January 2012 Running - Snow, stay away!

[Bike Chick]

Awesome time, Oak! Congrats on your PR. There must be something about our age group. It's the same thing around here. If you compare the times of the 50-55 age group in any running or triathlon event, they are usually faster than the 30 year olds. It's a tough group. Why do you think that is?

I ran 8 miles yesterday afternoon after swimming 2000 yards in the morning. I was tired but that's what makes us stronger, right? It was sunny and in the low 40's. A great day for the end of January.

[Veronica]

Nice job Oak! Congratulations!

I did a nice 6.5 mile loop yesterday with a local running group organized by one of the running coaches from the high school. It's a nice change to have some people to run with. We do break into groups and yesterday I found myself running with the coach's wife. The loop included some short steep hills that I have ridden several times but had avoided running up.

I was totally thrilled to be able to gauge my effort level to run up the hills and keep going after I reached the top. I think I'm going to adjust some of my loops to add them in more regularly.


Veronica

[Selkie]

Great job, Oak. Actually, I've been meaning to thank you for your posts on trigger points and Chi running. Since I've been spending time every day tending to the TPs in my calves, I've been running pain free. Incorporating Chi running techniques is helping as well.

This morning, DH and I went for our usual early morning Sunday long run. Gorgeous sunrise, cold (30 degrees), but not windy. I felt strong, went my planned five miles and felt like I could have gone at least another mile. Unfortunately, my DH has a hamstring strain and so he ended up walking most of the time. I didn't want him to have to wait on me, so I figured it was a sign to end it at five.

[7rider]

Wow. A 23 5K. Awesome, Oak. My goal is to come in under 30. At the rate I'm improving, I should do that in, oh, another 2 years or so.

Goal was 6 today, but the route I did ended up coming in as 5.75. That was fine - I haven't been running much more than 2-3 miles lately, so if I came in short, I wasn't going to sweat it. I was just happy to get in over 5.

[katluvr]

So I did a 5K off road race today. It was AWESOME! Very technical course for me (ups an downs, was a single track bike course). Overall I did well. So after all the technical single track I come out and see the finish. According to my Gramin we are only at 2.8 miles, so it can't be the finish. So I hit hard trail, like limestone and all of the sudden I trip and find myself falling full & hard face down...knees, palms, chin hit the ground...all a few yards from the finish! I'm ok, a bit skinned an bruised, but wow...really after almost a 5k I then bust it!!

So my best 5 k on the road is barely under 30 minutes. I did this 5k in 33:44. Now my Garmin said 2.85 miles but it was supposed to be a 3.1 mile course. So if it was really 3.1 miles I think I did really good. Could it be my Garmin was not accurate due to all the switch backs?? Anyways I had a blast. I should do more trail runs!!!

K

[skhill]

Kat, what a way to finish with a flourish! And the course may well be short-- my 5k pr was on a course that's more like 3.02 miles, but I'm still claiming it as a full 5k since it was so fast!

Finally back outside this morning! It was a beautiful if chilly dawn. 6 miles, and I was trying to keep it slow but kept speeding up. I was suprised to see so many treadmills occupied when I went past the downtown Y and glanced through the windows...

[Veronica]

Intervals this morning with Thom and I finished up my monthly mileage goal today - 16th month in a row!

Veronica

[SadieKate]

So my best 5 k on the road is barely under 30 minutes. I did this 5k in 33:44. Now my Garmin said 2.85 miles but it was supposed to be a 3.1 mile course. So if it was really 3.1 miles I think I did really good. Could it be my Garmin was not accurate due to all the switch backs?? Anyways I had a blast. I should do more trail runs!!!

K

Congratulations! Trail runs are going to be somewhat to way more slower than a road race.

If your Garmin is set to smart recording (some have this option), a singletrack course could easily measure short. It's easiy for the recording point of your GPS to not record every single link twist and turn of a singletrack anyway, but smart recording makes it worse.

[limewave]

9 miles for me on Sunday afternoon. Not so bad! Slipped on the ice only once. My hips were sore the rest of the afternoon. It was a strangely comforting feeling. They always get a bit weary when I start increasing my mileage again.