Running into Summer June 21-27

[rocknrollgirl]

A lovely cool 4 miles this morning. I am enjoying the nice weather while we have it.

[colby]

I walked the dog 1.5 miles today. Just like yoga yesterday, it feels good when I'm doing it but a couple hours later I'm ready for a nap. I didn't have any desire to run, I can still feel that my quads are tired. I am thinking I'll start riding this weekend (I would ride tomorrow, but it's supposed to rain) with a couple of easy rides, maybe some swimming, then start running again next week. I have a sprint triathlon scheduled for July 11, a week from Sunday, so I'd like to at least run once before then. I can't race Athena anymore so I'm trying to make a good showing of it, but I have to adjust my expectations appropriately.

[Veronica]

I can't race Athena anymore so I'm trying to make a good showing of it, but I have to adjust my expectations appropriately.

But isn't it wonderful that you can't race Athena? That's the way I look at it anyway.

Veronica

[colby]

But isn't it wonderful that you can't race Athena? That's the way I look at it anyway.

Veronica

Very true - I was glad to not pack that extra 10-15 lbs around for 140.6, especially up the hills. I will remind myself of the same fact even if it's only 15.6 miles I'm going.

[Jolt]

Tonight I decided to check out the group "fun run" put on by a local running shop on Thursday nights. There were 7 of us (I think) and we did about 3.5 miles. We didn't go too fast; I started out with the front group for the first mile or so, then fell behind them (I think they sped up; I may have slowed down a little as well) and was in between them and the three bringing up the rear. This was OK until I lost sight of the front people during about the last mile...we were running in an area I am not familiar with so I had a moment of "oh crap, where am I?". I ended up waitiing for one of the others to catch up since he knew where we were going. Then for some reason I had a hard time keeping up with him, even though he had been behind me the whole time prior to that! I think part of it was that he was pounding the ground rather loudly, his cadence was slower than mine, and it was messing me up a little (I think that's one reason why I sometimes have trouble running with other people). Other than that it was a pretty good run and was a nice change from the usual. Everyone was curious about my VFFs and one of the faster guys said I have good form--that was nice to hear.

[OakLeaf]

I did mile repeats yesterday and I was still really struggling, and it wasn't even hot. I don't know if I maybe still have a pocket of sinus infection from that cold (it does seem like it sometimes), or if it was the residuals from all the decongestants I had to take over the last couple of weeks, or what, but I could only manage 8:30 miles over the repeats, and I had to walk the WHOLE recovery intervals to keep my HR in the range I wanted. Hopefully next time will be better ... but it's supposed to get really hot tomorrow and stay that way all week.

[katluvr]

Finally... I got up AND did run today. It was a bit cooler, we had a lot of rain and cloud coverage yesterday so I think it was in the 70's this AM at 7 AM. I did the 3.4 mile loop. I have my garmin back (well a re-furbished one) so I could see pace. Can you believe my goal was to run 12 mm or faster? I have gotten that slow! Took me about 0.8 min to get to a 12 mm then I was hanging out between 11:40 -11:50. Darn slow. But the garmin made me be aware of my pace. Now if I could get out consistently to run!

K