Maybe the cool fall weather's really making a difference!

[Jolt]

5.25 last night, 3.5 today, all downtown.

It's funny - I'm finding myself jogging in neighborhoods one might think of as "bad" but they are just neglected. I like discovering this town. I went by a man at a bus stop and he said first something in Spanish, and then "hey, I like to see a beautiful woman taking a jog!"

It made me smile. Call me vain.

Well, your attitude is better than mine! If anyone (well, mostly men) makes a comment, honks, or anything else when I'm out for a run it just makes me really uncomfortable. In the situation you describe, I would have been just plain creeped out! Doesn't matter what kind of neighborhood it is. I think that's part of why I prefer trail running (besides better scenery and varied terrain)--nobody watching me.