Long and Less Long Runs: 3-19 to 3-25

[Grog]

Wow! Yellow, you lucky woman! That sounds like a terrific run!!!

Well I came home tonight - still in the pouring rain. I'm sick of the rain - and was pretty decided to go for a run despite not really feeling like it. (Contradictory I know.) So as I stepped into our suite I heard my sweet partner clicking into his pedals on his trainer bike. I quickly said hi and started changing and just as I was getting ready to go I heard him slow down, stop, and unclip. I had never seen that.

He was quite tired and down, and although he wanted he just couldn't do that bike thing tonight. So I ended up hanging out with him, forcing him to get dressed in street clothes and come with me to the coffee shop to buy coffee. (Made it to the coffee shop, smelled the fresh coffee they were roasting... only to find it was closed. Whatever...)

We don't get much time together these days so that short "date" was better than a run. I'll run tomorrow morning instead. The pouring rain will still be there.

[Wahine]

Grog - I think you made a great coice tonight. DH and I did the same sort of thing last week. We had so much fun and we really needed it.

I ran a little over 4 miles today. Hilly terraine and stayed in Z1 to 2. Run time about 43 min. The views we nice, I could see MT Hood but it was a little cloudy and gloomy. I'm looking forward to spring.

[colby]

We're stuck in "spring taunting" mode out here, last Sunday was 60 degrees and clear (a little windy), perfect for a 30 mile ride. Now, it's back to cloudy and wet, some ski areas got 6-8" of snow in the last 2 days.

Anyway, running... I put in 3 miles after my ride last weekend (had horrible side cramps, thought of you, KSH), took Monday off, did strength training on Tuesday, and was out of town yesterday, so I get an F in running this week. Getting back on the bandwagon for an early May hilly 12k and late May 1/2 marathon... hard to believe it's almost April.

I went to the chiropractor last week for my hip, sure enough it was out of alignment. He realigned it and it's been feeling a lot better, now it's just the muscles that are re-adjusting to the proper alignment. I was hesitating on running at the end of last week/early this week but now I feel like I'm at about 90% on that hip.

Happy running!!

[rocknrollgirl]

Yellow, I want to come run with you! I would throw my watch out the window and never think about time and distance again if I could run on trails like that! We have nice trails here, but NOTHING like that. You are lucky.

[tattiefritter]

Second that Rocknrollgirl. We have some nice trails about a 10 minute drive away which I have no problem putting my MTB in and going to ride on but have never considered driving to run. I have Monday off work and may go do a little exploring...the path less travelled is usually fun! There are lots of little footpaths that we are not allowed to cycle on but would be great to investigate on foot.

[HappyAnika]

I think I'll sneak in here on these running threads now that my back is doing better and I can start working on my running again. I just got my new heart rate monitor last weekend, had used it twice on rides, and was anxious to try it out on a run. So after a lot of thought about fat burning and zone training sparked by the weight question in the tri forum, I decided to do a zone 2 run. At first this was really hard, I tend to think that if I'm not huffing and puffing, then I'm not getting a good work out. I had to slow down a lot (and I'm a slow runner anyway) to keep my HR down. If I'd just gone by my breathing, I would have thought that I was hardly working, but the hrm proved otherwise. I kept a nice steady pace at the top of zone 2 and for the first time ever while running I hit that "I could do this all day" feeling. It felt fantastic! I went to a trail I'd never been to before that was perfect for running: dirt, pretty flat, along a creek, a bit through the trees, sweeping views of the mountains and the plains. I got to listen to the new Modest Mouse disk, for which I'd been impatiently waiting for 3 months to come out. It was just fabulous, I'd never had so much fun running! I ran for 28 minutes, about 2.3 miles. I actually want to go again, that's a new feeling for me.

[rocknrollgirl]

Good Morning,
I just got back from a long slow run, well long for me. 6 mile trail run, nice and slow. The DH had practice, so one of our training buddies went with me. It was pretty in the woods this morning. It had just stopped raining, so everything was fresh in the woods.

Also on the schedule, I am trying my wetsuit in the pool today..woo hoo