Long and Less Long Runs: 2-26 to 3-4

[emily_in_nc]

Ran on the treadmill one day during the week - 3.25 miles + .5 miles walking (before/after run).

Ran on the trails today - don't know exact mileage, but I'd estimate 3 miles based on time. The hills outdoors are MUCH harder than riding flat on the treadmill, but by my fourth lap, I felt much better. Had to stop and walk for 15 seconds or so a few times early on, but on the last lap I didn't stop at all. Had to take advantage of this nice day (62 degrees when I ran); it was great to be outdoors in the Carolina blue skies and sunshine!

Emily

[yellow]

Had to take advantage of this nice day (62 degrees when I ran); it was great to be outdoors in the Carolina blue skies and sunshine!

Sounds like a great day. I always feel so fortunate and happy when I can be outside enjoying the great big world on a beautiful day.

It was gorgeous here too, though quite a bit colder (34F when I ran this afternoon). We had a couple of storms this week and quite a bit of snow, so my run on the trail turned into a run-walk for 6.4 miles (mostly goofy running at a very slow pace ). Where the snow was more than about 10" deep I had to just walk, even though I was trying to stay in someone else's postholes! In a couple of places is was well over my knees. But it was gorgeous and I'm still really not recovered from my cold, so doing a run-walk was probably a good thing. I only saw smiling people and dogs and the sky was so very blue and the mountains so very white.

[Shiraz]

Hi Everyone,
I finally got a decent run in yesterday. After having the flu and respiratory crud for 1-1/2weeks I ran slow and covered 8 miles. It was 20 degrees when we started and warmed up to a wonderful 30!! It was so nice to run with my friends. I can't believe how much difference it makes to have company. We tell jokes, try to sing songs, encourage each other, anything to pass the miles. I am still signed up to run the SLC 1/2 but concerned that I am not getting the miles each week that I should The run is April 20th...7 weeks!

Yellow, lets meet while I am in SLC in April. I am bringing a friend and she just bought a new road bike. Maybe we should try to ride or do a trail run on Sunday??

[btchance]

So I got in an easy (relatively) brick today. I did 20miles on the bike then 2.75miles running. My average HR through it was all zone 1 - I had wanted to push it harder on the bike but my legs wouldn't let me; not too surprising since this was my last workout before my rest week - aahh, that sounds great right now.

[KSH]

After being a sick for 5 days, I went out and rocked it today!

1 mile run - 9:20
10 mile bike
1 mile run- 10:00
10 mile bike
1 mile run- 10:20

And my overall average on the bike was 18.5! That is seriously hauling for me!

[Wahine]

So I finally got around to posting about my run yesterday. It wasn't very good. I had 6 miles planned with a test mile on the track that I did after about 15 min of warming up. It was the first real run in about 10 days. (I'm not counting Thursday when I had to stop at 30 min because things weren't going well).

Running is a lot harder when you haven't been at it consistently.

My test set came out to a 7:26 min/mi at a HR about 10 beats below my lactate threshold. That's 12 sec per mile slower than last month. Not surprising seeing as I had that virus and haven't run much in a few days.

Well, hopefully this'll change next month.