Will the groundhog see his shadow? Running in early Feb.

[OakLeaf]

What app do you use to sort by BPM? I tried an old version of Tangerine, but it wasn't all that accurate.

[indigoiis]

Monday night (I planned this with the rigor of an Army Sargeant) I got off the bus 9 miles from home and ran it. I had lights, but the majority of the run was back roads (3 miles dirt) with relatively few or no houses. It was eerie and beautiful. I only had one crazy guy in a truck yell something. It sounded like, "Your Aunt owes me money!" but I'm sure it was something much different. I took the pace easy and got home by 7, and the DH had dinner waiting. What more could a girl ask for?

So, I'm supposed to do 5 today, and I will go at 4:30 while my kid is in a class. Need. Motivation.

[limewave]

6 hilly miles schedule for me today. It's relatively flat right by my house, unless I wanted to drive somewhere, I had to make-do with doing hill-repeats on a moderate grade 1/4 mile long hill on a busy road

It was bitter, bitter, bitter cold and windy. I never had to work so hard to run down hill before Anyways, managed to get in 12 laps for 6 miles and had about 780 ft of climbing. Avg. 9:15m/miles.

[GLC1968]

What app do you use to sort by BPM? I tried an old version of Tangerine, but it wasn't all that accurate.

This one:

http://www.mixmeister.com/bpmanalyzer/bpmanalyzer.asp

It seemed pretty accurate. It's also not very invasive. I'd installed it on my work computer a year ago, used it to analyze a couple of songs, and then uninstalled it and I could find no trace of it anywhere (which was my hope). I eventually reinstalled it on my home computer and it works great.

What I need to figure out is how to get my bpm info to load into itunes so that I can see it displayed there. It's there for the songs I did last year (prior to loading into itunes, I think) but it's not there for the recently analyzed ones. I really don't want to reload my whole library!

[Susan]

Great idea! I'm ill and not allowed to run or do anything atm, maybe I'll make use of the extra time by sorting my music

[skhill]

How cold is too cold to run outside depends on so many factors for me, but today all it took to decide was a glance at the thermometer. 6 F, definitely too cold. So it was back to the Y and the treadmill yet again... 5 miles, with 3 on the random hills program just for some variety.

[kacie tri-ing]

Slowly and cautiously running again.....2 miles twice this week (along with 2 pt appointments, 2 ART appointment, 1 accupuncture, and will be five swims ). Really ready to be back at it, with an ironman in may, but I know to be patient and to follow the orders of all the people helping me recover!!!

[GLC1968]

Hang in there Kacie - you'll get there!

I did another 5 mile run on the treadmill yesterday.

[skhill]

Totally crappy long run today... Things have thawed out enough that I decided to give my local bike/walk path another try. Bad idea. The path was mostly ice-free, so that was ok, but I had forgotten that there was a 5k using a stretch of it this morning. Oops. Got caught up in the traffic for about a mile, and lost my head and started speeding up and trying to pass as many folks as I could. Throwing in an 8 min/mile 7 miles into a long run was really stupid... Then the final mile of my run was uphill into a brisk wind. Was aiming for 15 miles, but went only 13. Oh well...

On the upside, I've just completed my first ever 40+ mile week. First of many, hopefully!

[limewave]

7 miles for me yesterday. It was slow and painful. Should not have had the wine and beer the night before!

6 easy miles tonight. Since when did 6 miles become my short run???

[GLC1968]

6.6 miles yesterday. Pouring rain the whole time and directly in my ear so badly on one stretch that my earbuds kept sliding out! Luckily, I had the foresight to throw a fleece jacket in the car so that I could strip off my drenched top at the trailhead and I didn't have to shiver on my ride home.

[Susan]

5 enjoyable Miles in the drizzle today.

[sgf726]

15 miles for me on Saturday. Longest run to date.

63 days to marathon monday....

[HillSlugger]

5 miles for me yesterday; nicest weather in a while and sidewalks finally clearing from the snows.

[indigoiis]

5.75 "commute" run home from another bus stop last night. All uphill! After a weekend of xc skiing, I felt slow. I am doing the same 5.75 tonight.