Long and Less Long Runs: 4-2 to 4-8

[colby]

Great job, everyone. Good to see what progress we've all made as we move back a better season for running... and events!

Monday, I did 4 miles. Tuesday, a quick 3 miles, Wednesday I tried cardio kickboxing at a friend's gym, Thursday 4 miles with 20 minutes of hill repeats. Tomorrow... we'll see. This weekend is the last weekend of ski season and I'm already committed to that, so there won't be anything productive then.

My plan is 12k in 1 month, 1/2 marathon in almost 2 months. I'm excited to see what my progress is... I'd like to better my times by 1-2 minutes per mile, which comes out to almost 30 minutes for the 1/2 marathon and 10-15 minutes for the 12k. We'll see... hill training, here I come.

[limewave]

You gals are making me feel so lazy this week! I did one 3.5 mile hill training run back on Monday. Tuesday I skipped out on my running club to eat pork chops with the in-laws and tonight I passed up running to eat buttery bread with DH who happened to get out of work early I'm not running again until Saturday.

And, to make this worse, this darn snow has forced me to bring my road bike back into the basement and onto the trainer again

[Wahine]

Don't feel bad Limewave. I blew of my ride and my run today. I went out at lunch with full intent to ride and found a deep slash in my sidewall so I didn't ride. Then I ended up having a really long day and didn't have any energy left to run, plus my allergies have been kinda bad this week. So I proudly said "Screw it!" and decided to take a spontaneous day of. I even had 2 glasses of wine with dinner.

[rocknrollgirl]

Oh Thank God...you machines are showing some weakness....he he he

[Shiraz]

I ran 12.9 with my running buddy Cindy this AM at a steady but slower pace than ususal (10 mpm). Overall it went well and I feel pretty good. I am still having some foot pain where I had surgery a year and half ago: I am just hoping it improves before April 21rst. I should have made an appointment with my foot doc before now. I start my taper next week.
Sunday : 7 miles
Tuesday : 5.25 miles and 39 miles bike ride
Friday : 12.9 miles
On call Saturday 7a-7p so I may not get to run
Sunday hopefully ride with the DH

[rocknrollgirl]

Hi Guys,

Well I am on a rest week (yea right), and so I only did two short transition runs this week, each about two miles. Yesterday we rode the race venue for my upcoming Xterra race. Tough stuff.

I ran today with the DH intending on have a long slow easy run, but NOOOOO, it got ramped up in the middle and became more of a tempo run on a great trail. I am surprised at how good my legs felt after the ride yesterday. They are tired now, but I am taking off completely tomorrow.

So we did about 6 today. It was a good run...Mantra of the day....

" I do NOT suck" !!!!!!!

[kelownagirl]

I went for a 2 km run after a 40km bike ride today. Interesting feeling.

[limewave]

I finally got out and ran this morning after being lazy most of the week. Mother nature paid me back for slacking off--I had to run in 3-4 inches of snow in a blizzard. Managed to get in 6 miles.

On a not so good note, I have an injured back which kills when I run. I guess I hurt way back in December when I was mountain biking. I flipped over the handlebars, landing on my back and my bike on top of me. I have 8 weeks of physical therapy But, hopefully after that I won't need DH to put on my shoes for me anymore.