Running into June: Run week 6/1-6/7/2009

[skhill]

I noticed something today on my run-- back in March and April there were growing flocks for-sale signs going up in the neighborhood every week. But over the past few weeks, the numbers seem to have been decreasing... More "sold"s and fewer new signs.

Grounds for hope for our local economy, maybe!

[roadie gal]

I was planning on a 1 hour trail run, but it started to rain and thunder. OK, Plan B... I got on the treadmill for 42 minutes. Good enough for today. The trails should be great on Thursday.

[yellow]

roadie, we are having a crazy series of thunder & lightning type storms now too. Seems like it's been going on for more days in a row than I have ever experienced here (granted, I was up in the mountains in thunder & lightning land over the weekend so I've had a lot of exposure...but...stilll it sure rains a lot for being the FREAKING DESERT!) It seems like the thunderstorms usually happen a little later in the summer...not the spring.

I managed an easy 4-miler after work before the sky opened up and the lightning show started. I also ran three 1-mile sprints in Crossfit this am. I can't remember the last time I've done something like that...maybe never. I surprised myself by maintaining a pretty fast pace (for me) for the entire sprint each time (although my last one was 20 seconds slower...we did do other exercises inbetween the sprints as well, so I guess that's to be expected). It was painful but good...different for me, for sure.

[Urlea]

After a 10miler on Saturday in 85 degree heat w/ a lot of humidity I was thankful for the cooler 60's to run in today.

It was just a 3miler, but everything felt pretty good. Still trying to figure out how much to taper in the next 10days until the HIM. So far so good though, I think.

I was able to carry my wallet & a tote in my hydration belt. Picked up groceries on the way home. I tend to buy healthier when I run to the store & thankfully other than the redneck who complimented me on my "arm socks" ppl are generally accepting of my being there even though I am in all my tech gear.

[Susan Otcenas]

5 mile easy run this morning. I was sheduled to do a 7 mile tempo run, but I had an early appt (6:50am) downtown and didn't think I could fit it in and still make my appt. So, I re-jiggered my schedule.

Tomorrow night I'm doing a scavenger hunt run sponsored by a local run store. They do this the first thursday of every month. Apparently they give you a map, and you run from place to place, collecting raffle tickets from businesses involved along the way. You have to make it back to the start by a certain time to deposit your raffle tickets for the drawing. You can run in any direction, and go to whatever map locations you want, so the faster (and more strategically) you run, the more tickets you can collect. The farther the location, the more tickets you can collect from that spot. Seems like it will be a fun way to "shake up" my run routine. Oh, and there's beer when you're done, so I guess that's good motivation too.

[SJCzar]

Susan - I really love that scavenger hunt idea. That would make any run much more enjoyable. I have never heard of anything like that around here. Maybe I'll have to look into getting something going with my running friends.

I haven't been running too much this week. 3 miles Tues. night after biking, then a 1 mile run after biking last night. I have been swimming every morning though. I figured that I need much more practice at that then running for this weekend's tri.

Saturday I have a century ride and then Sunday is a sprint tri. The weather on Sunday sounds like cool (50s) and rainy. Not exactly looking forward to plunging into that 60-something water. I am quite a cold-water wimp. Wait - I must stop complaining since I'm supposed to be doing this to have fun, right?

[Crankin]

I ran this morning; 3 miles, but I only ran about 2.5 of it. It's really humid out and I have come to the conclusion that I have lost my ability to exercise early in the AM. This, from someone who used to teach aerobics at 5 AM!
Still dealing with the neck/head/back pain. The PT cannot figure it out. It gets better then reappears out of nowhere. I think something I am doing in yoga might be aggravating it?
I ran without my IPod and tried to practice my mindfulness meditation and listen to the birds. I didn't check my pace, but my time was about 1.5 minutes slower than my last run.
I probably will be running more next week, as the weather isn't going to be good for riding and we are going away to Block Island Thursday-Saturday.