Spring Previews - February 25th to March 2nd Runs

[Shiraz]

Looks like everyone is having a pretty good week. I did get my 10 mile long run in last Sunday averaged 9:25 m/ mile. It helps to run with GF's to push each other to maintain a great pace. I had DH drop us out 10 miles and run back home from the back roads. The snow, rain and wind stopped for the 1:35minutes we were out. Great hills and rollers. I have only been able to run 6x800 with a warm up and cool down intervals on Wed. Hoping to get in a short easy run tomorrow and a 12 miler on Sunday. Missed my tempo run today due house buying stuff, oh well, tomorrow is another day.!!

We are in the process of buying a house and work is killing me. We are so busy on the peds floor with respiratory and influ A.

Nice job Teigyr
Hope all you injured ladies are on the mend soon!!

[emily_in_nc]

I met my goal of doing a five-mile run today on the treadmill. Farthest I've ever run in my life (46.9 years!) I was SO excited! I actually felt great the last mile, definitely feeling the runner's high. I did it in 53:34, quite respectable for me. I'll never be a fast runner, but it's fun to see the distances getting easier. My HR isn't going quite as high now that I've been running consistently 3x a week all month. I've also lost 2 lbs. without trying at all.

Looking forward to a trail run on Sunday -- it's going to be in the low 60s. Yippee!

Congrats to everyone on all their runs, especially rockandrollgal and roadie gal for getting back to it after injuries. Good going!

Emily

[Wahine]

Wow Emily!! That is really great. I remember when you first ever so shyly posted on the running thread and you hadn't even run 3 miles yet. Look how far you've come!!

[emily_in_nc]

Wow Emily!! That is really great. I remember when you first ever so shyly posted on the running thread and you hadn't even run 3 miles yet. Look how far you've come!!

Thanks Wahine -- I'm really enjoying running now! It's funny because I never thought I could run. I remember dying trying to do one 1/4 mile lap around a track back in high school. And here I am after fracturing my pelvis in 2005 running > 2 miles for the first time in my life. I think going on Advair is probably the biggest difference in my success this time around, and the fact that I'd already built fitness from cycling, so I wasn't starting from ground zero. And the older I get, the more stubborn/determined I get too!

The distances you do, and the frequency, continue to astound me -- you are such an inspiration!

Emily

[OakLeaf]

An even 10K for me today, longest run ever. I'd blown off my run on Thursday and didn't make it up yesterday, so I wasn't sure whether I should do a long run today (what I had scheduled for Thursday) or a 3 on/3 off (my usual weekend run). It was hard enough for me to drag myself out at all, let alone do a hard effort, so long run it was. I guess I'm still recovering, because as slow as I went, my HR was through the roof (average HR on the downwind return leg was 170), and it climbed steadily through the run, which suggests to me that I was over my LT from the very beginning, is that right?

Anyway it felt decent, and I'm really really hoping that the last of the infection has cleared out of my ears. Please, please, please.

Today's theme on the beach: crowded! Low tide and a beautiful Sunday. Football, frisbee, bocce, sunbathing, radios, a handful of other runners. Even though Bike Week is very much in evidence around here, not a single motorcycle on the beach (even on a normal day there's usually one or two).

Now off to the Speedway to watch some races!

[Grog]

Today's theme on the beach: crowded! Low tide and a beautiful Sunday.

Your beach sounds like mine.

There were so many people out running this morning it was almost a problem. A real highway at rush hour out there. Anyway, I headed out for a 10K run - my current version of a long run - planning to do hill reps towards the end on the way home. I wanted to do them when I would be a little tired, but not extremely tired so I ran the first 9K at not too hard a pace. When I hit the final hill home, I took a side street where I have a 250 m 8% incline measured (I found out that it's actually 235 but whatever), and did five reps. My first was 1:24 and I brought that down by a few seconds every time I repeated until I finished in 59s. It hurt badly but I really was all smiles!!!

I walked back down and picked up the last km of my run where I had left it. I felt much less tired AFTER the hill reps than BEFORE. That must be endorphines.

What will tomorrow be?

[emily_in_nc]

Did a 5 mile trail run today. Probably pushed it a bit harder than I should have as my heart rate stayed high through most of it, and I had to drop back to a walk several times just to get my HR down < 170, but I did it, and at times it felt really good. The hills are still VERY hard going, but I can run a lot farther than I used to be able to, so I'm happy.

Emily