May Running

[skhill]

The planned run for today was 5 mile tempo. Don't know what was going on, but I just felt awkward and uncoordinated. Very weird. So I stopped at just 3 miles. Didn't help that there was a very fast guy out running the same mile-long loop...

Just one of those days!

[emily_in_nc]

FINALLY! After a month of HOT HOT HOT temperatures that I just couldn't motivate myself to run in (83+ at 6:30 am), our weather changed. It rained most of the night, and this morning was spitting rain with a temperature of 76 degrees! I know it may seem amazing, but that actually feels cool here. I laced up my running shoes for the first time since April 18th and went out for a beach run. Figured on just two miles since it had been so long, but I felt so good in the overcast cool, I went three.

Have felt fantastic all day -- I've missed this! I will be taking advantage of rainy season weather to run as much as I can.

[Anelia]

The day before yesterday it rained the whole day and the streets were full of puddles. I decided to run! I run every other year so this year happened my running. I ran for 30 minutes and I did 5 km. Two days after this and my legs still hurt like hell when walking. Amazingly, I'm ok with riding a bike!
I enjoyed running but I don't have proper shoes: I ran in my five tens

[skhill]

Emily, that's awesome! So that's a May cold snap in your tropical paradise!

Today made up for yesterday's crappy attempt at speedwork. I did 2 quick miles on the streets, then stopped by the track for some intervals. 4 quarter miles (it's a very old track), all of them between 1:45 and 1:50! Then I was going to take it easy on the way home, but kept on speeding up. What fun!

But if I'm going to get in a long run this week, it'll have to be tomorrow, the weekend is so full. The weather looks perfect for running/ riding/ hiking/ etc on the weekend, so of course I'll be inside doing other things...

[emily_in_nc]

Emily, that's awesome! So that's a May cold snap in your tropical paradise!

Thanks, skhill -- funny, isn't it!? All depends on what you're used to.

My right quad (but not my left, oddly) is super sore today. And my run is close to flat, just a few little rises here and there. As much as I ride, I am very surprised that I would get a sore quad from not running for a month. But that just shows that I need to be running! It appears that our rainy season may be starting early, and if so, I will take full advantage. Rain = cooler temps = gray, cloudy skies = the only weather I can seem to run in without DYING here.

[jessmarimba]

Got through 10 this morning, nice and cool and drizzly. And HILLY. With one soul-sucking 3-ish mile stretch down the same awful road. I knew once we crossed 1st ave that it was just a mile and a half left on that one, but it seemed like an eternity before we even got to a street I could start counting at. Five weeks til the first half marathon.

[7rider]

So maybe the experienced runners here can help me out.

Yesterday - I did 57 very flat, moderately paced miles (17.5 mph average) on the TT bike out on the Eastern Shore, followed immediately with 0.9 miles of running at a <10 mm pace (I was in a rush and needed to get home - plus, it was less than one mile and flat). Drove home, gnoshing on a PB/Nutella sammy with mixed nuts and the last of my HEED. Sipped water the rest of the afternoon at a pre-triathlon expo where I was minding the table for my tri club. Was STARVING by the time I left - to the point where I was starting to get a headache. Had a big burrito dinner takeout from the local hole-in-the wall Mexican place (mmmm!).

This morning, coffee, 8 oz. Muscle Milk light, and 1 slice of WW toast with Nutella before heading out the door for a 5 mile run with my club. Downed a Rocktane gel about 10 minutes before the run. Sipped NUUN-spiked water the whole way. Was warm - we ran on a shaded MUT. At the end, wile we were all stretching (after we walked a bit to cool down), I blossomed in sweat (not surprising), got a bit chilled (also not surprising), and started to feel a bit light-headed. That part got me a bit worried. Felt like my blood pressure bottomed out (Avg. HR for today's run, was 149 with a max of 176 - although I feel anything off this Garmin is suspect, and no...I don't have calculated VOmax or HR zones. But those numbers don't seem unreasonable for me. Today was a LSD run and we just went at a pace where we could talk the whole way - and boy, did we talk the whole way! Our run leader makes sure of it - she's a chatty one! Love it. ).

So, my run leader thinks I didn't recover well from yesterday's effort -- which was probably a 6 on a perceived exertion scale to 10. Moderately hard, not crazy hard. She thought I needed to eat more and drink more electrolytes. She actually said "Hellloooooo???? You rode 57 miles yesterday!!" So I immediately pulled out a 230 calorie Hammer bar to her satisfaction and ate it (it was delish - like a Lara bar but softer!).

So...any issues with light headedness after a run that you can tell me about? I'm thinking I'm just needing to acclimate to the increasingly warm temps (60, but you could really feel the heat when in the sun), and keep up the LSD with lots of electrolytes. I think it's just a matter of time and eventually I'll be able to do a warm summer run okay. Thoughts?