Running after the Easter Bunny

[skhill]

You rock, Susan!

and I'm totally there with getting carried away early with the adrenalin-- my only hope for starting slow seems to be to get caught in heavy and slow traffic...

Today was a crappy 3 miles for me-- I gave blood yesterday, so my endurance is shot. But it brought my March to 130 miles, and that's pretty cool.

[Susan Otcenas]

But it brought my March to 130 miles, and that's pretty cool.

Wow, 130 - that's great! I had 91 (including 13 this morning). Was supposed to be 97, but I skipped one 6 miler on a sick day.

[colby]

Nice work, everyone! Some NICE milestones in here. Very inspiring.

I was traveling the last week which made my workouts.... interesting. I missed Wednesday's ride, so Thursday I went to the hotel gym and did my ride (intervals) and then my run (hill repeats - longer, not as hard effort, at 8%). Was something like 50-60 minutes, and 50-60 minutes. I haven't really rode and then ran for a while. Maybe you just mentally tune it out, but I didn't really notice the difference of the effective brick vs. just straight running. Then, I had a day off, following by an actual brick (just aerobic) on Saturday - again, the running felt pretty normal, but I hate the treadmill as it is so maybe it gets mixed in. I missed Sunday, Monday, AND Tuesday, so I'm playing catch-up come Wednesday. We did a lot of walking, standing, and wandering around, so it's not like I was workout-free, just training-free. Oh well. I was pretty exhausted - we were 3 hours off our normal timezone and out of our eating/sleeping rhythm pretty badly. I'm afraid the workouts would have put me over the edge and I'd have ended up sick.

I'm debating taking my normal Friday off in prep for Saturday/Sunday long ride/run days vs. catching up on a workout. We're actually not in town this weekend (again) so I may have to shift my run/ride around, too. Good timing, though, this is about as late as I can be messing with my schedule like that.

Sorry for the diatribe... I am rationalising/reviewing.

Tomorrow is a running day: warmup, 5x800m @ maximum w/ 800m walk for recovery, cooldown.

[bikermaze]

Congrats to everyone who are making progress on their routines. Good job. Spring's around the corner after all. Time to turn over a new leaf as they say.

[indigoiis]

Hi All... ran 5.25 this morning in advance of having to travel to Springfield, MA for the North American Alpaca Show. I might run in Springfield if I can figure out a route but if not, I won't be running until Sunday. We are supposed to do a 40ish mile ride in Westerly with the bike group on Sunday, but as Westerly suffered much from the flooding I am doubting it will go off. So I will plan for my long run instead, on Easter morning. Maybe a run / easter egg hunt? LOL.

[skhill]

indigoiis, have you thought about maybe canoeing through city streets instead of riding or running? RI sounds like it's a complete mess...

Today, 5 miles at an 8:57/mile pace-- first time I've managed to hold a sub-9 pace for that distance. And it's sunny and so warm I was seriously considering taking off my shirt; considering the neighborhood I was in, tho, I didn't. It's an area where you go if you're looking for a really cheap prostitute (a couple different guys drove by and made me an offer a few weeks ago, when I was walking home from church in a kinda short skirt)....

I'm thinking of celebrating my 39th birthday next week with a 39 mile week. Or maybe not!

[limewave]

I was cleared by my doc to run a 5k today. Running felt good. The hamstring definitely felt better than it did 4 days ago, but there were still some twinges of pain. I had to take it easy.

I hope the 8 miles I'm supposed to do on Saturday go better.

[Urlea]

I've been running okay this week. Just thankful to be running so soon off of the 2x26.2 Still waiting on energy to come back into my legs. It hasn't quite been there, but I'll take tired legs over painful ones any day!

So I'm trying something new this weekend and listening to an unfamiliar voice, I think it's called "reason". The ultra running crew decided on a 26mi trail run in the dark tomorrow night. Between terrain I'm not familiar with, the main ppl. going pushing the pace & too many miles too soon after last weekend I opted out. It's the right decision, but I'm still having a hard time accepting it. I'll get over it and enjoy my 13miles.

In other news...I have started shopping for new running shoes. In doing so I hopped on runner's world to look at reviews only to find out that for the last three years the LRS has been selling me shoes for runners that overpronate & I'm an underpronator! How does this happen? Could explain a lot of the blisters I have been habitually getting. Now the question is do I go with trail, racing flats or standard shoes? So hard to choose.

BikeChick- Only one month away? How exciting!

[Becky]

Urlea- sounds like a good choice. Reason and I don't always get along so well either, but its usually for the best

As for shoes, what feels good? If you're doing serious miles in VFFs (IIRC, you are), why not try some flats? I'm just starting to build mileage in mine, but I find that I can "sense" the ground much better in flats than in standard shoes, which ultimately leads to fewer injuries. As a bonus, my current shoe choice comes in both road and trail versions, making it each to rotate shoes and pick the right shoe for the terrain. Have fun shopping!