Running Cold: Week of 12/15

[Crankin]

It doesn't take long to learn to keep your feet apart on snow shoes. I find it pretty easy to run in them, although I usually am walking. I do like to run down the hills on a trail with them, because you feel so safe on them.

[spindizzy]

Beautiful pictures Jes! We are just having our first storm today.

Did 6.1 km last Saturday at 4:49 pace (where did that come from? )

My training this month calls for a "Tabata" workout once a week. It's short, sweet and hurts like He**! Warm up for 15 minutes, put the teadmill at 10% grade, 7.5mph. Then it's 20 secs on, 10 secs off. 8x - then a cool down..by the 7th or 8th one, I'm hanging on for dear life!!!!

[eclectic]

Hello all and welcome over Crankin' - I never thought I would be on this thread either and your secret is safe here

I did my 4 miler (on an indoor track - I am not brave like all of you - until tomorrow that is

the 4 miler went better than anticipated - I was still slow but the time went faster and I didn't hurt as much.

I wasn't going to swim this morning but then decided to as I thought it would help w/ recovery.
It was great because our coach had us doing a fairly low intensity IM workout. It rotated and stretched every part of the body, my legs thank me for it. (even doing the butterfly helped

Way back in the day when I was in HS and swimming all the time I found if I was stiff and tired from anything and still HAD to swim I always felt better after - Hey 35 years later it is still true!

Thanks for the outdoor tips - I have wool socks, and good leggings, windpants, t-necks etc thanks to x-country skiing. Even if it is snowing and cold I am going to go for it (w/ some sanity of course - hopefully there will be bale out points) I will try to remember my camera and take some pics (we will see how the hair is after

Forgot to add - Great pics Jes AND what a beautiful place to run

[Jolt]

Well, I did run in the snow this evening and test out the Stabilicers. They are helpful but if there are a few inches of snow on top of ice, you still slide. As for today's run in general, it wasn't so great. Yesterday when I went out, I started having some pain in the inside back part of my left knee--not really bad pain, but uncomfortable enough that I decided to cut the run short. I then poked around my hamstrings etc. looking for trigger points and found a spot that needed some work so rolled a rubber ball under it while sitting on a chair, and have done this a few times since finding the spot. So today I went out to run, and after a little bit the same pain started again; I kept going and it sort of moved to the center back of the knee and toward the end started radiating to the lateral side (close to the IT band area, and this is the same leg where I just had that problem but just had my follow-up with the PT on Monday and she said it looked good and was loosened up nicely). UGH. Not sure if it's all from that trigger point (do they ever get worse before getting better when you start working on them?) or if there's something else going on. All I know is I remember having some twinges in that posterior part of the knee when the whole IT band issue started and don't want to go down THAT road again. Anyone else ever had similar issues? My next run probably won't be until Monday so that will give me a couple more days to work out the kinks and hopefully not have an issue.

[eclectic]

No hat hair pics this time I woke up, read the thermometer: 20 below F, went online: 40 below windchill ( it is now 45 below windchill) and said to myself " NOPE I am NOT that stupid and i have nothing to prove, I want to live to run another day"

so after freezing my hind end off helping a GF jump her car I went to the Y and ran. I decided to try out one of the new dreadmills they have. It wasn't too bad. The TV is right on it so I could pick my own station and the sound was good, there was a built in fan that blew on my face but wasn't annoying - took me awhile to figure out that was where the air was coming from

I did 4 miles on it then went on the track to finish out the last mile. Not too good an idea. It was tricky to transition and took me about .25 mile to adjust (dizzy)

But I did get a whole 5 miles done w/o stopping except for about a 45 sec transition from treadmill to track at mile 4.

WOW even if I was still slow - at the beginning of Sept I couldn't do 2 miles w/o walking part of it.

[yellow]

I am a slacker...haven't been running because I skied Friday and Saturday (yesterday) and plan to go today! Tele at the resort on Friday, touring for turns (that didn't materialize) yesterday, and probably skate skiing today.

And I have a friend whose name is SadieKate that will be in town this week, so I suspect we'll be skiing and I won't be running. Oh well...maybe I'll get back into running more in March.

[Veronica]

I realized a couple of days ago that I have 4 months until my next big event... and I really needed to get a training plan in place. My April event is a bike ride, but in May I have a tough Olympic distance tri planned, so I need to keep running.

So my training plan for running is a minimum of ten miles per week and treadmill miles count.

My training weeks start on Sunday. It's raining and 47 degrees here and I did 4.4 miles. I haven't run that far since the end of Aug. So I was pleased. It wasn't particularly fast, but I got out.

Veronica

[eclectic]

I am a slacker...haven't been running because I skied Friday and Saturday (yesterday) and plan to go today! Tele at the resort on Friday, touring for turns (that didn't materialize) yesterday, and probably skate skiing today.

And I have a friend whose name is SadieKate that will be in town this week, so I suspect we'll be skiing and I won't be running. Oh well...maybe I'll get back into running more in March.

OK rub it in Yellow We have to drive a minimum of 8 hours to find a good mountain ski slope.
Telemarking ( I assume that is what you are talking about ) is TOUGH - you go girl! What is touring for turns? AND skate skiing? you are versitle

Good job Veronica on getting back out and Gittin 'er done!

I did spin class today then just ran a mile on the track as a little brick

But that put running mileage for this week at 13! for me that is a
then if I add in the 4 swimming miles and 34 cycling trainer miles that is a double
I guess I am making progress.