Superbowl through Mardi Gras and Games Opening week of running!

[Bike Chick]

Dang I dunno if I'm qualified to post here anymore, all these long miles.... all I did was a mere 5 or so on the treadmill. Great work everyone!

We have another snow storm heading in tonight so it looks like the treadmill and I will have to get reacquainted for now...

Ick, Winding! You poor folks have just been hammered. FYI. That snow storm blew through here last night. We were supposed to get 4-7" and we got 3". I hope they are wrong in your case also. And if you aren't qualified to post here, then I'm certainly not. I won't do 5 miles until this weekend and that will be the longest run I've ever done!

[OakLeaf]

It wasn't two years ago that I was posting here, probably even prouder of my first six miles, than I now am of my first 20.

If you put one foot in front of the other for fitness, fun or speed, you're qualified to post here!

Hang in there with all the snow.

[Susan Otcenas]

Jeff & I did a 2 day snowshoe trip (Sun & Mon), so coach gave me Monday "off" from my normal monday morning speed workout. I came home from snowshoeing and opened up my email expecting to have to do a run Monday night, and boy was I pleasantly surprised she gave me a pass. Snowshoeing is tough on the calves, and mine were definitely talking to me last night!

Looks like I'll be up at 4am tomorrow morning to get my 11-miler in before work. If I could learn to run faster, I would get to sleep in longer....

Susan

[Bike Chick]

It wasn't two years ago that I was posting here, probably even prouder of my first six miles, than I now am of my first 20.

If you put one foot in front of the other for fitness, fun or speed, you're qualified to post here!

Hang in there with all the snow.

Thanks, Oak! 3.5 on the treadmill this evening........week 3 of hm training.

[WindingRoad]

Well I did my 5 miles on the treadmill this evening... it seemed really hard tonight and my heart rate was higher than normal? Maybe that Diet Mountain Dew I drank earlier. I know I know it's horrible to drink pop but every once in a while I break down and do the Dew. Well I had a pretty stressful day today (tests!!!) too so I suppose that could be part of it? Shins are a little eeky so I'm doing some precautionary icing this evening.

[rocknrollgirl]

Dang I dunno if I'm qualified to post here anymore, all these long miles.... all I did was a mere 5 or so on the treadmill. Great work everyone!

We have another snow storm heading in tonight so it looks like the treadmill and I will have to get reacquainted for now...

I know, I feel the same way sometimes, but we are running!!!

We did 5 on the road last night because the trails are buried with more snow coming today. It only served to remind me why I do not run on the road...because I HATE IT......there, I said it out loud. I AM A TRAIL RUNNER!

Whew, I feel better now...time to go ride my trainer, to which I yell...I AM A MT BIKER.....

Oh well do what you gotta do...

Great running everyone and Urlea, I am embracing the Fargo ice bath. Snow banks are good for something.

[indigoiis]

I hear ya Rockinroll... I hate running and having cars come up. I live in a rural area and it's just a lot of headlights and no shoulders. I try to trail run whenever I can.

I did 5.4 today with DH on a trail/dirt road route with the beginnings of snow and wind, and two massive long hills (5% effing grade at mile 2.5 and mile 3.5 - basically a big saddle - out and back.) That was in place of a tempo run I was slated for.

It's good to run in the VFFs in snow - there may be snow in two weeks in Hyannis and i need to be prepared either way.

[Susan Otcenas]

Ended up with 11.6 miles this morning at just shy of 11 minute miles. That's slower than I usually do my long runs, though I wasn't really feeling particularly slow. My calves were/are still a little sore from snowshoeing, though.

[OakLeaf]

9 x 1 minute sprint intervals, then 9/10 mile barefoot.

I was still sore from Monday's long run and yesterday's yoga, so it was good mental practice. "Dig deep."


It's cool how even this little bit of barefooting is pulling everything together - the midfoot strike I learned in Chi Running, the foot strength I've started to build in yoga, the hip exercises and calf stretches the PT has me doing. I was really noticing on my long run on Monday how the outside of my left foot - which is often painful because there weren't any shoes wide enough for me - wasn't giving me any trouble. Like I'm really using the muscles of my feet even when I have shoes on, even when I'm running long, and my feet are getting functionally narrower. Woo-hoo!

[limewave]

Oakleaf--I'm not brave enough to try barefoot running yet. But glad you are liking it! I've started reading ChiRunning and am working on my form. I am enjoying it so far.

I did a :

1 mile warm-up
3 x 1600 @ 9:30m/mile
w/ 800m @ 10:30m/miles between
1 mile cool-down

I did it! Yay! I've never really done consistant speed work. This is new to me. I'm always so proud of myself when I can cross a work out off my calendar

[Grog]

This is a rest week for me.

I went for a 4 km jog this morning. I swear it's my heart that carried my legs, which would have gone nowhere on their own. I am mechanically fine from my long run, no pain no nothing, but my legs were SO HEAVY it was ridiculous.

I am planning to run longer tomorrow morning, maybe an hour if I can pull myself out of bed at 5 a.m. We'll see.

Then I have massage at night. I can tell already it's going to hurt: I haven't gone for years. Will report.

[hammertime]

6 miles....

felt good to get to the gym... haven't gone in a few days due to this crappy snow

[Jolt]

Despite how it may appear given my lack of posting, I have actually gotten a few runs in over the past week. More slowness and frustration, but I now think I have an explanation for why my running has been so rotten lately and why I've been feeling "blah" and not my usual hyper self. I had some labs drawn last week as part of the screening for a research study I was interested in participating in, and it appears I have some iron-deficiency anemia happening--hematocrit was 32, don't remember the other numbers off the top of my head but hemoglobin, MCV and MCHC were on the low side too. That explains a lot that I had been blaming, apparently incorrectly, on "winter blahs". A hematocrit of 32 isn't terrible, but I looked back at my last one that was done at a physical two years ago and it was 45 (and I seem to remember that I had tended to be on the higher end before that as well), so it's quite a bit lower than what seems to be my general baseline. The only reason I can think of is that my dietary iron intake must have been too low lately, since I haven't had any unusual bleeding or heavier menstrual flow than usual. So, time to take iron supplements for a while to replenish the stores and hopefully I'll be pretty much back to my crazy self within a few weeks.

[rocknrollgirl]

I did six this morning on the road which is an ice skating rink


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[kacie tri-ing]

8 outside last night. I was a bit on the cold side, but was able to get through it