Last week of March runs

[Susan Otcenas]

Urlea - We're all thinking about you and hoping for the best. Take good care of yourself. (BTW, I love your "bright side" attitude when mentioning your badass biceps! Sure is a tough way to get 'em, though. )

My program called for an easy 2 miles this morning, but I went out and ran a relaxed 30 minutes instead. Hauling myself out of bed in the a.m. is so difficult, I needed a bigger payback than 2 miles!

I've signed up for the "1st annual" Fort Vancouver 10K this Sunday. When my 13 week program ended, I was supposed to run a 10K, but that weekend coincided with the Shamrock 5K run. So this weekend's 10K race will give me some "closure" on that program. My half-marathon program calls for 6 miles this Sunday anyway; I'll just be doing it at a faster pace than prescribed (I hope.)

Hope everyone has great runs this weekend!

Susan

[eclectic]

Urlea - I am very glad you came on and checked in - things aren't looking too good in your neck of the woods - I wish we were closer so we could be of more help - The Twin Cities are closer than we are

They are starting to talk about possible flooding here now too. The temps are low right now so no thawing is going on (it was almost -10F at my house this morning and every day of this makes it more likely the temps could shoot into the 60's or 70's, that is where we will run into problems. If it stays in the 40's we should be fine.

Jolt - I hope your foot heals quickly

Crankin' you sound like you are doing well in the running department. Have fun running on the trails - I need to check out the dikes here, (if the snow melts before next winter) that is the best place we can trail run, we have quite a few miles of them winding throughout the city

Susan - Good luck w/ your 10k! will be watching for your race report

I didn't get my recovery run in yesterday, my schedule is off because of the storm. Intervals are scheduled for tomorrow and I should be able to get those in (on the TM of course

[kacie tri-ing]

Way to go with those biceps! Keep safe!

[roadie gal]

Urlea, thinking good thoughts for you. You may be missing your training, but you're certainly getting exercise!

I ran 30 minutes on the hill program on the treadmill and then went for a half hour swim. It was too nice to pass on the swim. It's supposed to be very windy here for the next 2 days.

[Crankin]

I got in a 2.2 mile run up and down my hill at 5:30 AM this morning. I forgot how nice it is to be out at this time of the morning. It was already 41 out, the birds were chirping, and the only thing I saw was a deer running across the road.
I got to wear all my geeky commuter accessories, even though not one other person I have seen walking or running in this town wears any reflective gear. It's a serious problem.
I didn't wear my Garmin, so I have no idea of my pace. It's the first time I ran the whole way up the hill, though.
Off to class. Rest tomorrow, last day of this class for another month.

[Urlea]

Hey Ladies,

Things are looking good here. I am missing my long run today, but am thinking I might try to talk DH into going for a walk with me. We are still camped out at his parent's place keeping an eye on the sandbag dikes here. So far so good!

Hope you are having great long runs this Saturday! I am excited to hear about them.

[eclectic]

Urlea- glad to hear things are finally looking up for all of you

Crankin' Nice out @ 5:30 am? I assume you were running in the dark (another ) But good for you on getting out there and getting it done!

For me it was another day on the Y track. The streets are somewhat better but I don't know if I will ever want to run on the street. Sidewalks are still bad.

I am still doing a modified program. It was supposed to be long intervals today.
I walked .75 mi @ a 14 min pace then did a 2:1 ratio run/walk for another .75.
For the intervals I did a 3:1 on the run leg I was doing about a 10:30 to 10:00pace! that is a definate improvement for me.
On the cool down laps I was able to comfortably run my 12 min mile pace.

Even w/ the walking I did I was able to do all 7 miles at less than a 12 min mile! I had to check the math about 4 times to make sure that is what I had done!

The run felt like agony at the start but I stopped after the warmup laps and stretched then the rest went better.