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

[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

[indigoiis]

Okay, after a while off of running (I've been training for tour de cure so much bicycling and much lazy off bike stuff...) I ran 3 miles this morning. It was fine/easy. I will try to ramp it up a bit next time, a little bit at a time.

[roadie gal]

Susan, that scavenger hunt sounds like a lot of fun.

I was supposed to swim yesterday, but sometime in the last week I moved to Seattle without anyone telling me. It's been raining for a solid week here and it's supposed to rain for another 5-7 days. I just can't swim in an outside pool in the brrrrr rain. Call me a weenie, but I can't.

Hey! Rain God, this is the high desert. We're supposed to have either snow or sun. What's with this rain business???

Anyway, I decided to go for a run instead. I did a one hour hilly trail run starting from behind my house. I had to do the beginning hill twice because about 3/4 mile into the run I realized that the dog from one of the guys doing some work on my house had joined me. Normally I'd just keep running and let the dog find it's way home, but this isn't the dog's home and I didn't want it to get lost. So I looped back home and left the dog with it's owner and then went back up the hill. Ugh.

[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...