Running in December - 12/01 to 12/15

[kacie tri-ing]

So I did my last long run. 20 miles on the trails saturday. I felt fantastic. Seriously, I felt amazing. I am off to get massage, chiro, a few workouts, obsessively watching the weather, and tweaking my diet this week for the 50K on saturday!

[Susan Otcenas]

Limewave - Sub-8:00!! Awesome! I'd like to be you when I grow up. I think my fastest mile yet has been 8:30-ish. I *might* be able to run a sub-8 if I wasn't planning on running a second mile afterwards...

Kacie - Best of luck on the upcoming 50k! Sounds like you are well prepared. I'd like to be you too when I grow up.

After a VERY VERY windy and VERY cold 6.5hr bike ride on Saturday (and a night on the town afterwards), I totally bagged my Sunday trail run and slept in. And ate brunch. And was just generally lazy. In penance, I dragged my butt out for a 4.4 mile run in the rain at 6am this morning, but it wasn't pretty.

[Susan Otcenas]

Susan I want to be like you when i grow up... sounds like a perfect Sunday!
....It's coooooold, and I'm in the market for a good base layer, plus another pair of warm pants. suggestions are welcome!

Truth be told, Sunday is usually my rest day, but I've been wanting to turn it into a trail run day. I've beeen doing that with mixed success. I do alot of big rides on Saturdays, and on those weekends, I usually end up not doing much on Sunday.

I'm mostly wearing Smartwool baselayers this time of year. Both running and riding. Yes, you can sweat out a wool based layer just like you can a synthetic one, but I feel so much less clammy and cold in a wool base layer!

I tend to wear Sugoi MidZero tights and knickers for most of my runs in the wet and cold. Warm, very soft against the skin (good, because I chafe easily at the waist if I'm not careful) and available with lots of reflective bits on them. They wear like iron too. I've had several pairs in rotation for 3-5 years now. The reflectivity is flaking off at this point, but I can't seem to kill the tights!

Susan

[skhill]

BRRRRRR

My cats are way smarter than me-- this morning, they got up with me, had their breakfast, and immediately returned to bed. I'm not so smart-- I started out for my usual morning run, despite 18 F temps and a brisk wind and icy sidewalks. Stuck it out for 2 miles, and that was enough...

Our average low for this date here in KY is 31 F, about 12 degrees warmer than today's high. Crazy.

[GLC1968]

skhill - that IS cold. Brrr!

Kacie - best of luck this weekend!!

I did my first ever lunch time run today. 4.1 miles from my office. It should have been closer to a 4.25 mile run but I had to walk the first ~0.15 while I waited for my Garmin to pick up the satellites!

What I'm super pleased about is that an 'easy, I could run forever' pace for me is now an 11 min/mile as opposed to a 12 min/mile back in September. I think that my run description has now officially graduated from a 'plod' to a 'shuffle'. Someday, I'll be a 'jog' like the real runners!

[solobiker]

I got in about 6 miles after work today. My legs were a little tired from the first day of skat skiing that I did yesterday with DH. If my legs didn't get so darn tight I could run a lot longer. Sigh...oh well, I am just glad I can still go out and run.

[Jolt]

The usual local 5k fun run tonight...29 degrees with some wind. Time was 26:43; I think that might be my slowest yet--I blame the wind and the fact that I was running on two hours sleep . Also probably got thrown off a bit when I had to yell at a random guy who walked right AT me and another runner as we went by and was practically on top of us (and it's not like there wasn't plenty of room for him to not do that, so it was completely uncalled for and came across to me as threatening). Obviously he was a jerk, because after I told him he shouldn't have gotten so close he swore at me as I continued on my way. Not cool...why do some people have to be such creeps?