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

[rocknrollgirl]

Howdy girls...three for us tonight, recovery run,nice and easy.

[Grog]

Somehow I've found that I like to go for a run and then a swim. I think it has to do with avoiding the guilt of taking more than one shower a day. Not a very useful brick, but if that's what it takes to get me in the pool.... well, let's do it.

So I caught up with a coworker who's just starting to run again after many years on the sidelines. She's in pretty good shape but she runs much slowlier than I do. It ended up being slowlier than with that 66yo judge this week, but was fun nonetheless, and I tricked her into doing a few 10-second sprints, which she hated, but that spiced things up a wee bit. Ran back home, picked up the swim gear and rode my bike to the pool (about 750 meters away!! how lazy is that). Practiced my breathing-on-both-sides-every-third-stroke thing... swallowed lots of water. Came back home to eat and work... feeling dizzy from all the pool water.

I really love running, after all. Especially compared to swimming.

[yellow]

blahblahblahblahblah! Scooted out of work early enough to take the yellow dog running on the trail, but to my surprise there hasn't been too much traffic on it the last few days, which means that I was all over the place, postholing in the snow drifts and generally feeling like I was running uphill on sand (we've gotten probably about 10" this week up there). Top that off with nasty bad lungs and I can honestly say that was one of the worst runs I've had since I started running again. I should have worn my YakTrax but didn't (mostly because they make my right foot fall asleep). At least I stayed upright the whole time.

It was purty, though, and the dog had a great time. A few little flurries and some pretty dramatic clouds and I had it all to myself. So I really shouldn't complain.

[Wahine]

+1 on the blahs.

I tried to run at lunch. Kept it to the dreadmill so I could bail if things weren't going well and they didn't. I planned 1:15 and I did 0:33. Legs were heavy and I can still feel congestion in my chest. Worst of all was that I got dizzy. Not normal treadmill dizzy, more like I'm going to fall over dizzy. So I quit at 3.3 miles and called it a day.

I'll be heading off to bed soon.

[KSH]

3 miles at a 10:20 minute mile. I have a runny nose and a slight cough, but I forged ahead.

Started running treadmill one- feeling great! Then it turns off: User Not Detected.

I go to treadmill two- feeling great and working on some speed work, it turns off: User Not Detected.

I go to treadmill three to run .15 more to finish my mileage... I end up going a little further to get a solid 3 miles in.

Frustrating treadmills!

On a positive note: I was really feeling great running today! No cramps! My blisters hurt some but I could deal with it.

[tattiefritter]

Got another 3.5 miles done yesterday. Felt my left ankle was a little stiffer than the right when setting off but 10 minutes into the run I forgot about it completely so maybe I was just focussing on it a bit. Did the loop in reverse again but the wind was much stronger than Tuesday (luckly no rain though) so the first half of the run felt like someone was pushing against me as I ran directly into the wind. My "inner" calf muscles were a little tight afterwards but nowhere near as bad as Tuesday so hopefully they are just getting used to running in the new show type. Kept it a nice even pace but was averaging 8:45 mm apparently which seems a little fast for me.

I'm off work all next week so will try to get a run in at least once

[btchance]

I did an unplanned, very easy, 3.5mi today (part walking). Today was supossed to be my swim day but I woke up with a nice little outer ear infection, so no pool for a few days and plenty of antibiotic ear drops.