Zippity Doo Dah - Running week of Jan. 18 2009

[Veronica]

1.2 mile run, 7.5 mile bike, 1.2 mile run

It's hard to get motivated to do this after work. It's hard to get motivated to do it before work in the dark. It's hard to get motivated.

Veronica

[yellow]

Well, Shiraz, you must be out of the mucky yucky air up there in Pokey...we're in a bad inversion pattern with "unhealthy for all persons" alerts. Cold I will run in. 85 micrograms per cubic meter of PM 2.5 I will not run in.

I've been running on the dreadmill some, going to the Crossfit gym most mornings (I did 45 handstand pushups today...5 unassisted and 40 assisted!), skiing on the weekends...hoping that I will be able to finish the 25k I'm signed up for next month with dignity. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to get up high (out of the pollution) and go for a run. I sure need it. I think I've rowed more miles on the ergometer this week than I've run!

[emily_in_nc]

For some reason, I woke up yesterday and my knee pain of 12 days was GONE. Just gone. Today too.

My DH explained to me that tendinitis pain is either "on" or "off" (binary to we software geeks), which makes no sense to me, and I don't really believe him, but it sure seems to be that way for the moment. I thought it would gradually lessen, not go from "bad" to "nothing" overnight. But then, that's how it came on, from "nothing" to "bad". So perhaps he is on to something...

I am going to take it easy on the knee tomorrow then *walk* the trails this weekend to see how it feels. If it's all better, I'll resume *easy* running next week.

Crossing fingers!

[Grog]

Headstand pushups???

5 unassisted?!?!

Yellow, you're my hero.

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Just had a tough run, but no pain (other than that of sheer effort). I have a new running partner who's much fitter than she pretends to be. I can run a bit faster than her at times, but she recovers much faster than I do. Wow.

I guess that's a good thing.

[OakLeaf]

Another easy one today.

Haven't decided yet what I plan to do to stay loose tomorrow.

Yellow, you're enough to make me go live in a cave and watch TV and eat potato chips for the rest of my life.

[kacie tri-ing]

Ok! Almost two weeks since the marathon. I ran twice right afterwards, and ended up hurt again. The past 8 days I have been swimming, walking, stretching, and spinning on my trainer. I ran 3 miles today on a soft surface with no pain! Yippie! I will still take it easy with the running, but my cycling and swimming are about to ramp up! Yikes!

Good luck everyone!

K

[Veronica]

Silly me. I rode Thom's bike in the trainer yesterday. Before my overuse injury a year ago I could do that with no problem. But now just that little bit of difference in our heights causes it to flare up again. Maybe we do need to buy a second trainer.

I was going to run on the treadmill at the gym today, since we're getting rain. But decided a day off was probably a better idea.

Veronica

[yellow]

Yellow, you're enough to make me go live in a cave and watch TV and eat potato chips for the rest of my life.

Mmmmm...I loooove potato chips, especially if they are the Lay's, fried and really greasy. I'd come with you to the cave but for the TV part. I'm too ADD to sit still for TV.

FWIW, I had NO IDEA I could do handstand pushups before I actually tried them. It's amazing what a little pushing from a 30-something-tough-guy-military-type can do to one's psyche. I'm the slowest one on the ergometer, though.

[michelem]

Crappy treadmill run tonight. I think I overdid it this week. Ran hard intervals on Tuesday night, had a 2 hour ballet class last night, then decided to do a "body sculpting" (weights) class tonight before attempting a tempo run. My legs were cooked before I even started. I only made it 2 miles of what should have been a 6 mile run. Sigh . . . All kinds of things went wrong -- I ate lunch way too late in the day, so I was burping a lot and got side stitches, my legs were already sore and tired, and it felt super-warm in the gym tonight (probably because it rained all day and now it's foggy out so there's more humidity in the air). Bleh bleh bleh.

I think my problem is that I want to do too much. I want to ride my bike, I want to take ballet and lyrical, I want to do weights, I want to run . . . but, I can't do all of them well AND give my body the recovery time it needs. There's just not enough days in the week! Sigh . . .