Pavement Pounding - Week of August 27 to September 2

[limewave]

I got up REALLY early and did a 3 mile run. I've been slacking off this week. I'm going to try and get a good, long trail run in this weekend. And mountain bike, and kayak, and hike . . . How long is the holiday weekend?

[michelem]

Last night's run was MUCH better. On the treadmill again as it topped out at 105 here yesterday - UGH - I really thought that by moving away from AZ I'd get away from that kind of heat. Ha!

Took the advice from this thread on intake: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=18378

Came home from work and approx. 5pm ate a bowl of brown rice farina with some blueberries and two omega-3 eggs mixed in. Drank about 48 oz. of water. Took a nap and woke up at 7pm and ate a banana. Left for the gym at 9pm. Ran at 6 mph - 6.6mph with a percent grade of 0 - 2.5 for approx. 85 minutes and then brought it down to 0% grade and went from 4.8 down to 3.0 mph over the course of another 10 min. or so. I started taking SMALL sips of water after about 45 min. and probably consumed a total of 8 oz. max during the course of my run. No gels, no gatorade-type drinks - just plain water. This is the best and longest run I have ever done.

Came home and ate dinner at about 11:30pm - 1 chicken breast, 1 cup (dry measurement) brown rice pasta, 1 onion, a bunch of spinach and about 1 cup (frozen measurement) mixed veggies (corn, peas, carrots, green beans), all sauteed in olive oil. Drank more water. Of course, I couldn't get to sleep 'til about 1:30am!

Lesson learned: Do not eat full dinner before running (I find that 4 hours prior is still too soon to eat more than something like cereal). Do not take in gels or gatorade-type drinks during runs of less than 2 hours. Take VERY small sips of water.

Thanks for the advice!

[Kimmyt]

Got a bit of a run in today. Did 3 some miles during lunch, decided to try not running at the same pace (treadmill) the whole time, so I did the first mile at my usual 6mph pace and then upped it to 6.3 for the next mile, then back down to 6. Not much, but I felt okay.

The avg for the run actually ended up being even slower than if I had ran the whole thing at 6, due to me doing a slower pace for the last 3/10 mile, but what the hey, I just needed to get some miles in before my fun weekend of camping and climbing and drinking beers around a fire.

K.