(Long and Less Long) Runs - 1/20 to 2/4

[Aggie_Ama]

3 miles Thursday... 2 miles Friday... all on the treadmill.

Warm weather... please come back to Texas!

KSH- It is a little warmer here, so I have been able to run outside. I got in 9 miles for the week. Of course I look at the temperatures and realize I was nutty- it was in the 40's! Treadmill miles suck though.

I really want to ride tomorrow, but it is so cold. All these beautiful new bikes in Texas and the coldest weather I can remember recently. *SIGH*

[btchance]

My ankle sprain scare was just that, a scare. After taking Ibuprofen for a few days and having to stand on it all day (I know, not the best thing), it was acting fine so I went and worked out Friday. It was supossed to be an easy workout, but since I hadn't done anything the past 2 days and knew I was on call today (Sat), I kinda ended up going pretty hard. 4mi on the treadmill, the base pace at 10min/mile, changed the incline around for part of that, then did some work upping the pace to 9:30 and 9min/mi pace. Felt pretty good, except for the treadmill boredom. (Read - I was constantly changing something on that machine, my mp3 player, or people watching and cussing in my head about having to be on it due to wet snow). Afterwards I did an hour long spin class, then immediately ran an easy mile on the indoor track. Ankle held up, and still feels fine this morning.

TriGirl - I hope your quad gets to feeling better. Just take it easy and you should be fine for the mary. Which one are you doing?

Colby - I hope you're feeling better. It's scary to wake up with a HR that high.

[Tri Girl]

The orthopedic doc said it was "probably" a quad strain (didn't do x-rays because he didn't suspect bone). Muscular strain is workable. Will do deep streches all week and see what happens. Will try running today- hope I don't die since I haven't run in 9 days...

btchance- I'm glad your ankle was just a scare! Sounds like you had a great run yesterday!!! Feels good to push it hard, huh?
I'm doing the Shamrock Marathon in VA Beach in March. Should be fun. I can walk it if I have to, but I'd much rather run!

Wahine- temp definitely is relative. I grew up in Yuma, AZ, and when I visited in '94 I almost died from the heat. Funny how you acclimate so quickly to your surroundings. I would die if I lived where you do this time of year. It's in the 20's here and I feel frostbite coming on just sitting in front of the computer (and it's 68F in my house- I'm a cold weenie).

[tattiefritter]

My ankle sprain scare was just that, a scare.

Look after it btchance as my sprain has come back to haunt me. I woke up this morning and it was throbbing so had to take some Ibuprofen and it still took a while to stop hurting. I was supposed to be heading out for an 11 miler but I have a rule (after doing some spectacularly stupid things in my early twenties while martial art training) that if I have to take any painkillers to allow me to train then I have no business training. So....I've decided to rest it from running for two weeks which means no half marathon at end of February for me I think I just overdid it a bit last week and the ankle wasn't up for it. I'll hopefully be able to fit in more cycling to keep my fitness going.

I think I'm going to enter a local half in June which will give me plenty of time to build up my legs/feet in my new shoes - just need to find a couple of 10Ks for prior to June to keep my motivation up.