Spring Previews - February 25th to March 2nd Runs

[roadie gal]

I ran WITHOUT PAIN for the first time in 3 months today. I did 21 minutes on the treadmill. I've been taping my foot for the past 2 weeks and it has done MIRACLES for my plantar fasciitis. **happy dance, with taped foot** Now the trick is going to be reining myself in and taking it slowly.

[Wahine]

2.7 miles at lunch. Yup I'm getting sore.

1.3 to go. I lucked out and will get off work early this afternoon. I'm heading out to run at the track right away. I'm finishing this off with a dead flat jog.

[Tiffany]

I'm finishing this off with a dead flat jog.

LOL ... but hey, you're finishing! Congrats lady.

[Wahine]

The funny thing is, I went to the track and did about 1 mile before the highschool track team came out to warm-up and suddenly my pace picked up from dead flat jog to dead flat semi spirited jog, for the last .3. Funny how weird we tend to be about how we appear to others.

[btchance]

I've done two runs this week - one 3 mile run with hills on Tuesday at that perfect time in the morning just before the sun comes up with the perfect temp, 50 degrees. Thursday, that morning temp had dropped to 22 degrees so I hit the dreadmill for another 3 miles, this time with 1min intervals. Hope to get in one more run this weekend.

[rocknrollgirl]

Well, I was out for try number two this morning. I went outside today. At the trailhead where we park to run there is a small retention pond with a nice flat trail around. It is about 1/3 of a mile around. So we went this morning. I did a 5 min warm-up and then 2 min jog two min walk. I eventually cut the walk down a bit. I did that for 21 mins and then walked 5 more.

DH went out on the trails and did 4 while I was doing my thing. Came home and did my PT exercises and now I am icing, having coffee from Trader Joe's and noodling on TE!

Oh and no pain while running. Sore muscles, but no pain.

[yellow]

RnRG, you're ahead of me. I didn't think is was possible to not have pain while running!! Seriously, I hope it continues to go smoothly. Resist the urge to go harder than you should...I know the type.

I did something today I never, ever thought I would do. I ran 13 miles on the dreadmill. Yes. I did.

I started out on the trail but the wind was gusting so strong I couldn't stand upright. Then I looked out over the lake and saw a thing coming, a thing that the radar did not show and for which I was only kind of prepared. So I bailed after about 4 miles thinking I would put on the road shoes and go run around the cemetery for a couple of hours. But then it started to snain (that's snow + rain) and thunder snow and, uncharacteristically, I decided to not go out into it. So I went to the gym.

I was in good company. Lots of other folks there on the dread for a couple of hours. I watched one entire hockey game (the dreads overlook an ice sheet) and rocked out to the iPod. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. But I wouldn't have wanted to do any more.

25k in 2 weeks. I think I'll be OK for it. I don't think I'll be ready for the 50k in April, though. Not enough miles under me at this point (I keep gravitating toward my skis...). Not sure what's after the 25k.