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

[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.

[Urlea]

Well something is definitely wrong with the derailer on my road-bike. I have had 2 total derailments and 2 partial that locked up my pedals. Fortunately & unfortunately for me it only meant for one fall. Wed. I was doing hill 20mi of hill training & went down scuffing up my knee enough to make it bleed down into my sock.

The good news is that it didn't effect my run at all yesterday! A scuffed up knee isn't a badly bruised one in my case so I'll take it. Just hope it heals up in the next week before the HIM.

The running group I meet with every Thursday morning has rewards at certain mile marks you reach with them. Yesterday I & the woman I ended up paced with got our 100mile Mizuno tech shirts. Just another great reason to get out & running by 5:30a.m.

It was a good run. Fast. I knew the woman I was paced with slowed her pace a little bit to have some conversation & I sped up so as to not slow her down, but was still able to talk. Sort of.

[Susan Otcenas]

I had a TON of fun on last night's scavenger hunt run. About 180 people turned up, despite rain and severe winds/thundershowers (gotta love Portland!). The organizers showed us a map with locations listed. We had to jot them down, then get to as many places as possible, collect raffle tickets, then make it back to the run store within an hour. The faster you ran, the more places you could get to and still make it back. The farther the location (or the more elevation you had to gain to get to a location ) the more raffle tickets you'd collect at that particular location.

Jeff & I ran 5 miles, and collected 13 tickets each. One of the locations was WAY up Vista, a steep, long climb. I had to walk some of that. But hey, it was worth 3 tickets!

I seem to be raffle-lucky lately. The last 3 times I've been someplace with a raffle, I've won something each time! Last night I won a $25 gift certificate to Title9. Which is a little like giving honey to a honeybee....

[Veronica]

I'll happily take that Title 9 certificate from you.

Veronica

[spindizzy]

Well something is definitely wrong with the derailer on my road-bike. I have had 2 total derailments and 2 partial that locked up my pedals. Fortunately & unfortunately for me it only meant for one fall. Wed. I was doing hill 20mi of hill training & went down scuffing up my knee enough to make it bleed down into my sock.

It was a good run. Fast. I knew the woman I was paced with slowed her pace a little bit to have some conversation & I sped up so as to not slow her down, but was still able to talk. Sort of.

Urlea- I hope that you are getting your bike looked at before you get hurt and before your HIM. As for talking during running - there is a reason I tend to run alone...