Winter runs, week of January 17th-23rd

[fatbottomedgurl]

Went for a 3.25 mile run. Half of it was along our "river." It normally has a few inches of street run-off trickling down it.

[Susan Otcenas]

10 mile long run for me yesterday. I'm in upstate NY visiting family, so I ran a route suggested by my older sister. 10 mile out and back on Hurley Mountain Rd in Hurley. Very low traffic road, fairly flat, and rural. I grew up very close to here. As I was trotting along, I got to thinking that there's something about the landscape (color of the dirt, shape of the trees, and I don't even know what all) that would cause me to recognize the road as being in upstate NY. Really, there's nothing remarkable about the landscape, but there's just *something* that makes me recognize this as a distinct. Maybe it's the color of the light. I don't know...

Anyway, I was a very pleasant run. My Dad is under orders to walk 3-5 miles a day, so he walked while I ran and we both felt geat when we were done!

[skhill]

This morning, I was all stiff and achy when I started out the door-- 40 is just around the corner for me, and my left ankle wanted to make sure I remembered. The first mile was o so slow, but at around 2.5 miles I started to feel really good, and ended up going a mile further than I had intended. 6 miles in all, at a 9:40 pace. I'm loving our unseasonably warm streak!

[indigoiis]

This morning, I was all stiff and achy when I started out the door-- 40 is just around the corner for me, and my left ankle wanted to make sure I remembered. The first mile was o so slow, but at around 2.5 miles I started to feel really good, and ended up going a mile further than I had intended. 6 miles in all, at a 9:40 pace. I'm loving our unseasonably warm streak!

After 40, you start to feel better. It's the 30's that ache the worst!

[fatbottomedgurl]

After 40, you start to feel better. It's the 30's that ache the worst!

I wouldn't know. I just started running last year and I'm almost 47. And I ache more when I DON"T exercise.

[katluvr]

Seems like it has been forever since I have been here!
Great running everyone. I am in a bit of a slump.
I have a new job (yeah!), but work 10 hour shifts. Just haven't gotten into running post work (dark, I am tired and it is after 6:30 by the time I get home). So need to try to do it in the AM...but that means up BY 5.
So I have not been running as much. I did get my 20 miler in last Saturday. I must say it just doesnt' get easier. That being said I really didnt' hit the WALL til between mile 17 and 18, then I literraly "ran" (or jogged) 1/2 a mile then walked until I made my 20.
I did "shave" about 3 minutes off it from the last time.
When I do run during the week I do intervals, speedwork or tempo. So trying to make my runs quality although not quantity.
Goal is to get up and run BEFORE work tomorrow. Saturday the weather is to be way nice here and I miss biking. So I think I'll bike on Saturday and my run on Sunday is only to be 15 or 16 miles. That sees very do-able.
I really need to get into a routine or find the energy to run during on my work days. But it will all work out. I am happier w/ new job and that is a VERY good thing. Just trying to get in teh groove.
Hope to be dropping by more often...soon!

K

[OakLeaf]

Chaos settled down long enough that I got a little cruise in this afternoon, after my mom came home and could take over watching my dad. For some reason the battery on my watch was dead, but MapMyRun calls it 5.75. I would've done another lap, but it was nearly dark, people were starting to come home from work, and two cars had already tried to kill me by the time I finished the second lap (long sleeve hi-viz jersey, hi-viz cap, reflective accents all over everything). So I called it a run. I got to see swans on the inlets off the bay.