Runny knows - Feb 12 to 17

[alpinerabbit]

Before enlightenment, Master Yoda, chop wood and carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.


I ran a whoppin 12 minutes with 1 minute run-one minute walk. This is my part of coming back from that evil muscle injury I have been carrying around with me since October.

See if I don't.

[froglegs]

I took 9 days off from running to let my knee rest. Yesterday I hopped on the treadmill for an easy 2.5. It felt good to run, even though it was on the dreadmill.

[Wahine]

4 miles today. That makes 29 miles in 5 days. Phew!! I got the OK for a day off tomorrow.

[kelownagirl]

I did 3.8 km today and felt crappy. My calves hurt again. I walked more in the last half. Looking forward to seeing the new PT next week.

[indysteel]

I did about 3.5 yesterday outside with a friend of mine. It's harder for me to run outside than in given the cold, but we had a good run all the same. She's nursing some injuries and didn't mind slowing down for me.

[Jolt]

Well, I'd really like to go for a run today (the sun's even out!) but there is so much darn ICE around that it's probably not such a good idea! We had snow, then freezing rain, then large amounts of rain yesterday, then the temperature dropped so all that slush and all those puddles froze. Not cool. So it's either the stationary bike (boring) or go to the Y tonight and use the rock gym (appropriate given the feeling of being about ready to start climbing the walls from being cooped up)--and I'm trying to think of productive ways to use some of this pent-up energy.

[emily_in_nc]

I ran on the treadmill Tues. and today, 40 minutes each time. Tues. I did 3.64 miles in that time (including some walking), and today I did 3.78 miles (no walking). I am working on getting faster, but it is so hard. My time for 3.1 miles (a 5K) was 31:18 today, and my DH said that a time that slow is not even listed in his heart rate training book as a possible 5K time. Sheesh....way to discourage a beginning runner! Admittedly, I did start out slowly warming up, which I would have probably already done before starting out on a 5K, so I might be slightly faster at an actual event, but throw in the hills and I might be even slower!

But whatever the book says about my time, I'm feeling better than ever when I run (no pain anywhere!) and am improving over my speeds from just a month ago, so I try not to be too hard on myself. I'll never be a speed demon, but I'd like to run a 5K one of these days. It just needs to be a large enough event that I won't come in dead last.

Emily