Running into Summer June 21-27

[colby]

26.2 in the five fingers.... will put up a report sometime today. I don't think my feet hurt any more than they did last year - it is just a long day no matter how you slice it. I did do plenty of running in dirt/gravel where available, but I knew it would be long and my body was already tired and HOT. We haven't had many days over 70, let alone 80, so there was a lot of run/walking in my day, which always changes how the feet feel.

[OakLeaf]

Oh goody, another extra long week!

Sprint intervals x 9. Hadn't done any speedwork in forever, and I'm still not acclimated to the heat. I won't even say the temperature and humidity, since nothing starts a p*ssing contest on this board like "my weather is worse than your weather" or "my hills are worse than your hills."* I'll just say that I'm totally not acclimated to it yet, we've really had very little opportunity to acclimate here, and when I was done with the workout (including a .8-mile recovery jog at a 12 minute pace), I took more than 15 minutes to meander back along my half-mile of lane, picking and eating raspberries, and my heart rate would not go below 135. That's how humid it felt.

I was thinking about doing this five-mile race a week from today. Not so sure about it now.



*but I'll just mention that without ANY prompting, one of the long-time riders in our club - a 72-year-old who last year did the Continental Divide, unsupported, with one other guy, and who's ridden road bikes extensively in both the Rockies and the Appalachians - said over breakfast that without question, the Appalachians are more difficult to ride.

[Veronica]

Awwww... Oak, I was having fun reading about everyone else's weather. Seriously, I was.

It was 70 degrees at 5 AM this morning when I worked out with my trainer. Does running 35 yards pulling a sled with 90 pounds on it count as running? Once you get the darn thing moving, it's not so bad, but those first two or three steps are killer! Let's see... she also had me do some high knee running followed by some sprints.

I am not running outside today. It's 97 degrees, only 23% humidity, so the heat index is only 95! See, I had never paid attention to heat index before someone here brought it up. I learned something from people talking about their weather.

Veronica

[Jolt]

It was 90 degrees and humid here today...not good running weather at all. I was a bum and didn't run, though that is partly also because on yesterday's run I stubbed an already-banged-up toe (trying to do some faster running on the way back from the turnaround point) and made it a little sore to try running on today. Probably should stay off the trails until it is actually healed.